OK. I’ve been collecting interesting links for a while without posting, so it’s time to get my lazy arse into gear and empty my blog bookmark folder.
Seen that cool Rube Goldberg Honda ad? There’s a flash version here.
Hyperbole aside, this site is a good primer on the Project for a New American Century and how this moderately shadowy thinktank is influencing American policy. It’s basically a bunch of neocons looking to create a Pax Americana.
Here’s one for the cat lovers: the Messybeast Cat Resource Archive. If you need info about cats, look here. They even have info about people who breed kangaroo cats, hairless cats, and other strange types.
‘Umgogo waku isfebe’! That’s one of the many useful phrases I found at the Insultmonger How to swear in 113 languages page.
Continuing in the foreign-language vein, here’s a version of the Lord’s prayer in Ebonics.
On a more martial note, here are some scans of Bruce Lee’s notes on Jeet Kune Do.
The Seamless Map Project of the USGS makes available topographic, orthographic, and other map-type info on the US available online. It’s really, really cool being able to zoom from the whole world level down to a resolution of less than 1 metre per pixel.
Here’s an interesting collection of Chinese propaganda posters. They speak for themselves, really.
This page tempted me. In particular, I was sorely tempted by this fine product. But I don’t have the money, and even if I did, would be reluctant to spend ~$800 on a coat.
Really worried about your disaster recovery plan? Then put your DR site on the moon.
What’s more insane than skydiving? Being a birdman.
Now this one is worthy of a bit more description. A father-son team in Seattle has built a hybrid car that can do 80 miles per recharge, and has a top speed of 130mph! It’s also made to only carry two people plus cargo. They are proposing it as a solution to many traffic problems. More power to them, I say.
Want a collection of the most humourous ways to put down a film? For starters, there’s Bad Review Revue. Movie Poop Shoot also has some amusing movie posters created using actual quotes about the movies. My favourite: ‘Burn your money instead’ - in a review of Dumb and Dumberer.
In a a more historical vein, there’s the Moving Here archive - an online museum of UK immigration history. Very cool indeed.
There’s also a NYT feature on 100 years of the prototypical metropolis.
Last but not least, regular readers of this site might be familiar with my exasperation with people’s misunderstanding of statistics. Here’s a great entry from the BBC h2g2 site that’s a basic guide to statistics and the questions you need to ask yourself when thinking about them.
