(via Bad Newspaper)
Saturday, February 07, 2026
The Secret Of N.I.M.H.
The Secret Of N.I.M.H. came out in 1982, but it was years later when I saw it on TV. I had no clue for half the movie that N.I.M.H was the National Institute of Mental Health. You just don't expect that in a children's animated film. In fact, adults liked The Secret Of N.I.M.H. more than children did, because it was a pretty complicated story.
POV World Record Motocross Jump
Ride along with freestyle motocross star Colby Raha as he breaks a world record. But that's only half the ride, and he does it twice. The frightening course was set up at the Record Breakers event in Mesa, Arizona on January 31st. First, he has to get up to speed. Then he jumps 275 feet over a pool with no margin for error. Then he zips up a quarter pipe, straight up, and lands in one piece. I'm impressed, but it's not quite a world record, so he tries it a second time.
The part where Raha has to go quite a ways to get back where he started is kind of cute, with fans waving him on. So he does the whole run again, this time reaching 90 feet above ground on the quarter pipe for a big air world record. I would recommend watching this GoPro video in full screen mode for maximum terror. (via Born in Space)
New Chiton Species Named
Ze Frank made a True Facts video asking for input on a species name for a new chiton mollusk identified by Juila Sigwart of the Senkenberg Ocean Species Alliance. A panel of expert judges which fortunately excluded Ze Frank came to a consensus and selected a name. Yesterday, a new paper was published in the Biodiversity Data Journal announcing the naming of Ferreiraella populi.
More than 8,000 comments came in under the original video, so Ze Frank figured that some of the more humorous suggestions should be highlighted here since they did not make it into the science journal. Points for creativity, so to speak.
Cats Stealing Stuff
Cats have a firm sense of private property. A cat sees something, it will take something. "I found it, it's mine now!" You know, like the seagulls in Finding Nemo, just quieter. Enjoy this compilation of all kinds of cats taking all kinds of things for themselves. (via Tastefully Offensive)
The Apocalypse
When you have to illustrate a concept, you go with the most familiar icon you have. This comic is from Cheddar Bacon Studios. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Friday, February 06, 2026
How to Fix the House of Representatives
The number of Congress members in Washington has been 435 since 1929. This had led to problems in representing the US population by state, and why one person voting in Wyoming is equal to about four votes in Ohio in a national election -unless you vote for the minority party, in which case your vote means nothing, but that's a subject for another day. We could fix this imbalance, but it would upset the status quo in Washington, and we can't have that because reasons.
Cat Gets a Kitten
Theo was an only cat. He was well-bonded with his human Alyssa, but also with his stuffed cat toy, which indicated that he was lonely for another cat. So Alyssa got him a kitten! It just goes to show that one cat is never enough. (via Laughing Squid)
Five Myths About Vikings
The average ten-year-old boy knows more about Vikings than I do, but what he knows probably came from either Looney Tunes or Hagar the Horrible. Or that History Channel series he's not really allowed to watch. The Vikings were a Scandinavian people who raided and traded all over the world from the 8th to the 11th centuries. They did not have a written language, so whatever was documented about them was written by people who were terrified of them, or else was written long afterward. They didn't even call themselves Vikings; that was a word that referred to their raids. We actually know very little about them, but we do know that a lot of the things everyone knows about Vikings came from dubious sources or were just made up for dramatic effect. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Miss Cellania's Links
Joseph A. Walker's Flight Into Space. He used an airplane instead of a spacecraft.
How to find out if YOU are a dangerous criminal. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
You will never hear "Free Fallin'" the same. (Thanks Rochelle!)
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post. (via Damn Interesting)
I Have Found the Most Triggering Star Wars Post on the Internet.
Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina. (via kottke)
Man Mimics Robot with INSANE Body Control. (via Everlasting Blort)
How Humans Living on Mars Could Evolve.
Second Honeymoon
Gilbert and Grace Caldwell were married in 1957. They had reservations for their honeymoon at the Mount Airy Resort in Pennsylvania, but were turned away when the management saw they were black. A group of young students decided that it's not too late to do the right thing, even 60 years later. (via Bits and Pieces)
They're Home!
And that's the difference between dogs and cats. The dog doesn't want to get into trouble, while it never even occurred to the cat to get the dog in trouble, nor whether there are rules, nor why should they care. This comic is from Jimmy Craig at They Can Talk.
Thursday, February 05, 2026
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