Monday, March 04, 2019
The Farce Awokens
Adult Swim UK brings us their four-minute stop-motion Robot Chicken version of The Force Awakens, wherein most characters break the fourth wall. Contains spoilers for a three-year-old Star Wars movie, as if that matters.
Diagonal Thinking
It's always good to be open to new ideas, even those ideas you know are horrid. I'm sure when the time comes, he'll be glad to credit his supervisor with the original concept. This comic is from Jeff Lofvers at Don't Hit Save.
Why a US City is Searching for Mass Graves
The Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was known as "Black Wall Street" for a time, until 1921 when a white mob destroyed it... and many of the people who lived and worked there. (via Digg)
Miss Cellania's Links
Ocasio-Cortez outrages Republicans by refusing to respect their ignorance.
In Praise of Bate-Bola, Rio’s Seductive, Scary Alternative Carnival.
5 Weird Facts About Congress Nobody Told You In School. Yeah, because four of these things were not a thing when I was in school.
Vegetables Don’t Exist. So what is the meaning of the word "vegetable"? (via Kottke)
The Participants of the 2019 Iditarod.
The Problems That Home Cooking Can’t Solve.
New Mutter Museum Exhibit Grants Final Wish for Woman Who Turned to Bone. Carol Orzel was determined to help others suffering from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
We don't know when it will be available, how long it will be, or what it will say, but you can pre-order yours now.
Cheeky Exploits, an Instagram gallery of butts in scenes places. Contains nudity. (via Kottke)
A blast from the past (2013): 8 Wonderfully Creative Crochet Projects.
Making a Heated Seat
Medhi Sadaghdar is back with a new idea: a heated chair! What could possibly go wrong? Just watch, Sadaghdar manages to find all the things that could go wrong with this idea. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
This Mueller float at the #MardiGras parade in New Orleans is everything ❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/zR7fizewsS— Scott Challeen (@ScottChalleen) March 2, 2019
(via Metafilter)
Sunday, March 03, 2019
Shining Woman
A Bill McClintock mashup putting the lyrics of "American Woman" by the Guess Who over the funky music of "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind, and Fire.
Unrealistic
The world is full of wonders, and exceptions to every rule we can come up with. This comic is from Randall Munroe at xkcd.
Dog Haiku
Click to the right to advance this slideshow, and meet some really good dogs. Oh yeah, there's poetry of a sort by Nathan Pyle.
SNL Does the Michael Cohen Hearing
You knew it was coming, but maybe, like me, you didn't stay up late to see it. Ben Stiller returns to Saturday Night Live to portray Michael Cohen in the compressed version of Wednesday's congressional testimony.
Chatty Gargoyle at Denver International Airport
The Denver International Airport has a lot of weird things going on, most notably that horse and the conspiracy theories. But now the airport has a gargoyle that talks to passers-by! It's a sign that the airport has embraced all those things that people are saying about it. (via Laughing Squid)
Tweet of the Day
Trump’s CPAC speech is longer than his first two marriages— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) March 2, 2019
How many Scaramuccis was that? For the record, the speech was two hours long.
Saturday, March 02, 2019
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