Everything you ever wanted to know and more than you even thought there was to know, about Plastic Army Men. Includes a stunning and compelling rebuke of "action figures" and why they will never be as good as plastic army men.
If you love your rats, want to give them the best care possible, and want to share your love of rats with other rat lovers, then The Rat Fan Club is for you!
Because it's just so inconvenient to have to lean back to have your hair washed, Sky Mall offers the hair washing contraption that allows you to sit just as you are.
For anyone who thought that PETA was strictly a mammal advocate group, The Lobster Arcade Game was recently denounced by Karin Robertson of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who said it's cruel to use lobsters as an amusement before cooking them. PETA reports that the Roland's Seafood Grill in Pittsburgh has removed this cruel contraption.
For more lobster liberation advocacy groups, check here.
There are lots of online dream analysis services, but with so many to choose from, who do you trust?
Let's take a common dream and see how the online services compare.
Okay, so you dream that you are an alien, which seems to be a comon theme in the online dream analyisis world.
sleeps.com answer: If you dream that you are an alien from outer space this will denote that your ideas are starting to get out of hand in regard to occult matters.
dreammoods.com answer: To dream that you are an alien, symbolizes the undiscovered part of yourself. Your manifestation as an alien may be your way of 'escaping' from reality.
dreamloverinc.com answer: If you dream that you are the alien, it suggests that you may feel detached from some parts of yourself and from others.
VegitarianDogs.com is apparently rated #19 of all veggie sites, and is focused on selling a spiral bound book about canine ethics, whatever that is.
VeganCats.com is 100% cruelty free, except for the design!
Want to talk about it first before forcing your meat eater to subsist on barley and corn? Hook up with the VegPets.com message board, with almost 1,000 posts so far since 2002.
You're probably asking yourself right about now, "how the heck am I going to crack more nuts than my neighbors?" ... and the answer is either a Dynamic Nut Cracker or the Kinetic Nut Cracker, which is way more expensive but will shell 1,560 pecans per hour.
There are only three days left for you to stare at any of ten cams placed around Britain in hopes of spotting a Haggis and winning a prize.
Don't miss out - Visit the Haggis Cams immediately. While you are staring at these cams in hopes of spotting a Haggis, you may want to drink a good deal Balblair Whiskey, the clever sponsor of this uniquely troubling game.
If you want to get started doing business in Iraq, the official online resource is apparently Iraqibusinesscenter.org - which oddly enough is owned by Jim Sosnicky. Follow the trail a bit farther to the Baghdad Business Center, and you'll find that it too is owned and operated by the former DJ and very colorful Mr. Sosnicky.
Other interactive Iraqi locations include The Official Website for the Iraqi Government (not updated since September of 2005). This site is owned and maintained (every so often) by the inspired Ekur Services (cool theme song) - a group of Iraqi nationals who moved back to Baghdad to sew up most of the contracts for all the new government websites.
If you want to link up to Iraqi Government Websites, the US Embassy there provides everyone with the grim state of interactive affairs.
In case you missed this landmark anniversary,Crop Circle Connector recently celebrated ten years online of trying to explain why 50% of all crop circles appear in England.
There is speculation here at TotallyStupid that the site itself was designed by aliens.
"Once your pet has passed away, place him or her into a plastic bag and into a freezer ASAP."
Sorry, these people, in spite of their website are simply too busy to freeze dry your pet right now. They do however offer a delightful gallery of freeze dried pets.
Perpetual Pet takes the best name in category award.
If you're interested in an exciting career freeze drying peoples pets, get started at FreezeDry.com.
It's a sad truth, but totally stupid stuff doesn't usually last very long on the internet. It's therefore very satisfying to eagerly anticipate the ten year anniversary of Cat Cam, launched in 1996 and still just as stupid as ever.
There are things in this world that are well worth preserving. If you thought that once your favorite banner ad was taken out of circulation that it was gone forever, think again.
Nudist Christians Re-Unite with the American Association for Nude Recreation
Posted at 12:06:16 AM on January 6, 2006
Actual Nude Christian!
We heard lots of news this past year about plans for the Christian Nudist Community in Florida called Natura.
Modern day Quaker, Bill Martin recounted last month to TimesOnline that Natura was expelled by the American Association for Nude Recreation in February, 2005, because their (now defunct) website, naturaresports.com was displaying “sexually exploitative material”.
Archive.org provides the "wayback" evidence for these indiscretions (prepare yourself for nude Christian photos!) dating to 2003 - 2004 and 2005 ).
The good news is, that Natura is now reinstated as an official member of the American Association for Nude Recreation, following the release of their new and rather sad one page statement at natura-fellowship.org which simply admits that the group can't have a real web site any more, apparently because even nudists are offended by their belief in showing what nudity and Christianity mixed together actually looks like.
Their lively Yahoo message board lives on however (no photos), but not without controversy. Recent posts include concerns "we are having many persons attempt to become part of the group whose main interest seems to be sexual".
From all the evidence so far, it appears that Christians believing in online nudity (as long as you don't get interested in sex at the same time) may be coming to your town soon.
You may be asking yourself where all the really smart people are on the world wide web. The answers are here:
The Giga Society "is open to anyone scoring at or above the 99.9999999th estimated unselected population percentile on any of the acceptable tests. This means one in a billion individuals can qualify." There are currently 6 members.
The OLYMPIQ Society " International High-Intelligence's Society for the top 0.00003% of the general population. The abilities of OLYMPIQ members are extremely rare, since only 1'800 out of the 6'400'000'000 can qualify for membership." - Apparently, this doesn't mean you need to understand how websites are supposed to work. Make sure you browse this really smart site.
The World Intelligence Network "Being aware of the importance of intelligence matters, Dr. Evangelos G. Katsioulis founded The World Intelligence Network (WIN) on January 1st, 2001. This date signals a departure from the structures and functions traditionally associated with high IQ societies."
The music is mighty spooky, no doubt about that and the gallery of videos prove once and for all that there's a lot we don't understand about what happens to people with too much time and technology on their hands.
Dirt eating, a largely taboo subject for years, is now going mainstream.
How do you eat dirt? An informative book on the subject is now out from Healing Arts Press titled The Clay Cure which provides you with a lot of good reasons to eat dirt. May or may not include recipes.
Where do you get some dirt to eat? Buy it online from WhiteDirt.com! This informative site for dirt eaters says that their white dirt has "a taste akin to the fresh way that the ground smells when it's real dry and a little sprinkle of rain falls".
Just in case you missed it, The Reformed Druids of North America just released their year end wrap-up.
Highlights: "Three things in a woman which bring on her the world's disrespect and her husband's hatred: lying long in the morning, being stubborn, and being slattern*." "Three plagues of the wise: women, drink, and bad temper."
Hot Druid News: "The state Game Commission is currently drafting proposed regulations to allow hunters to use the atlatl, a small wooden device used to propel a six-foot dart as fast as 80 mph. The commission could vote to legalize its use as early as January."
Total military and police aid slated to go out to South America in 2006 is 907 million dollars - while social and economic aid tops out at over a billion.
The winner in the race for Military bucks? Columbia (by far the largest producer of Cocaine in the world) who will pull down 641 million in 2006 (over two thirds of all gun money available in South America). With a population of around 43 million, that averages out to almost $15 per person for guns and ammo in the coming year.
Who gets the fattest cash in the Social and Economic money grab? The winner is Haiti (by far the largest trafficking point for cocaine in the western hemisphere and also the poorest) at 181 million dollars. With a population of around 8 million, that's just over 22 dollars each for 2006.
Just in case you're concerned that 2006 marks the begining of the end, Chris Nelson has taken the time to compile a history of the end of days, predictions dating back over 2000 years, which all have at least one thing in common, which is that none of them came true.
With the success of the latest King Kong movie, it might be a good time to be reminded of the real life monkeys that have changed things for the better.
The 2005 Worst and Best Dressed of Tax Payer Funded Federal Websites. - 3rd Place
Posted at 9:17:04 AM on December 30, 2005
The National Institute of Standards and Technology definitely sets the standard for creating the most confusing website in the seemingly endless labyrinth of federally funded websites. The cleverly named Information Access Division is apparently designed to provide taxpayers with "access" to all the reasons this federal branch of government exists at all.
The 2005 Worst and Best Dressed of Tax Payer Funded Federal Websites. - 4th Place
Posted at 9:16:54 AM on December 29, 2005
The remarkably dysfunctional WebContent.gov is where you go when you need to learn how to design a useless and completely confusing federal website with tax payer money.
Tons of resources for creating and managing federal sites, including the uniquely disturbing Usability.gov, where you can learn first hand why no federal website can actually be used, and why it's costs so much to keep them that way.
If frog dissection is an interest of yours, but you just can't stand the thought of actual frog guts and don't care much for the smell of formaldehyde either, don't worry about it! In this super high-tech world and who needs real frogs anyway?
By now, word is getting around that 2005 will have one extra second than did 2004. It's what scientists call the "leap second". The plot to add an extra second to 2005 was actually announced back in July, with little to no public concern. But now that the extra second is upon us all, the bigger story, that no one is really talking about is the reasons behind this added moment in time. You have to do a bit of research to get the answers.
The best place to start is with the folks who decided we need an extra second in the first place, The Earth Rotation Service is responsible. This fine international coalition of like-minded smart people are dedicated to figuring out, on an hour by hour basis, just how the fast, or slow the earth is rotating.
The bummer is, the earth is slowing down. The US Naval Observatory knows it, the International Earth Rotation Service knows it too. The reality is, and get ready for this: The average deceleration of the Earth is roughly 1.4 milliseconds per day per century. The result is that without many of us evening knowing it, there have been 22 leap seconds in the past 27 years! That's 22 seconds that have been added to all of our lives, just like that!
You should know that this extra-second business doesn't go without controversy. Loads of like-minded very smart people just want them to go away entirely.
This visually challenged site is the clearing house for all things visual from the Department of Defense. A vast collection of really bad photographs taken at tax payer expense.
The 2005 Worst and Best Dressed of Tax Payer Funded Federal Websites. - 6th Place
Posted at 10:38:09 AM on December 26, 2005
If you ever wonder why it's so expensive for the Federal government to accomplish so very little, take a month or two off to look over the most recent rules and regulations that are floating around at Regulations.gov, such as Irish Potatoes Grown in Colorado, Use of the Word ``Pure or Its Variants on Labels or in Advertisements of Alcohol Beverage Products, or International Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standard-Setting Activities to point out just a few of the regulations open for comment.
Contrary to popular wisdom, it's not just mammals and fishes on the US endangered species list. There are quite a number of bugs as well.
Barely hanging onto existence in Texas for example, is an un-named beetle, only discovered in 1987 and promptly slated for extinction by the year 2000. When thirteen years pass between your discovery and probable extinction, that's just... cruel and unusual, but to be un-named as well?
It does raise the question: Are there any legitimate operations out there willing to turn dead pets into a hat? I for one would like to remember my cat by wearing her.
Coming in at 14th place, all we can hope for from this visually-challenged cabinet level site is that it isn't costing tax payers very much. Millions and millions of links on every page, guaranteed to take the inquisitive web surfer to nowhere and beyond.
Best feature: The Google Powered HHS Search, which is the only way to really find what you're looking for. Look for the HHS site to go Google Home Page friendly in 2006 and place in the top four Federally Funded Web Sites next year, or else.
A sad and lonely relic of design and technology, but hey, they got no money! Right?
This, most lonely outpost in the vast chain of Federally funded internet destinations, primarily points the occasional visitor to a 1998 shopping cart, except in this cart you're lending the USA some money, which the government promises to back with interest a very long time from now.
The site does have one brilliant contribution to the web, and that is the frequent updates on the exact debt, to the penny. As of 12/16 it was posted as 8,100,903,302,296.92
GARY DUSCHL began his gum wrapper chain on March 11, 1965. $53,833 worth of gum later his remarkable chain has reached 47,514 FEET long and weighs 633 pounds (which he posted December 11, 2005).
But the truly remarkable feat? He only uses Wrigley gum wrappers!
If the goal is to one day make a computer as smart as an ant, these cats will probably get there first.
If the goal is to make the virtual ants actually look like ants, then these smart alecks will probably get there first.
If the goal is to provide mankind with a virtual ant colony that may cause color blindness if looked at for too long, this dude has reached that goal.
If the goal is to create virtual ant colonies that look nothing like ants, don't behave anything like ants, and is ultimately just irritating, don't waste your time because it's been accomplished already.
The Census Bureau's "Population Clock" provides a second by second update of the number of people everywhere. As of this posting, the USA has a net gain of one person every 10 seconds, but only one US birth every 7 seconds. In order to keep up with this ever changing number, subscribe to their RSS feed today
Just in case you're looking for a list of all things that explode, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (and explosives) released their annual list this week. So far they're up to 238 explosive materials and thought everyone should know exactly what they are
Lastly, where's the best place on the web for BigFoot Merchandise? The clear leader in product and price-point is Big Foot Surplus - with the remarkable BigFoot Action Figure, which comes with a handy foot stamp pad so you can make your own tracks!
Dedicated pets are working hard to look like celebrities. See the best of these hard-working animals. This agent apparently represents ant actors, but doesn't supply any head shots.
Some talented pets are actual celebrities and most of them are represented by the biggest hollywood pet agency - whose catchy slogan is "Any actor can beg for a part, but ours do it on cue".
Clearly, not all pets can be fabulous, but that doesn't mean they can't look good.Dress up your pet today.
JOHN EVANS - The undisputed master of balancing stuff on his head. Milk crates, pints of beer, house bricks, Mini Coopers, cans of Coke - you name it, this guy most likely holds the record for balancing more or them on his head than anybody.
It's unclear which is more disturbing, the idea itself, the fact that the site is mentioned as a "Cool Site of the Day" by What's On, or the Gold International Award received at the Invention Convention of 1997. Since the inventor doesn't have them for sale at the site, this uniquely unsettling link will prove quite handy in that regard.
Ever wondered how many sticks of buttter you need to eat to become a world champion? Before dashing off to eat more cow brains than anyone else, you might want to check in with the World Federation of Competative Eating first.
Alka-Seltzer knows where to put their sponsorship dollars - how long before the champion eaters are wearing Hormel logo hats?
