He is Kwai Chang Caine, schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin priesthood by the blind, avuncular Master Po and the stern yet loving Master Kan.

Caine speaks softly but hits hard.
He lives humbly yet knows great contentment.
He is the Old West's most unusual hero.
But hero is not a word Caine would use.

He would simply say, "I am a man."

Have a nice last trip, grasshopper.

View the complete map on Malachi Wards website.

Honkiat lists some of the most interesting OOB pictures.

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When the Bulls' Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were in their prime, Jordan liked to say that they were "ham-and-egging." Which meant that one of them would start strong and the other would finish strong. And opponents were toast.

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At breakfast, President Woodrow Wilson drank two raw eggs in juice.

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To demonstrate his versatility, the Japanese master artist Hokusai sometimes painted using the stick end of the brush, or with his fingers, or with chicken eggs.

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Paul McCartney came up with the melody for "Yesterday" long before he had the words. While searching for just the right lyrics, he and John Lennon referred to the song as "Scrambled Eggs," which had the same meter as the eventual title. "We called it 'Scrambled Eggs' and it became a joke between us," Lennon said. "... Then one morning Paul woke up and the song and the title were both there, completed. I was sorry in a way, we'd had so many laughs about it."

5.
A common numbers racket in the '30s and '40s was called "butter and eggs." Gamblers would bet on the closing commodity prices for butter and eggs. Before that, a "butter-and-egg man" was slang for a visitor with a lot of money, a yokel ready to be separated from his funds.

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In golfing slang, a ball half-buried in a sand bunker is called a "fried egg." In diner slang, if you want to order scrambled eggs on toast, you say, "Adam and Eve on a raft, and wreck 'em."

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Nobody seems sure about the Benedict who was honored by eggs Benedict. According to one story, LeGrand Benedict, a customer at the famed New York restaurant Delmonico's, asked the chef to invent a new egg dish. But a rival story says the dish was inspired by Harry Benedict, a customer at the Waldorf Astoria in New York who wanted a meal to help him overcome a hangover.

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The Easter bunny must have been wearing jackboots in Tumwater, Wash., in February 2006. Residents found neo-Nazi leaflets taped to plastic Easter eggs and scattered on their front lawns. The ethnic slurs were appalling, but residents found the Easter motif to be particularly offensive. "They shouldn't be doing the eggs," said Shirleyann Westman. "That's not right at all."

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Joseph Coyle, who ran a small newspaper in the 1910s in British Columbia, quit the news business after inventing a different paper product: the egg carton.

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Birds generally lay eggs that are 1 to 10 percent of their body weight. But the kiwi produces a single egg that is 20-25 percent of its weight. The San Diego Zoo's Web site compares it to a 120-pound human female giving birth to a 24-pound baby.

tnx ChigagoTribune

Well, scully, just a click on the screen would reveal the victorian ghost. (picture)

via the economist

via hivemodern.com

Matthew Arnold, "From the Hymn of Empedocles"

The guys at FlowingData jumped into the statics and came up with Progress: A Graphical Report on the State of the World.

via the house of odd.

Check the 2007 melon smashing video.

Here you'll find more steganography examples (a little outdated).

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It's waiting for some new cardboard products... bottles, bicycles, bombs, bikinis or backpacks.

via engadget

Art by Maurizio Cattelan

Artist as Desiree Palmen explore this idea and paint people in a pattern or colors that match the surroundings. 

via environmentalgraffiti

Alex Tee and Evan Gant at Altitude came up with a new concept of a personal light lane. The idea is that a bike not only need the space of the vehicle itself but for a safe ride also includes the invisible square around the bicycle. Light Lane sort of beams a virtual lane on the street.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt , who sufferd polio, used the sectret platform in the 1930s to get on and off vehicles without revealing his disability to the public.

Some funfacts found on the legoland website:

* The original Capitol building in Washington, D.C. was sandstone-covered brick; the rest is marble covered brick. The dome is made of more than eight-million pounds of painted cast iron.
* LEGOLAND California’s version of the Capitol in Miniland Washington D.C. is made out of 380,792 LEGO bricks!

* The real Capitol took about 200 years to build. The Capitol was built in six phases. The first phase on the original building began in 1793 and was finished in 1826. The last phase was completed in 1993.
* LEGOLAND California’s version of the Capitol in Miniland Washington D.C. took about 1,200 hours to build and was established when the family theme park opened in 1999.

* The real U.S. Capitol is 288 feet tall
* The Capitol in Miniland U.S.A. is seven feet tall.

* Thousands of men and women built the Capitol in Washington D.C.
* Two Master Model Builders constructed the Capitol in Miniland Washington D.C.!

via SF weekly

In 1925, before even half of the sixteen mile line was completed, the construction stopped. At the time seven miles between Cincinnati's central business district and the industrial suburb of Norwood were tunneled, bridged, or graded.

Nearly everything above ground was bulldozed to make way for new buildings ann nowadays the two mile tunnel that remains under Central Parkway is unknown to many Cincinnati natives.

They sell some nice grocery bags and wine totes with nice design and you can design your own if you wish. (and you want to have at least 1000 bags). All bags are made from non-woven polypropylene, a fabric that is lightweight yet durable – not to mention reusable, resistant to corrosion, hypoallergenic, non-toxic, washable, and water-repellent.

After the first lady, first dog, first twins and first cat it's time for the White House to extend their website with a first console section.

Also check the informative cartoon creating section.

I signed up lat this local non-profit ISP slash bulletin board slash community and got an email-address. Next thing I did was sending an email to the friend that was standing next to me. Cannot remember what I wrote but I assume it was kinda "test 123, hello how are you" message. The friend took over the machine, logged in into his account et voila, my message was in his inbox!

That email has not been used much. I remember writing a few post on newsgroups. And what else should I use it for anyways? If I had something to say I just drove to my friends, wrote them a letter or gave them a call. Beside, i did not know any of them having such thing as an email.

My first email disappeared in the big digital unknown and at this moment I have 586MB of electronic messages in my 7.2GB mailbox.Which, I suppose, I far beyond the total storage at that local ISP.

Johnny had a fanbase who made it into the internet era. A nice page I've found was the Johnny-Five Calendar. It is the story of Johnny Five's travels around the country and the world. He writes letters to his friends back home and sends pictures of his adventures.

An ouchi illusion is a optical illusion named after its inventor, Japanese artist Hajime Ouchi. In this illusion, the blurred dots in the central disk seems to move. The effect is very strong when you move your head towards and back from the screen.