Billy Harvey

His music is alright, his Polaroid based flash site is novel. I wish this guy was my neighbor. Plus he looks like Bob. Sort of.

78 RPM Record MP3 Jukebox

100 Best Products of 2005

According to PC World magazine.

Home Science Experiments with Twinkies

Do Twinkies conduct electricity? This and many other questions related to this synthetic latex filled product are explored. The results of the experiments are written in haiku.

British Library Books

Browse one of DaVinci's Sketchbooks in his own hand (written in code and mirror-image). Or Jane Austen's amateur partial history of England (self-illustrated).

It is Your Duty to Call in Sick

Thousands of Free Books Online

Read them online at your leisure. Or print them out on the blank side of all your junk mail..

Auctioneer Championships

MP3's of all the Auctioneer Champions from 1963 on.

Horrible Recipes from the Past

Like hot dog vegetable soup for breakfast, for example. Enjoy.

Fat Tire

Fat Tire Ale is one of my favorite beers, unfortunately unavailable in Minnesota due to bizarre laws for microbreweries (i.e. real beer) lobbied into place by Coors, Miller, and Budweiser to cut down on national competition. At any rate, I dig the Quicktime movies on this site of their commercial campaign.

Car Ribbons

So you've seen those magnetic 'ribbons' most frequently seen on giant gas guzzling SUV's saying Support Our Troops (to which I always want to add - so that your ugly street behemoth doesn't run out of gas). Anyway - they always piss me off because what American doesn't support the troops - it's not the troops that are in contention - it's the morons who put them in harms way without giving them adequate armor plating that I don't support. Or the fat-ass gas guzzling brain-dead suburban freaks who are the recipients from these young men and women putting themselves in harm's way because they won't buy an efficient vehicle.

So I found a ribbon that works for me. Maybe you can find one that works for you too.

Kitchen Myths

You know those things that you do in the kitchen without thinking because someone told you to a long time ago? Well some of them aren't true. For example, baking soda absorbing odors in the fridge: "This is a very clever and successful marketing ploy by the baking soda people, but the fact is that baking soda is very poor at absorbing odors. It seems to make sense, however, so lots of people have spent untold billions of dollars to put boxes of baking soda in their fridge or freezer to no effect. Activated charcoal would work much better but is expensive. Better to wrap your food and clean the fridge once in a while."

Peel a Potato

How fast can you peel a potato? And...go!

Canoe Sailing to Cuba

I can't believe it didn't work...

Cowboys and Indians

Well we all know that Resident Bush has been playing Cowboys and Indians from when he was a child until now. What we didn't know is that he has an inferiority complex. The ghost writer commissioned by Bush (also a friend of the Bush family) to write a biography was given unprecedented face time and access, and was summarily dismissed by his campaign managers after submitting his draft which quoted him extensively and thus didn't pass muster. Makes you wonder if his own campaign managers at the time didn't think that direct access by a sympathetic republican and family friend wasn't good enough for them, why would he be as President of the United States? His notes were given to former Texas press secretary and then presidential advisor Karen "No Really, I'm not a Lesbian" Hughes to soup up and the result was critically panned. Nonetheless, the shunted author reveals even further corroboration of the recently unearthed Downing Street memo citing British intelligence indications of firm plans by Bush and his whores for developing intelligence justification and WMD claims 'adjustments' for attacking Iraq in early 2002. The erstwhile author states that he planned to go into Iraq as early as 1999 - even before being appointed to the executive post by the Supreme Court. As usual it all goes back to Darth Cheney - a member of both the Nixon and Reagan administrations. Wowed by Margaret Thatcher's approval ratings after her fake Falkland Islands war in the 80's, he sought to repeat the process. The theory goes, find a small country, invade it and bask in the acclaim of people that don't see the whole picture and watch the ratings soar. It seems to elude right-wing Republicans that honestly serving the American people accomplishes the same effect while killing fewer young men. Apparently killing people's children for approval doesn't figure in non-people's minds like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Condi (who once "accidentally" referred to Resident Bush as 'my husband' in a press conference). Bush's father, a.k.a. the real President Bush, later hired the author to write a biography of his own father, Prescott Bush - published in 2003. As a guy at the mix board at a Beatifics show I saw at the Turf Club said when I suggested adjusting the sound, "I can't make it sound better if there's nothing to work with."

Rent My Son (or Daughter)

Wow. I can't say anything else.

Skeeter Bite Relief

They're back... My great aunt's remedy was to make an 'X' with your fingernail on the bite and then leave it alone. A really hot washcloth seems to work for me (my version of the 'ItchZapper' $21.50 - which briefly heats a bite to 122 degrees supposedly breaking down the proteins from the mosquito's saliva which causes itching). Here are some other suggestions from the link:

"Disinfect the bite. Flies and mosquitoes can spread disease. So wash the bite area thoroughly with soap and water, says North Carolina allergist Claude Frazier, M.D. Then apply an antiseptic.

Rub in an aspirin. Herbert Luscombe, M.D., professor emeritus at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, recommends an unusual aspirin treatment to help control inflammation. As soon as possible after being bitten, moisten your skin and rub an aspirin tablet right over the bite.

(To) relieve the itching - Dr. Frazier recommends the following:
- An oral antihistamine. Choose an over-the-counter allergy or cold preparation.
- Calamine lotion.
- Ice packs.
- Salt. With water, moisten it into a paste and apply to the bite.
- Baking soda. Dissolve 1 teaspoon in a glass of water. Dip a cloth into the solution and place on the bite for 15 to 20
minutes.
- Epsom salts. Dissolve 1 tablespoon in 1 quart of hot water. Chill, then apply as above."

Portraits with Stevie Nicks

Yup. Someone does this for a living. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Gillette M3 Razor is Hooey

Ever since I saw the first ad for their battery powered disposable razor, whose 'vibration' was supposed to make shaving easier and hair stand up (how would vibration make forward movement of a razor do anything but increase the likelihood of cutting yourself?) At any rate they've reached their comeuppance in court - sued by the Schick razor company. The Consumer's Union just as easily may have for imposing such a non-product on the American public with questionable claims. I'm sure the battery isn't replaceable either causing one to have to buy both razor refills AND a brand spankin' new useless battery powered razor when it runs out of juice. Who buys this crap? Yet another product of fast tracked planned obsolescence. I vote Lysol's flushable toilet brush is next. Or their pre-moistened kitchen wipecloths.

Radio Free Orson Welles

Here are Orson Welles pre-Hollywood radio plays including the infamous War of the Worlds. Pop that into your iPod and smoke it.

"Christian" Liposuction Seminar

Holy crap.

At Last...Clothing for Chickens

27 Versions of I Wanna Be Your Dog

If you listen to Iggy Pop and I know you do, you know this song. But have you heard Nirvana give it a whirl? Or Joan Jett? Or Wilco?

Scary Christian Science Puppet Show

This quicktime video rivals Lovepower, my favorite cable access show which apparently still exists according to their site (I no longer pay the duty for cable...) The characters in the "Mother Evening Jehoveh Prayer" show include a singing alien puppet as well as a ventriloquist dummy called 'Chip, the black boy'. Wow.

Photos of an Unknown Family Who Probably Owned a Liquor Store