The Guinness Book of World records has crowned a new Tallest Dog in the World. he is a great Dane, or maybe we should call him a great big Dane, named Kevin. Kevin has been measured at three feet and two inches tall at the withers. Kevin is a lot taller when he stands on his hind legs!
Kevin is the beloved pet of Tracy and Roger Wolfe of West Des Moines, Iowa, and lives with the couple and their two children, plus cats, dogs, goats, chickens, and horses. Kevin towers over their miniature horse. He can simply step over a baby gate used to corral the other dogs. But this dog doesn't think of himself as oversized; he's just part of the family. You can read more about this gentle giant at Smithsonian.
Friday, June 21, 2024
The Tallest Dog in the World
Is It Cake?
I did not know that Is It Cake? is a real TV show, because it's on Netflix, and I no longer pay for television service. Yes, it's a real cooking/game show, and I would imagine there's some comedy involved, but Joel Veitch has turned it into a horror show.
If you don't recognize the name Joel Veitch, he's the one who gave the world Viking Kittens from about 20 years ago and the Quiznos Spongmonkeys that frightened people away from the sandwich shop. He's turned that twisted sense of humor into a real career, and it's rare to see him doing a video just for fun these days, but it's reminder of how weird his brain is. (via the Awesomer)
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Louisiana passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom. But the mandated text doesn't appear in any version of the Bible. (via Metafilter)
DIY Upholstered Frames. The post refers to them as "upholstered frames," but these are fabric-covered and don't have padding or springs inside. (via Messy Nessy Chic)
These guys are not moving at all, and I can’t stop watching. Well, the guy on the right is moving, but he's not getting anywhere. (via Everlasting Blort)
Lomo Saltado: The Fusion Dish That Became Traditional.
Everyone is Just Now Realizing That Marge Simpson Is in an Ancient Egyptian Coffin.
The Most Dangerous And Safest US National Parks For Visitors.
There’s a Better Way to Teach the California Gold Rush. A new lesson plan centers Native American perspectives on the violence of Western expansion.
30 Times City Planners Made Incredibly Thought-Out Decisions In Urban Design. A better description would be "awesome aerial photographs."
Squirrel Pulls Loose Tooth
David Freiheit of Montreal enlisted the help of a wild squirrel in a city park to help pull his daughter’s loose tooth. He tied a length of dental floss to the tooth on one end, and attached a chunk of granola to the other end. Freiheit is pretty excited about getting this stunt on video, while Stacy is concerned about retrieving her tooth! Don’t fret, Stacy, the Tooth Fairy probably reaped enough reward from the viral video to leave something under your pillow. (via Dave Barry)
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Thursday, June 20, 2024
Hoist Up The Thing
The Longest Johns gave us a song about lying on your resume. It starts out funny and then gets funnier. (via Nag on the Lake)
Panic Attack! Remastered
If you saw the trailer for the upcoming movie Alien: Romulus directed by Fede Ćlvarez, you might have thought, "Who?" Some are familiar with Ćlvarez' work on the movies Evil Dead and Don't Breathe, but the Uruguayan filmmaker was first noticed by Hollywood for the short Panic Attack! (Ataque de PĆ”nico!), in which giant robots invade Montevideo. The short was made in 2009 on a reported budget of $300. A dollar must go further in Uruguay. Just a few weeks after Panic Attack! was shown at a film festival, Ćlvarez got a call from Ghost House Pictures and was soon on the slate to direct Evil Dead. Ćlvarez remastered the short and re-uploaded it this week. Read more about Ćlvarez and his breakthrough film at Gizmodo.
Letter Stress
They say that puns are the lowest form of humor, but they are still humor. But can we go lower? How about a joke that involves the letters of just one word? This comic is from J. L. Westover, also known as Mr. Lovenstein. (via Geeks are Sexy)
The Countdown
Timing and numbers. Timing is crucial for comedy, and numbers can be a lot of fun if you know how to manipulate them. To demonstrate, Ryan Goodcase tells a joke that thoroughly impresses all who hear it. It's not so much the joke itself, but the clever way he tells it.
Yeah, this one has been rehearsed a lot. Note that Goodcase himself doesn't have to keep up with the numbers for most of his patter. The real punch line comes in that loooong pause that gets funnier the longer it goes. And that's the only place he needs to do any counting himself. Genius! You can see more of Goodcase's bits at Instagram. (via Digg)
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At 15, Darlene Stubbs walked away from a polygamous cult—then discovered a new life and community through running. (via Metafilter)
Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome – except the Y chromosome. What happened? (via Damn Interesting)
It's the Justice Conservatives of America to the rescue! The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
The Dumbest Ghosts Ever.
The Paris Games’ Mascot, the Olympic Phryge, Boasts a Little-Known Revolutionary Past.
The Force Was with Them. My generation of filmmakers shook up cinema forever. (via Damn Interesting)
Eight IT Nightmare Stories That Make Us Feel Bad For Tech Support.
Fisker is out of cash, not making cars, and filing for bankruptcy. The scissors are okay.
How To Train Your Drogon
YouTube user Darth Blender refreshed the trailer from the 2010 animated movie How to Train Your Dragon by replacing the video with clips from the HBO series Game of Thrones, while retaining the original audio. Let’s see how that turned out. Kids who watched the animated film years ago are grown up enough to enjoy Game of Thrones now. (via the A.V. Club)
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
40 Years of Atlas
We've been following the developments of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot for years, but even I didn't know that they have been working on the development of a walking humanoid robot for more than 40 years now! World Data Center put together a compilation of research videos showing Atlas starting in 1983 and running through 2022. It starts with a bouncing baby robot who later learns to walk on two legs, and gradually grows into a dancing, flipping athlete made of titanium and electronics. We shouldn't be verklempt about watching a robot grow up, but we feel like Atlas is a friend. He is, after all, friend-shaped. (via Laughing Squid)
She's Got Spirit
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When she's done up in this illusion face paint, artist Mariam Marks would not take it as an insult to be called a horse face. This is not only an artful painting, it's performance art, too, as she lip-syncs to "Here I Am" by Bryan Adams, from the 2002 movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Her exaggerated tooth exposure and tongue action lends so much realism to the singing horse, it's like watching a cartoon without a TV. You don't even have to be familiar with the movie to appreciate the performance (I have never seen it). See more of Mariam Marks' face painting animations at Instagram and YouTube. (via reddit)
Hockey
When Dr. Dolittle was staying with me and working locally this spring, we watched the entire series of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and it set me up to enjoy the classic elements of hockey. This comic is from Kasper at Hoppy Doodle.
About Petri Dishes
Petri dishes are a great tool for microbiologists. A Petri dish is a small self-contained laboratory for growing bacteria, isolated from contamination, and providing a nutrient-rich, climate-controlled environment. Familiar bacteria like E. coli grow amazingly well in a Petri dish. A lot of bacteria species do, but those that grow well in a Petri dish are only a drop in the bucket considering how many species of bacteria we have, and there are many more we haven't discovered yet. So why can't we design a Petri dish for those other bacteria we want to study? Lizah van der Aart explains why growing other bacterias is so confounding in this video from Minute Earth. You can tell van der Aart is a microbiologist because she pronounces minute as my-noot, which only makes sense. Or maybe it's because she's Dutch. This video is only four minutes; the rest is promotional.
Dumb, Lovable, Funny Dogs
Aren’t you glad that dogs don’t hold a grudge when we laugh at them? This compilation from Fail Army has dogs that aren’t so smart, some that aren’t lucky, but all are adorable.
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— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) December 19, 2023
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Nintendo's First American TV Ad
This commercial ad from 1980 was lost for a long time, then game historian and Nintendo expert Chris Kohler found it offered on eBay in 16mm film. The Video Game History Foundation worked with Movette Film Transfer to restore the color of the degraded copy in order to preserve it for posterity -and to show it to you. The quality of the restoration belies the 45-year-old aesthetic of the time, when a handheld video game device was promoted as a quick break from our busy lifestyle of playing real sports.
This is believed to be the first Nintendo ad aired outside of Japan. But is it really Nintendo? The product appears to be the Game & Watch device from Nintendo, but it's called Time Out by Mego! That takes some explanation, but it's not a knockoff, the company behind it was indeed Nintendo. Read the story behind the ad at the Video Game History Foundation.
If Restaurants Hired Food Bloggers
If you've ever looked up a recipe on the internet, and we know you have or you wouldn't be here, you know that food bloggers have a tendency to tell a long story about a dish before telling us how to make it. It's not just a tradition in a thoroughly modern profession; there are concrete reasons for the long-winded introductions. However, these long recipe intros have become a meme that even food bloggers themselves laugh about. Ryan George personifies the clash between the online recipe world and the chaotic art of running a restaurant by sending a food blogger to work the back end. His first day on the job goes as well as you might expect. Too bad the head chef doesn't seem to know about the "jump to recipe" button. This guy probably has it on him somewhere. My guess is that it is under his hat.
Koala Eats Shoots and Leaves
Eastern Forest Nursery in South Gundurimba, New South Wales, was the victim of vandalism last September when thousands of eucalyptus tree seedlings were eaten. Security footage revealed the culprit was a koala named Claude. A higher, more koala-resistant fence was installed, but Claude came back this year, in broad daylight, and ate thousands more seedlings. The nursery donated the damaged seedlings to the World Wildlife Fund, since they were being grown for a new wildlife corridor anyway. See, instead of punishing Claude, the solution is to give him and his extended family a buffet of eucalyptus trees. (via Metafilter)
Signs of Summer
The Summer Solstice isn't until Thursday, and my area has already seen 90 degrees for a week now. But when you're a cat who lives indoors, it must all seem like a TV show or something. And no matter how good the show appears, their feline attitude will emerge. This comic is from Jimmy Craig at They Can Talk.
Zach Anner, Again Doing the Impossible
Remember Zach Anner? It's been a couple of years since he posted anything at YouTube, but he came out of his YouTube "retirement" to tells us an important story. Zach has spent his life doing things he was told were impossible for him (and even wrote a book about it). But in this instance, even he didn't realize that he was the victim of assumptions. Sometimes, it's not a matter of ability at all; it's a matter of proper education.
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Ford Sells A Jet Fuel-Powered Ranger Truck With A Secret ‘Stealth Mode.’
The Dozen Times Humans Have Tried to Communicate With Extraterrestrials.
An Ode to Luby's and the Southern Cafeteria. My family went to the local cafeteria often, but only on the Sunday after Dad's payday. (via Metafilter)
3-Legged Lion Sets Swimming Record in Crocodile-Filled River.
You Can Measure a Lion's Heart Rate with an Apple Watch around Its Tongue. But not while he's swimming.
There is no skipping leg day in this Ukrainian dance troupe. It hurts my thighs to watch. (via Everlasting Blort)
Why Are So Many Horror Movies Set at Summer Camp?
How postwar Warsaw was rebuilt using 18th century paintings. (via Messy Nessy Chic)
18th-Century Fried Chicken
Warning: this video will make you hungry. The recipe for fried chicken was found in a 1736 cookbook called Dictionarium Domesticum by Nathan Bailey. It features a rather acidic marinade that ensures the finished chicken is tender and tasty. But probably different from what you’re used to. The video is from Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc., a business that sells living history products. Their YouTube channel has more on recreating history in your spare time. (via reddit)
Monday, June 17, 2024
David Bowie Sings a Conan O'Brien Song
David Bowie appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 1999, and Conan takes the opportunity to present Bowie with a song he'd written. Famous singers get this all the time, but on TV, you can hardly say no to the host. Wait until you hear what the song is about. (via Laughing Squid)
There Will Be Consequences
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— World's Amazing Things (@Hana_b30) June 9, 2024
The Weird Ways Volcanos Make Fossils
Volcanoes have a big hand in shaping the world as it is. They build mountains, they form rock, and they even preserve some of the wildlife they killed. Volcanic ash can bury and preserve animals hundreds of miles away from an eruption!Closer to the volcano, pyroclastic flow can kill and create negative images of whatever it buried. The case of the Blue Lake Rhino is a further method of preservation, when a strange confluence of conditions left a rhino-shaped cave. Even stranger are dinosaur footprints that formed in magma underground! Volcanoes are crazy. (via Damn Interesting)
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The Blair Witch Project Actors Call Out ‘Reprehensible Behavior’ After Missing Out on Profits for Decades: ‘Don’t Do What We Did.’ (via Metafilter)
Can You Sort Out the Circles in This Illusion?
Decoding the Unusual Shape of the Nepali Flag. Where did all those angles come from? Answer: no one knows.
The biggest wiener in major league baseball. (via Foodbeast)
“The Woman Who Came From the Sky” — Meet ValĆ©rie AndrĆ©, the World’s First Female Helicopter Rescue Pilot. (via Strange Company)
17 Bits of Actual Star Wars Lore So Mind-Numbingly Stupid That You Can’t Help But Laugh.
Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo.
House built by Pilgrim in Massachusetts said to be "oldest home on the market in America." (via Digg)
A History of Horror
Diego Carrera put together a supercut of 122 horror films, one for each year since 1895. It starts with The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, which was an 18-second-long film directed by Thomas Edison. It used professional actors and editing magic to show the queen’s head being chopped off. Can you imagine how realistic that was to an audiences that had never seen a movie? After that, special effects really took off. And so did the art of creating dread. As the years go bye, we get sound and eventually, color, and the movies become more familiar. I bet you’ve seen a lot of them. But even those early ones are scary. Contains one brief shot of post-mortem nudity. (via History Buff)
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Sunday, June 16, 2024
You're Safe Now
Petty Officer 2nd Class Danielle Albert, a medical corpsman, played the medic who checked out Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) after his rescue in the 2013 movie Captain Phillips. She had never had an acting job before, and she and Hanks improvised the whole scene. It only took two takes after the script was thrown out. Albert was just doing her job checking out a traumatized patient, and it was so real that Hanks reacted as if it were real. In a later interview, she described the blowback she received from fellow sailors about her movie role. (via reddit)
Cats Remake Star Wars
The internet's two favorite things, cats and Star Wars! Instagram cats Badger and Ellie, along with their friends Lucy, Ziggy, Bo, Usopp, Luke, Linus, Tamari, and Teddy, are fashionistas with a costume for any and every event. Now they are actors, too, as they recreate the original Star Wars trilogy, with a scene from each movie. They have their lines down purr-fectly. I wonder what kind of fish paste they've been eating, because it's obviously lip-smacking good. (via Boing Boing)
Dads
You don't have to be biologically related to be a great father. This reminds me of my late husband, who loved all kids. He loved his five children fiercely. He adored his grandchildren. In fact, I would have never met him if he didn't uproot his life elsewhere to be near his first grandchild. He adopted my two kids and loved them as much as his bio kids. He was always willing to take in a nephew or two. He acted as a father figure to his kids' friends. He believed all kids deserved a dad willing to go to great lengths for their benefit. I miss him. Happy Fathers Day!
Men Find Out They’re Going to Be Fathers
This compilation video shows men in the process of finding out they are going to be fathers. Yeah, it’s an ad, but it’s sweet all the same. And it just might get you into the mood for Fathers Day. (via Buzzfeed)
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— Figen (@TheFigen_) May 31, 2024
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Henry Worsley's Antarctic Quest
Henry Worsley, inspired by his ancestor Frank Worsley, captain of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, went to Antarctica to hike across the continent. Worsley first recreated Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, then Roald Amundsen's hike to the South Pole. In 2015, his goal was to hike across Antarctica solo, without any vehicle and with no airdropped supplies. But before we get to this difficult expedition, Weird History gives us the short version of the entire history of Antarctic exploration. About half way through, we get into Henry Worsley and his solo hike. It did not turn out well.
This solo feat only became plausible once the road from McMurdo to the South Pole was completed in 2007. Since Worsley's attempt, both Colin O'Brady and Louis Rudd successfully completed the same route using skis in 2018.
Bubby, the Super-Clingy Cat
Amira's cat Bubby is very attached to her. It would suit him just fine if he were physically attached to her all the time. His favorite activity is making biscuits on Amira's face. Still, you have to laugh when you find that the only thing that takes his attention away from her is the chime of his automatic feeder. What do you do with a cat this clingy? You get him a companion cat! Mitttens worked out real well for Bubby. You can see more of both cats at TikTok. Just scrolling through the static images in the video gallery is hilarious.
The Summit
It's been years since we've seen a new animation from Birdbox Studio, and this one is a delight. A mountain climber puts all his effort into reaching the summit, but when he gets there, it's already occupied. By a sheep. Now, sheep can be dumb or stubborn or both, but you'll have to watch the rest of this cartoon to know which one it really is. Oh yeah, you can say the same thing about the mountain climber. The mountain climber is determined to stand on the summit himself (and no doubt get a picture for social media). The story seems like it is some kind of analogy for setting goals in life or something, but the real point is to make us laugh. (via the Awesomer)
What My Dad Thinks I do in College
To get you prepared for Fathers Day, here’s a song about the expectations of parents vs. what a student actually does.
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— ActionMovieDad (@ActionMovieKid) June 11, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
How to Tell if a Louisiana Waterway Has Alligators
Natasha Pickens of Opelousas, Louisiana, goes by the Fishing Queen on YouTube. Here she explains that she is from Louisiana, as if we couldn't tell from her accent. She also gives us a sure-fire way to know whether there are alligators in the water before you go fishing. (via Boing Boing)
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Surprise! These Cardboard & Scotch Tape Vases Are Actually Ceramic Pots.
37 Twitter jokes and observations about family vacations.
The Pet Poetry of SchnoodleDoodleDo.
Duran Duran’s Rio Cover Model Identified 42 Years Later. (via Metafilter)
The Great Depression Origins of Halloween Haunted Houses. (Thanks, WTM!)
Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong? (via Damn Interesting)
The event that caused tennis balls to turn yellow: What color were they before? (via Kottke)
10 Misconceptions About the 1950s.
Bygone Kitchen Features
Here we learn about, or else reminisce about, kitchens of the past, and eleven features that we no longer see. I would say this is really ten items, since a Hoosier cabinet was mainly notable because it contained a flour sifter. I've never seen a rolling pin drawer, but I'm quite familiar with most of these bygone utensils and appliances. I've lived with a few, because I have always lived in very old homes. My rolling pin is now in that high cabinet over the refrigerator with other stuff I never use, like my meat grinder and my cookie cutters. The fold-down ironing board is cool, but a portable ironing board can be taken to the living room to watch TV while ironing, or to the office to use while sewing, or to the dining room when you have too many guests and need another buffet table, or to the bedroom when you finally get rid of the exercise equipment and need something to pile clothes on. Ironing boards are handy even if you don't have an iron.
Ball Machine at Japan Brickfest 2016
I’ve seen a lot of ball machine videos, and this one is truly impressive. There are 20 different modules designed by four engineers, working together beautifully to showcase different processes. In one, a ball must be thrown through a basket to advance. In another, a robot sorts the basketballs from the soccer balls. Others demonstrate classic machines and how they work. And who wouldn’t love the dragons that pick up and toss the balls? You can imagine how much time and testing went into this! Canadian Academy & KLUG took this contraption to Japan Brickiest in Kobe. (via Viral Viral Videos)
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— Figen (@TheFigen_) June 10, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Giant Pandas
Thirty years ago or so, the world went crazy for giant pandas. They were designated as an endangered species in 1990, and suddenly everyone wanted to save the giant panda, or at least see one before they were gone. Eventually, some folks started wondering if giant pandas were really worth all the trouble. Who ever heard of a bear that's a picky eater? They didn't even reproduce well, or so we thought. Giant pandas began to be seen as cute, but lazy and useless. But is that a reason to not save a species? SciShow rises to the occasion and tells us how pandas are actually pretty good at what they do. It's our fault that their environmental niche is diminishing, so they probably see us as evil and useless and not worth saving. This video has a 70-second skippable ad at 2:42.
Bossy Comes to Dinner
Some people say their pets are like family. Some pets just wanna have some of that delicious food you are eating. These two guys were chowing down on pasta and salad when Bossy joined in. But did they stop eating and remove her? No, they just got into a tug of war over the food. You're never going to win a food fight with a cow, and this one's hungry!
People love how randomly ridiculous this short video is, but there's more going on here than you realize the first time you watch. They've got a colander of spaghetti noodles there, but no marinara sauce that we can find, just a bottle of ketchup on the table, which explains the scant amount they put on their pasta. And did you catch the one guy pouring red wine into his milk? See, that's one of the secrets to making a funny video. Make it fast enough, and we will be compelled to watch twice! (via Born in Space)
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African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows. (via Fark)
Vampire Therapist Addresses the Reality and Trauma of the Undead. It's a new video game.
The Men Who Broke Out of Alcatraz with a Spoon. (via Damn Interesting)
The Most Popular Song When You Graduated High School. With videos from 1960 to 2023.
The Biden Disaster! The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
Inside a Crash-Test Dummy Lab: Check Out This Cool and Creepy Corner of the Car World.
Is This The Worst 1-Word Text Message You Can Possibly Send? Words take on different meanings in isolated text messages. (via Digg)
US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads. That's only one percent of their revenue for one year. (via Metafilter)
Commencement Speaker Needed
How comfortable are you with public speaking? How about a spur-of-the-moment commencement address? Improv Everywhere staged a graduation ceremony in Bryant Park. The premise here is that the scheduled commencement speaker (John Kerry if anyone asked) missed his flight and couldn’t make it, so they asked random people to step in and do a speech. The ones who took on the challenge didn’t do half bad at all. Some, if not all, of the people who volunteered could tell that this was a prank, but they still rose to the occasion and had a few inspiring things to relate to the graduating class. You can get more details at their website, like the story behind the woman who spoke entirely in Spanish. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
How Civilization Was Created By Bread
We know that grain agriculture led to human settlements, which led to communities and civilization. We also know that beer is almost as old as the early human settlements. But where does bread fit into all this history? It's looking more and more like bread came before any of those other things. Some folks in the Levant were making bread from wild grains, before anyone thought of raising crops deliberately. And beer, as ancient as it is, may have started out as an offspring of bread making, as it has the same ingredients. It would have been easy to use bread dough, or starter, as the catalyst that turned water into a tasty drink. Let's hear the latest findings about the history of our daily bread.
The 2024 Cheese Rolling Competition, in Slow Motion
Every May in Gloucester, UK, people gather at Cooper's Hill to chase a large wheel of cheese down the very steep slope. It's less a race than energetic falling, and there are always injuries of some sort. The first to the bottom wins the cheese. Dan Gruchy and Gavin Free, the Slow Mo Guys, were there last month to capture the mayhem on their high-speed camera in order to show us the race in slow motion. If you're in a hurry, the race heats start at about two minutes in. After several heats, we get the glorious high-definition slow-motion footage of the carnage at about 5:45, which results in perfectly clear stills of uncontrolled bodies flying every which way. Ouch. (via Laughing Squid)
The Science of Sex
While sex has obviously been going on in the natural world for far longer than we've been around, "we" meaning humanity itself, it's only been in the last hundred years or so that we've studied it as a scientific subject. The title of this video at YouTube refers to "strange sex practices," but there is no kink discussed here. The images can be described as suggestive, but that's as far as it goes. And our favorite narrator, Tom Blank, doesn't even say "penis," which leads to an amusing string of euphemisms. What it contains are things we've learned from scientific research about typical human sex practices, from kissing to having a cigarette afterward. There are the usual Weird History quips, which are funnier for the fine line they negotiate than for the jokes themselves.
The Warning Signs of Adulthood
If you are between 25 and 34, this may hit close to home. Nikki Limo runs down the warning signs of that dreaded condition known as adulthood. It’s a gradual process, but the realization comes over you at once. It’s terrifying. This video contains NSFW language.
However, if she was really suffering from adulthood, she wouldn’t be using oven cleaner on the stove top. Believe me, you only do that once. And the part about not wanting to put in the effort to learn a new technology didn’t hit me until I was 50. Otherwise, this is pretty spot on. If all your favorite songs are oldies and you buy a refrigerator, your childhood is over for good. (via Digg)
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024
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