Whimsy: May 2008 Archives
Addled Writer: It's blinding!!
Photos of Manhattanhenge, aka the Manhattan Solstice, when the setting or rising sun, normally blocked by buildings, is aligned with Manhattan's east-west street grid. It happens again on July 12 at sunset, and at sunrise in December and January.
Roadside America: One-Log Homes - The Green Dilemma
Earth-friendly lifestyles? "It's all feel-good marketing crap. You're really just another planet consumer, unless you're ready to lie down in a mulch pit right now, and let Nature take over. And even then, the toxins in your body will probably kill whatever tries to grow from your remains."
ShoeboxBlog: Tiny Little Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
"If Surly Troll and Swordsman Mouse were Oscar categories, you'd see [Peter Dinklage as Trumpkin and Eddie Izzard as Reepicheep] accepting trophies."
Crummy Church Signs: Just say whatever comes to your mind...
There's hope for us all: "The great oak was once a nut that stood its ground."
Neatorama: 25 Strangest Collections on the Web
Mangles, banana labels, Soviet calculators, barf bags, and 21 more. (Via Mister Snitch!)
Divine Vinyl: Turned On To Jesus - purgatorio
The latest collection of odd and intriguing Christian record album covers, this time including a bio and photo of pencil-thin-mustachioed Bill Bright on the sleeve of a 45 of one of his talks.
Bear cubs take over new backyard playground on the outskirts of Anchorage. (Via Mister Snitch!)
IMAO: lolterizt! Part 47 - lolhilry! Edition
l337-speak caption fun with the former First Lady: "flop swet: ur soakin init" "wishn it wuz blud n bby fngrs" "PALPATINE '08"
A comprehensive survey of the sources of the legends of King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, a summary of Malory's Morte d'Arthur, and many links to other resources.
List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Telling your SNAFU from your TARFU, JANFU, FUBAR, and BOHICA.
Orson Scott Card: J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz
Author of Ender's Game takes apart Rowling's plagiarism claim against the Harry Potter Lexicon, a print version of an online reference work which she had previously used and praised. (Via Mister Snitch!)
The Anonymous Blogger: Final Tuesday Night Trivia
Sad: The Baggot Inn in Greenwich Village is closing and with it the era of T.N.T. (I played once, while in the area on business in 2005, and our team won. Great fun.)
SpecGram--The Original Language of Winnie-the-Pooh--Aureliano BuendÃa
From the March 1998 issue of the Speculative Grammarian, a convincing case that Winnie-the-Pooh was originally written as a roman d'aventure in Gallo-Romance or Old French. (Inspired by this Dwyeropolis entry about the origin of the article in Romance languages.)
Crummy Church Signs: It's sort of a 50:50 relationship
It's Rev. Wes Kinney Day at Crummy Church Signs. Kinney is a blogger, a frequent contributor to Crummy Church Signs, and the pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Valliant, Okla.
Skills for Men - Things Men Should Be Able to Do - Esquire
A list of 75. (Via Okiedoke.)
Dark Roasted Blend: Nightmare Playgrounds
Creepy sculptures and sad equipment on real, in-use playgrounds, mainly in the old Soviet Bloc. (Via Mister Snitch.)
Throw caution to wind, France told - Telegraph
"A French doctor is urging his countrymen to give free rein to flatulence, sweating and other bodily taboos to reduce the risk of cancer.... 'Eliminating' the two litres of gas produced a day by the average Frenchman 'is a natural process', he writes, adding that retaining it can be harmful to the intestines. The French, he adds, should 'dare to fart'." (Via Conservative Grapevine.)
The Queen enjoys train ride in disguise - Telegraph
Peep, peep! "[T]he 82-year-old monarch did her best to blend into the crowd as she enjoyed a ride in the cab of a miniature steam train this weekend. Travelling incognito, the Queen wore a raincoat, headscarf and glasses as she took the one and a half mile trip around the grounds of [Exbury Gardens], a stately home in Hampshire's New Forest. The Queen had earlier named the little engine [Mariloo] in a private ceremony before climbing aboard the bright blue locomotive."
