Cat Lady Road Trip

In 1969, Mrs. 'Manx' Morgan decided to surprise her husband and spend Christmas with him in Adelaide, so she drove their from their home in Sydney. However, Mrs. Morgan was a cat breeder, so she packed up and took 55 cats along for the ride. The Australian Broadcasting Company interviewed her about the journey. (via Metafilter)

The Dream

Dream on, Chris. Your kids will get to that point eventually, but once they grow up, there's no going back. This comic is from Lunarbaboon.

Putting the Fun in Funeral

From 1907. (via Undine)

Rock of Ages (Mix)

    
You want some rock 'n' roll? Here's all of it, just about. There's a list of the songs used in this mix by DJ Schmolli at the YouTube page. 
    

Seven Pound Bags

(via Give Me a Sign)

The Bad Crow

Crows have a reputation as scary and sometimes even evil. We can thank Edgar Allan Poe for that, even though his poem was about a raven. Different bird, but few can tell the difference. In this story, the crow is supposed to be bad, but this cute little bird doesn't want to be bad! 

Body Awareness

(via She Who Seeks)

Do You Like Piña Coladas?

Max Miller talks about piña coladas to the point you want to get up and make one, except you'd have to go to the store and get the ingredients. But what would you buy? He explains the normal piña colada you'd be served in most places today is made with coconut cream and pureed pineapple and is quite sweet. That's the recipe we got from Puerto Rico in 1954. Then there's also the older piña colada, made with coconut milk and didn't always contain rum, which originated from Cuba. 

But wait a minute. When I was a kid, the only "coconut milk" you could get came in a can and was thick and sweet like sweetened condensed milk. That was also what I used to make piña coladas when I was a bartender in the 1970s. But today, you can get cashew milk, almond milk, oat milk, coconut milk, etc. etc. which are made by blending water with food solids. I would imagine that makes a very different piña colada. You have to wonder how it compares with the original from Cuba, which was no doubt made with the thin, sweet water straight from the inside of a coconut.  

People will still argue about using pureed pineapple vs. pineapple juice, or whether to add cream, and always which rum is best, but I don't think I've ever met a piña colada that I didn't like. There's a skippable ad from 3:10 to 4:20. (via Laughing Squid) 

Fresh Turkey

(via Fark)

She Dribbles

This is 8-year old girl Samaya Clark-Gabriel, showing off her skills to the Harlem Globetrotters at Madison Square Garden. Atta girl! (via Boing Boing)

Boathouses and Houseboats

While your new naming convention makes perfect sense, I would never be able to get used to it. This comic is from Randall Munroe at xkcd.

Emergency Wine Tasting

(via Bad Newspaper)

The Outlaws Is Coming

The Outlaws Is Coming is a 1965 feature Western spoof starring The Three Stooges: Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe, played by Joe DeRita. The three manage to accidentally get sent to the Wild West town of Caspar, Wyoming, in 1871. There they must help an investigative journalist and sheriff, played by Adam West, thwart the villain in his scheme to eradicate the buffalo and take over the entire frontier. (Thanks, WTM!)

Class Presentation

(via reddit)

Minecraft

(via Cracked)

What Happened to Men's Fashions?

In the animal kingdom, the males of the species are often much fancier than the females. In humans, however, fancy dress has usually followed class lines more than gender. The higher the status, the more colorful and accessorized the fashions were. By the Middle Ages, both men and women of high status in Western civilization wore wigs, lace, and high heels, while the working class wore plainer clothes. But today, women of all classes wear a variety of styles and colors, while men all look alike: dark suits in congress, khakis at the office, or jeans at the work site. 

What happened? It was a fashion movement during the Regency Era (the early 19th century) now called "the great male renunciation." The move was gradual, but it gave us the idea that a man has better things to do than to care how he looks. It was never true, but it sure made picking an outfit for the day easier.   

Miss Cellania's Links

Kermit the Frog Was Just Trying to Put on a Variety Show. Fifty Years Later, the Muppets Are Some of the Biggest Stars in Television History. 

The Difference LED Lighting Makes, as Seen from Space. 

How to make the world's most awesome waffle fry. Caveat: you can't do it. (via Nag on the Lake) 

As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind. How to help at Metafilter. 

The Undertaker’s Parade Float: 1885. (via Strange Company) 

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale. (via Damn Interesting) 

Dolly Parton had a funny line ready for any occasion. 

‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes. (via Fark) 

A Blast from the Past (2015): 6 Deadly Labor Disputes. 

Happy Labor Day

To celebrate working people and the labor movement, we all take a day off work. That is, everyone except for retail workers, caregivers, hospital staff, police, TV and radio people, emergency workers, restaurant workers, farmers, pilots, bus drivers, truck drivers, taxi drivers, and gig economy workers (like me). Come to think of it, the only people taking the day off are government workers (but not all of them) and bank tellers. Oh well. Happy Labor Day, anyway.

The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps

We become more dependent on Google Maps every day. You can find out all kinds of things about your own part of the world from those maps, which may surprise you -you didn't know that was the name of your neighborhood! Well, maybe it isn't. Anomalies and mistakes on Google Maps have real-world consequences, including almost starting a war between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. (via Laughing Squid)

Menagerie Sinks Marriage

(via Undine)