Aerial photographs of Mexico City

It being Easter n' all.

Chocolate Jesus

Don't go to church on Sunday
Don't get on my knees to pray
Don't memorize the books of the Bible
I got my own special way
Bit I know Jesus loves me
Maybe just a little bit more

I fall on my knees every Sunday
At Zerelda Lee's candy store

Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied

Well I don't want no Anna Zabba
Don't want no Almond Joy
There ain't nothing better
Suitable for this boy
Well it's the only thing
That can pick me up
Better than a cup of gold
See only a chocolate Jesus
Can satisfy my soul

When the weather gets rough
And it's whiskey in the shade
It's best to wrap your savior
Up in cellophane
He flows like the big muddy
But that's ok
Pour him over ice cream
For a nice parfait

Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Good enough for me
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Good enough for me

Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied


Go here to watch Mr Waits sing it live on Letterman. Chocolate Jesus image from Jesus of the Week. Or if you're looking for something with stigmata, why not borrow this half baked idea, a White Chocolate Jesus with Liquid Cherry Center.

That's about all I could find by googling "chocolate jesus", apart from the book and the band. I'm glad to say the phrase doesn't seem to have some paraphilic meaning I was previously unaware of, or if it does no-one with that peccadillo has a website. More chocolate deities here. This guy's weblog looks interesting.

Now go bite the heads off some bunnies!

Babbage's Difference Engine Made with Lego

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned Gnod before, or perhaps I'm thinking of something similar. At any rate, now it should be easier to dig out of the archives. Gnod is a self-adapting system for mapping books, movies and music on the basis of shared preferences. ("If you liked that, you'll like this" - nearly always a lie, of course.) See specifically: Gnoosic, Gnooks and Gnovies.

Interactive Tartan Weaver

The Creatures in my Head

The creepy little beasties of Andrew Bell.

If'n you've been visiting Eyeteeth like I suggested, y'all've already seen the BenettonPlay Flipbook. Yes, I believe it does have something to do with the ugly jumper company with the cheesy ads.

Unembedded

Freelance photography from Iraq. Not all of these photographs are grisly, but not all of them are not.

Via Barista.

Frank Bennett

You need to lounge more.

One of the bizarre things about the 'net is the number of on-line comics. Sorry, actually one of the bizarre things about the web is the number of on-line comics set in multiplayer gaming environments. Be that as it may, below is an eclectic selection of the stuff what's out there. All complaints about the lack of humourousness in any of these strips should be directed to the Papal Commission of Sacred Archaeology, The Vatican, Vatican City - no cranks.

Penny Arcade

Sinfest

The Parking Lot is Full

Chopping Block

Get Your War On!

Bristow

MegaTokyo

Lore Brand Comics

Red Meat

Toothpaste for Dinner

Diesel Sweeties

Clip Clop

The Perry Bible Fellowship

Alien Loves Predator

Men In Hats

A Softer World

White Ninja Comics

Dr Fun

Sluggy Freelance

A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible

Mac Hall

Dinosaur Comics

Able and Baker

Hate Song

The Adventures of Dr McNinja

Awkward Pause

Stivers

PvP

Pandimaniacs

I guess Bristow isn't technically an online comic. Bite me.

Ruthless Reviews Compendium of Eighties Action Flicks

Rated in terms of Corpse Count, Stupid Political Content and Homoeroticism.

Magnetic Poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog

Pretty funny. Could be more historically accurate and thereby less funny.

Interview with Alan Moore in Mile High Comics' The Beat: Part One Part Two

The results of a Google search for "Fuck the Irish" aren't remotely as interesting as one would hope; mostly stuff from American college football fans.

Fuck American college football fans.

OK, just one more - Jaws remixed as a Disneyesque adventure film about two guys and their lovable wildlife friend: Must Love Jaws.

Via Hey Jenny Slater.

The BIG Red Button

An interactive version of Art Kane's Harlem 1958 jazz portrait.

He figured he would contact every major jazz musician in New York to show up on 126th street in Harlem at 10am to take a group portrait. Getting jazz musicians anywhere together at 10am seemed impossible, but to everyone's surprise 57 musicians showed up. It was Art Kane's first professional photograph.

Via Happy Furry Puppy Time.

Overheard in Chicago

...joins London, New York and Houston.

Via Barista.

The Covers Project

We're building a database of cover songs (songs RECORDED by an artist other than the original ARTIST) with the intention of creating cover "chains." A cover chain is a set of songs in which each RECORDING is a cover of a RECORDING by the ARTIST who covered the preceding song.

Damn! I was gonna do a whole mix-tape like that. Yet another great idea some other fucker beat me to because I was too fucking lazy to act on it. Just like the "Think-tank adjunct scholars decry the left-wing bias in Reality" joke. I thought of that gag in 19-fucking-99, years before the Suskind article. But did I go public? Noooo. Now every fucker's doing it and all I've got is an unfinished web project last updated in 2002, which I can't update further because it would destroy the proof of the primacy of my claim.

Incidentally, while it was mostly laziness, I was also stymied by a) having nowhere to host the bastard and b) the fact that right-wing thinktanks rapidly became impossible to parody. And then there was the whole lack of talent thing.

Sorry for all the sailor-talk. But god DAMN.

The Truth About El Nino

Via... well, I found it at Creek Running North. Let's not get all Six Degrees about it.

Dreamlines

The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association.

...

The drawing itself is produced by 1500 autonomous particles in perpetual movement. The last image loaded serves as a sort of virtual terrain for them. The direction and speed of each particle is given, at each step, by the color values of the pixel they are stepping on. Different sets of formulas translate the hue, saturation and brightness of the pixel in angle and velocity values for the particle. The path of each particle is traced to the screen, and this forms the output seen by the user.

Well, if you say so. It's darned interesting, at any rate.

Massively Multiplayer Pong Game
Internet's Smallest Pong Game

Via Crooked Timber. I ain't linking, they get plenty traffic. Oh, OK, but only for this one:

Gender Signs

According to NetState, twelve U.S. states have an official dinosaur (with South Dakota and Wyoming both claiming ownership of the Triceratops), nine have an official dog-breed (what in God's name is a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog?), two have an official doughnut (although the Massachusettsians can't spell it), and the Confederate Air Force patrolled the skies of Texas right up until 2002.

An Amazon list of Authors with Unfortunate Names.

Via Sterne.