Tag: Link Dump

Slightly Thaumatropical Hot Links

Ken Nordine – Flibberty Jib – 1957

Matches.

Tesla Valve.

The Buffalo Song [ht/ JW].

Very cool interactive photos of WWII [h/t B&P].

Tesla Valve demonstration… using propane [h/t Phil].

Fun Facts To Know And Tell:

A new kind of spider was discovered in 2012. It has a velvet body and lives underground, hence the genus name LouReedia.

“After hearing the Guinness Book of World Records planned to name him the most litigious man, one federal prisoner did what he does best — he sued.” Story here.

Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation reports that sea turtles need to watch their backs, because bottle-nosed dolphins enjoy having sex with them (as well as with sharks and eels). [Source]

[Top image: On 16 May 2020, the USS Portland disabled a UAV with a laser. Story & video here.]

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Taeniacidal Hot Links

Danny Dell & The Trends- Froggy Went A Courting, 1960

This takes guts.

The Peak and more.

The Best Tuna Melt Sandwich.

In the medical business? Gomerpedia is kinda cool.
It even lists a Karen.

It’s open mic poetry night at Honky Joe’s Beat Bar.

Jökla-mýs = Glacier mice.
They move around and nobody knows how [h/t Bunkarina].

Speak Appalachian? Here’s a quiz. Pretty easy – I got 100%.
[h/t Busted Knuckles.]

THIS JUST IN:
A new proof has confirmed the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture, which predicts that the smallest roots of a non-cyclotomic polynomial effectively repel the largest roots, like magnets pushing each other away.

[Top image & story here. More here. Video here.]

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Hot Links UNMASKED!

RUN.

Rabbit Run.

Explain this.

Goat parade.

Duck quacks, explodes.

Report tegus in the wild.

Polar bear being a polar bear.

I’ve got an uncontrollable urge to buy a DEVO Energy Dome COVID-19 face mask.

Betsy Ross incubated an egg in her bra and hatched a duckling.

King Rhadamanthus: If a person defends himself against another who initiated violence then he should suffer no penalty.

Cat Man – Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps 1957

[Top image: On Friday afternoon, L.A. guerilla artist Sabo was interviewed on AM640KFI. Scroll down to listen.]

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Anti-Virtue Scolding Hot Links

Happy Mothers Day.

The pushback continues.

Mind Your Own Business.

Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus.

RIP Little Richard Penniman (1932-2020).

A fruit tested positive for COVID-19. So did a goat and a sheep.

Amazing milestone: First US Space Force recruitment video was released 6 May 2020.

36% of voters would turn in their neighbors for ignoring stay-at-home orders. That is disturbing.

Top image: Old man arrested for fishing under quarantine rules. Photo essay here.

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Not sure what happened to the side bar. I blame meerkats.
Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

Rebullitional Hot Links

Crash crash ding tinkle tinkle

THIS.

BANSHEE! [via]

World’s oldest record shop.

From the Too Much Botheration Dept.:
Lotta frustration these days.

Mientras tanto en España [sound up].

Twitter thread of creepy objects posted by museum curators [via].

It rhymes with “biscuit,” but what does the name “Triscuit” really mean? (Mystery solved!)

For 36 years Military specialized in publishing 1st hand accounts from WWII to the present. According to the editor, June 2020 will be its final printed issue.

[Top image found in here.]

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Hot Links of the Tokoloshe

Microrockets.

The Broken Chair.

THE record breaker.

Window silhouettes.

Free paper organ templates.

This guy says he got it from Agnes.

The Stockport Spiderman [h/t @stumpymoose].

Interactive Wave is kinda cool. Click around on it.

First they ruined this. Then they ruined that. The PC police ruin everything.

“When u social distance so well that the cops have to find u by helicopter.”

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Monoblepsial Hot Links

Slinky treadmill [via].

Pac-Man self-portrait.

“My boss turned herself into a potato.”

Dominican Republic Quarantine Police.

Meanwhile at the Mattress Races. [Story here.]

Even with all the hoarding, there are still some generous people out there.

From the Instant Karma Department: Venezuelan Warship Attacks German Cruise Ship, Rams It and Sinks Itself.

Inspired by The Lemon Juice Bandits, David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University did a study and discovered that stupid people often don’t realize they’re stupid.

On homemade fabric masks: “Common fabrics have pores too large for viruses (that are about 100 nanometer in diameter) and most airborne droplets that contain viruses.”
-Dr. You-Lo Hsieh, professor at the University of California

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[Top image from Bunkarina via FB.]

Social Distance Shaming Hot Links

Jungle Boogie, The Bobby True Trio, 1948:

I spy Walter Wick.

Zendaya is Meechee [via].

Who did the voice of Cecil the Turtle best?

COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic stats are interesting. To date, less than four-thousandths of one percent (0.003.5%) of the US population has contracted it; six ten-thousandths of one percent (0.0006%) of the US population has died from it. Italy’s death rate from the virus is 1.7%.

The Republic of San Marino is a 24 sq. mi. micronation surrounded by Italy. It has the highest fatality rate (of the countries listed) at 6.5%.

PJMedia parsed the same statistics I did and posted the graphs below:

From the What-Are-They-Hiding Department:
This. Oh, and also This.

Earlier this year, a Beijing district office for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that pants should be an effective barrier against farts that might disperse the Wuhan virus.

[Status update: A Humble Request.]

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China V-word Hot Links

Ratted out.

There’s water on Mercury?

Cat learns that he has ears.

R.I.P. Kenny Rogers (1938-2020).

Ootah after the return from the sledge trip.

Fargo police dog sniffs out black market Purell.

Monty Python Black Knight plush action figure.

Glen Greenwald’s list of media lies (and no, he’s not a Republican).

Running out of bumwad? Order it here. If that’s not what you’re looking for, click here.

Wikipedia is actually debating whether or not to delete references to the 1918 Spanish flu. Now about the Wuhan Chinese Asian Corona virus…

“It’s a funny thing… After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that that what the west needed was more socialism.” – Milton Friedman 1993.

[Status update: A Humble Request.]

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[Top image of canned cheeseburger from here.]

Hygienical Hoarding Hot Links

Uh-huh-huh.

Is It Cancelled Yet? [via]

Military rations for five in 1957.

Watch this giant sea cucumber poop.

How to write a traditional Irish folk song.

Top 10 most congested roadways in the U.S.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is 42. 😀

NSFW, NSFK & disgusting (but I found the commentary funny).

Don’t call it “the Wuhan Virus” or “the Chinese Virus.” CNN says so.

Media-fomented panic is causing widespread shortages of staples (and tempers). Fight 1. Fight 2.

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[Top image found here.]