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Oct 7, 2005
Surf W/ Singing Dolphins!

ABANDONED CEMETARY, SECRET BRITISH SEX QUIZ REVEALED, DOLPHINS SING BATMAN, RARE COOL FOUND PHOTOS!
It had to happen. The Bling Bling Barbie is out. No, I'm not kidding.
 
Wow. Take a look at this. A teaser shot from Peter "Lord Of The Rings" Jackson's KING KONG.  http://www.aintitcool.com/images/kongteaser.jpg
 
Nick Cave has a western movie coming out- and it sounds great! Check out this review. Thanks to Bryan Wendorf with the Chicago Underground Film Festival for this!
 
It has been called the most loved opera of all time. CARMEN is sexy, hot and the Lyric Opera has turned the heat up several notches for this show. I loved it, and there is still time to order tickets for an experience you will never forget.  http://www.lyricopera.org/productions.aspx?arrRef=20060
 
Welcome to www.carolinasoul.org, the online home for discographies of 45-rpm soul recordings made in the Carolinas in the 1960s through 1980s. The North/South Carolina discography is currently divided into two sections: (1) local NC/SC labels that issued at least one soul record, and (2) NC/SC soul artists on non-NC/SC and national labels. The local label section is sub-divided alphabetically by label name. In some cases, non-soul releases are listed and are indicated as such. Representative label scans are provided if available; to view them, click on the small record logos. Multiple scans are provided for labels that had more than one more design.  http://www.carolinasoul.org/
 
Without a doubt my favourite sites on the internet are about abandoned places. There's just something about them, but I'm not sure what it is, that I find fascinating.  This site is one of my favourites.  http://www.unquiettomb.com/intro.html
 
Jay Ward, Boris Karloff, Ed Wood and Orson Welles. No those names aren't the punchline to a joke, but at this site you'll find audio's and visuals of the above and more.  Including a live reading by the cast of Bullwinkle, a sales film for Karloff's Thriller, and Orson Welles yelling at a commercial director.
 
This is actually a great idea- it allows you to find what is being aired on the next episode of your favorite TV shows!  http://www.next-episode.net/
 
The Kinsey Report of 1948 famously lifted the lid on American sexual behavior. But when a similar study was conducted in Britain the following year, the findings were so outrageous they were suppressed. Only now have they been revealed.  
 
In these liberated times, when sex is almost a constant undercurrent of everyday life, it's hard to imagine how much of a taboo sex once was.  
 
Yet when a group of young researchers set out to probe British sexual behavior in 1949 their findings were considered so outrageous they were instantly swept under the carpet; banished to the archives of a university.  
 
Only now, more than 50 years on, have the results come to light, revealed in a new BBC program. The findings show that the prim and proper façade of post-war Britain hid some remarkable truths about sexual attitudes and experience.

Not safe for work.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4293978.stm

Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song.  
 
The findings, outlined in two studies, are the first time that nonhuman mammals have demonstrated they can recognise rhythms and reproduce them vocally.  
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1473208.htm

The drug buprenorphine appears effective in treating teens addicted to heroin and other opiates, researchers report.  
 
The use of heroin among adolescents has more than doubled in the past 10 years, noted researchers from the University of Vermont. There's also been an increase in this age group of the illicit use of prescription opiates such as OxyContin and Vicodin. Opiates are the second most commonly used illicit drugs among teens, second only to marijuana.
 
 
Drug use to combat drug use.  http://www.healthday.com/view.cfm?id=528308

A woman from Upstate New York dresses like Dr. Who and films her struggle to get her show broadcast on every public access channel of which she has any knowledge via badgering each cable company and invoking the First Amendment. The videos are a spinecracking combination of surrealism, muckraking, and mundanity.  http://www.achatwithglendora.com/

A community for posting and sharing vintage photos of all types, whether it be landscapes, family portraits, pin-up beauties, famous photographers of yesteryear, gems found in flea markets, etc. If its vintage, we want to see it.  

Image hosted by Photobucket.com
http://www.livejournal.com/community/vintagephoto/

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Really, really rare Beatle MP3's.

 

http://www.beatlespennylane.com/rare_hard_to_find_beatle_MP3's-tracks.htm

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Oct 5, 2005
Surf W/ Lenin's Corpse!

VIVA LAS VEGAS, FLINTSTONES WINSTON AD, SIX DRINKS THAT CHANGED HISTORY, IS IT TIME TO RE-EXAMINE WORLD WAR 2?, WAR OF THE WORLDS TOLD BY BUNNIES!
 
Woody Allen gives his best interview in over a decade for the Suicide Girls website.  http://suicidegirls.com/words/Film+Legend+Woody+Allen+Speaks+to+SuicideGirls/
 
War Of The Worlds, in 30 seconds, told by bunnies.  http://www.angryalien.com/1005/wowbuns.asp
 
Tuesday October 11th is the big mashup party in Chicago. Doors open at 9pm, and the action starts immediately with an incredible Jimi Hendrix mashup- done long form. Come early and leave early, or come and stay late- here is what to expect:
 
A British writer writes up our adult playground Las Vegas.  And does a good job of it, even if he only covers about 10% of it.
 
A shot from the Vegas production, ZUMANITY.  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,6903,1582763,00.html
 
This weekend a major car event takes place outside Chicago with bands and very cool cars. Thanks to David Krys in Chicago for this.
 
Lenin's corpse is on display in the Kremlin, but there is a move afoot to finally bury him. 
 
For decades, this writer wondered what he would do if he ever ran into the priest who’d abused him. Then, one day, he did... 
 
Live in Chicago? How about a ghost tour this Halloween?  http://www.ghosttours.com
 
The Flintstones Winston ad!  http://www.devilducky.com/media/36267/
 
Is it time to re-examine the second world war?
The rape of more than a million German women by Russians was a strictly guarded postwar taboo. Now the world knows, and knows much more
 
This has to be the strangest homeless persons story ever.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050910/wl_uk_afp/britainhomelessoffbeat
 
 
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
You may be surprised to find out who is doing more to criminalize science!  http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/1017/120.html

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Surf W/ John Woo Book Party!

THE SAVAGE BEATLES, THE RETURN OF WRESTLING, TEEN WOMEN LEAD SEX REVOLUTION, JOHN WOO CHICAGO BOOK PARTY, POPEILGADGETS,
ART OF JAMES BOND, MAKE YOUR OWN SAUSAGE!
 
Blind soul legend STEVIE WONDER could get his sight back - thanks to new microchip technology. http://contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/stevie%20wonder%20to%20get%20his%20sight
 
Get your own beer making kit for under $30!  Plus cool Tiki items!
 
The number 1 songs in heaven MP3 site: This is an Mp3 Blog specializing mostly in classic (ie: old) soul, funk and dance music. Files are only up for a very limited time and are here for the express purpose of getting you to go out and buy more CDs. Very cool site with free music.
 
Since the 1950's wrestling has fallen in and out of favor. Censorship problems with Spike TV blew the momentum RAW had built, so Monday night the question was could the switch to the USA network re-energize the show?  
 
The bra and panties match revealed the censorship problem was over.  
 
The return of Triple H, Mick Foley and Hulk Hogan showed the roots were still there.  

The announcement of a future battle between Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin was the kind of card that will draw millions.  
 
RAW is back. It isn't just re-energized. It's in overdrive. Best wrestling show I've seen in years.
 
Bill Bennett and the question of abortion: While 1 in 4 pregnancies end in abortion, a large number of those are teens and single women.  
Who will postpone children until later in life, which is why abortion has had little effect on birth rates.
 
Did flight exist in ancient times?  http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_7.htm
 
Iswar and Haripada Murmu, of Akshaypur in West Bengal, were accused of owning a ghost after one of their wives died.
 
Young women are leading the way in tearing down sexual taboos in North America, where teenagers are having more sex at a younger age than their parents and grandparents, a new survey showed.

Freewheeling young women in the United States and Canada first have intercourse at the age of 15, partake more in oral sex than previous generations and are far less prudish, according to a landmark new report by researchers at California's San Diego State University.

Between 1943 and 1999, the age of first intercourse dropped to 15 from 19 for females, while the percentage of sexually active young women rose to 47 percent from just 13 percent in 1943, according to the study that appears in the most recent issue of the Review of General Psychology. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/04/051004054737.fzs4blx5.html 

For many people their first introduction to the world of James Bond was via the paperback versions of Ian Fleming's novels that first appeared during the mid 1950's. Since then the Bond novels have seldom been out of print and have been reissued with many different covers, some featuring superb artwork that has rarely been seen since. The 1950's covers had painted artwork that evolved in to the simple graphic representations of the 1960's and the superb "Still-life" series from the UK that appeared in the 1970's.    http://www.artofjamesbond.com/paperbacks.htm

An interactive look at the original manuscript of Alice's adventures in wonderland housed in the British library.  
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/alice/alice_broadband.htm

What: Book party for "John Woo: Interviews" and screening of "The Killer"

Where: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago

When: Friday, October 21

Free reception, cash bar and book signing from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Tickets for "The Killer," which begins at 8 p.m., are $9, $7 for students

Books can be purchased at the event for $20 and several contributors will be on-hand to sign their work.

Book details: "John Woo: Interviews" edited by the Chicago Tribune's Robert K. Elder

University Press of Mississippi

"John Woo: Interviews" is the first authoritative oral history of the director's life, films and legacy. Edited by journalist Robert K. Elder, the volume represents unprecedented access to the director in creating an encyclopedia of Woo's career and cinema from the 1970s to present. Published by the University Press of Mississippi, "John Woo: Interviews" tracks Woo early Hong Kong comedies and kung fu films to the later “bullet ballets” of "The Killer" and "Hard Boiled" and Hollywood blockbusters "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2." Through his conversations and research, Elder reveals Woo as a peaceful, deeply religious man who hates violence -- yet has become the master of its portrayal.  http://www.robelder.com/

Hey it's near Halloween! You need some horror sounds- here are old time radio horror shows!  http://www.themonsterclub.com/radiolibrary.htm  On the lower left column you'll even find Vincent Price talking about making those shows....

The Savage Beatles! A visual and aural journey through the formative years - the 1950s through June 1963.  
This is how they became The Beatles!  
 
Lots of photos that i've never seen before, great site if your a Beatles fan.  http://beatlesource.com/savage/notes.html

Making sausage at home is a rewarding and interesting craft. In complexity it is somewhere between making bread and making beer or wine. The reward comes in the flavors that can't be matched by the industrial sausage found in the supermarket and the knowledge of being in control of every ingredient that goes into the sausage.  http://schmidling.netfirms.com/saus.htm

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Ron Popeil, gadget hawker extraordinaire, sold his company in August. This slide show is a trip down memory lane with some of the products he made famous

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/09/ronco/index_01.htm

 

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Oct 4, 2005
Surf W/Cleopatra, Crossdresser?!?

HOTTEST WAITRESSES, EVERYTHING FRACTAL, MYSTERY MEAT STEW, THE MAN BEHIND KINKO'S, WORLD'S BEST BEER MAKERS, CLEOPATRA: CROSSDRESSER!
Courtney Love talks about everything from White Stripes to her late husband's suicide attempts.
 
Who are the hottest waitresses in Chicago nightclubs?
Coyote Ugly
 
Funny article covers subjects like: what if Freud had been a woman?
 
Fractal Infinities is a web site devoted to fractal imagery, games, coding, graphics, and algorithmic beauty in general. If you are looking for funky java applets, games, interesting graphics, or fractal generation tutorials, you've come to the right place. Enjoy!
 
 
We've all heard about celebs who haven't let dyslexia hold them back — Tom Cruise and Cher, to name two. Then there is Paul Orfalea, the man who founded Kinko's.

As Orfalea points out in his memoir, Copy This!, "Not many kids manage to flunk the second grade, but I did."  http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/reviews/2005-10-03-copy-this-usat_x.htm

Gaming revenues allowed the Oneida nation to build a $12 million elementary school shaped like a turtle. The turtle is a sacred animal and has significance in the Oneida creation myth.  http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1128319844/3
Inside the sanctuary of the abbey of St. Sixtus of Westvleteren is a beer lover's dream and a businessman's nightmare.

Piety, not profit, is what these monks seek. The St. Sixtus monks break every rule in Business 101 except attention to quality. And therein may lie the secret of their success in brewing a beer that some rank among the world's best and that is so hard to get there's a black market for it.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2005-10-03-beer-usat_x.htm 

The cells of early Christians have been found in the deserts of Egypt.  http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php

Computer-generated portraits of Tutankhamun in an exhibit coming to Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art in December have sparked criticism and protests by black activists who say they depict the boy king as white.

Researchers hired by the National Geographic Society, one of the exhibit's sponsors, say current forensic data and recent CT scans of his mummy were used to create the images.

African scholars and black activists dispute the portrayal and predict protests when the show moves here like those that have occurred in Los Angeles. The debate is similar to the question of whether Jesus was black.  http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-tut2505sep25,0,5185973.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

Cleopatra has for long been considered the epitome of beauty and she used her looks to seduce Julius Ceasar and Mark Antony for power. But a newly discovered stone slab depicts her as a man raising speculations about her being a crossdresser.

A relief image carved about 2050 years ago on an ancient Egyptian stone slab shows Cleopatra dressed as a man, recent analysis shows. http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=25725 

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Among the greatest of the Ancient Olympic boxers – indeed one -of the greatest Olympic athletes –was Theagenes of Thasos. A boxer, pankratist (no-holds barred fighting) and runner, Theagenes captured the boxing title at the 75th Olympiad in 480 BC, and, four years later, he won the Pankration (no-holds-barred) title. Like all Olympic champions, Theagenes’ victories offered him immortality, and mythology was soon to follow..

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4805&more=1


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Oct 2, 2005
Surf W/ Most Censored Chicago Story!

FIND THE RUBBER DUCKY, LAWYERS FIGHT LAWYER JOKES, THE MOST CENSORED STORY IN ILLINOIS, THE CRIME LIBRARY!
The story of bra burning feminists has been reported for decades. It isn't true. So who first started the rumor? Prepare for a shock!
 
There’s a reward out for a yellow rubber ducky — a bounty that Curt Ebbesmeyer hopes will further the science of ocean currents and spread the word about ocean trash. Footing the bill, so to speak, is the company that made the ducks — 29,000 of them .
 
The Non-Expert answers anything. This week a reader wants to know how you can tell if a girl loves you. Happily enough, the Non-Expert knows the tests to conduct, and has the results right here.  http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/the_nonexpert/does_she_love_you.php
 
This Judge is wild folks. She just ruled a 17 year old girl could not have sex. As punishment.  http://www.wftv.com/news/5040625/detail.html
 
Getting beers at a bar is about to made easier. Using science! Thanks to Dave Holle In Illinois for this. The Beer Mat!
 
Lawyers around the world are suing people that tell jokes against them.  
 
That should help their standing.  http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2112044
 
A chilly bit of Scandinavia is coming to the heart of London's West End Saturday with the opening of Absolut Icebar, a bar made entirely out of ice right down to the art on the walls and the glasses for the drinks.
 
The story no publication in Chicago is covering:
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes corruption, today announced that on January 17, 2006,Jesse Lee Peterson, et al., v. Jesse Jackson, et al. (BC 266505) will go to trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court after a ruling last week by Judge George H. Wu.  Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against Jackson, his son Jonathan, and others on behalf of Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who was the victim of a physical and verbal assault at an event hosted by Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. in December 2001.  Rev. Peterson is an ordained minister, who has dedicated his life to working with underprivileged black youth and men in our society.

 

The Jacksons and the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, who had sought to have the case dismissed, will now face multiple civil charges, including: Assault, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress and a California Civil Rights Claim.  Jonathan Jackson also will face the additional charges of Battery and False Imprisonment. 

http://www.judicialwatch.org/jacksontrial.shtml 

 

Ready to explore the hollow earth?  http://www.voyagehollowearth.com/

 

Inspired by the 60s with 21st century technologies, the coolest looking guitars that play and sound great.

http://www.italiaguitars.com/

 

Good things in life don't come cheap. Here, a list of some 'most expensive' things available in the market. Bizarrely exorbitant!

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1234791.cms

 

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

 

The Crime Library is a rapidly growing collection of more than over 600 nonfiction feature stories on major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics and criminal profiling by prominent writers. The stories focus mostly on recent crimes, but an expanding collection also delves into historically notorious characters, dating back to the 1400s and spanning the globe.  
 
The Crime Library is a source of entertainment and education for millions of readers throughout the world, and it serves as an important resource for students researching current and historical subjects and for producers of television documentaries and book authors.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/


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Sep 30, 2005
Surf W/ A Call From Brian Wilson!

VAN MORRISON SINGS ABOUT RINGWORM, THE REAL THINKING CAP, WORLD CHOOSES GREAT ROCK SONGS, QUICKSAND TRUE STORY, THE COOLEST WAY TO HELP KATRINA VICTIMS, THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD, PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ALIENS!
 
Computer scientists have created a hat that can read your thoughts. It allows you to stroll down a virtual street. All you have to do is think about walking.

Called a brain-computer interface, the device detects activity in certain brain areas linked to movement, and uses the signals to mimic that movement in a virtual world. The technology could one day help paralysed patients to move robotic arms, or help sufferers of motor neuron disease to type out words on a virtual keyboard. “Just thinking about movement activates the same neurons as actually moving,” explains Gert Pfurtscheller of Graz University of Technology in Austria, who has been working on the device for around four years. By picking up on these bursts of nerve activity, the computer can decide whether you are thinking about moving your hands or feet, and react accordingly.  (Let's see, on my virtual Street I can run into Pamela Anderson and Adrianna Lima and....)

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050926/full/050926-5.html

As one party prepares to crack down on porn and the other party goes after video games, not to mention the war on downloaders- it turns out the call registry is pretty much a joke.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112785978695153775-HoabM7CHEzv7VGRgpaiJDUOEzrE_20060928,00.html?mod=rss_free

The winners of the 2005 Novartis and The Daily Telegraph Photographic Awards make an exciting and diverse set of images.  
http://visions-of-science.co.uk/f-2005winners.htm

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I was out delivering cards for the upcoming mashup night at Sonotheque ( http://djpsychomike.blogdrive.com ), was walking from Addison to Belmont on Clark when I looked into a store window and was confronted with Japanese pop culture. DVD's of Japanese, Korean and Hong Kong movies, Godzilla toys by the bunch and loads of cool toys. I walked in- I felt like I was in the museum of Japanese pop culture. The store, J1Toy.com is at 3326 N. Clark Street and just seeing the toys is worth the trip. Very cool stuff. There is also a website (hence the name) http://j1toy.com/  and they have a store in NYC at 102 St. Marks Place W and another in Arlington Hts. IL, 43 W. Golf Road. This place gets a ten for cool toys.

I don't care if you are left wing or right wing, some of these questions need to be asked.  Sadly, the media isn't asking any of them. 25 disturbing questions about Katrina.  http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=8828

Van Morrison decided he wanted to leave his label and sat down and improvised 31 songs on topics ranging from ringworm to wanting a danish.  
 
You can hear the MP3's here.  http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/van_morrisons_c.html

700,000 people were polled and asked to come up with their favorite songs.  
 
I'm still in shock over which song came in second.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4291614.stm

A collection of photographs by Hollywood still photographer Fred Edgeworth, taken between 1914 and 1932. 
Subjects include silent-film celebrities.  
187 images. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowwhite/sets/983962
The space shuttle and International Space Station — nearly the whole of the U.S. manned space 
program for the past three decades — were mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin said Tuesday.  
 
Asked Tuesday whether the shuttle had been a mistake, Griffin said, "My opinion is that it was. ...
It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible." Asked whether the 
space station had been a mistake, he said, "Had the decision been mine, we would not have built 
the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-09-27-nasa-griffin-interview_x.htm
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WENDY'S WORLD
 

Kids Aren't All Right: The Many Hard, Strange Deaths of the Little 
Rascals
http://www.eonline.com/On/Holly/Shows/LittleRascals/
 
Or maybe not…
http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/ourgang.asp
 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens:
http://www.stopalienautopsies.org/
 
Tobias Schneebaum, Chronicler and Dining Partner of Cannibals, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/obituaries/24schneebaum.html
 
Giant squid!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/giant_squid/index.html
 
Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html
 
The Museum of Unworkable Devices
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm
 
Mariners over the centuries have reported surreal, nocturnal displays of glowing sea surfaces 
stretching outwards to the horizon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3760124.stm
 
For Mike, since he loves cats:
http://www.catdiary.com/
 
Brian Wilson will PERSONALLY call you if you send $100 or more to help victims of Katrina plus
he will match your donation.
http://www.brianwilson.com/
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Is the Clean Air Act Unconstitutional?  http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1076/is_9_42/ai_67319835

"It is a staple scene of B-movies and Westerns: the cowboy stumbles into a patch of quicksand and is sucked under until only his stetson remains on top, or sinks up to his neck until hauled out by his sidekick.  


 
Both scenarios have now been proved to fly in the face of physics. Research has shown that it is impossible for people to sink into quicksand much beyond the waist — but it is equally impossible to pull someone out once they are stuck."  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1802439,00.html

Travel-Journal's cheap travel guide is an online "travel book" that tells travellers how to save money and avoid problems in hundreds of places around the world.  
 
There is no cost for any of the information, or special features of the site, including:  
 
- Take the Travel Quiz to learn your travel personality. Quick, fun and free.  
 
- Contribute your thoughts in our Cheap Travel Forum.  http://www.travel-journal.org/

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

I know this wasn't supposed to be funny, but it is!  
 
Christian group checks for violence and objectionable material.  http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/games/home.html 

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Sep 29, 2005
Surf W/Museum Of Yo Yo's!

TOP 50 SCIENCE FICTION FILMS, LIQUID SCULPTURE, MUSEUM OF YO-YO'S, HIGHLANDER TOLD BY BUNNIES IN 30 SECONDS, LAURA FLYNN BOYLE :
RAT HUNTER!
Courtney Love's mom says Courtney started taking drugs at 4 years old.  http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/63072004.htm
 
The newest office slang.  http://www.officeslang.com/
 
Philippe Dufour is a Swiss watchmaker. But not an ordinary one. He is clearly one of the most respected, most inovative and most talented master watchmakers working nowadays.

His creations are considered as the quintessence of watchmaking, above everything that can be bought from known and respected companies.
http://people.timezone.com/pchong/Dufour/05/philippe.html
 
The top 50 science fiction TV shows  http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/gallery/topscifishows/
 
The museum of yo-yo's!  http://www.theyoyomuseum.com/
 
How to win at carnie games!  http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2003/fair/
 
Liquid Sculpture is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, or other liquids. These sculptures are then photographed, since they last only a few thousandths of a second. Creating and capturing these engaging forms requires careful manipulation of the materials and precise control of the lighting and timing.
 
 
Highlander in 30 seconds told by bunnies.  http://www.angryalien.com/0905/highlanderbuns.asp
 
Feel like a cartoon? They don't get much better than this: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD by Tex Avery. 
 
Laura Flynn Boyle ( LAS VEGAS tv show)  talks about picking up dead rats as a kid!  http://media.putfile.com/LaraFlynnBoyle/original
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
Take a look at celebrity tombstones.  http://www.citymorguegiftshop.com/graves.htm

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Sep 27, 2005
Surf W/ New Breed Of Women!

THE NEW BREED OF WOMEN: RAUNCH GIRLS, TREASURE ISLAND FOUND, ODDEST STATUES EVER, THE MOST IMPORTANT WRESTLING EVENT OF
OUR TIME IS COMING, WHAT WOULD XENA DO?, DOG FLU SWEEPS NATION!
The archipelago is named after Robinson Crusoe, but perhaps it should have been called Treasure Island.  
A long quest for booty from the Spanish colonial era appears to be culminating in Chile with the announcement by a group of adventurers that they have found an estimated 600 barrels of gold coins and Incan jewels on the remote Pacific island.  "The biggest treasure in history has been located," said Fernando Uribe-Etxeverria, a lawyer for Wagner, the Chilean company leading the search. Mr Uribe-Etxeverria estimated the value of the buried treasure at US$10bn (Ł5.6bn).  
Wait until you read who (what) actually found it!  http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1578135,00.html
 
Ever hear of an obscure electronica music genre and did not know what it was?  
Ever been confused between the differences of House, Acid Funk, Psytekk, Anthem Rave, & Ambient Trance?  Ever wish there was a site that condensed all of this into an easy-to-navigate presentation?  
 http://www.ishkur.com/music/
 
This is the strangest statue in a public place ever. Probably not ok for work as well.  http://unguent.blogspot.com/2005/09/this-made-me-laugh.html
 
Wait- THIS is the strangest statue ever in public: The idea is disarmingly simple. Two bronze sculptures pee into their oddly-shaped enclosure.  
 
While they are peeing, the two figures move realistically. An electric mechanism driven by a couple of microproccesors swivels the upper part of the body, while the penis goes up and down. The stream of water writes quotes from famous Prague residents.  
 
Visitor can interupt them by sending SMS message from mobile phone to a number, displayed next to the sculptures. The living statue then ‘writes’ the text of the message, before carrying on as before.  Don't miss the videos of the sculpture in action!  http://www.davidcerny.cz/EN/piss.html

Full-sized scan of a vintage Mexican fotonovela featuring the masked wrestling superstar El Santo 
 
A writer looks back on the impact Xena had.  
 
A really good Salon article!  http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/09/15/xena/index.html
 

Monday Night RAW will be heading back home to the USA Network on Oct. 3. The historic three-hour RAW will start at 7:55 p.m. ET. (6:55 Chicago Time)

Many former WWE Champions will be on hand for "WWE Homecoming" on Oct. 3, including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Mick Foley and the return of Triple H. Also, a host of WWE legends will be a part of the historic, star-studded evening. Many legends already confirmed for Oct. 3 include:

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Jimmy Hart, Hillbilly Jim, Superstar Billy Graham, The Iron Sheik, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Harley Race, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Chief Jay Strongbow, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Nikolai Volkoff and Koko B. Ware.

Above: the many faces of Mick Foley

Also, several huge matches have been signed for "WWE Homecoming," including Edge vs. Matt Hardy in a "Loser Leaves RAW, Money-in-the-Bank Ladder Match" and General Manager Eric Bischoff vs. John Cena for the WWE Championship. FOLKS MARK YOUR CALENDAR, TATOO THE DAY AND TIME ON YOUR ARM, GET READY!     http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/rawonusa

 Dogs across the country have come down with a virus that crossed over from horses last year and has spread across the country. Unlike kennel cough, the dog loses its appetite, has a runny nose and some dogs have died from it. There is no cure, no vaccine is expected for at least 6 months. I'd avoid dog parks and kennels if you can- and pass this article on to any dog owner you know.  http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdogs274444675sep27,0,1842996.story?coll=ny-health-headlines

Guest houses of Japan.  http://www.otsukayutaka.com/index.html

The working class has been in control of China for decades, if one believes the rhetoric.  
 
So, what is life like for a teenage girl working in a factory there?  Some hidden cameras reveal life "without the bosses".  http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2005/films_description.asp?pageID=&id=52
 
Teenage boys go on a rampage, hold down girls, fondle them and take pictures! Teachers have to deal with crap like this?
 
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She and her friends talk about it constantly. How to go out and have a great time. How to make their way through a sexual landscape that somehow has upped the ante in racy behaviour. The challenge, says Shauna (not her real name), a 20-year-old third-year psychology major at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., is how not to feel like a misfit just because she thinks that the sexual titillation factor has gone too far. "One thing I have noticed more and more," she says of the student scene, "is that girls spend as much time, if not more, dancing provocatively with each other as they do with men. Many girls have made out with each other in front of a group of boys, or for their benefit after having been dared, or even without provocation. I was recently at a bar with a group of friends from high school," she continues, "and a group of girls came wearing short skirts and low-cut tops -- they had each written words on their breasts or upper thighs and were willingly showing this to the guys when asked.

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Sep 26, 2005
Surf W/ The Late Don Adams, RIP

VISIT THE BATES MOTEL, ILLEGAL SUPERMAN COMIC, IRAN LOVES WESTERN WOMEN IN UNIFORM, GLORY YEARS OF THE PACKERS!
 
Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82. Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding that the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.  
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As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency CONTROL, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of KAOS. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack:  
 
"Would you believe ... ?"  
 
It became a national catchphrase.  
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The spy gadgets, which aped those of the Bond movies, were a popular feature, especially the pre-cellphone telephone in a shoe.
 
Before Katrina, Bob Dylan wrote on his favorite city, New Orleans. THE GHOSTS OF NEW ORLEANS is the title of the piece.
 
Take  a tour of The Bates Motel!  http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2005/batesmotel/
 
Illegal Indian Superman - Batman - Spider-Man - some Indian guy crossover! See Superman murder criminals with glee!

 
The story of how Herman Melville, and MOBY DICK were almost forgotten.
 
 Matthew Hopkins is the most notorious name in the history of English witchcraft, and was more commonly known as "The Witch-Finder General". Throughout his reign of terror, 1644-1646, he was responsible for the executions of some 230 alleged witches, more than all the other witch-hunters put together during the 160-year peak of the country's witchcraft hysteria.   http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Features/SpookyNorfolk/asp/EastNorfolk/Witchfinder.asp
 
The Iran Defense Force website has discussions by pro- Iranians on military strategies- and then oddly, a page of beautiful women in the militaries around the world.
 
 
They're Coming To Take Me Away:   Napolean Complex, a collection of 21 international versions of Napolean XIV's 1966 hit single.
 
Why the Creature From The Black Lagoon is a great film series:
 
 
Well they couldn't even beat the Browns, but the Green Bay Packers did have their glory years.  http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/highlights/archives/2005/09/packers_glory_y.asp
 
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Surf W/ Bob Dylan!


TRUE STORIES ABOUT BOB DYLAN, KOSHER PET FOOD, BAD PUBLICITY EXISTS, THE MAN WHO LIVES IN A PLANE, IS CLONING PEOPLE TROUBLE?
 
VISA and MASTERCARD are on their way to court. They are fighting a lawsuit that claims they should inform consumers when their cards or numbers are stolen.
 
Kosher pet food!  http://www.kosherpets.com/
 
The story of the sad eyed lady of the lowlands, the woman Bob Dylan never got over.
 
PayPal is battling to fix a glitch that has been causing duplicate debit card withdrawals and deposits on some customer accounts since the
 
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Right? As long as they spell the name right. As long as your face and name is out there, as long as you're dancing in the public eye it doesn't matter whether your laces are untied or your sock has a hole or your hair looks like you combed it with a corkscrew. Any publicity is good publicity.
Right?
Well, no. 
http://www.lileks.com/institute/publicity/
 
The man whose voice was preserved forever on a bootleg yelling "Judas" at Bob Dylan for going electric tells all.
 
 
The renegade boat brigades ignored calls for them not to evacuate people in New Orleans- now many are faced with arrest warrents for saving lives.
 
Donovan tells about the time he met Bob Dylan 
 
More and more people are getting upset with Yahoo's domain registration. Here's why:
 
Every day you can check out the astronomy pic of the day!  http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
 
This fellow lives in a jet!
 
This film had to be made because the pitch is in the title!  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Until recently, the idea of cloning human beings was strictly the stuff of science fiction. But all that changed with the announcement that British researchers have produced a clone of an adult sheep, better known as Dolly. The first mammal ever to be cloned from an adult, Dolly has DNA that is identical to her only "parent," a 6-year old ewe.  
 
So is cloning making trouble or not?   http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/news/march97/mainstory_mar97.html


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