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— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 26, 2024
Saturday, August 03, 2024
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Friday, August 02, 2024
Cake
This was posted at reddit, assuming the readers would enjoy the funny wording, but the comments were about the horrible handwriting and the fact this this is a cookie.
Dreams
Therapist afterward: lay off the tacos. (Thanks, WTM!)Therapist: "All dreams have meaning."
— G (@stevensongs) August 1, 2024
My dreams: pic.twitter.com/oU8Ls6D4Z8
Ferris Beuller's Day Off: Saved in the Edit
A filmmaker's vision for a movie, the script, the resulting footage, and the finished product are often four very different stories. At any stage of the process, the team may decide that they need to go in a completely different direction.
John Hughes wrote the screenplay for the 1986 movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off in less than a week, and shot the film to follow that first draft. Once the scenes were assembled, the first cut was two hours and 45 minutes long! Even worse, test audiences didn't like it. Enter legendary editor Paul Hirsch to save the movie by editing all the footage that had been shot. Not only did he shorten it, but most importantly, he rearranged all the sequences. When you see what order they were in originally, you'll see how this made a vast improvement in the pacing and the audience's emotional involvement. (via The Awesomer)
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888. German artist and naturalist Prof. Dr. Pechuรซl-Loesche recorded the global event that changed the sky in these nine lush watercolours (via Design You Trust)
How the media handles Trump's Fascism. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
The Challenge: Watch 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days. Or 91 days, if you want to finish by Halloween.
Is Princess Leia’s Star Wars Bikini the Most Controversial Costume in Sci-Fi History? A version of the gold outfit worn by Carrie Fisher on the set of Return of the Jedi fetched $175,000 at auction (via Mental Floss)
Celebrity Encounter: Warhol meets Dalรญ. (via Everlasting Blort)
40 Hilarious Stereotypes About People’s Home Countries.
At the 1960 Olympics, American Athletes Recruited by the CIA Tried to Convince Their Soviet Peers to Defect. (via Damn Interesting)
Dry Ice and Slime
The Crazy Russian Hacker stumbled upon the perfect party special effect when he added dry ice to a bowl of green slime. And I learned there is such a thing as slime powder. The main effect seems to be that the release of gas from the dry ice is slowed down in the slime. This leads to nice round bubbles, sturdy enough to pick up at some points, and easy to see against the colored mess in the bowl. There are also cool-looking vents and eruptions. You’d have to lay down some rules about playing with it if there are children around, though. (via Viral Viral Videos)
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Boys will be boys ๐๐๐๐๐ pic.twitter.com/UM1Fts51gb
— Mercedes_Mbalz๐ป (@Mbali_Merc) July 26, 2024
Thursday, August 01, 2024
How the Government's Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
Government laboratories run by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) do research on virulent diseases like smallpox, ebola, and Marburg virus in order to keep us all safe. But what about the people who work in those labs? The safety protocols have to be on the level of The Andromeda Strain. And just like that book and movie, the strictness of the different levels correspond with the danger in the virus being studied. The first level is on par with what hospitals require of visitors to an infectious patient with, say, flesh-eating bacteria. Don't ask me how I know. Above that, the protocols get very serious. The most serious of these virus labs is one that hasn't even been built yet, but will cover a big chunk of ground in Atlanta. This video from Half as Interesting is only seven minutes long; the rest is an ad. (via Digg)
Cat Food
When will humans ever learn? Or in this case, an alien? Cats like what they like, and it's not the same thing they liked yesterday. I have bought cat food by the case before, and try to resist the urge to do it again. This comic is from Tom Savage at Ash & Raimi. (via reddit)
Deadpool and Mario
In which the superhero duo of Deadpool and Wolverine from the new R-rated Marvel film drop into the super-wholesome pixelated world of Mario and Luigi. The incongruence is the very definition of comedy. Mario is his usual self, but Deadpool has plenty of snark to add, and Wolverine is just overly violent. Our favorite Italian plumber is bit scandalized by Deadpool's worldview. I think Deadpool likes a world where he can come back from the dead, but Wolverine knows that this is just as likely to happen in the MCU. That's what the multiverse is for! (via Geeks Are Sexy)
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The El Paso Enigma: The Disappearance of William and Margaret Patterson. An affluent Texas couple disappeared in 1957—but the messages they left behind led to more questions than answers.
A Flying Carpet Coffee Table. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. (via Nag on the Lake)
A Daiquiri for Every Mood. Try out some of these 24 tasty recipes.
TikTokers doubt Helen Keller’s dual impairment. There’s a lot they don’t know about deafblindness. (via Damn Interesting)
A Robot Dentist Might Be a Good Idea, Actually. Perceptive's autonomous robot offers more accurate, steadier, and faster dentistry (via Real Clear Science)
Prokop Diviลก And The Lightning Rod. In 1754, a Czech priest attempted to control the weather but ended up inventing the lightning rod instead.
I Toured The RV Made Out Of Elvis’ Jet And It’s The Best And Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen.
Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it.
This is How You Get Raccoons
Hey, I know! Let’s give the raccoons something else to eat, and maybe they’ll stay out of our bird feeders! You can see what this leads to- more raccoons, as they invite their siblings and cousins to the nightly smorgasbord. Then with a regular food supply, the raccoons have plenty of free time to produce litters of more raccoons! The homeowner who recorded this says they’ve been doing it for a few years now, and he lives in a secluded area where there are no neighbors to annoy.
Tweet of the Day
(via Nag on the Lake)Cat Ladies - ASSEMBLE!
— Jamie Carter (@JCTheResistance) July 29, 2024
JULY 30 8:30EThttps://t.co/S98G4rqBQ3 pic.twitter.com/L8WxWxJ7iz
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