Sunday, September 06, 2026
Don't Text and Dad
It only takes a second of inattentiveness for the unthinkable to happen. Though honestly, all this stuff can happen just as well if you are looking right at your children. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
The Guardian
This is how I imagine my dog feels when he's protecting the house by barking at the leaves blowing by...
— FunnyVia (@funnyvia.com) September 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Saturday, September 05, 2026
The Brain from Planet Arous
The 1957 film The Brain from Planet Arous features aliens from outer space that possess the bodies of Earthlings because that's much cheaper than building an alien. An evil brain named Gor, a criminal mastermind from the planet Arous, wants to take over Earth by possessing the body of an atomic scientist. Meanwhile, a cop named Vol, also from the planet Arous, pursues Gor by taking possession of a dog. Sic 'em! (Thanks, WTM!)
Jarhead's Story
Feral cats will take a bite of food from anywhere, because they don't understand the risks of the modern world. A call came in to Sierra Pacific Furbabies. A cat had been seen in the neighborhood with its head stuck in a jar. The founder of the organization, David Loop, came to investigate. The cat was feral, and had hidden under a house. In the video, they call it a basement, but the cat was actually in a tiny crawl space too small for a person to go in and catch him, and the clock was ticking, since it had been days since the cat had any water.
The feral cat was rescued and taken to a veterinarian. The cat, now appropriately named Jarhead, will require some time to be socialized, but he is making progress.
Cupid's Checklist
A 1950 educational film about whether you should marry that guy. Or that girl. When these youngsters revealed they'd known each other for three months, I knew that waiting would be the best. Oh sure, I only knew my last husband for only nine months before we married, but we were in our 50s and knew darn well what is important and what we needed to agree on to make it work.
Back in the 1950s, the average age at first marriage was the lowest on the graph. You had to be married to have sex, see, or else you got "caught" at it by becoming pregnant. That's why people got married so young. The Pill made all the difference.
Nuts for Nuts
He bought a package of almonds for his pet chipmunk, but the frantic little guy couldn't wait for him to get through all that packaging! (via Digg)
Friday, September 04, 2026
Hints From Heloise
Heloise Bowles became a newspaper columnist by working free for a time, but that was made possible by a huge bet that she wouldn't succeed. The first title of her column was lame, but what she wrote was a hit. Philip Mershon tells the story of Hints from Heloise.
The Stubborn Walker Sisters
In 1933, the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission was busy buying up land in East Tennessee and western North Carolina for a national park. Most residents were desperate during the Great Depression and took the offer. But the commission met its match when they tried to buy up 120 acres owned and operated by the Walker Sisters. The five sisters (originally six) had lived there since they were born in the 1870s and 1880s, and they weren't suffering for cash because they'd always been self-sufficient. They raised sheep and plowed their own fields to grow corn and cotton. They preserved their own food, spun their own cotton, and hunted game, as they always had. Their parents had eleven children and left the land and cabin to the ones who were unmarried. The Walker Sisters fought the government for years, and although they didn't "win," they managed to stay in their home for the rest of their lives, the last sister dying in 1964. And the cabin itself survives today.
Miss Cellania's Links
The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life. (via Damn Interesting)
Where to Find the Oldest Living Things in the World.
Excavation work on Trump's arch in Washington to begin over next 2 weeks, administration says. (via Fark)
Tanya Bentham: A modern twist on medieval embroidery. Her works are often quite funny. (via Metafilter)
Hegseth Must Go. If Trump won’t fire him, Congress must impeach him.
Sukhvinder Sunger: Cultural Fusion at Its Finest.
We still have fat Bear Week to look forward to, but we managed to miss Fat Marmot Week. (via Boing Boing)
“So how do we deploy a tool that is sometimes wrong but always pleasing? How do we trust AI?” he concluded. “The simple answer is: don’t.” (via Damn Interesting)
99% Editing Skills
Bass player Davie504 shows us how you don't have to know how to play an instrument to make a great music video. All you need is the time to edit. Yeah, it would help if you had an ear for music, otherwise your edit will be a mess. This reminds me of Amateur by Lasse Gjertsen. (via Digg)
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