Sodas

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Going Fishing

A little fishing trip is more complicated than just that, when you have to build your world first. Even when that world is on your desk in your bedroom! The result is just as cute as it can be. I have some concerns, however, about the hooks that weren't removed from the fish before it was consumed. Swedish stop-motion animator Guldies Konst used 2,500 still pictures (out of 4530 he took) to create this video. That's a lot of time spent in his bedroom. You might want to go back and check out the images in the still frames -especially the fire. It looks completely different than what the moving video shows. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Reflecting a Mood

Morning.

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— Frostbitten Flamingo (@flemtheparrot.bsky.social) January 25, 2026 at 11:51 PM

Wanted

From 1915. (via Undine)

How They Made Darth Vader

It took a team to make Darth Vader so menacing. It wasn't only George Lucas and his team, but David Prowse, James Earl Jones, and the special effects guys. 

Wall Art at the Medical Lab

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Even Insects Use Tools

When you think about animals using tools, you probably don't think about the examples given at the beginning of this video. You think about the Veronika the cow, or maybe Figaro the cockatoo. But yeah, chimps and crows and octopuses use tools as well. Even insects use tools! Stefan Chin of SciShow tells us howinsects use external objects as weapons, grocery bags, glue traps, bait, compactors, and amplifiers. 

By now, we should completely let go of that outdated theory that tool use is what distinguishes humans from other species. The problem with that is having to come up with a new way to distinguish humans from other animals. (via Laughing Squid) 

Orange

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Asteroids and Planets

We learn in elementary school that planets orbit around the sun (or their nearest star, in the case of exoplanets), and moons revolve around a planet. But then there are asteroids, which also revolve around the sun like planets, but we didn't cover those much in elementary school because there are too many of them to learn. The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has thousands of asteroids, which were once called small or minor planets. But are they really planets? That's a matter of semantics, and depends on how you define terms, which is very important in astronomy. A discovery in 1953 helped to determine the definition of a planet, sort of, but it took some time for all astronomers to come around to how these terms are used. Meanwhile, Minute Physics makes the difference between a planet and an asteroid clear and simple, although there are still some edge cases. 

Miss Cellania's Links

Alex Pretti had a phone in his hand. They knocked him down, pepper-sprayed him, took his legally permitted gun, and then shot him. (via Fark) 

The Cry-Cry Horse for Lunar New Year 2026. 

Little Addie’s Last Fight. Adolph Wolgast was the world lightweight boxing champion, but he paid a terrible price. (via Nag on the Lake) 

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo. (via Metafilter) 

I found a political post from eight years ago that should be obsolete, but is strangely more applicable now.

Budget-Friendly Casserole Recipes from the Great Depression. Any mention of hominy takes me back to elementary school lunches. (via Strange Company) 

Because there is so much to say, here's a link-heavy index of what ICE was been doing before Alex Pretti was killed. 

How to determine the national origin of a cinematic death scene. 

Age of marriage & giving birth in medieval Europe. It was a lot more civilized than you thought. (via Strange Company) 

Poor Gary

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A Mother’s Promise: You Can Be Yourself

Laurin is raising Danny, the only thing she has left of her husband, and she can't know what he'd say in any situation concerning him. (via Digg)

You Had One Job

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The Fisherman and His Wife

This episode of Fractured Fairy Tales is about two really stupid people. No wonder kids laughed at it. (Thanks, WTM!)

As If They Didn't have Enough Problems

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AIDA

When you want to make a good impression on a first date, you take any advantage you can. This guy is a bit shy and socially awkward, but thinks he will get a leg up with the help of the Artificial Intelligence Dating Assistant, or AIDA. Yep, there's no need to think when you have an app to tell you what to say and do. But when technology fails, he finds he has nothing to fall back on. This creepy little skit portends a world in which we've outsourced our common sense and personalities to AI as well as our mental work, because it's just easier that way. (via Kuriositas) 

Travel

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The Trump Awards

Since this week's news is so grim, Saturday Night Live decided to focus its opening skit on one of Trump's relatively less destructive obsessions. He not only hosts the Trump Awards show, but also wins most of the awards. Any that he didn't win, he takes anyway. The jokes just write themselves.  

Cat Grass Connoisseurs

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Boomwhackers

This video was presented as "bro's night out," which makes it seem like a silly game, but watch and listen. These guys are making serious music! Well, maybe not 'serious' music, it's the theme from Knight Rider followed by the theme from The Flintstones, but they do it well. 

They are playing musical instruments called boomwhackers, or tubes that are tuned to a musical pitch to be played like bells. The group is Louie's Cage Percussion, made up of classically-trained musicians from Austria.

Named after the Monkey King Louie and the composer John Cage, this percussion group consists of six talented young musicians in their twenties. They are some of the youngest members of renowned Austrian orchestras including the Vienna Volksoper, the Lower Austria Tonkuenstler Orchestra and the Graz Opera and play all repertoires of classical music. Besides their studies of classical music, they have always been interested in jazz, rock and electronic music and have played in various bands and broadened their knowledge of various musical genres.

You can get an idea of how boomwhackers work from an extended cut of one of their practice sessions. Now watch a stage performance from Louie's Cage Percussion.



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