This is funnier than you’d think, and at four minutes it’s admirably concise. Link: https://youtu.be/d9WzC2baIW4 The Mexican chop suey sounds like it shouldn’t be as awful as they say, but then again I haven’t tried it myself… by … Continue reading
An artist named Dirk Loechel has gone to the trouble of creating a massive chart showing dozens of spaceships from print, television, and motion picture science fiction, all pictured at the same scale. In a box at the top, barely … Continue reading
According to this article from the WRAL-TV website, a month ago a woman shoplifted children’s toys from a Best Buy in Knightdale NC, a small town adjacent to Raleigh. She was caught and the police were called. When a young … Continue reading
Like everybody else, my New Year’s Resolutions include getting more done, losing weight, getting in better shape, and so on. I also hope to do things faster and more efficiently and to say a little more of actual substance on … Continue reading
OK, here we have a guy is a Star Wars costume balancing on a ball droid while playing fire-spewing bagpipes. What the actual frack? as the kids say… Link: https://youtu.be/_YZfAJDYeOk OK, this is apparently happening in Portland. That probably explains … Continue reading
This famous image of the Moon was shot on Christmas Eve 1968 from lunar orbit by Apollo 8 astronaut William A Anders in the Apollo 8 command module. He and his crewmates Frank Borman and James Lovell were the first … Continue reading
An experiment at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, suggests that dogs behave altruistically toward other dogs, especially toward dogs they know. The experiment involved teaching dogs to pull a string that delivered either a treat or an … Continue reading
An Englishman named Charles Babbage created the first design for a general-purpose programmable digital computer, which he called an “analytical engine,” in 1834. He never finished building it (the full machine would have been huge), but at a party he … Continue reading
In this 20-second clip from a Finnish television newscast, anchor Mika Saukkonen introduces weatherman Pekka Pouta, who issues a classic warning: Link: https://youtu.be/8sS7-CfPn6Q If you can spare another 21 seconds, here’s a follow-up: Link: https://youtu.be/p0Laj6GN4Tw Incidentally, it might surprise you … Continue reading
I’m sure a lot of work (not by me!) went into matching dance routines from 66 classic musicals to the song “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars (the official music video for which can be found on YouTube … Continue reading