Ten
Products With Unfortunate Names And What Those Names Actually Mean. Knowing doesn't make them any less funny.
The French TV show
Le Petit Journal explores
what Fox News has been saying about France.
Watch for English subtitles when the narrative is in French, and French
subtitles when the clips are in English. “No-go zone” is the same in
both languages- because it doesn’t make any sense. (via
reddit)
If
you were a young man visiting Philadelphia, you’d want to run up the
steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art just like Rocky Balboa. These
guys did, and
found Sylvester Stallone waiting for them at the top.
California's Forests Have
Lost Half Their Big Trees. And that’s according to data collected before the current drought, so it might actually be worse now.
The 7 Stages of
Your Caffeine Addiction. This rings true, although I never had that “trying to quit” phase.
An 1872 editorial in the New York Times begins with the premise that
only insane people surround themselves with cats. It is taken as fact that cats are “treacherous, selfish, and cunning,” while a dog is a “respectable and upright animal.” (via
mental_floss)
Kate Beaton at Hark! A Vagrant has introduced me to another new historical figure. Born in 1886,
Tom Longboat was an Onandagan from the Six Nations reserve in Ontario and an outstanding athlete.
An artist in Tasmania is
altering discarded Bratz dolls. He/she gets them from second hand shops, repaints their faces with more realistic features and no makeup, and gives them new molded feet and new (often crocheted) clothing. (via
Metafilter)
21 Things You Might Not Know
About Justified.
