The Eggcorn Database is a collection of commonly misused phrases; like “beside manor” instead of “bedside manner” or “vintage point” when they really mean “vantage point.”
I remember several years ago on the gayindy mailing list one of the troublemakers on the list accused someone else of “acting in an unethical manor.” Which made me laugh, because I pictured a giant estate house where in every room someone was behaving badly.
I love weird coin-operated arcade machines. From the guys who created Monty Python, here’s a whole site celebrating them: The Under the Pier Show.
If you’ve never seen it before, check out The Memory Hole on you free time sometime. They publish on their site information that’s been “Lost” by the goverment — for example, the website of the US Commission on Civil Rights has been purged of 20 reports that didn’t meet the agenda of the agency’s Republican majority. The Memory Hole recovers 19 of the inconvenient reports.
The site is also the favorite of whistle blowers everywhere, and people go to great lengths to give them secret information exposing corruption and fraud in business and government.
Very entertaining to read what other people don’t want you to see.
Courtesy my friend Melissa, I provide you with this link to a BBC quiz on how to identify when people are really smiling versus fake smiling.
A Great photo album of kids crying on Santa’s lap. My mom probably has a few of these at home of one of my siblings or another crying, because I can remember it happening.
Really cool site that sells “irreverent” cross stitch items. Heh. I might actually take up cross stitch again.
One of my co-workers printed this Map of the Simpson’s Springfield to the plotter and has a large poster of it. Unfortunately, I don’t have print drivers to the plotter. Damn it.
The Kingdom of Loathing (or KoL, as it has come to be known by its player base) is a free, comical RPG, brought to you by the folks at Asymmetric Publications. KoL is played from the comfort of your browser, and is adorned with a staggering array of stunning hand-drawn images. It is turn-based, which means you get a certain number of turns (Adventures) each day. Choose from one of six intoxicating character classes, including:
This webpage, “I found a digital camera in the woods” is quite eerie. I’m thinking it must be a set-up or fictional page, because it’s pretty unusual to just find a digital camera in the woods, let alone with these photos on it. But some pretty neat photography and some creepy unusual things, too.
Must be a personal project similar to the Blair Witch.