(via Ever So Strange)
Thursday, April 03, 2014
True Facts About the Octopus
Ze Frank is back with his True Facts series, and it’s about time we learned a little something about the octopus. To be honest, if you’ve paid attention, you’ve heard all these facts before over the years, but there’s something special about the way Ze presents it, giggles and all. (via Tastefully Offensive)
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“How do you say…” peppers every conversation when you’re trying to negotiate a different language. The European Word Translator fills in the blank, so to speak. (via the Presurfer)
7 Inconsequentially Cool Things From Movies That Took Way Too Long To Film.
The Secret Life of a Food Stamp.
25 Things You Might Not Know About The Shining.
13 Epic Animal Migrations That Prove Just How Cool Mother Nature Is. Spending the winter in Florida just pales in comparison.
Rachel Canning, the student who sued her parents, got a $56,000 college scholarship. Looks like she won’t have to follow her parents house rules after all.
How Steven Spielberg made a killing off of a 1977 Star Wars bet he made with George Lucas. No one has bet against Spielberg’s instincts ever since.
Game of Phones is season three of Game of Thrones completely told in emojis. It only makes sense if you’ve seen and remember season three.
Two Decades After Genocide, Rwanda’s Women Have Made the Nation Thrive. With so many men killed or jailed, they stepped up to make it work.
Rachel Canning, the student who sued her parents, got a $56,000 college scholarship. Looks like she won’t have to follow her parents house rules after all.
How Steven Spielberg made a killing off of a 1977 Star Wars bet he made with George Lucas. No one has bet against Spielberg’s instincts ever since.
Game of Phones is season three of Game of Thrones completely told in emojis. It only makes sense if you’ve seen and remember season three.
Two Decades After Genocide, Rwanda’s Women Have Made the Nation Thrive. With so many men killed or jailed, they stepped up to make it work.
The Birth of the Lightsaber
Let's talk about “…chivalry and honor and that sort of thing.” George Lucas tells the story of how the light saber was invented for the Star Wars saga. It was a more civilized way of cutting your enemy in two. Or, as the Star Wars YouTube account said when posting this featurette, “the single coolest weapon in the history of the galaxy.” There’s the concept, and then there’s the nuts-and-bolts problem of bringing this fictional wonder to the screen. Lucas tells the story (along with Mark Hamill and Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt), but there are also plenty of movie and behind-the-scenes clips to enjoy. (via Boing Boing)
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Bath Tissue
That's the way we used to do it in the days of outhouses. We'd take the edible parts of the corn off first. (via Bad Newspaper)
Human Water SkeeBall
This looks like a ton of fun! A wake boarding facility drags you over a ramp, and your goal is to score points by landing in a skeeball-type hole. Something tells me that the score is of little importance in the overall scheme. I wonder... do you get extra points for carrying a GoPro with you on the trip? Devin Supertramp made this video for Mountain Dew. The music is “Spraypaint” by Radical Something. (via Viral Viral Videos)
The Wolf of Buzzfeed
A Wolf of Wall Street trailer mashup with popular link site Buzzfeed. The more you know about blogging and link sites in general, the more you'll appreciate the humor in this. (via Uproxx)
TV Theme Songs
He knows the theme songs to all the classic sitcoms, but not exactly the way you recall them. If he wrong, or does he just have a better idea? If you had asked me, I wouldn’t be able to tell you what the theme song of The Golden Girls was, but I well remember the Andrew Gold song from college,and later from playing it on the radio as an oldie -before TV ever got hold of it. It eventually figures prominently in this sketch by Awkward Spaceship. (Thanks, Eric Philmore!)
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March Was the First Month Without U.S. Fatalities in Iraq or Afghanistan In 11 Years. May this record be repeated in the months to come.
How Many Classic Horror Films Have You Seen? Check through this list of 102, and you may find something new to rent this weekend.
This dog will show you what obedience and training are all about. Oh yeah, he’s spookily intelligent, too.
What’s next for The Walking Dead? Showrunner Scott Gimple talks about what has happened and just a little bit more to get us through a six-month wait for season five.
Adorable Photos of Metalheads and Their Pet Cats.
Dear Harvard: You Win.
Did the Amazon Women Really Exist?
How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity.
How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1 Percent All Wrong.
Nathan Shields’ Pancakes
We’ve shown you many of the fantastically artful pancakes created by Nathan Shields. Now we get to see him at work! Watch how Shields make pancakes with his kids Gryphon and Alice, explaining how to get the shades right as they go. The dragon creation clues us in on a crucial step- getting rid of any attempt that’s not up to his standards. That’s my gardening philosophy, but I personally don’t do that with cooking as much as I should.
This is part three of Shields’ video series on pancakes. See the rest here.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Airborne Circle of Life
Families have singalongs on car trips to pass the time, and don’t you wish you could get something like that going on a bus or plane? Even if you could get people to sing along, they probably wouldn’t sound all that good. But sometimes you just get lucky.
The Australian cast of The Lion King flew from Brisbane to Sydney, and a substantial number of them were in the same section of the same Virgin Australia plane. The other passengers were treated to a live and up-close version of “The Circle of Life.” What a treat! It makes you want to grab the nearest baby and show him to the heavens. (via Buzzfeed)
Drop Bears Trailer
This is just what we need- a movie about the horror of drop bears! Or maybe, it’s just what SyFy needs for their next legendary over-the-top monster flick. And since they’ve left all the awkward B-movie pauses in, it will be instant fodder for MST3K.
Every country has its animals that only bite tourists, but Australia went one better than the rest of us because the koala is just about the only native Australian species that won’t kill you, so the Aussies had to invent its evil twin that will. (via Buzzfeed)
Rosetta Stone Klingon
Honestly, it’s about time they offered a Rosetta Stone set to learn Klingon! And who better the endorse the product than Michael Dorn? This set, despite the $269 price tag, is sure to be a hit among the kind of folks I see around the internet.
Klingon may be a difficult language for humans to wrap their smooth heads around, but it's made even more complicated by the constant threat that saying the wrong thing might accidentally land you in a battle to the death. And that's why you need the comprehensive Learn to Speak Klingon course from Rosetta Stone.
You never want to find yourself in a position where you're flipping through a copy of Introduction to Klingon Grammar, trying to sound fluent in front of a group of native speakers with photon torpedoes. This complete Klingon software package will enable you to express your thoughts safely and effectively in Klingon and master the conversational skills required to conduct negotiations, request medical assistance, and partake in the rich Klingon culture.
Get yours today ("today" being the important part) from Think Geek. So far, the response is pretty much “Please, be real!” and “Shut up and take my money!” Think Geek may have gotten themselves into a worm hole of development that will suck up a lot of time the rest of the year. After all, when an idea is this good, they’ve moved heaven and earth to make it happen for real on several occasions. (via Metafilter)
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The Best April Fools’ Pranks Ever. A few classic -and very public- stunts that some folks actually fell for.
Five Things You Shouldn’t Do On Social Media On April Fool’s Day. You might want to just avoid posting anything at all for 24 hours.
Great Moments in April Fool's Day Online. Don't fall for these again this year.
Baratheon and beyond: 15 absolutely horrible child rulers. Let’s be grateful that these powerful brats are all fictional.
15 Courses That Should Be Taught In College. In a perfect world, junior high and high school students should learn these things from their parents.
21 Cool Pieces of Quentin Tarantino Fan Art.
45 Simple Safety Rules For Living Life & Not Dying.
A Blogger Discovered The Selfie She Took At The Hair Salon Was Turned Into A Viral Anti-Obamacare Meme.
People who use quotation marks in signs do not understand the sarcasm inherent in the punctuation.
Happy Dancers
Dancers of YouTube, many of whom you’ve seen here before, dance along to Pharrell William’s song “Happy.” And isn’t that what dancing is all about anyway -an expression of joy? (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
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