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Sunday, October 20, 2024
The Oregon Zoo Rhinos Celebrate Autumn
During harvest season, we often see videos of zoo animals having fun playing with and eating pumpkins. At the Oregon Zoo, they have the annual "Squishing of the Squash" event for the elephants. Now we get to see the rhinos do it in an event that should be called the "Goring of the Gourds." The pumpkins are donated by local farmers with extra pumpkins and hobbyists who grow giant pumpkins for the fun of it.
The black rhinos showed us what those horns are good for -they are tools, used to open up a pumpkin by goring or even slicing it. They are also pretty good for tossing things or even carrying them around. Oh, yeah, the elephants have already had their Squishing of the Squash this year, too. A good time was had by all. (via Laughing Squid)
Fox News Interview with Kamala Harris
The opening skit on Saturday Night Live last night trotted out all the political characters of the season to highlight the absurdities of the presidential campaign. Kamala Harris suffers through a Fox News interview and spits memes while Brett Baier plays unrelated but hilarious clips of what Trump has been doing on the campaign trail.
Singing Cat
This video is only three seconds long, so you’ll want to play it again and again. Matt Ambrose is singing “Boom Boom Boom” by the Outhere Brothers. His cat Maximus is, too. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Romina, who has insomnia, sometimes cannot sleep for days and then falls into a very deep sleep. When Romina falls into a deep sleep, her cats worry about her and come to check her breathing frequently and massage her pic.twitter.com/UhizooN5Ou
— contents that ll heal your depression 🌻 (@Catshealdeprsn) October 11, 2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024
How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
The Soviets were really big on proving they were the best at everything, whether it was science, nuclear weapons, the space race, or Olympic athletes. That probably had something to do with why they decided to dig the deepest manmade hole on earth. Oh, there were plenty of scientific research reasons, but the expense involved leads one to believe it was mainly another superlative they could brag about.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole is more than seven miles deep, or 12,262 meters, to be exact. The Soviets kept digging for 19 years, from 1970 to 1989, when the fall of the Berlin Wall suddenly shifted government priorities (like survival). But the project had other problems, too, that had to do with the earth and what's going on seven miles down there. Half as Interesting explains the project in a little over seven minutes; the rest of the video is an ad. (via Digg)
The Taco Bell Chihuahua
Taco Bell has built quite a large business on the premise of combining the same five ingredients into a wide variety of food items in different shapes and sizes, with a wide price range. Staying open until the wee hours helped a lot, too. They've not been as lucky with their advertising campaigns, though. The biggest and most memorable was the Taco Bell chihuahua that was everywhere in the late 1990s. The dog was cute, the scenarios were funny, and you saw those ads every time you turned a TV on. The chihuahua image was made into plush dolls and graced t-shirts. Then suddenly, the ads with the chihuahua were gone, and no one really noticed because, well, it was advertising after all. Weird History Food explains where the chihuahua came from, how he (or actually, she) became a sensation, and why the dog disappeared so quickly. No, it wasn't because the dog died.
The Haunted Elevator
What’s a haunted house without the totally scary David S. Pumpkins! Warning: frightening. This haunted house tour is brought to you by Saturday Night Live. Can you believe it's been eight years since we met him?
Tweet of the Day
(via Nag on the Lake)The zoo in Japan brings the panda's favorite red leaves to its cage to boost its morale. It's really impressive to watch the panda's happiness after this treat. 🥰
— Tansu Yegen (@TansuYegen) October 4, 2024
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Friday, October 18, 2024
The Curse of Dracular
Claymation artist Jack Paterson found a story that his father had written for a school assignment in 1974, when he was only nine years old. If you recall that time, the Hammer films with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were quite popular, and they obviously inspired this bloody tale. Fifty years later, Paterson used that story verbatim to make a movie about Dracula, which is spelled Dracular just as it was on that original assignment.
Although the film is comical, it comes from a very personal place as my Dad has been a continuous inspiration to me for as long as I can remember, and I credit a lot of my love of film and animation to him. Thus, this film is in large part a tribute to him. Claymation is also our favourite form of animation, and some of my oldest memories were us sculpting various characters and creatures out of Play-Doh and Plasticine.The film has since won awards. It moves a little slow at the beginning, but then picks up in a rather gory way. After all, it was written by a nine-year-old. Dad has to be proud of the result.
Onyx
Candice thought about getting a cat, and suddenly, she sees a stray kitten. It's the cat distribution system at work, although I have some bad things to say about people who dump unwanted kittens around town. Anyway, Onyx worked her way into Candice's heart, as kittens will. Also, I love unexpected names for cats. Naming a gray kitten Onyx is like naming a black cat Ginger or naming an orange cat Marshmallow.
About Lobotomies
During the first half of the 20th century, many psychiatric disturbances were treated by cutting into the brain, as in a lobotomy. Why were doctors so keen on cutting the connections in people's brains? It was more of a societal problem than it was concern about the individual patient. Lobotomies made psychiatric patients easier to deal with. As bad as that seems, the conditions that led to lobotomies during the surgery's heyday make us cringe in the 21st century. They couldn't execute troublesome and inconvenient people, so they just cut their brains to make them into more convenient people. Some parts of our history truly resemble dystopian science fiction horror stories. (via Laughing Squid)
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