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Monday, October 07, 2024
We Will Rock You
This is not the version you learned by listening to the radio, but Queen often did it like this in concert. Read more about it at Uproxx.
Tweet of the Day
Oh yeah, they're talking about him.🍉🍉😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/w6Yxvj1TTt
— The World Of Funny (@TheWorldOfFunny) October 2, 2024
Sunday, October 06, 2024
The Most Dangerous Criminals That You Never Heard About
Some crimes, and the criminals that made them happen, become globally famous, like Charles Manson, the Menendez Brothers, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jeffrey Dahmer. But even if you follow true crime novels, movies, and websites, there are plenty of other big crimes that didn't get such publicity.
It's true that those who commit horrific crimes do not deserve to be famous, which is why you can't name any of the mass shooters from the past couple of decades (besides there being too many to keep up with). But you might want to learn about some of the lesser-publicized crimes from the historical record in this video from Weird History. They include not only murder, but fraud, counterfeiting, arms dealing, sexual abuse, and more.
The Genius Design of Mount Rushmore
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum designed the 60-foot-tall heads of four presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore and supervised their construction from 1927 to 1941. Everyone who sees it asks "How'd they do that?" Let's take a look at the process of pulling those president's faces out of the sheer rock cliff face. It was far from easy. There was the problem of access, meaning they had to build roads to the site, and even harder, get power to the hydraulic tools used to carve the faces. And imagine the guys who had to spend eight hours a day hanging over the side of a cliff using jackhammers. An ingenious system had to be designed to tell the workers where and how deep to carve. The sculpture on Rushmore was never completely finished, but what was accomplished was a marvel of old-fashioned know-how. There's a 60-second skippable ad at 4:00, and the last half-minute is promotional. (via Laughing Squid)
The Vice-Presidential Debate
In last night's opening skit on Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang and Jim Gaffigan made the debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance a lot more entertaining than the real thing.
Stray Cat Interrupts Turkish Newscast
A stray cat secretly enters local studio, pops up on TV show in Denizli province, surprising the presenter, audiencehttps://t.co/7IOd1Q6gT7 pic.twitter.com/Wwe9QbyV22— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) October 18, 2016
Kudret Celebioglu kept his cool when a cat jumped up on the news desk as he was live on air. The cat even sat down on the computer keyboard like he owned the place. Celebioglu finished the story he was doing, then announced that it was getting colder outside, and people should take in the stray cats that roam the streets. Afterward, the TV station adopted this cat. (via Buzzfeed)
Tweet of the Day
I think I know what Cousin James was planning to do with that pop-gun. pic.twitter.com/b8804RjPbj
— Undine (@HorribleSanity) September 29, 2024
Saturday, October 05, 2024
There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth
Life as we know it exists on the surface of earth. Life as we are learning more and more about exists in the oceans, even when they are really deep and incompatible with surface life. But there's a whole other biosphere underground, and that means way underground, going down miles under our feet. Down there where it is too hot, dark, and oxygen-depleted for most living things, there are microbes and multicellular life forms that thrive on heat and toxic chemicals. They make their own ecosystems out of whatever they can, including rocks, each other, and even their own bodies. Kurzgesagt shows us some of the bizarre adaptations that living creatures have developed in order to live and even thrive deep in the rocks underground. You might be surprised at the British pronunciation of "methane," which took me off guard. The last two minutes of this video are promotional.
A Trip to the Zoo
If you’re in the right frame of mind, like if you’ve seen a lot of
horror movie because it’s October, you can find horror anywhere.
Shadrach451 shared a picture he took of his daughters at the zoo. It turned out to look like a teaser for a creepy horror film. He even has a plot for it.
I like to think that it's about a Ghost Zoo, and their father is one of the exhibits, called "The Weeping Man". And these girls go every week so they can visit their dead father, but one day they show up and find that there is a new exhibit being built next door and they read the sign and it says "Children of The Weeping Man". In horror they turn towards their father, locked in the green chamber of torment and he says, "My daughters, oh my daughters... why do you think I'm weeping?"The image inspired two movie posters, one from JimmerUK and the other from Your_Post_As_A_Movie. But it’s the story that sold me. If someone makes that movie, we have evidence of the inspiration.
Get You a Man Who Loves Cats
Horacio Rodriguez never got to keep a cat when he was a boy, and Brianna Sanchez had boyfriends in the past who did not like cats. When these two got together, they took in foster kittens, so they knew their relationship would work. It's wonderful to find a kindred spirit who wants to make the world a better place. Watch the two of them care for a litter of five black and tuxedo kittens! And best wishes for the wedding!
Nightmare at the Vet Clinic
Simon's Cat is a nightmare when he's taken somewhere he doesn't want to be. I have to send this to Dr. Doolittle.
A Machine Learning
Have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence becomes intelligent? It learns. Jacob Werner caught a machine doing it.
The secret behind machine learning. This is how machines collect data. There isn't and won't be a more efficient way to gather information for machines. This is how artificial intelligence works and is created.And now you know how it’s done.
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