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Saturday, June 16, 2018
What Causes Insomnia?
If you're stressing out about something specific, you know what's causing you to lose sleep. When you don't know what's causing it, the stress only increases like a snowball rolling downhill. This TED-Ed lesson from Dan Kwartler goes into the mechanisms that disrupt your normal sleep cycle. (via Digg)
The Dog Who Was A Cat Inside
In this short film by Siri Melchior, a dog and a cat share the same body. Their desires are often at odds as they wander the streets of Paris. (via The Kid Should See This)
Tweet of the Day
A LARGE NUDE FOR EVERYTHING pic.twitter.com/1UDwVz7kg7— Wheel Of Fortune Answers (@wofanswers) June 12, 2018
Friday, June 15, 2018
Macintosh Startup Sound History
Here's a nerdy-as-heck video for Mac users, about the evolution and imminent death of the Mac startup sound. PC users won't find it at all interesting. In 1988, my husband and I finally trashed our ancient Apple II and got a used Mac Plus. Since then, I've used a Mac SE, Mac Classic, Performa, iMac G3, two Mac Minis, and two iMacs. I also have a Cube that I inherited, but haven't yet used. My latest iMac was purchased in 2016, and I hate that it doesn't have a disc drive, but I am glad that it still has the "Bonnnng!" startup sound. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Eyewitness Accounts of Lincoln's Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 153 years ago, a good fifty years before we had moving pictures with sound. In 1929 and 1930, Movietone News got interviews with Charles W. Lewis and J.W. Epperson about the assassination. (via Laughing Squid)
Miss Cellania's Links
Trump Appointee Compiles Loyalty List of U.S. Employees at U.N., State. How they are treated depends on their score of loyalty not to the US, but to Trump.
The Stanford Prison Experiment was Massively Influential, But Fraudulent. Shocking experiments become classics, while their irregularities and the failure to replicate their results are barely noticed.
4 True Crime Stories Starring Famous Historical Figures. Featuring Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Conan Doyle, Queen Elizabeth, and Colonel Sanders.
Bark In The Park Event Goes Sideways. What could possibly go wrong when you combine good dogs and flying baseballs?
What Do Women Want? Pockets! There's no good reason we can't stash a phone as easily as men do.
The 20 Companies With The Biggest Pay Gap Between The CEO And The Average Worker, Charted. Most of us can't understand why anyone in the world needs to earn more than a million dollars a year.
32 Phrases That Are Instant, Gigantic Red Flags. None of which will be news to you.
The Trumps: Donald is called in to see the boss. D'Oh!
A Disgruntled Federal Employee’s 1980s Desk Calendar. It's a personal and historical document, and a work of art. (via Metafilter)
A blast from the past (2013): 10 Mosaics Made With Unusual Objects.
Tweet of the Day
Adulthood is just clicking this button everyday until you eventually die pic.twitter.com/KQ0ur7DnkM— Brit Bennett (@britrbennett) March 26, 2018
I know! You know the updating process is going to take a couple of hours, and that would be fine if you could just start it and go somewhere or take a nap. But updating also requires you to enter your password every 15 minutes or so, or else the process won't proceed. Then after all that, you find out the updates are for something you never use anyway, like iTunes. (via Buzzfeed)
Thursday, June 14, 2018
TinyKittens Update
The kittens have been separated from their moms Chloe and Ramona to get the mom's milk to dry up. That's so that the queens can undergo treatment for kidney disease -and Chloe needs dental surgery. Afterward, they will be spayed. But the kitten Aura cannot nurse due to a cleft palate, and she gets to visit Chloe and Ramona. The moms are delighted to see her. Ramona was always diligent about cleaning the kittens and she goes into overdrive with the spit bath. Chloe eventually has to restrain Ramona's zealousness. Meanwhile, the other kittens are busy playing under the watchful eye of Grandpa Mason. You can still follow the family in their livestream.
Miss Cellania's Links
The Hidden History of Shanghai’s Jewish Quarter. The city welcomed refugees from Nazi persecution when no one else would.
The 10 Most Deceptive PR Campaigns in History. Watch out for the dehydrated cane syrup from a banana republic!
A Brief Compendium of Vintage Hollywood Test Shots. Hair, makeup, and wardrobe had to be perfect for the biggest names in Hollywood.
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.
The First Look At Wonder Woman 2 Sees a Surprising Hero Return. What could have been a spoiler is now the main promotional hook.
The History of Flexi Discs. Sound recordings on the cheap alternative to vinyl were good for everything from marketing to Cold War smuggling.
30 Iconic Performances That Were Actually Plan B (Or Plan Z). In the end, the right person got to play the role or sing the song.
A Very Mighty Finn. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the head of the Finnish military during World War II, when the country was stuck between a rock and a hard place: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
A blast from the past (2009): Alert, Nunavut: Top of the World.
Tweet of the Day
It is like they knew exactly what I needed...and then made it. pic.twitter.com/53tTG9DOzA— M.J. Mouton (@MJ_Mouton) June 10, 2018
(via Nag on the Lake)
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Fingertips + The Last Jedi
Here's a music video for the song "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants, illustrated with scenes from The Last Jedi. Contains movie spoilers, and some deleted scenes. There's another version with The Force Awakens, and the other Star Wars films. (via Metafilter)
Invisible Man Costume
This guy stole the show at the Phoenix Comicon in 2016. I wonder how he did at the costume competition. (via TYWKIWDBI)
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