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Friday, December 23, 2005 Silly indie rock hottie of 2005 vote. Wow Joanna Newsom didn't even make the top 10? Also: River Cuomo's letter for readmission to Harvard letter. @ 01:38 PM CST [Link] Queens' semi-secret forensics museum. Most of the weapons confiscated in the city are not held on to and end up at “the burn,” where they are melted down. Others are archived: Currently, the ballistics bunker in Queens has about 800 guns, which are hung on bars, skewered through their trigger guards. But a few weapons, those that were used in significant crimes, are put on display in a bulletproof-glass case. Chapman’s .38 is on view alongside David Berkowitz’s handgun and a bazooka that was used to fire a shot at the U.N. in the sixties. @ 01:33 PM CST [Link] Tuesday, December 20, 2005 World's largest optical illusion? From space the pyramids in Giza look either like normal pyramids or holes in the ground in the shape of pyramids. via yet another google maps sightseeing page. Also: Google operator commands. @ 09:00 AM CST [Link] Monday, December 19, 2005 Nice set of UFO photoshops at worth1000. Your state's good samaritan law requires you to attempt CPR on a dying alien or else face up to 96 months in prison, where ironically, you will be anally probed. @ 12:50 PM CST [Link] Chicago gets mention in AFP's strange stories of 2005. Oh right, the smudgy water stain 'vision' of the virgin under the Fullerton overpass. Sadly, there are still many pathetic people who leave flowers and other junk there. - Tourism authorities in Switzerland decided to wrap an entire glacier in PVC foam to try and stop it melting during the summer months. - Christian believers in Chicago flocked to a highway retaining wall after a stain that was said to resemble the Virgin Mary appeared on it. A graffiti artist then scrawled "Big Lie" over it, before the city authorities had the whole thing painted over. - A pastor in Denmark's established church who had been suspended because he did not believe in God was allowed back into the fold. "We're giving him another chance," said the religious affairs minister, who oversees the Lutheran Protestant Church. - A mute young man who was found wandering on a southern English beach, and who was reported to be a virtuoso piano player, had media around the world fascinated for months. He was later found to be a German fame-seeker -- and it turned out he didn't play the piano all that well either. The Piano Man has been mentioned here before. He actually got some kind of regular writing gig after his crazy hoax. This just proves that there's no such thing as bad publicity. @ 12:41 PM CST [Link] Neat flash-based model retouching demo. I thought she was cute enough to begin with, then again I'm not in the business of selling magazines. @ 12:23 PM CST [Link] [Archives] Search entries: