The Bad Hair Decade: 1970s Britain

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Unfortunately some of these *ahem* styles drifted across the Atlantic. I remember A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, C1, C3, D1 & D2. Mine was a mix of A1, B4 and D3, and no, I’m not gonna post it.

[Found here, via here.]

The .GIF Friday Post No. 326 – Mocking The Line Judge, WTF Monster & Stellated Dodecahedron Flipbook

Line Judge Mocking

Monster WTF

Flipboock

[Found here, here and here.]

Varied Reactions

Prophylactics Demonstration Papua 2009

Papua, Indonesia 2009.

[Found here.]

Meanwhile In Escher Land

Escher Land

[Found here.]

Making White Wine: Step 2

Making Grapes

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No.306 – Dance Hard

Dance Hard 16

Dance Hard 17

Dance Hard 18

[Found here, here and here.]

Oh yeah, and we added a category entitled “Dance Hard.” Cool stuff there.

Northern Arboreal Dogfish

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“I’ve found a three. On the three it hang a head. A head of a fairly large fish. In the fish heads mouth it were two other, smaller dead fishes.”

[Found here. Click to enlarge images.]

9-volt Battery-Powered Transistorized Solid State Hot Links

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This is both interesting and annoying at the same time. “Electric Pow Wow Drum” by A Tribe Called Red [via].

Like logic puzzles? Try this. For more variety, there’s this.

Very cool physics trick. Took me five tries to get it right [via].

Parking Pron from the handsome and fetching Ms. Cellania. [Update – The vid was pulled by the user, from that link, but here it is from another source.]

Escape from the kitchen.

Interesting story about President Herbert Hoover and Jan Paderewski. Turns out to be true.

Never heard that story, and my first reaction was that it was Urban Myth. $2,000 in 1892 dollars could purchase a spacious two-story home with multiple fireplaces. That seemed to be an extravagant fee, even for a popular piano virtuoso. It’s about $50K in 2013 dollars. That young Hoover could have raised $1,600 (+$40K / 2013) in a short amount of time is just as astounding.  But it appears the story is true.

–Bunk

http://www.paderewskiassociation.org/Paderewski_Biography.htm
http://www.ushistory.org/more/hoover.htm

Great cartooning with amazing .gif animations by Neil Sanders.

“The transistor was probably the most important invention of the 20th Century, and the story behind the invention is one of clashing egos and top secret research.” True.

Top image from here.

Hold Still. We’re Going Velour.

Velour

It’s almost a Norman Rockwell moment.

[Found here.]

Fence Panting

Doghead

[Found here.]