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Thursday, June 20, 2024
Hoist Up The Thing
The Longest Johns gave us a song about lying on your resume. It starts out funny and then gets funnier. (via Nag on the Lake)
Panic Attack! Remastered
If you saw the trailer for the upcoming movie Alien: Romulus directed by Fede Álvarez, you might have thought, "Who?" Some are familiar with Álvarez' work on the movies Evil Dead and Don't Breathe, but the Uruguayan filmmaker was first noticed by Hollywood for the short Panic Attack! (Ataque de Pánico!), in which giant robots invade Montevideo. The short was made in 2009 on a reported budget of $300. A dollar must go further in Uruguay. Just a few weeks after Panic Attack! was shown at a film festival, Álvarez got a call from Ghost House Pictures and was soon on the slate to direct Evil Dead. Álvarez remastered the short and re-uploaded it this week. Read more about Álvarez and his breakthrough film at Gizmodo.
Letter Stress
They say that puns are the lowest form of humor, but they are still humor. But can we go lower? How about a joke that involves the letters of just one word? This comic is from J. L. Westover, also known as Mr. Lovenstein. (via Geeks are Sexy)
The Countdown
Timing and numbers. Timing is crucial for comedy, and numbers can be a lot of fun if you know how to manipulate them. To demonstrate, Ryan Goodcase tells a joke that thoroughly impresses all who hear it. It's not so much the joke itself, but the clever way he tells it.
Yeah, this one has been rehearsed a lot. Note that Goodcase himself doesn't have to keep up with the numbers for most of his patter. The real punch line comes in that loooong pause that gets funnier the longer it goes. And that's the only place he needs to do any counting himself. Genius! You can see more of Goodcase's bits at Instagram. (via Digg)
Miss Cellania's Links
At 15, Darlene Stubbs walked away from a polygamous cult—then discovered a new life and community through running. (via Metafilter)
Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome – except the Y chromosome. What happened? (via Damn Interesting)
It's the Justice Conservatives of America to the rescue! The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
The Dumbest Ghosts Ever.
The Paris Games’ Mascot, the Olympic Phryge, Boasts a Little-Known Revolutionary Past.
The Force Was with Them. My generation of filmmakers shook up cinema forever. (via Damn Interesting)
Eight IT Nightmare Stories That Make Us Feel Bad For Tech Support.
Fisker is out of cash, not making cars, and filing for bankruptcy. The scissors are okay.
How To Train Your Drogon
YouTube user Darth Blender refreshed the trailer from the 2010 animated movie How to Train Your Dragon by replacing the video with clips from the HBO series Game of Thrones, while retaining the original audio. Let’s see how that turned out. Kids who watched the animated film years ago are grown up enough to enjoy Game of Thrones now. (via the A.V. Club)
Tweet of the Day
Emergency levitation. (Thanks, WTM!)凄いですね🥰🥰🥰 pic.twitter.com/1nL1o2Y9Kz
— ヒロクライム🐼 (@tannokasa6) June 18, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
40 Years of Atlas
We've been following the developments of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot for years, but even I didn't know that they have been working on the development of a walking humanoid robot for more than 40 years now! World Data Center put together a compilation of research videos showing Atlas starting in 1983 and running through 2022. It starts with a bouncing baby robot who later learns to walk on two legs, and gradually grows into a dancing, flipping athlete made of titanium and electronics. We shouldn't be verklempt about watching a robot grow up, but we feel like Atlas is a friend. He is, after all, friend-shaped. (via Laughing Squid)
She's Got Spirit
She’s got Spirit
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When she's done up in this illusion face paint, artist Mariam Marks would not take it as an insult to be called a horse face. This is not only an artful painting, it's performance art, too, as she lip-syncs to "Here I Am" by Bryan Adams, from the 2002 movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Her exaggerated tooth exposure and tongue action lends so much realism to the singing horse, it's like watching a cartoon without a TV. You don't even have to be familiar with the movie to appreciate the performance (I have never seen it). See more of Mariam Marks' face painting animations at Instagram and YouTube. (via reddit)
Hockey
When Dr. Dolittle was staying with me and working locally this spring, we watched the entire series of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and it set me up to enjoy the classic elements of hockey. This comic is from Kasper at Hoppy Doodle.
About Petri Dishes
Petri dishes are a great tool for microbiologists. A Petri dish is a small self-contained laboratory for growing bacteria, isolated from contamination, and providing a nutrient-rich, climate-controlled environment. Familiar bacteria like E. coli grow amazingly well in a Petri dish. A lot of bacteria species do, but those that grow well in a Petri dish are only a drop in the bucket considering how many species of bacteria we have, and there are many more we haven't discovered yet. So why can't we design a Petri dish for those other bacteria we want to study? Lizah van der Aart explains why growing other bacterias is so confounding in this video from Minute Earth. You can tell van der Aart is a microbiologist because she pronounces minute as my-noot, which only makes sense. Or maybe it's because she's Dutch. This video is only four minutes; the rest is promotional.
Dumb, Lovable, Funny Dogs
Aren’t you glad that dogs don’t hold a grudge when we laugh at them? This compilation from Fail Army has dogs that aren’t so smart, some that aren’t lucky, but all are adorable.
Tweet of the Day
It wasn't all that long ago. (via Everlasting Blort)The WiFi of the 1980s pic.twitter.com/88YxK9ae6k
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) December 19, 2023
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