Read the story behind this at Neatorama.And now for today's cautionary tale. (Miami Herald 1916, via @_newspapers) pic.twitter.com/ewlP33X3PG
— Undine (@HorribleSanity) May 30, 2023
Wednesday, June 07, 2023
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Tuesday, June 06, 2023
What's Keeping You Awake at Night?
Maybe it's too much screen time before bed, maybe it's too hot, but there's always the possibility it's our own brains who are disturbing our sleep. Those psychological questions you spend so much time avoiding during the day can try to come up when you are asleep, and it's hard to process them properly while sleeping. If we put some time into self-care, confronting the thoughts ideas, and emotions we tend to avoid during our conscious time, it might help us sleep better at night. At least that's an idea from The School of Life you can try. Or at least think about trying. (via Laughing Squid)
Prank by Steven Spielberg
For director Richard Donner, shooting The Goonies was draining. He loved the kids, but working with a whole gang of them was stressful and exhausting. After the production wrapped, Donner took off to Hawaii for some rest and relaxation away from chaotic, energetic children.
Steven Spielberg, who wrote the story and helped out with direction during the shoot, had a brainstorm and arranged for all the child actors, and a few of the adults, too, to surprise Donner in Hawaii. Spielberg had them all flown over to the island to surprise Donner, and made sure it was caught on camera.
If Donner was at all bothered by the surprise, he hid it well, and graciously welcomed the cast. You can hear one of the kids saying they would stay with him the whole time he was there, but I don't believe that's what ultimately happened. It probably gave Donner pause at the time. (via Fark)
June
June is the month of pretending, according to Matt Shirley. He's also pretending he didn't forget Juneteenth and the summer solstice.
Studying Explosions
The University of Sheffield Department of Civil and Structural Engineering has a Blast Laboratory. That's where scientists and engineers go to have a blast -literally. They study and measure explosions with some really impressive equipment that not only precisely measure what's going on during a detonation, but must also survive to relay that information.
Tom Scott visited the Blast Laboratory to ask how explosives work, which is a great excuse for a video, but we all know he went there to watch them blow stuff up. In this video, you can, too, without having to buy a ticket to a Hollywood film. Those explosions are mostly CGI these days, but at the Blast Laboratory, they are real. However, these are for science, not for show. The explosion they perform in this video goes so fast that you can't really see it until they play back the high speed recording. How high speed? How about 250,000 frames per second!
Pop 101
How to write a pop song, by Marianas Trench. They’ve had some real success with this formula. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
(via Digg)This flying squirrel faked his own death, and created a whole crime scene…for attention. I think I’m in love. pic.twitter.com/SZfrtNlDI0
— Sarah Bee🐝 (@BirrelleBee) June 3, 2023
Monday, June 05, 2023
Phone Addiction Kinetic Sculpture
JBV Creative explores the intersection of art and engineering. He's a mechanical engineer who gave in to his creative side. In his latest project, he built a kinetic sculpture to show the way humans look when we are all staring at our phones while going about the day's business. In this video, he shows us how and why he did it. Skip ahead to the 12-minute mark to see the finished artwork in action. The figures, which he calls "buddies," might remind you of Weebles if you are Gen X, because they wobble but they don't fall down. If you are a Baby Boomer, you will no doubt recognize the shape of a schmoo. (via the Awesomer)
Night Attack
Thats not why you get cats #funny #lol pic.twitter.com/hZs1chPexp
— Sa (@Sasha_Yiu) June 4, 2023
This sequence might discourage people from getting their first cat, but it doesn't have to be this way. In the discussion at reddit, many cat owners advise these folks to try synching their cat's sleep schedule to yours. To do this, you have to annoy the cat while it's trying to take naps during the day. Turnabout is fair play, after all.
But also notice that the man, on the right, is likely to push the cat away. The woman, on the other hand, sometimes pushes, but is just as likely to ignore the poking or even pet the cat in her sleep. That's why the cat approaches her more than it approaches the man. She's training the cat to seek a possible reward.
Another idea for solving this problem is to get another cat. Two cats readily learn that they can go to each other to avoid boredom in the night.
A Space Launch with 1,000 LEGO Astronauts
The Slovakian marketing group Kreativ Gang collaborated with LEGO to perform a cool stunt. They 3D printed miniature space shuttles and launched 1,000 LEGO astronauts into space! They made three launches from Malé Bielice Airport near Partizánské in Slovakia, each carrying about a third of the "Legonauts," which took them 22 miles up to the edge of space by balloon. When the balloon burst, the minifigs went into free fall until a parachute opened. It was a bit tricky, because the shuttles had no roofs. They wanted to the Legonauts to be exposed to space.
The launches went off without a hitch on May 20, and the Legonauts ended up back on earth... somewhere. When the project team has been all gathered up, they will offer them as prizes in a sweepstakes open to people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia who buy a new LEGO set. Read more about the project at PetaPixel. (via Boing Boing)
Miss Cellania's Links
Cleaning with Polonium.
Between 1974-1978 A Chimpanzee War Broke Out In Nigeria. (via Strange Company)
Inside the 77 sq ft Greenwich Village apartment with no bathroom for $2,350/month. (via Fark)
When Willem Arondeus said, “Let it be known, homosexuals aren’t cowards’’, on the eve of his execution in 1943, he was speaking for himself and countless others who gave and risked their lives to end the tyranny and oppression that the LGBTQ community faced under Nazi rule.
The Braless Years: How the Pandemic Changed How We Wear Underwear for Good.
Inside the Barbie Dreamhouse, a Fuchsia Fantasy Inspired by Palm Springs. The article has plenty of pink pictures. (via Metafilter)
The president’s had a string of recent wins. So why do his numbers suck? (via Fark)
When Tina Turner Set a Guinness World Record.
Evolution of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson’s career spanned about 40 years, even though he died at age 50. Acclaimed a cappella group Pentatonix strung a bunch of his hits songs together in chronological order for a medley that spans The Jackson 5 and every album of Jackson’s solo career. (via Buzzfeed)
Tweet of the Day
Water. It's water. (via Brother Bill)This can’t be real 🤣….she’s mad the fountain is making a rainbow and it can’t be natural….come on you can’t be this stupid
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) May 31, 2023
H/t @Imposter_Edits pic.twitter.com/7mwjxBp7hS
Sunday, June 04, 2023
Mother Moose
We mere humans often don't realize how large moose are until we see them in relation to something else. A hungry bear would love to feast on moose meat, but the full-grown moose is much bigger than the bear. But she has two young calves. The bear would have a much easier time with one of those tasty young calves, but their mama will defend those calves with her life!
The bear doesn't want to give up, though, and keeps making his moves in between retreating up a tree. The people recording this interaction a couple of weeks ago in Anchorage are safely far away, as you can see from the camera movement and refocusing. It's a good thing, too, because these are two very dangerous animals. They don't tell us how the whole episode ended; we can assume the animals moved out of camera range. We hope the bear gave up and decided to go fishing instead. (via Digg) https://digg.com/digg-vids/link/mother-moose-defends-her-calves-viral-hog-T79FknL4MH
Cat Toys Dancing to Ievan Polkka
Stop-motion artist tomosteen went viral a year ago with his dancing cat pen holders, a popular accessory in Japan. He's only collected more of them since, and now has a huge production number featuring them. The wonder of this video is how he manages to get inarticulate figures to shake their booties as if they really have joints. The cats, who only move when tomosteen is away from them, learn a new song and dance from an alien, but it's Ievan Pollkka, a song quite familiar to all of us. The original two cats are joined by others until an entire zoo is dancing!
Drive-In Intermission
Nostalgia time! Remember when drive-ins had an intermission reel between movies to give you time to go to the snack bar? Most of what they showed then were ads, but they were silly enough to stay in our memories. From Archive.org. (via mental_floss)
Tweet of the Day
(via Everlasting Blort)Cat offers her food to the sick owner...🐈🐾🤒❤️ pic.twitter.com/kd5EbDVmB9
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 25, 2023
Saturday, June 03, 2023
The Slow-Mo Guys Have a 6-Foot Water Balloon
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy, the Slow-Mo Guys, know how to have some summer fun. They've played with water balloons before, but this year they're going all out, with a 6-foot balloon, rigged up with a high-speed camera and lights inside! The idea was that Dan (it's always Dan) would slide down a wet tarp right into it, bursting the balloon, and they would have some cool footage. Dan even rigged up a device to make sure the balloon actually burst instead of just acting like a brick wall he was slamming his head into. If you just want to see the slide, skip ahead to the nine-minute mark, but the rest of it is pretty amusing, too. (via Digg)
Meerkat Triplets
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, DC, welcomed the arrival of meerkat triplets on May 10, the first time they've had three born at once in 16 years. The mother, Sadie, is five years old and the father is 6-year-old Frankie. Their brood is the result of the institute's careful selective breeding to ensure genetic diversity. The National Zoo keeps their meerkats together in a "mob" as they would be in nature. Their enclosure has constructed burrows that mimic those in the wild. Sadie gave birth in the burrow, as expected, but in the wild, the newborns would stay hidden for about three weeks. However, Sadie wanted to show off her babies, and brought them out into the exhibit area the same day they were born!
Sadie has been observed nursing the pups, so they are assumed to be healthy. Zookeepers will not handle the pups for some time, so their sex is still unknown. Read more about the new meerkat pups at Zooborns.
Laurence Brown is Becoming a Midwesterner
When we listen to Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond, we still think of him as English, because of his accent. But after years on the US, he has learned to enjoy baseball, wear flannel, and put cheese on everything. Here he reflects on how he is changing into a Midwesterner.
Xenostapler
This is what happens when you get bored at your office job. Let’s hope Bruno Mosconi Ruy’s boss has a sense of humor when he sees this video go viral. There was a suggestion for improving the monster, but I don’t know how you’d make that work in moving pictures. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)just pretend nothing happened pic.twitter.com/V6dIa6AE1x
— animals going goblin mode (@mischiefanimals) April 19, 2023
Friday, June 02, 2023
Electric Car Goes Dangerously Fast
When electric car first became available, they were described as useful for running errands around town, but not for road trips. Later models proved that wrong, but many car enthusiasts doubted that electrics would ever be used for hauling (and now they are) or racing. Then a small auto company in Croatia, Rimac Automobili, introduced the electric hypercar Rimac Nevera.
Automann-TV takes the 1913 horsepower Rimac Nevera out on the Autobahn to check out its acceleration potential, specifically how fast it can go from 100 km/h to 200 km/h (62 mph to 124 mph). Can its four electric motors and 120 kilowatt battery keep up? You betcha, and it only takes three second to go from 100 to 200.
Somehow, I get the feeling that this supercar is not so much about saving the environment (and how could it at those speeds), but more about proving that electric cars can and do perform as well as gas guzzlers on the racetrack. This may sway some who feel internal combustion engines should be kept around for specialty uses. (via Born in Space)
Time Travel Food
Jon Townshend is an expert on life in colonial America, particularly the food that people ate. In his latest video, he imagines going the opposite direction. Instead of bringing 18th century food into the modern era, how about sending modern food back to the early United States? For example, how would you introduce an Egg McMuffin to John Adams? You'd make each component using familiar colonial techniques. Made from scratch, it has to be good! It certainly has more sausage than you'd ever get at McDonald's. With pancakes on the side, no less.
But that's not the only time Jon has used his "time machine." Watch him prepare a hamburger for Ben Franklin and a pizza for George Washington at TastyTastic. (via Nag on the Lake)
Mr. Pavlov
Irma has apparently forgotten that he prefers to be called "Dr. Pavlov." That should have been the first clue to him to know something was up. But you can't argue with conditioning. And you can't really blame Pavlov's dogs. This comic is from Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz at War and Peas. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Crash Test
Trust me - The most entertaining video you will watch on Twitter today. 💥🚐 pic.twitter.com/WwcM66zXwo
— TG ☕️ (@TG22110) May 29, 2023
What we have here is someone driving into a huge morningstar, a medieval weapon that resembles a wrecking ball with spikes. You have to wonder why. The van seems pretty tough against it at seven miles per hour, but then they try again at higher speeds. (via Everlasting Blort)
Miss Cellania's Links
How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers.
Iconic Homes From Movies And TV Shows That Were Listed For Millions In Real Life.
The Ultimate Guide to Beer Glassware. (via Eater)
2,700-year-old petroglyphs depicting people, ships and animals discovered in Sweden.
The backlash: how slavery research came under fire. (via Damn Interesting)
Five Fires That Never, Ever Stop Burning.
How Chickenpox Turns Into Shingles.
That’s a Good Dog
The moral of this story is that if you give a dog some meatballs, he’ll do anything for you. I don’t know what that has to do with banking, but it’s a cute story from a Thai bank ad.
(Checks tranlation) Oh, the moral of the story is that a small investment can pay off big in the future. I didn’t get that the first time around because I’m not particularly savvy about finances. (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
Tweet of the Day
lol pic.twitter.com/t4HuMz34D8
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) June 1, 2023
Click the picture to pull up the full version for maximum hilarity.
Thursday, June 01, 2023
Nine Urban Legends Based on True Stories
Horror stories always grab us, whether they are stories told around a campfire at night or horror films at your local theater. They become extra scary when the campfire tale ends with "...and every word of it is true." Or if the movie is advertised as "Based on real events." But how true are they? Strangely, the biggest and longest-lived urban legends grew from real events, although they happened quite some time ago and have been embellished over time. The embellishments make them more exciting, but the kernel of truth underneath makes them terrifying. Weird History looks at the truth behind the origins of nine urban legends you might have heard.
In case you haven't been following what's going on with Twitter behind the scenes since Elon Musk took over, we've got the short version here. This succinct explanation is from Pizza Cake Comics.
Stunt by Accident
You've seen this stunt performed in movies before, and probably on The Dukes of Hazzard several times. When it happens in real life, the outcome can be much worse. The above is a police bodycam footage from an incident near Valdosta, Georgia. Lowndes County sheriff's deputies were making an arrest on the side of a highway on May 24, and had a tow truck ready to impound a car. But a driver didn't see the activity going on and drove up the tow truck ramp at a high speed. The car launched into the air off the front of the truck, flew about 120 feet, and crashed into another car. The driver was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The only other injury was to a police officer hit by flying debris.
If You’re Happy and You Know It
A guy sings a duet with his cat Chaninho. You’ll recognize the song, even though it's sung in Portuguese. "If you're happy and you know it, say meow." Chaninho has his part down perfectly. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Uber driver.pic.twitter.com/ze5Mf0mN8U
— cats with jobs (@CatWorkers) May 24, 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Tries Videos of Dogs and Cats
Warning: this video may be nightmare-inducing. Or you might just find it hilarious. We know artificial intelligence algorithms are pretty good for writing an essay or producing an illustration for you, but it doesn't do all that well recreating real living animals moving the way animals should. I don't know what program was used to make this video of dogs, but the producer should ask for his money back. From a different YouTuber, here's a cat video generated by an algorithm. It's just as disturbing.
I couldn't post these videos on Supa Fluffy, because people go there to watch real-life cute animals and feel good about it. But you were warned. (via Nag on the Lake)
Maru's 16th Birthday Party
The internet's favorite cat, Maru, recently celebrated his 16th birthday with his human Mugumogu and his younger roommates Hana and Miri. The party was held in a finely-appointed tent, complete with a bed, rugs, balloons, and party decorations. To celebrate, Maru played with feathers, posed for pictures, listened to birds, and ate special treats with his buddies.
At one point, he went in the house to make some udon noodles (the Japanese cat version of making biscuits) in his own special way. Maru may be a senior cat now, but he's still as charming as ever. (via Fark)
T. Rex Was a Coward at Times
We think of T. rex as the king of dinosaurs, instilling terror into everything around it. But that wasn't necessarily so. In this scene from the TV series Prehistoric Planet, we see a Tyrannosaurus rex munching on the carcass of a sauropod dinosaur. But when he's confronted by a 20-foot-tall pterosaur species called Quetzalcoatlus, he has to consider his own safety. Quetzalcoatlus isn't as massive or as strong as the T. rex, but he sure is pointy. But how do scientists know what would have happened in such a scenario? It's a combination of anatomical studies of those species, plus knowledge of how predators of many different existent species behave. Dinosaurs may not have had large brains, but they knew how to calculate their odds well enough, or they wouldn't have survived as long as they did. Read an explanation of how this scenario was determined at BBC Science Focus. (via Real Clear Science)
Miss Cellania's Links
George Lucas’ Original Indiana Jones 4 Story Was Even Worse Than Crystal Skull.
The Most Popular Grocery Item, According to Instacart.
Bird's Nests In The Most Random Places, like boots, automobiles, signs, and various equipment .
As a Therapist, I Know What’s Breaking Couples Up. (via Digg)
The same guys who gave us "the hat" a couple months ago now have an aperiodic monotile that goes one better. Behold "the spectre." (via Metafilter)
For Black drivers, a police officer's first 45 words are a portent of what's to come. (via Boing Boing)
Have You Been Misled by ‘Misles’? The Linguistics Behind These Commonly Mispronounced Words.
An Honest Trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4.
A Guy's Understanding of Women's Underwear
Robbie Sherrard brings his strange observations to a pair of women’s underwear. A thong, to be exact. He’s a bit confused. But he's got the perfect product name for them. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
(via Fark)Cat calculating physics.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/dH2rrCik9U
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 28, 2023
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
To Scale: TIME
When we think of time, we think of our daily schedules or maybe a lifetime. But the human mind has a hard time grasping the history of the universe, and the relative blink of an eye that humanity has been around. The 300,000 years that homo sapiens has existed is the main focus of what we call history, and that seems like a long time.
Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet built a timeline of the universe out in the Mojave desert, the only place they could build something that big. But the history of mankind had to be built to a different scale than the 13-billion-year history of the universe before we came along; otherwise, all of human history would be too small to even label. This video tries to explain the concept of that long, long time. (via Kottke)
Who Did the Deed?
Three cats, one spilled potted plant. From experience, I would place my bets on the orange cat. But Winnie, Teen, Libby, and Russell are all at least partially orange, and so is the cat called in to investigate! They all look guilty to me. But Detective Bean will find the culprit. It's a bit odd that The Dodo would post a humorous skit instead of their usual fare of sweet real-life pet rescue stories and the occasional wildlife tale, but they found CatManJohn and his four cats, and Bean at TikTok, and couldn't help themselves.
Four Epidemics That Didn't Happen
You remember the terrifying outbreak of Ebola virus in 2013, but do you recall the Ebola outbreak of 2021? That's probably because you were more concerned with COVID-19 by then, but it was also because health care professionals had a plan in place to stop Ebola in its tracks by 2021. While the world was dealing with the massive COVID-19 pandemic, several other epidemics were averted by public health systems and rapid response, and that's worth celebrating. The world has learned a lot about fighting diseases in a population, but it takes political will and government funds to keep those systems in place and ready to go to work when needed. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Taking the Plunge
A young man gets a little nervous as he prepares to propose to his girlfriend. He shakes so bad the ring falls into the sea! That’s when the real adventure begins. Thaddaeus Andreades, Marie Raoult, Nicholas Manfredi, and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero made this as their senior project at the School of Visual Arts.
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Master driver... skills! pic.twitter.com/Jl83wj1Q6L
— The Best (@Figensport) May 16, 2023
Monday, May 29, 2023
Historical Hairdos
Hair styles, like clothing, go through trends and fads that sometimes make us look back and say, "What was I thinking?" I've had bangs, mullets, Jheri curls, pixies, and purple hair, but all those pale in comparison to some of the hairstyle fads of history. Some were an attempt at beauty or cutting-edge fashion, while others signified status, either officially or unofficially. Weird History takes us on a ride through time by highlighting some of the more memorable or consequential hairstyles of various places and historical eras.
Keeping Up with the Joneses
The phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" is familiar to most of us, and implies the sad but ubiquitous habit of comparing ourselves to those around us. We end up buying and showing off things we cannot afford just to keep up with those who can afford it, and show that we, too, are worthy of status. This applies to houses more than anything else. But who were these enviable Joneses, and what were they showing off?
That would be Elizabeth Jones, a staunch advocate of conspicuous consumption, and her lovely summer home in New York. The house, called Wyndcliffe, sat on 80 acres and was so grand that the area around it near the town of Rhinebeck on the Hudson River became hot property as others tried to, ahem, "keep up with the Joneses." That's where the familiar phrase came from. You might be interested in seeing this grand house and learning what became of it.
The Doors' Chaotic Last Concert with Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison performed his last concert at the Warehouse in New Orleans on December 12, 1970. He was in bad shape from drinking, drugs, and waiting for his trial on obscenity charges. The concert was a disaster, and the band stopped their scheduled tour, lest Morrison perform like that again. He went to Paris to get clean, and was dead at age 27 just a few months later. (via Digg)
Miss Cellania's Links
The Ghost Army of World War II. (Thanks, WTM!)
The only Jeopardy! contestant worse than Wolf Blitzer in 2009 was Wolf Blitzer in 1997. (via Metafilter)
The Winners of the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Contest. (via Nag on the Lake)
Everything you ever wanted to know about Dolly Parton and why she should run for president.
The Comedy Stylings of Ancient Sumer and the Oldest Joke in the World. (via Strange Company)
The Case for Room-Temperature Foods. How temperature affects our enjoyment of different dishes.
Beach Art House Party Palace For Sale.
You Aren't Prepared for How Disturbing Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets Is.
How Hot Dogs Became Norway’s National Snack. (via Strange Company)
Evolution of the Bikini
Now that summer is unofficially here, you might be thinking about getting a swimsuit. Good luck! Summer clothing sold out a month ago. I tried to find a pair of good sandals and the local store had nothing close to my size. Oh well, watch this video, which should be called The Evolution of the Swimsuit, as only about half of them are bikinis, and you'll wish you could get one from the 1930s or '40s. Those are cool. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Tweet of the Day
(via Fark)The cat was shook😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹 pic.twitter.com/suHY4nefKp
— justasisterfromthechi (@justasisterfro2) May 24, 2023
Sunday, May 28, 2023
The First Singing Computer
The first computer to sing a song was the IBM 7094 in 1961. The song was "Daisy Bell," which i remember learning from my parents even before going to school. When we learned it in music class, that fact that I already knew it made me look just that much weirder to my classmates. This 1961 performance inspired the tense scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the murderous HAL 9000 computer is deactivated.
As the supercomputer loses its working memory, it is left with only its earliest programming, including the song "Daisy Bell." And now we know why that song was used. (via Laughing Squid)
Ed Ames
I hear that singer and actor Ed Ames died a week ago. Ames stepped into show business while he was still in high school as a member of The Ames Brothers. Afterward, he became a Broadway actor, then went to TV and played Mingo on the TV series Daniel Boone. Ames also recorded music as a solo artist and continued stage acting. Ed Ames was 95.
Ames is still remembered well into the internet age because of the enduring 1965 clip from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, seen above. The reaction has been called "the longest sustained laugh by a live audience in television history." And you can see why. (Thanks, gwdMaine!)
School's Out
Matt Wilson of Perry Township, Indiana, made it a habit over the years to prank his son into embarrassment when he gets off the bus on the last day of school each year. For Liam's last day in eighth grade, Wilson went all out. He arranged for his band, Union Suit Rally, to perform the Alice Cooper song "School's Out" as the bus pulled onto their street.
Liam, however, is less embarrassed now than in previous years. He's finished with eighth grade, and will no longer ride the bus next year when he's in high school. He also probably knows it's pretty cool to have an involved dad who's in a band. I would have loved coming home to such a concert. (via Fark)
Khajiit Has Wares if You Have Coin
Would you buy a rug from this cat? Does he look trustworthy? The cat has been selling Purrsian rugs at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul for quite some time.
Shadowfogkiller posted this picture at reddit, and covalentvagabond replied with a picture he took of the same cat in 2008.
The face markings are the same, although we don’t know when the top picture was taken. The title is a reference to Skyrim and the other Elder Scrolls games, in which Khajiit are a race of shady cats. (via Daily of the Day)
Yoyo Show for Ducklings
Yo-yo master Luis Orlando Abrajan shows some tricks to a flock of ducklings. They hang on his every move, even when he starts to go really fast! He’s good, but his audience is adorable. Do this a little longer, and they’s be completely hypnotized! (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Size comparison between the Titanic and a Modern Cruise Ship pic.twitter.com/4jZj69KuL1
— World Of History (@UmarBzv) May 16, 2023
Saturday, May 27, 2023
I Married a Witch
Veronica Lake and Frederic March star in the 1942 film I Married a Witch. I wrote more about it at Spooky Daily.
Jeopardy!: US Presidents Edition
I don't know what I expected from this, but it's gloriously goofy. Biden, Trump, and Obama are matching wits on Celebrity Jeopardy! They are all three, shall we say, out of their element on the game show. Lousy performance in the game notwithstanding, they all give poor Alex Trebek more than his share of grief. The voices are recreated by artificial intelligence, but the jokes are all the work of YouTuber Artificial Unintelligence, who explores the many ways smart folks can be completely dumb. (via Metafilter)
Toast
It's hard to imagine that someone who can produced bacon and eggs would resort to this. If the toaster is broken, make toast in the oven. Or better yet, biscuits! This comic is from Chris Hallbeck.
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