(via Mostly Forbidden Zone)
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Beep Beep I'm a Sheep!
No doubt, the best of TomSka's asdf movie #10 are the parts with the sheep. And the cow. So here's the entire song, sung by BlackGryph0n (Gabriel Brown) and TomSka (Thomas Ridgewell) Meow meow, I'm a cow. There have already been covers remixes, and other weird fun with this song, if you want to see them. (via The Daily Dot)
Miss Cellania's Links
70 Intricate Details You Never Knew About the Harry Potter Movies.
On a Plate. I've posted this comic before, but we need a reminder every once in a while.
A System Designed to Make People Disappear. If you think the US prison system is nuts, check out how the roundup of illegal immigrants is working. (via Metafilter)
The Most Interesting Camel in the World. Topsy joined the U.S. Army in the 1850s and lived until 1934.
How Hitler Stole the Autobahn. The official line was that he conceived of it in a jail cell in 1924.
Outsmarting Death. (via reddit)
Having a common name and even sharing a birthday with another Lisa Davis led her to see the injustice in our justice system. (via Metafilter)
How Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning Revived the Guardians of the Galaxy. Before 2008, they were in Marvel's dustbin of heroes.
Smoking pot, even legal medical marijuana, can deny you a life-saving organ transplant. Nineteen-year-old Riley Hancey found out the hard way.
Vader's Got Jokes
The most famous father figure in the galaxy is full of Dad jokes. In this video from Nerdist, Darth Vader delivers all the one-liners he wish he could've done in the original movies. And the bad puns just keep coming, one right after another. Stop groaning, or you'll miss one! (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Tweet of the Day
BOSS: tell me about susanne— tomsauced (@trojansauce) March 22, 2017
ME: *takes a drag of cigarette* ah, the one that got away
BOSS: you're a zoo keeper none of them should get away
(via Pleated-Jeans)
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
Comedians Are Covering Trump Better than TV News
Political satire is coming into its own during the Trump presidency. Normal journalists are worried about being seen as biased, so they try to be fair, which ends up looking ridiculous. Comedians just highlight what is already ridiculous in the real world, and there's plenty of that. Years ago, research showed that people who watched The Daily Show were more politically savvy than those who watched mainstream news. That effect has taken a quantum leap now.(via Boing Boing)
A Glitch in the Matrix
Which table? The gray-haired lady in the green jacket. She's sitting with a lady in a red jacket. You can't miss her. (via reddit)
Real Life QWOP
If you've been around the internet for a while, you surely remember QWOP, the video game in which you controlled a runner's muscles. The coordination required to make it work correctly was impossible, which is what made it so funny. It also gave us a new respect for our brains that do it without thinking. There have been cosplay and simulations using real people. Well now, the Hacksmith takes that a step further and uses electricity to stimulate a real person's muscles, to see how well the game emulates the real-life scenario in the game. If you want to skip the tech, the experiment begins at about three minutes into the video. Luckily, he still has control over his arms for balance, or else this would just be constant falling. If it weren't for the laughing, and the fact that it was his idea in the first place, I'd feel sorry for him. (via Digg)
If Textbooks Were Honest
We send our kids to school because we don't have time to teach them all the things they need to know: how to read, write, and all that basic science and history stuff we learned. But you may be surprised to learn the economics behind the texts they are using, in both high school and college. This Honest Ad from Cracked has the short version of how the textbook business became so profitable and uncompetitive.
Miss Cellania's Links
Vanilla beans are a lot harder to grow than you'd think. The majority of the vanilla we consume today doesn't even come from vanilla beans.
John Oliver Dives Into The United States' Conflicting Laws On Marijuana.
Meet the clown who dominated Chicago’s airwaves for generations of kids. Every city had a Bozo, but Chicago took him seriously for 40 years.
What America can learn from the French health-care system.
That time the Beastie Boys recorded a country music album. You can listen to the whole thing if you want to.
7 Acts Of Madness Committed By History's Worst Dictators. No, not genocide or other war crimes, but their weird peccadilloes you might not know about. NSFW text.
Found: First Evidence in England of Burning Dead Bodies to Keep Them From Rising. The abandoned medieval town of Wharram Percy is giving us clues.
Where Are You Really From?
6 People Who Claimed to Have Been Romanovs. Before all the bodies were found, it was easier to convince people.
Monday, April 03, 2017
That's The Way God Planned It
George Harrison & Billy Preston - That's The... by olatoniggg
Billy Preston with George Harrison and friends. I was about 13 years old when I saw The Concert for Bangladesh. My friends and I sang this song walking home from the local theater that day. It's still just as inspirational.
10 Amazing Accidental Discoveries
In which we learn the utility of finding new uses for existing products, particularly if the original use didn't work out. To be honest, some of these accidental discoveries came from pure research, which is more useful than it gets credit for. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
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