Saturday, June 13, 2009
Lily Tomlin
From the Tony Awards show in either 1977 or 1979, Lily Tomlin does some material from her one-woman show Appearing Nitely. (via Shakesville)
Friday, June 12, 2009
Informative Links
A time-lapse video of the coral polyp Montipora. File this under art instead of science. (via Dark Roasted Blend)176 Great Geek Approaches to Design, Art, Technology. Retro art, Lego, steampunk, gadgets, knitting, weapons... it's all right here.
We like tall men, and taller men are perceived as having higher status. But short men will appear taller if there are other cues indicating high status.
A career in teen modeling comes with certain risks that our children should never have to confront. (via Metafilter)
Prehistoric Oddities. Paleontologists keep finding things they can't make heads or tails of.
The Learjet Repo Man. How one man collected a plane guarded by white supremacists in another state during a snowstorm. (via Cynical-C)
The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. A simple timeline for those just beginning to study this period in history.
Human behavior is often not rational, so why not take that into account when shaping social and economic policy?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Fun and Funny Links
The Leap Frog test. It took me quite a while, but I finally beat it!Four naked guys dancing on TV.
If the Beatles Rock Band game is anywhere near as good as the animated trailer, I want to play! Oh yeah, the music is pretty good, too.
Repost: Animal Crossing Tragedy. Get your hankies ready. Then call your mother.
Adoption Rap. From a friend of mine who has both been there and done that.
Ten Failed McDonald's Products.
Star Wars Costumes Don’t Get Worse Than This.
5 Diabolical Animals That Out-Witted Humans. (via Gorilla Mask)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Good Reads
Life magazine has discovered photographs of Marilyn Monroe that have never been published. They're published online now. (via Metafilter)Explosions heard ’round the world. Mother Nature can really throw a tantrum when she's in the mood.
Atlas Obscura is a “A Compendium of the This Age’s Wonders, Curiosities and Esoterica.” Users are invited to suggest odd places and add to information about existing entries.
15 Essential Moments To (Re)Visit if You Had a Time Machine. Just be sure you are ready to escape when things get hot.
A genuine "oops" moment: U.S. Releases Secret List of Nuclear Sites Accidentally. “These screw-ups happen,” says former CIA director.
Flint resident Michael Moore has a few suggestions for how to handle General Motors, now that the bankrupt company is in federal hands. (via Boing Boing)
"It’s one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we’re alive when we’re reminded we’re going to die". A cartoonist who was stabbed in the throat talks about the euphoria of survival. (via Metafilter)
Researchers at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum decided to create an encyclopedia of concentration camps. They found 20,000, four times more than anyone had estimated.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
The Big Doghouse
An excerpt from The Big Doghouse, a Dogville Comedy short, from about 1930. (via J-Walk Blog)
Monday, June 08, 2009
100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers
Movie quotes that count themselves down! Alonzo Mosley of the La-La Land Library took on quite a challenge for his first video project, a parody of “top 100 movie countdowns.” This is a treat for both movie buffs and number geeks.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Mocha and his First Broccoli
The little hamster that took the internet by storm. He was only three days old when this was recorded.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Friday Fun Links
Tetris turns 25 Saturday. In celebration, here's a Tetris Orgy.Improv Everywhere threw a surprise wedding reception for a random couple getting married at City Hall. Frank and Raff felt like they won the lottery!
Ashes to Ashes is Batman done the French way: terrifying, kinky, and disturbing. (via Gorilla Mask)
Like a scene from a familiar Hitchcock movie, dozens of bald eagles take over a family's back yard. Luckily for the children, they are only there for the salmon.
How 15 of Your Favorite Bands Got Their Names. I'll admit I have wondered about Blue Öyster Cult.
The Top Ten Top Ten Food Lists. From the ten most disgusting candies to ten food sex scenes in movies, there's something here you'll want to read.
Mom’s the word: When sitcom stars start expecting. TV shows through the years have handled this delicate situation in strange and creative ways.
Next week I'm taking a little time off because I'm getting married this weekend. Posting will be light, but will return to normal by mid-June.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
8 Bookstore Cats
In a sequel to the earlier post 8 Library Cats, I looked up their private industry counterparts, cats who live in bookstores. Here are the stories of eight kitties who greet customers at bookstores around the country in an article I wrote for mental_floss.
Good Reads
The 7 Most Bizarrely Unlucky People Who Ever Lived. With six billion people on the planet, a few have to have this kind of luck, but aren't you glad it isn't you?Ten Vehicles That Bankrupted GM. In my opinion, these are only the most recent of a long line of cars that were doomed to failure.
Blind since birth, Daniel Kish uses echolocation to navigate his environment. Not only that, but he can teach the technique to other blind people.
The earliest known sound recording dates back to 1857, three years earlier than previously thought. Hear the historical recordings in this audio interview from NPR. (via Metafilter)
The Bay Area R2 Builders make real working R2D2 units, which cost a ton of money and take years to make, but they get a lot of satisfaction from them.
Never show disrespect to a player you don't know in World of Warcraft. You could be playing with a legendary game designer and never know it.
Breathing Xenon
It acts like both Sulphur Hexafluoride to make your voice deep, and like Nitrous Oxide to get you high, but costs a lot more. Therefore, you probably won't get the chance to try this. Which is good, because it's not quite safe.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
8 Library Cats
Libraries are wonderful places for people who love books, and wonderful places for cats to meet book lovers. There are an estimated 808 documented library cats, including 301 cats who currently reside in libraries around the world. Here are the stories of a few of those cats in an article I wrote for mental_floss.
Fun Links
In case you hadn't heard about it somewhere else, I am getting married this weekend. Here's the story of how I fell in love at age 50.How well do you know your internet sensations? Here's a series of backgrounds with the subjects Photoshopped out. Can you identify what happened there? There are 23 in all; I knew 22 right off, and the other is fairly recent.
The 13 Best Obama Cameos in Comics. What other president could slip into the role of superhero as easily? Only Washington and Teddy Roosevelt come close. (via the Presurfer)
The ducks in the bathroom are not mine. They're small ducks, anyway, and will probably fly south for the winter.
Snack time turns into a sound board in this stop motion video. It's catchy, and might make you hungry as well.
Cool guys don't look at explosions, they just walk away. It happens a lot more than you thought -in movies. (via Gorilla Mask)
The Bay Area R2 Buliders make real working R2D2 units, which cost a ton of money and take years to make, but they get a lot of satisfaction from them.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Informative Links
Does faking amnesia permanently distort your memory? Or could it be a case of too many lies to keep track of?The 9 Most Outrageous Outlaw Heroes. I love these types of stories that would've made history classes so much more interesting IF they had been included. (via Gorilla Mask)
The 10 Most Powerful Political Daughters. That's five who have already made a mark and five who have the potential to do so.
McAllen, Texas has the lowest average household income in the nation, but the second-highest health care costs per person. The New Yorker takes a look at why costs are so high and why the residents aren't any healthier than in other towns.
On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired. There are always places to go on the internet, even when there's no place to go in real life.
Escape from North Korea. National Geographic follows some who did just that.
Fifty Years of Space Monkeys. The first primates to survive space travel launched in 1959, followed by chimpanzees and finally astronauts.
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