Tom BetGeorge"s Halloween Light Show 2026

 

Tom BetGeorge has unveiled his annual Halloween light show at his home in California. It begins with his favorite movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas. The opening segment of the show "This is Halloween" uses computer synchronized music, strings of lights, lasers, drones, fire, water fountains, and projections all at once. The Jack O'Lantern in the sky is 400 feet tall, and the aerial Jack Skellington is almost as big. The second song in the show is a '90s hip hop compilation called Giant Lowrider in the Sky. 



A third segment with the song "Sabotage"by the Beastie Boys premiers tonight at 9 Eastern. 

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Who do you trust the most for accurate reporting: Russian sources, the Daily Mail, or Twitter? (via Bits and Pieces)

Nikon Small World in Motion Winning Video May Be AI

Nikon announced the winners of their annual Small World in Motion competition last week. The winning video was from Dr. Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing. The video shows "abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD), a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function." The above video shows the top five videos from the competition.

However, as soon as the winner was announced, other scientists started crying foul. The cilia seem to be the wrong size, and some structures seem to disappear at times. One researcher ran the video through Google Gemini and found an invisible watermark that may indicate the video was generated by artificial intelligence. Dr. Xu responded to the criticism, but since then, his comments at LinkedIn and his entire profile have been deleted. Nikon says it is re-reviewing the video and supplemental information about it. Read about the kerfluffle in the Small World in Motion winner's seat at PetaPixel.  (via Damn Interesting) 

Miss Cellania's Links

Here's a theremin online you can play for free! It's called Air Theremin, and if you enable your camera, it will follow your hand motions. (via Boing Boing) 

We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along. (via Fark) 

30 Ridiculous Reasons People Got In Trouble At Work That Make No Sense. 

What was the cause of the global armaggeddon? The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug. 

The Cats of McSorley’s Old Ale House, 

Rosie the Riveter Was the Wrong Woman for Thirty Years, and a Caption Glued to the Back of a Press Print Fixed It. The story of the guy who found the real Rosie.  (Thanks, Jim!) 

Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever. More at Metafilter. 

Portraits Found in the Attic: Black Women in the Gilded Age.

What is going on with ceiling fans? Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell is shocked by "fandoliers" and other abominations.  

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Bus Pushes the Limits

We know in our heads that suspension bridges are flexible, but we don't normally see them put under so much stress that they have a visible bend. The weight limit on the one-lane Beaver Bridge in Beaver, Arkansas, is ten tons. The bus could easily be twice that, possibly several times that. You have to wonder what it feels like to ride that bus, and then you have to wonder what damage it's doing to the bridge over time. (via Digg)

A Talk with Buster

There's nothing more passive-aggressive than a conversation with a pet in earshot of your actual target. This is from Megacynics.

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Dancing In The Movies

Wanna see some real dancing, like the way they used to do it? You'll enjoy this supercut. (Thanks, gwdMaine!)

Chicken Strips

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Presumptuous Fortune Cookie

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The World's Biggest Manmade Hole

The Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah is the biggest hole that humans have ever dug. Copper was discovered in the area in 1848, and they've been digging it out ever since. An open-pit mine proved to be the easiest way to extract the massive seam of low-grade porphyry copper ore, which also yields some gold, silver, lead, molybdenum, platinum, and palladium. The key to reaching it was explosives. What could possibly go wrong? 

Let's count: the danger of the explosives, the sheer work put into the project, the extra work to extract copper and other metals from the 400,000 tons of material removed every day, toxic chemicals exposed (it's a Superfund site), displaced residents, contaminated groundwater, the threat of flooding, and the danger of collapse. There's probably more, but the mine is quite profitable, even after all this time, so they'll keep digging the world's biggest hole even bigger. The video is only 5:37; the rest is an ad. 

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What an Underground Nuclear Test Looks Like

America's most powerful underground nuclear test took place on Nov. 6, 1971, more than a mile underneath Amchitka Island in Alaska. You can read about the Cannikin Project here. (via Digg)

Let the Festivities Begin!

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Halloween Props

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Have Rocket, Will Travel

Have Rocket, Will Travel is a Three Stooges feature from 1959. It was Joe DeRita's first big screen appearance with the Stooges. The plot is pretty simple- Moe, Larry, and Joe are janitors at a space agency who launch themselves on a rocket by accident. They land on Venus and manage to accidentally lure evil robots back to earth with them. The movie was shot in 13 days and made back six times the budget. (Thanks, WTM!)  

Wondering

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The Con Man Who Invented Anesthesia

The timeline for the development of surgical anesthesia is filled with steps that make it difficult to pinpoint who invented it. First there was alcohol and opium, which required dangerous amounts to help at all with surgery. Then there was nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, which kept scientists so busy getting high that its use in surgery was delayed considerably. 

William Morton turned to ether, which had already been used in medical cases. He wasn't even the first to use it in surgery. See, Morton wasn't a surgeon, but a dentist. But Morton got the credit for ether, because it happened to work when he publicly demonstrated it. And he didn't get what he really wanted out of it, because it wasn't patentable. The real winners were the rest of us, because so many doctors and scientists worked on the problem, today we have a variety of drugs that can dull the pain of surgery. (via Damn Interesting)