Gustav Klimt, Beethovenfries (detail), 1901/02
The theme of the frieze is based on Richard Wagner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
[Found here.]
[Update– Somehow I lost a day. The .Gif Friday Post will appear next week.]
Tag: WTF
The War To End All Wars.
[Found in here.]
Unintended Deflation Event
[Found here.]
Green Giant Mexicorn
The Hot Links Whisperer
Crookes’ Radiometer doesn’t work in a complete vacuum because there’s no heat transfer.
Flight 25 podcast is entirely bitchin’. “Extended One-Hour Space Age flight featuring lounge and surf musics, and other galactic goodies…along with various stops in between.” This has been stuck in my head for decades.
Q: “Why are Saturn’s rings flat? Why isn’t the debris dispersed equally around the whole planet?”
A: Because physics.
This past week a swarm of Lake Erie midges was spotted and tracked by Doppler radar in the Cleveland Ohio area.
Meanwhile, The WSJ declared a crisis: Why a Decline in Insects Should Bug You.
Walter E. Williams explains the difference between capitalism and socialism.
The missus attended an estate sale today, paid $10 for a set of cups, saucers, plates and a platter. This site offers replacement items, same vintage, same pattern, for $214. WIN!
The History of Pottery of Sebring, Ohio.
From The Fun Facts To Know And Tell Department:
“I’d rather be a hamster than an ale; If I could, If I would.“
Simon and Garfunkel scored a hit in 1970 with “El Cóndor Pasa.”
An earlier instrumental version made the charts in 1963 by Los Incas.
A copyright infringement lawsuit filed (by the son of Daniel Alomía Robles, the Frenchman who composed the song in Peru in 1913) was resolved amicably. The copyright dates to 1933.
It is revered in Peru as a song of national pride, and is the equivalent of “God Bless America” in the US. [h/t ricedelman.com]
[Top image: Eskimo Safety Matches found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Jurassic Parkour, Eliane Rodrigues, Doña Oxford & The All Night Long Blues Band
Not quite Sweded, but close. [Found here.]
Brazillian concert pianist Eliane Rodrigues discovered that her piano was defective, descended into Hell, then came back smiling. She’s no prima donna.
Doña Oxford ain’t no slouch either, and her keys melt. Let’s do one more.
The All Night Long Blues Band featured Sean “Bad” Apple, Dixie Street and Martin Grant with a nice cover of Hambone Willie Newbern‘s 1929 recording “Roll and Tumble Blues.” [Harp player Martin Grant passed away in March of 2015.]
Have a great weekend, folks. See y’all back here soon.
Unshaven.
I remember her. Thank God I had some common sense and walked away clean. [Found here.]
How To Serve A Cat.
Sunny And Warm With A Chance Of Scattered Hot Links
How to use a step drill. [h/t Lucy D.]
No A/C? How to make a swamp cooler.
Organic farming: Weeding without pesticides. [h/t Alan U.]
The 5th Amendment of the US Constitution addresses Double Jeopardy. It prevents one from being prosecuted for a crime, acquitted of that crime, and being prosecuted again and again and again, for the same crime, until a conviction is obtained.
The protection from double jeopardy is over 2,355 years old and is one of the oldest legal concepts in Western civilization.
The Attorney General of New York Barbara Underwood wants to rescind the 5th Amendment. REALLY.
30 years ago he spoke into his watch and owned a driverless car. Then he ate a cheeseburger.
[Top image from Camel eats cactus, found here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 537 – Blimpcycle, Steel Cutter, & The Popeye & Olive Construction Co.
[1st one was snipped from this cartoon. Second is an eye-witness .gif Guy’s cutting rebar for dowels and burning his pants at the same time. 3rd .gif is the way high-rise steel buildings were once constructed, with red-hot iron rivets tossed from below.]
Tacky Raccoons 