(via Pleated Jeans)
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Back to School Boot Camp
Sit up straight and pay attention: do not eat paste, and do not take your pants off in front of the other students. Your parents will not be there. Some teachers are jerks. Some will be strange shapes. Cut teachers some slack. (via The Daily What)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Trampoline Fails
One of the first questions a pediatrician asks a new patient's family is "Do you have a trampoline?" along with "Do you always use proper child restraints in the car?" Here you see a few of the horrible things that can happen when you jump on a trampoline -and these clips don't include people who were seriously injured. (via Videogum)
Miss Cellania's Links
Cats and Babies: what else do you need?
The Problem With Men Explaining Things.
25 Actors Who Were on Law & Order Before You Knew Who They Were. And it's a treat to see them in reruns and realize how long ago that was.
Is it confetti? Is it snow? No, Pixel Rain is a beautiful cloud of LEDs falling from the sky at at a Black Keyes concert.
Since NASA flight director David Oh must work on Mars time while handling the Curiosity mission, his family decided to go along with the schedule, too. Within a couple of weeks, they were eating breakfast at 3PM.
Financial scams and schemes don't have to be complicated to take people in. All they have to do is appeal to the target's inner greed and willingness to bend a few rules.
10 Fantastic Comedies Based on True Stories. Because while truth is stranger than fiction, it can also be ridiculous.
A house cat sings the theme to the TV show Game of Thrones. No need to applaud; he owes it all to his hardworking editor.
10 Bizarre Athlete Superstitions. When you get the idea that it worked once, you're afraid not to try it again.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Trial of Buchanan and Goodman
Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman produced novelty songs, such as "Mr. Jaws" and "The Flying Saucer," using clips from pop songs of the day. They were hauled into court for copyright infringement, and produced a song about the experience. YouTube member 0797buda found some appropriate funny video clips to illustrate the insanity. You'll find lots more by Buchanan and Goodman at Metafilter.
Sunny Sings the Addams Family
Sunny looks like Pikachu, but he's a yellow cockatiel. Here he shows off his musical talents with the theme from the TV show The Addams Family. (via Buzzfeed)
Green Beans are Good for Your Heart
Snapping beans takes me back to my childhood, sitting on the front porch with a bushel or two, helping Grandma break them. It’s a mindless but satisfying use of your hands that gives you time to chat or to think. While I broke beans, I thought about how I would write this post about canning beans at mental_floss.
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Forrest Fenn is a real-life Indiana Jones character, except much wealthier. His bizarre scheme to turn his own burial into a treasure hunt may bring him more fame than anything else he's done.
Any Day Is A Good Day For A Bill Murray Tribute Remix. It's bouncy, nostalgic, well-edited, and contains language that is NSFW.
The Mississippi River: The Backbone of America. Providing water, transportation, and blues songs to us for hundreds of years.
Primrose the donkey was born prematurely, and her legs weren't developed enough to hold her weight. But bright pink casts stiffen them so the tiny donkey can walk.
College Humor is teaming up with Malaria No More to stomp out malaria. Their weapon is a $1 pay-per-view comedy show called Malarius, featuring some big names in entertainment.
Forget the product; read the reviews of this banana slicer. (via Metafilter)
'Huffington Post' Launches Some Sort Of New Thing.
3 Reasons Why Fifty Shades of Grey Deserves Its Own Video Game.
Losing One’s Head: A Frustrating Search for the ‘Truth’ about Decapitation. Warning: may induce nightmares. (via Ed Yong)
Monday, August 20, 2012
Afternoon Links
Curiosity's Landing, From the Perspective of the 3,000 People Who Helped Build It.
8 Famous People With Purple Hearts.
The condom industry in America went underground after the Comstock Act of 1873 outlawed the sale of contraceptives by mail. People still bought them, but advertising had to be very creative to get around the law.
Dr. Eric Schulman's 2008 research on Who Will Win the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election? Then he updated the article in 2010.
In 1955, geneticist Helen Spurway wanted to know if parthenogenisis, "virgin birth," happened in humans. She found Emmimarie Jones, who had an 11-year-old daughter with no known father. (via Not Exactly Rocket Science)
Jackmeoff Mudd Arrested In Fort Lauderdale. Don't skip the slideshow of other strange names on arrest reports. (via Fark)
The British feline charity Cats Protection named Jessi-Cat their Cat of the Year. Jessi-Cat's owner, 7-year-old Lorcan Dillon, has an anxiety disorder called selective mutism, and Jessi-Cat was just the therapy he needed. (via Arbroath)
Miss Cellania's Links
3 Horrifying Implications Behind Text-Based Adventure Games.
The Song of Mitt's Self. Yes, it's a comedy video, featuring some killer editing.
Older homes that have been added to, altered, and modernized over the years sometimes contain surprising empty spaces. Andrea's family made them into secret rooms for their kids to call their own.
The most brilliant palindrome of all time?
Fight Songs: Eleven Great Musician-Politician Campaign Feuds. Before selecting your campaign music, better check out the politics of the musicians.
A couple of three-week-old kittens were rescued from a junk heap. They immediately became models for an extensive portfolio of the awesome portraits.
10 Great Artists’ Famous Calling Cards. Learn these, and you'll be able to identify their books, movies, and artworks to impress your friends.
The Year’s Most Controversial Film, Compliance, explores how obedience to authority can go horribly wrong. Some object to such an uncomfortable concept being presented as entertainment.
No matter how many heroics a hobbit can perform, Gandalf is always asking for more. Hey, a quest is a quest!
Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann studied how evangelicals hear the voice of God. Her theory is that "the church teaches those who pray to use their minds differently than they do in everyday life."
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