Le Piano Vivant (The Living Piano)

Remember Athanasius Kircher's cat piano? The human version has been brought to reality in Quebec. From the YouTube link:

Set during the Festival d'Opéra de Québec, TFO brought opera to the people by inviting the public to engage with a new interactive and never- seen-before instrument. The Living Piano is a 12-note, giant keyboard that you play with your feet, featuring opera singers who elegantly belt out their corresponding notes as the different keys are played. From children to seniors to the occasional dog, TFO allowed the public to play with and discover opera as they moved from note to note, making music every step of the way.

No tail-poking necessary. (via the Presurfer)

Tweet of the Day

life before being vaxxed VS life after being fully vaxxed pic.twitter.com/1CCbsZYLmG

— Golden Girls Obsession (@GoldenObsession) May 10, 2021

(via Everlasting Blort)

Go Figure

(via Bad Newspaper)

The End

The latest from filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu, The End is a tribute to the lost year of 2020, an experimental montage made using looping gifs from classic films. It's set to the tune "My Fault" by Ennio Morricone, which you might recall from the spaghetti Western My Name is Nobody. At first it seems like a simple mashup of similar images, but it takes us from waiting to coping methods to confusion to panic to despair as it goes along. Watch it once for the mood, then again to see how many movies you can identify. (via Laughing Squid)

Shocking

This guy needs to be grounded. (via reddit)

Corn Kernel Removal Tool

You can take kernels off a corn cob the old-fashioned way, but when a friend tries to one-up you, you gotta go the distance. Challenge accepted! But the real purpose of over-engineering this gadget turns out to be not so much making the work efficient, but lobbing cobs at your competition. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

Sister

Modern English isn't meant to be taken literally. And that's a good thing. This comic is from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.

Signs

Now that song will be stuck in your head all day. (Thanks, BicycleBill!)

How Guys Talk About a Date vs. What Actually Happens

This seems harmless, but super awkward when it's someone you work with and will see the next day. As someone with a lot of experience dating someone you work with, you should wait until you are both really crazy about each other before trying a "real date." And even then, there's no need to tell everyone. I guess that's one good thing about Tinder- if you don't click, you can move on more easily. (via Digg)

Miss Cellania's Links

Terms and Conditions Apply. Can you get through all 29 pop-up windows without accepting terms and conditions, cookies, or notifications? (via Metafilter)

The Mystery Woman Who Mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese Typewriter.  (via Damn Interesting)

Heavenly Metal: How Trench Art Keeps the Memories of Soldiers and Their Service Alive.

The Trouble with Alien Zombies. (via Digg)

In case you want to support businesses that pay their employees decently.

Biggest. Antlers. Ever. Meet the Irish Elk.

They ordered 51 trays of plants and got 510 square meters delivered. The story gets much better from there. (via Metafilter) 

The Ruins Of A Swinging Seventies Spa That Kept A Siberian Tiger Behind The Bar.

I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because...

A blast from the past (2017): 10 Times Kids Stole the Spotlight on Live Television.

Awake?

(via Fark)

Will Smith on the Graham Norton Show

It's surprise guest after surprise guest on The Graham Norton Show! If you want to get straight to the music, you can skip the first two minutes, but if you're at work using headphones, try not to sing along too loudly. (via Daily of the Day)

Tweet of the Day

Two albino moose in Northern Ontario aka the Canadian unicorn 🇨🇦🦄 video by Nicole Leblanc pic.twitter.com/qwzJ7QvY3J

— Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu) May 11, 2021

(via Everlasting Blort) 

Lit 'em Right Up

(via Bad Newspaper)

The 116 Images NASA Wants Aliens to See

Here's what's on the "golden record" that launched with V-ger 1 and 2 back in the 1970s. Read more about it here. (via reddit)

What Does U.S. Health Care Look Like Abroad?

Health care is so much more simple and comprehensive around the world that people in other countries are astounded by America's system. They don't understand why we put up with it. I understand the system, but I also don't know why we put up with it.

Target

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Winner

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Don't Tease an Ostrich

An incident at the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch. The ostrich has a bit of John Wayne's attitude. (via Daily of the Day)

Tweet of the Day

Cat latte. ₍⸍⸌̣ ʷ̣̫ ⸍̣⸌₎ pic.twitter.com/JIz3spe3OA

— Olivia When (@usuallyawake) May 15, 2021

(via Nag on the Lake)