This week the world finds out how seriously the United States neocons want to play, with election fraud and the removal of democracy in the United States, and using the Orwellian-like “war on terror” excuse with the CIA-created “al-Qaeda” construct, en route to war in Iran, Africa, South America and ultimately China. (There you have the next decade in world politics, en route to World War III, mapped out in one sentence.)
So let’s start off with 20 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Post Your Picture on the Internet.
For a look at PC game fans without shame, try these pix of Fans Dressed as PC Game Characters.
A long time ago, I saw a BBC documentary on power lines causing cancer. Ever since then, I have always felt sorry for those poor suckers living near or under those high-voltage power lines that criss-cross Jo’burg. Yet this information has yet to filter down to the public. Read this item from Sky News about the United Kingdom government knowing for the past three years that high-voltage power lines double the risk of childhood cancer: Power Lines Cause Cancer.
So your pet is lying around the house and feels completely safe? Don’t worry, Guy Fawkes is coming — the night when all of us who have to put up with stupid yapping dogs and yowling mating cats throughout the entire year get our own back. Heh heh.
For reasons to wreak vengeance on cats, for instance, go look at the truly frightening pictures of Scary Cats. And for more mean stuff to do at animals, why not put tape on your cat’s paws and record the results at Cat Paws.
For more animal silliness, duplicating the classic Bart Simpson writing on the blackboard, have a look at what pet owners have submitted as being Things That Pets Should Write on a Blackboard.
Vaguely related, for some silly cartoons browse through Guy Fawkes Cartoons.
I don’t seem to be the only one who feels that the 9/11 attacks were a deliberate act by the United States government itself — consider the list of Prominent People Who Disbelieve the Official 9/11 Story.
Zombie time! This week’s great undead moment comes from a rather cool idea. How does getting dressed up as a zombie and going pub crawling in a big shuffling and shambling mob of frightening and very drunk zombies sound to you?. Go stare at the ad for Crawl of the Dead!.
Courtesy of the US government, go have a look at assorted narcotics hidden in a wide variety of shapes and sizes — my personal favourite are the fish-shaped psilocybin magic mushrooms and the THC lollipops.: DEA Drug Bust Pictures.
Time to scrape the barrel in a big way. What do you do if you happen to run across a potato that looks remarkably like male genitalia? Do you think, “hmm, interesting”, and carry on with your life — or do you put it up on eBay and try to make some money out of it? Silly question really, coz you know the answer. Go stare at eBay Cock and Balls Potato.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse: a joker in a radio station’s newsroom wrote an item for a laugh, which they figured wouldn’t get on air without someone noticing it. However, no one did. Go grab the 500k MP3 download of a news item about “the ancient art” of Chicken Fisting!.
Here’s something cool for you local film geeks to try out. It’s also an interesting exercise in being filthy-minded and odd. Take your average film poster and then, using Photoshop, change the title to reflect what the poster is actually showing you. Go look at Misinterpreted Movie Titles.
Awwwww time. If you’re bored with going “awwww’ at how cute our corrupt, bribed and financially inept vice-president is (as well as tired of waiting for him to resign), then maybe you should look at The World’s Smallest Monkey. For more “awww” stuff, how about the frightening spectacle of Hamsters in Hats!.
And if you want a wild “awww” moment from recent news headlines, then try Dog Calls 9/11 for Owner.
Locally, I don’t see much graffiti in evidence (apart from the ever-increasing “Sentech sucks” ones). I recall the glory days of classic graffiti, but they seem to have gone. However, elsewhere in the world, not only is graffiti a booming business — it even inspired other folks to make sarcastic stickers commenting on the graffiti itself. Become inspired to make commentary on public walls, at Sarcastic Stickers.
Staying with walls, go stare at the strangeness and architectural glories of Abandoned Subway Stations.
You’ve heard of vegans, right? So how about the next step in the process — go read about the lifestyle that operates on the simple philosophy of living off the free food and items other people throw away. It’s called Freeganism.
For another revamp of language … you’ve heard of origami, now look at Strawagami.
I’ve been waiting for the little gadgets used in the US to turn off cellphones to arrive locally — but it seems no one has smelled the potential money to be made from the fun of being able to switch off people’s phones within an area. Well, here’s yet another anarchy-promoting device that could be glorious to play with: it switches off TV sets. Go look at TV B Gone.
For another gadget that is not only stalkers’ paradise, but pretty much renders Telkom’s “caller ID” option completely useless, go read this item on a gadget that allows you to Fake Caller ID.
More time-waster stuff. Test your abilities and find out how l33t you are at Do You Speak Geek?.
For you geeks out there with some programming skills, have a look at this cool project to recreate a town out of Lord of the Rings, in full 3D. Go to The Minas Tirith Project. And you could cause much fear and confusion among your fellow office workers by replacing their Google homepage with Google Rotated.
Having carved out and made my own Jack-o’-lantern pumpkin to scare and confuse the locals this past Halloween weekend, I’m still in the spooky mode — so go stare at 2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes.
It’s appeared before, but South Africa has yet to be listed in the options available at the site where students can grade the performance of their teachers, at Rate My Teacher!.
Those in the know will have discovered that the Mail & Guardian Online has a blogspot online. After reassurance from my editor (peace be upon him) that I wouldn’t be fired for whatever I wrote, I’ve been idly raving forth on a range of topics. Go have a look at My Blog.
For something that also shows off the internet as a great medium for everything you can think of, you can’t get much more exciting than 22 Ways To Lace Your Shoes.
Energy drinks generally are just a scam to sell some caffeine, flavourant and sugar in a tin at insane prices — but here and there, you do get a genuine, non-placebo boost from the things. To get a sense of what’s actually worth spending money on, and to see what goes well as a mixer with booze, consult The Energy Drink Review.
But to get some solid info, you truly need the ultimate site known as eHow to see the net being put to good use. Browse through Clear Instructions on How To Do Almost Everything.
Finally, and especially for fans of “Ingrish” — that frightening result when English is mauled by the Japanese or Chinese — here’s a site that does the reverse. It looks at the supposedly “real” tattoos done by people using Chinese lettering. Definitely worth consulting before you make the leap and get what your local tattooist assures you is the “right” lettering. Browse through the comments and pictures at Hanzi Smatter.
(For fans of the weekly “final tacky atrocious link”, I would have put a link to porn star Ron Jeremy’s online blog here, but after reflection, some of the pix he posts are just a little too excessive. So no atrocity link this week, sorry.)
Until the next time, if pet owners don’t get me.