Monday, July 16, 2018
Pachelbel's Chicken
Brett Yang and Eddy Chen are a two-man group called TwoSet Violin. They aren't limited to violin music, as you can see from their performance of Pachelbel's Canon in D played on rubber chickens. I'm not sure that there wasn't some electronic magic going on here, since, while you can tuna fish, you can't tune a chicken. (via Metafilter)
The Hangman
If you can stand idly by while men mistreat others, the time will come when they will do the same to you. There are consequences to standing by and doing nothing in the presence of evil. Like in this 1964 animation of a poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Read more about the film at Open Culture. (via Nag on the Lake)
Miss Cellania's Links
How Water Could Power Long-Distance Space Travel. It's a matter of separating the hydrogen from the oxygen.
The Russian asbestos company Uralasbest is stamping Trump's face on their product.
The First Murder Solved by a Fingerprint. La Plata, Argentina, had just set up their new fingerprint department.
How an Army of Suffragettes Helped Save America From Starvation. The Woman's Land Army sent young women to faraway farms to bring in the crops. (via The Week)
We’re Tracking the Ways Trump Is Scaling Back Obamacare. Here Are 14.
Full Color 3D X-Rays Are Here. They sound too cool to be real, but seeing one can also give you the creeps.
19 Unwritten Rules That Everyone Seems To Follow. There are some things that everyone just does, even though they've never been told to, and they certainly have never been told why.
Ajit Pai finalizes vote to limit FCC reviews of customer complaints. Real change or not, the FCC won't rule on complaints unless you pay $225.
Recipe for dead chicken with old milk. (via reddit)
A blast from the past (2012): Meet 5 Pioneering Women.
Tweet of the Day
According to the White House's official schedule just released, Trump's performance review with President Putin will last 90 minutes.— Matt Rogers (@Politidope) July 15, 2018
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Fantasy Super Cosplay Wrestling at Florida Supercon
What could be more natural than combining professional wrestling with cosplay? They both have costumed characters that feed your fantasies with a live performance. Florida Supercon just wrapped up at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, featuring Fantasy Super Cosplay Wrestling. A surprise entrant this year was caught on amateur video when Geoffrey the Giraffe entered the ring! Geoffrey is apparently looking for a new career since Toys R Us went out of business. Watch as he defeats Starlord and Dovahkin before he is bested by Gangrel's delivery from Amazon Prime. (via Uproxx)
Introverts
I am enjoying living alone and working from home so much it's starting to frighten me. What does it say that I went to an open house for a new middle school last week, despite the fact that I no longer have any children in the school system? And that I spent the day looking forward to it? Planning what to wear? That can't be healthy. Still, it doesn't frighten me enough to join a club or throw a party to expand my non-existent social circle. This comic is from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Musical.ly Final Boss
Here's a musical selfie, using some clever effects and a lot of editing. I found it pretty cool. (via reddit)
The Same Bomb Joke
Warner Bros. animators really liked this one joke, obviously, because they used it over and over again. They all probably laughed just as hard the third or fourth time around. (via Metafilter)
Tweet of the Day
WATCH Hillary at Oct 19, 2016 debate warning Trump will try to break up NATO because it's on "Putin's wish list." She also predicts Putin was hacking 2016 election to help Trump win which was just confirmed by GOP led Senate Intel Committee. Like today Trump denies Russia did it: pic.twitter.com/fjeOlYi9EH— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 12, 2018
No one can say we weren't warned. (via Metafilter)
Friday, July 13, 2018
Can You Name a Country?
In this clip from last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live! we find out that quite a few people are wandering along Hollywood Boulevard higher than a kite. That's the only rational explanation. The only other possible explanation is that American schools do not teach geography past grade school, and so many adults don't ingest any more information than what's on TV. Plus you know that any adult who knew what a map was didn't make the cut for the TV montage. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Little Spirits
Redditor zoggy90 has been drawing on walls and doors, but it's his house, not his parents' home. He's filling the side of the closet with "little spirits." Above is the first one, which he has now expanded upon.
These are pencil drawings, which will totally freak out the next owner of the house, whenever that will be. meanwhile, there should be some way he can sell these without having to draw on other people's homes. (via reddit)
Indigestion
It’s about time we saw a new experimental animation from Cyriak Harris. Follow along as he takes a nightmarish dive into the innards of the human body. From watching this, it becomes obvious where those weird artificial intelligence programs have been getting their ideas. But then again, if Deep Dream saw this, it would probably render something closer to reality. (via Metafilter)
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