hypersloth: September 2004

Osama Bin Lotto/Sweepstakes

A few months ago, we saw Osama Bin Lotto...

Here's another one; this one's called The Osama Sweepstakes. Winner gets a genuine Dubya Action Figure in full 'Mission Accomplished' flightsuit!

"The sweepstakes ends on Election Day or whenever the Bush administration announces they’ve caught Osama bin Laden, whichever comes first. Prize will be awarded to one contestant randomly chosen from all correct predictors of the date on which Osama bin Laden is 'found'. In the event that we're wrong (yeah, right), we will pick a winner at random from all entries."

I'm keeping my money, but curious to see how it turns out.

found at Bloggerheads

Eve of Destruction

Saddam meets Dr. Seuss

Would you like to bomb Iran?

found at chugginchach

Pirate Day

As you may well know, tomorrow is "Talk Like A Pirate Day"
Just warning yarrr.

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19

Weebl and Bob - niiiiiccce

I wouldn't normally link this, because, like Strongbad e-mails, or homestarrunner in general, it's not worth linking every single cartoon. You should just know to visit some sites frequently.

Whatever, I linked it anyway.

Weebl and Bob - niiiiiccce

Oceanography from the Space Shuttle

Oceanography from the Space Shuttle is a pictorial survey of oceanic phenomenon visible to the naked eye from space. Originally published in 1989, it is now out of print and only here.

found at incoming signals

Pi Recital

A man from Kent has set a new British and European record by reciting the mathematical expression pi to more than 22,000 decimal places.

found at boingboing

Internet Archive

I was verifying the authenticity of the previous link, when I realized that I'd seen this link floating around, but hadn't realized the magnitude of it..

Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Google's Origin

Here's what Google looked like in 1999.

Here's what it was run with.

Who'd've thunk it?

found at slowdown

Catching an enormous snake

I wonder how some of these pictures were taken.

found at newlinks

Storm Thorgerson

Gallery of the main artist for Pink Floyd's album covers

Storm Thorgerson - Taken By Storm

found at newlinks

Frogit 2

Frogit2

The Official God FAQ

(Frequently Asked Questions) -- FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as Pet Grooming and Cryptography. FAQs are usually written by people who have tired of answering the same question over and over.

The Official God FAQ

Fridge Poetry Flash Game

Name that Game

Sadly, I got 17 of 18 correct.

Name that Game

found at internezz

Save Bernd!

This is so unbelievably evil... Am I a bad person for laughing? Whatever, at least I don't practice extortion at the expense of a bunny, even though it appears to be a profitable venture...

found at internezz

The Godfather horse head prop pillow

"A custom severed horse head pillow that is actually quite comfortable to sleep on, albeit a bit on the morbid side."

The Godfather horse head prop pillow

David Lynch Commercials

David Lynch Commercials

found at Giavasan

Knight Rider Game

Joseph Wu's Origami Page

Saltomortalez

It's so much easier to watch others do this kind of stuff.
Saltomortalez Trailer - 2004

Geography Olympics

Test your knowledge of geography.

The video about "The Global Puzzle" is pretty interesting too. I want one, because I sucked at the quiz.

Words Speakers Used

From the RNC and the DNC

You'll have to zoom in to read this...

Mammatus

Wow.

Amazing clouds

EXPN.com - Slideshow

Coming Out

A man makes a confession.

Brainspotting

Maher on Bush

Proximity

Strategy Flash Game: Proximity

Best of Still Photojournalism 2004

Best of Still Photojournalism 2004

found at One's Web

New Wave Photos

New Wave Photos by Philippe Carly

found at New Links

A Ninja Pays Half My Rent

A funny short film.

Mike has the same phone.

I accused him of stealing my phone. Turns out he had just gotten the same one. So we each took a picture of the other taking a picture.

Captain Morgan

I was thrilled to see a larger-than-life Captain Morgan replica.

Ladybugs

Scanning electron microscope image of a ladybug. Image is an underside view of the head area.

Class Insecta

Order Coleoptera - beetles

Suborder Polyphaga

Super Family Cucujoidea

Family Coccinellidae - ladybird beetles(ladybugs)

JEOL 35C SEM

Aphid

French Fry

Electron Microscope

Ladybugs are killing machines. They eat aphids like french fries.

MicroAngela's Electron Microscope Image Gallery

Prayer Mat

Wtf?!!

Cut Out & Keep Ottmar Hitzfeld Prayer Mat

Space Attack

Under the command of intrepid explorer Captain StarKing, the crew of the mighty Big Throbbing Rocket find themselves engulfed by a deadly space nebula. Suddenly, they are attacked by the terrible Sauceroids of Saucerplex-9 and doom seems certain. And, well -- it is.
Space attack

They Rule

They make decisions that affect our lives.

Large Companies

Stormy

Stigmata

Smashing

Cool game

Totebo Online Games - Smashing

Triangle Trifle

Sweet game
Triangle Trifle

George W. Bush AWOL

awol

President on vacation from reality

The Magic Roundabout

"Look kids, Big Ben!"
-Clark Griswold

This is unfathomable to me, but according to the article, "their solution was brilliantly simple. All they did was combine two roundabouts in one - the first the conventional, clockwise variety and the second, which revolved inside the first, sending traffic anti-clockwise."

Magic Roundabout

Etymologic

They're not kidding. It's tough.Etymologic: the toughest etymology (word origin) game on the Web

found at the presurfer

False Terrorist Warnings

Usually these fabricated warnings come just before a certain bill comes up for a vote in Congress or a Presidential election is looming and either needs to be enhanced or, even worse, cancelled.
False Terrorist Warnings

found at the presurfer

Why Does Disney Always Kill The Parents?

For years, parents have wondered why Disney repeatedly puts out movies in which the parents are already dead, die a horrible death in the movie, or are just completely absent altogether.

Why Does Disney Always Kill The Parents?

found at attu sees all

Accidental Killers

Here are some well-known people with something unusual in common: they have all accidentally killed someone.
Accidental Killers

found at attu sees all

From Heiress to Famous

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Paris Hilton. Most people know Paris and her sister Nicky as the heiresses to the Hilton Hotel fortune, but few know Julia is in line to inherit an estimated TEN times more than the Hilton sisters COMBINED when her father passes away.
From Heiress to Famous

found at attu sees all

The Virgin Game

My results:

"You got 17 of the 21 people correct, and you did better recognizing the virginity guys. Overall, you guessed better than 98% of all test takers."

OkCupid!

found at attu sees all

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Surface

Friday, September 24, 2004

Bush Quotes Kerry

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Monkey Images

Monday, September 20, 2004

Oops!