Monday, June 17, 2024

Miss Cellania's Links

NASA, Global Astronomers Await Rare Nova Explosion. It will be visible with the naked eye, if you know when and where to look. (Thanks, WTM!)

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 Valérie André, 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)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Blair Witch fiasco shows us again anything done by an Inc or LLP is about profit alone.

I like the Nepali flag, it’s unique, but I didn’t know the sun and moon were depicted on it.

So the French had “MASH” helicopters in Vietnam before the US in Korea in January 1951.

Beside bragging rights there are lots of negatives living in a 355 year old house.
xoxoxoBruce

Miss Cellania said...

Tell me about it. My house isn't nearly as a old, but my living room light fixture is held together with household cement because 10-year-old soccer players and antique glass shades don't go together. Replacement parts are impossible to find.

Jim said...

Frankfurters?
I've had some tasty ones and some so awful that they hit the trash after one bite. I mean, a sip of beer did not even wash that horrid taste out of my mouth.
At the old Shea Stadium and in the left field bleacher seats, my pal Brian and I found a Harry M. Stevens stand with two pretty girls behind the counter. We got a couple of dogs and a couple of beers. We chatted with them (just flirting but not really hitting on them). They rewarded us with free refills. The Mutts were losing badly that day and we didn't want to go back to our seats to be disappointed.
It's a good thing that we took the number 7 train out to Flushing NY because we were loaded. My misspent youth.