Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Why Women Shave Their Legs
In this skit from Adam Turns Everything, Adam is being overdramatic, so it's a relief when he hands the subject over to Emily. As to the reason woman began shaving their bodies, it all comes down to profit. Are you surprised? (via Digg)
It's Not Me, It's the Algorithm
The most welcome use of artificial intelligence is the ability to blame it for all sorts of horrible things. Or at least until the algorithm develops the capacity to resent that. This comic is from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
How Flat Can a Cat Get?
Maru is a large cat. His roommate Hana is also getting to be pretty substantial. Their human, mugumogu, arranged an experiment to see how small a passageway can get before the cats cannot get through. The opening is lowered gradually until we have to laugh at Maru's struggle to fit under eight centimeters. How low can they go? Watch and see- it will remind you of a limbo competition! One thing we can be sure of- they had some kind of powerful incentive to get through. Maybe it's the challenge itself.
Miss Cellania's Links
The Root covered the arrival of the first slave trading ship in America, as it happened on August 20, 1619.
Sexism in the Academy. Women face as many obstacles to tenure, if not more, than they ever have. (via Metafilter)
38 Americanisms the British Can’t Bloody Stand. (via Nag on the Lake)
A Brief History of Vanity License Plates Gone Wrong.
That Time Rock Hudson Staked his Talent on a Bleak Sci-fi Movie. Seems like Seconds would be worth a watch.
Not Your Grandma’s Cuckoo: Decapitating, Rat-Eating Clocks of the Black Forest. (Thanks, WTM!)
Henrietta Wood Sued for Reparations in 1870. Strangely, Wood's lawsuit was not a groundbreaking case that opened the floodgates for other former slaves to sue, and has almost disappeared from postwar history.
Woman Wins Ultramarathon, Gets Two Trophies. (via Boing Boing)
A blast from the past (2012): 7 Fabulously Named Fossils.
Tweet of the Day
It’s cat picking season pic.twitter.com/6UzzC0DcBY— Cats 🐈 (@bestcataccount) August 1, 2019
(via Everlasting Blort)
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Sunday Morning Rush Hour
Farmers don't normally name their poultry and livestock, but that rule doesn't apply at Caenhill Countryside Centre. Chris Franklin lets the gang out of the barn to start a new day and greets each one of the ducks, geese, chickens, and goats by name: Bunson, Bo, Cuthbert, Owen, Jean, Cee Cee, Catherine, Gilbert and Sully, Bumblebee, Lucy, Socks (the kitten), Kenny, and the rest. Thank you, Kenny! They've made four of these morning videos in the last four days, plus a charming look at the farm before the barn residents are released. Will they continue every day from now on? (via Laughing Squid)
Geologic Time
Oh, well, that explains that. Being a day late is nothing on a geologic scale. That scale comes in handy occasionally. This comic is from Randall Munroe at xkcd.
Tom Cruise 2020: Run, Tom, Run!
Tom Cruise might not make the best president, but he's going to be a great candidate for the office, because he can run! There's even a campaign website. A video directed by Stephen Vitale, starring Miles Fisher, who does look somewhat like Tom Cruise. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Miss Cellania's Links
The Unsolved Mystery of the Lake Bodom Murders. http://mentalfloss.com/article/584241/lake-bodom-murders (via Strange Company)
Rolled over: why did married couples stop sleeping in twin beds? Honestly I thought that only ever happened in the movies. (via Damn Interesting)
Amazon pays happy warehouse workers to tweet about how happy they are whenever someone complains about warehouse conditions.
When Your Rapist Demands Custody. More states are banning abortion without exceptions for rape. But what happens to women who must carry their pregnancies to term?
6 Real-Life Villains Who'd Be Too Crazy For Comic Books.
We Need a Wizard Who Can Appeal to the Moderate Orc Voter.
America Has Never Been So Desperate for Tomato Season. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/08/tomato-season/596101/ It's an escape from the harsh realities of our world.
Welsh Town to Install Anti-Sex Toilets. Step out of line, and the doors can fly open, alarms sound, a you may get hit with a spray of water. (via Boing Boing)
A blast from the past (2008): Treehouses for All Occasions.
Transformation of Johan Cruijff Arena
Johan Cruijff ArenA is the main stadium in Amsterdam, the home of the AFC Ajax soccer team. In 2017, it hosted a U2 concert, and an Ajax game just a couple of days later. This time-lapse shows how they set up and tore down the concert stage, removed the floor entirely, reset turf, and groomed it perfectly for the game. Elapsed time: 67 hours. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
I would pass out if I saw this. pic.twitter.com/L8niMEsaqg— rocket (@Rachesheen) August 11, 2019
(via Buzzfeed)
Monday, August 19, 2019
Artificial Intelligence Explains Star Wars: A New Hope
In this video, an artificial intelligence algorithm ostensibly deconstructs the first Star Wars film. That's obviously not the case, as this makes way too much sense to be anything other than the product of comedy writers. The first three and a half minutes is a plot summary from the perspective of the droids and other artificial beings (the humans are "unimportant"). Then it gets better, as the "AI" finds the historic and cultural references that influenced A New Hope. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
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