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Day May 20, 2005

Hotlinking

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Mark from Exclamation Mark finds a blog that is hotlinking to his images and has a little fun with them by replacing the photo with a little suggestion.


Update:

Mark removed the post because the hotlinkers corrected their “oversight”. All’s well that ends well.

Myst Island Birthday Cake

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Neat.
(via Grow a Brain)

The Search for the Lost Ark

I wonder if he has found the map room.

The famed archaeologist, the inspiration for the “Indiana Jones” movie series, has spent most of his life searching for the Ark of the Covenant. The ark was the resting place of the Ten Commandments, given to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai, and was hidden just before the destruction of the First Temple.

The Talmud says the Ark is hidden in a secret passage under the Temple Mount. Jones says that the tunnel actually continues 18 miles southward, and that the Ark was brought through the tunnel to its current resting place in the Judean Desert.

Throughout the many years of his quest, Jones has been in close contact and under the tutelage of numerous Rabbis and Kabbalists. Extremely knowledgeable in Torah, Talmud and Kabbalah sources dealing with Holy Temple issues, Jones has now received permission from both known and secret Kabbalists to finally uncover the lost ark.

Grand Theftendo

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A port of Grand Theft Auto to NES? Amazing!

Grand Theftendo has been developed entirely by myself, Brian Provinciano. As a long time GTA fan, I had always planned on creating my own version as a spare time hobby project. I really enjoy low level programming, and love tapping into the power of systems in ways no one else has done before. And if I was going to make a GTA, why not do it on a new system… well maybe not new, but a system which hasn’t had a GTA before.

(via Boing Boing)

Crying While Eating

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Video clips of people (fake?) crying while eating. I don’t know what this is about so you can come to your own conclusions. (Personally, I now think that everything strange on the net is some form of viral marketing but I don’t see a hidden link to Kleenex or anything so who knows.)
(via Bifurcated Rivets)

Giant Sandwich

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A tyrant of a sandwich, so gargantuan and calorically blessed that the mere sight of which would cause Jesus himself to break down in an explosive torrent of tears and fury.
Consumption of this sandwich, this crime against nature, should in and of itself be enough to sentence its eater to the third Dantean circle and an eternity in festering muck.
Everything in the sandwich, with the exception of some of the veggies, cheese, and condiments will be fried; either pan-fried in gratuitous amounts of butter, bacon fat, and garlic salt, or plunged into a deep fat fryer. Preferably both.
I quickly drafted up a grocery list. To some, this might look like the shopping list for a small family. Nay, it will all become part of my tyrant of a sandwich.

Operation Mongoose

Another wonderful moment in American History. Let’s have the CIA work with the Mafia to assassinate Castro. What could go wrong?

The pressure was so great that it led to one of the most controversial and grotesque chapters in presidential history: the hiring of the Mafia to help assassinate Castro. Though the details are murky and RFK’s involvement has never been proven, it went something like this. CIA operatives, aware that the Mob was eager to renew the profitable gambling business it enjoyed under the Batista regime, hired Mafia hitman Johnny Rosselli to kill Castro. If this wasn’t sordid enough, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover learned of the plot from FBI surveillance of Mob boss Sam Giancana, who just happened to share a mistress with John Kennedy. These machinations have provided much of the fuel behind various conspiracy theories of John Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963.

The Downing Street Memo

I am shocked. Wait, no, actually I am quite the opposite of shocked.

Nobody wants to go to war. We trust our leaders to shed blood in our name only when absolutely necessary. Two years after the start of the Iraq War, on March 20, 2003, Americans are just learning that our government was dead set on taking our nation to war, even while it claimed to be pursuing diplomacy.

The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in summer 2002 and—determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policies—”fixed” the intelligence and facts relevent to WMD.

(Thanks Eugene)


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