(via reddit)
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Tweet of the Day
lol my boss just called me into his office and told me I've been spending too much time on twitter. Hold on he's saying something else now— dan mentos (@DanMentos) June 13, 2017
This guy may need a new job soon. He should work at the Comedy Barn. (via Buzzfeed)
House Cat Tries to Intimidate Lion
This video starts out as if it's a failed cute cat video. But Baggy the calico cat got distracted by a lion! Baggy, suffering from "little cat syndrome," thinks she's up to challenging the big cat. It might work against other housecoats, but the lion is not the least bit intimidated. She may even be amused at Baggy's antics. The narration is provided by Derek Krahn of the Center for Animal Research and Education in Bridgeport, Texas. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Miss Cellania's Links
NASA’s super accurate map of the 2017 eclipse. A guide for where to see the total solar eclipse that will cross the U.S. on August 21.
The New Taipei Police Department Announced Its Latest Recruits And They Are So Cute It Actually Hurts. Six Labrador puppies are already beginning their scent detection training at one month of age.
How to delete a Facebook page you no longer want. There are quite a few steps so that you never do it accidentally.
The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara. The River of Giants was home to terrifying reptiles like the Spinosaurus.
When Fresh Air Went Out of Fashion at Hospitals. Medicine and technology combined to make windowless patient rooms possible, but there was some resistance to the change.
During the days of French colonialism, the Vietnamese took coffee and made it their own. Now everyone in Saigon drinks coffee, which is made one cup at a time, with a generous amount of ground coffee, and not in a hurry.
Here's How Much Businesses Pay To Get On Those Big Blue Exit Signs. Even if they have the cash, there are state requirements for eligibility.
How a Brilliant Intelligence Officer Used 'Monopoly' to Free WWII POWs. Games were allowed in to distract prisoners from escape plans, so why not combine the two?
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Tweet of the Day
the hippothalmus is the part of the brain that controls how hungry hungry you get— Ali Garfinkel (@aligarchy) April 9, 2015
Sure, it's old, but that doesn't make it any less funny. (via Pleated-Jeans)
Exhaustion, Motivation, Distraction
It's no wonder he's exhausted. He may end up with the best broom ever, but he'll be too tired to use it. This happens all the time, at least to me, that the smallest question I explore in what I think will be a minute-long side journey ends up as a quest through the black hole of the internet. An hour later, I finally think, "Wait, I can't use any of this, what am I doing?" This is the latest comic from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.
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States That Can Be Described By A Single Photo. All 50 of them.
This $7,800-a-month cancer drug caused rashes and rarely worked. Now Trump could make FDA approvals even easier. (via Metafilter)
The Case for Prescription Heroin. A Vancouver program doesn't cure the addiction, but it reduces the chance of dying. (via Digg)
If You Spend Most Of Your Day Sitting Down, You Need To Be Aware Of "Gluteal Amnesia," or "Dead Butt Syndrome." There are ways of minimizing the risk, but you've got to get off your butt to do them.
Ruby and Jennifer Rose Rinekso are the perfect cosplay couple. They even got engaged in costume as Batman and Batgirl.
A House for Sale Straddles the US/Canada Border. The property comes with border agents. (via reddit)
How to Get to Know Someone. Try any of these 53 questions to spark a real conversation about what makes them tick. (via Swiss Miss)
You've Got Quail: Why Thousands of Rural Mail Carriers Count Roadside Wildlife Every Year. Who else covers all ground in the neighborhoods they know so well?
I moved my kids out of America. It was the best parenting decision I've ever made.
An Honest Trailer for the Live-Action Beauty and The Beast
Screen Junkies is back with a swing at a fairly recent film that also a tale as old as time. Beauty and the Beast was a huge hit in 1991, so Disney made a live-action version for 2017. The movie starring Emma Watson broke records: it is the the highest-grossing live-action musical of all time, the biggest ever March release, and the biggest musical debut weekend ever. But you can bet they found some craziness to highlight in this Honest Trailer. One thing they didn't touch on that annoyed me about the movie was why no one bothered to tell Belle that her skirt was tucked into her pantaloons through the first couple of scenes.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
It's All in the Framing
Want to sell something? Hit the customer right where he lives. Let them know this is what they really want. If he can get a steady supply of cheese balls, it won't matter who is serving them, how much they charge, or what extra information they are gathering from you that they can sell to someone else. This is the latest comic from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
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Get Lost in These Real-World Fairy Tale Landscapes. See 18 sites that still inspire artists today.
Hedgehogs can't see in the dark.
Wonder Woman and the critical generation gap. Old-school movie critics have been shocked to learn that many moviegoers are not male.
Does your cat have food issues? It may be a phenomenon known as whisker fatigue. (via Nag on the Lake)
How Your Mouse Movement Could Be Used to Stop Identity Theft. It might be our new online lie detector.
A New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco. The reasons they are there make quite a story. (via Urban Ghosts)
Let's see what Doonesbury's intrepid reporter Roland B. Hedley, Jr. has been up to. There's plenty of news to keep him busy.
Bored Panda has 475 submitted pictures of cats acting odd. (via Metafilter)
Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Sexy Chest Swimsuit
Did you ever think it strange that women's breasts must be covered up, but men can bare their entire chests? That we can share pictures of a man's nipples, but a woman's nipples are considered NSFW? Social media censors tear their hair out at some pictures of nipples, because there really isn't much difference between the sexes without context. What if we were to cover up a woman's breasts with a picture of a man's chest? This swimsuit does just that, hair and all Yes, the backside has hair, too. Watch what happens when this woman models it for her children.
Beloved Shirts sells the Sexy Chest One pIece Swimsuit in several shades for $44.95. It's not for everyone, but it's funny and makes a statement. They are selling like hotcakes. (via Buzzfeed)
Heroes of the D-Day Invasion
I have an ongoing project to make posts for mental_floss articles I wrote way back when that I do not have an archive for. Here's another one. Somehow I neglected to post this on June 6, which I had planned.
On the anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, we should take time to remember some of the many heroes of the various battles that took place as the Allies stormed their way into France during World War II. Here are some who received the Medal of Honor for their bravery and selflessness, in an article I wrote for Mental Floss.
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They're on Obamacare, they voted for Trump, and they're already disappointed. Vox went back to Corbin, Kentucky, and found that those disappointed people will still vote republican.
The House of David Baseball Team. The players are from the Israelite House of David, a cult founded in 1903 in Michigan, in which members were not allowed to cut their hair.
How I Caught a Contract Killer. ATF agent Dominick Polifrone went undercover to nab cyanide killer Richard Kuklinski.
17 Wedding Picture Photobombs. The weddings went off just fine, except for that one picture that everyone remembers.
The True History of the South Is Not Being Erased. The removal of Confederate statues is history being made.
The Long, Winding Tale of Sperm Science. We still haven't figured them out completely.
Victorian America's Furniture of the Future. George Hunzinger was a 19th-century furniture designer who believed in technology, so much that he filed 21 patents for convertible furniture, including the iconic folding chair we all know and love.
The Secret History of the Cat Who Authored a Physics Paper.
15 Forgotten Summertime Activities We Need To Bring Back. Well, maybe not the bathing machine, but the others are loads of fun.
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