Allotment Committee

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What an Underground Nuclear Test Looks Like

America's most powerful underground nuclear test took place on Nov. 6, 1971, more than a mile underneath Amchitka Island in Alaska. You can read about the Cannikin Project here. (via Digg)

Let the Festivities Begin!

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Halloween Props

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Laundry

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Have Rocket, Will Travel

Have Rocket, Will Travel is a Three Stooges feature from 1959. It was Joe DeRita's first big screen appearance with the Stooges. The plot is pretty simple- Moe, Larry, and Joe are janitors at a space agency who launch themselves on a rocket by accident. They land on Venus and manage to accidentally lure evil robots back to earth with them. The movie was shot in 13 days and made back six times the budget. (Thanks, WTM!)  

Wondering

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The Con Man Who Invented Anesthesia

The timeline for the development of surgical anesthesia is filled with steps that make it difficult to pinpoint who invented it. First there was alcohol and opium, which required dangerous amounts to help at all with surgery. Then there was nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, which kept scientists so busy getting high that its use in surgery was delayed considerably. 

William Morton turned to ether, which had already been used in medical cases. He wasn't even the first to use it in surgery. See, Morton wasn't a surgeon, but a dentist. But Morton got the credit for ether, because it happened to work when he publicly demonstrated it. And he didn't get what he really wanted out of it, because it wasn't patentable. The real winners were the rest of us, because so many doctors and scientists worked on the problem, today we have a variety of drugs that can dull the pain of surgery. (via Damn Interesting) 

And So It Begins

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An Honest Trailer for Casino Royale

Screen Junkies say they are doing an Honest Trailer for Casino Royale in honor of its 20th anniversary. That can't be right, Casino Royale was in theaters in 1967!  But that wasn't even a real James Bond film, despite having the same title as Ian Fleming's first Bond novel in 1953. That film began as a real Bond movie, since the producer had the rights, but couldn't get cooperation from Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, they went with making it a parody. Besides, there had already been a TV version in 1954 that Americanized James Bond. 

But then EON Productions decided to make a "real" version of Casino Royale, casting Daniel Craig as a rebooted, less experienced Bond as if it were actually the first movie in the long-running series, although set in a modern day. How does it hold up 20 years later? Screen Junkies shows how Casino Royale fits well in with all the other Bond movies by giving the audience everything they expect, taken up a few notches.   
  

Miss Cellania's Links

Congratulations to Bear 89 Backpack, who at an estimated half a ton, has won the Fat Bear Week tournament! 

Why English Law Hanged Witches and Scottish Law Burned Them. 

The Humble History of the Bedpan. 

Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their own. (via Fark) 

When a big guy with a beard gets his nails painted. 

26 Huge Movies and TV Shows That Almost Had The WORST Names. And why they were changed. Usually for the better. 

The Mysterious Rzepin Train Disaster. The Soviets never acknowledge it, so the story is still a mystery.  

Cats love babies, or at least tolerate them. 

A Blast from the Past (2010): Hadacol, the Last of the Medicine Shows. 

How a Television Show Gets Made

Got an idea for a TV show? Good luck. That idea is just the beginning of a long and stressful process of getting a show made. It involves lots of money, a bunch of people, changes at every step of the way, and then you have a pilot. That's when it gets really interesting, but no less stressful. Vanity Fair takes us through the process quickly, and you can see how risky it is to work in the industry. But it can also be very rewarding. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Personality

The entire text that accompanies this comic from Sarah Andersen at Sarah's Scribbles is:

It's coming.

Homeless

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Wheel of Fortune

What's your guess? The answer is "putting on my pants," but redditors had other ideas. 

Game Name

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Scurryant Invasion

Mother and her little, uh, offspring find their house has been invaded by ants! Mother directs the catastrophe well by encouraging the little monster to observe and figure out what to do instead of freaking out. He does so like a competent five-year-old, but oh, that face and that voice! His vocabulary is a way beyond any child I know, while his understanding is perfectly childlike. He even has a companion plush sheep named Jeremy.   

So this is how I found out what Chris Hallbeck, formerly of the webcomic Maximumble, has been doing. He has an entire series of videos featuring the character called Little Monster. In every video he confronts a new mystery about the world, just like all children, and learns to deal with it. This is how you make a hairy monster with one eye and a frightening voice into something just plain adorable. And how you make a cartoon about a child much funnier. 

Clover

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Africa, '50s Style

It's an '80s song set to a '50s beat, and Generation Z doesn't understand at all. But the rest of us can enjoy Postmodern Jukebox with guest musicians Casey Abrams and Snuffy Walden performing Toto's "Africa." (via Laughing Squid)

Days of Yore

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