Don’t chew with your mouth open.
Loretta Lynne’s Country Kitchen and Museum.
How to win an official 36″x 60″ Harambe Flag.
Vicious cat fights [Warning: not for the squeamish].
One Year Ago. Five Years Ago. Ten Years Ago.
[Top image found here.]
Category: Hot Links
Character Assassination Hot Links
The Best PeeWee Herman Joke Ever.
“Smoking or Non-Smoking” is mortician slang for
“Cremation or Burial.” [h/t Jonco S.]
Sometimes it’s not always what you think it is.
In 1937, The Mass-Observation project began in the UK. Some consider it the grandfather of blogging.
In 2017, a theatrical department theorized that Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump because she’s a woman, so they reversed the genders and re-enacted the presidential debates verbatim, including body language and gestures. Afterwards they polled the audience. Male Hillary still lost. Full story here, complete video here.
Liberal Tolerance: Note how fast she goes from hate monger to playing the victim.
[Top image: Attendees of the 2019 WONDERCON in Anaheim, CA.]
Imagine If This Were Your Kid Hot Links
In January of this year, The Washington Post, CNN and others selected and excoriated an innocent 16 year old kid for doing absolutely nothing other than to tolerate loud, racist harassment by leftist adults who appeared at an orchestrated event designed to advance their own political agenda.
Now he’s got a hammer.
“Didja all see that? I fixed it.”
Need snakes? Here’s a cool DIY trap.
I’m not even going to try to explain this.
The first muppet to star on a TV show wasn’t Kermit).
Socialism explained by someone who lived under it: 1 2 3 4.
The Hippy Dippy Weatherman first appeared on The Jimmy Dean Show in the early 1960s.
A hipster threatened to sue MIT Technology Review for using his photo in a story on how all hipsters look alike, then found out it’s not him in the photo. TRUE.
From the Talking Heads Department:
Breaking news / bombshell / tipping point / the walls are closing in / the beginning of the end.
[Top image found here.]
Hot Links of The Plutocracy
Pluto 2018
Pluto 1930
This still makes me grin.
Steve Vai’s guitar collection [via].
Click this, because it’s entirely awesome.
This is what smart phones were made for.
Whatever happened to Laurence Tureaud?
“This is aginst ma civil rats.” [Language alert]
Elected Muslim Democrat who hates Jews and says so, accuses others of genocide. Pheeew.
Everyone who stood around watching and did nothing except to record it is complicit. {Update: Perp arrested, pleaded not guilty.]
The following is the March 1 Congressional Research Service report, Venezuela: Political Crisis and U.S. Policy. Venezuela’s economy
contracted by 18% and inflation exceeded 1.37 million percent in 2018. Way to go, socialism.
Circa 1978, NASA engineers wondered how many tampons astronaut Sally Ride would need for a week in space. “Is 100 the right number?” they asked. “No. That would not be the right number,” she replied. [source]
[Top Images: Pluto in 2018 found here. Pluto in 1930 found here.]
And A Short Order of Hot Links
This link is All Bunk.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m a leftist.
The Peaky Blinders were nasty.
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit.
Need a Stabilized Amboyna Burl Pen?
Here’s a concise description of basic technical drawing with illustrations.
Once it was lost, but now Wallace’s giant bee has been found.
From the True Facts Department: Exactly half of all Americans have above average intelligence. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Breaking news / bombshell / tipping point / the walls are closing in / the beginning of the end. That still makes me laugh.
[Top image: Andy Capp, playing darts, wearing a peaky. Apparently he was a southpaw.]
Resonantly Oscillating Magnetic Hot Links
Make America Grate Again!
Cowboy ethics [h/t Nancy H].
Something happened in January 2017.
One full minute of Holy Crap They’re Idiots.
“Keeping it real with people.” Idiocy on parade.
Charity hits the donation jackpot but doesn’t get jack [via].
Billy Gibbons sums up the longevity of ZZ Top in two words.
Obnoxious, offensive and shameful. “Environmental Injustice?”
“We are building an army of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. This dark time in America must come to an end.”
– Sunrise MovementSara Blažević and Varshini Prakash started the Sunrise Movement. Both are amazing pieces of work.
Sara Blažević, a student from Swarthmore College said, “Communities all over the world are currently feeling the effects of extreme climate change and environmental injustice. This global crisis will only continue growing unless society’s power-holders throw their weight behind solutions to climate change, instead of remaining complicit with environmental destruction.”
Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation creeps me right out [via]. If that doesn’t bother you, this should.
[Top image from here:
“Illustration of a spin in a Bloch sphere showing
a) precession in the laboratory frame due to a static magnetic field followed by
b) the usefulness of considering this in a rotating frame and finally
c) the magnetic resonance effect due to a resonantly oscillating magnetic field.”]
[Bonus Update: Trailer for upcoming movie.]
Occasional Cortex Hot Links
Veinte Ideas Increíbles Con WD-40.
“History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.”
-Mark Twain (or someone).
Dude is amusing. Death metal meets the Beatles.
Toyota key fob battery dead? Locked out? Can’t start your car? Try these hacks. Might work for other brands, too.
Fun Facts To Know & Tell: Every amoeba is a clone. If someone named Cathy owned one for a pet, it would be Cathy’s Clone.
Gary Sinese (aka “Lt. Dan” in the movie Forrest Gump) received a surprise tribute from service members, 1st responders & Hollywood celebs.
Universal Basic Income: Finland’s experiment (to reduce their 9% unemployment rate by handing out free money) lasted a little over one year. [h/t rightymouse]
What Americans Must Know About Socialism.
Venezuelan immigrants speak out: “You do not ever want anything close to socialism.”
[Top image: Alexandria Occasional Cortex & Friends. h/t Octo.]
The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Hot Links
On “White Privilege.”
On “Democratic Socialism.”
“My cat is pregnant and she’s very upset.”
“I’ve got to go to work at 5AM.“
Wanna know how to win the Lottery? Pay attention.
Wanna know how to win a game show? Pay attention.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day: Zoo will name a cockroach after your ex, then feed it to a meerkat on camera. (h/t Kat)
They had feathers, were about the size of a turkey, didn’t live in the Jurassic Period and were about as intelligent as a board with a nail in it. The Truth About Velociraptors.
These Velocipedes were large and fast, but they were not predators.
[Top image: Those hipster shades are pre-1844.
These prescription sunglasses and carrying case were owned by Hyrum Smith, brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Rams vs. Patriots Hot Links
THIS is how I use the Waze App.
Dogs hate these smells [via]. Now prove it.
On eating chili, playing foosball and “white privilege.”
No.1 is easy to guess; not No.50. State and local tax collection per capita for fiscal year 2016 [via].
According to one source, Ariana Grande’s new tatt ‘七輪’ means Japanese style bbq grill (or “tambourine” according to Google Translate).
Some moron in Phoenix Arizona actually complained to a restaurant manager about an historic photograph of Welsh miners in a pub. I’d like to hear his take on this one.
[Top .gif compiled from Rams & Patriots helmet design/logo history found in here.]
Hot Links with Octothorpes
A study in character development.
Time-lapse of blooming fungi and slime molds [via].
“The sawmouth bridoon may be attached to a snaffle…”
Pamphlet from 1928 touted an elixir: Radioactive water. Here’s a double-sided .pdf of the same if you want to recreate the pamphlet as a color pamphlet and leave it on your boss’ desk as a purchase request. [h/t Carl L.]
“Das Walliser Schwarznasenschaf” mentions that sheep with horns were common in the region of Valais 5000 years BC. [Source, via here.]
2.2. Art der Zucht: Leistungszucht
Hauptleistungsmerkmal:
Fruchtbarkeit
2.3. Erbfehler:
Fisch- und Saumaul
2.4. Zuchtmängel:
Spreizklaue
Hauptleistungsmerkmal:
Fruchtbarkeit
2.3. Erbfehler:
Fisch- und Saumaul
2.4. Zuchtmängel:
Spreizklaue
Crosley Field was a wood-framed ballpark stadium, smelled like popcorn, beer and cigars, and I believe it lasted so long due to decades of layers of enamel. It was replaced by Riverfront Stadium in 1970.
Paper Airplanes [via]. In High School I came up with a slow glider similar to the “Water Plane.” I launched one from the balcony of Riverfront Stadium. It dived, then stalled and dumped its payload of confetti (IBM punchcard chads) over the pricey seats below, righted itself and glided slowly into the end-zone for the win. Eventually an usher came by, told me to cut it out because the people below were complaining – those IBM chads were oily…
Controlled demolition of Riverfront Stadium 2002.
Tacky Raccoons 