Catch of the Day
I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.
What is God to you?
Viralling this week is the conversation between a Cleverbot and itself recorded in the Cornell Creative Machines Lab. Includes link to Unicorn T-Shirts (by popular demand). You can also talk to a Cleverbot yourself.
Wonderputt
Wonderputt
Summer’s drawing to a close and with it the miniature golf season. For inclement weather Damp Gnat has a new digital miniature golf Flash game, Wonderputt complete with cows, toads, ski slopes, torpedoes, and alien abduction. For analog outdoor miniature golf check out miniaturegolfcourses.net or miniaturegolfcourses.us. Coincidentally, today (August 25) is the anniversary of the 1967 assasination of American Nazi Party (ANP) leader George Lincoln Rockwell as he left the Econowash laundromat in Arlington, Virginia. The connection? You can play miniature golf just up the street at the Upton Hill Regional Park which is located on “Hate Hill” where the ANP’s headquarters once stood.
Windoodles
Yo MTV Clutch!
Analog windows, dry-erase markers, and forced perspective. Meanwhile, in Paris, it’s Post’It War.
The Cat Scan
But what happened to the Cat Scan Web Ring?
Once again the internet serves up the inevitable with The Cat Scan along with an earlier less visually tasteful incarnation, Recently Scanned Cats. And speaking of less tasteful, let’s not forget the invasion of the newsgroup rec.pets.cats by alt.tasteless in the mid-nineties.
Google Sightseeing
Google isn't real time; so they have The Bean, but no downskirt of Forever Marilyn
Launched in 2005, shortly after Google Maps was launched. Google Sightseeing features reader submitted oddities from Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Street Views.
Suspicious Vans
The Classic Free Candy Van
During the three week hunt for the DC Sniper in 2002 the public was on watch for and police were stopping suspicious (and ubiquitous) white vans; that is until the guilty blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice was impounded. But for the past fifty years Hollywood’s preferred mode of transportation for kidnappings and unlawful activity has been the van. That’s why Suspicious Vans has posted dozens of photos of unseemly vans in various states of suspicion.
Historical Meet-Ups
Date Bait?
Unusual encounters between famous people are featured in this tumblr. Janis Joplin has a blind date with future drug czar William Bennett, Rosalynn Carter meets John Wayne Gacy, Samuel Beckett drives Andre the Giant to school, and more. Less provocative but more photogenic is Awesome People Hanging out Together.
The Facepalm
Doh!
It’s Thursday morning and I haven’t yet writen or posted my weekly Catch of the Day…..facepalm!
RR: Are you playing Monopoly on the iPad?
CF: Yep and I’m playing the Italian way. Making all my money in jail.
![[Bonus] Stephen King Killed John Lennon Van](http://www.gull.us/photos/misc/van.jpg){kind=link}
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