Ants on the Melon
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• StreetEasy – A Google Maps mashup for finding expensive homes in NYC
• And Science for All – The second law trumps the tenth amendment
• Bitter Brew – “I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.”
• This week in Silly Putty: Some Googlers buy 250 lbs and some other scientists drop 50 lbs from the 7th floor of an office building. Crazy kids.
• Cardstacker Gallery – Amazing, I have no idea how people can do this.
• The Couchbike Maritime Adventure – I’m not sure where you would use such a thing, but its really cool anyway.
• !sdrawkcab elgooG- ?tahW
• She Blocked Me – Now thats funny. BRB.
• Inside a professional kitchen – I’m never eating out at a restaurant ever again.
• Maunsell Army Sea Forts – Cool British Sea Forts

“Someday the mountain might get them, but the law never will.”

• Firefox swings to the rescue – “Mitchell Baker, trapeze artist and leader of an open-source web browser, is on a mission to keep the internet free”
• Are Migraines All in Your Heart? – Will somebody hurry up and find a cure, please?
• Bushy talks about his iPod – “You remember Dan Mclean, right?”
• Numark iDJ Mixing Console for iPod – The perfect gift for DJ’s in the iPod Age
• Half a Million Volts of Electricity – It hurts just watching this.
• Is String Theory in Trouble? – Interesting read from New Scientist.
• Why you should continue to date me – With supporting graphs.
• Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? – “Can you tell a coder from a cannibal ? Try to work out which of the following spent their time hacking computers, and which preferred hacking away at corpses instead.”

“And someone else will set your clocks…”

• South Dakota tower demolition botched – “South Dakotans got more than a charity bash Saturday after a planned demolition of the tallest building in South Dakota, a feed plant tower, went badly.” Photos of the event.
• C-Jump Programming Board Game – Uhm… was C ever fun?
• Web Sudoku – a friend turned me on to this game, and its pretty addictive.
• Light poles vanishing – “believed sold for scrap by thieves 130 street fixtures in Baltimore have been cut down.” Nutty
• Pencil Carvings – Click on the “To see our works” link near the bottom. Amazing stuff.
• Panoramic Picture of Paris – Pretty sweet
• Pacifier Greatly Reduces Risk of Sudden Infant Death – Interesting.
• “Another reason to tow in neutral” – Uhm… that would suck.

And for extra credit: without using Google, does anyone know what song the title of this post is from?

In case anyone else is interested in going to this: Cirque Du Soleil: Delirium – in San Antonio March 19 and 20.

• Western Architects Push the Envelope in Beijing – That is one cool looking building.
• What does leather do for you? – Funny commercial.
• FRICKEN SWEET – “The State of Idaho passed a resolution commending Jared and Jerusha Hess for the production of their film Napoleon Dynamite.”
• Katrina Gives New Meaning To Refrigerator Art – Only in the New Orleans.
• Biloxi’s “Casino Row” after Hurricane Katrina – 360 degree aerial panorama, pretty amazing.
• Ex FEMA honcho turns pro with disaster consulting outfit – “Just so, disgraced US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) head Michael Brown has decided to share the secrets of his incompetence with paying customers of his new outfit, Michael D. Brown, LLC.”
• Russian squirrel pack ‘kills dog’ – I wonder if they are related to these fellas.
• Turn left in 500 feet… fool! – The Mr. T. audio clips are available here, good stuff!

So the little fantasy camp that I was in about posting my weekly links every Sunday just didn’t work out. Sorry, I am not that disciplined. However, I plan to continue posting random Intercrap that I stumble upon so that you too can waste away valuable moments of your life. Now, go read this stuff:

• Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance – “Its performed by 21 deaf girls and boys from Chinas Disabled Peoples Performing Art Troupe.” Amazing, check it out.
• Why We Won the War – Scissors beats Paper
• The 1984 Commercial – The story behind the legendary “1984″ Apple Macintosh commercial
• Marketing Translation Mistakes – “Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead.”
• Complexification Gallery – Computer generated art, some of which I would love to have a copy of.
• The case of the typewriter in the coffeeshop – Ken told me about this as he saw it, and I requested that he take a picture. Some weirdo actually hauls a typewriter around with him to coffeeshops. Last spotted in the Boulder, CO area.
• Degree Confluence Project Composite World Map – This guy is trying to take pictures of everywhere on earth. Check out where he has already been.
• Pixel Girl Presents – Desktops – Some really cool desktop backgrounds. My current favorite.
• Perils of URLs – Ok, so I saw this on Richard’s blog but it was worth reposting. I can’t believe that no one noticed the problems with these URLs.

It’s about eight days late, but here’s what I came across over the past two weeks:

• eBay- DKNY Men’s Leather Pants I Unfortunately Own – Ken sent this to me, and its pretty funny. Read the description and the Q&A.
• Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom – There are some rough dudes where I come from, but I don’t think I know of anyone that would take on a 5-point buck barehanded.
• Over 1 million Windows to Mac converts so far in 2005? – I helped with a few of those
• Generation Y: They’ve arrived at work with a new attitude – An interesting story about us Y’ers from USA Today’s Money section in the November 7, 2005 edition.
• Fierce looking new dinosaur found in Argentina – “In the era when dinosaurs ruled the Jurassic earth, a 13-foot oceanic crocodile with a short snout and a mouthful of deadly teeth hunted large creatures in the sea, scientists reported Thursday.”
• New York on Tap – Google Subway Maps – Another awesome google maps mashup, but for the NYC subway system
• Nature’s Nuclear Reactor – “What’s amazing is that it was exactly 30 minutes—not 25, not 35,” Meshik says.
• The entire 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, animated. (Movie) – This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. It’s about a 22MB download.

I come across some interesting (and weird) stuff on the web over a weeks time, and occasionally I like to share what I find with others. Rather than posting about these every time I find something, I plan to post a collection once a week, maybe each Sunday. Welcome to the first edition of “The Week in Links.”

• Apple iSmack Nano Addresses Concerns over iPod Mugging – “Our product literally beats the crap out of the competition,” says Jobs
• For sale: Britain’s underground city – WELCOME to Cold War City (population: 4). It covers 240 acres and has 60 miles of roads and its own railway station. It even includes a pub called the Rose and Crown. …
• A Humiliating Bathroom Experience – That’s not very nice
• invisibleSHIELD for the Video iPod – my friend Brian has seen this in person and says it is incredible. The coating is the same material used to protect military helicopter blades. I plan to order one soon.
• Most DNS servers ‘wide open’ to attack – Very scary.
• Awful 70′s Music Video (Movie) – I have no idea who that is, but it extremely bad. You’ve been warned.
• iTheater – “iTheater is a media center application for OSX 10.3 and 10.4. Its purpose is to be a frontend for applications such as iTunes, iPhoto and Dvd player so you can listen to your music, view photos and much more – all in one simple program. But thats not all! Using a networkable application called Encore, iTheater will be able to stream media through your home network.”
• Lubbock Lights – West Texas music documentary, I really want to see this.