Another Olga YouTube

Even though I posted this before I still had to watch it twice again today. Olga Korbut's uneven parallel bar routine had the commentator dudes tripping out:

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We Should All Prosper

Maybe you'd like to put that money under your bed to good use by loaning it, with interest, to an entrepreneur near you? This is another great website for helping out people desperate for some dough:

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Need Free Money?

Put your poor, sad story on Robinhoodfund.com and maybe some generous person will loan you some cool cash. Or you can do like I do and stand on the street corner with a cup and dark sunglasses begging for spare change:

Not every wish is about saving the world, saving a life, or saving a soul. Be a little selfish. If your wish is about something you just want, this is the category for you. Take a look at this weeks naughty wishes for examples.

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Loans That Change Lives

Kiva is an organization that helps entrepreneurs in third-world countries get funding for their business projects:

This group lets you make microloans to fund specific small business ventures for people in poverty in third world countries. One guy took out and repaid (in 2 months) a $25 loan for bicycle parts to start a sidewalk repair business that now feeds his whole family, including his dead brothers children. The repayment rate on these loans is 96%!!!

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Unbelievable Ukulele

Wrigley Field in Chicago looks better when the Cubs aren't playing. This is Jake Shimabukuro playing the Star Spangled Banner before a Jimmy Buffet concert.

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As previously posted, here is Jake playing, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps:"

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Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh was born on this date in 1853.

Darth's Younger Brother

I've posted about Chad Vader before but here are all the campy episodes arranged on one busy website:

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All About Fish

Everything you ever wanted to know about keeping fresh-water African cichlids.

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Dollar Hotdogs

I don't know if this is real or not, but it's real funny. I'm almost tempted to pay the dollar just to see if the hot dog actually arrives:

If you're hungry for a hotdog, you're in luck. For only $1, I will cook you a hot dog and mail it to you. Just PayPal me a buck, and I will personally cook you a delicious dog, and then ship it out to you!

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Biggest Gayest Church

You could knock me over with a feather:

But the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas makes one Texas-sized claim that few would expect in the conservative Bible Belt state -- it says it is the world's biggest gay church.

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Miss America's Famous Alumni

Forbes magazine has a slideshow/article of former Miss Americas. Why, I do not know?

Vanessa Williams, “Miss New York” - 1984 - Williams made history when she became the first African-American to win the crown. But her reign came to an abrupt end when she relinquished her crown following revelations that she had posed nude.

Nude? If I recall correctly she was more than nude. She was in Penthouse magazine getting busy with another female in a very sexually suggestive way. If anyone has seen those pics on the internet you can forward them to me, FOR RESEARCH purposes only:

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Thank God I'm an Idiot

The guy who started this new religion is a genius because religions are gold mines. Need justification for the bad things that happen in your life? Just watch this YouTube and thank God:

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Now and Then

I could spend all day going through these "then-and-now" shots of Montreal. Somebody really worked very hard at these great pics:

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Tattoo Artist Anil Gupta

I'm not a big "tatoo" guy but a Georgia O'Keefe tattoo is a pretty cool idea. Click a category to view the photos:

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Abandoned Buildings

My free license to Photoshop expired so these are straight out of my camera. More abandoned buildings in and around downtown Houston by clicking the link below:

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Railway Model Pics

Amazing pics of the world's largest railway model. The fabricated cityscapes are more interesting than the model train. There's even a mini-Las Vegas (pictured):

Hamburg's warehouse district is home to one of the world's largest model railway tracks. Every half hour, day turns to night in this miniature world. This is one of the biggest mock-up railways of the world. Over 450 railway carriages with more than 7.000 trailers, 50.000 trees, 30.000 figures, 10.000 cars, 5.000 meters of track, 3.000 houses and plenty of bridges.

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Bugatti Veyron at Top Speed

Bugatti Veyron at top speed
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Colorful Newstands

These pics are some newstands I took when I was riding my bike around town the other day:

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Body-Art by Seyi Wujian.

I posted these pics about a year ago but some things deserve a second look:

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Expert Calligrapher

Watch closely about :52 seconds in for a glimpse of an automated figurine over 200 years old. This promotional YouTube about the Forbidden City in Beijing is way too short:

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The 20 Greatest Historical Myths

I like this collection of historical myths:

Van Gogh is known as the archetypal starving artist, only selling one painting in his lifetime, and - in a quarrel with Gauguin - slicing off his ear, not long before committing suicide. Though he did face a tragic end, and his own paintings sold poorly, it is worth noting that he spent most of his life teaching and dealing art. He only spent eight years of his life painting, which helps to explain why he didn't starve to death. Also, he didn't slice off his entire ear, just a portion of his left lobe. Painful, but not nearly as bad as you might have thought.

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Phony Photo Booth

Sometimes free isn't always the best bargain. The ending to this YouTube about an invasive Photo Booth made me laugh:

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Via UD

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How To Be A Gardener

Every Sunday, Ursi posts a long, documentary-type video. This one is about gardening since Spring has sprung.

Enjoy:

President's Song

Barry Smith passionately sings about what he believes in:

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Tags: banjo, is, not, gay, cool

The Translator

Politically incorrect but very funny British humor:

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Tags: the, Queen's, english, rules, cool

I know the feeling

I love my bike but I'm not IN LOVE with my bike:

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Bonjour Vietnam

You will not be able to stop looking at this amazing slide show of VietNam:

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Pornography Statistics 2007

I have a hard time believing that Pornography is a $97 Billion dollar industry, but I like this nicely done webpage with the fancy graphs:

The pornography industry is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink.

I also like this line:

Statistics are compiled from the credible sources mentioned. In reality, statistics are hard to ascertain and may be estimated by local and regional worldwide sources.

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Molto Bello Ferrari Ad

Only Italian designers can make such a thing of beauty. Too bad it's only a commercial:

It's meant to celebrate 60 years of collaboration between Shell and Ferrari, and will roll out to TV soon. Crews shot in Rome, Monaco, Rio, Sydney, New York and Hong Kong. The finish line is at The Mill, London, where the film underwent post-production. Crank the volume.

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GPS Tracking Via Cellphone

This is unbelievable. You can track anyone via their cell phone by using the "satellite positioning system." Just type in the phone number with the area code and click "start search." Check this out!

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Japan at Night

Go check out this kick-ass collection of night pics from downtown Tokyo:

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Controversial Shark Steak

I enjoyed reading the comments attached at the bottom of this article:

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Ladders Being Abused

The title says it all.

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Hello Kitty Craze

EVA Air is the most luxurious passenger airline in the world and definitely the ONLY way to cross the Pacific Ocean in my opinion. I just don't understand the "Hello Kitty" part? The food looks good though!

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10 Reasons You Aren't Rich

Maybe there are more reasons but here are ten good ones:

The reason why you aren't a millionaire (or on your way to becoming one) is really quite simple. You probably assume it's because you aren't earning enough money, but the truth is that for most people, whether or not you become a millionaire has very little to do with the amount of money you make. It's the way that you treat money in your daily life.

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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President." - Charlie Chaplin

Speed Painting with Chocolate

Yves Rossy: The Incredible Flying Man

Strap on a jet pack and fly like a bird. The music in this video clip is very cool too (it may take a few seconds to load):

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Imprisoned Parrots

Please watch this touching YouTube and forward it to as many people as you can. Everything deserves a fair chance at life especially the parrots:

The soundtrack is a Chinese song by Peng Ling, named Imprisoned Bird. It fits the contexts here very well, singing the loss of love, freedom and of neglect.

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Via Ursi

Chakra Meditation

"The purpose of this 9 Minute chakra balancing meditation is to open and clear the chakras. It will align higher frequency energies and also purify/release any stored negative energy from your body/aura.

Just listen, breathe and relax ..."

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A History of Footbinding

Xeni posted an excellent link to an article about Chinese Foot Binding:

"Because I bound my own feet, I could manipulate them more gently until the bones were broken. Young bones are soft, and break more easily," she says.

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Link to Wikipedia article with even more links at the bottom of the page.

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Underwater Photography Club

Sounds like fun:

Founded in 1969 by the Houston Underwater Club, SEASPACE is acknowledged to be the finest adventure exposition in the Southwest USA. This colorful event combines exotic travel, adventure sports, scuba diving and related outdoor activities.

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How To Give A Great Handshake

Informative video clips are always better when the people acting are funny:

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Via UD

Cities Around the World

This is what cities looked like in the 60's and 70's:

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Via Ursi

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“There’s nothing remarkable about [making music]. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.” - Johann Sebastian Bach

Speed Painting

This is another fast-motion YouTube of the dude that freehand draws in Photoshop. If your computer has speakers be prepared to turn the volume up:

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Via Ursi

Skywalk Over the Grand Canyon

When I lived in Las Vegas last summer I kept seeing these marketing displays in every casino lobby (I was in them all at some point), promoting the new "Skywalk". As if Las Vegas needs one more attraction:

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Magnificent Trees

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Who would ever think that a collection of tree pictures would be so nice?

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Funny Billboards and Crazy Outdoor Ads

This is the largest collection of crazy billboards and guerilla marketing I've ever seen:

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"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." - M. C. Escher

Those Damn Vagrants!

I was going to say something political like, "This is what's wrong with our society," but really I just thought this was a funny sign.

The Price of Oil

This is the current price for a gallon of gas in downtown Houston (in case you were wondering).

Historic Taiwan

Go check out this nice webpage I put together at Tabblo.com. These are some historic pics of Taiwan from my friend Yawen. Just click on the thumbnails to view the full size pics:

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Cyril the Magician

These are some great Japanese television gameshows featuring Cyril the Great. I'll bet Cyril has no problem picking up chicks wherever he goes...

Link to a quick video of Cyril in a restaurant splitting chopsticks with his mind.

Link to a hilarious video of him dressed as an old man and fooling people on a bus.

Link to another clip with some hot Japanese in a restaurant.

Thanks Yawen.

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"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." - Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

Balls of Steel

The History of Man

Creating this pictogram of the history of man was probably fun. Some incredibly talented artist made this very graphic, and slightly erotic, series of drawings depicting the connection between man, war, and sex:

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Mud-Slinging Festival

This Mud-Slinging Festival in Japan is supposed to bring good luck. It looks like fun! This is a very nice article with pics and a video clip:

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Via Eso

Rockin' Cockroaches

Here is a link to the "Bug Rock" video at Ursi's website. It's not a bad tune if it wasn't so gross:

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Oil Rig Photography

These are some nicely done pics of an offshore oil rig in action:

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Audi Illusions

This Audi commercial makes me want to go out and buy a car. Why aren't the commercials here in the U.S. interesting and unusual?

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Thanks Ursi

Underwater Photography

This artist/photographer is named Sergey Parinov and these underwater and reef pics are from another world.

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Via Ursi

Cute Propaganda

The sentence that accompanied this email simply said, "The posters to recruit students of Shao-lin Temple, adorable!!"

Enjoy and have a great Monday!

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Thanks Yawen

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10 Interesting Things About China

I don't know if this is true or not but it certainly is interesting:

For Hundreds of years imperial law decreed death by torture to those who disclosed how to make silk.

The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

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Sea of Nakedness

Sometimes there is such a thing as too much nudity. Click on the pic to biggify.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Yesterday was St. Patty's Day and the weather was nice here in H-town. The green beer started flowing early along with the festivities and the Texas A&M Basketball game (The Aggies won!). Just click on the link below to see all the pics from the fiesta that lasted into the night:

Did anybody else have fun or was it just us?

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History of the Federal Reserve

This is an extremely informative documentary (and very long at 3:30 hours) about the history of money and banking and how The Federal Reserve is a private corporation (not a government institution) within the U.S. I never knew banks had so much power?

Via Ursi

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Meet Ogden the Cat

This is a pic of my best friend's cat in Austin. Her cat's name is Ogden and he looks like Jack's daddy...

Here is a link to the video of "Me and Jack" (in case you were curious).

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Ron Howard's Brother

Here is a link to the New Mexiken's weblog with everything you ever need to know about Ron Howard's brother (and my favorite actor) Clint Howard.

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Austrian Prison

These are some great pics from my friend Yawen in Taiwan. She sent me these last week of the posh-ass prison in Austria:

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Cool Costume

If you are a nerd like me you will really like this short YouTube video of "The Transformer" costume:

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Via UD

Silly Bears

These hungry bears in a Japanese zoo remind me of my cat:

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Frightening

I always knew The Beaver got old, but I never imagined Wally and Eddie would too?

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“I guess you heard, today was a big day for the U.S. Border Patrol. They caught 500 immigrants trying to sneak into the country and 200 Halliburton executives trying to sneak out.” - Jay Leno

The China Experience

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Advertising Design Artist

This is a nice collection of the photos and artwork of Erik Nitsche:

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Surveys

A recent survey revealed that the average American walks 900 miles per year.

Another survey revealed that the average American consumes 20 galons of beer per year.

Conclusion: The average American gets 45 miles per gallon.

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Another holiday come and gone

This is just a reminder that today is, "Steak and a BJ Day," which I mentioned last year on this date. I have never heard of this until last year when I was living in Chicago. Steak and a BJ Day is not really a holiday it's just an excuse for men in Chicago to actually get some sex from their frigid girlfriends.

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Freedom of the Seas

These are some kick-ass pics of the biggest damn boat I've ever seen!

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Stereo Eclipse

I got this link from Jason's website (congratulations Jason on 9 Years of blogging)! It is a really cool NASA video clip of the moon's shadow crossing the sun:

On Feb. 25, 2007, NASA scientists were calibrating some cameras aboard the STEREO-B spacecraft and they pointed the instruments at the sun. Here is what they saw:

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Go Back to Germany

Incredible Artist!

This Chinese girl with no hands has better penmanship than most people I know. I like it when my friend's send me cool links...

Thanks Yawen!

Cat Spanking Videos

I always thought my cat was crazy but I guess all cats like to be spanked:

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Paper Cutouts

These paper cutouts look even better framed:

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Via UD

The Cutting Edge - The Magic of Movie Editing

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Paganini's Daemon

Nicola Paganini (1782 - 1840) was a true "Rock Star" for his time and was said to be possessed by the devil. I watched this excellent (9 part) documentary last night and now have a new respect for the Italian violinist, and composer. Some of the segments are nice and short, and the music is amazing:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9

About Saudi Arabia

Pink Floyd Documentary

This is a short YouTube documentary on the Pink Floyd song "Brain Damage."

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The Dubai Life

This is a great pic of what will soon be the tallest building in the world:

The tallest tower in the world to be Burj Dubai is now the taller than any building in both the Middle East and Europe. Having reached 110 stroeys and 380 metres high it has the largest number of floors in any world building, at the moment it matches the Chicago Sears Tower, with one floor a week being completed it will be the sole record holder by next week.

There are only 38 other buildings in the world that reach over 300 metres high, with 3 of them now being in Dubai.

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The World's Billionaires

Forbes Magazine has listed the world's richest people in order, in case you were wondering:

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Instant Audience

This is a Flash application of a virtual audience laughing, clapping, booing, basically doing what I do when I go to a movie (may not work in Firefox):

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It's SuperOctopus

This is a cool YouTube video of how an octopus changes shape when fleeing from a predator.

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Via UD

2400 photos of Japan in 4 minutes and 43 seconds

This dude went to Japan and took over 2,000 pics, then mixed them into this (almost) 5 minute video with some cool-ass house music:

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Via Ursi

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Cars in Cuba

These are some great pics of what the cars in a communist country just 90 miles off the coast of Florida look like.

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Cool Picture

This is a link to an animated .gif.

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Feeding a Moray Eel

This is an amazing video. This stupid bastard gets his thumb bit off and, well, you gotta see the ending to believe it:


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Reminds me of last year

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Why sentence structure is so important...

The boss had to fire somebody, and he narrowed it down to one of two people, Debra or Jack. It was an impossible decision because they were both super workers. Rather than flip a coin, he decided he would fire the first one who used the water cooler the next morning.

Debra came in the next morning with a horrible hangover after partying all night. She went to the cooler to take an aspirin.The boss approached her and said, "Debra, I've never done this before, but I have to lay you or Jack off."

"Could you jack off?" she says. "I feel like shit."

Strange Religion

This is a pic of the newly constructed Catholic Church near my house. It is located on the campus of St. Thomas University here in the Montrose Area of Houston, Texas. This would make a great museum, or Muslim Temple, but it makes for a rather odd looking church. The slit on the right of the facade is the front door.

Here is a closer view of the front door. It looks more like an accident than a welcoming portal of hope and inspiration.

Here is an even closer view. That's me in the reflection of the front doors hidden insider there. (Click on any of the pics to view the bigger file.)

This is a view from the front doors looking out at the campus. It would be a great entrance for a museum or a contemporary home but it doesn't seem appropriate for a place of worship.

This is the west side of the "church". Why did the architect make the cross seem almost comical? I think this would look much more powerful if the cross were still rotated off center but perpendicular to itself like a (properly squared) cross.

This is the most confusing thing of all. From the street it looks like a giant "plus" sign, which makes some sense. The church is just letting everyone in the neighborhood aware that operating tax free is always a cash positive venture. But look closely at the cross (click on the pic to see the bigger view). Why does it look like the cross is taller on the top than the bottom? Did they install it upside-down?

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Big Splash

This hilarious little video clip made me laugh. This kid gets knocked right on his butt:

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Hazardous Scores

I don't know if this is artwork or a joke but if it is meant to be music it looks pretty incredible:

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Large Creepy Sex Group

Five pics of 250 couples having sex, individually, in a large group sounds beautiful, but it looks kinda freaky. Why do Japanese chicks do that thing with the two fingers? Warning: nudity and sexual situations:

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Salvador Dali - Genius

Tesla Documentary

Weird Nature - Puzzling Partners

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If The U.S. Were a Free Country

This article is a good read. I may not agree with some of it, but if it were a free country it wouldn't matter:

If the United States were a free country, the First Amendment would guarantee complete freedom of expression, including expression that some people find offensive, indecent, obscene or repulsive.

If the United States were a free country, the Federal Communications Commission never would be allowed to regulate personal taste.

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Amazing Flexibility

I think the title says it all.

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Radiohead

This fast-motion YouTube video shows how many painstaking steps it takes to digitally render something, or someone, in Photoshop.

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Country Fried Bacon

This is an actual television show called, "Texas Country Reporter," and it has been airing here in Houston for as long as I can remember. This short YouTube clip is about fat fried bacon. I have no idea where Snook, Texas is:

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Weird Nature - Devious Defences

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Weird Nature - Fantastic Feeding

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Weird Nature - Bizarre Breeding

More Photoshopping

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