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The .Gif Friday Post No. 534- Scratchbird, Hooverbird & Catbomb
Friday, 11 May 2018Invisibility Pants
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
[Found here.]
Water Carrier ca. 1910
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Monday Morning Commute
Monday, 12 March 2018
[Found here.]
Shark Artistry
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
[Found here.]
Chinese Year of The Hot Links
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Exhaust system enhancement [found here via here].
If you give bees cocaine, they dance more vigorously and tend to overestimate how much pollen they’ve foraged according to this article. Why anyone needs to know how cocaine affects bee behavior (or why anyone would pay for such a study) is a puzzle.
This is my new favorite song. Oh wait. It’s this one. Oh wait…
The missus and I just watched “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon.” Excellent documentary from 2015. Here’s the trailer. So many flashbacks and clips took me back to my college childhood when nobody could afford a subscription, yet everyone had the latest issue.
Triboluminescence is an optical phenomenon in which light is generated through the breaking of chemical bonds in a material when it is pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed.
Man shoots Wintergreen Lifesavers with a pellet gun, creates triboluminescence, records it at 28,000 frames per second [via].
Static electricity fun: Trooch and I did this in college. When the winter humidity is down and even touching a door knob gives you a zap, get a fluorescent tube, turn off the lights. With a buddy holding the other end of the tube, start shuffling feet on the carpet. The tube will flash intermittently, and the stoners will go, “Whoa…. dude…”
TRUE. In 1504, Christopher Columbus thwarted a mutiny and saved himself and the lives of his crew by perpetrating a hoax [via].
This coconut crab commentary amused me.
How to annoy and frustrate students in 10 minutes. Imagine having to sit through an hour of that every day.
2018 is the Chinese Year of the Dog, also the Chinese Year of the Earth Dog and is also the Chinese Year of the Yang Earth Dog. Woof.
[Top image: Some time ago our friends adopted a one-eyed dog from a shelter, named him Popeye, then realized he was a she and renamed her Poppie. She’s now blind and deaf and bumps into things, kind of like a canine Roomba. h/t Alan & Clem]
Fascinating, yet disturbing.
Thursday, 8 February 2018
A sheep died in a bog. The top of the sheep’s back was not submerged and rotted away. The submerged parts remained perfectly preserved.
[Image and caption found here.]
Nothing Much Happened Today.
Monday, 8 January 2018
One or Two Faces
Thursday, 28 December 2017
“This illusion was discovered in an old photograph of two lovers sent to Archimedes’ Laboratory, a consulting group in Italy that specializes in perceptual puzzles. Gianni Sarcone, the leader of the group, saw the image pinned to the wall and, being nearsighted, thought it was a single face. After putting on his eyeglasses, he realized what he was looking at. The team then superimposed the beautiful Venetian mask over the photograph to create the final effect.”
[Image and caption found in here.]
Practical Inexpensive Theft Protection
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
[Found here.]
