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6 October, 2004

House For Sale

Who says real estate is too expensive. Here's a house for sale in St. Louis.

It's a traditional style home. 119 years old, 1 bedroom, 680 square feet, basement. Price: $10,000 (or $46 per month).

"Presented by Mangogna, Barbara Sullivan"

I wonder if it's zoned for business? It would make a nice drug store/crack house.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Chinese, Japanese, Korean

A short test called All Look Same?

View 18 portraits, and try to determine if the person is Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. I got 6 correct, which is exactly at the chance level, and below the average (which is 7).

(via Cynical-C Blog)

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Jan's New Home

I was wondering what happened to Jan Nordgreen. On his blog, he announced that he was moving from Bolivia to the Grand Cayman Islands in mid-August. His blog wasn't updated until yesterday: Roof Off!

Sorry for the interruption of service the last six weeks!

Hurricane Ivan was the culprit. I still do not have electricity at home (nor generator), but my work place has it, so I will try to squeeze in a post each night before the island wide curfew at 22.00

I hope the photo he posted isn't his house.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

An Unauthorized Link To Snap.com

Whatever you do, please don't click this image:

It's a link to Snap Search. And it's an unauthorized link!

From their stupid linking policy:

Unless a User has a written agreement in effect with us which states otherwise, User may only provide a hyperlink to the Site on another Web site, if you comply with all of the following: (a) the link must be a text-only link clearly marked "snap.com" or "www.snap.com"; (b) the link must "point" to the URL "http://www.snap.com" and not to other pages within the Site; (c) the link, when activated by a User, must display the Site full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linking Web site; and (d) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link must not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with our name and trademarks or create the false appearance we are associated with or sponsor the linking Web site. Perfect Market reserves the right to revoke its consent to any link at any time in its sole discretion.

This post clearly violates (a) and (b). And if you're not running your browser maximized (i.e., in full screen mode), it also violates (c). But I am glad to adhere to (d). I hereby state that am in no way associated with any site who is this clueless about the Web -- especially a search site.

I wonder what would happen if they revoked their consent to a link? How would they actually go about doing that?

(via Boing Boing)

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Window Shaker

Kevin Kelly pointed out this link (which I've posted before). It's one of my all-time favorites, and it's always worth revisiting: The Window Shaker.

Firefox users: If nothing happens, use Tools - Options. Select Web Features and click the Advanced button. Then make sure "move or resize existing windows' is checked.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Yacht For Sale

For sale: 180-foot Mega Yacht, 2005.

Anchor Yacht And Ship Sales is pleased to have been appointed exclusive builder's agent for the completion of a new mega yacht presently under construction in Singapore. The vessel's hull is built and awaits completion according to buyer's specifications. Finished price is to be determined and may range from $28M to $35M USD.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Factcheck.info

Brian Flemming writes: Cheney checked.

Fact: I own the domain factcheck.info, for reasons I can't remember (maybe it was that .info domains are free with my web host). I don't have time to do anything with it, or any ideas really. But if you do, and your idea is malicious, contact me and I'll give the factcheck.info domain to you.

Yes, he really does own that domain.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Reader Links

I'm cleaning out my inbox and discovered a bunch of reader-submitted links that I never got around to posting. Here they are:

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Happy Birthday, RI

I've heard that today is Righteously Indignant's birthday. If so, happy birthday Elizabeth.

So how's that radio show going? And what did you choose for the name of the show?

Posted on 6 October, 2004

A Maze In The Cornfield

A company called The Maize claims to be the largest cornfield maze company in the world.

From the beginning, our mission has been to provide an enjoyable and educational source of good farmin' fun to communities around the world. When Brett Herbst, a Brigham Young University agribusiness graduate who grew up on an Idaho farm, launched his first corn maze in 1996, he drew most of his knowledge and motivation from his roots.

The site also has a list of mazes that they've done. I was surprised to find that there are two of them in Arizona. The 10-acre maze shown here is located at Schnepf Farms, 35 miles from downtown Phoenix, and it celebrates Larry King's 70th birthday. It opened a few days ago, and will remain open through the end of November.

The other Arizona maze is a "rock the vote" maze, and features images of Bush and Kerry.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Counting Web Site Visitors

An interesting article at Wired about how it's virtually impossible to measure the number of visitors for a Web site: Web Industry Still Flies Blind.

The truth is it's difficult, if not impossible, for web publishers to know precisely how many people visit their sites. Web servers track IP addresses, not people. So if I have a PC at work and one at home and I read Wired News at each place, Wired's server counts this as two visits -- without being able to tell that it's just one person behind those two visits. Likewise, 100 people a month might use a PC at a library, university computer lab or cybercafe to visit Wired News, but our server would count only one IP address.

It gets even more complicated when you consider RSS feeds and the rapidly-growing referrer log spam business.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Skulls And Skeletons

from The Steel Source: Skull / Skeleton Figurines. Two pages of this stuff.

Shown here is bank. It's a monkey skull with a rat in one eyehole and a fly in the other. Only $10.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Stopmotion

Here's are six amusing short videos: Stopmotion.

If I had a video camera, this is the kind of stuff I'd do.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Fifty-Three Weddings, No Funeral

This guy can't get enough: "I do"... for the 53rd time.

A 72-year-old Malaysian man has married this week for the 53rd time and insists he is no playboy despite some marriages lasting just days.

Kamarudin Mohamad's latest betrothal was also his first. He remarried his first "ex-wife" on Sunday after divorcing her in 1958. She is now 74.

In between, he married 51 other women, including an Englishwoman and two Thais.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

War Toys

Bella Feldman's War Toys.

Bella makes extraordinary objects-objects that rivet your attention by their physical appearance; the weight, mass, volume, material, posture, balance, and motion immediately access a bodily response. Then your mind, your sense of poetry, human imagination, and memory tune in and hold you there. Bella's works are intended to keep and enlarge their meaning over time; their layered imageries shift and evolve with the viewer's own moods and experiences.

This one is called BIOP I.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Halliburton Guide

From Guerrilla News Network: Halliburton: A Handy Guide.

Keeping track of all of Halliburton's corporate woes can be a full-time job. That's why our friends at Halliburton Watch have put together this handy guide...

I have no idea how much of this information is true, how much is half-true, and how much is completely fabricated.

Posted on 6 October, 2004

I Am Learn

An interesting blog that's apparently generated by natural language processing software: I Am Learn.

There's not much background information about how it works, but the result can be pretty funny. Blog entries are generated based on a word suggested by a reader. For example, here's an excerpt from a post about the U.S. election:

Today I talk about the US election to u!!!!!!! . the US election is very hideously bad. Lately I been speaking to Ross about the US election , or at least I think so. The occurances of the US election is very worth bringing up here. They alot insanely r REALLY 'OH DUH' with my love of other webloggers, the theories behind the US election and pet cat Bella. I despise your theories on the US election!!!!!!!

Posted on 6 October, 2004

Pee-Mail

An alternative to email: Pee-Mail.

(via Memepool)

Posted on 6 October, 2004