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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
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When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats. Before World War II, holiday mischief was serious and rampant.
19 Delicious Things To Make For Día De Los Muertos. Sugar skulls are fine, but there's so much more to enjoy.
After I Adopted Two Black Babies, I Realized My Church Was Full Of Racists.
9 Horror Movies Inspired by Real-Life Events.
How to Sign Up for Health Insurance This Year.
The maternal death rate in the US more than doubled between 1987 and 2013, and black women are dying at the highest rates of all. (via Metafilter)
The Long, Strange History of People Filing Flying Saucer Patents. Believe it or not, none have made their inventors rich.
Google’s CEO Says the Company Will Drop Everything to Fix its Appalling Burger Emoji. Users are upset that its not stacked correctly.
These Are The Driving Rules That Everyone Ignores. A little consideration for other drivers would make the world a much better place.
Monsters
A mashup of movie monsters by Eclectic Method. I think I've seen every one of these films! (via The Daily What)
Monday, October 30, 2017
Halloween 1910
This just goes to show that no matter how realistic our modern Halloween masks are, they aren't nearly as creepy as the unrealistic ones from 100 years ago. (via Weird Vintage)
A Modern Horror Story
The President Show from Comedy Central places our president and vice president in a scary place: the Donald Trump State Park. There, thy encounter an evil force that threatens their existence.
They have reason to be frightened of the Muellerman.
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Zombies in the Real World. The Lost Children of Tuam. In the Irish home for unwed mothers, the children paid the price.
Forgotten Romantic Rituals of Halloween’s Past.
How Martin Luther Changed the World. In honor of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the New Yorker has a relatively short biography of Martin Luther, warts and all, and a simple explanation of the beliefs that led him to revolt against the Catholic Church. (via Digg)
The Ultimate Halloween Candy Power Ranking. Walt Hickey crunches the numbers to determine why we like the candy we like.
The Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century. Update your watch list for new and expanded thrills.
Why Clocks "Falling Back" Are Good For Your Brain. There are practical reasons we don't stay on Daylight Saving Time all year long.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a country doctor who found that a second doctor had set up shop in his village. Dr. Ripley is shocked to find that Dr. Smith is a woman!
Burials Unearthed in Poland Open the Casket on The Secret Lives of Vampires. An archeological excavation of a cemetery in Drawsko, Poland, reveals some of the lengths that the villagers went to to make sure the dead stayed dead when they were buried.
Who Was Dr. Frankenstein? Meet the many men who influenced Mary Shelley's novel.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
"This Is Halloween" Light Show 2017
Tom BetGeorge always goes all out for his Christmas light shows. This year, the neighbors are being treated to the same attention to detail in a Halloween light show! This house in Tracey, California, tells the story of The Nightmare Before Christmas, starting with the song "This is Halloween."
I have two ceramic pumpkins with a string of orange lights stuck inside each. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Elephants vs. Giant Pumpkins
Elephants and giant pumpkins come together in an orgy of destruction during the Oregon Zoo's annual Squishing of the Squash! The crowd was impressed by both the huge elephants and the huge pumpkins. The elephants like the pumpkins as both playthings and a snack. And they know smashing pumpkins is a crowd-pleaser. The Squishing of the Squash kicks off a series of 'Howloween' events at the Oregon Zoo. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Mark Hamill Talks to Himself
Mark Hamill is almost as famous for being the voice of The Joker as he is for being Luke Skywalker. In this Justice League Action short from Cartoon network, Hamill does all the voices: the Joker, Trickster, and "famous actor Mark Hamill," which is a younger and somewhat steroid-enhanced version of Hamill -as you would expect in a comic book character. The plot proves to be weirdly meta when "famous actor Mark Hamill" saves the day by using his unique superpower- his voice acting skills! (via Laughing Squid)
Friday, October 27, 2017
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Halloween in the City of Bones. Derry, Northern Ireland, takes the ancient Gaelic Samhain festival to a new level.
Epic Ink: How Japanese Warrior Prints Popularized the Full-Body Tattoo. Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi started it all in the 1820s.
Raëlism has a Strange History, and an Even Stranger Leader. Claude Vorilhon was abducted by aliens, and then became a prophet for a new cult.
Ted Bundy Abducted And Nearly Murdered Me: How I Survived.
Cosplayer Alyson Tabbitha Can Transform Herself Into Anyone. Her costumes are impressive, but the real secret is the makeup.
The Most Mind-Boggling "Sexy Costumes" of Halloween 2017. It doesn't have to make sense to sell.
How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America.
8 Historic Accounts of Werewolves. Wolves and people who acted like wolves were so dangerous that they spawned a legend.
Simon's Cat Logic Celebrates National Black Cat Day
In the US, we celebrate August 17 as Black Cat Appreciation Day. In the UK, October 27 is National Black Cat Day, so Simon Tofield and veterinarian Nicky Treverrow of Cat's Protection made a video about black cats. In Britain, black cats are not considered particularly unlucky -or else the populace is not particularly superstitious. However, black cats in shelters still get the short end of the adoption stick. Why don't people select black cats for adoption? Because it's hard to see their facial expressions compared to brightly colored cats. A cat's personality come out in body language anyway, so don't write off the possibility of a wonderful pet when you see a black cat. Tofield lets us in on a secret: both the cat and the kitten in his cartoons are based on real black cats. As usual, this Simon's Cat Logic video is followed by a classic Simon' Cat cartoon.
Tweet of the Day
I've been picking apples in the autumn since before it was cool to post about it on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/9hJLCwV6Fc— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) October 22, 2017
(via reddit)
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Simon's Cat in Off to the Vet
The good news is that Simon Tofield has given us a full-color 12-minute Simon's Cat cartoon. The bad news is that that cat has been stung by a bee, and must go see the veterinarian. The cat does not want to go, so the struggle to get there is half the fun. This plays out like every cat owner's experience, from getting the cat into a carrier, to the waiting room full of strange animals, to the painful bill, to realizing that when a cat is asleep in your lap, the TV remote will be out of reach. While the film has just been uploaded to YouTube, it has already been shown at films festivals and won the McLaren Award for Best British Animation at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016.
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The Giant Frog Farms of the 1930s Were a Giant Failure. The demand was real, but producing the supply was harder than it looked.
10 Real Animals That Seem Make-Believe. Mother Nature has given us some odd mashup versions of more familiar creatures.
What Happens When A Troubled Police Department Refuses To Reform? We're finding out in Albuquerque.
Unconventional Domino Tricks by Hevesh5 and Kaplamino. Keep your cursor on the pause button, because you'll want to see what just happened again.
How Carnival Games Scam You, According To Science. Former NASA engineer Mark Rober selects the ones you might have a chance to beat.
You Should Thank Maurice Hilleman for Helping You Live Past the Age of 10. He developed more than 40 vaccines for childhood illnesses.
The Mystery of Kathryn Scharn. Her murder case had too many suspects and not enough unbiased investigation.
The Body Trade. If you donate a body to medical science, you may be fueling a gruesome but profitable business.
And somewhat related: The Era of the Body Snatchers. When medical education butted up against the concept of eternal rest.
Tweet of the Day
i wish this video never ended pic.twitter.com/6J3U0zLccd— spooky fer (@hecsrevenge) September 24, 2017
(via Buzzfeed)
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
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Dracula 1979: Celebrating Frank Langella's Rock Star Count. The overlooked Dracula is still the sexiest.
Slashdot Tech Headlines Written by a Neural Network. Some are hilarious; others are evidence of the robot uprising. (via Metafilter)
The American Reporter Who Rode With Pancho Villa. Jack Reed took great risks to get the story and to live the adventure.
Japan's Infamous Halloween Trains. In the 1990s, the subway became a place for Halloween partying, much to the annoyance of officials and regular commuters.
This Three-Story Tiny House Fits In the Footprint Of A Parking Space. Behold a house called Tikki that needs only a little more than 8' x 16'.
Grace Spelman moved to a new apartment with her cat Pierogi. Pierogi has found plenty of wonderful new places to hide while Grace gets things organized. (via Metafilter)
The IQ Test has a Dark History. It has been used to sort the worthy from the unworthy in many different ways.
How A Two-Person Montana Company Ended Up With The Biggest Energy Contract In Puerto Rico. It helps when you know the Secretary of the Interior.
Tweet of the Day
The 100th episode paying homage to the pilot! 😱😍 #TheWalkingDeadpic.twitter.com/p86KZHIrtV— #TWD Fan Page (@FTWDFans) October 23, 2017
You might have noticed something familiar about the opening scene in The Walking Dead's season 8 premiere. Now see the two side-by-side and marvel at how close they were. (via Uproxx)
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Trompe-l'œil Crosswalk
Imagine driving downtime road and seeing a zebra crossing floating in the air. Maybe that would make you pay attention to the road! Or at least, that's the idea. This Trompe-l'œil illusion was painted on a crosswalk in Ísafjörður, Iceland, for the specific purpose of grabbing the attention of distracted drivers. And it's pretty cool looking, too. An illusion painted on the road is not a new idea- it's been done in Vancouver, Canada; Ahmedabad, India; and somewhere in Kyrgyzstan. And yeah, it only works in one direction.
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An Oral History of David S. Pumpkins. The SNL sketch was barely ready by showtime, but the audience loved it. (via Metafilter)
In 1963, Félicette became the first cat to fly into space. She returned to Earth unharmed, and may finally get a monument in Paris.
Women Face Unfair Standards When Dressing for Work. A uniform would make thing much easier.
Hilarious Photos Of People Getting Spooked By a Haunted House. Nightmares Fear Factory catches patrons in full terror by flash photography.
How Jane Goodall Became Jane Goodall. The new documentary on her life is fascinating, but there's more to her story.
Here's What My Parents's 1974 Wedding Would Cost In 2017 Dollars. Even after adjusting for inflation, the price of wedding components has quadrupled in the past 40 years.
13 Secrets of Halloween Costume Designers.
10 Obscure Cult Horror Movies Everyone Should Watch (and Re-Watch).
Equifax Deserves the Corporate Death Penalty. They did one thing, and screwed it up so badly the rest of us have to pay the price.
Curse of the Dancing Mummy
Have you seen the dancing mummy on your local weather report? He's a CGI mummy doing the twist, and he's the star of a very popular Halloween graphic that appears to be used at least once a year in every television market. What wasn't included in the graphics package was a warning that this mummy has a supernatural power. He makes every meteorologist who looks at him start dancing. Badly. News Be Funny made a compilation of clips using this same graphic at dozens of TV stations. Maybe your local weather forecaster is in there! (via Tastefully Offensive)
Tweet of the Day
Tfw ur a bug but u are also Helena Bonham Carter pic.twitter.com/Ex33MIwNyT— 🔪Slashie Stabmaldi (@CassieGrimaldi) September 26, 2017
(via Buzzfeed)
Monday, October 23, 2017
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6 Utterly Terrifying Unsolved Mysteries No One Can Explain.
How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump.
4 Reasons The Walking Dead Hates Humans More Than Zombies. That's not the way an apocalypse works.
All The Good Dogs At the 2017 Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. It's where New Yorkers take their dogs every year to show off their Halloween costumes!
What Happened at Nikola Tesla's Secret Experimental Station? He worked on some really big ideas in Colorado Springs.
George Lucas owes the look and feel of Star Wars to one key collaborator. Ralph McQuarrie also had a hand in your other favorite science fiction tales.
The Meanings Behind 19 Classic Sailor Tattoos. Those who travel the world in ships have souvenirs inked in their skin to show where they've been, what they have done, and their hopes for survival.
The Minister Who Invented Camping in America. William Murray was the catalyst of many factors that led Americans to embrace the great outdoors in the 1860s.
Ten Years of None Pizza with Left Beef. Steve Molaro gave us an icon of our modern automated world.
The Elevator Horror
The Brazilian TV show Programa Silvio Santos pulls an elevator prank that would have lawsuits flying in the US. It's terrifying to watch, and even worse for the unsuspecting elevator riders. (via Uproxx)
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Truck vs. Bridge
The infamous site 11foot8 monitors the underpass on Gregson Street in Durham, North Carolina. Last weekend, another truck driver did not heed the sign warning of the 11 foot eight inch clearance, nor the flashing lights. They ran the red light, too, so the driver may just be blind, or at least oblivious. You get to see the carnage from two angles, plus slow-motion. And it's a rental truck, so the driver will have some 'splainin' to do. (via Boing Boing)
Tweet of the Day
TEDDY BEAR TRUST FALL pic.twitter.com/JICygV61B5— Eminent Intellectual (@Hey___its___me) October 18, 2017
(via Buzzfeed)
Saturday, October 21, 2017
The Return of Dracula
This film from 1958 stars Francis Lederer as Dracula. From Wikipedia:
It is set in a small town in California in the 1950s, where Count Dracula arrives in the form of an artist named Belak Gordal (Lederer) who has traveled from Europe to visit his cousin, Cora Mayberry (Greta Granstedt). The story revolves around his interaction with Cora's daughter, Rachel (Eberhardt).[2]
When shown on television, it was sometimes titled Curse of Dracula.[2] In the U.K it was released theatrically as The Fantastic Disappearing Man.[3] Later in 1958, the film Horror of Dracula appeared in theaters in both the UK and the U.S., and The Return of Dracula would have a lack of attention due to Christopher Lee's new stardom as the Count.
Master Tambourine Skills
Japanese TV is a treasure. In this performance, tambourine master Gonzo shows off his stuff on the variety show Gaki No Tsukai. This is actually the portion of the show in which the celebrity panel in the audience is charged with keeping a straight face. The punishment came because they couldn't help but laugh. Gonzo's partner in the act is one of the show's producers. Gonzo went on to perform on the show Asia's Got Talent, where he got a standing ovation. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
.@KFC follows 11 people.— Edge (@edgette22) October 19, 2017
Those 11 people? 5 Spice Girls and 6 guys named Herb.
11 Herbs & Spices. I need time to process this.
(via Metafilter)
Friday, October 20, 2017
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11 True And Truly Horrific Halloween Horror Stories. Warning: true crime.
Make Your Own Rathtar-O’-Lantern.
Men, here’s what you can do to fight rape culture.
Dogs Have Pet Facial Expressions to Use on Humans, Study Finds. They learn what we like, and use it to communicate with us.
The Year of the Witch. Hartford, Connecticut, spent 1662 and 1663 in a frenzy to identify witches among the townspeople.
What Does the Hamburger Helper’s Skeleton Look Like? Each possibility is more ridiculous than the last.
The Wages Are Too Damn Low.
A Catfishing With a Happy Ending. The man she met online was an impostor, but then she met the guy he had stolen a profile picture from.
The Haunted Hospital. Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been a TB hospital, a nursing home, a failed religious monument, and now a paranormal investigation site.
Tweet of the Day
In the "I'm getting old" department.., a kid saw this and said, "oh, you 3D-printed the 'Save' Icon." pic.twitter.com/rwgCpSjfDQ— Bill Gross (@Bill_Gross) October 17, 2017
I hear ya loud and clear.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
My College Transition
Making friends in college is easy for some, difficult for others, and neither is abnormal. My college daughter made friends easily freshman year, but then transferred to a more serious school where everyone is busy working and studying. My older daughter didn't get to know people until the end of her freshman year. Everyone I knew during my freshman year dropped out and I didn't get to know anyone else until I got into the higher classes of my major, and that was 40 years ago. Emery Bergmann tells her story in video form.
Bullying Jr.
Burger King released a video about bullying. They staged a scene of high school students bullying a kid in the dining area, and the also "bullied" their Whopper Jr. burgers. That's the goofy part. They compare how many people complained about the burger to how many people stood up for the kid. As you can guess, more people were concerned about the burger. After all, they paid for that.
It's the later part of the video that gets you, when people are shown intervening in the teenager's abuse. That might trigger you. You can say that won't help, and might even make the bullying worse at a different location. But a lot of folks in the reddit comments recalled being bullied as a child, and their clearest memories were of that one time someone stood up for them and let them know they weren't alone. The ad directs you to the No Bully site.
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7 Times Misleading Movie Trailers Didn't Align with the Film. The trailer's only purpose is to get you into the theater, where you may be surprised.
Math Suggests Inequality Can Be Fixed With Wealth Redistribution, Not Tax Cuts.
Flowers Have Secret Blue Halos That Bumblebees Can See. The effect is produced mechanically instead of chemically.
Searching for the Identity of San Francisco’s Mysterious Mummified Girl. DNA analysis and a painstaking records search have given her a name and a history.
Jets Fan Who Stands For National Anthem Sits On American Flag.
Learn to Make Alien Facehugger Pudding Cups for Your Halloween party. They have edible Alien eggs and facehuggers, they fizz, they glow in the dark, and they're delicious!
From Folk to Acid Rock, How Marty Balin Launched the San Francisco Music Scene. More than just the founder of Jefferson Airplane, he encouraged the opening of clubs and auditoriums, promoted festivals, and welcomed bands from all over.
The Wikipedia Markov Masher is a generator that will mix two Wikipedia articles together into a paragraph that almost, but not quite, makes sense in an artificial intelligence way. See some really funny examples here.
The NFL’s leaked memo on acceptable player stances during the national anthem. One commenter said, "When oh when can we return to the simple brutal joy of watching grown men chase a ball around while giving each other lifelong bodily and brain injuries?"
Tweet of the Day
What is wrong with you? pic.twitter.com/vCwfYFVbzL— sHaunted Usher (@ShaunUsher) October 17, 2017
@sHaunted Usher is Shaun Usher from Letters of Note. I knew him back when he had a humor and link blog called Deputy Dog.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Nate the Snake
As he is standing there, looking around at the beauty of the early morn, he notices a lever sticking out of the ground. After a few moments, he walks over, walks all the way around, and then reaches out to grasp the lever. Just as he does, he hears a voice say, "Don't touch that lever."
The driver jumps about two feet off the ground, and as he comes down, he looks around. No one is to be seen. Thinking it was just his imagination, he again reaches for the lever. Again the voice yells, "I said don't touch that lever!" Being more prepared, the driver senses the location of the voice and looks down under a sage brush. There he sees a small snake.
The driver, in much astonishment, said, "Was that you that just spoke?"
The snake said, "Yes. I have to keep people from touching that lever. If the lever is moved, it will be the end of the world."
The driver, still rather astonished, said, "What is your name? And will you talk on TV?" The snake said his name was Nate and that he wasn't interested in going on TV; anyway, he had to stay and watch the lever to see that it wasn't moved.
The driver said, "Look, I will get the networks to send out camera crews. That way, you can inform the entire world about the danger of the lever."
Nate thought that over and allowed as how there was a great deal of sense to the idea. The driver, true to his word, got the network camera crews out. They put on broadcasts in which Nate warned the entire world of the dangers of moving the lever.
A few weeks later, another truck driver was going through the area. He was following an oil tanker, and the tanker sprang a leak. When the driver's truck hit the slick, it went out of control, and he found himself headed straight for the lever. He remembered seeing Nate on the TV telling about the lever and so he knew that if he hit it, he would cause the world to end. He strove, with all his might to maneuver the truck. Finally, at the last moment, he was able to swerve, but he ran over Nate, the snake, and killed him flat!
The truck driver was heard to say "Well, better Nate than lever."'
(via reddit)
Giant Robot Duel: USA vs Japan
Two years ago, the U.S. company Megabots challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a giant robot battle. The Japanese company agreed to pit their robots against the Americans. It took some time to get the robots ready, but the time finally came. The matchups were large loud, slow, and not at all safe, so the battles were recorded in secret and then the video was live-streamed last night. The first fight, between the robots Iron Glory and Kuratas, begins at about seven minutes in. The second one, between Eagle Prime and Kuratas, begins at 13 minutes.
The robots go at each other with battering rams, claws, chainsaws, drones, and guns. For a publicity stunt, this is pretty cool. It highlights the difference between giant robots in fiction, which always work perfectly unless an enemy defeats them, and in real life, where anything could go wrong at any minute. (via Digg)
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The Surprising, Secret Origins of Fruit Roll-Ups. Fruit leather came to the U.S. from Syria over a hundred years ago. (via Metafilter)
The Danger of President Pence. (via Digg)
Vampires, Ghosts, and the Dark Shadows Beauty Pageants of the Early 1970s. The Miss American Vampire Contest was a hit, but Miss Ghost America was not.
As Users Opt for the Discounted iPhone 7, iPhone 8 Sales Underwhelm. It turns out that price and features matter more than owning the latest version, which may bode poorly for the iPhone X.
The problem is the prices. Opaque and sky high bills are breaking Americans- and our health care system.
The Incredible Story of Dawn Doe, the Real Skeleton in Dawn of the Dead. The movie crew didn't know they were using a real human skeleton until years later. (via Strange Remains)
There are no spiders in this pie. In case you were thinking there were, which you were not.
How Norms Change. Science drives home the importance of electing civilized leaders.
The Spookiest Ghost Stories From All 50 States.
Tweet of the Day
Cats don't always make the best dogs pic.twitter.com/QWl79orqY5— Nature is Amazing 🌴 (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 10, 2017
(via Buzzfeed)
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
John McCain Accepts the 2017 Liberty Medal
Senator John McCain accepted the Liberty Medal Monday night in a ceremony honoring him. McCain is 81 years old and is suffering from an aggressive form of cancer. That makes his speech all the more poignant, as if he were giving his farewell address. And he didn't hold back. You might disagree with his political views (as I do), but you can't say he doesn't love his country.
Trump responded to McCain's speech by saying
"Yeah, well I hear it. And people have to be careful because at some point I fight back," Trump said. "I'm being very nice. I'm being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back, and it won't be pretty."Bigger challenges, like a POW camp in North Vietnam and brain cancer. Not to mention putting up with Sarah Palin. McCain doesn't have the time of day to let Trump get to him.
Responding to Trump's threat, McCain bluntly told reporters Tuesday: "I've faced far greater challenges than this."
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Astronomers Observe Collision of Neutron Stars. The event is described as "a Rosetta stone for astronomy." Watch a video about the discovery here.
Jets Fan Who Stands For National Anthem Sits On American Flag. (via reddit)
How Hippies Put on the Worst Music Festival in History. The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival outdid Woodstock in bad planning and poor execution.
A Very Special 1970s Nightmare, Starring Vincent Price, H.R. Pufnstuf, and the Brady Bunch. Variety shows were a simple way for TV networks to recycle familiar faces.
Just About Everything We Know About the Pard. For hundreds of years, the leopard was thought to be a cross between a lion and a pard.
Lt. Cliff Judkins Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived. His fighter jet caught fire, his ejection seat didn't work, and his parachute didn't open. (via Metafilter)
The Great Thaw of the American North is Coming. The loss of permafrost will have profound effects.
The Creepiest Urban Legend in Every State. How does your state's tale stack up against the others?
What Facebook Did to American Democracy. And why it was so hard to see it coming.
Star Wars and The Dam Busters
Tweet of the Day
here is a rabbit playing in leaves to brighten your day pic.twitter.com/Sa8AMK1nJX— Sp🎃🎃kySpaceMarine (@AGhostlerer) October 14, 2017
(via John Farrier)
Monday, October 16, 2017
Why California's Musical Road Sounds Terrible
There's a video about New Mexico's musical road that plays "America the Beautiful." It sounds really nice. California tried the same stunt with "The William Tell Overture," but it didn't quite turn as as well. Tom Scott took a road trip to Lancaster to explain why. It sounds pretty bad, and the story of how it happened is even worse. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Wizard of Oz Homecoming Assembly
Walden Grove High School in Sahuarita, Arizona, had a pep rally to gear students up for homecoming. The school's dance team did a great routine with a Wizard of Oz theme. Sure, it's a cheesy idea you'd expect from a high school choreographer, but these kids display some seriously fancy footwork to some truly clever song selections. This may put a smile in your Monday. (via Boing Boing)
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20 of America's top political scientists gathered to discuss our democracy. They're scared. “If current trends continue for another 20 or 30 years, democracy will be toast.”
How Will Martian Laws Differ From Earth's Laws? Enforcement of existing laws from Earth will be impossible for a small population millions of miles away.
The Creepy Cabinet That Inspired Jekyll and Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson's childhood bedroom had a cabinet made by a carpenter who led a double life.
14 Unmade Hammer Horror Films. Some ideas were too bizarre even for the erstwhile British Gothic film studio.
America Can't Fix Poverty Until It Stops Hating Poor People. (via Metafilter)
A Brief History of Bat-Marriage. Batmen has been spotted marrying Kathy Kane, Vicki Vale, Julie Madison, Selina Kyle, Lois Lane, and Wonder Woman, most of them twice.
John Banvard is the most successful American artist you've never heard of. His chosen medium was an obscure 19th-century show business gimmick, and he managed to completely squander his fortune.
Why Everyone Knows the Same Scary Slumber-Party Stories. People who know them don't recall where they first heard them.
High School Students Forced Out For Reporting Harassment.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
An edited version of the 1963 Twilight Zone episode starring William Shatner. From back in the days when you could both smoke and carry a gun on a plane.
Tweet of the Day
Me too. pic.twitter.com/Aac2a6OnjI— 🎃Maggie Scare-ota🎃 (@maggieserota) October 11, 2017
(via Buzzfeed)
Sunday, October 15, 2017
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