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Friday, January 17, 2025
Locomotive Snowplow
When several inches of snow piles up, many of us are thinking about how to get to work, or how to even get down the stairs without slipping. Then there are those who take advantage of the situation for fun.
Woodworker Matt Thompson solidified his reputation as the coolest guy in the neighborhood after a snowfall, rigging up his model train with a snowplow on the front to clear the tracks as any full-size train would do. Only this track is along his fence. When the snow is this deep, what else would you do with a train? Right, most of us would just stay inside to play with our toys. Kudos to Thompson for selecting the perfect music for this video, too. (via Born in Space)
Doctors
This will only be funny to older folks. If you're young, there was once a comedy trope about doctors having bad handwriting because they scrawled prescriptions on a paper pad in a hurry. Today, prescriptions are transmitted electronically to pharmacies by office staff, so the joke might not be understood. (Thanks, WTM!)
Squid Game's Season 2 Gets an Honest Trailer
No one was really surprised that Squid Game came back for more; the audience loved the death and destruction ands wanted more. But we were surprised that the character Seong Gi-hun would return to play the game again. It works for the show itself to draw back fans from the first game, but logically, who would go through that again? However, the biggest surprise is that the game doesn't conclude in season two, making season three necessary. Score!
Season two delivers more fright and carnage, but the confusing multiple storylines and overall plot strain credulity to the max. Despite its hit status, Screen Junkies was keen to tear Squid Game's second season apart to show us why it's not all that it's cracked up to be. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Rogue One as 8-bit Cinema
Those who care at all about Star Wars should have seen the movie Rogue One already, but in case you haven't, this video contains some spoilers. It's Cinefix's 8-Bit Cinema remake that turns the movie into an old-style video game. And you don't even have to control it! This is cute, but I must say that it's no substitute for seeing the film in its entirety. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
How to Be Happy
— sy (@bloodsyre) January 11, 2025This is Outdoor Ginger on TikTok. His videos are full of positivity.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Transcultural Surprise
He'll never forget this interview pic.twitter.com/JeE3vC8QRp
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) January 15, 2025
Do yourself a favor and watch the above video before reading the rest of this post.
Now that you've seen it, meet John bin London. You might think he is a Saudi who has been raised in the UK, but no. This Nottingham native only started learning Arabic in the last few years. You can see a short documentary about him at Neatorama, although you will have to turn on English captions.
How the Blind Cook
Christine Ha was the winner of the cooking competition show MasterChef season 3. She is also blind. Ha and her husband John now co-host the Canadian cooking show Four Senses. Here, she shows us by GoPro how she maneuvers around the kitchen by memory and feel. You can follow Christine at her personal website or her cooking blog, The Blind Cook. (via Nag on the Lake)
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Rolligon Tires
This 1953 British Pathé newsreel introduces us to the Rolligon, and gives the impression that it's a vehicle. But the name Rolligon actually refer to the tires that make this vehicle special. Inventor William Albee designed these tires after watching Inuit roll heavy boats on inflated seal hides. These enormous tires only need pressure of about 7 psi because there are so many square inches on tires that are five to nine feet wide. They are great for rolling over soft terrain, no matter how uneven it is, and they do very little damage to plants and animals in their way. Rolligon tires never made much headway with the military because these vehicles can't go fast enough, and as far as consumer use, any vehicle using them would be too high to easily get in and out of, and too wide for standard lanes. But they are being used today, in the oilfields of Canada and Alaska. (via Nag on the Lake)
Ich bin das neue Jahr
You probably remember actor Christoph Waltz from his portrayal of the Nazi officer Hans Landa in the movie Inglourious Basterds. He was evil incarnate in that film. But back in 1977, he was 20 years old and just getting started in acting. This is his first television appearance, on the Austrian children's show Am Dam Des. The song he's singing is "Ich bin das neue Jahr," which translates to "I Am the New Year."
Frogs Are Belly-Floppers
Certain species of frogs appear to hop across the surface of water in a process that's been called "skittering." It's like watching someone skipping a stone across the surface. While the frogs go pretty fast, it would be pretty rough to hit the water as hard as a stone does. So how do they do it? A team led by engineer Talia Weiss of Virginia Tech put some northern cricket frogs to the test and filmed them with a high-speed camera. When the film was slowed to 5%, they could see that the frogs are actually submerged in a kind of belly-flop. They don't sink all that deep, though, and use their webbed feet to re-launch themselves into another belly-flop. This kind of motion is seen in cetaceans, so it's less skittering and more like "porpoising." Read more about this research at ScienceAlert. And if you see a remix of this video with the appropriate sound effects (whee! plop) let me know. (via Damn Interesting)
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