Catch of the Day
MapCrunch
After a short while I found a familiar image of Nipigon Canada
MapCrunch randomly transports you to a random location in Google Street View. Now it features almost two thousand views submitted by users and curated by the shadowy “Nick.”
Presidential Monsters
Monster from the Watergate Lagoon
Richard Nixon as a Fish Monster, Bill Clinton as the Wolf Man, JFK as the Phantom of the Opera, and Ronald Reagan as the Mummy. Fully poseable action figures.
Nightmares Fear Factory’s Photostream
Yoiks!
Nightmares Fear Factory in Ontario has a reputation for being one of the more seriously terrifying Niagara Falls spookhouses. They have a Flickr feed full of patrons being terrorized. And speaking of Niagra Falls, Slowly I Turn…..
Get Your Mask On
You could be Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
NorthFur FX & Mascots has your Halloween prosthetics. They also have horns, teeth, tongues, pawpads, claws, brows, and other parts.
Download NASA Sounds
Alan Shepard never said "fore" when he made his 300 yard one-handed six iron golf shot on the Moon
Free NASA audio files. You can use a shuttle launch or Neil Armstrong’s “One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” as a ringtone. Or, have your computer say “Houston, we’ve had a problem” every time you make an error.
You Are Not a Photographer
Fauxtographers?
“How many people do you know that bought a nice camera, started a Facebook page and called it a photography business? Having a DSLR does not make you a professional photographer. We’re outing these no talents with daily pictures from the worst of the web. We only post pictures that were from a photography ‘business,’ and we use that term lightly. Maybe you are one of those photographers. Have a good laugh at yourself. You submit the photos, and we provide the snark.”
Audio Illusions
More than just an annoying screensaver
Rafaël Rozendaal has a new website viralling. Fallingfalling uses the same Shepard Tone I remember using in the legendary 1980s Seattle stage production of “Rocky Jones and the Space P.O.L.K.A. Patrol in Ride, Ride My Rocket”. Developed by Roger Shepard at Bell Labs, the tone was also featured in a Scientific American article by Diana Deutsch. I had to use a phonograph recording of the Shepard Tone, you can get the digital or CD version at the links below.
Tea Party Zombies Must Die!
Wasilla Zombie
“DON’T GET TEA-BAGGED! The Tea Party zombies are walking the streets of America. Grab your weapons and bash their rotten brains to bits! Destroy zombie Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, the Koch Brothers, and many more!” The many more includes Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Brit Hume, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and a Climate Change Denying Zombie. There is a Fox News studio level, and the trailer park level has graffiti like “MORE TAX KUTS 4 RICH FOKE!” and “GO BACK 2 KENYA”.
RR: Are you playing Monopoly on the iPad?
CF: Yep and I’m playing the Italian way. Making all my money in jail.
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