songs inspired by literature

i imagine ill be using this list to make my next couple mix cds.

~james

my cool site OTW
 

intelligence test

I scored an 11 on my first try. How well do you do?

Brian

Dammit. I answered all the questions, clicked the button, and nothing happend.

That means you got all twelve questions wrong. :D

Brian

Feh, that was easy.

I know some of you here probably already read kuro5hin.org. But if you don't, the Heartbreaking National Tragedy story is not to be missed! This is satire at its finest.

Don't miss: Henry Raddick's reviews at Amazon.com

There are 280 of them, or 28 pages. Enjoy.

Oh god Tony. My head hurts from laughing so much.
you get 5 stars!

I had to stop reading after a few pages because it hurt too much!

This guy has the most dry sense of humor... ever.

I had to stop about 1/2 way, but I will return to learn more of dear Marjorie, and the spaniel Barry.

he goes a little downhill after about that point (we're going backwards in time, here), but there are still a few gems.

From his review of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare:This quy's quite a riot. Any background on him (other than he's British)?

State of the Union Speech

"Tonight I have a message for the people of Iraq ... Go home and die."

This Dude Just Totally Ain't Right ...
 

Profitable Doctrines in God's Word from an Endtime Prophet

I was directed to this dude's page via a mailing list for psychotherpists in training. He regards psychology and psychiatry (along with pretty much everything else) as "Satanic". I suspect he formed this opinion from personal experience.

I have it bookmarked as "Crazy Guy's Web Page".

I particularly recommend his treatise on "Morman Underwear" (which he calls "magic undies")

"Cussing" is another must read.

Other than that, read as the spirit moves you.

There's pretty much something for everyone in this VERY extensive series of pages.

Some will amuse, some offend, some both.

http://www.radiolovers.com/

i have not had a chance to really look at this yet, but i will as soon as i get home. but old radio shows available for download cant be all bad, can it? (and maybe it will help pass the time for those of you trapped in your homes behind a wall of snow. send some of that snow my way, dammit!)

~james

<a href="http://www.solidarity.com/hkcartoons/duckandcover.html">Duct and Cover!</a>

This may be the most beautiful thing I've seen in weeks.

A java spirograph

http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html

It's cute, tho it's not as fun as the real thing.

Rusty Humpries

Parody songs that apparently get a lot of play on talk radio.

The games are VERY silly, but worth the time. I recommend War on Terrorism II.

Funny stuff. There's a video for Bomb Iraq which is not linked off the main page (you have to go to "Rusty's Report" which is kind of a hassle, so that's why I've linked it here.

My Wacko-Meter score is 79.2 (I think I scored so low because I think Hillary's Mustache looks good on her)

Zentences

(requires flash)

One to check on from time to time
 

The 5k is a site showing the winners of a contest where you must design a web page with under 5k of data/code.

With code being as bloated as it is these days, its interesting to see how creative people can be when they have to fit something into a box that's too small.

:3eye:

Smile, Daddy-O

Smile, Angel-head
like the hipster got
your ever-loving espresso
and is dealing a game of bridge
down the be-bopping
jazz club of Saturday night
with nothing
to lose
nothing
to gain
nothing
but pockets of soap
and a goofy pair of trousers
full of privilege
my fate done
left me
my baby done
took a job
and all I got
is this crazy
house of two stories
with Miles on the juke
and bongos made of hipster laughter
and a place where I belong
if I could only swing it

~james

Hrmmm
 

Oh, I don't know....they are kind of cute..looking like little cement toadstools in your backyard....

But I have a hard time trying to buy the fact that I NEED one of these buggers when there are grammar errors all through the text.

http://www.usbunkers.com/

Dagney

Bunkers R Us
 

personally, I love the one painted in desert "chocolate chip" camo that isn't anywhere near a desert ...

i want one in chrome.

~james

Time for us to bug out...
 

The group Evolution Control Committee has a freely downloadable song on their website called Rocked By Rape.

It's a remix of AC/DC's back in black, but the lyrics are a huge compilation of Dan Rather reporting doom-and-gloom news. Man, it's really hilarious. All samples of stuff he's said. It's a 4.2 meg mp3. Also, I had to rename the file before it would play, because of all the %20's in the filename. Check it out!

Incidentally, CBS wasn't very happy when they heard this song. But ECC decided to ignore their cease-and-desist letter, and I guess CBS decided they wouldn't win in a court case, so they never sued.

ive had fresh snow on the ground every morning this week. for those you not so lucky, make your own. :)

~james

Re: Time for us to bug out...
 

My daughter (now 19) kept a copy of that in her library, so it's now on my machine too. She told me she finds it nostalgic, reminds her of dinner at our home with the news on when she was a small child in the 1980s.

Funny what can become nostaligia, I guess. :-)

very interesting method of browsing amazon.com. via metafilter, where the poster compared it to 'flipping through books on the shelf'. very cool.

~james

There are some awesomely cool pictures on this site which are all available for sale.

The annoying anti-copy message on each image only slightly detracts from their coolness.

losingmyreligion.com has a series of interviews with christians by Darcy West that I found to be quite entertaining.

Fun for the Whole Family

This could be positively mind-blowing. It would be most effective if the neighbors worked and you could get it done before they came home. You might have to buy off a couple retirees, though, just to keep the secret to themselves, to more effectively gaslight the others.

Where's my flying cars? They promised us flying cars!

What Would Jesus Drive?

That's right, SUV owners. You're fucking going to hell. Say hello to Satan for us.

Heh heh heh. I just love it.

So let's see now. Who could it be that makes us drive those nasty, gas-guzzling SUV's? Who could it beee? I just don't know who it could be!

Could it beeeeeeeee.............


SATAN?!?!?

I arrived home with the intention of posting a cool site of the day link to something that we were playing with pretty much ALL night at work, in between dealing with patients. We were discussing the sense of nostalgia we felt looking at some of these classics.

Chick Tracts are an ubiquitous part of the fundamentalist landscape and they are just as much fun as ever! (Always a better find than the 'folded up $20 bill' tract, to be sure!)

Coincidence? Or is the hand of the Lord directing my mouse clicks in hopes of making the sinners repent? :angel:

You mean you didn't get yours, yet? Must be on backorder.

cross-stitch, only extra-nerdy.

i think i need to learn to cross-stitch.

~james

Wow, I would've killed for one of those when I was a kid! Well, not really, but they're cool. Computerized sewing was becoming a big thing back in the days of the Amiga.

i hate to admit this, but i really am tempted to try it out. maybe ill make a controller cosy or something.

~james

WOW. I know how to cross stitch already. I just need the time to do something like this!!! (If only there was a Joust graph. That was MY game. That and Robotron. Oh, and DKjr, and Pole Position and ... )

There were a couple of companies that produced official cross stitches for some pop-culture powerhouses back in the day ... I may have even bought some of the nintendo mario and luigi charts (I honestly don't remember. I'll have to try to find my big pile of cross stitching I'll never get to). I know I got some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graphs on closeout ... and the California Raisins.

Trick your Mini

Jesse James turned one into a snowmobile a few weeks ago on Monster Garage (Discovery Channel), then raced Richard Petty (also on a snowmobile). Very cool stuff.

1/5 scale Sherman Tank

Look at the top page on the site as well. The guy has loads of free time it seems, and he looks like possibly one of our own... possibly a relative?

Who wants to play Gulf War 2?

Weeelllll....that was disturbing.

All the stuff you've been getting in your email in one place

Fatwa Sam's Online Bazaar

You're welcome!

Howdy all,,
I know I am new around here but i stumbled on a cool site not long ago that i would like to add to the compendium of good sites of the day .
www.dself.demon.co.uk/museum/museum.htm

some cool old technolgy,, look at the monorail locomotive and the monowheels . Cool old stuff :D

Very nice, zippy. the Combat Cutlery section was very cool.

~James

Excellent site, Zip. Thanks!

Dripping with fundamental wrongness.

<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1351">When Good Video Game Characters Go Bad</a>

So...what are Kim Jong Il and the gang in the DPRK saying right now?

allrighty then here is a potentaly dangerous site , but cool nun the less .
http://www.swampworks.com/Catalog-main.html

I can see Slang putting a full battery of BB cannons in his John Deer ball cap and blasting ingrates . :rattat:

you know how you can double, triple, or quadruple recipes if you're feeding a big crowd? I wonder if that works with these model implement of devestation plans ...

http://www.flashbunny.org/web/index.html

Mostly a pro-gun site, but some other funny political goodies as well.

The flashmovies wouldn't load for me under either NetScape or Opera. I actually had to fire up a copy of MicroSloth Internet Exploiter to view them, but it was worth it.

I may actually have to get a set of the "Heartless Conservative" and "Heartless Libertarian" mugs available on their products pages.

And now for some high voltage fun

http://www.aquila.net/berthickman/fr...ergallery.html

Shocking I would say :eek: :whofart:

<a href="http://www.americakokki.com/english.html">Home English Home</a>

(a quick primer on learning English)

It gets a bit twisted by the end.

I had originally offered this to UT as an IOTD, but frankly the image is just TOO darn big.

Some of you may have already seen this ... there's a link to this satellite imagery page from the Pax Salaam page (Baghdad Blog website) discussed elsewhere.

Before Shot

The "after shot" is not yet available.

"File Not Found!"

Link no worky.