Buddhist Art and Ritual from Nepal and Tibet: Construction of the Medicine Buddha sand mandala at the Ackland Art Museum "Beginning February 26, 2001, the Ven. Tenzin Thutop and the Ven. Tenzin Deshek, two Buddhist monks from the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, New York will construct a five-and-a-half foot Medicine Buddha sand mandala in the Ackland's Yager Gallery of Asian Art. This process will conclude by March 21, though the mandala will continue to be on display through June 8, 2001. On that day, the monks will dismantle the mandala and deposit the sand in a body of water. This process symbolizes the transience of life and the ideal of nonattachment to the material world."

UFOartwork.com "For a number of years I have been intrigued by old artwork that appears to depict UFOs. The artwork in my collection consists of frescos, tapestries, illustrations, oil paintings and early photographs."

Korea Comics Museum

Stereo images "Time for Space Jiggle"  "Experimenting here with a way to present stereo images on the screen by simply putting the right and left images in an animted .gif."

Tips for wearing our Nipple Hugger™, the Daisy  (mildly NSFW, via Asobi)

Ground-breaking work in understanding of time Mechanics, Zeno and Hawking undergo revision
"A bold paper which has highly impressed some of the world's top physicists and been published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters, seems set to change the way we think about the nature of time and its relationship to motion and classical and quantum mechanics. Much to the science world's astonishment, the work also appears to provide solutions to Zeno of Elea's famous motion paradoxes, almost 2500 years after they were originally conceived by the ancient Greek philosopher."

The Virtual Suck Tour Of Arlington, Massachusetts!

The Top 10 Most Fascinating Urinals

"The walk-thru fog screen is a novel and intriguing method for forming a superior quality physically penetrable dry fog display. It is a break-through technology, literally! The key features are that the screen is flat, enabling high-quality projections, and walk-thru is possible. The fog screen feels like nothing and does not make things wet. It creates a magical effect as if the imges are floating in thin air." (via MF)

International Standard Paper Sizes "Standard paper sizes like ISO A4 are widely used all over the world today. This text explains the ISO 216 paper size system and the ideas behind its design."

"Nearly everyone on the planet has spotted the Sluttis webcamus (aka Cam Girl) but so few know the inner workings of this attention-seeking creature. Well, we seem to have unearthed the very essence of what makes the Cam Girl popular. Please, use this for good... not evil." (via Presurfer)

Tickling Fetish Cartoon and Anime Fanart  Huh?? (sort of NSFW... better not risk it!)

Nestor writes, "Hyung, you should read "At Swim two Birds" before you venture any further along your current, dangerous path of character abuse:" 
Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds "...First, in reading this, one notices the bizarre implication that characters are in some respect *employees* of the writer, that they are alive as other citizens are alive and that they thus should be treated according to certain democratic principles. Second, one has the prescriptive assertion that writers should draw their characters from existing literature, not creating new characters unless it is necessary. Thus, for example, a writer shouldn't write a modern novel with a protagonist similar to Cervantes' Don Quixote, but rather should simply "employ" the real Don Quixote in his book, thus providing gainful employment for the character created by Cervantes and avoiding the creation of a new being who will only compete weakly with the Don for available posts. The Don, after all, is waiting out there in "limbo," and is willing to work for his bread, if only he were hired."

And in other news, the Pope still hates fags.

Tuesday, August 5, 2003.

Webcomics for all!

Stubble The comic, It's now looks like a Calvin Kleins ad!
Fire Always Makes It Better FAMIB, right?
Eidolic Fringe Wow the name... it invokes a stronge sense of... fabric, cloth... sewing?
Hybrid Genesis: The Angelic Purgatory  Gee, will it live up to the REALLY AWSOME and ORIGINAL name, I wonder.
Skyfall  Just a little quote from the Disclaimer page:
"Eventually, once I get into the plot, I'm going to be dealing with some very controversial issues including, but not limited to: religion, Darwinism (just the whole survival of the fittest thing), human nature, war, social standards, discrimination, immortality, and apocolypse. Be warned that I don't belong to a religious institution: I'm undecided, but I don't believe in God due to (a) a lack of evidence and (b) I don't feel that humans are capable of knowing what REALLY happened and therefore created God and religion as a means to explain what cannot be understood; and tend to apply a lot of the philosophy that I've learned over the years. That said, my views may offend you. However, though my views are REFLECTED in this work, I am in no way attempting to convert you to my beliefs. There may be a character in here that'll stand up for your arguement! Either way, all I ask is for you to take what I'm trying to convey with an open mind. If you can't, just stop reading. Don't flame me and tell me to change it. What Mirai and I say GO in this manga. Flames will not affect the way the end turns out." 

I love it when the disclaimer takes longer to read then the entire comic archive, WOW!  I'm gonna get me one too!

IDORU DEPOT  Where you can take a gander at them Shirow chicks with the naughty ta-tas.

What do you get when you search for "crackhead" on Google?  Hm... that shoudl really be "cokehead."

South Park a la Anime in the newer more pointy style (via PsychoKick).  Just click on the links in the bottom frame.

Death marches at double in Iraq but US public unaware "United States military casualties in Iraq are running at more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe they are. The public is largely unaware of a high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths."

THREAT ALERT JESUS The Deity Of Homeland Security

The Best and the Weirdest  "What is science writing? What can it be? And what should it be?
The answer depends on who you ask. Jesse Cohen, the editor of the Best American Science Writing annual collections, put the question to Oliver Sacks , and his answer seems to be a good-natured wink and nudge. Or in other words: Whatever turns you on."

Mike's Amazing Cakes  they look expensive.  Very expensive.

"Hi, I'm Angie. Mad miniaturist, mother, musician, in variable proportions. Welcome to my project demonstration. In this project I will show you how to make highly realistic cut and peeled oranges"

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? "Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? Try to work out which of the following spent their time hacking computers, and which preferred hacking away at corpses instead."

Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence

Kanji Tattoos  Not just for drunken sailors and their gook whores anymore! Like, "Baka Gaijin."

"Introvertster is an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harrassing you online.
You can use Introvertster to:
Avoid invites to chat, filter out annoying invitations for Meetup, birthday parties, or after-hours get togethers.
Packet flood a friends Internet connection making it impossible for them to send you an instant message.
Help your friends get a clue that you really don't like people or care for idle chit-chat." (a la Friendster)

Name Statistics - How popular are your first and last names? "Hyung Kim," not very popular... racist bastards!

Dalai Lama misses sex, shoots guns

"An open letter to Sherry Lansing, CEO, Paramount Pictures:
Dear Ms. Lansing,
I just witnessed the recent cinematic effort of your studio titled "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life" and would like to convey my reaction to this film with the following missive: I have never come closer to tearing my own penis off and throwing it at the screen while watching a movie. I'm really being serious here. You may already know me as somebody apt to threaten damage to his own genitals, but all those other times were strictly in jest. I was just kidding all those times before because I knew that most juveniles find genital mutilation incredibly funny and that I would benefit immensely from all the Google searches utilizing the word "penis."

"Dear Japanese people:
Please stop exploring your sexuality. It really freaks us out.
Love, American People."

"Former FBI agent Roy Hazelwood was among the original profilers in the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI.  His specialty for over two decades was sexual crimes.  He transformed the investigation of aberrant sexual offenses into an integral part of the FBI training.  Based on his extensive experience, he has written or co-written numerous articles and books, notably, "The Lust Murderer", with John Douglas, Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation , and The Evil That Men Do .  His books help readers to understand the various mindsets of different kinds of rapists and to be educated on how they can protect themselves." 

Suburban life + Magic card game + too much Counterstrike = Mentos commercial parody

.Friday, August 8, 2003

Okay, so the Mac is still crashing, thanks for the advices.  Did the disk utility thing, permissions, etc.  Still crashing.  Only new hardware is this compaq DVD-ROM I swiped from my bro's PC, but the drive itself works fine.

So I'll be clean installing the whole she-bang, top to bottom.  Should take the weekend, got a lot of junk to back up.

Until then, here are some sketches, mostly of the donation kind:
May, with perchance of a smile,
Gun toting mobster Mi Sung,
High kickin' May,
Horsed faced May with Kwan Dao (hey, can't win 'em all...)
Googly eyed Mi Sung, with diminutive pistol,
A nude May (NEKKID!),
Fish-eyed Marquee Mi Sung,
Sort of horsy, but confident May,
Another lame Mi Sung w/ pistol (I don't even like guns so much, they just seem to be my default accessory),
Victory Mi Sung,
another equine May, with Dao. (I apologize for the sketches, but they look better when held from an angle.. kind of),
Queen of Spades, King of Hearts,
Wanna Hit? (Uh... it's medicinal)
And the only Finnish reader I know of requested the three Eva girls.

Loony Luna, from HP5,
A second Luna with the best quote from the book,
and a sight sorely needed from the story, a dashing Harry.

Misc. pics:
I'm not worthy! (I used it for something, but I've forgotten.)
I've always wondered myself, you filthy white people!

The box crashed three times trying to post this, so it's definitely time to sweep out the gunk, etc...