Wildfires merge in Southern California; 14 dead, 650 homes lost  Wow, if you looked at just the headlines from the world over, you'd think it was an apocalyptic disaster, not humdinger seasonal event.

October 25 in Washington DC: 100,000 march against the occupation of Iraq  And what everybody else wrote.
Of course, once you have your dick in the pie... it's very hard to stop without finishing.. if yo know what I mean.

The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list

Current [Gas Price] State Averages:

Finally, an iPod I can afford!

Even in death, Viva Las Vegas  "One Las Vegas funeral home is selling more than somber silver caskets and gladiolas."

Absolutely everything on this photo. "Ok, let's try this: Lets' do a list of absolutely everything that's happening on this picture. The idea came to me when I was in a science class and suddenly realised that any single moment is full of l oooo ads of science stuff. For example, while I'm typing this, my chemical energy is transformed into kinetic energy, that moves my fingers, etc etc."

Meat Gallery (surrealist sculpture in the raw)

Agripedia | Cuts of Meat Identification

Death Studios Halloween masks, props, costumes, and haunted house supplies

LAZE'S DIET SYSTEM

Throwing Up Absurd On The Mean Streets, the top 10 places to puke your guts out in new york city

Who invented the cocktail umbrella--and why?  But wait, there's still the The Cocktail Umbrella Controversy

Vintage Hawaiian Shirt.net

Gecko Network

Hikers find 140 buttered shoes A Swedish couple hunting on a remote mountain on Sunday in Sweden's far northern province of Jaemtland found 70 pairs of shoes, all filled with butter.

Winston's Lego Computer   Phear... the something.

NASA - Image of the Day Gallery

The Cinema of the Cool - Kill Bill Volume 1 Honestly, I haven't seen the movie yet, nor read this article, but figured it would be right up the alley...

truth in movie blurbs

ANN - Answerman and the Column of Doom Teh fAns make teh funny.

ADV 'Noir Girls' Otaku Soap "This clear bar of pure glycerin soap will leave you feeling clean and refreshed, and when you finish with it, you're left with a cute collectable figure of one of Noir's main characters.
Don't be caught living up to the convention stereotype of unwashed, foul smelling anime fans. Treat yourself to an "Otaku Bar."'

Tuesday, October 28, 2003.

Okay, so I was wrong, So Cal is a near-apocalyptic disaster, but then again, so is Baghdad.

Wesley Clark doesn't inspire you? Draft Wesley Crusher For President.
Paul prefers Hellscream For America, though.

Molly Ivins, Hellraiser "...syndicated columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, good ol' Texas girl, witty political pundit, former co-editor of the Texas Observer... has a new book out. ' Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America ,' also written with Dubose, outlines the underreported goings-on of the Bush administration, ultimately drawing the connections between public policy and people's lives."

George [H, the Elder] Bush's comrades eaten by their Japanese PoW guards   "Lt George Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot, was among nine airmen who escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichi Jima, a tiny island 700 miles south of Tokyo, in September 1944 - and was the only one to evade capture by the Japanese.
     The horrific fate of the other eight "flyboys" was established in subsequent war crimes trials on the island of Guam, but details were sealed in top secret files in Washington to spare their families distress.
     Mr Bradley has established that they were tortured, beaten and then executed, either by beheading with swords or by multiple stab-wounds from bayonets and sharpened bamboo stakes. Four were then butchered by the island garrison's surgeons and their livers and meat from their thighs eaten by senior Japanese officers."

Didn't I say the Japs were fucking crazy, what more proof do you need!?

Fly Booger Assault  (Flash game, Sound) Use booger to hit flies...wacky, but not, Japan wacky...

Protect and Survive "This [British, circa 1980] booklet tells you how to make your home and family as safe as possible under nuclear attack"

ChurchLite - Church for the Unbeliever Come into the Lite. Everything you love about Church with half the guilt (via Paul)

Weapons of Mass Destruction Donation System "Planning on bombing the Middle East but just don't have the funds? Would you like to engage in the fun and exciting world of the weapons trade, if you only could? Perhaps you just want to have your very own biological arsenal, for kicks?"

Mathematical Patterns In African American Hairstyles

Bible Sex Stories: The untold story behind the Bible's sexiest tales Scroll down for fun reader mail.

Bar-Hopping With Hirschfeld "In 1932, Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld And Writer Gordon Kahn turned their extensive nocturnal research into the ultimate boozy baedeker."

Gingham materials and patterns for ridiculously tasteful and pretty web sites. DBZ fans are encouraged to use this site.

"A window between cities that allows people hundreds or even thousands of miles apart to meet and talk in real time could make its debut in Britain next year.
Tholos, named after a type of circular ancient Greek temple, consists of a large round screen nearly 10ft high and 23ft wide."

Order today and be among the first to own the Ann Coulter Talking Action Figure. If you don't knwo who she is, try The Wisdom of Ann Coulter.  If you do, try this Mister Man Voodoo Doll.  Or maybe the The Theory Action Figures for the intellectuals and other non-traditional action figures.

Golden Age Wonder Woman Comics.

The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae). (via Danny the Gay Necro Mallard).

Professor Severus Snape's Automated Detention Dispenser (via Chris)

"Mpeg movie of... a bus accident from the inside of the bus." (2.5 MB, via Irradiate)

limited edition version of volume 9 of the Eva manga with Rei action figure. Created by Masaki Apsy, makes some crazy ass  TIGHT models and scupltures. (via Natsume Maya)

Thursday, October 30, 2003.

Some pretty cool images fromthe LA wildfires.

The Girl With The Shoes wants you to read... M@B,
(It's a comic strip)

The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus by Al Franken and Don Simpson. Because poor people suck. 

Jesus Shops for Sandals a comic strip from Buy Nothing Christmas, "a national initiative started by Canadian Mennonites but open to everyone with a thirst for change and a desire for action."

Create a TV ad that tells the truth about George W. Bush.  MoveOn.org Voter Fund's political ad contest.

What's there to say? He's a lying weasel like any other politician, and doesn't want you to jerk off.

The Axis of Hubris  by Paul Craig Roberts  "Neoconservatives used their presidential appointments and Vice President Cheney to silence the CIA and Defense and State Department intelligence services, all of which disagreed with the neoconservatives’ case for invading Iraq.
The invasion did not result from faulty US intelligence. The invasion resulted from the neoconservatives’ confidence that they alone are right."

Adbusters: Leo Strauss  Neat little introduction of father of the Neocons.

Norwegians don't 'get' Halloween "The trick and treat traditions of Halloween are steadily spreading around the world. But while neighbors Sweden enjoy the holiday, some Norwegians want it banned." 

Halloween Reclamation  "While many Christians correctly see Halloween as a time of occult dangers - when Satan is out in force trying to corrupt our society - they overlook the fact that all things are created by the Lord for a purpose. So what is the purpose of this dark time of the year?"

The 100 Scariest Movie Scenes Of All Time!
#63 The Wizard Of Oz (1939) Flying Monkeys

The Top100 Mosters Of All Time!
#11 is the scariest, really. (via Danny the Pestilent Pustules of Petulant Protoplasm)

"In the Blinkenlights Gallery you find a selection of the best Blinkenlights Movies as GIF animations"

Hand-Eye Coordination Test

"The Christian's Guide to Small Arms was developed in response to the fact that most American Christians have fallen into ignorance concerning the responsibilities and skills required of the Christian freeman."

Women in Christianity and Islam  Harlots! Read the Madonna/whore complex played from an unusual point of view.

Announcing…ZYGO™ “The Morning Vodka"

"Octomatics-project is about a new number system
which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system."

Was the moon landing a hoax?

"Comic Works is a Manga drawing software, which was originally designed for professional Manga artists."

Which is to say, "for lazy illustrators who don't wanna learn how to make tones in Photoshop and for kids who think buying stuff will make them a better artist."  (More great basic tutorials from Wynd)
Basically Paint Shop Pro with couple of hundred tones built into it. It's about $100 ($90 at Akadot, $120 after Friday?), but for couple of you crazy enough to spend upwards of  four dollars per sheet, it'll be cheaper then buying actual screen tones. It's PC only, so someone download the demo and see if it's worth it.

Hell, you can download PS comic tone patterns from this Felaxx.com forum thread (at the end of the second post by E.J.( Protodepot.com))

Spring Sleep Neat little manga short that won the contest held by Deleter, the maker of the software and al lthe other "how to draw manga" crap flooding stateside. A good demonstration of what can be done with, not the prog, but a few simple solid gray tones and some good old fashioned elbow grease.

End of the World Silly funny Flash short (sound) about the inevitable.