Monday, June 13, 2016
Retirement Plans
On last night’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver opened the show with a few words about the Saturday night horror in Orlando, when one man shot and killed 40 people in the Pulse nightclub, and wounded 53 others.
And then he went on with the prepared show, about your retirement plans. It’s a bit scary, especially if you have money to retire on. Or, I would imagine it would be.
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Remember that time the fireworks fell over?
Wedding Etiquette Rules Every Adult Should Know. You don’t want to be the one guest who makes things difficult for the happy couple.
6 Ways You Didn't Realize Ronald Reagan Ruined The Country.
The Mystery of the Ghost Ship SS Baychimo.
Cambodia's vast medieval cities hidden beneath the jungle. (via Metafilter)
Terrifyingly Convincing Portrayals of Real-Life Serial Killers on Film. They made biopics into horror movies.
When Jean-Claude Van Damme played the Predator. The early version of the alien was a far cry from what ended up on screen.
Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone. They’d rather just sell you a new one.
A comic from Jeff Lovfers at Don’t Hit Save uses a joke you’ve probably heard before in a different form. But what really made the comic worth it was reading the horror story Lovfers told underneath it.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Teamwork Rescues Dog
A dog has fallen into a huge concrete drainage canal somewhere in Kazakhstan. There’s water rushing by, so he can’t just walk upstream or down. The sides are steep and there’s nothing to hang on to. But a group of young guys put their heads -and their hands- together to save the pup. Way to go! (via Atlas Obscura)
A Nice day
If you’ve ever tried to get an entire family with children organized and ready to go somewhere, you need to plan on it taking at least three times as long as it should. If you have more than two children, you’ll have to add more time per child. But here’s the secret: when they get to a certain age, you can just drive off without the one kid who refuses to cooperate. If you’re lucky, the incident will be noticed by the other children. That age (and you’ll know when it happens) could coincide with the age they don’t want to go out with their family anyway, so it works out. This is the latest from Lunarbaboon.
Friday, June 10, 2016
President Obama Slow Jams the News
President Obama appeared on The Tonight Show last night, and did Jimmy Kimmel’s Slow Jam bit about his two terms in office. This might actually work for mood music sometime in the future if your date didn’t listen too closely to the lyrics. You can see the rest of Obama’s Tonight Show appearance at their YouTube channel.
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How Donating Your Body to Science Works. Imagine how much a medical student can learn from your remains.
23 Tweets That You Won’t Be Able To Stop Laughing At. Everyday life can be just plain ridiculous.
10 Female Comedy TV Writers To Watch. You might just end up with a new favorite series.
The most important class I ever took: Rock-and-roll history. It’s more inclusive than history and more useful than calculus.
The Scientists Behind the Movies. The mad scientist figures are often modeled after real people.
The Man Seized by Four Armies. (via reddit)
At Profiles Theatre the drama—and abuse—is real. (via Metafilter)
Sunspring is a short science fiction film written by an artificial intelligence program. It’s only eight minutes long, but it will confuse you in every one of those minutes.
The true grit of Hillary Clinton. Few people ever worked as hard, for as long, and fought through as much, in order to get there.
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Grocery-Shopping Cats
The German supermarket chain Netto Marken-Discount gives us an ad in which cats go grocery shopping. They’ve managed to stick as many internet cat memes as humanly possible into one minute. The ad doesn’t give us any particular reason to shop at this particular store, no comparisons with other stores, no sale prices, but by golly, you’ll remember it. (via Uproxx)
The Dirty Truth
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and Somebody's Gotta Do It has a message for the new crop of graduates. When looking for a career, you’ve got to be ready to seize an opportunity. Don’t let your passion get in the way of what could become something better. (via Digg)
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The media's racial double standard in covering sexual assault cases, in 2 tweets. (via a comment at Boing Boing)
Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry? (via the Presurfer)
The Incredibly Weird Story Behind Tetris. And there’s extra trivia about the game in the same post.
Seventy Years Later, Bikini Atoll May Still Be Too Radioactive For Resettlement. The islanders have been waiting all this time to go home again.
An Ivy League professor explains chaos theory, the prisoner's dilemma, and why math isn't really boring. It all has to do with the way the universe is organized.
Did the Ancient Greeks Invent Rodeo? The athletes of ancient Crete left artistic evidence of bull-leaping.
How to protect your Facebook and Twitter accounts from hackers. A few clicks can save you grief down the road.
How the Jukebox Got Its Groove. Louis Glass married recorded music and vending machines, and things were never the same.
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