Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Google Sightseeing
Visit strange locations on Google Maps with Google Sightseeing.
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Visit strange locations on Google Maps with Google Sightseeing.
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Pop the balloons using darts: Bloons and More Bloons. Tough games.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
The Monster Walks, a tour around Manhattan spotting gargoyles and grotesques. Nifty.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Stick Man Dan’s a primitive, almost Commodore-64ish platform game.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
An interesting and troubling read from Glenn Greenwald: “The Bush administration’s terrible luck with finding documents”.
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Someone took the time to capture “almost” every death from every Friday the 13th movie and cut them in chronological order for your viewing pleasure. “Friday the 13th: In 7 Minutes”.
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Modern Mechanix is an excellent weblog that focuses on vintage ads and articles from magazines showing “futuristic” ideas.
Monday, April 16th, 2007
The Chaser (Australia’s version of The Onion) made the news twice last week with their TV show:
An Australian kid duped Youtube into removing Chaser clips and one of the Chaser hosts got close to Hillary Clinton.
Here’s one of their skits goofing on the words ‘Al-Qaeda’ and ‘terrorist’ and here is Hillary Clinton on the Chaser:
Friday, April 13th, 2007
The Best of Bootie compilations are their picks for the best mashups from 2005 and 2006. Download away if mashups are your thing.
Friday, April 13th, 2007
Derecho the Doom Bringer: Playing a cloud, use your lightning to destroy the methane-producing cows.
Friday, April 13th, 2007
Watch the video for The Zimmers’ version of “My Generation”. The kicker here is that they’re all elderly, the singer is 90 for God’s sake. Nice.
Friday, April 13th, 2007
OddWeek is full of somewhat interesting lists including the craziest cults, weird science facts, coolest robots and more.
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Posted before and I’m sure it will be posted again someday: 25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips.
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Missile Game 3D doesn’t have the best name ever, but guiding a missile through rotating obstacles is pretty fun.
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Dead at 84 after falling and injuring himself a few weeks back, read about Kurt Vonnegut and remember just how good “Breakfast of Champions” is.
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
While going through my bookmarks in a vain attempt at spring cleaning I noticed that Copy, Right? is not only still around, it’s still great. If cover songs are your thing, check out the tunes. If they’re not, check it out anyways. Come on, everyone loves a bizarre cover of “Hollaback Girl”.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
The Swankpad has lots of goodies, but the scans from a 1951 edition of “Household Magazine” are great. I can’t believe Crisco once used the tagline “it’s digestible!”.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
The Whitechapel Society 1888 has a bit of information on the area at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
More sites need to be useful like this one, Lunarama is a user-driven guide to “all-night restaurants and joints” across the United States. Boston is so lame, I’m not surprised to see only 4 listed here, and only one I’ve actually been to (South Street Diner for the curious, check the pie selection!).