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The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight.  

How Long Until Disney Breaks Your Heart? A chart of 33 films ranked by where the heartbreak comes in. (via Metafilter) 

Cakes of Wonder. You'll wonder what happened. (via Everlasting Blort) 
 
Why Buzzfeed and Digg are no longer any fun. https://boingboing.net/2026/03/13/buzzfeed-doubts-it-can-stay-in-business-after-pivot-to-ai.html

Vince Gilligan Recalls Brutal Reaction to His Breaking Bad Pitch. No one wanted to touch that story. 

The brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world. 

The Mutiny of the Trout Pitted Commoners Against the Nobility. It was a war started over a single fish.

Rachel Maddow speaks at the University of British Columbia. Her speech is half an hour and strangely optimistic about America, followed by a Q&A session. (via Metafiter)  

A Blast from the Past: Twenty years ago, I wrote about my home state. 

Modesty

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A Perfect Game of Sarabande Co-Op

    
I had to look up a lot of terms to understand this video, but you don't really have to understand it to be impressed. The Sarabande is a dance that dates back about 500 years, and it is notable for being three times as fast as a normal dance. Sarabande 2X Co-Op is a very difficult video game that uses a sarabande song at 157 beats per minute. It's played on the Pump It Up arcade game console that you play with your feet, like Dance Dance Revolution, except there are five foot pads, or ten if you play with a partner. Got all that? 

Gamers ElijahTS and Tomatonium recently became the first team ever to finish this truly difficult game with a perfect score, during a livestream with plenty of witnesses. This is not just watching two guys play a video game; this is serious fancy footwork. They don't really get going until about 50 seconds into the video, and by then you'll be glad you stuck with it. (via Born in Space) 

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Garfield's Lasagna

Garfield, the fat cat of comics and movie fame, always craved lasagna. Andrew Rea shows us why that lasagna was so delicious in the latest episode of Binging With Babish. The good news is that Garfield doesn't have to appear in this cooking video, so he doesn't. All the parts of this lasagna are hand-made before they are assembled. J. Kenji López-Alt's recipe for Ragu Bolognese is at Serious Eats. To see Brad Leone make the ricotta cheese, see his video. The instructions for homemade pasta is in a previous video by Andrew Rea. I can guarantee that after going through all this for a pan of lasagna, the cat is not getting it. (via reddit)

The Pirate and the Sailor

A sailor and a pirate are drinking at a waterfront bar and they proceed to swap sea stories. The sailor notes the pirate's peg leg, eye patch and hook.

"So tell me," asks the sailor, "how did you come to lose that leg?"

"Arrgh," says the pirate, "'Twas a black squall swept me overboard. Whilst in the water, a shark snapped me leg off and I've had this peg leg ever since."

"Wow!" says the sailor. "And how'd you get the hook?"

"We was fighting at close quarters," says the pirate. "Some scurvy dog with a cutlass hacked me hand off and I've had this hook ever since."

"Amazing!" says the sailor. "And what about the eye patch?"

"Arrgh," says the pirate. "'Twas a seagull pooped in me eye."

"A seagull?" asks the sailor, a bit incredulous.

"Well, I should explain," says the pirate. "'Twas me first day with the new hook."

Not Surprising

(via Bad Newspaper)

The Psychology of Generation Jones

The Baby Boom generation is usually defined as people born anywhere from 1946 to 1964, which is a lot of years. By 1999, it was clear that those people born in the later half had a much different life from those born to returning World War II soldiers. While we do remember Woodstock, we were too young to go. We thought the war in Vietnam would last forever. And while we didn't grow up with computers, we were young enough to embrace them. The further you get into this video, the more I feel seen.

Cough Syrup

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Why Do Superheroes Wear Capes?

A superhero's costume must be skin tight, colorful, and come with a cape. But superhero costume designer Edna Mode says, "No capes!" and therefore the more modern superheroes don't. So why do the old school heroes like Superman and Batman wear capes? It's not just because they capes are cool. 

To get the real story, we have to go back to the pop culture that inspired the comic book superhero in the first place, back in the 1930s. Once a character has been designed, artists found all kinds of ways to use the cape to illustrate different aspects of the character or the story. As more and more superheroes came about, some went without capes just to be different, or as a statement that they aren't a slave to obsolete fashion unless the character was designed to be old-fashioned. (via Laughing Squid) 

Ice Cream

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Michael Jackson's Childhood

Michael Jackson is second on the list of the most successful recording artists in history, behind only The Beatles. That legacy is tarnished by the very weirdness of his personal life. Whether he was nefarious or just plain eccentric, he knew how to make headlines. But you might not know what came before. Yeah, that was the Jackson 5, which was the product of Joe Jackson. 

Jackson's father saw his musically-talented sons as a ticket to success, which must be cultivated by any means necessary. The cost was enormous for all his nine children, but especially for Michael. He spent his adult life rebuilding a fantasy childhood to make up for the normal one he never got. Weird History looks back in time to the Jackson family and their ascent to fame. 

Terribly Wrong

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How to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day Like an Irishman

Have a great holiday!

Women's History Month

Happy Women's History Month.

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Desperation

(via Bad Newspaper)

Late Night Shows In 2050

Late night talk shows have a hard enough time now, trying to make jokes when there's nothing to talk about in the news but bad news. Ryan George takes this trajectory to its limits. 

Anatomical Distortion

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A Public Works Chicken

A hen wandered into the Public Works department in Truman, Minnesota, about a year ago, and never left! Employees said she was pretty bedraggled, and they suspect she had been chased there by a dog. But no one in the area seems to have lost a chicken, or at least they didn't claim her. That's understandable. I asked a friend how many chickens she had, and she couldn't say because they won't stand still enough to be counted. 

Anyway, this chicken decided that the city facility was now her home, and they named her Noodles. Noodles spends her days supervising the staff from a high perch and her nights laying eggs for the utility workers, and they couldn't be happier about it. 

Baby Laughter

This is a real thing! (via She Who Seeks)