And the hour hand is stuck…
[Found here.]
Category: Cool
Snake & Jake
Homogeneous Diversification Hot Links
Sebastian Junger’s “The Perfect Storm” was one of the best books I ever read twice. The movie version was kinda okay, but it ignored significant details IMO.
Top Ten Finalists for Best Illusions of 2016.
Communists are illegally crossing our southern borders. TRUE.
For only a few hundred dollars you can eat and study Greek philosophy at the same time.
Here’s an interesting Princeton Senior thesis. It explains a lot.
Launched on 17 October 1997, The Cassini Spacecraft has been messing around near Saturn for about thirteen years now, and it’s scheduled to crash and burn on 15 September 2017 after 20 years of service [via].
Making a very stressful salad.
[Top image found here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 501 – BoomBoomBoomBoom, Bird/Camera Frame Synch & Dance Hard
Pah-Rumpah Pum Pum.
[Found here.]
Anthropogenic Global Hot Links
From Twitter: “I had a floppy disk on my desk and my student said, “Oh cool, you 3D printed a SAVE button.'”
Looky what we found in 2016! It’s an interactive map of discoveries!
¡Viva La Venezuela! Ami Horowitz discusses income equality with NY millennials.
Spin a shiny new penny 10 or more times in a row and it will come up tails approximately 80% of the time. Here’s why [via]. What about flipping an undoctored coin ten or more times in a row? Are the odds 50-50? Not if I do it. It just takes practice – same flip, same height, same catch. Any bets? More coin-flipping cons here.
“These work as screwdrivers, knives and various other multi-tools at the tip of your finger… also you can shine them with Brasso.” DIY bullet casing hack is cool.
Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman, pictured in 1968 at top) named his stage persona after this. TRUE.
Saturday Matinee – Wind Chimes, Samantha Fish & The Bo Keys
I found this both oddly fascinating and mildly disturbing. It’s an a/v collage from 2013 somewhere near Lake Erie, yet it’s also kind of an appropriate soundtrack for the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey, and for those survivors who haven’t yet fully realized what they’ve lost.
What happens once the news crews are gone? What happens once the reality sets in that you survived the ordeal, but you’ve lost everything? Our prayers are with you.
Now about those looters and scammers…
For a long time, this was THE signature song of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and in some ways his 1956 hit was a blues parody. In January of 2014, Samantha Fish picked it up and jammed it right down our throats with no apologies. Killer version.
Loved this proto-funk theme, and I love the Bo-Keys for rocking the retro soul grooves that I grew up with.
Have a great Labor Day Weekend, folks, and we’ll be back tomorrow with more stuff than your imagination can even tolerate. Or not.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 500 – Spade Selfie, Virtual Reality Overload & Kikmi Dog Caterpillar
Yep. Over 500 .Gif Friday posts featuring .gif animations, which means we’ve got over 1500 in our archives. Yet another milestone for 2017.
Squirrel Acting Lessons
[Found here.]
PreTeen Rock Band Camp Posters
So the little ProtoRockers are sent to “Band Camp” and the kids get bored with the necessary repetition. So what’s next? Teach Pentatonics? Arpeggios? Etudes? NO!
Let’s Make Posters!
I really want to hear what these kids can put out. Honest.
If it’s for fun, let it ride.
On the other hand, if someone is telling these children that they will be wealthy and famous someday by merely jamming C, F and G, then I’m against it.
[Images w/ more info found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 