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Oct 25, 2005
Surf W/Road Head!

SECRETS OF 2001 REVEALED, THE RETURN OF MYTHS, THE ROOTS OF LOUNGE MUSIC AND LIFESTYLE, COOKING WILD GAME, ROAD HEAD!
 
It is the missing part of a cinematic classic. Almost four decades ago, Stanley Kubrick gathered the world's scientific minds and asked them to predict the future. Their thoughts would then form the opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, his epic about a mission to Jupiter which becomes a life or death battle between the space crew and their on-board computer HAL 9000.

But the interviews were never screened and the collective thoughts of 21 eminent men and women of science appeared to have been lost for ever.

Now the musings are to be made public for the first time when they are published next month, giving Kubrick enthusiasts an insight into his ultimate vision for the classic film.  http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/article321643.ece

Hunter S Thompson shot himself in February. Eight months on, his widow, Anita, talks to Rachel Cooke exclusively and for the first time about their time together, his sudden death, and living with the memories and memorabilia of a literary giant
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1598398,00.html

The truth behind myths: http://www.sundayherald.com/52415  The beauty of myths: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/classics/0,6121,1598412,00.html  The man whose publishing company may just revive interest in myths again: http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2119532005

BRIAN ENO, the avant-garde British musician, brought the sound of silence to an ancient park in the heart of Beijing yesterday where, for centuries, emperors have offered up sacrifices to the sun.

The Altar of the Sun is usually frequented by old men flying kites, young soldiers practising martial arts and elderly women performing their early morning tai chi exercises. Yesterday the altar received what must be one of the strangest offerings to have come its way since it was built in 1531. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1837018,00.html

For those not familiar with Road head, it is performing oral sex on the (male) driver of a car while he's driving. Be sure to check out the FAQ

Not safe for work. http://www.iloveroadhead.com/

You shot it. Now what are you gonna do with it? Recipes for cooking wild game. http://www.recipegoldmine.com/meatwild/meatwild.html

A Nazi war criminal's contribution to medicine is being slowly written out of the medical record.

Until a few decades ago, "Reiter's syndrome" was the term used to describe the painful disorder in which a patient simultaneously suffers the infection-triggered symptoms of arthritis, conjunctivitis and urethritis.

The syndrome was named after Hans Reiter, the German doctor who identified it in 1916. Reiter later became an enthusiastic Nazi. He ran Hitler's Reich Health Office, and during the second world war designed typhoid inoculation experiments that killed more than 250 people at the Buchenwald concentration camp. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8194

According to sparse historical writings, the Greek mathematician Archimedes torched a fleet of invading Roman ships by reflecting the sun's powerful rays with a mirrored device made of glass or bronze.

More than 2,000 years later, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona set out to recreate Archimedes' fabled death ray  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/10/23/mit-students-fail-to-recr_n_9332.html

THE good news is that the bad news didn't stop The New York Times from publishing a lengthy front-page article last Sunday about the issues facing Judith Miller and the paper, or from pushing Ms. Miller to give readers a first-person account of her grand jury testimony.

The details laid out in the commendable 6,200-word article by a special team of reporters and editors led by the paper's deputy managing editor answered most of my fundamental questions. At issue, of course, was Ms. Miller's refusal to divulge her confidential sources to the grand jury investigating who had leaked the identity of a C.I.A. undercover operative. But the article and Ms. Miller's account also uncovered new information that suggested the journalistic practices of Ms. Miller and Times editors were more flawed than I had feared.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/opinion/23publiceditor.html?ei=5090&en=5592e589f27775a7&ex=1287720000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Celebrating the thoroughly unexamined life. Roots or retro, cocktail or kitsch, exotica or nostalgia--these may be topics that lack substance, but we'll be plumbing the depths of shallow in these pages. If it's covered or linked here, it fits our definition of Lounge...and beyond...  

http://gonix.com/rol/

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Oct 24, 2005
Surf W/ Injun Summer

 
THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES PROJECT, iPODS AND HEARING LOSS, GODS OF JAPAN, THE COLUMBIAN EXHIBIT IN CHICAGO, BANNED BRITNEY BABY PICS, RUPERT EVERETT'S DARK SHERLOCK HOLMES!

 
For those of us who grew up in Chicago, we can never forget, Injun Summer.  http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Chicago/InjunSummer/
 
I noticed that Masterpiece Theater was showing Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes so last night I decided to watch it and check out the re-broadcast of
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES this coming Saturday. The opening scene, of Holmes in an opium den getting wasted let me know this was a wise choice.
This is one dark Holmes, and if you are a fan you will love this. It is re-broadcast different days and times around the country- but here in Chicago
it will be on tonight, or Tuesday morning if you prefer,  at 2:30 am until 4:30 am and I urge you to tape it. This makes me want more of Everett as Holmes but he shows little interest in doing more. You will be amazed at this, I promise you.  http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/10/22/the_singular_experience_of_mr_rupert_everett/
 
 
Britney turned down millions to print pics of her baby.  
 
So they went up on the net immediately.  http://socialitelife.com/mt/archives/say_hello_to_sean_preston_federline.php
 
More and more people with repetitive motion injuries are showing up at Doctor's offices. Are blackberries to blame?
 
Basic overview of Japan's deities and myths.  http://www.interq.or.jp/www-user/fuushi/e-myth-a.htm
 
The Arab version of the Simpsons isn't getting many laughs! From Bryan Wendorf with the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
 
A brief article about Count Felix Von Luckner,a WW1 German naval officer commanding a merchant raider that sank 50,000 tons of allied shipping.The how,the with what and the fate of his 'victims' may surprise you..  http://www.yeoldeeditor.com/vonluckner.htm
 
The Sherlock Holmes stories are illustrated with artwork by Sidney Paget, Richard Gutschmidt, Frank Wiles, Frederic Dorr Steele and other artists. Explanatory notes will be added eventually, but as this will be a long-term project, your patience is requested.  
 
Can the James Bond personae be saved?  http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/massie200510210834.asp
 
From the who to the how, here are the Nigerian scams that keep working on Americans. 
 
Old Roadie is the brain child of Mike Artz - part of the most famous road crew ever - the Allman Brothers Band roadies. He was also a member of the all-roadie band the Almost Brothers. Now he grows the best datil peppers around and turns them into a killer sauce.  
 
This site is the home for old roadies everywhere. Come on in and read the old war stories (or post one if you have one!), catch up with the current happenings of other old roadies, and buy some sauce!  http://www.oldroadie.com/index.php
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
The Columbian Exposition is still considered a major expo that took place in Chicago.

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Oct 21, 2005
Surf w/ Belly Dancing Music!

FREE 411 CALLS, PILLOW BOOKS, THE FROZEN PILOTS OF SIERRA NEVADA, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE SOUTH PARK, BELLY DANCING, HOLLYWOOD CARTOONS TELL ALL!
 
The Serbian fairy tale, “The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan“, with beautiful QTVR panoramic artwork by award-winning illustrator Jelena Obradovic.
 
1-800-FREE411 was created to provide callers with a free alternative to the skyrocketing rates being charged by phone companies for directory assistance (411).  The service is made possible by thousands of national and local businesses who sponsor this service with brief valuable audio advertisements that are played to callers who request businesses in their yellow pages category. This advertising model allows businesses to acquire new customers over the phone, cost effectively, with little or no risk. Meanwhile callers get free directory assistance, potentially saving each of them thousand of dollars per year.
 
A pillow book is an illustrated erotic volume, usually small, intended to be kept at bedside to stimulate the imagination. Though the concept is very Victorian, sites such as this one still sell them.  NOT OK FOR WORK. 
http://www.eroticprints.org/section.asp?section=3&subsection=28
 
Dusty Springfield, the white lady of soul!
 

What: Party for "John Woo: Interviews," the first oral history of the director's life & legacy

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

When: Tonight: Reception and signing: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m

“The Killer” screens at 8 p.m., tickets $8, with introduction by me More signing: 9:30 to 10 p.m. Advanced tickets on sale at Ticketmaster on the Gene Siskel box office.

More details and updates at: www.johnwoointerviews.com

 
Returning New Orleans residents think of themselves as survivors, and many are lining up to get tattoos that celebrate New Orleans.
 
An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals — and where a Seattle man died doing so with a horse —
 
It was a plane crash back in 1942 that wasn't discovered until 1947. Now, hikers made a frozen discovery in connection with a World War II plane crash.  
 
Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Sequoia National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing.  
 
It's believed the airman has been frozen in the glacier for decades until a pair of climbers got much more than ever imagined on a hike.  
 
The Sierra Nevadas are apparently littered with crashes from the WWII era, which I suppose is what you'd expect when you put hundreds of low-time pilots in an area where most of the landscape points up.
 
 
Selected scenes from Big Trouble in Little China, remade using South Park characters and animation paired with the original audio track.  
 
Some of these clips require the DIVX codec to work properly.  http://www.wingkong.net/video/index.html
 
Ever have trouble downloading Flash and the different codes, so you can watch films on the net?  Here you can find many of these programs free-
 
Alan Parker has done a Hollywood tell all- in cartoon form!  http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,1596264,00.html
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
Radio Bastet is a web radio show devoted to vintage belly dance music.  
 
They have past programs, a gallery of album covers, links to belly dancing books and info, and more.  
 
They also post an album each month, for your mp3 downloading pleasure. This month's selection is "How to Belly Dance For Your Husband" by Sonny Lester

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Oct 20, 2005
Surf W/ Sarah Silverman

CATS CAN BE ALLERGIC TO HUMANS, ARTIFICIAL INTEL COMES TO GOOGLE,
CHOKE YOUR CHICKEN, I LOVE PICKLES, SARAH SILVERMAN IS COOL,
IS THE BIRD FLU REAL OR A HOAX?
Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Mother Teresa are being deployed as behaviour cops in posters in the car-clogged streets of Mexico City in a campaign to stamp out bad driving,
corruption and aggression.  
 
"If you want to change lanes never use your indicator," a Chilango recently advised a newcomer. "It gives away your strategy. Everyone will squash up to stop you getting in."
 
Now you can choke your chicken this X-Mas. This has to be the strangest toy I've seen.  It does look funny.....  
 
Cats are blamed for triggering asthma attacks in humans but veterinarians in Scotland say it may also work the other way around.  Irritants such as cigarette smoke, dusty homes and human dandruff can increase inflammation in feline lungs and worsen asthma in cats.  
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1485585.htm
 
Pickle recipes, education, articles, and shopping! Pickle store is a must-see. 
 http://ilovepickles.org/
 
Two tests may one day be able to diagnose Alzheimer's disease by detecting beta amyloid protein in the eye.
 
Widespread fears about a world in a perpetual state of war are unfounded, a study says today. It emphasises that the number of conflicts between nations, civil wars, battle deaths, coups and genocides has been falling steeply for more than a decade.  
 
While the authors note that bloody wars continue in Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo, they argue that there are substantial grounds for optimism.
 
Comedy is probably the last remaining branch of the arts whose suitability for women is still openly discussed.... [Sarah] Silverman presents herself as approachable though deranged, a sort of twisted Gracie Allen, and she never breaks character. She talks about herself so ingenuously that you can't tell if she is the most vulnerable woman in the world or the most psychotically well-defended.  
 
Silverman crosses boundaries that it would not occur to most people even to have. The more innocent and oblivious her delivery, the more outrageous her commentary becomes...  
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051024fa_fact
 
 
How to make the drink called ZOMBIE: 
http://psychotronic.info/archive/bettie/zombierecipe.htm
 
 
Film clips from classic movies!  http://www.doctormacro.com/Film%20Clips.htm
 
Is the bird flu real, or a hoax?

Daryl Bradford Smith interviews Henry Niman and Geri Guidetti

Two microbiologists speak about it.
 
 

Click the links below for the MP3 audio files

Hour_1, Niman, Oct 7, 2005

Hour_2, Guidetti, Oct 17, 2005

Click your right mouse and select download. Then play them, post them on your site, or burn them to CD and share with everyone who has ears.

How do you find out what products have been recalled by the government? http://www.recalls.gov/

 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 

Rada Mihalcea of the computer science and engineering department received a $107,112 award in a national competition from the search engine company Google to support her research.

Her project, “Finding Important Information in Unstructured Text: Algorithms for Keyphrase and Sentence Extraction,” will benefit a new division at Google, named Google Print, which is building an online electronic database of books.

Google is working with the libraries at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford and the New York Public Library to digitally scan books and provide users a way to search the database for specific books and their content.

http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/19/4355dd55d6459

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Oct 18, 2005
Surf W/The Magic Fruit!

THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE MAGIC FRUIT, THE COUPLE THAT CHANGED ROCK MUSIC, THE CHIEF OF POLICE WHO SAID NO, NEW ORLEANS VOODOO DECLARED BEST!
 
Star anise, the unusual fruit of a small oriental tree, is sold in supermarkets in the UK to consumers seeking its pungent, liquorice-like flavour.  
 
But the herb has a vital function as the source of shikimic acid from which the drug Tamiflu is made, the only defence the world currently has against the threatened flu pandemic.   http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=665640
 
Time Magazine gathers techno nerds together to discuss what is coming.  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1118376-1,00.html
 
The biggest question of all. Why do we believe in God? http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1590776,00.html
 
Watch on the internet: debates on the Patriot Act!  http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/PatriotDebates/Patriot.jsp
 
Gallery of new wave music sleeves. Really cool.
 
As the 60s dawned, two bustling restaurants on the ground floor at 1619 Broadway (Manhattan's legendary Brill Building) were pumping out roast beef sandwiches and porterhouse steaks for hungry Times Square patrons.

Meanwhile, upstairs, seven songwriting duos - most barely out of their teens - sat in airless cubicles, huddled around banged-up pianos, cooking up the classic pop confections we still can't get enough of today, songs like "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" "Chapel of Love," "Jailhouse Rock," "Be My Baby," "Walk on By," "Up on the Roof," and "Leader of the Pack" - get the picture?

These are the songs that have jump-started pulses, accelerated birthrates, and enriched wedding and bar mitzvah bands across the planet for more than four decades now. Just the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " by itself - radio's most played pop song ever - has been heard more than 10 million times.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1018/p16s01-bogn.html

Because of a lawsuit by the New York Times, major censored portions of 911 reports have been released. Many would like to see the uncensored portions of the cities response.  http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0542,murphy,68951,5.html

The former police chief of Seattle has seen enough. He wants drugs legalized.

Here is some of what he says:

It's not a stretch to conclude that our draconian approach to drug use is the most injurious domestic policy since slavery. Want to cut back on prison overcrowding and save a bundle on the construction of new facilities? Open the doors, let the nonviolent drug offenders go. The huge increases in federal and state prison populations during the 1980s and '90s (from 139 per 100,000 residents in 1980 to 482 per 100,000 in 2003) were mainly for drug convictions. In 1980, 580,900 Americans were arrested on drug charges. By 2003, that figure had ballooned to 1,678,200. We're making more arrests for drug offenses than for murder, manslaughter, forcible rape and aggravated assault combined. Feel safer?

I've witnessed the devastating effects of open-air drug markets in residential neighborhoods: children recruited as runners, mules and lookouts; drug dealers and innocent citizens shot dead in firefights between rival traffickers bent on protecting or expanding their markets; dedicated narcotics officers tortured and killed in the line of duty; prisons filled with nonviolent drug offenders; and drug-related foreign policies that foster political instability, wreak health and environmental disasters, and make life even tougher for indigenous subsistence farmers in places such as Latin America and Afghanistan. All because we like our drugs — and can't have them without breaking the law.

As an illicit commodity, drugs cost and generate extravagant sums of (laundered, untaxed) money, a powerful magnet for character-challenged police officers.

Although small in numbers of offenders, there isn't a major police force — the Los Angeles Police Department included — that has escaped the problem: cops, sworn to uphold the law, seizing and converting drugs to their own use, planting dope on suspects, robbing and extorting pushers, taking up dealing themselves, intimidating or murdering witnesses.

In declaring a war on drugs, we've declared war on our fellow citizens.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-legalize16oct16,0,3428942.story?track=hpmostemailedlink

Christians review teen magazines. http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/172005a.asp  I don't know, so few people read anymore, I think if a kid is reading something inapproriate they will still be several notches above other kids their age.

Are you ready for smoked bacon butter?  http://www.indigo.org/food/stash/baconbut.html

New Orleans voodoo is still around. In fact, you can even have a voodoo wedding.


http://www.voodoospiritualtemple.org/

Now you can have a virtual autopsy!  http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/titlpag1.html

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Ever wonder what the world press thinks of an issue? Find out here:

http://www.kidon.com/media-link/english.php

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Surf W/ Beach Boys Meltdown: Uncut!

HOW THE NEWS IS STAGED, MUMMIFICATION FOR YOU AND YOUR PET, STRANGE FOOD, DOCTOR PRESCRIBED POT SPRAY!

A Swedish man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has been ordered to pay child support for their three children.

In the early 1990s the man, now 39, donated his sperm to a woman in a lesbian relationship. She had three sons, the oldest of whom is now 13 years old.

Although the man signed a document confirming he was the biological father of the children, he told the court the women agreed he would not be involved in their upbringing in any way.  http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1571037.html?menu=news.quirkies

Can men have women pals?  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1593217,00.html

This prankster has, the head in a jar!  http://www.madhauscreative.com/head%20in%20a%20jar.html

Angelina Jolie is in talks to play Vesper Lynd in CASINO ROYALE 

http://www.megastar.co.uk/movienews/news/2005/10/17/sMEG01MTEyOTU0NjYzMTE.html

This company is offering mummification of you and your pet.  http://www.summum.us/mummification/

Strange new products is a website devoted to some objects for sale that live up to the name. http://www.strangenewproducts.com/

And if you liked that, the same webmaster does this link on crazy food!  http://www.junkfoodblog.com/

How a pulverized, liquefied, and doctor-prescribed form of marijuana could transform the drug-war landscape http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/11/Respectable_Reefer.html

Here is the website of the group.  http://www.drugdevelopment-technology.com/projects/sativex/

This is amazing and should be seen even if you aren't a fan. Great science fiction cover site- with an ingenious way to view them.

http://www.krazydad.com/visco/

The Beach Boys enter the studio to record what will become their second number one hit, Help Me Rhonda. Well into the session, a drunken Murry Wilson (Brian, Carl and Dennis' Dad) arrives and proceeds to commandeer the session with psychodrama, scat singing and weepy, abusive melodrama.

You'll even find the Peter Bagge animated films on Brian's dad, too. Not ok for work.  http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/im_a_genius_too.html

Tombstones that come with a video screen.  http://www.vidstone.com/

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

This amazing news footage shows why you should take news broadcasts with a lot of salt. Bet you send this around.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/14.html#a5377 

 

 

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Oct 17, 2005
Surf W/ Outhouses Of America!

CUBS WIN, LOST SHOPPING MALLS, WILLIAM GIBSON'S NEUROMANCER, KITTEN WAR, MONSTER FROM THE TSUNAMI!
Are you ready for a new show called- CUBS WIN! ?  http://cubswin.blogdrive.com/
 
How about the Outhouses of America tour?  http://www.jldr.com/ohindex.shtml
 
Lost shopping malls of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. 
 
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WENDY'S WORLD
 

 

150 feet off the coast of Sunset Beach in Cape May, New Jersey, a strange structure sticks out of the water

http://www.concreteships.org/

 

Robotic fish

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~jliua/videogal.htm 
 
Frontier Psychologist
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/831/
 
Kitten war! Just try and stop clicking once you get started…
http://kittenwar.com/
 
Unicef bombs the Smurfs
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/08/ 
wsmurf08.xml
 
Here's a sampling of some of the best -- and worst – warning posters the government has created
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001862.html
 
Giant Creature Uncovered by Tsunami? It appears to come from an Indian news service, 
translated into English, showing what looks like a colossal creature uncovered by last year's tsunami.
http://giantology.typepad.com/giantology/2005/10/giant_creature_.html
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BEST SITE OF THE DAY: WILLIAM GIBSON'S NEUROMANCER
This future is a future that revolves around the information superhighway that is the internet, so much so that we don't use our computers or cell phones or PDAs to log on, but out mind.  Body modification isn't piercings and tattoos but bionic parts and computer implants.  Everything else is just as miserable as it is right now.
 
As it is with most hackers, Case was a little too confident in his ability to get away with it until he stopped getting away with it.  By law his nervous system would be burned with acid to impede his ability to jack into the internet.  Now feeling lost and useless and contemplating suicide, he's offered an opportunity to have his old nervous system intact, regaining his ability to jack in - but at what price?
Born in 1914, William Gibson spent most of his childhood in the Bronx. His mother tutored him so that he could skip grades in school.  In sixth grade, the budding author started buying notebooks, hoping to fill them with a novel about an uncle killed during wartime. Though he never wrote the novel, his interest in writing never diminished.  nearly 30 years later, Gibson was supported by his wife and occasionally sought income by playing the piano or working other part-time jobs so that he could realize his childhood dream. 

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Oct 13, 2005
Surf W/ The New James Bond!

NEW TIKI PLACE OPENS IN CHICAGO 'BURBS, THE JENNA JAMESON GUITAR, THE WORLD'S STRANGEST HAT, ESQUIRE HAILS BUTTER: CHICAGO'S
BEST NEW RESTAURANT, OLDEST NOODLES FOUND IN CHINA, THE MAN WHO SAVED 1 BILLION LIVES- AND IS HATED FOR IT!
 
Has a billion dollar pirate treasure been found!?!  http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16715733-13762,00.html
 
First came this flash of a woman falling (submitted by Mojo in Chicago)  http://www.izpitera.ru/lj/tetka.swf
 
Then came the Bush version! 
 
Interesting argument put forward about the life of Jesus and how it stands next to other religions tales throughout time.
 
Robert Plant has a new band, an acclaimed album and a bright future. And he's learned to live with the ghosts of Led Zeppelin.
 
He is public enemy number 1 to the Greens and anti- genetic engineered food crowd. Yet he is credited with saving in his lifetime, over 1 billion lives. How is it a man who saved over 1 billion people walks the earth- and you've never heard of him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug  A sad story of how one scientist can make a difference in the lives of people on this planet- yet because his work is controversial his name is unknown in schools, never mentioned in the press. The modern age, indeed.....
 
How demanding are rock musicians in the studio? This person reveals what it was like to work with Kate Bush and U2.
 
There is a new Tiki bar and restaurant opening in the burbs. Folks, this looks like it will be hot! Sign up ASAP for a VIP membership for the opening night party in November!
 
Is America in a period of cultural decay? "Among the conceits of our elite and media is the assumption that America, in the form that they wish to imagine it, is immortal. Part of this is the arrogance of the big, part comes from an admirable if naive faith in progress, part of it is pathological delusion. For a host of reasons, beginning with our own survival, it is long past time to permit the question to be raised: is America collapsing as a culture?"  
 
The Netherlands is about to ban the burka!  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1823334,00.html
 
Jackson, the top guitar maker, has made a limited edition model that features Jenna Jameson's likeness on the body. Not ok for work. 
 
The oldest noodles have been found in China.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4335160.stm
 
 
Esquire has published their list of the best new restaurants in America.
 
This is the Chicago restaurant that got raves:  http://butterchicago.com/
 
IS THIS THE NEW JAMES BOND?

Tabloid reports this week have said the role will go to Daniel Craig, a blue-eyed British actor who would be the first blond Bond.

Although he’s not well known in the United States, Craig, 37, has a busy British career that includes roles in the landmark 1990s TV drama Our Friends in the North; and films including The Mother, Enduring Love; and Layer Cake.

He played Paul Newman’s sinister son in Road to Perdition, was poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia Plath in Sylvia; and appeared in this year’s thriller The Jacket; with Adrien Brody.

Craig is also the tabloids’ dream Bond. He once dated headline-grabbing model Kate Moss and has been linked to Sienna Miller, his Layer Cake co-star. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1823863,00.html

 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
To perpetuate and preserve the game and history of our national pastime: baseball. The Old Timers Baseball Association! New and old baseball!

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Surf W/ Pacman!

HOW BLOCKBUSTER DESTROYED ITSELF, ABSINTHE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDLE, LIZ PHAIR STILL ROCKS, PACMAN FEVER!
Welcome to Absinthe.bz where you'll find only authentic absinthe made according to the original, 19th-century absinthe formula.  
 
Unlike most other internet-based absinthe shops, our absinthes contain the original levels of the psychoactive ingredient thujone...  
 
We specialise in Czech Absinthes because the liquor laws of the Czech Republic do not limit thujone content levels of commercial absinthe...
 
 
Varied selection and packages for sale nearly worldwide (including, incidentally, a cannabis vodka). Also, related articles, tips and recipes. 
 

Liz Phair, the rocker who first gained acclaim with her 1993 album Exile In Guyville has recently come under attack as a sell-out. Much criticized for working with The Matrix, the record engineers who write and produce music for teen pop singer Avril Lavigne, Phair has said that her decision to go more commercial on her self-titled album Liz Phair was partly motivated by her financial concerns as a single mother. New York Press' Tom Birner asked her about this recent change in style, her follow-up CD Somebody's Miracle—and much else—as Phair gets set for a gig here in town.

 
Enjoy some of these classic '80s games: Pacman, Space Invaders, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Star Castle and more.  
 
Please give the games a moment to load.  
To download the games to play offline, visit the downloads page  http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games.shtml
 
A Bugs Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc outakes. Differently funny.  http://www.pixar.com/theater/outtakes/
 
Info on old school opera singers with examples of their singing! http://bassocantante.com/opera/duets.html
 
If both bacon and chocolate can make other foods taste better, what would happen if someone was just crazy enough to combine chocolate and bacon?  
http://karagitz.blogspot.com/2005/09/chocolate-covered-bacon_28.html
 
Hungarian Jews were robbed of their valuables by the National Socialists, then the train carrying the goods to Germany was taken by the United States.  
 
Which sold much of the loot and passed the rest around to officers.  
 
After Hungarian Jews protested, we turned Hungary over to Stalin.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051011/ts_nm/usa_goldtrain_dc
 
There's a new show coming to Chicago. It's called, CUBS WIN!  http://cubswin.blogdrive.com/
 
A woman was there to help lay the foundation for Bob Dylan's music. And she still speaks fondly of him as well. Great article. Moving and compelling.
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Katie Holmes parents fear she was just being groomed to have a child for Cruise. Yeeech.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9546108/
 

Paradise Lost, John Milton's epic poem about Adam and Eve's temptation and fall, is to be turned into a feature film for the first time since its publication more than 330 years ago. Hollywood producers aim to keep the screen version faithful to Milton's 1667 original, a complex work comprising 12,000 lines of blank verse. The production is described as "epic in scope and size".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/12/wparad12.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/12/ixworld.html

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Blockbuster could have bought up its closest competitor for a song. It went with Enron instead. This could go down as the biggest business blunder of the last 25 years!
 

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Oct 12, 2005
Surf w/ Frogs and mice

HOT TOYS OF THE YEAR, ALL DAY HORROR MOVIE FESTIVAL, CHOOSING YOUR WIFE THE BIBLICAL WAY, BRIAN WILSON AND JAZZ!
 
A revolution in automobiles has just happened. Driverless cars. The future- is here. Now. 
 
Police have honored a 4-year-old male toy poodle that can walk on its hind legs for promoting road safety, it has been learned.
 
It has only taken more than 100 years to get around to it, but a new exploration of shafts discovered in the Great Pyramid in 1872 may reveal secrets that have baffled archaeologists for a century.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051010/sc_nm/egypt_pyramid_dc
 
The hippies are returning to Golden Gate Park October 30th!  http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=7344
 
Are you ready for a 24 hour horror movie marathon?  http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/Massacre.html
 
Trojan is introducing a sex toy line for drug store chains.  http://www.nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-0/112883397456600.xml&coll=1
 
The book of frogs and mice, from 1892!
 
 
The jazz theory of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. A really great article.  http://earcandy_mag.tripod.com/rrcase-jazzwilson.htm
 
The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)
 
A book is coming out that chronicles Muslim women discussing their sex lives.  
 
I wonder if Salmon Rushdie needs a roommate....

Not safe for work.  http://www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/middle_east/middleeast04news62.htm

The Top 15 Biblical Ways to Acquire a Wife highlights some of the more unusual sections of text from the bible.  
I don't particularly fancy trying number 2, 7 or 8 but number 5 is a winner for me!  
 
What's your favourite?   http://www.raptureready.com/humor/hb2.html

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What are the hottest toys around?  http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3390672

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