Thursday, May 4, 2006

2006 FIFA World Cup






C'mon EnglandThe official site for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ Germany

FIFA World Cup - Match Schedule

2006 FIFA World Cup - Football Stadiums

BBC SPORT - World Cup 2006. Win tickets to the first England game with the Beeb who will no doubt bring excellent coverage of the tournament

2006 FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia

Travel guide to World Cup 2006 from Wikitravel

germany-tourism.co.uk. Travel, places to stay, events, things to do and practical information.

Philips 2006 FIFA World Cup. Win tickets to the world cup finals and have a poke around this cool flash based site.

World Cup Soccer Blog. Choose your team for each individual blog.

The Gaurdian has got great coverage of World Cup 2006 and a great column called The Fiver

Real Life News. A football blog with world cup coverage.

MYworldcup06.com Our target is to give you the best coverage and information of the World Cup 2006 in Germany. That's a mighty target considering the expected wealth of coverage.

Official World Cup Charity

eBay - World Cup 2006, Soccer, Fan Apparel Souvenirs items and tickets. Related: The Register: World Cup 2006 organisers clash with eBay.de

Toshiba's Dynabook 2006 FIFA World Cup laptop

WorldCup Webcams

They're singing for England...

The 1966 World Cup - the other story

Bono's Guide To The World Cup

FIFA's World Cup Football Slogans For Each Country

2006 World Cup chart

Football World Cup 2006 : Husbands Perspective. Ladies take note.

The worst World Cup haircuts in the world ever also Iconic Sports Hairdo

Top 10 England World Cup Songs 2006

Soccer World Cup Trivia

YouTube - FIFA World Cup - Greatest Goals

World Cup starts next week, but America doesn’t care. So you Americans may be needing this.

Complete Match Schedule (PDF file)

Who Ate All The Bratwurst. Excellent World Cup blog.

World Cup Trivia -Some Better and Some Lesser Known Facts about the FIFA World Cup

World Cup Central : 2006 World Cup Squads in Full

Theo Walcott, Wayne Rooney and Newcastle's very own Michael Owen scoring against Argentina in World Cup 98 all on YouTube.

Look At This...: World Cup Fever. England MP3's.

Why Americans don't get soccer by The Simpsons


World Cup viruses contaminate first computers in UK

The science behind the swerve

Wired News tells how to watch FIFA World Cup for free online

BBC website shows World Cup games

Baddiel and Skinner's World Cup Podcasts

Feel free to submit any good World Cup links that you find as I will continue to update this page as and when.

5 Strange Gadgets for "World Cup" & Soccer fans

How Soccer Explains the World

The World Cup '06 - Live in ASCII

World Cup 2006: Photos From the stands

More photos of the fans

Fanatic World Cup Fans

Female Soccer Fans

YouTube - WorldCup 2006 - Peter Crouch the hair puller

BBC SPORT - World Cup 2006 Video Archive. UK only.

10 things I hate about World Cup Soccer

Toyota factory workers in England made giant flag from cars

The new World Cup rule: take off your trousers, they're offending our sponsor. Unreal.

YouTube - Argentina v. Serbia & Montenegro - 2-0 Cambiasso. Contains all 24 passes leading up to the goal. Simply outstanding teamwork by Argentina.

World Cup Death Watch

World Cup Referees Blog

Driven to distraction. A strong bid for the title of "most stupid fans at the World Cup" reaches us from two England supporters with a disappearing car.

Fan Corner - Fan Of The Match


World Cup Fanatics


World Cup 2006 Goes to the Movies

Cracked FAQ: The World Cup. An Americans Guide.

Football World Cup around the world - Panoramic photos QTVR

The science of World Cup soccer

BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Monkey gangs steal England flags

Does the World Cup have a lingua franca? By Daniel Engber. How to curse out a referee from another country.

C'mon England  C'mon England  C'mon England  C'mon England

How Uri Geller Really Does It






How to fake fingerprints?

How to hold your breath for nine minutes

How To Satisfy A Woman/Man Every Time

How to draw dragons (via)

How to See in the Dark

How to tell a great story

Making Fire Using a Balloon

Spoon-bending - How Uri Geller really does it

More How To? Page 1   Page 2   Page 3

Food Costumes






Grow your own Super Mario 1up Mushrooms

Food Costumes (via)

Songs About Food (via)

I Dream Of Cake (via)

Coffee supply crisis on horizon for 2007. EEK! I hope not.

Bit of Finger Mistakenly Served to Diner

How To Make Toast With Pictures In It

The World Carrot Museum (via)

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

First Encounter With DMT






What's your poison?Acid Trip. These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.

YouTube - Tool- Parabola. Give me some of what he is on!

A '60s Buzz Recycled - Teens Rediscover Morning Glories Can Be Used as a Hallucinogen

Flashback. Amazing use of Flash. 7MB file.

A First Encounter with DMT

Boing Boing: Joe Rogan rants on the beauty of DMT

Glue Sniffing and Pills. An old filmstrip bemoaning the horrors of drugs.

Got It On "E"-Bay

Germany planning "heroin therapy" for some addicts

The Smoking Gun






Supermaxed - about supermax prisons in the USA (via)

Huff’s Crime Blog

The Smoking Gun

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

Most Wanted - Toronto Crime Stoppers

GangRule. Searchable records of organised crime families, biographies and information on notable historic events.

Crime and Clues - The Art and Science of Criminal Investigation

The best of England's new "Let's Keep Crime Down" campaign

Want more Crime?

What Exactly Is In Your Beer?






I Love Beer Mats

Beverage ads - a photoset on Flickr

Glossary of Beer and Brewing Terms

Forbes Magazine Finds The Coolest Beers (via)

Health benefits of Beer

Vegetarian beers

Opening a beer bottle with a lighter

BBC NEWS - What exactly is in your beer?

Chernobyl Legacy






Chernobyl Legacy. Powerful essay in words and pictures (req. Flash) detailing the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath.

Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback

How does the male pill work?

PLoS Medicine: Disease Mongering Collection

Rollercoasters cause brain bleeding

Avoiding RSI

Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Wikipedia article (via)