Saturday, March 02, 2019
Beatles Bloopers
Recording tape ran continuously during the Beatles' recording sessions, in order to capture the best take. The archive therefore includes all the mistakes, asides, and nonsense waiting to be enjoyed fifty years later. A second video contains more video silliness and some NSFW language. (via Boing Boing)
100 Years of Dental Care
A hundred years ago, toothbrushes were made of boar bristles, and advertising was about bad breath. With he development of nylon bristles, the race was on to create a miracle toothpaste. There was ammoniated toothpaste, chlorophyll, flouristan, and finally, dental floss. I recall when toothpaste ads referred to getting rid of the "pink tinge" on your toothbrush because so many people had bleeding gums. We've come a long way since then, although I don't know many people who can afford to go to the dentist every six months. (via Tastefully Offensive)
How to Apply for a Job
Applying for a job by internet form is an exercise in faith. You keep doing it with no assurance at all that anyone is ever going to see it, much less consider it. I filled out maybe a hundred online applications last year and got exactly one response. I got called in for about half the jobs I applied for in person, including the one I was hired for. This comic is from Tommy Siegel. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Tex Suffers Devastating Loss
Tex is a longhorn that lives at Ima Survivor Donkey and Farm Animal Sanctuary. He really enjoyed playing with his big inflatable ball, until it met a barbed wire fence and utter destruction set in. Poor Tex! The post at Metafilter was introduced with a poem.
my name is BullBy now, you should recognize the poetic form.
and my ball red
i bump it with
my pointy head
but now my ball
I cannot whack
i am so sad
plz bring it back?
How a Missing Oxford Comma Cost a Portland Dairy Over $5,000,000 in Overtime
Items in a series should always be separated by a comma, including the final items that have a conjunction between them. Otherwise, your meaning might not be clear. The Oxford comma became very important in a Maine labor law when truck drivers sued for overtime pay. Their company assumed they were exempt. Exempt workers included those who worked in the "canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of..." Okay, would you interpret the word "distribution" as a modifier of the packers, or a category unto itself? The entire case sat on that interpretation. It's not the only instance where proper punctuation made a big difference, as you'll see in this video from Half as Interesting. (via Laughing Squid)
Tweet of the Day
Mother in 1955: Thank god someone invented a way to prevent my child from dying of polio.— Doc Bastard (@DocBastard) February 15, 2019
Mother in 2019: Thank god these these healing crystals come with a matching bag.
(via Pleated-Jeans)
Friday, March 01, 2019
Rock the Space Freak
It's an early '80s dance flashback! Bill McClintock's latest mashup combines "Superfreak" by Rick James and "Rock the Casbah" from The Clash.
How Pinball Gave Video Games Their Bad Reputation
When I was a kid, the "pool room" downtown was the place you shouldn't go (we didn't have bars). Shady characters hung around there! That was the only place that had pinball machines, so pinball was seen as shady as well. Then the local college installed both pool tables and pinball (and later Pong), and you could play without hanging out with shady characters. What fun! Now, if you want to hang out with shady characters, you have to go to a bar, but even they don't have the atmosphere they used to.
I Found This
Nathan Pyle continues his Strange Planet series about aliens trying to make sense of the world of humans. Spoiler: we don't make all that much sense. I can imagine a followup where they find that cats were initially valued as domestic companions because they kill other creatures that we don't like as much.
The Norwegian Art of the Packed Lunch, Matpakke
"You are not supposed to look forward to your lunch in Norway." Therefore, many people pack a Matpakke, a sort-of sandwich where the most important ingredient is paper. Matpakke cannot be fancy or delicious. I waited halfway through the video to find out what is in those toothpaste tubes- it's fish. Now you know why there's no obesity epidemic in Norway. (via Metafilter)
Miss Cellania's Links
What Happened When We Started a Feminism Club at Our Catholic Boys School. (via Digg)
Sonic employees quit en masse, tape note to door. Three outlets in Ohio lost their staffs when wages were reduced and longtime managers were let go.
Congress asked top experts for a plan to cut child poverty in half. Here it is. Strangely, the most effective plan is to give poor people money.
We've Been to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and Life Will Never Be the Same. The new theme park at Disneyland will open this summer, and at Walt Disney World this fall.
The Minnesota Murderess. Ann Bilansky was convicted of poisoning her husband in 1859, but was she railroaded? (via Digg)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big. A Rolling Stone interview.
What's the Worst Way to Hold Your Drink? Twitter users took that question as a challenge.
George Washington Gibbs Jr. Defied Danger and Racism to Become the First African-American to Visit Antarctica.
A blast from the past (2009): The Rise of the Flapper.
That's a Big Carrot!
To grow really good carrots, you have to have perfect soil, soft and well-drained, no rocks or even pebbles, which is why this guy is growing them in barrels. Another of his videos show the care that goes into growing giant carrots. (via Boing Boing)
Tweet of the Day
i guess trump is now going to call himself a war hero bc he was shot down in hanoi.— Kathy (Checks & Balances Bitchezzz🤣) Hays (@everybodyzzmama) February 28, 2019
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