Tim Danner

How to Make Friends By Telephone is a pamphlet that was distributed before the telephone was as ubiquitous as it now is.

How to burn/melt/demolish things with a 1 m² Fresnel lens and a mass of incandescent gas.

There are world records that everyone expects, like Tallest Man or Biggest Ball of String. Then there are things like this.

Chris Sells points us to a segment on NPR’s Day to Day show which provides a tongue-in-cheek analysis of the theme song to Friends (”I’ll Be There For You”, by The Rembrandts) with some eye-opening factoids about the value of their apartments, quantity of hookup partners, etc. Pretty funny stuff.

Not sure quite what to make of this. Jim Henley points to Apocamon, a manga (comic) in Flash about the Book of Revelation. I always though that a sheep with seven eyes and seven horns would look pretty weird - this confirms it.

It zooms in kind of like those Powers of Ten posters, only it never seems to make any progress, and the dude has a really bad hairdo.

What could be cooler than a spiky belt with a classic Nintendo controller for a buckle?

Read and enjoy the story of Shrek - not the computer generated ogre, the runaway sheep that managed to grow six years worth of fleece (60 pounds!) only to have it shorn off in 20 minutes by the world champion sheep shearer.