Goldilocks

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Frolic ‘n Mae

Mae is an imaginative young girl who does artwork with a magical touch. But her friends at the slumber party have a different idea of fun, and it's no fun for her. Then things get a little out of hand. Frolic ‘n Mae is an action-adventure short that combines live-action with hand-drawn animation by Ornana Films. You can see a behind-the-scenes video here. (Thanks, Benjamin!)

But Why?

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Dino Pun

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Brideless Groom

Brideless Groom is a 1947 classic from The Three Stooges. Shemp will inherit a fortune from a deceased uncle, but only if he marries within 48 hours! Actress Christine McIntyre broke Shemp's nose during the filming, a take that was left in the final cut. Some consider this one the greatest Stooges short of all time. (via Metafilter) 

Ides

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Trick Shots Take Time

We've all seen those videos where someone does amazingly precise things, from full court basketball shots to Rube Goldberg machines, and wondered how many times they had to do that to get it to work perfectly. Michael D. Shields does amazing tricks on his YouTube channel. He doesn't tell us how many tries it takes, but he lets us in on how long it takes to get a ping pong ball to bounce exactly where he wants it. Better still, we don't have to sit through all the failures that come before the success. What Shields does for a living doesn't change the world, but it's real work that tales real time and effort. You can see more of Shields' trick shot videos at Laughing Squid.

Eyes of March

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The Medium Cat

Atchoum is a French Canadian cat with hypertrichosis who communicates with ghosts. He also does owl impressions. Otherwise he looks like a small dog with a bad case of bedhead. Here, he explains how he deals with ghosts, and the other residents of his home. You might have to watch this video twice to catch everything Atchoum does, since you may have to follow the dialogue by the subtitles. This video dub is from Faireset, who has given us several great cat videos. (via Metafilter)

Andy Kaufman Does Elvis

This was recorded from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1977. (via Nag on the Lake)

Fake Holiday

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Holiday Pricing

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Miss Cellania's Links

José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births. (via Nag on the Lake)

MLB's Overlap Hats Read Ridiculous.

Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did? (via Damn Interesting)

It is with deep regrets that I announce the conclusion of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. (via Metafilter) 

Nature provides an allegory for our times.

The Danish pig that was bred as a political protest.

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents. The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint. (via Fark)

A passport photo of a Wolf spider. (via Everlasting Blort)

Happy Pi Day!

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I'll Buy That

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Analog Society's Live Song Mashups

Analog Society is a British vocal group that performs covers and original songs, but has become known for their clever musical mashups, when they combine two songs that may be from different decades but sound good together. The video above has them mashing up "Somebody That I used to Know" from Gotye and "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac. Continue reading for more.

Jellyfish

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When Practical Effects Aren't So Practical

Twenty years ago, a film crew dropped a quarter-million bouncy balls down the hilly streets of San Francisco to advertise Sony Bravia color TVs. Today, that stunt would be done with special effects, but everything was real in that finished ad that won numerous awards and is still being watched on YouTube all these years later. It certainly wasn't easy to film.

Director Nicolai Fuglsig had to get permission from the city, notify everyone in the area, and promise to repair any damage. Then he had to round up 250,000 bouncy balls, which temporarily wiped out the US supply. Then the crew had to invent cannons to launch those balls. And people were hired to retrieve those balls after they bounced down the hills- day after day for a week. At one point, extra people were hired to sort the balls by color! When the filming was through, the bill just for broken windows was $74,000. Read the story behind the filming of this legendary television ad that never even aired in the US at SFGate. (via Damn Interesting)

True Facts About Fireflies

Remember when you were a kid, you saw a lot of fireflies, or lightning bugs as they are sometimes called. Now if you go out on a summer's evening, you have to deliberately look to see any fireflies at all. Sure, scientists have noticed this, but in order to do anything about it, they need hard data, and that's really hard to get when you're talking about many different species of a bug that's really hard to see when they're not flashing their shiny hineys. But new photography techniques are getting better at sorting out the little sparkly butts so we can count them. Still, this endeavor needs lots of photographers, and you can help. You can participate through the Xerces Society by getting involved with a project or by making a donation.