Caveat Emptor - the Archives

Found things of possible interest.

Obama Grafitti

Eiffel Tower Modifications But, the plans will not be implemented, thankfully.

Atari Computers Setup

Nuclear Explosions Since 1945

Mercedes Bends

Dubai urbanization

Yes, the computer is working on it, sir.

Baby Hedgehog

Professor Swift

Bowie Mugshot

Fatality, by the Numbers

1/3 of groceries you buy...

Miss Russian Army Contestants

New Yorkers are 11% less clumsy than Torotoans

United Countries of Baseball

Google Campus Security Vehicle

BBQ Sword

Baby Car Logos [big]

The dinosaurs’ overconfidence in their ability to hide is one of the reasons why they are now extinct. 

Excellent Product Location

Two Pence one of England’s new coin designs.

Bike Walker [via Arkitip]

Kansas Tornado Rate

Balloon Crash

Cow Tent

Hyder Building Proposal [via BldgBlog]

Bowie Lincoln

Disco Helmet

Zipper

Can You Hear Me Now?

Oil Prices relative to Dollar and Gold

Homeless and Dog

Prostitution Prices by City

Suspended Words

Cereal Mascots

Michelangelo’s Pieta and the story of Laszlo Toth.

First Aerial Refueling 1923

Pope’s Shoes [1] and [2]

Obama’s Shoes

Where the Wild Things Are

Useless Account. Get yours today.

An e-card I got today [from here]

Green Woman [More]

Wall Flowers

Miss Lightning

City Flags

Movie Jokers

Emissions Flow Chart

Mac Mailbox

Nuclear is good and Nuclear is bad

Coolest Guy Ever

Golden Gate

Wool and Water

The Independent’s cover this week

Polygons

Horton Hears...

Nice sombrero

Internet users by country

Olympics Shirt

This photo was taken by a coworker while in Oklahoma last week.

Tax burden by country

Flying Saucer House

U.F.O.

Astronaut’s iPod in Window

Iron Maiden’s plane

Starbucks vs. Wal-Mart

Koolaid man wears pants now

Deep-fried Cheeseburger

Hamburger Dress

This applies doubly to computers

Underside of a Dominos pizza box

I guess Va-jay-jay is a real word now.

Percival Pac Man

Mini Hotness

Polyhedron Maze

20th Century Boy

Happy Elephant

Blinding patriotism

Rusty

Klum and Ferrell

1935 Rolls Royce Phantom

Never underestimate clowns

Food prices 1985-2000

Florida in 22nd Century

Requires great balance

Ultraman Masks

Suck the heads

Doubt Creeps In

Superballs

Like Whack-a-Mole

Nemesis Wanted

Shifting Religions

Bear Bag

Starlings

Accurate until old age

Clever ads for Shred-It: [1] [2]

Seth Rogen in North by Northwest for Vanity Fair. [more]

The Grid

Dragon over Monument Rocks, Kansas

Obay

Fred Flintstone-esque

Table Tennis

Colbert the Warrior

Experience Counts

Iron Man - Mark I From the forthcoming movie.

Rejected Elements

Mary Walker (1864) whose ghost has been seen at the location of her home along the Santa Fe Trail in Olathe, Kansas - which is now a Taco Bell.

Orang-Utan attack from ”The Malay Archipelago” (c. 1869).

Thermal Zoo [big]

Cheney and Rumsfeld, The Early Years

Woman spotted

Nice store display

Houston house 1943 from the Library of Congress Flickr set 1930s-40s in Color

Shipwreck

Shadows casting people

Octophant [via Etsy]

Adoption might be a better word here than Consumption

Security

A bit obvious

I had a *bunch* of these as a kid

Moscow looks nice

A Peugeot?

Eye Scape [more]

Window seat

In poor taste and outrageously offensive.

Knee socks

At the National Portrait Gallery now and a full view.

Loves guns

Virginia pirate

Toast

Flying Squirrel

Water Bed

Office dining

Gridlock

Hillary

Rush Hour

Evolutionist

Do you see Alcatraz?

The view from my parent’s seats at Allen Field House, University of Kansas.

South of Austin

1880s Ghostbuster

Toyota

Nice logo

Owl vs. Rabbit

The Beatles in 1958

History of Home Values

Autumn Tree

My Dad in his golfing attire. He retired to Florida last year and now plays golf almost every day.

Congonhas Airport

Exactly what the author would have wanted

In the Church of Comic Book Heroes [more here]

Seeing eye horse

Zombie Food Pyramid

Aurora - South Pole

Santa arrested

Tiny monkey

Walk to work

Smith

Cheetos

Trivia: Lincoln loved Motown

Bride

Fonz

Popular Science ad

Save me

People will disobey rules that make no sense

Grosse Tete

Receptionist by day

Dancer

Waiting for a plane at KCI

Luminous kittens

Pillsbury Doughboy

We’re no. 17

Stephen Hawking

Kansas City arms

My local library gets wild

Secret office fridge

Rappers

Lick

The Steers of Southlake, Texas [quite large]

The man who controls the sky

Ceiling deformed by water

Lincoln in a tent

Beards

I spent $118 for allergy drugs last week that weren’t covered by my company’s health plan. Then I read about this on a message board today. Now I’m mad.

Top Secret Project

Ronald Reagan’s first wife

The Believers

Is Lindsay really reading, or faking it?

D’Argo, our awful cat - On rare occasion, I make him wear a tie for my own twisted amusement.

Terrible beds, but great view

Did not go well.

What we do on Wednesday evenings—Michelle also wrote a column in the KC Star about our T’ai Chi class a couple of weeks ago.

Mr. Walrus’ Birthday Surprise

Oh snap!

Pirates with and without CGI

Worst album cover, ever. [more]

Partners by Country Income

New NFL logo

Twins Fiesta [more]

Purple Girl

Ping Pong ball eyes

Sauer Castle in Kansas City [Wiki]

Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein

Cairo

Inbred Family Tree

Got Heroes?

Mystery woman from a set of photos spanning 50 years [more]

Kansas City Travel Poster

Eclipsed Moon Passing Backyard Telephone Wire I got up really early to see the eclipse. I watched it for a while then went back inside, fell asleep around 6:30 a.m. again, and was subsequently late for work.

Ali vs. Liston

Desert ships in the former Aral Sea.

Bedroom

Testing my apathy

Hair color boxes in Iran (really)

30 minutes

XBox

Rita Hayworth

The Musee d’Orsay done with the tilt-shift technique and in a regular photo. More about this technique here.

Bubble boy

Ceiling cat in reference to the original ceiling cat.

My first appearance in a newspaper and I was totally faking it.

Ah, flowers!

Baby Boomer Barbie

Pics on my Phone I cleaned all the pics off my cell this weekend. They include: my dad, my cat, a boring meeting, furniture, michelle horseback riding, a football field where the huddle was invented near my house, me trying on sunglasses, a flyer listing movies based on Shakespeare, and Michelle at a bar.

An angry hornet

Joshua tree

Candidate grid

Wavy Stairs

Float on the Dark Side

Stained glass bacon from this site sent by alert reader B Joyce, who says she thought of me when she saw it. I don’t know how I feel about that. :-)

How I got really sunburnt last weekend Ouch.

Shadow cast by Space Shuttle plume

A Wombat

Underneath the Platz der Synagoge [info]

Marriage and education

Balloon painting

KY jelly advertisement

A Chinese Yangtze river dolphin, which is now extinct.

Dog camping

Teahupoo

Pie Charts are so 20th Century

Corruption Perception Index

Driving uphill

Slumber party cake

Nails

Dear Miriam

Livestock yard in Chicago - 1947

Storm over the University of Kansas found on [flickr]

The Sports Fan

Mary Jane, a Spider-Man collectible marketed, I’m just guessing, to teenage boys.

Life on the Moon

A Day at the Beach

Garage

Desert bloom

Untitled

Cookout time

Cannibals

Daoist Breakfast

Pandas

Notice

AT-AT stroller

Alphabet

Go Deep

Water Fire [ more ]

Drinking age map

Thundercats!

Hate | Love

A pretty cooling tower

Pink

Wood horse

The Lex Gabinia A brilliant read.

Me at the Nelson last weekend

Cuteness

Before Priceline

Me, drawn by a friend in 1996.

London, as it would appear if attacked by six billion laser-wielding spheres, in the worst Doctor Who season finale ever.

Sheep vs. Lawnmowers

Pantone™ mugs [Link]

I’m going to love this

Intestinal clouds

Find the cat

Chewbacca’s mask must be hot

Balloons

My namesake, according to mom, in a photo from one of the oddest movies I’ve ever seen.

Mantis Love

Google Map outdoor art

The Dark Caves

Shawn Cassidy - the first concert I ever went to, btw.

Smoke Angel

Arkansas Republican Leader

Virgil - wrestling superstar

God’s business Plan

Soccer Field

I know a few people who might click on this banner ad

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Kucinich also Mr. and Mrs. Salman Rushdie Really.

The Holy Hand Grenade

Extreme Irony

Ninja skills

Warning on Fight Club DVD

Cosby

Leaping Lamb

Waterslide with a Loop!

Worldwide cigarette consumption

Smoke Too Much?

Porsche Smart Car

Vader Liberty

Schrute Buck

Easter 1902 NYC(big)

Difference of Love

The Green Fairy

Travel ad

Let the hate flow through you

Grain Elevators

Tree house

Darwin window

Feet

Hello!

Same actress/model - Two very different ads

Creationist car

Hey Diane!

The 10 Plagues

Tire Buddha

Weather Balloons

Assembly instructions for a mop Michelle bought at Target

Bike-eating Tree

TinyURL, urlTea, url123, 301url, 5nz, Url(x), Shorl, SnipURL, mpfURL, BooBob, NotLong, Doiop, Yatuc, Qurl, xaddr, and my favorite of the bunch: DwarfURL.

Farm aid, by U.S. state.

Glass Floor [more here]

Football fish [more here]

Robot art [more]

Gonzales

OCD traffic jam

Survivor She survived Columbine and has now survived VT. [story] Advice: never go to school with this girl.

Napoleon’s Air Force

Old London, New London

Plaque in Ukiah, California

I really, really, would like to have a retro vintage keyboard. The function keys are brilliant.

Balance

Hooking Up [story]

Les Falaises de Bonifacio

Microdisplay

Miss Alda

Instructions

Super Zeroes

Red highway [story]

Book art

2007 Pulitzer cartoons: [1] & [2]

Pong!

Vintage rocket train

Beauty: 1927 2007

I like her spirit.

July 21, 2007

Where the singles are, by gender

Mean-looking fish

The Independent A topsy turvey front page.

Cousins chart

Camels

Merlin I had one of these. It looks like a monstrous cellphone now.

Honking signs

Kyoto train station

YouTube Comments

Republicans

Foxy

Construction accident in Dubai

God vs. Satan

Hidden drive-in

Sideways art gallery

Assisi vs. Hitler [link]

Nice use of an empty CD spindle

I saw a cow on I-35 this weekend.

Shawnee Mission West, Class of 1987, Suchy - Thomas. I’m scanning in my yearbook for our class reunion website.

An Unconventional W.C.

Body Mass Index by Country

Taking the dog for a… er… walk

Unfortunate metaphor

Nice Topiary

A Swarm School Flock Pack Brood Aerie of Eagles

Dehydrated