Saturday, December 30, 2006

Huge Russian Fighting Robots






A mixed bag of links.

Best Buy Has Customer Arrested For Using $2 Bills

How to get Police attention

One Across - Search for Crossword Puzzle Answers

Thief steals trailer-load of Christmas toys for 400 cancer kids

Huge Russian Fighting robots


LOL!


The World's Scariest Rides

7 High-Tech Japanese Gadgets You Can’t Buy

Office prank using 500sq ft of tin foil to wrap a cubicle

Teen finds, returns $24K in movie theater

Robo-Rentacop Patrols Tokyo Shopping Malls

Best Of The Year Part 4






This post brings to an end the posts featuring the best links this year as it covers the last 3 months of the year. Scroll down for earlier posts in the series or look in the sidebar under "Best of 2006".

October
Happy Halloween

Phonetic Alphabets

Mike Tyson Quotes

Cute Puppies

Boy Ate by Giant Crocodile - Gory Photographs

Skeeter the Narcoleptic Poodle

Child Mullets

Create animated Gifs online in seconds | Upload files or get pictures from Flickr

Top 7 Lego Videos

Madchester on YouTube


Eek! I'm off
Spiders
A warning: If the thought of tens of millions of tiny spiders spinning a web 24 hectares - 60 acres - in size and crawling all over it scares the wits out of you, you might want to tread carefully over the following. Because that's exactly what happened last month on a farmer's field near McBride, about 220 kilometres east of Prince George.


Eating Spiders - tarantulas in Skuon, Cambodia and Flickr: Search for fried tarantulas

British World War II Sites and Fortifications

Photo Collection Of Funny Town Names

List of places with fewer than ten residents - Wikipedia

DumbThings.Com - Dumb Things That People Do

Top 10 Women Drivers of the Year

Hard drive recovery utilities: when you can't afford to lose that data

Convert doc, xls, ppt, rtf, pdf to HTML in Gmail


Comic Book Guy
The Simpsons Archive: The Comic Book Guy File and Comic Book Guy - Wikipedia


Kissing Prank. Girls think they are to participate in a blind test of lip balm by kissing two male models but when the girls are blindfolded the models are swapped for monkeys.

Death Valley National Park

Mikael Rantalainen Photography. Beautiful photos mainly of Helsinki, Finland.

Really Bad Tattoos

Victorian post-mortem photographs

Alain Robert - The Real Spiderman

Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About

McDonald's urban legends


Africans Pets


You Aren't A Kid Any More When ...

Dog Burps

Sony Bravia - The Advert and the making of.

Flickr: Moscow Metro

Emma Maersk is the worlds largest container ship.

CBGB Photographic History From The Home of Underground Rock

Atheist Quotes - www.chrisbeach.co.uk

Japan Bridges

Flickr: The The Seaside Town They Forgot To Close Down Pool


Ugly Overload
Ugly Overload


Fiendish Curiosities. Freak amimals and strange beasts.

Before They Were Famous

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

Famous Firsts on Blender.com

Radioheads Just Made In Lego

Close-up of a wasp [1298 x 1320 JPG]

Look At This...: Newcastle Shoe Tree

Do You Know What Lives In Your Eyelashes?

Police Cars Around The World

The New Llama Song. Funniest video I've seen this year.


NOVEMBER
Pick Your Nose & Eat It - It's Good For You!

Bacon Cereal

All men are dangerous

What celebrities do when they're drunk


I'm In UR


Wikipedia.org is more popular than...

Giant Carnivorous Centipedes eating a mouse (YouTube), catching and eating a Tarantula (YouTube) and Eating a Bat (Google Video)

Retro public information films

Television Test Cards Around the World


Spider Man 3 casemod
Spiderman 3 Case Mod


Mount Huashan. More pics here and here.

Great photos of the Canadian Rockies

50 Animals Driving

Old Dogs


50 Animals in Casts


Batman Meets the Beatles Comic book

Original TMNT Comics Online

Sphynx Cat


Pig War. A war between the United States and the British Empire that almost erupted over one dead pig.

Dekotora photo galleries (Japanese for decoration truck)

Weird Foods from around the World


The Loma Prieta Earthquake, 1989


The 13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments

The Top 10 Dumbest Personal Names ever

Beer Goggles: handmade glasses from old beer-bottles

Monty Python's Flying Circus - Just the words


Sky cranes


The Largest Monty Python Collection in the Entire World

The worm within. Excellent but disturbing read. Click on the last word to take you to the next page.

The thing behind the "bush hid the facts" easter egg/bug in Notepad

The World's Biggest Machine "Chews Up" a Bulldozer (pictures)

China's Exotic Food - Frog Juice


Palin's Travels

TOBP Humor - If Operating Systems Were Beers

MoneySavingExpert.com. Great site for people in the UK.

Fun With Words - A Celebration of the English Language


Photos from a machine gun factory


Yep. People Actually Said These...

Subtly Simpsons

The 5 Toughest Questions a Woman Can Ask a Man

It's Cat Town


Poor Paul
b3ta.com image challenge: Shop Macca. Poor old Paul McCartney: marries and divorces a one-legged porn star, yet remains the most boring Beatle. So let's manipulate Macca to make him more interesting in this old-skool challenge. NSFW


Photography - Architectural Decay - Interiors

Inside Grafton State Hospital

Presidential Oddities

Ice Cave in Alaska


Specials
New Wave Photos by Philippe Carly.
Ultimately, you will find here my entire collection of concert and candid photos of popular and not so popular "rock", "new wave" and "punk" groups from the 70s, 80s and 00s


London Underground History - Disused Stations on London's Underground

Console Screens of Death

Wii Have A Problem...

2Spare - 20 Craziest Scientific researches


Hellingly Hospital
Hellingly Hospital - East Sussex Mental Asylum


Remembering The Fruitcake Lady

Awful Plastic Surgery

List of Homer Simpson's jobs

A Frozen Ship

Great photos taken from a ship in a storm


DECEMBER
My Christmas Gifts To You

Space Movies Cinema

Line Rider ZaDa

Photographic images of British Wildlife & Nature

The Biggest Ships in the World

A photoessay that follows the path of a diamond from the mines of Africa to the Western jewelry store

Photos from Boeing factory

Building instructions for Lego sets


Best Lego Video. Ever
Star Wars: Rise of the Empire (direct link to .mov file). Loads more Lego videos here The Lego Star Wars Experience


The 1984/85 Miners' Strike. Great photograhic essay. More info here UK miners' strike (1984–1985) - Wikipedia

BBC NEWS - Chernobyl voices: Anatoly Rasskazov. The story of the man who photographed the ruins of Chernobyl.

Funny translated Japan-English signs

How one leopard changed its spots ... and saved a baby baboon

The AOLer Translator

Marksman Called In To Kill Kingstons Pigeons. Great comments.

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

Foul But Edible


Novermber 8, 2004 Aurora


Ali G - Who Wants To Win An Ounce Video. Millionaire spoof.

Most Unusual Buildings

Picture: Stalin (1915) looks like Borat (2006)

European Fields: Landscape of Lower League Football. Great shots of football pitches throughout Europe taken by Dutch Photographer Hans van der Meer.

Early Photos Of Disneyland

BBC's Planet Earth Videos

Ice Hotel 2005 - a photoset on Flickr and Ice Hotel 2006 - a photoset on Flickr


Make your own animated scrolling text LED sign


Worst Xbox 360 Case Mod: Halo 3

New logo for Mozilla Firefox browser

Nudibranch gallery

The Most Dangerous Roads in the World

Emergency Room Stories NSFW

Incomprehensible Intersections and Spaghetti Junctions

WORLD MAP - countries of the world

Anti-Monopoly. The dark secrets behind game and its history.

Keep it in the box, it'll be worth a fortune one day. Truly awful Star Wars collectables.


The Transparent Desktop Trick
The Transparent Desktop Trick


What is it with dogs walking backwards through doors? I had a dog for 15 years and he never done this 1, 2, 3.

Underground River in the Centre of Moscow

Science Fictions

The Natural Arch and Bridge Society

Fletcher Capstan Tables. Check out the amazing videos. I'm off to my tool shed at the bottom of the garden!

The 19 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Death

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

40 amazing facts about sleep


A huge ship cemetery at Nouadhibou (Mauritania). Lots more abandoned stuff at the same site Abandonos


Download Sigur Ros' Hoppipolla Video. One the sweetest videos ever.

Derry: The Troubled Years

LSultan of Brunei's Airplane

The Making of a Lego Brick. I much prefer this really cool interactive version Making of a Brick

Outer Space Exposure

Portsdown Tunnels

Satan's Laundromat: City Hall station

Video Game Tattoos

Friday, December 29, 2006

Crime 2

Police: Son's Prank Ends With Mother Shooting Him

Burglary suspect's getaway in pedal boat is foiled, deputies say

4 bizarre businesses run from inside prison

Danish Minhas Hires High School Classmate Nur Mohamed to Kill His Mom

Trial costing £2,000 over the death of three goldfish thrown out after after police fail to test crucial evidence

Ouch, that hurt! Now give me lots of money (a sample of inane lawsuits)

Sleepy teenager jailed after threatening parrot

Italy opens first prison for transsexuals

America's Secret Afghan Prisons

Trouser-stuffing lotion thief was not a smooth criminal

Court orders boy to clean bedroom and do chores

10 Most Ridiculous Laws From Around The World

Top Five Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2009 Announced

Woman left daughter at crash scene, police say

Preferential treatment for cops' kin?

'Britain's worst shoplifter' jailed for 321st crime

Mark McAvinew Escapes Bank Robbery in Work Van, Then Gets Fingered by Wife

UK Asylum Gives Serial Killers Wii Consoles as Part of "Treatment"

Mother Accused of Tattooing Children

Prisoner trying to flee has to be rescued after he is stuck in bars of cell

10 Unbelievable Prison Breaks

Police hunt Asda changing room peeping tom

If a Siamese Twin Commits Murder, Does His Brother Get Punished, Too?

Fun with Guns: Viligante DC Cop Dishes Draconian Martial Law for Snowball Fight

Boy, 4, found with beer, stolen gifts

‘Nose doctor’ caught in Italy after 5 years

Mall security staff will get police powers in Norwich

Bad Santa Tried to Kidnap Girl

Cash prizes for catching CCTV criminals

Thug who stabbed a man five times awarded more compensation than his victim was offered

Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot boy bandit, outfoxes sheriffs

Police Say Woman Stole 418 Items Worth $2,200

Brazil thieves steal $6m during football season finale

Incarceration In The United States

11 Greatest Mug Shots of the 2000s

British policing has 'lost its way', says top officer

Terror police to monitor nurseries for Islamic radicalisation

Toronto woman charged with witchcraft

Do not treat your children harshly or kiss them on the mouth in public places in order to avoid having legal action taken against you on grounds of mistreatment. The family may even lose custody over the child

Pink thong fetish flasher jailed

Riot police use CS gas on 10-year-old girl at party

Half Bearded Man Arrested

Man says he stabbed himself because he didn't want to work

6 Real People Who Turned Their Homes Into Death Traps

Fugitive burglar taunts officers with police van photo

Policeman guilty of stealing from Bristol shop

More than 200 pensioners arrested in Somerset in two years

Security van driver leaps to celebrity after speeding off with £10m

Pensioner in court for violent police attack

McRobber orders burger with cash

German thief unwittingly steals circus lion

Murder suspect hands himself in to police after being released from jail by mistake

'Shrek' raider told by police he should never have become an armed robber... because he's so ugly everybody would recognise him

Suspected supermarket thief caught with trousers down

Celebrity Mugshots - Newsweek 2010

Man arrested for battery with a turkey

Man guilty of scaring elderly woman to death

Burglary suspect arrested wearing women's underwear; charged with possession of illegal fireworks

What it's like to witness an execution by electric chair

Childlike photo-fit leads Bolivian police to murderer

'Geezer Bandit' strikes again

Man misses birth of his child after fondling nurse, police say

Mexico City puts 1,300 overweight police on a diet

Top 8 Geekiest Crimes ever

Murder mystery party guests fail to spot actual crime!

Police say Ga. woman scared off burglar by scratching door and acting like a large dog

Police told to avoid saying 'evenin' all'

Charges Dropped Against Cop Caught Having Sex With Cows

This Mob Is Big in Japan

Woman Calls 911 on Herself

Prisoners get drunk on swine flu hand gel

Jumpy clerks throw cash at man in mistaken holdup

Thief makes his escape in electric wheelchair

Feces-covered nude man jumps into man's pool

Bad Cops, Bad Cops, Whatcha Gonna Do? Police Office Horror Stories

Hunt still on for brazen 'Grandma Bandit'

Men deny con to sell Ritz hotel

Prisoners get drunk on swine flu hand gel

Would-be store robber gets yelled at by employee; calls police himself

Cumbrian grandad likely to die in prison after 58th criminal conviction

12 Most Bizarre Police Sketches Ever

Victim Kills Would-Be Robber

Judge sentences man to 6 months in jail for yawning

Man recovers after being robbed while impaled on stake

Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data

8 More Things A Burglar Won’t Tell You

What Nine Members of the Manson Family Are Doing Today

Eye for an Eye: The Punishments of 8 Political Assassins

A TSG investigation unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone call criminality

CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics

Bob Dylan frogmarched to collect ID after rookie policewoman fails to recognise scruffy music legend

Prison Photography

Trial by jury returns to Japan

Man jailed for assault during Monopoly game

Is this a joke? – Bad Science

WOMEN police officers are being issued with head scarves – to improve relations with Muslim communities

The Wonderful World of Prison Inventions

Pictured: The battered and bruised face of a burglar who got on the wrong side of a 72-year-old former boxer

Taxpayer funds £20,000 court case to prosecute man for stealing 25p banana... and he is found not guilty

Best Of The Year Part 3





Part 3 covers the months of July, August and September.
Scroll down a bit to see the posts for the earlier months of the year.

JULY

Swedish Chef TV has collected almost 20 episodes of everyone's favorite Muppet.

Show Me Your Wound

Monkey Heaven is a tribute to the cult classic live action Japanese TV series Monkey.

The 10 Most Awesomely Violent and Dangerous Children's Games

Rude Girlfriend - That B!tch Is Crazy! and Rude Boyfriend - Guys Are @ssholes!

The Lake of what?!

Dogs, Dogs and more Dogs

101 Amazing Earth Facts

175 Uses for Vinegar Around the House

Dr. Dick Chopp the urologist

Dread, beat and blood. Late 1976, and rival political factions are warring on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, with only Bob Marley calling for peace. In an exclusive extract from her major new book, Vivien Goldman remembers life with Marley at his home on Hope Road and reveals exactly what happened when gunmen came to kill him.


Bush quotes
George Bush quotes library


Maps and Battle Plans of World War II

Mechanically Separated Chicken and Other Horrors

Top 10 Rock myths

The 10 least politically correct movies ever

1000s of Famous Locations of movies

The Han Solo Carbonite Case Mod

Animal Babies. Great photos.

If Men Were In Charge of Weddings


Transformer House
Transformer Houses: electrical substations disguised as houses


Scary Bible Quotes, NIV

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett R.I.P.

World Records. Co-blog with Alex from Neatorama.

Discovery Launch Wallpaper collection

Urban Exploration in the UK. Co-blog post with Hanan from Growabrain.

Awful Plastic Surgery

BBC: Cult Trumps

Star Wars On Earth

Eaten alive by heroin. Disturbing images. Let this be a warning to you kiddies out there! :)

Photos of giant ocean waves crashing over a cargo ship

The Top Seven Signs that Someone is Lying to You


Kitten Born With Two Faces
Kitten Born With Two Faces, One Body. Video and slideshow.


Unintentionally rude adverts, covers etc. Safe for work.

World History : HyperHistory. Over 2000 files covering 3000 years of world history.

Rosemary Jacob's argyria introduction page. She took some medicines and turned silver - this is real. More info and links here Argyria - Wikipedia

Embarrassing Moments - Funny pictures, embarrassing true stories about school, college, office dating, gross and sick true stories NSFW

How to Recycle Practically Anything

Reindeer People of Mongolia

Profanity Adventures. A nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tried typing swear words into text adventures. Takes me back years to the old days! NSFW Text

Dogs and a Dolphin

Emoticats


Bolivian road
Bolivian road: you take the risk?


Unusual pictures

Review of Look At This... from Page Boost

The Men Commandments

Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey on Flickr, Selling Tacos on YouTube and chasing sheep at Vimeo

Online Glacier Photograph Database

Learn to speak Geordie. Just like me. :)

Female Serial Killers

Battle Of The Somme

Graffiti Fonts By Graffiti Writers

Tyne Advantages. Scans of a 100 page promotional booklet published by the Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce in about 1908.


AUGUST
Celebrities When They Were Kids

Dick Assman is a Saskatchewan gas station owner whose name propelled him to international celebrity status in 1995.

Toilet-related injury and List of people who died in the bathroom both from Wkipedia.

Graham Barker's Navel Fluff Page and Belly Button Lint - The Hole Story

How to make a Space Cake and Sinsemilla butter for space cake and other recipes.


Images of Fake Pepsi Factory in India


Exploding Whales

Severe Weather Pictures

Frozen Sea Photographs

Atari Game Catalog, 1981 - a photoset on Flickr

Xi Shun - The World's Tallest Man

Buttered cat paradox


Hillman Wonders of the World

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. A small hill with a big name in New Zealand.

Calculator spelling. 5318008.

First Russian Laptop

How to Make Play Dough

Strange and Funny Signs

Do unborn babies urinate/defecate in the womb?

The top 10 ugliest kittens ever

Return To Scooby Doo Island. A trip to an abandoned pleasure pier.


Havana
Magnum Photos - Havana, Cuba


BBC NEWS | Photojournal: El Gusano, a living ghost town

Firefox Crop Circle

Google Games

Peanuts Hey Ya

73 best atheist quotes, ordered by popularity

Funny Kids

11 "Don't-Tell-the-Husband" Secrets All Women Keep and 11 "Don't-Tell-the-Wife" Secrets All Men Keep

Parts of Sweden are overrun by caterpillars. Disturbing.

Top Ten Closet Stoners in TV History

b3ta.com question of the week; I hurt my rude bits. The best stories always involve pain, humiliation and rude bits. Last week, we asked how you'd managed to damage your bits.


The Likely Lads
Having all solved all of Newcastle's problems the council have now decided to ban the use of certain Geordie words. Banned! 'Hinny' 'Pet' 'Love'


Dick and Rick Hoyt

Gordo's cloud gallery

Top 10 Accidental discoveries

Tyne & Wear Graffiti (2006), Tyne & Wear Old-Skool Graffiti and Flickr: North East Graffiti photosets from Flickr.

Celebrities Without Makeup

How to add a Google Map to any web page in 30 seconds

Burns Closes Bridge

Animal hair problem


International Urban Glow
International Urban Glow


40 Reasons To Get Drunk Tonight

A Photo Gallery of Meteorwrongs

Benny Hill


SEPTEMBER
Lost City of Chernobyl

Soviet Cars Dump

The Pierrepoint Collection - Albert Pierrepoint Many people are familiar with the names Ruth Ellis, Derek Bentley, Timothy Evans, John Christie and Lord Haw Haw. We know of their trials and their eventual fate at the gallows. What is not so well publicised is that they all met their maker at the hands of the same man. His was the last voice they heard and the last pair of eyes they looked into. That man was Albert Pierrepoint.

The Nostalgic Grass. Photographical explorations of the ruined historical architecture of Russia and elsewhere.

Draw A House Revisited


Unicorn Shark
Amazing Unicorn Shark


List of Strange Things - An American in London

The Great War in a Different Light. Accounts and Galleries from Great War Books and Magazines with more than 7500 Authentic Period Photos, Illustrations and News articles.

Japanese War Tuba and other Acoustic Radars.

Lego Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Rainbow - The Adult Version


Very delicate
Delicate Situation


Japanese Capsule Hotels

Mystery Me. Photos from my little corner of England.

Recover Data Files from Damaged, Scratched or Defective CD Discs

10 Scientific Frauds that Rocked the World

The World's longest Tunnels Page


Religious Tattoos
Religious Tattoos


Top 5 Strangest Japanese Accessories

The Hawai'i Cannabis Ministry - We use Cannabis Religiously and You Can, Too. Was Jesus a pothead?

KLF - How To Have A Number One The Easy Way (The Manual)

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Can you think of anything you know now in your fifties that you wish you'd known in your twenties?


Danvers State Insane Asylum
Abandoned. Danvers State Insane Asylum


50 funniest Homer Simpson Quotes

The Joy Of Sons

Images of Japanese Vending Machines

15 Most Bizarre X-Rays

Christian Guide to Small Arms Online


Julian Beever's pavement drawings
New Pavement Drawings by Julian Beever. All the previous drawings are here... Julian Beever's pavement drawings


Beer: The Midwife of Civilization

What do your pets do while you're at work?

List of faux pas - Wikipedia

You Know You're Getting Older When . . .

Early Names of Music Bands and Rock stars real names you didn't know


Lost Labor
LostLabor.com: Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980


Matchbox Cars of the Seventies Collection

Life in the Googleplex Photo Essay

Abandoned Aircraft Gallery

List of Hitchcock cameo appearances

10 reasons why computers and the Internet are out to get us


London during the Blitz
London during the Blitz


112 Gripes About The French - Paris, 1945 - full text. Published in Paris in 1945 by the 'Information & Education Division' of the US Occupation Forces.

How To Eat A Zebra In 40 Minutes Photo Gallery by Chris Hillman at pbase.com

The Poopie List

'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin Killed

The Big Bang. Loads of great explosion/demolition videos.

10 classic record covers and see where they were photographed as they are now