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Friday, July 26, 2024
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The Marsh Family is crazy good at what they do. This song is set to the tune of "Dancing Queen" by ABBA. You'll find the lyrics and more commentary at the YouTube page.
Space Movie
Every space movie! 🍿 she seemed to do the zero g pretty well.Movies in space seem to follow a formula. This woman, I haven't identified her yet, plays all the parts and plays them well. (via Everlasting Blort)
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A First for the Olympics
The Olympic torch relay has been going on since April, when the flame was lit at Mt. Olympus in Greece. As the torch nears the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, the more prestigious the torchbearers are. The final torchbearers who lights the Olympic flame is a mystery, and it's always a parlor game to guess which host nation superstar athlete it will be by process of elimination.
French athlete Kevin Piette is one of the 2024 torchbearers. Piette became a paraplegic 11 years ago, and will compete in the Paralympics in tennis. He is also a "test pilot" for the French company Wandercraft that developed the Atalante X, a self-balancing walking exoskeleton designed to be used by people with disabilities. Tueday, Piette became the first Paralympian to participate in the torch relay wearing an exoskeleton. (via Laughing Squid)
Miss Cellania's Links
26 Customer Reviews So Funny, You'll Forget What You Were Shopping For.
The Creepy Beauty of Piñatas of Earthly Delights.
A Trillion Rogue Planets and Not One Sun to Shine on Them. (via Metafilter)
Hershey's unveils Reese's Pumpkins early for the first time. Get them by mail order, and pray for fast shipping.
5 Guys Who Used Their Last Words to Troll Everyone. It's likely they didn't know those would be their last words, but they were nevertheless clever.
This History Buff Found a Scrap of George Washington’s Tent at Goodwill.
Cheesemaking is a complex science – a food chemist explains the process from milk to mozzarella.
A Blast from the Past (2015): Remembering Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer.
Kittens Playing in Boxes
Before there was radio or TV, we used to sit around and laugh at the cat. Then we got movies, TV, and then the internet, and now we sit around and watch other people’s cats do funny cat stuff.
Cats love boxes, and kittens are playful, so a kitten in a box is a double delight! Enjoy this compilation from CrazyFunnyStuff. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Weapon of Choice
Fatboy Slim gave us an unforgettable video in 2001 with his song "Weapon of Choice" featuring Christopher Walken dancing solo through a Marriot hotel. Twenty-three years later, the students of St Wilfrid's Catholic School in Crawley, West Sussex, England, made their own version to celebrate the end of the school year. The star is their head teacher Michael Ferry. The school also posted a side-by-side comparison with the original to show how close they are.
The school couldn't compete with the expensive special effects of the original, so that's where having a volunteer chorus line comes in handy. This goes to show that there are still people having fun the internet these days. (via Metafilter)
Easy Summer Icebox Cake
The idea of icebox cake was perfect for the 1920s, when no one had air conditioning, and we certainly didn't want to fire up an oven to bake a cake in the heat of summer. But more and more people had their own icebox, or even a refrigerator. Recipes for icebox cake were good for selling newfangled processed foods and for selling refrigerators. The basic recipe is ready-made pastry such as cookies or graham crackers, layered with pudding and/or whipped cream, often with fruit and/or nuts.
In the video above, Claire Saffitz shows us how to make an icebox cake with plums and Biscoff. The printed recipe is at the YouTube page. But over the last 100 years, there have been as many recipes for icebox cake as there are cooks who don't want to bake in the summer. Find a roundup of those recipes at Metafilter, both in the post and in the comments.
Funny Bone
Did we name that bone in our arms the humerus because it's the funny bone, or was it the other way around? That's the joke, because the bone is not spelled humorous; it's just a homophone. Or a homobone, if you're being silly. We call that horrible feeling if striking our elbow "hitting our funny bone" because it feels funny, but it's funny/weird, not funny/haha. What we are hitting isn't even a bone, anyway, it's the ulnar nerve, which is very important because it connects our brains to our hands. But the strange placement of that nerve that makes it vulnerable to strikes is necessary for the way we move. Our dexterity comes with a cost. This TED-Ed lesson from Cella Wright explains what's going on in our elbows when we hit our funny bone.
Miss Cellania's Links
Jimmy Carter showing Secret Service how to properly jump over a fence.
The 10 Worst Comedy Movies of All Time, According to Roger Ebert. You may want to argue about number four. (via Fark)
How to Clean Your Vinyl Siding. It's easier than you think.
What to Know about Project 2025’s Dangers to Science. Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence (via Kottke)
Why Plan 9 From Outer Space is Better Than Its Reputation Suggests.
Supreme Court Justice Roberts' Umpiring Academy. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
How to Wake Up a Bassett Hound.
Star Wars Outlaws: Inside the Quest to Make the First Star Wars Open-World Game.
Korean Movie Theaters
What’s it like to go see a movie at a theater in Korea? It can be an experience you’ll never forget. While American theaters focus on simplicity in order to serve as many people as possible, a trip to the movies on the other side of the world can be as individual as you like. Get yourself some butter squid and beer, or maybe some cheesecake, and relax in a soft reclining couch… or even a bed! There is no end to the upgrades you can get at a movie theater for just an extra dollar or two in Korea. It can be as comfortable as watching a movie at home, except on a screen the size of an iMax theater. (via Digg)
Tweet of the Day
(via Everlasting Blort)When you turn to an exercise class and have no idea what you're doing pic.twitter.com/Ix2gipgEME
— B&S (@_B___S) July 14, 2024
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