Snoop Dogg Just Says No

Snoop Doggy Dogg has announced that he's no longer smoking marijuana. In a related story, pigs take flight.

Quick, Go to Google News!

Because they'll likely start charging for their recently-unveiled news search service soon, according to this article.

Stupid is as Stupid Does

Stupid.com is your one-stop shopping center for inane and ridiculous gifts, gags food and apparel. Whether you're looking for the world's smallest radio-controlled car (above) or a handbag shaped like a Chinese carry-out box, a Sigmund Freud action figure or just some turn-signals for your ears - if it's truly stupid, you'll probably find it here. Personally, I'd really love one of these fog-ring-blowing ray guns.

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Tv Commercials Now has all kinds of classic commercials to watch. Andy Griffith hawking Post Toasties, The Three Stooges showing their own Simonizing technique and many more, old and new - in both high and low-bandwidth Quicktime movies.

Our Dumb Century

A fair-sized selection of sample pages from The Onion's book, Our Dumb Century, at Amazon. If you haven't read it, pick it up sometime - it's one of the funniest books you'll ever purchase.

Digitalart.org

I can't believe I've never come across this site before, there are some flat-out amazing examples of digital artwork on here. Artists painting in Photoshop, Painter, etc. - some really, really nice illustration. Be sure and browse the Top 50, while you're there. It's just unbelievable what some of these folks can do with just the brush tools in Photoshop. Sheesh.

Double Vision

Celebrity Doubles offers up their roster of celeb look-alikes for hire - most are kind of "eh.", but a few, like the Alan Alda guy above are kinda creepy in their similiarity to their famous twins. Some, I found kind of puzzling - for instance, under what circumstances would you ever need to hire a Christine Baranski look-alike?

I see a bunch of confused partygoers pointing and asking "Who's that?" and the host having to explain to them that she was the oft-drunken best friend of Cybil Sheppard on the now-defunct television series Cybil.

Painting for Posteriority

Rikki Rocket, Poison's drummer, enjoys painting hotel room toilet seats while on tour with the metal band. Rikki explains:

It's 2002 and the days of useless acts of hotel destruction are over. It's been done, it's financially wasteful and nobody cares anymore. Besides, I like hotels. I have lived in them a good chunk of my adult life. Truth is, some are better than others.

Rocket keeps a gallery of his artistic triumphs on his site - which is peppered with quotes by artists like Pablo Picasso, as well as his contemporaries, like Aerosmith. I don't suppose anyone would have guessed that at least one toilet seat masterpiece has a scary bat on it, would they?

I'll Trade You Two Hilberts for a Euclid

Ah, what nerd's toy chest would be complete without a set of mathemetician trading cards? Kind of math-phobic myself, but my friend Bill's gonna get a charge out of this, I think.

Puzzle Playground

Bunches and bunches of puzzles you can play and print out.

Post-trauma

Well, I'm looking at my blog tonight and I'm noticing how downhill it's gone. I have to fix my template, as the Yaccs comments code needs updating, I somehow lost my Blog Hot or Not link (thankfully, probably, as I'm sure it's slipped too) and there've been a woeful lack of posts.

What can I say? Got a little lazy with my blogging, folks...it'll be getting chilly soon, though and more than likely I'll be spending way more time here at home on my computer. I sure do dread fixing this template, though. The code for my page, what with all the little comments things and this and that, has grown a mile long and it's hell just picking out a particular javascript so I can fix it at this point, so I've been putting it off as long as possible, but I'll fix it all at the first opportunity. In fact, I recently installed some graphics programs so I may just knock out a whole new template - you never can tell.

Also, not surprisingly, I haven't been getting many visitors...so now, in a pathetic attempt to recieve more traffic, I'm posting Google Zeitgeist's top ten gaining search requests:

Top 10 Gaining Queries

Week Ending Sept. 30, 2002
1. ryder cup
2. oxana fedorova
3. kristy swanson
4. enron auction
5. mandrake
6. berlin marathon
7. ivory coast
8. jennifer love hewitt
9. isidore
10. christopher hitchens

Who/what the heck is isidore? Well, I'd better go find something to post, post-haste, before everyone abandons this sinking ship.

Googlefight

Who's more popular, net-wise - The Jeffersons or The Partidges, God or Satan, Jordan or Bird? Googlefight will let you type in two keywords, then show you who gets the most results on the popular search engine.

Speaking of Google and fights, they're under fire themselves of late, as chinks are beginning to show up in their much-lauded Pagerank system and bogus sites - spam, 404 pages, etc. - are beginning to make appearances near the top of search results.

Candy Train

Another new game from Popcap - click the tiles to keep the train from going off track.

And the Weiner is...

Weiner dog races - which weiner will win?

Bookworm

A fun new word game from Popcap.

Buttonhead

Frank's Vinyl Museum

Not sure if I've blogged this one before or not, but Frank's Vinyl Museum has some really goofball audio-nuggets...everything from Evel Knievel reciting poetry to Mae West singing Ticket to Ride. Straight out-of-left-field stuff that smells of a moldy, old box in the attic.

Drew on Fark

An article about the history of Fark.com - mostly stuff you'll be familiar with if you've ever spent a lot of time on the site, but a decent write-up anyways. (Link, appropriately, via Fark)

Detective Mistakes Onion Story for Real News

A Coldwater, MI detective from the Branch County Sheriff's Dept., Detective Dan Nichols, mistook an Onion story about Al Qaeda terrorists running telemarketing scams and included the bogus information in a four-page press-release.

Explaining himself, Detective Nichols proclaimed, "We wanted people to be aware of telemarketing scams, and I used the information just in case there is a remote possibility," Nichols said. "We have no indication that Al-Qaida is involved, but we wanted people to know there are telemarketing scams."

Here's the actual Onion article the news report - which was also picked up by an area radio station - came from.

How Neat is This Applet?
















I was just browsing around some javascript sites, looking for ideas awhile ago - in particular, I was looking for a tasteful, unobtrusive script that would make some tiny, blinking stars on my page, maybe just a few tiny fading pixels here and there, no gifs or crazy stuff - if anyone happens to know of one, let me know, okay? Anyway, while I was script-shopping I came across the above applet and it was so pretty I thought I'd share it - pretty cool, in a lava-lamp sort of way.

You can screw around with it using your right and left and middle click buttons and moving your cursor around on it and if you'd like to download it for whatever reason, you can, here at Javafile.com