June 9, 2017
NEE LAMBERT
After every season of play, the players of online trivia site Learned League vote on various awards: best rookie, Best defensive performance, and Best Wrong Answer (mouseover for answers) [more inside]
Wakanda king do about it
"You know, you could've donated that money to charity..."
Just another hijab wearing Indonesian girl heavy metal band
Voice of Baceprot Voice of Baceprot inspirations include Slipknot, Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down.
Of course, conservatives don't like metal. But these girls do.
Never had one of my Russian clients ever say to me, ‘Are you serious?'
Do you enjoy flipping through bridal magazines? How about hating on the ultra-rich? Why not do both with this article in Racked about the wedding planners to the 0.01%?
The worst.
Bread in space
One challenge in human space exploration is what's for dinner. Soon astronauts will be able to enjoy freshly baked bread. [more inside]
Just in case you thought that the New 52 was a bad idea
DC comics hacks try to make Zero Hour look good in this most nineties of promo videos, as some poor sod cosplaying Parallax looks on and spouts mildly edgy one liners. (Zero Hour at Wikipedia.)
A brief history of the UUID
"Ever since two or more machines found themselves exchanging information on a network, they’ve needed a way to uniquely identify things."
One-Liners With Tourette's
Wouder. Wourder? Wudder.
It's Alive! (YouTube playlist) A series from Bon Appetit with Test Kitchen Manager Brad and cameraman Vinny. Come for the questionable fermentation science, stay for the accents.
What am I supposed to do? Rate the carpet? Fine, I will.
A collection of the many, many times people failed to send dog pics to the WeRateDogs twitter. [more inside]
Bringin' home the bacon
The Work You Do, The Person You Are The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed.
The app! It does nothing!
Binky is an app that aims to rid you of the worst part of every social media platform: people. Binky is a ruse, a Potemkin-Village social network with no people, where the content is fake and feedback disappears into the void.
Unmaking a Murderer
Steven Avery's Lawyer Claims Teresa Halbach Killed by Ex
On Wednesday, Kathleen Zellner, attorney for Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery, added one more twist to an already confusing case by pointing to Halbach's ex-boyfriend, Ryan Hillegas, as the murderer. In a 1,272-page motion [excerpt] filed to the state of Wisconsin, Zellner contends that her client deserves a new trial "in the interests of justice." Avery, who was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide in Halbach's 2005 death, is currently serving life in prison.
T E C H M O A N
Techmoan is a YouTube channel about old, weird, obsolete, kitschy, expensive, cheap, bizarre, and charming technology.
A New Model of Action
Toward a Truly Feminist Blockbuster Cinema - improving upon the final extended action sequence of Wonder Woman and every other Superhero movie.
“next step has to be industry stepping in and changing the economics”
Packaging Food With Food to Reduce Waste [The New York Times] “For the environmentally conscious eater, they are among the most inconvenient truths: Too much food goes to waste. Too much packaging comes with the food. And too much of the packaging is made to last for ages. Now there may be a single answer to all three problems: using excess food to make the packaging. A growing number of entrepreneurs and researchers are working to turn foods like mushrooms, kelp, milk and tomato peels into edible — if not always palatable — replacements for plastics, coatings and other packaging materials.”
"Crash" was robbed.
Emperor allowed to resign, but not to be a woman
The National Diet (Japan's legislature) has passed a law that would allow Emperor Akihito (and only Akihito) to resign the Chrysanthemum Throne due to his age. Lawmakers included a nonbinding resolution for the government to study reforms to the succession, such as allowing the line to pass through women or other changes that many say are crucial to the long-term future of the world's oldest continual hereditary monarchy.
Rules Rule Everything Around Me
Yeah, sure, cellular automata are pretty great, whatever. Wait! Let's knit them on scarves! Yeah. Yeah, that's the--WAIT! I've got it! Let's plaster 'em all over a goddam train station!
The return of Dr. Katz, now in SquiggleSound!
After over 15 years, the beloved series Dr. Katz has gotten revived thanks to Audible. Jonathan Katz and Laura Silverman reprise their roles and are joined by a cavalcade of your favorite comedy folks including Sarah Silverman, Dana Gould, Eddie Pepitone, Weird Al Yankovic, Maria Bamford, Emo Philips, Ron Funches, and much more in a possibly more addicting format as an audio series, Dr. Katz: The Audio Files. [h/t] (Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist previously 1, 2.) "For a limited time," the first three episodes of Dr. Katz: The Audio Files, featuring Andy Kindler, Ray Romano, and Sarah Silverman are free on audible.com. Prime members can also listen via a free 30-day Audible trial via Amazon. Bonus: SquiggleVision: An Animation Technique That Rocked the World [NSFW]
The Hanover Eaglets are thriving!
Eagle Teen Hunger Force! | Hatched in mid-March, they grew quickly and are well on their way to adulthood. This is glad news to nest fans, who were saddened last year when the first 2016 eaglet died a day after hatching and the second egg never hatched. [more inside]
Running with Sherman the donkey
Runner and journalist Christopher McDougall writes about his latest adventures in running with his rescue donkey Sherman, and how Sherman found his herd with the local Amish running club [The New York Times]. [more inside]
Two Fingers Of Whiskey
American Epic Sessions [Variety review] from PBS: In Jack White's recording studio lurks an ancient weight-driven direct-to-wax recording technology... Elton John is delivered never-seen lyrics from Bernie Taupin... Elton writes and arranges a song in the studio and the result is Two Fingers Of Whiskey. (The full feature length film [1h52m] shows the actual songwriting process; this video is just the recorded performance.) But there is also [more inside]
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