From Married to the Sea.
Monday, April 07, 2025
Superdog is Still a Dog
Last December I showed you the teaser for James Gunn's Superman, which will open in theaters on July 11. We were quite pleased to the see that this Superman film shows the heroics of Krypto the Superdog as he saves an injured Superman. Now we have a sneak preview that makes clear the teaser scene was heavily edited. In this expanded version, we find that the rescue scene was not exactly as easy as we might have thought. Krypto is certainly Superman's best friend, and loves his human very much. But he's a dog after all, and acts the way you might expect your loving dog to act. Which doesn't help a bit until Superman comes up with specific orders. Notice this sneak preview doesn't mention the name of the movie at all. It doesn't have to, since everyone knows Superman. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Miss Cellania's Links
The 22 Most Clever Signs From The "Hands Off" Protests. (via Fark)
The Real-Life Holy Grail Castle Is Full of Monty Python References.
Does Your Country Have More Immigrants Or Emigrants? (via Nag on the Lake)
50 Ways to Rest.
Eulalie Mandeville’s Fortune in Court Records. Court records can function as a kind of archive for those without any other paper trail in history: free people of color and the enslaved. (via Strange Company)
Everyone Loved a Colorado Prison’s VFW Post—Until a Popular YouTuber Heard About It. (via Damn Interesting)
Corey Booker broke congressional records by speaking for more than 25 hours. How? (via Nag on the Lake)
Engine Rebuild
Chris Herridge completely tore down and rebuilt an engine several years ago. He he knew he needed to take pictures so he could find evidence of where all the parts went, so he made an art project of the process. He took 3,000 pictures during the 11-month project. Add the perfect music, and you have a classic video, worth seeing again no matter how many times you've seen it before. (via reddit)
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Language Negation
You've heard the phrase "try not to think about an elephant." It is impossible to achieve, because the word elephant implants that concept in our heads, despite the word "not" that we understand. Understanding that negative word in context and obeying the sentence is two very different things, and artificial intelligence has not mastered the idea of negation. It's a good thing that humans can separate uncontrolled thoughts from controlled actions, because we can draw a room without putting an elephant in it -and even when it's there, we can ignore it. But maybe that's taking the elephant analogy too far.
Dr. Erica Brozovski explains negation and the words we use for it in English. We don't always use these words correctly, but we understand them and we can usually parse what someone is saying to us even when the words are misused, as in double and triple negatives.
Tariffs
You can easily guess the subject of Saturday Night Live's opening skit every week, since it's simple a rehash of the ridiculous news of the week. And the jokes write themselves. This week it's tariffs that make no sense and Elon Musk's attempt to buy a state election. His glitching out was a nice touch.
Twerking Cat
You've seen how your cat gets ready to pounce on prey, whether real or toy: the head drops, the eyes dilate, and the hindquarters go into windup mode. Here we see Pusic (previously) putting that response to work. Shake that booty! Pusic's people spend a lot of time editing his voluminous video clips to bring you such entertaining productions. The soundtrack really makes it.
Saturday, April 05, 2025
Tariff of the Penguins
President Trump has levied tariffs on all the countries of the world (except Russia), and that includes places that have no exports, or even people. Heard Island and McDonald Islands were specifically mentioned, even though they are only populated by penguins. Sounds like an important subject for a nature documentary. (via Nag on the Lake)
PSVR
Passover, or Pesach, is April 12 through the 20th this year. The Jewish a cappella group Six13 has released their annual Passover pop parody song, and this one is set to the tune of "Apt." by Rosé and Bruno Mars. They call it "PSVR." This video tells of the exodus from Egypt that was the origin of Passover and describes the seder meal, and actually makes a lot more sense than the Rosé song.
Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man?
Eugene Romanovsky finally decided to sell his 1996 Suzuki Vitara. He made an ad for the car that you will enjoy. Yeah, you want to buy this car after seeing the ad, but Romanovsky lives in Israel. I can't read Hebrew, so I don't know how fast it sold. (via reddit)
Friday, April 04, 2025
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