strange restaurant serving strange meals

did you ever thought of going to a restaurant & to order websites as your lunch or dinner? on the internet, things like that or weirder can happen to you, there are a lot of people creating all sorts of crazy websites, well, the word "crazy" groups a lot of things, some of those "creations" doesn't deserve to be mentioned here, because their only purpose is to be controversial & to get people's attention ...

... hmm, before I get lost talking about irrelevant things, let's be back to our restaurant, you need first to check the menu, then to push a button & type your choice in a box that popups ... be careful not to choose something that's not on the menu, seems the restaurant holders don't appreciate ...

ok, check it out, not sure you would like, it's something unusual, but anyways, have fun! :)

the internet big fish restaurant - take revenge

probably the most retarded numa numa

most of you must know the video with the hilarious karaoke of gary brolsma on the song dragostea din tei by o'zone, and also the crazy choreography accompanying it, the video quickly became very famous, maybe more than the original song itself, one of the most popular copies on youtube (& there are a lot), was watched till the time I'm typing this, 5,581,559 times (all time 39th most viewed - entertainment category), favored 31186 times (all time 8th most favored - entertainment category). the video & the song are most known now under the name "numa numa".

there were a lot of people who next tried different things with the "numa numa" song, some are really interesting, there's particularly one I might post later, but today, let's watch one I came across yesterday by chance & laughed a lot at it, it's a guy who just believed he could be the new swidish idol ... I think he achieved more ... enjoy & if you didn't see the original numa yet, it's the second video.

you're american if look at a world map and see this:

I posted previously the world map as it's supposed to be seen by americans, you could see in it how south america is defined as coffee land, north africa as ... "sand" & india as curry land!

I recently found out two other maps representing how americans look at the world, I wonder if they're actually made by some americans, maybe some kids, who knows? or some republican texans? anything can happen, I guess I humbly proved that from the few contributions I made on this blog.

well, enough boring words, place to the two pictures, in fact they are not as detailed & funny as the first one (in my opinion at least), but there are some new good points in each of them, enjoy!

click on images to enlarge

the first map can be seen here: the world map according to america

jeremy lavine el niño essay - video version

by chance I came across a video on youtube with the documentary version of jeremy lavine's el niño essay, I didn't like in fact, neither the narrator with his "adult" voice nor the drawings & the things they represent, that often happen when you read a book then go to see the movie adapted on it, usually you prefer the book & the images you made in your head to what the movie makers imagined & realized.

well, who knows? some people would like, maybe if I get some time (& a better internet connection) I'd make & upload a video with my own drawings & my voice emulating jeremy's :p I really think it would be much better ... place to the video :)

weird art ... again!

this is another site I came across with weird art work in it, this time it's about design, & this time it really looks like art to me, not like those duvet covers messed up lol! but still it's strange art that gives you some unusual feelings, I'm especially talking about these two works:

messed up

no cloning!

they look like victor frankenstein's work from various organic parts, no?

the collection of works & designs is on 3visuals.com, enjoy them while listening to an original tune, plus learn more about chakib lounes the creator.

there's also an older post on a another strange site from mr. stupid.

we are scammed! everywhere!

note: if you are bored seeing this long article & just want to see some weird & funny pictures, go directly to them; to those willing to read it, big respect & thanks in advance! :)

first what's scam?

one of dictionary.com meanings:

-noun
1. a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, esp. for making a quick profit; swindle.
–verb (used with object)
2. to cheat or defraud with a scam.

I've been surfing the internet for a while now doing various things, & I have the strange feeling that 90% of other surfers are scammers; scammers are everywhere, sending emails, posting in forums, running blogs & even owning websites, sometimes big & expensive websites.

but what about off-line scam? I guess real life scammers are as numerous as internet scammers, after all, scammers on the internet are also real people with real lives too, but maybe they have more freedom on the web, as they can act anonymously from anywhere & reach anyone, anywhere; do their stuff and disappear then reappear under a new identity & so on ...

but I can prove though real life scammers actually exist! they sell you plain bread with the price of delicious sandwiches!

pictures

now, are all scammers humans? in fact no! at least on-line, it's proved there are "scammers-bots", some of those steal your passwords & some even your money; it's true they are commended by humans, but still they are (ro)bots.

again, do inhuman scammers exist in real life? not sure, but at least I'm sure inhuman scam exits! sometimes, you are presented to a nice big watermelon, but once opened, there's not much to eat!

picture

hey! we are all dumb!

I mean we all who asked google how many horns were there on a unicorn, that's the topic of a post on some blog, it's called People is stupid too. - Dumb things people search for.

I don't deny it is dumb, but you can realize it's not that dramatic when you know the reason behind it, people weren't wondering about the number of unicorn horns, they were just checking out what google had to say ...

post author wasn't obviously aware of the fact that if that search query was made that popular, it was first, because of previous similar cases in which google gave clear answers to less or more philosophical inquiries (one of them was the answer to life, the universe and everything!!!); the second reason is the the big popularity of social bookmarking sites, on reddit for instance the query got a lot of success published under the name: Google answers another important question.

well maybe all that doesn't excuse doing search on unicorns horns & writing articles about them, it's still dumb anyways I guess, but sometimes it's good to take a rest of smart & intellectual things, & just try to be cool & to have fun, am I wrong?

ps: to understand this post better you my check my post on unicorns horns.

car on wall or graphic illusion?

click to enlarge

first when I saw this map on google maps, I didn't believe it was actually a car on wall but a graphic illusion as what I'm often seeing lately, an illusion made especially to trick satellites; if you don't get what I mean, you may want to check some of the great 3d graphic illusions on tricks & illusions.

in fact it's actually a car parked on a wall! well, it's not defying gravity laws, but an art work by theo van laar in the town of den haag / netherlands, below are two interesting photos of it by harry van reeken:

the "spider car" photographed from earth


looks very beautiful viewed at night

see also the car on google maps clicking here, or click here for a view on google earth

you may want to see also google earth view to the largest "marry me" ever.

number of horns on a unicorn?

wonder what's the number of horns on a unicorn? I asked google & guess what was the answer? not less than 140140743899!! (I don't talk about great google calculator of course :p)

this picture is important, because soon that result is going to loose the first position because of pages like mine taking its position :) - edit: done =))

this is not the first time google gives such strange & ironic answers, if you searched a while ago for "she invented", you would have got a suggestion from big google stating: "Did you mean "He invented"?".

give it a try now, you won't get that weird (& sexist) suggestion, seems google recanted, instead you'll get a list of interesting results.

bush: you know what "w" stands for? whatever!!!

my united stats of whatever was initially a really funny song by liam lynch (another must see *), then many people started making their own versions of "my united stats of whatever", the one with george w. bush is of my favorites, so here he is saying "whatever" to the whole world ...

and of course here's the original video & its lyrics, as I said, if you didn't yet, it's a must see! ;)

liam lynch - united states of whatever lyrics:

I went down to the beach and saw Kiki
She was, like, all "ehhhh"
And I was, like, "whatever!"

Then this chick comes up to me and she's all, like,
"Hey, aren't you that dude?"
And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!"

So later I'm at the pool hall
And this girl comes up
And she's, like, "awww"
And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!"

Cuz this is my
United States of Whatever!
And this is my
United States of Whatever!
And this is my
United States of Whatever!

And then it's three A.M.
And I'm on the corner, wearing my leather
This dude comes up and he's, like, "hey, punk!"
I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!"

Then I'm throwing dice in the alley
Officer Leroy comes up and is, like,
"Hey, I thought I told you..."
And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!"

And then up comes Zafo
I'm, like, "yo, Zafo. What's up?"
He's, like, "nothin'"
And I'm, like, "that's cool."

Cuz this is my
United States of Whatever!
And this is my
United States of Whatever!

azlyrics

* there were two must see on this blog before liam lynch's video: the one-second taser burst ... & lord of the rings characters with strange voices

play it strange, artistic & poetic

exploring the web I came across a weird flash game full of symbols & poesy, if you expect a regular flash game, challenging & addictive, you won't be served, instead of that, this game was made to be a peace of digital art.

the name of the game is: game, game, game and again game (click to play & enjoy btw ;))

here's what's his author jason nelson says about it: "game, game, game and again game, is a digital poem/game/net artwork hybrid of sorts. There are 13 curious levele filled with poetics, hand drawn creatures, scribbles backgrounds and other poorly made bits. The theme (cringe) hovers around our many failed/error filled/compelling belief systems, from cosumerism to monotheism. But more, it repels the tyranny (cringe) of clean design and cold smoothness of much of the web/net-art."

my boredom center

today I was bored & didn't find better to do than to create a blog for boredom, it's name is boredom center, initially I intended to call it bored & lazy but the name "borednlazy" was taken, then tried "boredandlazy", "boredrightnow", "boredom" & "boringboring", all taken! (such crazy names taken, gives you an idea about the number of existing blogger blogs).

out of curiosity, I checked those blogs, & found, well, let's say some interesting stuff ... check out my 1st post on my new boring blog: bored & lazy

lord of the rings characters with strange voices

you may have seen this one, over a year since it was uploaded to youtube & 1,002,341 views & growing, the time I'm typing this, but still it's so damn hilllarious! & I'm sure even those who say it 10s of times will watch it again with pleasure.

I'm trying in this blog to say the folowing phrase only when really it must be said: this one is not to be missed! enjoy!

welcome to cursed club member n° three

if you didn't read the post about cursed club member 02, check it out here: welcome to cursed club member n° two

now what happened next?

what I didn't say is that the so called wizard was banned from the forum I'm moderating for 14 days, as they passed, now he's unbanned, at least in theory, because what happened is, just few hours before or after that, or maybe few minutes, seconds & maybe in the same moment (why not?), what happened is he suffered from the same curse I & member 02 got!! scary huh? & weired coincidence if you don't believe in those things

here's a quote of a post of him in his own forum:

all members read please very important

hello Dear Freinds...
Iam So sorry iam sorry again
iam very very ill i cant open the internet but i open and make this theard coz i know many ppl will say ***** is scammer ,, please wait for me only 2 days i'll back :( and make all paymnets and akll bounss
so please wait for me i have a good suprises for my members please wait
i hope i come better soon:(
please dont say ***** scammer only 2 days maybe less but no more thanks.
*****

& that post is from 06/03/2007, & there are no changes till now ...

some theories

don't know, what came to my mind was maybe his spells suffered from a bug because the reason for cursing me had vanished, so they returned against him ...

if we leave sorcery, curse & wizards theories, & say the strange timing for his unbanishment from my moderated forum & his banishment from the whole internet, was a coincidence, then a second theory would be maybe he hired some online racketeers to ban me & member n°2 (don't know how they're able to) then he didn't pay so they did the same to him ... I like this theory! :D

about me, things are a bit better but I'm still having troubles, and for most of them I only found temporary ways to work around using proxies & other tricks, but I'm pretty sure cursed club member n°3 will have much more trouble to find similar ways & I don't feel sorry for him at all!

... to be continued

the fabulous destiny of the taserman story

I decided here to relate how I came to post the taserman story, what happened after that then some things I discovered later ...

the reason is the extraordinary success this story got (at least for me) a success I didn't expect at all (below are the details) ..

I first saw the story on statcounter forum in a thread named ignore the naughty words..... it's too good not to share., it was pleasant (I mean great!) so I decided to post it here but unlike for my other posts, I did nothing to promote it on digg & similar places because it was not my work.

only yesterday I submited some of my links to boing boing, to be honest I've never heard of them before & didn't know it was that popular, but half an hour later ... "HOLY MOTHER ..WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...@!@$$!%!@*!!!"

checking my statcounter stats I realized the traffic to my blog was soaring! 400 visitors then 1000, I looked for the place they were coming from & found it was this:
man zaps self with taser to test it, regrets doing so

by the end of yesterday according to statcounter, 6058 people had read the story! and the time I'm typing this 956 others added ... visitors are not coming from boing boing alone because now 10s of forums & blogs are linking to it, even a forum in french & another one in hebrew!!

what about the story itself?

1st of all I laughed when I saw boing boing article starting "Mumu bought a 100,000-volt pocket-sized taser as a gift for his wife ...", that's cool but fortunately I had specified it didn't happen to me ...

to have an idea about the age of story, the thread on statcounter forum was posted on 08-10-2006, then I found an older blog post (feb. 2006) when I tried to submit the story to digg (yes, after seeing the great success I couldn't resist, lol!) ... finally I read snopes article mentioned in brian comment below. ;) according to snopes, it has good chances to be an urban legend

quote:

Origins: This Stun gun story about a protective husband trying out his wife's taser upon himself to ascertain its ability to take out a mugger first appeared on the Internet in July 2004. For now its author is unknown to us, leaving the question of "But is it a true story?" up in the air.

This same narrative has landed in the snopes.com inbox numerous times, often altered by small textual differences, such as variations in the storyteller's name (Art, Earl, Tommy, J.J., Clem, Mike), his wife's name (Toni, Kelly, Gisele, Melanie, Gerry, Kathy), the anniversary (18th, 22nd, 30th, 36th, or just "our anniversary"), and even the name of the shop where the item was purchased (Larry's Pistol and Pawn [with or without the "Shop"] or Ski's Pistol and Pawn Shop). In some e-mails the yarn is augmented by one of two endings ... followed by the closing salutation of "Still in shock," a simultaneous use of the literal and figurative ...

full article

I would also mention some of things I came to find, some serious articles or discussions starting around taserman story:

whose logic? which rationality? on acma's random thought site
when criminals will start using tasers on global affairs forum

also this article on a women got tasered by the police:

woman gets tasered on hiredmonkey


back to the my post & the readers it got, I'm just amazed how many times success is all about luck, you may work hard for something but get rewarded for something else you did just for fun, although I agree taserman story is obviously better than my other entries ...

what's crazy too is the traffic a site like boing boing gets, if they sent me over 6000 readers in few hours, how many visitors they have?!

weird associations from google ads

you may know about the latest french vote to elect the new president, nicolas sarkozy was chosen president of france on may 6h 2007.

but the photo above (it's from a blog) was taken the day of elections 1st round on april 22th, the percentage you see is not the final result as nicolas sarkozy won 31 % of the vote, anyways that does not import me (if it's important to you check out the details here).

what imports me are the associations google ads made with the "sarkozy" word

the 1st ad above says:

taser france
official site neutralize without hurting

what you have to know, is that nicolas sarkozy armed the french police with tasers when he was interior minister, he was very criticized because of that, as it seems the same gadgets used in usa caused the death of 10s of people ...

now the 2nd ad, it says:

sarkozy
play & win the green card & go to live in the united states

you may agree this one is even weirder than the first, just imagine the president of france (although he wasn't yet) helping people to quit france! the only explanation I could find to that ad, is that sarkozy is fascinated by the united states, its liberal system but also the way american politicians behave as if they were hollywood stars ...

I wonder if there are real subliminal messages google ads wanted to transmit, if so what they are?

I also wonder what sort of ads will I get on this page ...

it's also strange I posted twice stories with tasers in them isn't it?

welcome to cursed club member n° two

wow!

no, really this is extremely weird, I hesitated to post about this & I couldn't post anything today, I'm a bit bored, but something new happened & finally I decided to write a few lines ...

1st, do you believe in curse?

I mean, do you believe some people have some paranormal powers & can harm you using them if you do something bad to them? by bad, I don't mean evil, just bad for them even if it's right.

well in fact if they have those powers, I guess they can too use them just because they want to, then we wouldn't wonder if curse exists but if those supernatural powers do.


let's start the story ...

let's say I'm moderating some forum, and some member got banned by me because he was spamming, then, he could know somehow I banned him.

then, he managed to let me know he would for that ban me from the whole internet!

I did take that maybe 30% seriously, because anyone could do some harmful things to you if he wants, for example, that guy knows some info about me as my user-name on that forum & some other places, some basic information in my profile & can easily know all blogs & sites I'm running ... there are different things a mean-spirited person can do using that information to harm anyone, maybe you can guess some of them, I won't list them here.

but I didn't imagine what he was threatening me of was in reality what I now call: a "digital curse". what happened is that shortly after that, I couldn't get to the forum & to other sites I used to visit daily, yahoo! messenger stopped connecting & not just for me, but seems the whole country has the same problem!! add to that, some other little details as connection slow or broken, bugs on some sites, things that drove me crazy!

honestly, I believed at once the problems were because of that wizard (or whatever he is), how can that be a coincidence??!!!

as I said above, I didn't want to write about that, although things are barely better & I'm cursed for 8 days now, I'm just used to that now ...

but as I said, something new happened ... yesterday, the wizard threatened a friend of mine to ban him equally & gave him an ultimatum, which finished today & after which, guess what? another poor guy got cursed! he got blocked from getting to the sites he used to, too ...

that's why, now & sadly, I welcome member number two to the cursed club!


ps: this story might have a follow-up, maybe will be weirder, & maybe we will know more about our wizard ...

edit:

here's what happened next: welcome to cursed club member n° three

mr. stupid from stupid.com

if you type "stupid" in google, the 1st site showing is stupid.com, the site is owned by a crazy guy naming him self mr. stupid.

the first thing you may notice in the main page is the header, you can read: oh, no! you arrived at ... stupid.com

then you'll see many flashing banners promoting some weird stuff, then in the bottom

Stupid.com is the best place on the web to eat up your free time. Here you'll find Novelty Candy, Gag Gifts, Stupid Jokes, and Stupid Games. ... Our Stupid Buyers comb the world looking for silly, weird, and useless things for us to sell. Many of them are found NOWHERE ELSE! ...

Just remember, things are Pretty Stupid at Stupid.com, so don't be surprised by some of the stupid things you find inside. You've been warned!

then your curiosity might drive you to click on the "Enter our stupid world..." link, to find your self on a page full of even more flashing weird banners ...

but let's go back to the main page, if you're curious but also wise enough, you will click on the apple to be able to meet "the wiseguy behind Stupid.com"

This is Gary Apple
(the goofy-looking guy with the glasses is his assistant)

here's a funny passage from mr. stupid bio:

...
Gary writes all the product descriptions that you read on Stupid.com. In fact, he designs the web pages and creates the graphics, too. He even wrote this bio you're reading, pretending someone else did it. It's pathetic.

now, let's show the serious side of mr. stupid or ... ok ... gary apple, check out a video of him singing about war here:

a man can only stay silent so long