Friday, February 21, 2020

Miss Cellania's Links

The “Distracted Boyfriend” Meme Gets An Unexpected Twist In This Funny Comic.

The Simple Math Error That Can Lead to Bankruptcy. It's the gambler's fallacy, since we don't understand the rules of probability. (via Digg)

The End of Miss America.

Actors Who Originally Auditioned For Rick Grimes And Negan On The Walking Dead.

You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President. While real life has outstripped satire for weirdness, The Onion has a way of highlighting the truth beneath.

The Doctor Who Blew Hydrogen Gas Up His Patient's Asses. Then lit a match to see if their wounds burned.

It turns out that Anna Calcaterra, who made that viral map last week, has a long history of spreading chaos. So does her brother. (via Metafilter)

We Calculated How Much We Pay Trump to Play Golf. It Turns Out, He's America's 10th Highest Paid Athlete.

How One Man and His Dog Rowed More Than 700 Kākāpōs to Safety. While Henry's efforts were akin to sticking one's finger in a dyke to hold back a flood, his ideas are being resurrected today in order to save the last 211 kakapos in existence.

A blast from the past (2007): More Periodic Tableware.

2 comments:

gwdMaine said...

Why do Americans choose from just two people to run
for president and 50 for Miss America?

And once upon a time, hydrogen wasn't the only thing
people had Blown up Their Ass

Happy Friday Miss C!

Miss Cellania said...

Happy Friday, gwdMaine!