Monday, June 30, 2008

cutyou.blogspot.com

One Post Wonder

A collection of blogs that have one post.

One Post Wonder

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

Maximum Headroom

The home of interactive designer Paul Neave, neave.com makes for an entertaining timewaster or a suitable office screensaver substitute. It's a planetarium, retro game arcade, teevee channel surfer, 3D scribbler, and more. Try the Dandelion as a screensaver substitute.

Neave.com

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

Monday, June 16, 2008

Tarzan, Jane, Boy, and Cheeta

What's your theory, Darwin?

Cheeta turned 76 this year, making him the oldest living chimpanzee according to Guinness World Records. Star of eight or more Tarzan films he has become a painter in retirement. At Go Cheeta you can find his pictures, paintings, bio, and videos; along with links to his obligatory blog and myspace page. There's also a petition you can sign online for his seventh attempt to secure a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The caninecentric Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has stars for Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, but they never played opposite President Ronald Reagan. Personally, my vote goes to Lancelot Link. You can also choose you own favorite real or imagined primate at Mr Monkey's Index of Famous Monkeys or Famous Monkeys Through History.

Go Cheeta

Lancelot Link - The Reluctant Robot

Mr Monkey's Index of Famous Monkeys

Famous Monkeys Through History

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

This is your brain on cell phone!

Making Cellphone Popcorn (without butter)

They're viral on the internet this week. Aim the antennas of three or four cellphones at a handful of popcorn and when you ring the phones the kernels pop. There's already Japanese, French, and American versions to name but a few. There's also inconclusive "proving the negative" versions where the kernels don't pop. Now Snopes has already added it as a footnote to it's article about last year's cook an egg with cellphones hoax, but I was unable (so far) to find any credible explanations for how the trick is done. Unfortunately for cellphone manufacturers the New York Times ran a piece last week about the ongoing debate over the health effects of cellphone use.

Japanese video

French video

American video

Snopes: Oeuf the Wall

New York Times: Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Yomega's yo-yo clutch explained

National Yo-Yo Day

June 6 is National Yo-Yo Day! Or more precisely it's the birthday of Donald F. Duncan, Sr., who popularized the yo-yo in the US (he also founded the Good Humor ice cream company and invented the parking meter). You could celebrate by visiting the SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin where "The Top Lady", Judith Schulz hosts a collection of thousands of tops, return tops (yo-yos), trompos, trottoles, gyroscopes, spinners, rattlebacks, wizzers, diablos, toupies, kreisels, komas, logic puzzles, gizmos, and more. While you're there, just around the corner is the Burlington UFO and Paranormal Museum and Research Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe. For more (or all) things yo-yo online check out Lee's Yo-Yo Page. By the way, in 1968, Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman was cited for contempt of Congress for, amongst other acts, "walking the dog" with a yo-yo during a session of the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities.

SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum

Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe

Lee's Yo-Yo Page