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The Ray Of Death Takes Four More Victims
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Category: Cool
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found in here.]
Postprandial Hot Links
On 24 January, Mozilla disabled the popular “Web Of Trust” (WOT) add-on to the Firefox browser due to security / privacy breaches. Other browsers that allow the add-on (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, etc.) are affected as well. The problem was verified by a German team last November, and has yet to be remedied by the WOT engineers.
Lightning strikes as seen from space.
Lightning strikes caused by a volcano.
Bears with chainsaws. Some of the images are very cool.
Hunting snakes in the ‘Glades: Professional snake trackers were brought in from India to help with a python problem.
Amazing makeup timelapse [via].
Anxiolytic effect of hepatocyte growth factor infused into rat brain. I typed in some random letters into a Google search to find this gem.
#NotMySuperbowl is hilarious.
[No, that’s not a coyote carcass on a stake in the top picture. It’s a scaregoose. Really. Story here, via here.]
Saturday Matinee – In The Box, Balance, Android 207, MTM & The Growlers
That video reminds me of this classic:
Which reminds me of this one:
Which reminds me of something entirely unrelated:
That TV theme song was sappy, annoying and cloying as hell, but everyone had a crush on Mary (including me) once she tossed her hat in the air for some unexplained reason. She did it every week, so I guess she had a lot of hats. RIP MTM.
Then there’s these guys. Kinda Kinks, kinda Doors, kinda Byrds, kinda stuff I kinda like. [h/t Bunkessa. She says they’re a “look at your shoes” band.]
Have a great weekend, folks.
Chúc mừng năm mới – Năm Dậu
Tet 2017 – The Year of the Rooster.
My late Papa Strutts always referred to it by its original descriptive, The Year of the Cock. Both he and I were born in those years, so go figger.
The photos above were taken during a Tet Parade in Little Saigon, California, the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam. The pretty girls in the bottom photo are waving the flag of the vanquished Republic of Vietnam, not the communist state.
Years ago I made friends with a local Vietnamese shopkeeper and gave her my copy of the current issue of National Geographic that had a lot of photos of the country. She and her non-English speaking husband were amazed, recognized a lot of the places pictured, and I asked her where she was from, expecting the name of a city or province in South Viet Nam. She replied, “Kansas.”
Volcán Calbuco Erupción de Abril 2015
Timelapse photos by Francisco Negroni of the April 2015 Calbuco volcano eruption, Chile. More photos here.
[h/t Savage, via Facebook]
Saturday Matinee – Red Skelton, George Thorogood, Chuck Berry (with Keith Richards & Linda Ronstadt) & Postmodern Jukebox
The late comedian Red Skelton‘s greatest soliloquy is as relevant today as it ever was.
George Thorogood‘s excellent cover of the Hank Williams classic seems appropriate.
From the 1987 rockumentary “Hail, Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll” on Chuck Berry‘s 60th birthday concerts. If I recall, the video has some amusing footage featuring Berry schooling Keith Richards on playing Berry and telling him to quit messing with the amp settings.
Postmodern Jukebox covers Cage The Elephant. I would have lost a bet on the origins of that song.
Have a great weekend, folks. Every little thing’s gonna be alright.
The .GIF Friday Post No. 469 – Capitol Storm, #MAGA & Daylight in Washington D.C.
Congratulations to President Trump.
It will take years to clean up the national and global messes created and promulgated by his predecessor and the Democrat Party. May his decisions be wise, the results productive, and may we become a more prosperous nation for all. God Bless America.
[1st & 3rd .gifs found here and here. I stitched the 2nd together from here and here and modified them for snark only.]
Swingline Alien
[Found here.]
Don’t mess with the dog squad.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 