The heat is on at Megacynics. You don't expect to ever need more than one air conditioning unit in Canada, but that's the way the world is now.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Fabricated
In the weird world of the distant future, all the earth's creatures are manufactured from the junk we left behind. A friendly bonehead robot is sent on a quest to seek immortality in a factory. This beautiful stop-motion adventure from Brett Foxwell was ten years in the making. (via The Awesomer)
Tweet of the Day
Love these two pictures - on the left, a painting of Albert Square#Manchester by the French painter Pierre Adolphe Valette, and on the right a photo of the same spot in 2018...…. #painting #bincart #taxi pic.twitter.com/OFwuPmxmpF— Pete McGrath (@PeterMcGrath10) August 16, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
Suffering
This comic is from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Go to the comic link for the bonus hover text and push the red button for an additional punch line.
Let's Play Some Headis!
Combine table tennis and soccer, and you get Headis. Headis was invented in 2006 when a German student, René Wegner, wanted to play football, but since the field was occupied, he suggested playing at an available ping pong table. That's using your head! The new sport caught on like wildfire, and before you knew it, there were Headis World Cup Tournaments. (via Metafilter)
Miss Cellania's Links
A mega-list of links to get you caught up on US politics.
Sharknado Says Goodbye With a T-Rex Fight and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time ends the series with every idea that wasn't plausible enough for the first five movies.
The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?
Nightmare Bosses. Eight stories that will make you feel better about your supervisor.
19 Teacher Instagram Hacks That Will Make This School Year The Best One Yet. Some would be just as useful at home.
Here's How To Get The Most Out Of A Short Vacation. A couple of days off can do a lot for your mental health.
Turning Fatbergs Into Fuel. Scientists are working on a a way to burn them right there in the sewer.
Pictures from the 2018 British Beard and Moustache Championships. These guys are both growers and showers.
A blast from the past (2009): Edward Leedskalnin and his Coral Castle.
Miss Cellania's Links
The 6 Most Epically Pointless Arguments on Wikipedia. No detail is too small or obscure to fight about.
Beto O’Rourke Could Be The Democrat Texas Has Been Waiting For.
Try an Online Artificial Intelligence Image Generator. Enter some text, and let an algorithm present its best guess for you.
Half-Hanged Maggie and Other Survivors of the Gallows. Eight people who refused to die by hanging.
Two Billion Years Ago, Andromeda Ate the Milky Way’s Sibling. It may have left some remains as a much smaller galaxy.
European Printmakers Had No Idea What Colonial American Cities Looked Like, So They Just Made Stuff Up. They assumed that the New World couldn't be that different from what they'd seen at home.
How to be Happier. Notes from a Yale University course on happiness.
Vote for the 2018 Shed of the Year! (via Fark)
Brian Kemp’s Bid for Governor Depends on Erasing the Black Vote in Georgia. It’s working.
A blast from the past (2014): 13 Graphs for Laughs.
Cats and Firefighters
Last week, we paid tribute to firefighters who save cats. There is also an entire meme built around firefighters who save cats stuck in trees. Usually played for comedy. Keep reading for plenty more.
Dropping a Refrigerator from a 150-Foot Tower
How Ridiculous is a YouTube series in which three Australian guys drop things from a 150-foot tower and record the destruction. In this video, they manage to haul a family-size refrigerator up the 22 steps to the top and drop it. If you wonder why that takes 12 minutes, it's because they work up to it, first dropping a microwave, a toilet, a washing machine, a dishwasher, and a recliner first. And they do a lot of talking, too. If you want to skip to the refrigerator, that drop is at 10:50. (via The Daily Dot)
Tweet of the Day
Booiioongiiingooingg! 😐 pic.twitter.com/ZYD1r9F38F— Puppies 🐶 (@PopularPups) August 18, 2018
Sunday, August 19, 2018
A New Recipe
And now tell me why we'd want to eat more of them? There's a failure of logic here somewhere. Still, it's a way to ensure that you always have cookies around, in case someone drops in. Especially someone who you'd rather not cook for in the future. Another cockeyed gem from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.
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