Caveat Emptor - the Archives
Found things of possible interest.
Eiffel Tower Modifications But, the plans will not be implemented, thankfully.
Yes, the computer is working on it, sir.
New Yorkers are 11% less clumsy than Torotoans
Google Campus Security Vehicle
Baby Car Logos [big]
The dinosaurs’ overconfidence in their ability to hide is one of the reasons why they are now extinct.
Two Pence one of England’s new coin designs.
Bike Walker [via Arkitip]
Hyder Building Proposal [via BldgBlog]
Oil Prices relative to Dollar and Gold
Michelangelo’s Pieta and the story of Laszlo Toth.
Useless Account. Get yours today.
An e-card I got today [from here]
Nuclear is good and Nuclear is bad
The Independent’s cover this week
This photo was taken by a coworker while in Oklahoma last week.
This applies doubly to computers
Underside of a Dominos pizza box
I guess Va-jay-jay is a real word now.
Clever ads for Shred-It: [1] [2]
Seth Rogen in North by Northwest for Vanity Fair. [more]
Dragon over Monument Rocks, Kansas
Iron Man - Mark I From the forthcoming movie.
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
Houston house 1943 from the Library of Congress Flickr set 1930s-40s in Color
Adoption might be a better word here than Consumption
I had a *bunch* of these as a kid
In poor taste and outrageously offensive.
At the National Portrait Gallery now and a full view.
The view from my parent’s seats at Allen Field House, University of Kansas.
My Dad in his golfing attire. He retired to Florida last year and now plays golf almost every day.
Exactly what the author would have wanted
In the Church of Comic Book Heroes [more here]
Trivia: Lincoln loved Motown
People will disobey rules that make no sense
The Steers of Southlake, Texas [quite large]
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.
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.
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.
Worst album cover, ever. [more]
Sauer Castle in Kansas City [Wiki]
Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein
Mystery woman from a set of photos spanning 50 years [more]
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.
Desert ships in the former Aral Sea.
Hair color boxes in Iran (really)
The Musee d’Orsay done with the tilt-shift technique and in a regular photo. More about this technique here.
Ceiling cat in reference to the original ceiling cat.
My first appearance in a newspaper and I was totally faking it.
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.
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
Underneath the Platz der Synagoge [info]
A Chinese Yangtze river dolphin, which is now extinct.
Pie Charts are so 20th Century
Livestock yard in Chicago - 1947
Storm over the University of Kansas found on [flickr]
Mary Jane, a Spider-Man collectible marketed, I’m just guessing, to teenage boys.
Water Fire [ more ]
The Lex Gabinia A brilliant read.
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.
My namesake, according to mom, in a photo from one of the oddest movies I’ve ever seen.
Shawn Cassidy - the first concert I ever went to, btw.
I know a few people who might click on this banner ad
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Kucinich also Mr. and Mrs. Salman Rushdie Really.
Worldwide cigarette consumption
Easter 1902 NYC(big)
Same actress/model - Two very different ads
Assembly instructions for a mop Michelle bought at Target
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.
Survivor She survived Columbine and has now survived VT. [story] Advice: never go to school with this girl.
I really, really, would like to have a retro vintage keyboard. The function keys are brilliant.
2007 Pulitzer cartoons: [1] & [2]
Where the singles are, by gender
The Independent A topsy turvey front page.
Merlin I had one of these. It looks like a monstrous cellphone now.
Construction accident in Dubai
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.
Taking the dog for a… er… walk
A Swarm School Flock Pack Brood Aerie of Eagles
