Monday, August 12, 2024

Miss Cellania's Links

McMansion Hell reviews a big house on Kate Wagner Street. It will make you appreciate your small home.

A Rock Embossed by Nature.

The Complex History of American Dating. While going out on a date may seem like a natural thing to do these days, it wasn’t always the case. (via Strange Company)

Busting 13 of the Smithsonian’s Most Persistent Myths

Artificial intelligence does ballet, but not well. (via Everlasting Blort

Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs.  (via Damn Interesting)

A worker from Berkeley’s Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating … wingnuts. (via Metafilter)

Look, you can complete your mission or you can dabble in gentrification. The latter is a testament to Fallout 4's allure in that you can do both if you spent enough time at it.

The Flippist made a flipbook of the best flippin' flipper in the world- Simone Biles.




2 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Love the Simone Biles flip book!

Anonymous said...

That snarky description of the McMansion is stupid. Some points were valid but most were not. Bitching the front lawn was like a carpet and the back lawn was lumpy is dumb. A modern discordant family needs room to spread out.

Here’s another sample of that stone.
https://www.kristalai.eu/en/blogs/crystals/crinoid

Wingnuts are the diamonds of found nut&bolt scavengers.
Any size, material, or condition, bam, in my pocket.

GOAT Simone Biles routinely does things not humanly possible.
Think about it, if you could run, jump, and spin around 3 or 4 times before landing. Do you think you could even count how many times you spun in that 2 seconds?
xoxoxoBruce