Compendium O' Links

I said a couple posts ago that the compendiums were finished. This was because it was getting tougher to do--saving them all for one big post. As mentioned before, the links will still come, but in onesies and twosies and threesies.

Here's what was supposed to be published on Friday the 13th, plus a couple more. Enjoy.

Start off today with a clip of American College Women's soccer. I might have to start watching.

A couple of not so funny funny faith items. First Christian Chirp (sigh), and Joel Osteen's new book (double sigh). I really wish perma-smile man would go away.

My life is average.

I went to school with a bunch of mennonites, who are very similar to the amish. For some reason I am surprised to hear that Verne Troyer (Mini-Me), is amish?

Just wait until PETA weighs in on this one, milking 1 million spiders for their gold thread.

How much does google know about you?

In unrelated google news, they makes things up? Really?

I'm looking forward to #6, and hoping that they don't ruin #35. The original (#35) was awesome.

This product is for sale on Amazon. But the pictures show that it's a joke. At least I hope so.

It's a little early to start talking about Christmas lights, but this is pretty funny.

I was scared of jelly fish after watching Finding Nemo, but this makes it scarier.

Fascinating excerpt from some book about people who made a little money betting against housing.

Do you know that file sharers buy the most music? I know the RIAA doesn't.

From Bill harris comes the following: Very, very cool insect pictures.

For all of you who grew up with TGIF, enjoy.

Great news! Hammer pants may come back! And while we're at it, here's one of Conan O'Brien's best bits.

Ironic story of the day.

I'm not a Sacha Baron Cohen fan at all, but he "humor" does expose some nasty parts of our society, doesn't it?

From Bill Harris also:
Weirdest, grossest ingredients in processed foods. Caution, title is accurate.

Very cool nature photos, very cool general photos here and here.

Through the eyes of an armadillo.

I just discovered this series of "images that aren't photoshopped". This one is the 5th installment. It links to the other 4. Caution, the site isn't exactly always family friendly.

Yeah! Let's boycott the GAP!

I posted this already on my facebook profile, but thought I'd add a few more comments due to my increasing irritation.

The American Family Association, the self appointed protectors of all things christian (note lower case "c"), had decided that in order to protect the sanctity of Christmas, we Christians should boycott the GAP. Their offence? An apparent refusal to use the word "Christmas"! Oh, the horror!

The boycott is part of our ongoing campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to put Christ back in Christmas. The boycott runs from November 1 through Christmas Day.

For years, Gap has refused to use the word Christmas in its television commercials, newspaper ads and in-store promotions, despite tens of thousands of consumer requests to recognize Christmas and in spite of repeated requests from AFA to do the same.

The AFA is getting blasted (rightfully so), by everybody. The LA Times says very pointedly:

It would be easy to get sidetracked into debating the merits of the War on Christmas. Why, for example, is the phrase "Happy holidays" so insufferable to Christian fundamentalists, but not the vulgar, surfeiting exploitation of Christ's name to sell smokeless ashtrays, dessert toppings, Droid phones and trampolines? I'm not a theologian but I think the Gospels are pretty clear that Jesus was no fan of merchants.

A very valid question, don't you think?

Buddy Smith (what a great name!) says this about the fatwa (great word, huh? Not mine, got to give credit to the LAT for that one):

I interpret Gap's decision as a warning sign to Christians to get out there and tell people about Jesus Christ,

Therefore, instead of telling people about Jesus Christ, you denigrate His name by advocating a boycott? Makes perfect sense to me.

They'll know we are Christians by our boycotts, sanctimonious piety, and self-righteous judgment.

Lord, save me from your followers!

The Experiment is Over

The "Compendium o' links" era in the "Thought Storage" blog is over. From now on, I'm going to post cool and interesting links as I find them, instead of waiting for Friday. Hope that my faithful reader approves.

Anyway, here's the first one. Very cool story/video about leopard seals.

Compendium o' Links

Been a busy week. It's almost Saturday, so I'm a bit late. but better late than never, right? Right?

Some guys are good at guitar hero, some are good at soccer. Some are good at both guitar hero and soccer.

British dude (sorry, bloke) is drawing the entire NYC skyline after a 20 minute helicopter ride.

Periodic Table, get it?

This has been circulating for a while now, but this car dealership is really cool.

Zoom in via the scroll bar. Very cool.

From the "Too Much Time Department", comes DaVinci's Last Supper reproduced with Rubik's Cubes.

Scared of sharks? No? How about now?

Some cute and funny websites to waste your time visiting.

Caution this story may cause you to shed a tear.

If you or your friend had a tree house as a child, you probably thought you were cool. Well, not cool enough.

one last link, my personal fave of the week. Very cool nature video.

A-Team, the Movie

I love it when a plan comes together!

I pity the foo!

I'm excited for the upcoming movie



Click on above pic for the whole thing. From left to right: Face, B.A., Murdoch, Hannibal.

Who cares what their real names are.

Compendium O' Links

I don't have much for you today, but here's what I do have:

I love mash-ups (two or more songs combined into one cohesively). So this youtube mash-up site is very cool. Here's another, but this one is a "do it yourself" site.

A very cool picture of the 1944 D-day Normandy invasion fleet.

Interesting list of 30 dumb inventions. More interesting, the founder of scientology, L. Ron Hubbard is on here. His invention was awesome--a device to measure whether tomatoes feel pain. I am not kidding.

For those of you who have ever watched a Pixar film (e.g. toy story), The Sordid Story of the Pixar Lamp. caution, most of the rest of that site is nsfw.

For U2 Fans, their 10/25 show from California will be streamed live on their site and on youtube.

Very, very cool pictures from inside waves.

Speaking of cool nature photography, bizarre landscapes and a volcano.

I'm not a gamer, but this technology that Xbox is working on looks awesome.

A lot of nature this week: a terrifying video of an avalanche, and one from a high altitude balloon (not the balloon boy).

More nature: 13 real animals from your nightmares.

The coolest link this week (and there's a lot of them): Just keep clicking to zoom.

Now onto the silly (you must be a fan of 80s tv to appreciate): Star Trek/A-Team, Star Wars/Dallas, Star Wars Rebels/Air Wolf, Star Wars Imperial/Air Wolf, and Star Wars/MacGyver.

A pool playing robot.

Compendium O' Links Vol 2

I am up late waiting ...

So, I thought I'd post the rest of the links I had saved:

Whatever bad things you think about the twilight books/movies, and I'm sure there are a lot of bad things to say, the upcoming movie has a pretty rocking soundtrack.

Speaking of movies and soundtracks, Where the Wild Things Are opened in theaters today. I loved the book as a kid. The soundtrack for this is fantastic. Listen to it here. Buy it here.

According to this fascinating article, there's an entire group of people living in underground drainage tunnels under Las Vegas. People have living quarters down there, and make their money and food by scavenging around casinos looking for discarded money and food. Many of them struggle with addiction and face the constant threat of flooding.

A new study suggests that parents lie to their children fairly often. In other news, Santa Claus is watching you!

This reminded me of the sappy powerpoint of cute cats and dogs email forward your 60 year old coworker forwards you. But unlike the forward, this one is actually thought provoking.

Very cool: Creative billboards. The McDonald's one is my fave.

These photos from the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Germany are incredible. Never have faces produced such forests of hair. I suspect that if this was held in India that the non-Indians wouldn't stand a chance.

Very Cool: Skateboard Tetris

Improv Anywhere, as I've said many times before is awesome, their pranks famous. This time, they take on the "bigoted" logo of Wendy's.

A very amusing video on the perils of being a nature photographer.

Very cool: 1 million frames per second video of bullets.

For fans of Rich Mullins (which will get his own blog post...someday): a cover of his song, Creed. I've never seen a hammer dulcimer before.

See! that's 2 weeks of links in one day...albeit in 2 posts. Hope you enjoyed.

Compendium O' Links

I have taken a hiatus from Friday Links. 2 weeks in fact. It's harder than I thought, compiling what I think is cool/funny/interesting. Because, I'm so weird, I have no idea what my two readers will think. I suppose since I'm almost sure both are family, they already know.

Anyway, here goes. This is a brief entry because of time. I have more, just waiting to be shared. Sorry!

I have given up trying to put them in some semblance of grouping or order.

I start off with my favorite link of the past couple weeks. A video I've shared on FB already. But it must be shared again, if not for the look of sheer joy on the dude's face.

This is a car ad?

Probably fake, but very cool.

I don't care if this spider is a vegetarian or not. Spiders freak me out.

Thought of the day from the Thinkling blog: "Michael Moore has made a movie that argues that capitalism is evil. He is charging people to buy, distribute, and attend this movie."

More irony: A couple months ago, the CEO of whole foods wrote an op-ed piece in the WSJ decrying Obama’s health care plan. The liberal elite was outraged. Some even started a boycott of Whole Foods, even though it's very green, very "progressive". They viewed MacKey as a turncoat to their cause. So MacKey gave an interview to the WSJ about the whole thing. The funny thing—he’s a "progressive". He just doesn't like the plan

Hymns I Wish People At My Church Knew

Glory to Thee Thou Son of God Most High
Author Uknown

Glory to Thee; Thou Son of God most High,
all praise to Thee!
Glory to Thee, enthroned above the sky,
who died for me;
high on Thy throne, Thine ear, Lord Jesus bend
as grateful hearts now to Thyself ascend.

Deep were Thy sorrows, Lord, when heaven frowned -
Gethsemane!
Bloodlike Thy sweat, Lord, falling to the ground
so heavily;
dark was the night, but heaven was darker still,
O Christ my God, is this the Father’s will?

Thorns wreathed Thy brow when hanging on the tree,
man’s cruelty!
Why lavish love like this, O Lord, on me?
Thou lovest me!
Would that my soul could understand its length,
its breadth, depth, height, and everlasting strength!

Thy precious blood was freely shed for me
on Calvary
to save me from a lost eternity;
glory to Thee!
Nor death, nor hell, nor things below - above
can sever me from Thy eternal love.

Like shoreless seas, Thy love can know no bound;
Thou lovest me!
Deep, vast, immense, unfathomed, Lord, profound,
Lord, I love Thee!
And when above, my crown is at Thy feet,
I’ll praise Thee still for Calvary’s mercy seat

Immanuel's Land
Anne Ross Cousin
(from a poem entitled The Sands of Time are Sinking--incidentally, I did not know that. I just found out after googling the words.)

O Christ, He is the fountain, the deep, sweet well of love!
The streams of earth I’ve tasted more deep I’ll drink above:
There to an ocean fullness His mercy doth expand,
And glory, glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

With mercy and with judgment my web of time He wove,
And aye, the dews of sorrow were lustered with His love;
I’ll bless the hand that guided, I’ll bless the heart that planned
When throned where glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

O I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved’s mine!
He brings a poor vile sinner into His “house of wine.”
I stand upon His merit—I know no other stand,
Not even where glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

The Bride eyes not her garment, but her dear Bridegroom’s face;
I will not gaze at glory but on my King of grace.
Not at the crown He giveth but on His pierced hand;
The Lamb is all the glory of Immanuel’s land.