Beautify your home, by taking that awful junk out! (via Mostly Forbidden Zone)
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Crowd Sings Along
Over 65,000 people attended a Green Day concert in London (there were several other bands, too). There didn't have to be a band on stage for the crowd to have fun. Between sets, recorded music got the crowd singing along. Enjoy thousands of people singing "Bohemian Rhapsody." (via Digg)
Miss Cellania's Links
30 Years of Movie Villains, Visualized 9 Different Ways. (via Digg)
People around the world don't like or trust Trump. Here's why that matters.
Deportation a ‘Death Sentence’ to Adoptees After a Lifetime in the U.S.
Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways. We're pretty good at deception, but not so good at detecting it.
This new game tests your ability to spot fake news—and it’s not as easy as you’d think. However, Factitious will help you to distinguish between who to trust and who not to trust on the internet. (via The Daily Dot)
The Strange Tale of Two Irishmen Who Fought for Hitler. For them, it was the easiest way out of the POW camp.
Mary Katherine Goddard was the brave printer who made copies of the Declaration of Independence for the colonies, and put her full name on the document. That could have gotten her killed if the Revolutionary War had ended differently. (via Metafilter)
Nightmarish Crocodile Relative Terrorized Dinosaurs in Prehistoric Madagascar. The newly-named Razanandrongobe sakalavae was a land predator that ate dinosaurs for breakfast.
Sally Hemings' Room Uncovered at Monticello. (via Atlas Obscura)
Tuesday, July 04, 2017
Dancing to Rasputin
These dancers are better at keeping the beat than the screen avatar in the video game Just Dance 2. They look better doing it, too. And it gives us another excuse to listen "Rasputin" by Boney M. (via reddit)
Détour
A family goes on vacation, with their bikes strapped to the back of the van. But the youngest daughter's beloved tricycle falls off and is lost. The girl is upset, but the tricycle has its own weird adventures trying to find its way back to the family. A few scenes will make you fall in love with a simple tricycle. This delightful story by Michel Gondry was entirely shot on an iPhone, in French with English subtitles. Pay attention, because you don't want to miss the singing fish. Or the ending. (via Laughing Squid)
Miss Cellania's Links
Five Awesome American Flag Scenes in Movies. These video clips will get U.S. residents' patriotic juices flowing for the holiday.
A glimpse at how America celebrated the Bicentennial back in ’76. The entire country was decked in red, white, and blue.
Before America Got Uncle Sam, It Had to Endure Brother Jonathan.
None of the Republicans Leading the Healthcare Disaster Would Tell Us Where Voters Can Find Them This July 4.
Hear a 4 Hour Playlist of Great Protest Songs: Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Billy Bragg & More. (via Everlasting Blort)
Foreign Relations: 12 Notorious, Alleged UFO Incidents. UFOs have been observed -and recorded- from antiquity.
Why Can’t Your Company Just Fix the Gender Wage Gap?
How Independence Day Defined Modern Summer Movies. Read the story of how the 1996 movie came about.
A League of Their Own Is an All-Time Great Sports Film. But sportswriters don't think to rank it among baseball films because it's about women.
American History in 4 Minutes
Recap Raps distills American history down to one song, complete with patriotism, clever rhymes, and some details you skipped in school. Happy Independence Day! (via Tastefully Offensive)
Tweet of the Day
I needed to update my CV so I did it all through google autocomplete and soon I will have every job pic.twitter.com/pjCBtUhtmw— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) June 29, 2017
When you let Google autocomplete do your resume. (via Digg)
Monday, July 03, 2017
Zoo Intruder Attacked by Panda
A man snuck into the panda house at the Nanchang Zoo in Jiangxi province, China. He wanted to impress his female companions by teasing the sleeping panda bear. The animal woke up and proceeded to attack the intruder.
You know how your dog can lean up against you when he wants to be hugged? Imagine that behavior in a bear-sized bear, if you will. If the man had commenced with the hugs and back scratches as directed, he might have been spared the panda rolling over on top of him. As it was, he managed to escape the pen after about five minutes. Both the man and the panda were unharmed. (via Boing Boing)
Sands of Jakku
Disney has unveiled a mini-series of animated episodes called Star Wars: Forces of Destiny to be shown on the Disney Channel and on YouTube. The short vignettes are designed to give us a little insight into the characters we already know. According to Wookieepedia,
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny is an upcoming canon animated miniseries that will take place around all eras of the Star Wars universe. Consisting of sixteen episodes, it will air online and on television,[1] beginning in July 3, 2017.[3] It will be accompanied by its own toy line and a series of tie-in books.[5]The first episode, Sands of Jakku, is narrated by Lupita Nyong’o (Maz Kanata), in a sequence just after Rey meets BB-8. It shows how Rey is Force-sensitive even before she falls in with the Skywalker gang. (via Uproxx)
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