Best of the Web

*** Mysteries of the Unknown -- if only for the music.  Wait for it.
***more to come, please add your suggestions.

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World Wealth and Health

In this interesting video clip, Hans Rosling uses animated statistics to illustrate how the prosperity of the countries of the world has developed over the last 200 years.  His graph indicates how population, income, and life expectancy have been effected by time, world wars, and epidemics.  Ultimately, this is a very optimistic set of data, presented in quite a compelling way!

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Octopus Chair

Really striking piece of furniture / artwork by Maximo Riera.  It's beautiful, but would it match our seaweed?  If I had this, I'd start pretending I was Aquaman and it was my throne.  Lots more pictures.

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nude lady with a jumprope

 

Before the sports bra, there was the pointy bra or no bra at all.  The poor lady seems so miserable.  I found this pic when I stumbled onto a forum about old school pointy boobs.  So if you're into pointy boobs, check it out.  WARNING:  pointy boobs.  Protective eyewear suggested.  

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Every Little Girl Deserves a Princess Party

One of my all time favorites.   Each and every gender-enslaved little girl should want to grow up to be a princess.  A princess party is a great way to let her live her/your fantasy, and all her friends will be there, and there will be a castle cake, and, and I think I think there was something in the fairy dust, I'm feeling a little queasy.   

 I originally saw this video on Everything is Terrible, a website which collects found footage -- mostly old vhs tapes from thrift stores.  They also collect copies of Jerry McGuire, so if you have one lying around, send it their way!

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Gravy Rainbow forever

So I was standing in the shower... thinking.  I wanted to start a blog for all the interesting things I kept finding on the web and wanted to share.  I already had three blogs, including one weirdness outlet, Morning Cup O' Doom --but these were all original material, and I didn't feel right mixing in 'found' pictures or other people's work.  I needed a blog that was all about 'nutty bits'... tweetable, easily digestible one-shots to make people smile and that wouldn't take me hours to write.  All I needed was a title.

I decided to call the blog The Gravy.  But when I Googled it, this was the name of an Australian television show. I didn't think they would care, but I decided I'd try some add-ons like Panda Gravy and Gravy Rocket.  Unfortunately, many of these turned out to be slang for ejaculate.  Don't name your blog Baby Gravy.  Or Gravy Fart for that matter.   I needed something innocent.  Like a rainbow.  A Gravy Rainbow.  I had it!  Now to Google it and make sure there's no conglomerate called Gravy Rainbow Multinational Copyright Attorneys Inc.

I believe in random.

Well, Gravy Rainbow was taken too.  It's an exciting and moving pop masterpiece by disasterradio.  I'm hoping they won't mind that I'm using the name.  I didn't stoled it.  I came up with it myself.  I'm tired of standing in the shower, and the water's getting really cold.  It's time to dry off my wet, dripping body and make some gravy.

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