― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― baby i'm waiting (cis), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
ha ha I love cranks with an axe to grind.
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha, the guy who tracked him down is a notorious crank... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Wikipedia Watch is a website critical of Wikipedia. It is owned by Daniel Brandt, the leader of the Southwestern chapter of Aryan Nations and an Internet activist.
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
The first such article I read was published by Salon.com and can be found here (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/print.html). This article isn't so bad as the others, the author does expose Brandt's motives:
Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit.
However the article does paint Mr. Brandt in a friendly light, and so it lends credibility to his cause - a cause which most if not all search engine professionals would regard as absurd.
The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.
When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)
Why is a Nazi collecting people's names and citations?
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
One criticism of the Tribune Company is that they are responsible for the Cubs' perpetual losing. The Tribune Company discovered that the Cubs are more profitable fielding a poor team, rather than spending big on free agents. The Chicago Cubs are located in a trendy area of Chicago, causing them to have great attendance at home games, even when the team is doing poorly.
If the Tribune Company is so unhappy about this, why don't they just edit it?
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
ROFFLE
― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Plus, all the slang...
― Mestema (davidcorp), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mestema (davidcorp), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Track listing
1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) - 5:02 2. "In Bloom" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 4:15 3. "Come As You Are" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:39 4. "Breed" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:04 5. "Lithium" (Cobain) - 4:17 6. "Polly" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:56 7. "Territorial Pissings" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:23 8. "Drain You" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:44 9. "Lounge Act" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:37 10. "Stay Away" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:33 11. "On a Plain" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:17 12. "Something In The Way" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:51 13. "Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Nirvana)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
it appears to have been edited again, not by me:
"Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Cuomo/Urkel/Nirvana)
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Portions of the name sound like vulgarities in English and Spanish, leading to its use in various jokes. Titicaca is the lake that Cornholio, alter-ego of Beavis of MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head, claims to come from although he believes the lake is located in Nicaragua.
― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link
The word 'Trekdom' is used interchangeably with 'Fandom' when referring to Star Trek Fandom or their fans and has been in use by fans of Star Trek fans for several decades.
After the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the future of Trekdom is still uncertain, though it has been scaled back to its own core. Some may believe that Trekdom might die off, or it might be extinct at the onset of such conflicts such as World War III.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 April 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link
"Plus, all the slang..."But shouldn't the 81 be called a 010?
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 16 April 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pwnjabi MC (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Was what I found at the top of the page when I checked wikipedia a few weeks before starting a class on the Reformation.
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
First go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued_gay_pornography_awards
Go to the Probe / Men in Video Awards section.
Click on the 1995 recipient of the "Best Bottom" award.
Note the expression on his face.
― Eric H., Monday, 4 June 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL
― strgn, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Cultural imperialism at its WTF-est:
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on June 20, 1946) is a former freedom fighter who became the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia. (...) His nickname, "Xanana", is taken from the name of the 1970's rock and roll/comedy group Sha Na Na.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
On a radio interview, Trina said that the relationship was more of a "brother-sister" relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumors. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly got thought of as a gay guy but late he dismissed all these claims by watching naked gun 33 and a third.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Personal_life
― acrobat, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
And in the next chapter:
"Lil Wayne and Trina have recently ended their porno relationship, which was stated by Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park."
Did someone misspell "promo"?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
The cartoon image has been there for more than a month:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Black
― StanM, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 07:28 (sixteen years ago) link
(Phil) Hartman met comedian Paul Reubens while working with the group and the two became friends, often writing and working on material together. One such collaboration was the character of Pee-wee Herman and the script of the feature film Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Hartman also met Jon Lovitz while with The Groundlings. Hartman was fluent in German and a video circulated once of him doing a standup routine in the language.
Hartman worked part time as a graphic artist, including designing album covers for popular rock bands. Hartman's covers include:
* Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja * Poco's 1978 album Legend * Firesign Theatre's 1980 album Fighting Clowns * Three album covers for the band America * Crosby, Stills & Nash's logo.
― negotiable, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
List of culinary nuts: * Almond * Beech * Butternut * Brazilnut * Candlenut * Cashew * Chestnuts, including: o Chinese Chestnut o Malabar chestnut o Sweet Chestnut * Colocynth * Cucurbita ficifolia * Deez * Filbert * Hazelnut * Hickory, including o Pecan o Shagbark Hickory * Kola nut * Macadamia * Mamoncillo * Maya nut * Mongongo * Oak acorns * Ogbono nut * Paradise nut * Pili nut * Pistachio * Walnut
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
The Santa Ana winds (or Santana winds[citation needed]) are warm, dry winds that characteristically appear in Southern California weather during autumn and early winter.
― strgn, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
accompanied by a typhoon of timbales and a low pressure system of congas
― remy bean, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
woo, deez nuts had me laughing out loud
― the table is the table, Monday, 22 October 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tenzin_Gyatso%2C_14th_Dalai_Lama&diff=prev&oldid=165424870
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 22 October 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
(Rolf) Harris has played the didgeridoo on two albums by English pop singer Kate Bush, 1982's The Dreaming and 2005's Aerial. His biggest hit, however, was a gimmick-free rendering of the sentimental song "Two Little Boys" (1969), a departure for him in that he usually recorded either his own compositions or traditional songs. Harris also created one of his most famous roles in the 1960s, Jake the Peg.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exploding_chicken&oldid=153643374
― Heave Ho, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
concerning William Huskisson, the first person to die in a railway accident:
A curious fact about Huskisson is that some years before his death, he narrowly escaped being killed when a horse fell on him during his honeymoon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Huskisson
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 November 2007 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
This is part of the entry for a village called Heol-y-Cyw, a small village near where I live (Heol-y-Cyw translates as Chicken Street, by the way):
The village, and its surroundings, have approx. 600 inhabitants. One of the newest, and surely one of the most exotic of all is... a peacock.
Actually though there were peacocks at one of the nearby farms as far back as the 1970's because I sat on them.
― nate woolls, Friday, 9 November 2007 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Also, Heol-Y-Cyw has been the subject of apparent UFO and unexplainable noises from inside it's forestry interior."
― braveclub, Friday, 9 November 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah forgot about that bit.
― nate woolls, Friday, 9 November 2007 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Actor Marcus Graham:
Graham was going out with Nicole Kidman but he found out the relationship was not longer working when Nicole came to visit him in Melbourne with Tom Cruise after filming "The days of thunder" in the States. His flatmate told her Graham is not in when he actually was at home crying.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 9 November 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
also many xps but
Siggly Flickers is my favorite Filly Crystal film― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 22, 2024 6:21 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 22, 2024 6:21 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
rl person Hilly Kristal, surely
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 26 February 2024 03:57 (one month ago) link
Each simulated citizen has their teeth rendered in full detail, even though characters never open their mouths hence those teeth are never visible.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:07 (one month ago) link
In 2005, the band released a mixtape called Audio-Bio, which was one of their first CDs and contained many of their earliest songs and many songs not available anywhere else.
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:32 (one month ago) link
Bassist Marcus Miller is a cousin of Wynton Kelly's, as are rapper Foxy Brown, and pianist Randy Weston.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:05 (one month ago) link
In addition, with the advent of the steak cube, an era of luxury street food has begun.[1]
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:42 (three weeks ago) link
In July 1975, Amin staged a £2 million wedding to 19-year-old Sarah Kyolaba, a go-go dancer with the Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, nicknamed "Suicide Sarah".
Mostly for the name of the band, the rest was par for the course for this lunatic
― help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Monday, 4 March 2024 00:36 (three weeks ago) link
This is about Cities Skylines 2 right? What a shitshow that release has been.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 4 March 2024 04:51 (three weeks ago) link
While performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children in 1843 Brunel accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin, which became lodged in his windpipe. A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel to shake it loose. At the suggestion of his father, Brunel was strapped to a board and turned upside-down, and the coin was jerked free.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:31 (three weeks ago) link
In 1816, a tooth said to have belonged to Newton was sold for £730[164] in London to an aristocrat who had it set in a ring.[165] Guinness World Records 2002 classified it as the most valuable tooth in the world, which would value approximately £25,000 (US$35,700) in late 2001.[165] Who bought it and who currently has it has not been disclosed.
― jmm, Friday, 8 March 2024 13:46 (three weeks ago) link
Lacking financial stability to continue from their records, label, or merchandise sales, the band split up on 2 November 2016.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Saturday, 9 March 2024 22:03 (two weeks ago) link
Species ParrotDied 26 January 1913Pontevedra, SpainResting place Mourente, PontevedraOccupation Pharmacist's petYears active 22Known for Intelligent and sarcastic conversation
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:31 (two weeks ago) link
Somehow I never heard this bit of trivia (from the Bearsville Studios wiki entry)
In 1988, The Replacements had a 10-day recording session at Bearsville during which they trashed the recording studio and living quarters and played a game they called "dodge knife" that was like dodgeball but using knives.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:41 (two weeks ago) link
In August 1969, a collection of poems penned by the seven members of the Association was released as the book Crank Your Spreaders.
i didn't know much about them, honestly - just like a couple of their songs. i knew tandyn almer and curt boettcher were involved, i knew about "along comes mary" and "cherish" and "never my love" and "requiem for the masses". but i didn't know about terry kirkman at all. like, he met frank zappa when he was going to community college in cucamonga and they played coffeehouses together between '59 and '61. the whole la music scene is just wild that way.
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 16:05 (two weeks ago) link
Born in Maceió, Alagoas, Pepe was named Kepler Laveran by his father in honour to scientists Johannes Kepler and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran.
Pepe, who is playing for Porto in the Champions League right now at the age of 41!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:43 (two weeks ago) link
Went down a pretty grim rabbithole reading about conversion therapy and anti-queer movements, but at least I did find this:
Pliny the Elder attempted to heal alcoholism in the first century Rome by putting putrid spiders in alcohol abusers' drinking glasses.[10]
Now I'm wondering if Russian River knows about this.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 March 2024 13:38 (one week ago) link
Jerome Benton's wikipedia:
Jerome continues his hosting duties of The Purple Paisley Brunch.[8] This annual event series features the DJs spinning the best of the Minneapolis Sound with an unlimited brunch. This event is cultivated by Tonya Giddens[9] of BklynGurl Productions in New York.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 17 March 2024 00:04 (one week ago) link
On October 19, 1982, Paul America was struck by a motorist and killed while walking home from a dental appointment in Ormond Beach, Florida.[16]
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2024 01:03 (one week ago) link
re: _nudist colony of the dead_:
Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "This amateur summer-camp slasher spoof isn't as wacky as it thinks it is".[3]
only the all-time sickest of burns
theme song is all-time. lyrics present every possible permutation of "they're dead, and they're also naked". what are the odds that mark pirro originally wanted to call this movie "the naked and the dead"?
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:30 (one week ago) link
Jerome Benton's wikipedia:Jerome continues his hosting duties of The Purple Paisley Brunch.[8] This annual event series features the DJs spinning the best of the Minneapolis Sound with an unlimited brunch. This event is cultivated by Tonya Giddens[9] of BklynGurl Productions in New York.― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, March 16, 2024 8:04 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Jerome continues his hosting duties of The Purple Paisley Brunch.[8] This annual event series features the DJs spinning the best of the Minneapolis Sound with an unlimited brunch. This event is cultivated by Tonya Giddens[9] of BklynGurl Productions in New York.― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, March 16, 2024 8:04 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Looks like the Purple Paisley Brunch ended last summer. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=543449007976253&set=a.483956800592141
― peace, man, Monday, 18 March 2024 12:45 (one week ago) link
It's a storyOf a man named Benton
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 March 2024 13:21 (one week ago) link
Jerry Jeff Walker changing music biz history:
It was Walker who first drove Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut Grove, Florida in a Packard).[28] The two musicians also co-wrote the song "Railroad Lady" while riding the last run of the Panama Limited.[28][29]
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:15 (one week ago) link
Since the mid-1980s Danova has developed an instrumental project General Lafayette, a series of albums and singles featuring some of his own compositions through the sound of the trumpet.[9][10][11]
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:51 (one week ago) link
In February 2017, the BBC broadcast an episode of the genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are? about Davis.[41] In the episode Davis learned that in his family tree he had an ancestor that had been married to two women at the same time, another who had died in an asylum from syphilis and another who performed at minstrel shows in blackface.[42]
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:08 (one week ago) link
In 1745, aged 57, Swedenborg was dining in a private room at a tavern in London. By the end of the meal, a darkness fell upon his eyes, and the room shifted character. Suddenly, he saw a person sitting at a corner of the room, telling him: "Do not eat too much!". Swedenborg, scared, hurried home.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:31 (one week ago) link
"Incubus Succubus" featured in Snowpiercer season 2 episode 9, where the subtitles described it as "upbeat music".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:38 (one week ago) link
I'm enjoying this article on the reincarnated King Arthur/Druid King of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Uther_Pendragon
Becoming Arthur Pendragon: 1986–1991In 1986 he bought a sword called Excalibur in a Farnborough shop; its seller stated that it had been the prop in the 1981 film Excalibur.[1]
― jmm, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:22 (one week ago) link
Dug out a CD tonight I forgot I owned, Black Sun Ensemble’s Tragic Magic.
Infamous circumstances surrounding their Geffen Records showcase in Los Angeles lead to the quiet intervention of Paul McCartney to get certain members and their entourage out of custody- a tarot card was involved, but any more detail may arouse the attorneys! (Based on statements from Jesus Acedo & Duane Norman.)[citation needed]
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 22 March 2024 03:09 (one week ago) link
Around age 5, his mother gave him a book of paintings by Hieronymous Bosch. Also obsessed with comics, especially EC Comics, he began drawing his own. He has said his first collector was Lady Bird Johnson, who bought a painting he made of garbage in 1965 for a children's art collection, as part of her ‘beautification’ campaign.[7][8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman_(painter)
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:17 (one week ago) link
Follow-up:
When police and fireman arrived on the scene, they arrested Coleman, Pivar and BF/VF manager, Jeri Rossi. Coleman was charged under an arcane statute, which had not been used since the 1800s, citing him for "possession of an infernal machine". He was fined $5000 for possessing and exploding fireworks and a further $300 for eating mice. The terms of his probation stipulated that he "not eat any Massachusetts mice for a year".[2][15][33][36][37]
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:23 (one week ago) link
Writing and inspirationThe song is about feeling the urge to kill, but not literally doing it.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 22 March 2024 16:10 (one week ago) link
^Ace of Base's "Don't Turn Around"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 16:56 (one week ago) link
"Thong Song" placed first in a St. Paul Pioneer Press reader poll to determine the worst song in history.[128] It has also been labelled as sexist.[129]
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 March 2024 04:55 (four days ago) link
massive monograph of Coleman’s paintings coming out in a couple of months
― bae (sic), Monday, 25 March 2024 06:24 (four days ago) link
wtf St. Paul
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:33 (four days ago) link
Horses do not need lengthy times to raise steam in the boiler
― gene besserit (ledge), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 10:49 (two days ago) link