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Thursday, April 20, 2023
Red Hot Ball Of Nickel vs. Jawbreaker
YouTube member carsandwater continues his Red Hot Ball of Nickel series by seeing what happens when you drop one on a large jawbreaker. This one is a volatile combination. What you get is a volcano, complete with tremors, smoke, steam, and lava flow of hot, sticky sugar! That’s going to be a mess to clean up. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Tweet of the Day
Today’s Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats.
— Undine (@HorribleSanity) April 15, 2023
Yes, someone thought this was a terrific way to promote their product. pic.twitter.com/Qr0sGYMuEu
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Family Rescues 10 Ducklings Twice In A Day
There's really no analog in nature for a storm drain grate, so mother ducks can't be expected to instinctually know their ducklings will fall through. That's what happened to eight of this duck's ten ducklings. She hollered for help, as if to say, "You caused this! You get them out!" Kim and her family responded, going to great lengths to get the baby ducks back to their mother. They tried to head them all off in a safe direction, when the daffy duck picked the wrong place to keep her family, So they had to rescue them again, and finally got them to a proper environment. Whew!
Pizza Delivery Driver Aids Police
Tyler Morrell was delivering a pizza in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, when he saw the police chasing a suspect. With his quick ninja reflexes, he tripped the suspect, giving the cops just enough time to catch up. The action was caught on a doorbell camera, which is even better than police bodycams since they aren't nearly as likely to be turned off when police do their thing. Notice Morrell kept the pizza firmly under control. (via Neatorama)
If Pixar Made Furious 7
IN 2015, the movie Furious 7 was burning up the box office. But what if the film had been made by Pixar? We get the answer in this mashup, which uses the audio from the Furious 7 trailer and video from Cars, Cars 2, and Planes. The movies must have some similarities underneath it all. And you know that little kids who watched Cars in theaters in 2006 buying tickets for Furious 7 just a few years later. (via Uproxx)
Tweet of the Day
(via Fark)Everything's terrible, so here's a cockatiel hiding in a newspaper playing peekaboo pic.twitter.com/3ogBif3cke
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 16, 2023
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
How Meatloaf Became an American Classic
My mother explained to me that meatloaf was developed as a way to stretch a pound of ground beef to feed a family, by adding some kind of bread or grain and binding it with egg. It's the same principle as that behind meatballs, soy burgers, haggis, scrapple, and many sausages. Add some onions and Worcestershire sauce, and no one will know there are more cracker crumbs than meat in your meatloaf. You can stretch that meat even further by eating slices of cold meatloaf on a sandwich the next day. Meatloaf as we know it today is a classic American food, as Americans love their beef whether they can afford it or not. My mother never got into those midcentury meatloaf innovations like adding peaches or pineapple or frosting it with mashed potatoes, and likewise I don't want to try modern embellishments like wrapping it in bacon or rolling it up with greens. I tend to serve it with black-eyed peas, since those are the only two foods I eat with ketchup. But that's what's so great about meatloaf- not only is it relatively inexpensive, you can experiment with it and do it the way you want.
Laurence Brown's Spring Yard Cleanup
Spring brings sunshine, warm weather, and a host of yard work. Laurence Brown is facing his own yard work for the first time, and finds that he's inherited last fall's layer of leaves from the previous owner. Yard work is just part of owning an American-sized house, but Brown does not yet have a lawnmower nor a leaf blower. Funny how he had documented his culture shock for years, but gets a whole new dose of it as a homeowner. That's honestly less of an immigrant thing, and more of the same culture shock anyone has when they go from depending on their parents or landlord for environmental upkeep to taking care of everything yourself.
Attack of the Apple Ninja!
The superhero we all need! Well, not all of us, just Americans. Go to the comic page and click right for multiple versions of the same story. From Deliberately Buried Comics.
Locusts Caught in the Matrix
The University of Konstanz in Germany has created a virtual world- for insects! They study locusts' movements and brains at the same time by attaching scanners to their heads while they walk about on a movable sphere, following the virtual locusts projected on the walls. They also study them in crowds, using little tags they've glued onto the bugs. It does seem like something out of a dystopian science fiction novel, but don't feel too bad for these locusts. They were bred to be eaten, so working in a virtual lab is probably the best life they could hope for. Who knows? Maybe these bugs think they're playing the coolest video game ever. Read more about these experiments at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour.
Miss Cellania's Links
The surprising science of how pregnancy begins. (via Metafilter)
This cake is not a lie.
Why do mass shooters kill? It’s about more than having a grievance. (via Damn Interesting)
The Right Way to Sauce Pasta.
Dissolving Gold and the Nazis. Gold can be valuable, prestigious, and personal, but when it is can get you killed, it has to go.
This mesmerizing pine-cone installation is made from 95 reused car hoods. (via GeekPress)
Puss in Boots as The Tarnished in Elden Ring.
Backstories Of History’s Most Iconic Photographs. A picture is worth a thousand words, but some more words can help us understand them. (via Nag on the Lake)
CrapAdvisors
This video contains actual reviews fromTripAdvisor. Granted, they are taken out of context. The one about finding a bathroom seems like good advice, and I’m sure it wasn’t the entire review. Others, well, some of these folks should turn in their passport if they don’t have an attitude to enjoy where they are. (via b3ta)
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