Wednesday, November 18, 2015
I Sit Around
Mike Wagner is a private jet pilot and musician. He’s written and performed a few songs about the life of a pilot before, which are pretty popular within the industry. Now he uses the Beach Boys’ song “I Get Around” to describe what he does all day -sit around! See, while airline crews are maximized by schedule, private jet pilots and crews are supposed to be ready when they’re needed. That means a lot of sitting around in various pilot lounges at airports all over.
The ties are little distracting. They obviously shot the entire video before realizing that the ties had identifiers they didn’t want to show us. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Colin Furze’s Apocalyptic Underground Bunker
Inventor Colin Furze has shown us many crazy things he’s built, but what’s he been up to lately? He’s been busy digging up his backyard for a unique man cave. A self-sustained underground bunker. In case the zombies come. That’s a big project! And he’s stocked his bunker with necessary things, like food, things he loves, like his cat, and all his previous inventions -plus some he’ll show us in the future. Want to see how he did it? The build process was documented, too, in parts one, two, three, and four. (via Tastefully Offensive)
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The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2015 isn’t even a word. It’s an emoji, specifically the crying emoji.
Is divorce really that bad? A roundup of opinions and statistics from the experts.
Neighborhood Kitty. http://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/16/Neighborhood-Kitty/
How a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church came to question its beliefs.
8 Things We Want From the MST3K Reboot. Please keep what made the original run so special.
An Irish tourist took a GoPro to Las Vegas and held it backward the entire time. The result was a completely selfie video in which he describes the scenery.
Excerpts from a 1970 lecture by Kurt Vonnegut has been released in an artfully animated video. It has bits about his life and a story about man-eating lampreys.
The Myth of the Ever-More-Fragile College Student. The data is far from clear that young people now are any different from other generations.
Why America's sharing economy needs a massive expansion of the welfare state. We rely too much on employers to provide benefits, and fewer people even have employers these days.
An Honest Trailer for Star Wars
I can’t believe Screen Junkies hadn’t done this one already! For you youngsters, the movie is now known as Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope. That’s a mouthful, but believe it or not, we used to just call it Star Wars. Because that was its name. In the Honest Trailer, we look back to 1977 and see how George Lucas made the perfect movie and then couldn’t keep from tinkering with it ever since. (via Uproxx)
8 Unusually Large Musical Instruments
Sometimes bigger is better, as in a box of chocolates. But with musical instruments, bigger is just different. The biggest instruments can provide rich, full, low notes, but those often come at the expense of portability. So if you get a chance to listen to music made by one of these instruments profiled in a list I wrote for mental_floss, don’t pass it up.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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The Star Wars prequels don’t deserve your hatred. While they aren’t perfect, their awful reputation is a product of the internet feedback loop.
25 Pets Who Hate You Deeply For Making Them Go to the Vet. It’s a gallery of misery and despair, so don’t laugh too much.
The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain. The agricultural one-upmanship of the 19th century prairie.
Americans Greatly Overestimate Economic Mobility. Two studies show the American Dream is alive and well in our minds, if not in reality.
A Harvard physicist has an incredible theory for why the dinosaurs went extinct. It’s not so much about dinosaurs, but about how the Milk Way works.
The real reason many Americans don't vote. The U.S. makes the process unnecessarily difficult for a lot of people.
The Grossest Fictional Dishes of All Time. This may put you off lunch.
How One Man’s Face Became Another Man’s Face. (via Boing Boing)
The Time Republicans Helped Build an All-Black Town Called 'Soul City.’ (via Metafilter)
Mog’s Christmas Calamity
Mog is a fat cat who stars in a series of children’s books by Judith Kerr, published between 1970 and 2002. Mog is also the star of the Christmas ad campaign for the British supermarket Sainsbury's. The sweet animated cat accidentally starts a fire with a chain reaction beyond her control. However, in her panic she also accidentally dials 999 and summons the fire department.
Monday, November 16, 2015
Most Internships Are Actually Illegal
About ten years ago, I found myself without a job. I considered moving to a city, and looked for job openings. Under the “entertainment” category, the vast majority of help wanted ads were unpaid “internships.” There wasn’t any college credit attached, just “experience” and “exposure.” I stayed in Kentucky where I didn’t have to pay rent and ended up eating a living by internet. But even when there is college credit involved, most internships are a scam perpetrated against the working class. But look: even when you’re getting paid, you’re getting screwed.
Openness about your salary sounds like a great idea, but if you live in an “at will” state, you can get fired for talking about it. Oh, that won’t be the stated reason you are fired, that could be anything from they don’t like your looks to they needed the slot for their nephew. In the real world, the entire office would have been fired at the end of this video. There are plenty of applications for those jobs sitting in the office.
Daily Fantasy Sports
John Oliver proves that even when you don’t know or care a thing about the subject, he’s a wonder to watch. I must admit I learned quite a bit about daily fantasy sports this morning.
If you are wondering why Oliver didn’t focus on the Paris attacks… well, he did, in a rant full of premium cable profanity. You can see it here.
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Thousands of people in Kentucky are going to lose their health insurance under new governor Matt Bevin. Those people helped put him in office, whether they voted or not.
Coin-Op Cuisine: When the Future Tasted Like a Five-Cent Slice of Pie. We’re talking about the automat.
Here Are Some Ancient German Drawings Of Sick Horses.
13 Healthy Thanksgiving Dinner Tricks That No One Will Even Notice. Except the cauliflower in the potatoes; I’d notice that.
Why do we have 10 fingers and 10 toes? Because any other number would be weird.
The Monolith Monsters: Universal's Killer Alien Rocks Movie. A look at one of the weirdest monster movies ever.
The Story Of How George Clooney's Rescue Dog Went From Homeless To A Villa In Italy. That is one lucky dog.
The death of the swing voter. It’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t know which party they’ll vote for in 2016.
The Amazing Life of Audie Murphy. The 5’5” teenager became a war hero, an officer, and then a movie star.
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