Comic Tuesday: It's like counting the rings on a tree.

Look what I found (#10)

Here is one I prepared earlier. Enjoy!

Sometimes you come across the weirdest stuff, like Pepsi-Ice-Cucumber for instance. You might not have seen it in your local supermarket, but it was introduced in Japan last June. I wonder what it tastes like, but since it is only sold in Japan, I guess I’ll never know. Apparently the Japanese have a thing for weird and wonderful drinks, check out this list.

If you have kids or like to fool around with paper and build stuff, this might be a site you enjoy: Readymech. Here you find box-like colourful robots that are on there in PDF format. All you have to do is print them out, cut and fold on the dotted lines. You can either use glue or tape to stick them together. If you stick the paper on a piece of cardboard before you cut and fold them, you could also create nice funny gift boxes.

For those of you who like to multitask. You can give praise and do a workout at the same time because this is gospel dance aerobics and it is full of fun and energy with moves that anyone can do!



If you are in need of a bit of Zen time, watch this short computer graphic movie called Falling Water featuring the Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece. You can find more information about the house here and here


Always looking for new not so mainstream music? Take a look at Mashable. Mashable has created a music news toolbox which consists of 50+ links for discovering new music.

And finally: Don’t make fun of death…….that’s not funny!
Warning: probably not for everybody

Look what I found (#9)

Aaahh Freak out!
Freaking news has an interesting Photoshop contest. In this contest people are asked to perform partial face transplants on politicians and celebrities. The right half of a face has to be from one celebrity and the left half from another. The results are very weird and wonderful at the same time.

Slippery when wet
Maybe not as weird and wonderful, but somehow still interesting, is this next site called Damp Cats. Damp Cats is the ultimate collection of wet, soggy, un-dry and generally damp cats on the web.
Want to see more wet pets? Wet dogs and wet pets just might your thing.

Ice is slippery too!
So, why not continue with the animal fun. This time it comes in the form of a game: Pingus. Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game. Don't know good ol'Lemmings? Well, Lemmings is puzzle game in which the player takes command of a bunch of small animals and has to guide them around levels. The animals walk on their own and the player can only influence them by giving them commands, like build a bridge, dig a hole or redirect all animals in the other direction. The goal of each level is to reach the exit.
Pingus is very similar but does have some nice new features like a world map and secret levels.
The game is free, but of course if you think the it is worth some money you can donate via Paypal.

Oh, and since we are on the subject of retro games, do you remember that simple (uhum) puzzle game called BoxWorld? If you don't know it, or have never played it, you can download it here


For those of you who can never get enough of watching animals….even more animal fun….Mirror, mirror on the wall!

Okay, enough of that, let’s move on to some serious business, or business cards in this case. Some of them are just horrible, or way too old fashioned, but others are just brilliant. Check out this amazing collection.

That’s all folks!

Look what I found (#7)

I love DIY and I love tinkering with stuff, if you have the same problem Instructables might be the site for you. They teach you how to make cool DIY projects like the Magnetic Rubik’s Dice Cube, not very useful, but you just got to love it, don’t you? Well, I do!

If you are into more useful DIY, then maybe this is more to your liking: 100 Things you can make yourself is a list of….well, you’ve guessed it, a list of 100 things you can make yourself. The list includes things ranging from extremely useful to downright silly, but you’ve to admit that some of them might come in handy one day. Not sure when I am ever going to build an igloo though :-)

Oh, and here is tip 101: Repair your hair with olive oil. Is your hair overprocessed, brittle or frizzy? Here is an easy and cheap cure. Rinse your hair with warm water. Warm one tablespoon of olive oil between the palms of your hands. (If you want you can put a few drops of essential oils in it, so it smells nicer - note: mix the oils before applying). Using your fingertips (no nails), gently massage the oil into your scalp in a circular motion. Next get another tablespoon full of oil, warm it and apply it on the rest of your hair. Place a plastic bag over your hair (if you don’t have one, use an old towel) and secure it by tying or with a hair clip. Leave it like that for 30 minutes (or more if you want). When you are done, rinse your hair well and shampoo as usual.

Not really DIY, unless you’re pretty skilful and looking for a cool and eco-friendly little hideaway? Then look no further because Eco Hab must be your thing! I came across this on treehugger and fell in love with it instantly. It’s not big, but boy it is CUTE!

Even smaller and not really suitable for humans, but still cute, is this USB powered greenhouse. The greenhouse comes with a starter pack with Marigold seeds and artificial soil to get you started! Simply plant the seeds, add water and plug the Greenhouse to any USB port! Computer interface monitors growth rate, and includes calendar, watering reminder, wallpaper and bookmark settings

And just in case you are looking for something even smaller, how about a Windows recycle bin now on sale on ebay. At least this buy won’t take up much space IRL, that’s for sure.
If you want it, you must hurry, the bidding ends August, 25.

And now for something completely different: Tadaaaaa…….The World’s strangest laws.
Did you know that in the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, even, if she so requests, in a policeman’s helmet. Or that it's illegal in France to name a pig Napoleon? Alex Wade celebrates the spirit of the silly season with a list of the world's most ludicrous laws. Just remember people........................


If that didn’t make you smile, maybe this video will

That’s all folks! Have a fun-filled and sunny weekend :-)

Look what I found (#6)

No, don’t worry, it’s not going to be another Duct tape story – done that! It’s time for something completely different :-)



Strange, hilarious, shocking and creepy ads from the past century, for instance! Some of these are really unbelievable. Check out the Ronald Reagan/Chesterfield one, or how about that Vibra Finger. Oh well, there is even leaflet supplying you with all the Syphilis facts.



Or let’s go for a swim……if we can find the water, that is…….

Imaging
This next one is a bit peculiar. Did you know there is such a thing as a website filled with deleted images? Now how strange is that? How on earth can a deleted image appear online, surely that is some sort of contradictio in terminis. But enough of that….it is still an interesting site!
If that is not your thing, maybe this one is. Making beautiful things usually takes a lot more time then destroying beautiful things, but not for Martin Klimas, he destroys a lot of clay to make his art – in other words – he destroys figurines and photographs them the moment they are smashed to smithereens. You can find more of his work here.

A trip down memory lane
Old enough to remember that good old cassette tape? If so, maybe this next website will transport you back in time, because it's where you can find all thing cassette tape :-)



Cheesy commercials
Isn’t it funny how commercials work….or not work ;-)
This one makes me want to sample the cheese:
The next one, on the other hand, makes me want to get on that boat and and sail off into the sunset! Do they even mention the cheese? I just can’t seem to focus on the product they are trying to sell. Now, how odd is that? ;-)

Okay, that's all folks! Have a AbFab weekend!

Look what I found (#5)

No, I didn't find a giant LEGO dudette, but I did find some other stuff :-)

Art
Some of you might have seen this already because it is very popular, but for those who haven’t, here is 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

The Music is Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yoyo Ma and for a complete list of artists and paintings visit this site

BTW, if you have some time to spare, check out some of the other video's made by eggman913....I really do love them.

Fact(s).
Interested in unusual but interesting facts? Well then, this is the site for you! Godzap has collected over 300 weird and wonderful facts. A few examples:

• Every continent begins and ends in the same letter.
• TYPEWRITER is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
• An average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his or her lifetime.
• Only 1 out of 1000 people can lick their elbow.
• No word in the English language rhymes with the words ‘month’, ‘orange’, ‘silver’, or ‘purple’.
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
• Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
• In England, in the 1880's, the word ‘Pants’ was considered a dirty word.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, ‘Gadsby’, which contains over 50,000 words - none of them with the letter E.

Simpson-mania.

Last month I posted a link to Simpson movie site where you can create your own Simpson Avatar. Today I found a new site where you can Simpsonize yourself. Just upload a picture and let the machine do all the work (of course you can alter the image later if you would wish to do so)

Project
I really like people who start a project and finish it. One of those guys is Bill Wadman, a New York-based photographer who after completing the daily 365 Project, and then a weekly 52 Project, has taken it upon himself to shoot and post one portrait every day of 2007 – 365 Portraits . The photos are taken on the day they are posted, and each day will be a different person. Go check it out!

Look up and stargaze this weekend
One of the summer's most anticipated sky shows is the annual Perseid meteor shower. Due to the season's generally pleasant warm nights and the display's rich offerings, stargazers throughout the Northern Hemisphere set aside at least a few hours to enjoy the shooting stars from the constellation Perseus.
And conditions are ideal this year because the Perseid meteor shower peaks on the new-Moon night of Sunday–Monday, August 12–13 so there will be no moonlight to interfere. On any given night (the shower is also active for several days before and after its peak), activity starts slowly in the evening but picks up by 11 p.m. The meteor rate increases steadily through the night as the radiant rises higher, peaking just before the sky starts to get light, roughly 1½ to 2 hours before sunrise The best direction to watch is wherever your sky is darkest. If you have a dark sky, you might see a meteor once a minute on average

Have a marvellous and fun-filled weekend!

Summer is here and I am going to enjoy it!

Hooray, summer has arrived, finally! Apparently we are going to have a very short summer this year (*ahem*), so I hope you don’t mind, but I am going to make the most of this 3 summery days.

Maybe the weather is still lousy on your end, or maybe you just have to stay indoors for some reason or maybe you are bored out of your skull, well do I have some good news for you ;-). I just found two time killers that will brighten up your day.

First up: The Human Brain Cloud -a little word association game. It’s been up for a month now and it is enlightening. The project started with the word volcano and has erupted in a collection of 229813 unique words, 2153982 connections and 184678 humans who have played the game. The game is very easy to play. A word, phrase or number comes up and all you have to do is type the first thing that comes to mind. When you don’t like the word, phrase or number just hit the enter button and you will get a crispy new word (phrase, number etc). The top three most submitted words right now: sex, me, money.

Okay, maybe to boring for you. Well, here is something much more fascinating ;-)

Time killer two:The Amsterdam Canal Parade
Today is a special day in Amsterdam, or to be more precise the whole weekend is kind of special because Amsterdam will be turned into the Pink capital of Europe – in other words: the party place for all things Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgender (and every other queer community of any bent). The most popular highlight is, of course, Saturday's vibrant Canal Parade and here is the good news, you can watch it today, Saturday, August 4, live online(if it doesn't work click on the logo or try this one). It will start at 15:00 (3:00 PM) local time - converted that means it will start at:

• 14:00 (2:00 PM) London time,
• 9:00 AM New York time,
• 6:00 AM Los Angeles time,
• 23:00 (11:00 PM) Canberra time,
• 21:00 (9:00 PM) Singapore time.

Enjoy whatever floats your boat and have a great weekend! :-)

Look what I found (#4)

In Pictures: The strangest sights on Google Earth.
"Ever since Google first let people scour the planet from the comfort of their computers through the Google Earth software program, fans have been on a virtual scavenger hunt from the North Pole to the South Pole looking for anything interesting, unusual, or unexplained."
Now it’s your turn to take a little trip and check out some of the bizarre things they’ve found.

Warning Signs.
Warning signs, or just signs, can be very confusing, like the one on Kat’s blog for instance, but others can be very clear, just plain rude, funny or …….what's the word I am looking for......ehmm handy, I guess. . Anyway, here you can find a ……….. (insert your word of choice) selection.


Okay, those were a bit odd, but the next thing is just bizarre!

And talking about bizarre…….Pushin’ Daises is probably the weirdest online shop I ever encountered. ;-)

I also found an interesting article about why people have sex. Did you know there are 237 (and counting) reasons? I didn’t! I always thought that one reason was enough. You can find the article here. Or maybe you never really wanted to know what was going on inside other people’s minds, in which case you should skip reading the article immediately.

I am a bit intrigued by Joan Crawford’s reason now “I need sex for a clear complexion.”, such a shame it isn’t on the list. ;-)


And that’s it for now. Just to end this post a short video of Men in Coats. Why? Because they always make me laugh and that should be enough reason :)

They don’t make me go weak at the knees…….

but they do have a certain something! Let’s call it attractiveness.

Since DoGGa asked so nicely, I am going to answer his question in this post. For those who missed the question in the comment section of the previous entry: “I think you should add a 'woman'! If you were to, who would it be?”

Good question, isn’t it?! So here is my answer (again in random order) in another weird and scary selection ;)

Anouk


Sela Ward


Anne Heche (Marin Frist - Men in Trees)

Sandra Bullock

Charlize Theron


So there you have it, another scary (or boring) selection! Now that I showed you mine, why don’t you show me yours :)

I am actually quite amazed that I could come up with five women, so I took a little Dutch test. De result said: You may think that you are heterosexual but you are also attracted to the same sex. You are probably bi-curious. I never knew that, it’s news to me!

OMG, those eyes and that smile, she thought, her knees weakening…...

Okay girls (and boys too if you wish), Aoj is a bit bored today and fancied being a bit mindless. So now she wants to find out which celebrity sets your spine a-tingling and your knees a-weakening.

So, here is my weird and wonderful selection ;)
(in random order)

Scott Patterson (Luke Danes - Gilmore Girls)


Patrick Dempsey (Dr. Derek Shepherd – Dr. McDreamy - Grey’s Anatomy)


Josh Holloway (James 'Sawyer' Ford - Lost)


Johnny Depp, need I say more…….


George Eads (Nick Stokes – CSI)


Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, better know by his stage name Sting


So there you have it, my scary selection! Now go off, enjoy yourself and ehmm…. oh yeah, consider yourselves tagged!

June 29 – iPhone will be released in the USA.

Unfortunately, I don’t live in the USA so I won’t be able to get an iPhone today, or at least that’s what I thought. Today I discovered that there is a way to get an iPhone today.

Want one too? Just visit this website and get your own iPhone today :-)

Cartoon Tuesday: Not Alone.

Cartoon Tuesday: Two minds....

Look what I found (#2)

A site where you can create your own little games like this one:

A site where they offer e-cards with a difference. Some might be a little bit sarcastic, others macabre, but hey, some are just plain funny ;)


A story* about one of the strangest disasters of the 20th Century, which starts with this: “On the morning of August 22, 1986, a man hopped onto his bicycle and began riding from Wum, a village in Cameroon, towards the village of Nyos. On the way he noticed an antelope lying dead next to the road. Why let it go to waste? The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on. A short distance later he noticed two dead rats, and further on, a dead dog and other dead animals. He wondered if………..”
(* probably not for everyone)

A site where you can download an art magazine (in PDF or .exe), it’s actually an art showcase for global artists. Very interesting!


Another Dutch commercial
Just call us - Centraal Beheer. The insurance company in Apeldoorn.

Cartoon Tuesday on a Wednesday: searching for Mr. Right

Oh and in case you are wondering….I didn’t sign up for a dating site! I haven’t even tried it, but how about you? I am always curious about these things, so did you ever give it a go? Did it work for you? Answer if you want, or just ignore my nosy questions! :)

Cartoon Tuesday: Is that a problem? ;-)

Cartoon Tuesday on a Wednesday: Sweet.........

This week’s odd finds!

Be heard, be noticed, be safe and sound.
Cars and pedestrians often collide with cyclists on busy streets because they just can't hear an approaching bicycle. Imagine, if your bicycle could sound like a Harley? You would definitely get their attention. They say “Our products will improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. At the same time they will add some fun, creativity and important information to your daily commute.” Useful or just rubbish, you decide! Anyway, as kids we used to do this. -->
A cheap and easy solution!



Another useful or strange gadget: The iGrill or GiPod. "Grill or roast plus enjoy your favourite tunes from your iPo".




If you like old photos, this might interest you the 100-year-old photo blog




Annoying or what?

Today’s lesson: How to give a great man to man hug to your closest friends and family without getting that awkward feeling!