Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Miss Cellania's Links

Causing Chaos with a Microwave.

Nicolas Cage's best films: An indisputable ranking. You may commence with the dispute. (via Fark)

How the Myth of the American Frontier Got Its Start. Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis informed decades of scholarship and culture. Then he realized he was wrong

If Toddlers Were Lawyers.

Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test.  (via Metafilter

The Actors Who Almost Played Batman. Two of them ended up as the Joker instead.

The Internet Wants To Get Murdered By Clue's Sexy New Cast.

We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable. (via Real Clear Science)

A look behind the scenes of filming a Japanese monster movie.

4 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Those Toddler Lawyer cartoons are cute! But the first thing a real lawyer learns about how to cross-examine a witness is that you never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer. An open-ended, unstructured question like "Why?" is a dangerous question in most circumstances.

Anonymous said...

I can't tell if Cage is much-beloved, or much-the-punchline. Anyone?

xoxoxoBruce said...

I will never forgive Cage for "Peggy Sue Got Married", never.

The wild west free to do what you want myth ended when they brought out women who forced church and school building creating communities and peer pressure.
It was a very good thing to make that switch.

gwdMaine said...

I fart in the general direction of GQ Magazine.