Thursday, December 28, 2006

Best Of The Year Part 2






Part 2 of my review of the best links that I've published this year. This post covers the months of April, May and June. Part 1, covering January to March can be found here Best Of The Year Part 1

APRIL
Doctor Who

Photo Japan: Harajuku Girls

Easily mispronounced domain names

User Manual, users guide, operation instruction

Monk Sad Art

The Cold War Museum

Landscapes from Brazil

Pingu Boogaloo

10 Reasons to Have Children and 20 reasons not to

A large cargo ship goes slightly off course and runs into a cliff


Legal threats against The Pirate Bay. Very funny.

Cute little eyeworm

Science Stock Image Library. HIV / AIDS, Herpes, Hepatitis C Virus, Smallpox, West Nile Virus, Ebola, Coronavirus (SARS), Influenza Virus, bird FLU, Foot and Mouth Disease Virus and more.
Punk 77! Punk Rock in the UK

Headington Shark

Four Neat Things About Newcastle

Evolution timeline in flash.

The "Brick" Apple : New York City in Lego

Firefox Bus

A Tribute to Scooby-Doo has a fantastic database of Scooby Doo villains, 1969-1975.

Octopus Changing Colours

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

FreakStreets.com - recognizing that some city planners lost their damn minds...


My pup nearly pegged it. This amazing X-ray shows a 10½in metal tent peg — lodged in a puppy’s stomach.


Swear words ranked by rudeness NSFW

Anatomia Collection. This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy.

dancing fish - photography by linda cline. Underwater photography from around the world.

Road Trip USA

Cemetery Photography from around the world - Northstar Gallery

The REAL way men think, women please read!

Top 25 Craziest Deaths

The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden

Cloughs Sweet Shop. Around the corner from my house in Newcastle in the 1970s was the best sweet shop going. Wall-to-wall in different kinds of sweets. It has remained largely unchanged since I was a kid and I take my boy there now for his sweets. The best sweet shop in the world.

Take a tour of Jeff Lebo's "House of Beer Cans"

The 900 Club. The world's heaviest people.

Heavy Snowfall in Japan

Marsden Archive. Fantastic black and white photos of castles and gothic locations in Europe.


LOL!
Neil's Saucy Postcards. Galleries start on page 2. Related: Saucy Seaside Postcards - Their Ups and Downs


Barking Cat Video

The Game Manual Archive

Space Suits

Running Replica Of The Star Wars Landspeeder

Missouri Skies. Stunning.

Pictures of Sharks

Looking for unique Tattoos?

30 things a girld would never say

The Chinese zombie ships of West Africa


It was this big
Old Fishing Photos Gallery


Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway

Tale of the Tapeworm (Squeamish Readers Stop Here)

What were they thinking? Shocking wedding dresses.


MAY
Sexually Tilted Lines From Star Wars

Things You Didn't Know About Your Body

The worst World Cup haircuts in the world ever

When girls drink too much

OLD PEOPLE ARE FUNNY! - Stories of old people and the wacky things they do

Girlfriend 6.0 vs. Wife 1.0

The broken laptop I sold on eBay. Very funny but NSFW


EEK!
Approaching St. Maarten. A lot more pictures here


Disgraceland, PRC. Derelict amusement park in Sichuan, China.

Lost in Translation or Why The Germans Are Funnier Than The British

Welcum to My Trailer Park

Storm Thorgerson

Pictures from the worlds largest fish market

b3ta.com Question of the Week - Tell us your funeral stories


Lego Church
Abston Church of Christ


Fake Disease (Morgellons) Created For Viral Movie Campaign. Here are last weeks links on the subject Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas. See Morgellons - Wikipedia.

Baby Animals

Amazing R/C Airplane Demo

Vietnamese spiders

Don't fsck with Ovid -- the long version

Train Derailments and Crashes


Skeletal systems of cartoon characters
Skeletal systems of cartoon characters


Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments

Ali G / Borat Special

Funny Pictures

Ceiling Cat

Snow and Sand Sculptures

Shark Attacks Victims stories and photo galleries. Strong stuff.


Millau Viaduct
Millau Viaduct and on Wikipedia.Photos from the making of here.


Why did World War I begin? - History

Urban Trip. A photogallery of industrial abandoned sites inside and around of Moscow.

Best Cat Jump. Ever

Seafort menu. Sea Forts in the North Sea amazing relics of WWII.


Google Image Ripper v.0.1.9

Sunsets and Sunrises Across The World Photo Gallery by Nick Vivian at pbase.com

Docent's gallery. A site with a gallery of abandoned areas.

Massive Star Wars Collection

Riding the Death Line. Interesting tale of the London Necropolis Railway, which ran trains for the dead from Waterloo to the Necropolis in Surrey.

Are you sitting comfortably? Good defecation dynamics from the NHS.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest. This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau.

Swindon's Magic Roundabout


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.

BBC NEWS | Business | What exactly is in your beer?

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

Ueba - Venice in Lego

JUNE
"The Ten Greatest Drunks" by Ben Worcester on CollegeHumor

Creepy Chinese Food - Cool Pictures

Dust art

The Sociology Of Cannabis And World History

Virtual Football Programme Museum

Strange Buildings


How to build the best paper airplane


The 50 most embarrassing ways to die

Best Of YouTube And Google Video

Japan’s Futuristic Underground Flood Tunnel

Sixties Photos - Concert Photos, Band Pictures, Musician Photos and 60s Genre Photographs NSFW

Highest tennis court in the World

Amazing Pictures of Petra. Remember in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the "temple" built into the rock face? That was Petra, and the whole city was carved from rock.

LiveScience.com Image Gallery: Monster Waves


Hanging Monastery in China. More info here, here and here.


Albino Animals and Birds

Why we split up

First World War Statistics

Dogster

Then And Now. Photographs of the East End of London, now and 100 years ago.

Deep Sea Biology



Beer Battered Deep Fried Bacon Double Quarter Pounder

Genmaps: Old and Interesting Maps of England, Wales and Scotland

Epcot Construction, Pictures From 1981 - 1982

Images of the Sun

Lighthouse buried by growing sand dunes

Atmospheric Optics Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles - rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and many more. Some can be seen almost every day or so, some are once in a lifetime sights. Find out where to see them and how they form. Then seek and enjoy them outdoors.


Metro stations in Stockholm


The Third Nipple

Drinking games

Warnock's Dilemma

Cat's Diary My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from ruining the occasional piece of furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another houseplant.

Pictures of Baboon carrying Dead Baby


Chinese Watermelon Art/Sculpture


Weird Clouds

The Male Privilege Checklist

Russian submarine base photos

UK aerial photos from 1947 to present day


Black and white photography by Gérard Laurenceau


Before Prohibition. Images from the pre-prohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe.

Ghost Towns and History of the American West

Mouse Party

LiveScience.com - How Flies Walk on Ceilings

Deathstyles of the rich and famous


Aurora Gallery


The Ageless Guide to Pooping at Work

Byker Cully Report

The Truth About Anal Bleaching

Gallery of Hair Tragedy NSFW Language

Polar Inertia Journal. Brilliant site.

Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids

The Urban Legends Slide Show

Little Ant and Dec's Naughtiest Moments. I don't have a lot of time for my fellow Geordies Ant and Dec but Little Ant and Dec well they are something else entirely. The clip includes a little of their legendary interview with Kylie Minogue.

Animal Superstars: Where Are They Now?

Bicycles West - Handy Bike Maintenance Chart

Why Women Live Longer Than Men

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

More Planet Earth Videos






Just a quick line to mention that I've added 13 new links to clips from the BBC's excellent Planet Earth series to the few that were already here Planet Earth Videos.

Best Of The Year Part 1






You've had the inevitable Christmas post and the 2006 A Year In Review post so now it's time for the best links featured on Look At This throughout the year. This post covers January, February and March.

JANUARY

Subterranean rivers of London

Scientology Uncovered

If Microsoft made guitar amps...

The UK TV Advert Music Database

Hoax Photo Gallery. In the days before Photoshop.

Doctors embarrassing moments

Crashdown

Unusual Technical Images of Equipment Used in WWII


Beer Drinker Dictionary

Canada's winter ice roads

The Phobia List

Who's responsible for naming the planet Uranus?

Psychedelic '60s

Best Car Mod Evar!

World War One Color Photos

How To Find Free Music On The Net

World War 2 Pictures In Color


Lego from the Sixties and Seventies

Visit a lollipop factory

Insect Candy

Boogers: A Celebration

Superman-Comics.com

The Simpsomaker

Dance Crazes of the Sixties

Arounder. A gallery of European travel destinations presented as 360° virtual panoramas.


Home theatre that looks like Starship Enterprise's bridge

TV Cream

Tokyo Starlight. Beautiful photos.

The Back to the Future Tour

Great pictures of bullets cutting through cards


Freeze your hard drive to recover data: Myth or reality?

The Dog - Man's Best Friend? - Not for Everyone! - All Creatures Animal Exploitation Photo Gallery. Seriously not for the faint hearted.

Autopsy: Life and Death from Channel4.com


Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Make the Dirt Fly!. Building the Panama Canal.

Things that make you a Man

Modern Ruins Photographic Essays - Shaun O'Boyle

Slasherama's Gore Gallery: pointless, nasty movie violence!

London's Industrial Heritage


Loads and loads of pictures of Abandoned Japanese Buildings

Abandoned Forever

Motorcycle Ride Through Chernobyl

Biscuits explained

Lost but not forgotten


Saudi Caves - Intro

The Golden Age of Jazz, classic photographs from the 30's and 40's

Cousteau's Shark-Shaped Submarine

Arcade Restoration Workshop

Atlas of Dermatology

1970s Punks Fashion History

The History Of Cocaine

Erowid Cannabis (Marijuana) Vault

The Prejudice Map

A photo essay about how Bangladeshi folks dismantle supertankers

Wacky Street Names

Look At This...: Ali G / Borat Special

Karate Chimp


FEBRUARY

newenglandruins.com

The Daily Puppy

Basic Drug Index Cards. Very cool designs.

Bunny suicides

Under New York


Animals In Casts

What If Dads Raised The Kids

Famous Who Were Once Homeless

Man Boobs!

Stones in my pathway. A peek at the Blues culture out of Mississippi, from the 40s on.

Amazing pictures of Trinidad's Pitch Lake. More info here.


pandafix

BDF - Norway: A Review

Photos of snakes eating things


NetLingo.com Dictionary of Internet Terms: Online Definitions & Text Messaging - Acronyms, Initialisms, & Text Shorthand

Edward Burtynsky. Some of the most amazing photography that I've ever seen.

Computer History Museum - a photoset on Flickr

The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream


Not my family
My Family's Dune Buggies Over the Years: 50's, 60's, 70's


Crazy Pics

Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes

The Brick Testament

Musicians of the Sixties, photographed by John Byrne Cooke

Newcastle English (Geordie)

PMS Guidelines

Lego men roll a joint

Ice Hotel In Canada

Stahl Art. Black and white photos of industrial sites around the world available in German or English language. Features an amazing amount of photographs of mines, steel mills, factories, bridges and more. Stunning.

The Mystery Machine Case Mod




Ken Russell's 1955 Photo Essay on London's Teddy Girls

Food sculpture

The Effects Of Cannabis On A Web-Based Lifestyle

Very Big Spiders

Bendiest Gymnast. Ever.


Among the Ruins. Pictures of buildings destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871.

Funny, I dont feel corrected

Isabelle Dinoire Before And After Pictures

MulletMadness | A tribute to great hairstyle

100 Greatest Dogs of Pop Culture History


Woodlouse Recipes

SBNO. Abandoned amusement parks.

Subterranea Britannica. UK Cold War defenses.

These Vans Rock

Modded laptops


MARCH
Awesome Star Wars: Death Star Home Theatre

Get Carter Tour. Locations from the original film set on Tyneside with some of them compared to modern day photos of the same area.

Polish Movie Posters

Abandoned Mines of NJ

Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future. Great stuff.

All about Dog Shat

German Toilets

Nuclear Nightmares. On April 26, it will be the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Last year, Robert Knoth made a photo-reportage of the lingering effects of the tragedy. See also Half-life: Living with the effects of nuclear waste

Donald Duck Family Tree


Natalie Portman
Atheist Pin-Ups


Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom

Longest Fingernails

Hidden Glasgow: photographs, images, Glasgow history, culture, regeneration

Lego Arena - Cool Pictures

Vietnam War 68-69 Photo Gallery

Amazing Facts About Soup NSFW

Does Your Favorite Cereal Contain Beef?

Guide to Japanese Castles

Loose Lips Sink Ships

Party Flyers

Baby Hedgehogs

Strange Fish Of the Mediterranean

It's just your mind that makes these images dirty


A bottle of Dog. We don't call it Newcy Brown here in Newcastle
The Oxford Bottled Beer Database. Of course, it has a page on our very own Newcastle Brown Ale.


Bangkok's Mega-Bridge

Refreshment NSFW

Facts on Farts

Amazing pictures of an insect building a nest

Vintage Tech Ad Scans. Jason Scott is digitizing a lot of old computer and tech ads from the 80's.

Phong's Tarantulas!. Lots of picture of big hairy spiders. The colours on some of them are amazing.

Strange Clouds

Rainbows

Fat Lazy Cats

Chicktionary

Flickr Leech

Winter in Niagara Falls Photo Gallery

Train Wrecks

14 things a man can do at the supermarket

Strange afflictions

Thailand's amazing insects photographed in the forests around Chiang Mai. One of the most amazing sites I've ever seen.


Cannabis
ChristiansForCannabis.com


Where do burgers come from? WARNING Very Graphic Images

Celebrity Morgue

Fainting Goats

Elephant : Our Odyssey. These are the stories of our daughter Carrick's addiction to drugs and the impact it has had on our family.

You do it to yourself, you do | MetaFilter

Monty Python's Silly Walks Generator

Mary Woodbridge's Everest Expedition. She is 85 years old.

Sons who make their daddy proud

What Soldiers Eat - a photoset on Flickr

Nasty Toes

A Day in the Life of a British Miner. A photo essay from 1939.

The evils of tea (and the virtues of beer)

Adventures with an Ice Pick: a short history of lobotomy

Splash Back - get all of the globs off the screen by pumping them

Best Of The Year Part 2. Covers the months April, May and June.