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Finally, some hand-crafted Javascript.
A Proportional-Integral-Derivative controlled (PID), 6 degree of freedom (6-DOF) Stewart platform is very cool.
Fake Hate Crimes in the U.S. Database [via].
Although my kids drew it on their notebooks, I still don’t know what it means.
[Top image coopted and edited from here. She once lived here. Related post here.]
LOOOOOL!
That’s not a photoshop. This German company sells wearable plush meme pillows, perfect for any occasion, like these:
[Found entirely by accident.]
[Image found here, h/t coopernumpy.]
Heh. He’s even got a Fart Blaster. This kid is going places.
[Found here.]
Our neighborhood has had gopher problems ever since the city quit treating the underground metropolis in the park 100 feet from our property, so we hired an extermination company at our own expense. They put bait in the tunnels, and they gas them.
When poison and gas doesn’t work, they taunt them mercilessly all the way back to the park. Now they take pictures of their taunting, and email the photos to prove it.
True story, and I noticed that the photo was deleted from their customer link entitled “How Did We Do?”
Why A Pair of Pants?
“Pants” is an abbreviation for “Pantaloons,” originally a two-piece garment, with one sleeve for each leg, both tied around the waist. The codpiece was a polite, yet not-so-polite, appurtenance. Pantaloons (with or without codpieces) were a hit in France in the late 1600s. What a surprise.
The word “pantaloons” comes from the French pantalon, derived from Italian pantalone, named after San Pantalone, aka Saint Pantaleone, aka Saint Panteleímon.
That guy was pretty cool. He practiced medicine until he became a Faith Healer and was accused of witchcraft in 305AD. He survived being set on fire with torches, being dipped in molten lead, tied to a rock and thrown into the sea, fed to wild animals, torn apart on the rack, and a beheading. He freed a bunch of slaves, too. Once he agreed that beheading was usually lethal, he was beheaded a second time and he died.
But that’s not all.
In the Middle Ages he came to be regarded as the patron saint of physicians and midwives. A phial containing some of his blood has been preserved at Constantinople; on his Feast Days (he scored three – 27 July, 28 July, and 18 February) his blood boils. Pure awesome.
The origin of the taunt “Liar, liar, pants on fire!” is related.
Straatsen in the Netherlands [via].
Hexaflexigon burrito. Do it. Eat it.
Some of these DIY illusions are cool.
RHNB = Red Hot Nickel Ball. Nice video collection by a guy who knows what to do with one.
El Niño – He’s a-comin’ ta gitcha, and Google Maps has you covered.
We’ve all seen ’em. They’re called dickheads.
Don’t do this [via].
Do this instead. [Top image screen-capped from that video and doctored a tad.]
[Update: Added the Epilogue to the St. Pantaleone saga.]
[Found here.]
This Bunkshelf made a funny without my help.
That floating island of garbage in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?
It’s a myth.
Flesh-like body parts for sale.
TRUE: A legal immigrant with no criminal record contributed $20K too much to a woman’s election campaign and was sentenced to 8 months in a confinement center for hard core criminals all because he criticized Barack Obama.
Got Alpaca? It’s the Other red meat.
Still Life With Monkey:
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Oh, yeah, and then there’s this.
Tacky Raccoons 