Yummy Wakame

Helping Hands – Monkey Helpers for the Disabled
I used to think this was a spoof site, but its a real charity. The total cost of breeding, training, and placing a monkey helper, with a life span of 30-40 years, is $25,000. In comparison, the cost of preparing a Seeing Eye dog with a 10-year life span is $21,000.

You really have to see this: George and his Helping Hands monkey Gizmo (quicktime movie)

Imaginary Stalker Ex Boyfriend on eBay
Starting bid: US $4.99

Are you tired of your parents/friends teasing you about not having a “special” someone in your life??
Are you bored with your current lifestyle and wish to add some excitement to help pass the time??
WELL… I am offering my services for 1 Month as the FIRST Imaginary Stalker Ex Boyfriend on Ebay!!

My services will include (but may not be limited to):
• Emailing you on a daily basis (or more often if you so choose) and asking you where you’ve been all day and who were you with.
• Mailing you 1 letter per week explaining why we shouldn’t be apart and what could happen if we stay apart much longer.
• “Busting in” on your AIM or Yahoo chat sessions and “flipping out” because your talking to “other guys”. (We will have to set something up to work around each others schedules).
• You will also receive a special Valentines card w/ a letter proclaiming my “love” for you.

Now when people ask “Why don’t you have a boyfriend?”
You can say “Because the last guy I went out with was like a freakin’ Stalker…I am afraid to go through that again.”
They will say “BULLSH*T!!”
Then you whip out those letters and they read them and go “DAMN!!”….nuff said?!

Wow! My new ultimate favourite PC Case!!!!
Swim fishies swim!!!

New USB gadget – USB microscope
Zoom in on stuff – up to 200X

Cait found a real treat guaranteed to crack you up -
Ugly Wedding Dress of the Day.
Seeking out the ugliest wedding dresses in existence, so you don’t have to.

Oil and water do mix!
Australian National University chemistry professor Richard Pashley has discovered a way to mix oil and water, which contradicts the age-old proverb. The secret? – you have to take the gases out of the water first, mainly oxygen and nitrogen. Then oil and water mix spontaneously and stay that way for a long time.

Until the discovery, oil and water could only be mixed with the addition of detergents. Removing the gases was not difficult, and industry had been taking oxygen out of water for many years to make it less corrosive. There are many potential commercial applications, especially for injectable drugs that are now dissolved in water with detergents added that sometimes caused side effects. A US perfume manufacturer which found some customers were allergic to the detergents it used to dissolve its fragrance agents in water is also interested.

What’s a skeedaddlehopper?
(found by k k k kenneth)

A reptile enthusiast investigating a call from a man he thought “had been drinking”, found a metre-long Nile crocodile lazing in the pool of a Pretoria suburb. How the reptile, with razor-sharp teeth, made its way into a residential swimming pool still remains a mystery as they are not indigenous to the Pretoria area.

(The crocodile wind-up toy can be bought here)

Your Chinese Horoscope for 2004
Thanks for this link Ashley

Gong Xi Fa Cai! According to the Chinese Zodiac, it’s the year of the monkey.

“Astrologers predict it will be an extremely progressive, upbeat time, full of exhilirating successes. What’s even better is that it should be a relative breeze. Apparently good old monkey will carry us along with his natural exuberant energy. Be warned though, you may feel the urge to speculate, gamble and explore risky but inventive alternative. Stay on your toes as there could be trickery from the influence of the monkey.” ~ This is Brighton Magazine

Chav Hate Site – whats a chav you ask?
aka Chavs, Neds, Townies, Kevs, Charvers, Steeks, Spides, Bazzas, Yarcos, Ratboys, Kappa Slappers, Skangers, Janners, Stigs, Scallies…

Foul-mouth parrot
The inner thoughts of Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill live on, thanks to the foul mouth of his 104-year-old parrot.
“Fuck Hitler! Fuck the Nazis!” says Charlie with a Churchillian inflection.

Man accidentally swallows toothbrush whilst brushing teeth!! - Tanzania

Man kills himself over death of pet fish!!!! - Malaysia

(all links found by kenneth)

Gold Strike (Flash game)

DISCOBALL – SKITTEREND!
Leon and I used to work together in South Africa as New Media Designers. He is a highly creative Integrated Designer currently living London. Gawp at his beautiful portfolio, pop your tongue back in your mouth and send him an email telling him how much you love it.

FYI: If youre looking to move to Brighton or other parts of Sussex and youre into New Media – Wired Sussex is the site you should be looking to for jobs and local industry news. It’s where I found mine.

I ShutterBug!
A photolog by Tracey with the most pleasing layout presentation Ive ever seen on a photolog. Her photos are so delicious, I want to eat them!

Caravanners are people too
“I’ve lost count of the number of times drivers have shouted ‘Move Over Grandad’ to Bob which is particularly hurtful as we don’t have children. Often they are even ruder and sometimes resort to swearing. Every trip our lives are put at risk by impatient motorists who overtake us in the most foolhardy of places.”

Our campaign to secure equality and respect for caravanners:
We have decided that Saturday June 5th will be our day of action when we are urging our supporters and friends across the UK to take to the roads and stick to a 30mph limit. A key part of our campaign will be our M25 ‘Go Slow’. We are hoping we will get enough support to completely fill the slow lane of the M25 with caravanners thus encircling the capital in a ‘Ring of Aluminium’ – and what could make our point more eloquently.

See what people have added to the guestbook!

(found by Adam – a yummy wakame reader)

The JBJ Sisters Snow Adventure
A totally addictive flash game I found on Chapel Perilous.

A List Apart – “For people who make websites”

Here are some ALA articles which I highly recommend:

How to create the perfect 404 page
“No matter how carefully you design and structure your site, visitors will sometimes request missing, moved, or non-existent pages. A well tempered 404 error page will plunge these visitors back into the flow of your site.”

How to create Faux Columns with CSS
“It’s a beginning CSS designer’s nightmare and a frequently asked question at ALA: Multi-column CSS layouts can run into trouble when one of the columns stops short of its intended length. Here’s a simple solution.”

Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards
“I’ve worked with Flash for several years and have always been slightly dissatisfied with the markup needed to embed a movie in web pages. When I recently published a site in XHTML, my dissatisfaction with the markup grew as I realized that it simply wasn’t valid in this context and was bloating my pages to unacceptable levels. A leaner, standards-compliant method of embedding Flash movies was called for.”

Barely Average Design
“Hire us, we suck less.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Brazil detains U.S. airline crew after pilot makes obscene gesture
The pilot raised his middle finger at police to protest new Brazilian security measures that require U.S. citizens to be fingerprinted and photographed upon entering the South American country.

Brazil implemented the policy on January 1 in retaliation for a similar U.S. program that requires those foreign visitors who need visas to have their fingerprints and pictures taken on arrival in the United States.

U.S. citizens have been subject to long lines at Brazilian airports since the new security measures were implemented, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to complain that Americans were being discriminated against. With Rio de Janeiro’s famous Carnival coming in February, the city is worried about the impact on tourism. It has taken to handing out roses and “Rio Loves You” T-shirts to U.S. visitors and Wednesday laid on hip-wriggling Samba dancers at its airport arrival gate. Eager to speed up the process, Brazil rushed to gather digital fingerprint readers from police stations across the country to register U.S. visitors in “30 seconds” rather than the hours it takes with an ink pad.

New Jersey is about to pass a law making human cloning legal
“The New Jersey state assembly on Monday by a 41-31 vote passed one of the most radical human cloning legalization bills ever proposed. If the bill is signed by the governor, as is expected, it will be legal in New Jersey to implant cloned human embryos into wombs, allow the baby to grow for nine months, and then destroy the unborn child for research.

The bill prohibits the use of human cloning for reproductive purposes, but allows cloning to create unborn children only to be killed — either early after their creation for their stem cells or at any time before their birth. Body parts could be taken through all nine months of pregnancy, and abortions up to the day of delivery would be authorized.

Advocates of cloning and embryonic stem cell research said their bill was about compassion towards others by helping to find cures to diseases. Many say the use of adult stem cells provides a more ethical and effective alternative.

New Jersey is about to be put on the map as a thriving market for fetal stem-cell parts.”
(found on chapel perilous)

iTrip FM Transmitter for iPod
The iTrip FM transmitter for the iPod can play your music through any FM radio in your car, at a party, wherever the mood strikes you – and you have a radio. It needs no batteries, just plug in and go.
(found on bad luck blog)

Try out OS8
This is superb!

LifeGem – created diamonds
“A LifeGem is a certified, high quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique and wonderful life.”

bushin30seconds.org
Your last chance to vote for the funniest ad, best youth ad and best animation.
The winners will be shown at the gala event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC tonight.

My two favourites are the funny ones: “If Parents Acted Like Bush” and “If The Bush Administration Was Your Roommate”.

Neuroscience Art Gallery
Art by psychotics. Some amazing stuff here. I love the fiery cat drawings by Louis Wain.