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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Miss Cellania's Links
Why There’s a Columbo Statue in the Middle of Budapest.
Against a Federal Registry of Genitals. A report that the Trump administration plans to define gender based on the appearance of infants runs counter to developmental biology and individual privacy.
They Paved Paradise and Put Up a ...Forest? The story of Akron's Innerbelt National Forest. (via Metafilter)
27 Studies That Prove Scientists Are Weird, Weird People.
Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value.
Skullzones are calzones made in the shape of skulls, and you can make them with these instructions instructions. Do not miss the final image! (via Boing Boing)
15 Pumpkins That Were Clearly Carved By Hilariously Weird People.
Trump is now using the official White House website for partisan propaganda. This can't be legal.
World’s oldest shipwreck is discovered in Black Sea. The Greek ship dates back 2,400 years! (via TYWKIWDBI)
A blast from the past (2014): 8 Parasites that Create Zombie Animals.
The Little House
The 1952 Disney short The Little House is based on the 1942 children's book by Virginia Lee Burton. The story was inspired by her own childhood home. Burton said it was not a critique of urban sprawl, but a story designed to illustrate the passage of time to children. In the book, the house stays in the same family over generations.
Tweet of the Day
Megyn Kelly wonders what the big deal is about blackface pic.twitter.com/07yvYDuAYe— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 23, 2018
Apparently, Meghan Kelly is still on TV. That was news to me. This completely tone-deaf exchange happened Tuesday morning. None of the four mentioned the particular history of blackface in America. But even so, why would she question the offensiveness of a costume that she knows darn well is used even today to mock people? Kelly later issued an apology.
"I realize now that such behavior is indeed wrong, and I am sorry. The history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent; the wounds too deep."That sentence tells us that Kelly got schooled about the history of blackface sometime between the broadcast and the apology. You'd think a journalist would try to be up on such things. (via The Root)
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
An Honest Trailer for Halloween (1978)
The number one movie at the box-office right now is Halloween, with the same characters as the 1978 movie of the same name. That original Halloween was a groundbreaking horror film that spawned sequel after sequel after sequel, so now they are just recycling the movie titles. But try to remember back when you first saw Halloween -the original- for the first time. You were probably so frightened that you didn't have the time or the energy to critique the film. Screen Junkies has the time, and they did it for us. Spoiler alert: If you only saw the first movie, you made the right choice.
Apollo 11’s Journey to the Moon
If you are of a certain age, you remember watching Apollo 11 land on the moon. Everyone in the world with access to TV was watching at the same time. Almost 50 years on, you might enjoy an explanation of how that happened. From the perspective of 2018, it seems like a miracle that we sent men to walk on the moon and brought them back to earth with less computer power than the average iPhone, when we now can't even hitch a ride to the space station.
Zombie
It would be good to know which of your friends has a "think first ask questions later" attitude. Especially on those days you don't bother looking in the mirror. This comic is from Sanesparza. (via Geeks are Sexy)
᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜
No, the title does not mean I am having a stroke. Tom Scott looks at an old written language called Ogham. It's a language carved into stone that fell out of use a thousand years ago. It turned out to be unique for as translating languages into unicode, so it could be used on the internet. As you can see by the title of this post, they managed to do it.
Miss Cellania's Links
Who Pays? The vast majority of state and local tax systems are inequitable and upside-down, taking a much greater share of income from low- and middle-income families than from wealthy families. (via Nag on the Lake)
Living off the Land in the Arctic Circle. In Lapland, chefs and residents hunt and gather to make bear soup, lingonberry syrup, and reindeer.
The Disgusting Food Museum, opening soon in Sweden, will highlight recipes from around the world that make some folks salivate and others feel a bit queasy. (via Nag on the Lake)
Trump is glorifying violence against journalists. This is a national disgrace.
How Enya’s “Orinoco Flow” Went From a Hit to a Punch Line to a Pop Culture Anthem.
The Holdouts: Dry Towns in Otherwise Wet States.
True Grit: From Weird Mascot to Eldritch Revolutionary. The Philadelphia Flyers new mascot Gritty has become a symbol of the Resistance. (via Metafilter)
He was a Confederate soldier. She was born into slavery. But they married in 1872 in South Carolina and eventually produced nine children.
When Crime Is a Family Affair. The case of the Bogle family illustrates how a penchant for crime is learned.
Bride of Resistor
Last week I posted Mr. Resistor, a 1994 animation by Mark Gustafson. Here is the sequel, Bride of Resistor, which Gustafson unveiled in 1997.
Tweet of the Day
Republicans: We're going to cut taxes for the rich next year and also cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.— Craig Harrington (@Craigipedia) October 22, 2018
Democrats: THEY'RE GOING TO CUT TAXES FOR THE RICH AND CUT MEDICARE, MEDICAID, AND SOCIAL SECURITY!
Trump: GUATAMALA IS ISIS!!
Nightly News: Is Guatemala ISIS?
Monday, October 22, 2018
Harriet the Singing Donkey
Martin Stanton lives in Ireland, and his neighbors down the road have a donkey named Harriet. Harriet never learned how to heehaw like other donkeys, but she's got an operatic soprano voice with occasional vibrato. I am not making this up. (via Laughing Squid)
How to Vote
Comedian Demi Adejuyigbe busts some myths about voting. It's not hard. Really, the hardest part is making yourself get get off the couch and do it. If you find it's more difficult than it should be, that's a sign that you should do something about it, like get involved in your community to change things. I vote every chance I get, even in elections where I know my vote is akin to spitting in the wind, because I would regret missing that chance. Here in Kentucky's 5th district, that's pretty much all of them, but I will still vote because I care about my country and its future. (via Boing Boing)
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