(via Bad Newspaper)
Monday, April 15, 2024
Beavis and Butt-Head
It takes me a while to get around to watching the skits from Saturday Night Live, and this one has gone viral as the best of this week's glorious show. Ryan Gosling managed to break up in every skit, but in this one, everyone involved corpsed big time except Kenan Thompson.
Cat Loves Flowers, and Sharing
Aalish started finding flowers that had been left in her home, or near the door. A secret admirer? Her partner didn't know what she was talking about, so it was a mystery until she caught a stray cat in the act of bringing flowers! What a sweet gesture; she liked the camellias, and thought Aalish would like them, too. They fed the friendly cat and gradually took her in and named her Fiddy. It turns out that Fiddy really needed a home that appreciated flowers as much as she did. See more of Fiddy in her beautiful home in Aotearoa (which we call New Zealand) at TikTok and Instagram.
The Mighty Oak
We should all stop and think before proclaiming our own greatness. You might think you are hot stuff, but everyone has their sore spots. It's up to the lesser to find and exploit those spots. This comic is from Bonus Context. (via reddit)
How World War II Is Taught Around The World
I was taught about World War II over and over in grade school, but it was all from an American perspective. Even today, there are many Americans who believe that World War II began on December 7, 1941. Yet Europe had been in a war for two and a half years already, and Japan had been at war for four years in China. Americans think we won the war, but Russia is pretty sure they did, at least in Europe. And the former Axis powers- how do they teach schoolchildren about what happened in World War II? In this video from Weird History, we get an overview of the perspective from which various nations around the world treat the subject of World War II in their history classes.
Miss Cellania's Links
150 years of Impressionism: how a small group of artists changed the way we see. (via Nag on the Lake)
The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus. Priscilla had been through a lot in those years. (via Metafilter)
Larry David Has "No Lessons Learned" Regarding Courtroom Proceedings. People loved the Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale, but how realistic was it?
Kitten Teaches Herself to Ride a Skateboard.
We love Sir David Attenborough, but this guy should be narrating wildlife videos.
40 Bizarre Realities of the Working World They Don’t Teach You in Trade School.
Scientists Find Something Deep Inside Uranus.
How to cheat at Super Mario Maker and get away with it for years. Sure, there were reasons for using TAS, but not labeling it as such was an egregious move that went unnoticed for seven years.
Paint on a Drum
The Slow Mo Guys come up with some crazy ideas, but their aim is to show us neat stuff in slow motion, so it really doesn’t have to make sense in the real wold. Would a drummer put powdered paint on drum heads? Maybe, if it would make the show more interesting, but what a mess! But Gav and Dan have no problem with a mess. They go on to try variations, like drumming from underneath and using a cymbal. What they’re demonstrating is the powerful vibration response, but it all just looks neat. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Tweet of the Day
Happy goat.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/eE7LHr8HMW
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 13, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Liberace is Feelin' Groovy
This 1968 clip from The Red Skelton Hour features a hip number from Liberace and the Young Folks Singing Aggregation, performing "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" originally by Simon and Garfunkel and further popularized by Harpers Bizarre. This was cringe even in 1968. (via Boing Boing)
Space Cups
The latest video from Action Lab gave me new things to think about. Somehow I missed the fact that astronauts on the International Space Station are now drinking out of cups instead of squeeze bottles with straws. How does that work? That's what the video is about. Another question is why? Well, I am very much aware that drinking coffee or hot tea through a straw does not work because hot liquids need to be introduced to your mouth gradually for safety. But it's mainly because you don't get aroma from liquids that have no contact with air, which dulls the taste. That made me think of all these little kids drinking Capri Suns. Maybe if they were getting the full flavor, it wouldn't need so much sugar and artificial flavors. Be that as it may, the new gravity free cups are pretty clever. It makes you think about how different it must be to live in an environment devoid of something as fundamental to our lives as gravity. The video is only 3:45, the rest is an ad.
Caitlin Clark on Weekend Update
The opening skit for Saturday Night Live last night was hilarious, but a bit too vulgar for Sunday morning. I was thoroughly impressed with college basketball star Caitlin Clark's appearance on Weekend Update, though, as she issues a payback to Michael Che for his misogynistic jokes. Her last remark was the cherry on top.
Player Two
John Wikstrøm saw a YouTube comment that particularly touched him, and felt compelled to make a video out of the story. It’s less than two minutes long, how touching can it be? You might want to bring a handkerchief, because a big story can be told in a small number of words. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Saturday, April 13, 2024
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