The Interesting
Link Archive: news, unique, odd, funny, whatever
It's winter, the leaves are off the trees, so let's
look at the stars and while we're at it, visit Bad
Astronomy.com
The Boston Globe's Ideas section is one of the most interesting
pages. There's a part of that called "Brainiac"
with wacky tech stuff.
Know the pixelated portraits from the Wall Street Journal paper?
You
can search and view them all here.
News delivered the internet community way. Newser.com
Amaze your family and friends! Learn
how to wiggle your ears.
Ultra-realistic paper craft models, found at Yamaha,
of all places. Motorcycles, engines, animals, and more.
It's time to place your phones on the US Gov't DO NOT
CALL list against telemarketers. You
can do this online with DoNotCall.gov.
You might as well jump onto the wagon and see what he's saying:
the Curt Schilling Blog is: 38pitches.com.
TVParty.com
has a lot of fun things to watch from the old days. Here's
one page of Saturday morning commercials from the 60s.
The old MacDonalds ads are priceless! Uses RealPlayer.
You know a Vinyud cah by the stickers it carries. Get your political
persuasion going at StickerGiant.com.
We normally don't enjoy the rant of blogs - they are just one
nut's opinion (kind of like rant-letters to our local fishwrapper
papers) but if you love sports, this person has some entertaining
things to say: The
Big Lead. By the way, missed the last minutes of
Boise
State's big Bowl victory? It's on YouTube here.
Rotten Tomatoes is a website that compiles film reviews,
then gives overall ratings. You can comment, add a review, much
more.
Signs of Life is a fun site where you can view photographs
of signs that are funny, alarming, curious, interesting, random,
and more
Second
Life is a world of endless reinvention where you
can change your shape, your sex, even your species as easily as
you might slip into a pair of shoes back home.
Some of us are bemused by Aquinnah discussion of banning good
old skinnydipping. We know who would take exception: the
American Association for Nude Recreation!
(Oh, come on - lighten up!)
Rutgers University has a great website that shows water tempuratures
for Cape Cod (and other areas). You'd be surpirsed how warm our
water is this year! Rutgers
Coastal Ocean Obeservatory.
What are the big authors reading at the beach/on vacation this
summer? Slate
asks them.
KA sent us this bizarre but amusing
site about Tin Foil Hats - saving the universe one
nut at a time.
Read it before you leap: these folks say changing the globe's
orbit would be a good thing: WorldJumpDay.org.
Only on the 'net.
Sail Martha's Vineyard is having a huge regatta this summer, for
yachts, catboats, and the Jr. Olympic Windsurfing Championships
- all after The Vineyard
Cup® and The Bronze Lobster®.
Now that you have your taxes done (hopefully) and you have your
finances freshly on your mind, maybe you should also do your FREE
AnnualCreditReport.com.
It's easy and secure.
YouTube.com
is where you can load your videos, along with the rest of the
internet for all to view. Some wacky things going on, for sure.
Enjoy a good conspiracy theory? Think our current Feds have something
up their sleeves? Try this Flash presentation out - Pentagon
Crash?
New to New England? Welcome to Red Sox nation! Let us clue you
in to a little secret: where's the best place to see the Sawx
play? It's NOT Fenway (sold out, mucho $, parking stinks, seats
uncomfortable - esp. along 1st base) - it's TORONTO. Check
out the Jays schedule here.
A very well made Flash applet that tests your survival knowledge
with some surprising answers. Good luck! Extreme
Survival Quiz
Stupid Videos
is outrageously funny. Dumb home videos, slapstick internet commercials,
just plain stupids. Play one and they will continue to load and
play and you will be LOL. Try the Kung Fu Clowns. Outstanding!
Eyecandy
is a quarterly, student-run film and digital media journal, examining
film and digital media in relation to contexts such as art form,
social and cultural theory and politics. It's a forum for writers
from all fields to discuss observations and raise issues about
media as pop.
GardenWeb It's been warm
enough to fool us, but we haven't hit February yet. Sooner or
later, tho, spring will sprung so take time to do your gardening
research!
The Smoking Gun has
been in the news lately after they exposed facts debunking a popular
memoir book. Read an archive of
articles, over 200 backstage contract riders of bands (what kind
of stuff they need), rich and famous mugshots.
Max Fleischer was a pioneer of animation. He created the first
cartoon 'talkee', made Betty Boop, Popeye, and the lavish high-production
early SUPERMAN cartoons. They are spectacular and you
can download them for
free at kal-el.org
BAD TV: The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried
was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years
after her death, authorities said. Read
on!
Gawd, Brian loved his mullet! So let's harken back to Mullets
Galore! (check out the lil mullet fav icon at the address)
or if you prefer mullet poetry, try I
Love Mullets. Then there's Mullet
Lovers! Don't forget Mullet
Junky. They're baaaack!
Ever had a debate over who played who in some movie, and need
a way to see who's right or wrong? Or just want to see a 'filmography'
of an actor? Try the Internet Movie
Database - IMDb.com
Do you have a small child who loves trains? Then visit this great
and very entertaining site that has freight train videos. Your
kid will love it!
Matt's Train Videos at trainweb.org.
Christmas is coming and before that is "Black Friday"
- the day after Thanksgiving. It's called that because retailers
expect to go from red numbers to black in post-holiday shopping
sales. Want the scoop on the best deals before you head out? Try
BF2005.com to find the deals.
It's that time of year: football season. And games don't get any
better than our own Amercian Classic: the 57th Island
Cup game.
Read MV Football's expansive
web site here.
In such a busy world of worry and weariness,
wouldn't it be splendid to have a NiceCupOfTeaAndSitDown.com
Be sure to vote on the biscuit of the week!
Are you a blogger? Do you like reading them? How about a search
tool for blogs on any subject? Here it is: TECHNORATI.com
searches 16.4 million blogs and includes a watchlist signup tool,
as well as a way to add your own.
LETTERBOXING is an intriguing pastime combining navigational
skills and rubber stamp artistry in a charming "treasure hunt"
style outdoor quest. A wide variety of adventures can be found
to suit all ages and experience levels. ON MV, too.
It's just a one page index, but it speaks volumes when you ponder
the numbers: it's the Internet
Activity Index.
New technology allowed Tour de France rider Floyd Landis to measure
his power output through each stage, down to the watt ... Read
The Sporting Geek at Wired Magazine
It was part of a web contest, and a strange idea, but it created
a web sensation with fast traffic. It's odd, it's curious, it's
Crying, While
Eating. Then you can read the
author's account of it's creation and growth at Slate.com.
Did you know that there was a Navy ship called USS Martha's
Vineyard? A
short description of her service is here.
Webcomics are very popular and can make money for even the oddest
or complete nerd. ToothpasteForDinner
is a collection of oddball single frame baffling gems. Reading
them online is like playing the slots: If you laugh once, you
have to keep clicking until you win again.
Speaking of blogs, we found this fellow's account of his experience
traveling to Jawsfest. It has some salty language, but his impressions
of the event are quite humorous: "Quint
at Jawsfest! Pics galore!"
Web logs, or 'blogs', are all the rage. Now it's time someone
talked about bloggers: visit Blogebrity.com.
Actually this site is part of a web contest, but it's still really
funny.
It's that time of year: when you could fall OUT of the
boat and land on fish, but it isn't nearly as easy to get the
fish IN the boat. Try our friends: Coop's,
Larry's for bait, tackle,
and info on MV, and On The
Water magazine for NE.
Nat'l Geographic's Interactive
Grand Canyon site is fun for idle playtime.
Leave it to the web - fuh2
- an entire site dedicated to pictures of a certain finger pointed
towards a Hummer. Mature audiences.
Our favorite meal, so we might as well pack it in style: Lunchboxes.com.
Mighty Mouse, Kurt Cobain, Jesus, Sex Pistols, Cookie Monster
and many more on a groovy metal box with your P B & J inside.
The BOSTON DIRTDOGS website is a site devoted to the Red Sox,
a bit off from the newsprint style. Commentary and news for serious
fans.
The Sports Guy is a cartoon in Windows media. He
has a problem with "Rocky V". WE gotta agree.
Always worth a look from time to time, it's WEB
PAGES THAT SUCK. Learn from the worst what NOT to do.
In the year 2014, The NY Times has gone offline, What happened
to the news? And
what is ... EPIC! A Flash satire on the future of information
delivery, 8 minutes in length.
Everybody with a website is getting serious about getting higher
-- in the engines. Here's
an article on the Google vs Yahoo rivalry.
PETER GAMMONS is going to the Hall of Fame, read
his commentary on Pedro going to the Mets.
A great site of methods,
tools, and tricks for home handymen!
A series of BIZARRE and frankly funny "photo classics"
from the American
Red Cross Museum. Great party fun creating captions!
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They're noisy, nasty, unsanitary -- and even
though they have highly developed social behavior, they will still
EAT THEIR OWN. In MA (and MV, too you conservationists!) it's
time for CROW
BUSTERS!!
Sam Low is a writer, film producer, and photographer from Oak
Bluffs. His web galleries are beautiful and if you just leave
the browser open, make a nice
Vineyard desktop.
Adware and Spyware, who's to blame and why isn't somebody doing
something about it? The new security problem: eWeek
article here.
So, it's the height of the baseball season. Kill a moment or two
of boredom by viewing featured artifacts at the Baseball
Hall of Fame. Neat items and interesting facts! Start
here with "Shoeless" Joe's shoes!
Ben Franklin believed, and so did Werner Von Braun:
"Why
I Believe in Immortality" Hey,
Werner was a Rocket Scientist!
Just because he was THE ORIGINAL: visit
THE
GODZILLA TEMPLE!
Pop-ups
and Spam annoy, but they work (for the advertisers!)
Chris Baer's
MV-Tisbury Historical Records Site
Oh, No! Brian got knocked off the boat bass leaderboard by a half
pound, and by a 12-year old Molly Fischer of WT! BUT he's still
got a coveted Grand Slam prize. MV
Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby site is here.
Heard something crazy that doesn't seem to be either true or even
likely? Maybe it's an "urban legend" - a populace spread
falsehood. Want to find out the truth? Go to Snopes.com
and find out.
Hey - it's Halloween and Yahoo.Finance
of all sites, is offering printable scary masks and funny things
like how much dead celebrities make.
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