:: April 27, 2005
These are my URL ABCs: ::
:: April 11, 2004
Rah rah Sis boom bah! Sharpeworld is back!
World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest Things. If I came across a site like that every day, well, I'd post more often. Via Travelers Diagram ::
:: January 5, 2004
Things Creationists Hate (via Things Magazine) ::
:: October 5, 2003
Gothtober is a Halloween advent calendar, with a a new flash animation feature to open each day. So far the offerings have been splendid and diverse. ::
:: April 15, 2003
Two people exhaustively cataloging their stuff online: mc.clintock.com and Obsessive Consumption (via Scrubbles and somewhere else I can't remember) ::
:: April 9, 2003
Japanese matchbook labels from the Fifties (also via Speckled Paint) ::
:: April 1, 2003
Nabisco's Spoonmen
The wonderful Tick Tock Toys has put together a premiums archive, covering the cereal and non-cereal genres alike. ::
:: March 30, 2003
A gentleman named Lucky Jonnie responded to this old post with a link to his gallery of rebus beer bottle caps. Their (unfortunate) official name is "crown ticklers." Thank you Jonnie!
And don't stop there, there is a whole universe of bottle cap collecting out there. It's a world full of frames, broken links, midi music, and slow loads, but that's OK. Bottlecaps.com is the home of Crowncap Collectors Society International, where you can find links to individual enthusiasts' sites (or as they're called in the old country, "kronkorkenseite"). This one out of Finland is pretty stunning. This guy has a page dedicated to cocks on caps. Wim from the Netherlands has a comic-themed collection. See also the dmoz directory for neverending crown cap collecting fun.
It's crazy how much design can fit onto a little 1" metal circle. ::
:: March 27, 2003
A to Z of Robots (via Speckled Paint) ::
:: November 22, 2002
Lots of good stuff lately from Metafilter: Hugh MacLeod's cartoons on the back of business cards; Brad Christensen's very entertaining responses to Nigerian scam spam; Twexus, a database of images that increases in functionality the more you look through it; Distributed Proofreaders, a way to use your proofreading skills for good instead of evil; and exhastive lists of movies featuring jugglers, bagpipes, accordions, librarians, math, socks, hypnosis, smoking, whipping, soup, bare feet, dogs, deuces of clubs, peeing, quicksand, and plumbing. ::
:: October 19, 2002
Celebrity athesists and agnostics: living, black, or dead. ::
:: September 27, 2002
Vanity Treasures has vintage hair net packages, bobby pin cards, and all kinds of classy old beauty products to ogle (or buy, if you're so inclined). ::
:: August 5, 2002
Internalmemos.com has launched on schedule. It's $45 a month, which is way too steep for the average Joe or Kim. The one or two free memos posted each day is enough to make you completely depressed about human nature, though. ::
:: July 27, 2002
Dirty Origami ::
:: July 25, 2002
"I dreamt that Celine was in my living room and she was ironing snakes. I know it seems weird but in my dream it was like a perfectly normal thing for somebody to do. It was my job to catch the snakes and pass them to her so she could iron them. They were really difficult to catch and I remember being terrified that one of them would bite me. At one point in the dream Celine shouted at me for not catching them quickly enough and I got upset."
From Celinedreams.com, a site dedicated to dreams by and about Celine Dion. ::
:: July 24, 2002
Among The Imaginary World's amazing collection of old childhood ephemera is a scanned-in catalog of playground equipment from the 1970s. Compare to today's playground ... oh, the sacrifices we make. And for what? Safety? Kids, you ain't lived until you've fallen smack on your head from the 18-foot-high bell bouys. (via Pop Culture Junk Mail) ::
:: July 16, 2002
Ooh, this is going to be good: Fuckedcompany.com owner Phil Kaplan is launching Internalmemos.com next month, kind of a Smoking Gun dedicated to corporate communications. (Via Poynter E-media) ::
:: June 24, 2002
Speaking of montages: Clip art goes to war in this definitive collection of Leaflets Dropped Over Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. Actually, I can't be sure they use clip art or montages, but the images definititely have that feel to them. (Via Larkfarm) ::
:: June 10, 2002
Streetmattress.com: photos and commentary on abandoned mattresses. ::
:: May 22, 2002
YHB's postcard collection: old technicolor delights. I'll show you my (not as large or consistent) collection someday. (via lots of places.) ::
:: May 5, 2002
What's Better? is going to be big! BIG! like Am I Hot or Not. The best part is all the images one can appropriate for one's own needs. ::
:: April 30, 2002
Charles Phoenix has amassed a collection of 20,000-some amateur 35mm slides and 8mm home movies from thrift stores and garage sales. In God Bless Americana, he leads a theatrical version of the living-room slide show -- the current one focuses on Southern California tourism. It's playing in Hollywood and it's sold out, so I guess I won't be going. Says the LA Weekly: "Phoenix's insouciant free-associative commentary provides a loose narrative structure to the event, but it is the slides themselves -- supersaturated Technicolor glimpses of a vanished way of life created as an aspect of that way of life -- that tell the real story here." There's a forthcoming book, as you'd expect from an author of so many other volumes on retro pop-culture. ::
:: April 11, 2002
Ghost Sites: screenshots of dot-coms as they shuttled off this mortal coil. (Via Metafilter, the post there nicknamed it "electric pompeii") ::
:: March 27, 2002
Craneaccidents.com: Bending twisting toppled metal porn with "amazing WOW unbelievable photos," and that's no lie, my friends. Be sure to read the cautionary tale of Doyle Peeks, crane dummy and also the site's proprietor. (Via Metafilter) ::
:: March 25, 2002
A bunch of Driver's Licenses found with Google's image search, brought to you by the well-bred Dog Door of Death. (Via Sharpeworld, as so many things are) ::
:: March 16, 2002
In other roller coaster news: Defunct Amusement Parks archives photos, postcards, and stories of abandoned pleasure points. (Via Consumptive) ::
:: February 17, 2002
Fish Posters of the World. Samoan Bottomfishes! Trawl Fishes of the Nigerian Continental Shelf! ::
:: February 12, 2002
Things That Have Been Sold in Vending Machines include holy water, peeled oranges and grapefruit, live bait, and plastic models of submarines and Lincoln made on the spot. Japanese vending technology, of course, makes you say, "Oh those wacky Japanese and their Robo everything." ::
:: February 8, 2002
Found Art with focus: Keaggy.com collects other people's grocery lists. (Via Pop Culture Junk Mail). ::
Someone to fulfill your model horse photography needs, and an association to meet the needs of model horse photographers. The photos are so beautiful. (Via Consumptive.) ::
:: February 6, 2002
Kung Fu Grippe's future site mycasserole.com has a section called ephemerabilia that's kinda like what I'm trying to do with my pictures section. Only his is better. ::
:: January 28, 2002
A buncha nice links today.
People Cards: Trading cards of regular people. For real. In a store near you. Commie flavor.
Dream Chimney: A dream site to add to the list of nice dream sites. They make little animations of dreams people submit.
Jerry Hill Presents Names [via BoingBoing and Metafilter] Links to a billion sites about names, such as "Natural Phenomena Named After Frank Zappa," "Root Beer Brand Names," "Naming Patterns of the Ga People," "Names for Your Pet Frog," "Hmong Child Names," "Yo-Yo Stage Names."
Sim Sandwich: Build and register a custom sandwich. I like that you can choose chips as one of the ingredients. They also review carrot cake around Austin and pay some attention to Fanta beverage. ::
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