From Berlin’s National Museum of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbemuseum), a desk and cabinet created by the furniture makers Abraham and David Roentgen and owned by King Frederick William II of Prussia (1744-1797). It’s full of hidden compartments and extras. I … Continue reading
Link: http://youtu.be/Sewo2HCtkYY by … Continue reading
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s a moray, or so they say. I’m rather surprised by this relationship. You never know what you’ll see on YouTube. Link: http://youtu.be/3IQ2I-P8Ucw by … Continue reading
Imagine finding one of these on your window. Link: http://youtu.be/9e9NCAfp5-E Link: http://youtu.be/y1dY59vhQlo I’m not etymologist, but I believe these are hornets, which are large “eusocial” wasps, meaning they live in cooperative colonies like ants and honeybees. The term is derived … Continue reading
Movies of the 1930s and 1940s often featured black actors in secondary comic-relief roles, frequently playing racial stereotypes. I recently suffered through an extreme example of that in Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935, reviewed here), which is a pretty bad … Continue reading
Brilliant, and possibly the best thing the pro-union side could use as an ad: Link: http://youtu.be/-YkLPxQp_y0 by … Continue reading
A 3-year-old boy in Hawaii born with a hand missing its fingers gets a computer-printed Iron Man hand from a group called E-Nable, and the hand is actually functional, able to move and grasp things under the boy’s control. This … Continue reading
Not sure what to make of this. The dog apparently likes to watch television, but doesn’t really get enthusiastic about it until the NFL comes on: Link: http://youtu.be/xCfZOIDXqpI by … Continue reading
A gargantuan new dinosaur, similar in shape to the one that was the symbol of Sinclair gasoline stations decades ago, has been discovered in southern Patagonia near the tip of South America. What’s particularly noteworthy is that almost the entire … Continue reading
The previous post features a video shot in a vertical orientation, so in the interest of aesthetics and all that is holy, let me point show you a couple of educational videos explaining why you shouldn’t shoot videos that way: … Continue reading