Friday, September 16, 2016
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How to be perfectly unhappy.
Trump Beach Resort In Florida Seeks More Foreign Workers.
Humans and Neanderthals had sex. But was it for love?
For Diamond Reynolds, trying to move past 10 tragic minutes of video. Life has not been easy since a cop shot her boyfriend while she sat in the car with him.
Imgur user Kiyoi Photoshopped eight animals to see what they’d look like with front-facing eyes. They look like cartoon characters. (via Boing Boing)
Two Major Bridget Jones Fans Attempt to Be Objective About Bridget Jones’s Baby. They fail, but have a great time dishing about the new movie.
The Battle of Palmdale. How A Rogue 1950s Drone Fiasco Ended With 208 Rockets Fired At Southern California. (via Metafilter)
How the crack epidemic crippled three generations of a family. Sheldon Johnson Sr, Sheldon Johnson Jr., and Sheldon Johnson III kept the cycle of broken families going.
10 Internet Lies That Won't Die. The stories are too good to stop passing around.
T. Rex Gets His Groove Back
Life was once great, when T. rex could just roar and everyone would run in fear. He was the apex thunder lizard! But then things fell apart. Someone pointed out his tiny arms, and not everyone makes fun of him. He even became an internet meme, which is a recipe for depression. And since this is an ad, the cure is something he should buy. Audi has a self-steering car, it seems. But the story is good enough to pass along anyway. I was rooting for the poor guy the whole time. (via Tastefully Offensive)
15 Quirky World Championships
They say everyone is good at something, you just have to find out what it is. Thanks to the internet, people with similar interests can find each other, organize events, and compete with each other easier than ever before. Here are a few world championships you may never have heard of, or that you may even want to enter, in a list I compiled for mental_floss.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
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17 Things No One Tells You About Being On Jeopardy! Except those who have been there; they will tell you.
The biggest real estate development in US history will have a puzzling centerpiece. Hudson Yards' structure called the Vessel will feature 154 flights of stairs.
Hunting for microbes in Central Park’s murkiest waters. Biologist Sally Warring wants to put them in Instagram.
Somehow there is a huge disconnect between this country’s prosperity and the well-being of its families.
Puppy on a carnival slide.
Meet The 92-Year-Old Who Has Been Attending Pride With The Same Sign For Over 30 Years. I recall seeing her in the papers many years ago.
Where’s the South?
Here's Why So Many Nail Salons Are Owned By Vietnamese Women. You can credit Tippi Hedren.
The surprising (and kinda boring) truth about Washington lobbyists. Meet a few of them that don’t fit the stereotype.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
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The Pleasures of Protest: Taking on Gentrification in Chinatown.
How Donald Trump retooled his charity to spend other people’s money.
A windshield viper. (Thanks, Thor!)
What Should You Choose: Time or Money? Those who value time over money are happier, but most of us would be happy just to have the choice.
The Great Smokey Mountains National Park has an interactive map to help you plan your autumn road trips to coincide with the peak fall foliage in the 48 contiguous states.
The 34 Spider-Men of the Spider-Verse. That’s a lot of flavors for one superhero!
Dolphin Conversation Caught On Tape For First Time. Now if we could only figure out what they were saying to each other.
How Boston's bartenders and barbers helped stop a TB outbreak. And it was only thirty years ago.
10 Weird Resuscitation Techniques From 200 Years Ago. Sometimes they just scared you back to life.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
An Honest Trailer for Captain America: Civil War
The Marvel movie Captain America: Civil War is available on Blue-Ray as of today. Perfect time for an Honest Trailer from Screen Junkies. This is the movie where a bunch of new Marvel superheroes are introduced because the Avengers are split into teams to fight each other, right?
From this video, I also learned that it has an incomprehensible plot that no one cared about because they wanted to see superheroes fight. And it has a lot in common with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. (Thanks, Paul Panday!)
The Whoopass Girls
All your favorite cartoons started out as someone's college thesis. Animation student Craig McCracken put together a cartoon called Whoopass Stew for his thesis project at CalArts in 1992. It starred three superhero characters called the Whoopass Girls. You may recognize them as resembling the Powerpuff Girls, which is what they became at Cartoon Network when they finally got a series from 1998-2005. This is one of five early cartoons you can see at Inverse, as they discuss the obscure collegiate origins of successful series like South Park, Family Guy, and more. Animation students, there may be more riding on your final projects than you realize! (via Digg)
Miss Cellania's Links
The Illustrated Map of America's Worst Utopias. Communal living experiments can fail in so many different ways.
See the beginnings of The Monkees in these utterly charming screen tests. You can see why these four were chosen for the show.
5 Things You Never Knew About the Kennedys. I did not know that Rose was a countess.
This Is How Long It Takes Before Coffee Stops Working. Time to quit binging and get some sleep.
The American people agree with Clinton: Trump is a bigot. This new poll confirms it.
Why the Purple Skittle Tastes Different Outside America.
The Creator of Tribbles Talks About Making The Weirdest Star Trek Episode Ever. (via The A.V. Club)
Cats caught in mid-sneeze. The more you see, the funnier they get.
Species named for President Obama.
Fat
The description of this short film is “Life is good down on the farm until things start getting fat.” I would argue that they don’t seem so fat as they seems inflated. A few good farts ought to put things right. Oh yeah, this contains concepts that might be hard to explain to children.
Monday, September 12, 2016
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