Homestar Runner celebrates Halloween, first by showing how kids are bad at telling stories. We know, but they have to practice to get any better. Then he shows us his Halloween costume, which we understand although apparently he doesn't quite get it.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
A Prickly, Scary Short
Carlton the Pig is a Pumpkin Thief
Carlton has the Halloween spirit! But it all turns out alright in the end.
When Accepted Knowledge Isn't Knowledge at All
There are some factoids and trivia on the internet that have been around so long they are accepted as common knowledge. But that doesn't necessarily mean they are true. If something is repeated enough times, people will believe it, at least until someone calls their bluff. In this example, we've all heard that the blood vessels in your body, if laid out end-to-end, would be 100,000 kilometers or 60,000 miles long, which is long enough to wrap around the earth twice and then some. But where did that figure come from in the first place? Who figured this measurement out? And is it true? Kurzgesagt decided it would be best to run this down after someone asked for a source. It was a long path back to 1922 to find where this fact came from, and a big job figuring out if it was plausible. The moral of the story is that fact-checking can be a lot harder than you'd think. This video is only 10:35 long; the rest is promotional.
SNL Celebrates Halloween
Your favorite Saturday Night Live characters and guests have a great time celebrating Halloween every year. Here's a compilation of the some of their better holiday clips. Sadly, David S. Pumpkins is not one of them.
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Looks painful, any way you cut it.Still one of the best costume tricks ever
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 27, 2024
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
An Honest Trailer for The Wicker Man
In 1973, a movie called The Wicker Man hit theaters and was called "The Citizen Kane of horror movies." Too bad this Honest Trailer is not about that movie. Rather, it is about the 2006 remake starring Nicolas Cage that set the standard for bad remakes. The Wicker Man from 2006 has Nic Cage showing his emotional range without any coherent reason. Sure, he's investigating a missing child in a strange community that performs pagan rituals, but he's not getting anywhere by going all psychotic about it. In trying to ramp up the creepy factor, this movie veers into unintentional hilarity. That would be good if this were a comedy, but it's not, and anyone who appreciated the 1973 masterpiece was appalled by the remake. It did not make enough money to cover its budget, and was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards. Screen Junkies reminds us of why we didn't see The Wicker Man in 2006 in the Honest Trailer.
Timmy
It's heartbreaking to see a pet go through mourning, when his owner is gone and he doesn't understand what's happening. Timmy was confused and scared, but he got a new home. It took some time, and he eventually came to trust his new family and has learned to love again. See more of Timmy at Instagram.
Uptown Frank
The Alice Cooper song "Feed My Frankenstein" is always a go-to song for Halloween. This year, it gets a lively dance beat when DJ Cummerbund mixes it with "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars. See video clips of Wayne and Garth not be worthy of Cooper's attention, since he sang the song in the 1992 movie Wayne's World, and the cast of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein. You'll also see Randy “Macho Man” Savage, but that's no surprise at all because he's in every DJ Cummerbund mashup. (via Laughing Squid)
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The Boomer Stuff Avalanche. Millennials are about to be crushed by all the junk their parents accumulated. (via Metafilter)
When you need to hear something nice about yourself. (via Everlasting Blort)
In 1924 a risqué silent film featured a woman as US president - what happened on screen in the 100 years that followed? (via Damn Interesting)
The world's laziest dude. Much funnier than you would expect.
These Are Americans’ Biggest Fears in 2024, as the Country Is ‘Becoming More Afraid.’ Yet the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Kylo Ren’s Back to Let the Past Die in Star Wars’ New Comic. After the events of The Last Jedi, Kylo's going back to what he's best at: looking to his grandpappy for evil guidance.
I got dysentery so you don’t have to. https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2024/10/21/i-got-dysentery-so-you-dont-have-to/ The experience of a challenge trial Volunteer. (via Nag on the Lake)
Salmon Make a Long-Awaited Return to the Klamath River for the First Time in 112 Years, After Largest Dam Removal in U.S. (via Metafilter)
Happy Halloween in Dominos
Hevesh5 set up a Halloween greeting using 12,000 dominos for a chain reaction that incorporates a few Rube Goldberg-type transitions. Neat! (via Tastefully Offensive)
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(Thanks, WTM!)Twin sisters and Halloween themed skates
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 25, 2024
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Magadu
Randy Rainbow is at it again, regaling us with a parody of the song "Xanadu" with lyrics about one of our presidential candidates. But that's not all! You'll also a parody of "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. This video has a one-minute skippable ad at :56.
Vultures in Love
Vulture populations are declining around the world, and while their feeding habits may seem disgusting, they are a vital part of our ecosystem. Bernard and Twinkle, endangered Eurasian black vultures who live at Horstmann Vulture Trust, will win your heart because they are devoted to each other. The pair previously produced the first Eurasian black vulture chick hatched in the UK. Bernard is 28 years old now, and developed arthritis, which limited his activities. Then he became a groundbreaker as the first vulture to undergo experimental stem cell therapy. A veterinary team extracted some of Bernard's stem cells and cultured them until they grew to more than seven million cells! These were re-introduced into the bird, and replaced the tissue in Bernard's worn-out knees. The Trust hopes that a rejuvenated Bernard will be able to produce more chicks with Twinkle. We wish them luck.
NASA's Hi-Tech Pumpkins
They have a workplace pumpkin-carving contest every year, but this are no ordinary pumpkin art, because the workplace is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These pumpkins are out of this world! The ones that do things are impressive, but I particularly like the cow abduction pumpkin. (via Metafilter)
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Penn & Teller reveal how their magic tricks are done 😳 🤯 pic.twitter.com/vcnfyCAnXn
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) October 10, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
Nightmare on Starkiller Base
A Halloween special from the makers of the For The Empire web series. It's just a conversation (or two) but it's quite funny for Star Wars geeks. The skit ends at 6:10, and the rest is an ad.
No Copyright Intended
If there's something off-putting in your community, whom should you contact? Ghost Banisher! Is there’s something unpalatable, and it looks less than optimal… I tremble not before a wandering spirit. Banishing leaves me feeling adequately satisfied! One size fits most. (via reddit)
Why Did Fast Food Become So Expensive?
You will always run into people who remember that McDonald's hamburger were once 15 cents. They were also ready when you got there, because that's all they served, unless you wanted a cheeseburger, which were ready as well. The slowness of fast food is due to the variety of options available, but what happened to the price? You can go to a sit-down restaurant and get a plate of hamburgers and fries and a drink brought to your table for $10, and it may cost you the same to get one at a window to eat in your car, and you won't know what a mess it is until you unwrap it, a half-mile away. McDonald's isn't the only outlet where prices have risen dramatically. Weird History explains what happened, beginning with the history of fast food.
The good news is that a McChicken and a senior coffee is still less than a Happy Meal.
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Death of a Pig. E. B. White tells the story that inspired Charlotte's Web. (via Kottke)
The Immigrants Ruining U.S. Democracy: Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Thiel. (via Fark)
50 Times People Nailed Halloween Snacks And Just Had To Brag Online.
This Chart Highlights The Biggest Difference Between The European And American Mindset. Europeans take vacation days because they get paid for those days.
We Are Living in a Golden Age of Apples. Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good (via Metafilter)
10 Baby Name Trends for 2025, According to Nameberry. Learn why we might have a class of students named Novalie, Xochitl, Suede, Abner, Bliss, Guinevere, Valkyrie, and Prairie in a few years.
This simple test can show how you’re aging. Flamingo pose, anyone? (via Real Clear Science)
My Weekends With the Dead. In 2017, I decided to solve a longtime mystery about my family. It led me to a controversial pastime that consumes thousands—and has changed untold lives. (via Damn Interesting)
This Might Be the Worst Thing Happening in Texas Right Now. They've made cruel and unusual punishment into an art form. (via Nag on the Lake)
Beaver Dam Collapse
Rick Smith took drone footage of this lovely beaver dam and pond in northern Minnesota. Beavers worked on this dam for seven years. Then it collapsed.
The water from the pond drained in about four hours. Smith said,
We own the property that this dam is built on and were totally heartbroken when this dam gave way. The beauty of this natural setting is why we bought the property in the first place. We had no part in the destruction of this dam. It merely could not take the pressure of two week of heavy rain draining into beaver pond flood plain. Also, the beavers built it too high, 9 Ft. It was an engineering marvel. Double decker beaver dams are not that common.But the beavers didn't give up. Within six weeks of the collapse, they had rebuilt the dam to about four feet. Smith has another drone video showing their progress from May of this year. (via reddit)
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(Thanks, WTM!)I feel you little buddy pic.twitter.com/PzZtu23KKG
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) October 25, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Black Hole
Wouldn't it be great to make your own hole? It seems a bit dangerous at first, but imagine just sticking a hole wherever you wanted to make one. Then remove it to make everything right again! As in all things, you must be careful what you wish for. This short -really short- film is part of the article 6 Exceptional One-Minute Short Films at Music Bed. (via Metafilter)
Odie the Trucking Cat
When a cat decides we wants to be with a couple of truck drivers, he's destined for a life on the road. See more of Odie at Instagram.
Drones at Work
Drones can be a lot of fun and give us great visuals from an aerial point of view, but their most impactive use is for doing jobs that are difficult and dangerous. Sure, there's war, but while that's safer for the aggressor, it's still killing people. Check out what drones are doing for the power grid, above. They are also used for inspection and troubleshooting, and can recharge themselves on the electrical towers without returning to home base. The drones used for this kind of work are be above your budget or your needs, but for infrastructure maintenance, they are not only cost-effective (compared to a pilot plus workers in a helicopter), but much safer than sending people to do certain jobs. (via Nag on the Lake)
Projecting Ghostbusters
Normally I look at holiday decorations made with projections as the lazy way out, since most of them consist of projecting colored lights on the side of a house. But this one is different. It's custom-designed for this house with projection mapping, and results in a movie for anyone outside. The movie in this case is Ghostbusters, the short version set to the film's theme song. ...and some other tunes. This kind of thing sets the bar really high for the neighbors. You guessed it, this is from a professional called Seasoned Projections. See what the house looks like during the day. (via Born in Space)
Dog's Chew Toy Comes to Life
Jolene the golden retriever loves her Gumby toy. It's her favorite! So how do you think she'd feel if it came to life? Watch and see!
Ben Mesches selected his Halloween costume because of Jolene. At first she's incredulous, but then she's the happiest dog ever! (via Metafilter)
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(via Nag on the Lake)Border Collies sort black and white Ducks pic.twitter.com/gZ4BQ4KJG0
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 24, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Early Voting
This year is the first time I've ever had a family member in a battleground state, and Dr. Doolittle came through. I am proud!
An Honest Trailer for Alien: Romulus
The Alien franchise goes back to 1979, and of the first eight films, only the first two seem to have clicked with anyone outside of hardcore Alien fans. So Alien: Romulus went back to the original premise of a cast that encounters an alien life form no one understands. But their employers know about it, and so does the audience, and that may be a problem. Audiences liked it well enough, and critics called it better than all the movies past the first two, which honestly isn't saying much. From what I can tell, it's a good time if you're into this sort of thing, but it doesn't really make a splash in the cinematic science fiction pantheon. The first two Alien movies set the bar that high. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Horror Express
The 1972 Spanish/British horror film Horror Express stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, and Telly Savalas. From Wikipedia:
In 1906, Saxton (Christopher Lee), a renowned British anthropologist, is returning to Europe by the Trans-Siberian Express from China to Moscow. With him is a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature that he discovered in a cave in Manchuria. He hopes it is a missing link in human evolution. Doctor Wells (Peter Cushing), Saxton's friendly rival and Royal Society colleague, is also on board but travelling separately. Before the train departs Shanghai, a thief is found dead on the platform. His eyes are completely white without irises or pupils, and a bystander initially mistakes him for a blind man. A monk named Father Pujardov (Alberto de Mendoza), the spiritual advisor to the Polish Count Marion Petrovski (George Rigaud) and Countess Irina Petrovski (Silvia Tortosa), who are also waiting to board the train, proclaims the contents of the crate to be evil. Saxton furiously dismisses this as superstition. Saxton's eagerness to keep his scientific find secret arouses the suspicion of Wells, who bribes a porter to investigate the crate. The porter is killed by the ape-like creature (Juan Olaguivel) within, which then escapes the crate by picking the lock.There's more to the plot summary, but you don't need it. Just watch the movie.
The creature finds more victims as it roams the moving train, each victim being found with the same opaque, white eyes.
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(Thanks, WTM!)How it started... How it's going. 🥰❤😊👇 pic.twitter.com/zLNu9y9G0g
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) October 20, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Lonely Pumpkin
Kate Micucci saw a pumpkin all by itself, so she had to write a little song about it. The song tells a fictional story that takes a couple of left turns. We think she also caused a traffic jam at the 101 in Van Nuys.
Skeleton Orchestra
Italian artist Amedeo Capelli handcrafts whimsical automata scenes. When he decided to make a whole orchestra of skeleton musicians, he soon found out it was a lot more work than he had intended. The finished piece contains thousands of individually carved bits of wood, plus the rope, iron, and aluminum required to wire all the movement controls together. A single skeleton's movements are controlled by a lever and wire, but to control them all without making them move in simple unison required that Capelli design an extra device. That control panel can be cranked by one person, but makes each skeleton move in its own way, which was what he was aiming for. Three weeks of intense work went into this orchestra. Here you watch them "play" Verdi's Dies Irae. (via Laughing Squid)
Simon's Cat in Halloween 360
Simon's Cat has an interactive video! Use your cursor to scroll around and keep up with the creeping cat. You can also scroll up or down, or use the switch at the top left to spin the scene around, but you might lose the cat. Still, it's a video, you can always find the cat again.
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(via Nag on the Lake)Ella Fitzgerald arrested after singing to an integrated audience in 1955 pic.twitter.com/53lzJ8yMvW
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) October 21, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Do You Think This Guy May Be Cursed?
Many people go to a psychiatrist or some other kind of therapist to get a professional opinion on what they are doing wrong with their lives. But in this guy's case, you don't need a professional therapist. Any fool who has ever been to a movie theater can tell what he's done wrong, but we might be at a loss over what he can do about it now. Not that he would take your advice -he's obviously in denial about it. I think what he really needs is a certified exorcist. But that's the thing about a curse, once you have been cursed, half the stories we've heard tell us there's nothing you can do about it; you're doomed. But the other half offer some loophole or quest to get a curse lifted. However, that only helps if you have one curse. This guy has them all! This skit for Halloween came from the twisted mind of Ryan George.
Dirty Divorce Trick
"Country Bill” White was a country music singer and a “living corpse,” a
stunt man who was often buried underground for weeks at a time. Those
stunts don’t seem that outrageous to us now, because he had a chute to
send down supplies and a radio for communication, but he made somewhat
of a splash in the 1960s and ‘70s doing it. He even set records,
although Guinness no longer keeps records for dangerous stunts. In 1966,
he married a woman who was also into being buried alive, so they had
something in common. But when they divorced in 1968, she managed to time
the proceedings in order to cause him the most pain, as you can see
from the above clipping. Read about "Country Bill” White and his strange career underground at Weird Universe.
Mistakes that Created Modern America
By now, we all know that Christopher Columbus ended up in the New World by accident, a result of mistakes in navigation and lack of knowledge. The result was that the Old World and the New World were brought into contact, for better or for worse, which would have happened eventually anyway. But that's only the first of a string of miscalculations and screwups that led to the way the United States is today. Some of these mistakes were the result of hubris, while others were just incompetence or stupidity. Then again, some of these movers and shakers were confronting problems never seen before. These eight historic mistakes are not presented in chronological order, but you can place them easily is you know anything about American history.
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When you don't have those cupcake thingys. (via Nag on the Lake)
Get Cancer, Go Broke: Patients Often Go Bankrupt, Even With Insurance.
43 New York Comic Con Costumes That Are Giving Me Major Halloween Inspo.
Socially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseases. (via Damn Interesting)
Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?
Twelve Million Deportations. And an altered America. (via Kottke)
A Captain America for the Trump 47 Era. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
How much energy does it take to make a baby? Researchers are rethinking what they know.
Teen's Head Stuck in Pumpkin
Kristy Ralphs recorded her family's pumpkin-carving evening. The kids are showing off for the camera. Her daughter Rachel thinks she can fit her head inside the big pumpkin. Yes, she can, but then she couldn't get her head back out! Everyone had suggestions, like calling the fire department or using a sawzall. Kristy eventually put the camera down to help out. In case you are wondering if Rachel is still in there, here's a clip recorded just a few minutes later.
Dad: Why were you putting your head in there, anyway?Funny enough for a viral video. They never said exactly how she got out of the pumpkin. I like to think that she ate her way out. (via Uproxx)
Rachel: I just thought it would be fuinny.
Mom: It was funny!
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(Thanks, WTM!)Perfect costume for a chocolate lab pic.twitter.com/lShKONcSg1
— Heckin Good Dogs (@HeckinGoodDogs) October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
A 12-Foot Home Depot Skeleton
An homage to the most popular Halloween decoration ever from the Kitsch Club. The thing is, once these are put together for Halloween, no one wants to go to the trouble of taking them down and apart. And where do you store them? So they stay up all year long. Not that that's a bad thing. They make a great scaffolding for your decorations for other holidays. (via Metafilter)
A Quartet of Tesla Coils Perform "Spooky Scary Skeletons"
"Spooky Scary Skeletons" is a 1996 song by Andrew Gold that was soon used by Disney for all kinds of Halloween projects, and eventually became in internet meme of its own. That's how you know the song, even if you can't put your finger on where you know it from. Here we see it being played by the most appropriate instrument- tesla coils! In fact, an array of four tesla coils in harmony. Franzoli Electronics programmed the song, and this performance has not been remixed or enhanced. It does have a separate drum track, but the rest of it is just musical electrical arcs bouncing back and forth. A fine score for your Halloween activities. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
The Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
The 34th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade was held on Sunday in New York City, and thousands of people came out to show off their dogs or enjoy watching the parade. The pooches were dressed to the nines, with imaginative costumes and vehicles, including the number one Halloween costume this year, Bob from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Dogs were dressed as historical figures, pop culture characters, other animals, and more than anything, food. Don't miss the puppy dressed as the house from Up! Dog owners were out in costume, as well. One couple dressed up as their dog, who wasn't wearing a costume, making it a trio. If you want to see the whole parade, it's available at YouTube. These are all very good dogs.
Spooky Club
Brothers Joe and Lloyd Stas bring us a goofy Halloween short film that delivers in a hurry! The Spooky Club is a group of guys who have eerie but useless talents. In this video, they are on a mission to find Vincent Price's skull and cremate it as he had wished.
We got an email from Vincent’s daughter, Victoria saying how much she liked it and how her Dad would have loved it too. It made us feel super proud! It’s 23 years this week since he died.Read more about Spooky Club and the making of the short film. If you want to join Spooky Club, sign up here. (Thanks, Joe!)
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(Thanks, WTM!)Dog just returned from surgery, cat hasn't left his side since..🐕🐾🐈❤️ pic.twitter.com/AJK9hWuGjl
— contents that ll heal your depression 🌻 (@Catshealdeprsn) October 11, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Shoulder Angels
We've all seen this illustration in movies and cartoons when a character has to make a moral decision- a small devil on one shoulder, and an angel on the other, whispering in the character's ear to persuade him to do the right thing or the wrong thing. The devil represents temptation, and the angel represents the conscience. It's pretty much the perfect way to illustrate a moral dilemma, but where did it come from? You won't be surprised to learn it goes way back, a couple thousand years or so. But why are they small and standing on someone's shoulders? Duh, the easier to whisper in his ear, my dear. Everyone knows what it means, and it's certainly less boring than just using a disembodied voice to explain to the audience what the character is thinking. (via Laughing Squid)
Tron 1 Looks Like a Robot from the Movies
One way to get everyday people involved with a robot is to make it less like a human, and therefore less creepy. LimX Dynamics introduces the TRON 1, a bipedal robot that looks relatively unthreatening. It resembles robots we are familiar with from the movies (Tron, Star Wars, Robocop, Battlestar Galactica, etc.). For a two-legged robot, it balances really well, and has three different "foot" modes that can be switched out. And boy, can it dance!
You can have your own Tron I for just $15,000. I'm sure it can do things besides walk upstairs and dance, but what it's supposed to be useful for isn't really explained. I can't see it pushing a lawnmower or washing dishes. I'm sure it would be easy to attached a machine gun or a flamethrower to it. (via Boing Boing)
Puppies in a Pumpkin Patch
Devin Supertramp takes a sideways turn from his usual extreme sports videos to play with delightful puppies! Here they are in their Halloween costumes, cavorting in a pumpkin patch at Cornbelly's farm in Lehi, Utah. There's no pop culture tie-in, no plot, and no voiceover, just a soothing adorable sequence to make your day better. (via Tastefully Offensive)
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(Thanks, WTM!).I pay internet for this pic.twitter.com/Y3qCR6ik43
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) October 13, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
A Memorable Way to Say It
Funny Nigerian sayings
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Nigerian comebacks are poetic, dramatic, and really funny. When the father said "What will kill me has not yet been born," we can take that to be really badass, or maybe he's saying another child will be the death of him. The one about wisdom is my favorite. (via reddit)
Soccer Balls in the Floor
I'm No Civil Engineer But....I Don't Think They Are Either
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This looks really weird, but there's a perfectly reasonable explanation. Are they putting soccer balls between rebar to save on concrete? Yes, yes they are. This is common in concrete construction and it's called a biaxial voided slab. Notice that the balls are not near the walls or columns, but in the emptier areas. This not only saves on the amount of concrete used, but the ultimate weight of the floor. It also increases the floor's insulating qualities.
However, this particular project is more colorful than others. Builders more commonly use plastic boxes or styrofoam to make concrete voids. These are most likely not regulation soccer balls, but much cheaper plastic orbs. Still gets the job done. (via reddit)
The Most Gruesome Ways Pirates Killed People
In the movies, pirates are charming scalawags who operate outside of the normal limits of civilization. This might give you the wrong idea about the Golden Age of Piracy in the mid-17th century. Sure, some governments turned a blind eye to certain pirates, as long as they carried out capers that benefitted some nations in their competition over other governments. But most pirates were fine with violence, whether in war or in plundering coastal villages or even in competition with each other. They could be pretty brutal overall. Captains reinforced the pecking order and kept their crews in line with the threat of a painful death, and rivals were treated even worse. Short of death, permanent maiming was on the table, too, which explains the hooks and peg legs. Some pirates weren't above a bit of torture, either, to get what they wanted.
Miss Cellania's Links
The “friendship divide” explained: How your education affects your ability to connect.
Attack of the Dead Men 1915: The Great War's Supernaturally Horrific Battle and History's First Weapon of Mass Destruction. (via Strange Company)
Santorio Santori And Insensible Perspiration. The scientists went through some crazy stuff to figure out how much water our bodies lose through evaporation and breathing.
Hemingway, after the hurricane. The 1935 Labor Day hurricane killed 400, many of them veterans who should have been evacuated.
Gruesome, macabre, and coveted Halloween-style home decor.
The short and horrid life of Russia's Emperor Ivan VI. More here. (via Messy Nessy Chic)
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism? Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five points ahead in Arizona? (via Kottke)
8 Fascinating Facts about Alchemy.
25 Halloween Life Hacks
Everywhere you look on the ‘net, there are tips for making your Halloween celebrations easier or even more fun. As he does sometimes, John Green takes some of those ideas and tests them to see if they really work the way they are supposed to. He doesn’t take a lot of care, so your results may vary, but you get the idea. My contribution: use a large rubber glove, cut the glove off with scissors, including each finger. But his result is funnier, in the Halloween episode of the mental_floss List Show.
PS: I have never found a better way to carve a pumpkin than by using a hole-boring drill bit and a sawzall. Done in two minutes.
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I believe the bird is a tawny frogmouth, not to be confused with the Australian boobook.The most Australian video I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/ve6h33hR3O
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 17, 2024
