- The 30 Most Hilarious Autocorrect Struggles Ever: I guarantee, these will make you cry with laughter.
- A bald eagle, a fox, and 2 cats hanging out on an Alaskan front porch: The eagle was calling for attention, and the fox really wants to come inside to warm up!
- 22 geniously defaced textbooks & exam papers: I like #16 the best.
- How to Give Your Kids an Old-Fashioned Summer!: I’m a big advocate of “free range kids,” and here’s a great idea from LePort Schools’ VP Heike Larson on how you can help your kids enjoy a fabulous free range summer.
- CNN anchors pretend they’re having a “satellite interview” even though they’re in the same parking lot: Oh lordy. Did they think no one would notice the big bus?!?
- These 4 Sisters Were Photographed Every Year For 36 Years: The differences in their signs of visible aging over the years were really fascinating.
- 7-year-old boy steals a car and runs from the cops to avoid going to church: He’s a remarkably good driver… so much so that it’s a shock to see such a little kid pop out of the car.
- 40 bald eagles descend on a pickup while its owner is shopping: “In the town of Unalaska, Alaska a hapless pickup truck owner parked his vehicle in the Safeway parking lot and went in for some groceries. In his absence, more than three dozen bald eagles discovered the bags of fish product that were in the bed of the truck awaiting disposal.” Who knew that bald eagles were such welfare queens?!?
- Watch out, bullies: She’s got the band behind her: What a fabulous story of music helping an autistic girl cognitively and socially! Hooray for her parents!
- Infographic: Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach?: Very likely, but sometimes, it’s not the football coach: it’s the basketball coach instead.
May 172013
May 102013
- Whoever wrote this headline needs a promotion!: Truth.
- Swedish toy catalog goes gender-neutral: Surely, this is a sign of the last gasp of western civilization… or um…. maybe not.
- If air mattresses were honest from The Oatmeal: Personally, I’m most fond of the 3 am launch.
- Today In Unusually Stupid Legal Threats: You Can’t Write About Me Because of Your Blog’s Name!: “In the past, thuggish and vexatious legal threats have been common because they’ve been risk-free. In the Information Age they aren’t. When you act like a bully, you can become famous as a bully immediately, and reap the consequences.” Yet another reason to love Popehat.
- Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was: Wow, these are amazing photographs! What a find!
- Snuggie Texts: “Perhaps because I’ve been in a particularly snarky mood lately, I couldn’t resist last night when I got an accidental text from an unknown number. The following is our text exchange over the next 24 hours in its entirety.” It’s EPIC. Also, part 2 is here.
- Hyper-Realistic 3D Paintings of Sea Animals by Keng Lye: Wow.
- ‘Wiglet’ the baby micro pig has his bath in a bidet: The grunting! It’s too cute!
- Bird sounds from the lyre bird: The lyre bird imitates the sound of camera shutters, car alarms, and foresters cutting down trees with chainsaws. Amazing.
- The 35 Dumbest Things Ever Said On Facebook: Oh humanity.
- Siri vs. Google Voice Experiment: Siri speaking to Google Voice transcription goes very wrong very fast.
- Here Is Today: It’s a simple series of time scales… but wow!
- What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?: Awesome things, that’s what. I hope this game sells tons more legitimate copies due to this clever ploy.
- How to Talk to Little Girls: I love this… and we can talk in more sensitive and intelligent ways to little boys too!
- Realizing Freedom: It’s from 2009, but these five types of libertarianism … well, they remind me of why I’m not a libertarian or a supporter of the libertarian movement.
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May 032013
- Hyperrealistic Portraits Using Only a Pencil: I love hyperrealism, and I love pencil drawings. So looking at these makes me so very happy!
- Dove Experiment Aims to Change the Way You See Yourself: This is a fascinating experiment in how you see yourself versus how others see you.
- Holy Hell, A Giant 22 Foot Wasp Nest Is the Most Terrifying Thing: RUN FOR THE HILLS!
- Vintage sexiness — 22 exotic dancers from the 1890′s: Wow, check out those thighs… no skinny girls here! Many are wearing corsets, however.
- Harrison Ford Won’t Answer Star Wars Questions: The gag starts slow, but it gets hysterical. “She was my wife, you wookie sack of shit!”
- http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/02/an-acquisition-is-always-a-failure/: While I’m not inside the tech industry, this rings true.
- If You Try to Wring Out a Washcloth in Space, You Will Fail: “Water, in space, will not flow. It will not cascade, or drip, or fill a cup. Instead, unimpeded by gravity, water tends to collect in floating blobs that are works of beauty and science at the same time.”
- Man Miraculously Survives Boston AND Texas Explosions: I can’t decide if he’s fantastically lucky or unlucky.
- Other wife found on Facebook: ‘People you may know’ Facebook feature leads to bigamy charge: This kind of problem is exactly why Paul keeps his other wives off Facebook entirely.
- Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now: “The recent Boston Marathon bombing reinforced the notion that I shouldn’t wait for the circumstances of my coming out to be perfect. Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?” Kudos to Jason Collins! I hope that this announcement will be the beginning of the end of the closet in professional sports.
- Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter: OMG, I’d not heard of this letter before watching the video, and this is EPIC in the category of “Crazy Angry Letters.” Here, you can hear it read in dramatic fashion! (My favorite bit is the “apology” at the end.) The text is here.
- Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not f*cking love artists: I don’t think that this is a problem with IFLS so much as a problem with the structure of social media, particularly Facebook. Facebook needs a mechanism for tracking the original source, because properly attributing images is no easy feat.
- 26 Reasons Kids Are Pretty Much Just Tiny Drunk Adults: I’m convinced.
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Apr 262013
- How can you help someone who doesn’t really want to keep living?: A poignant and heartbreaking story.
- The Internet’s Favorite Astronaut Cries in Space: Tears without gravity… WOAH.
- Top 25 Airplane Etiquette Rules – Don’t Ever Fly Again Without Them!: Alas, my favorite pet peeve — children playing games with the sound broadcasting — is absent.
- Five myths about Margaret Thatcher: I particularly enjoyed the first two stories. (The last… so much ugh.)
- Do high heels put 100 times more stress on your feet?: The answer is just what I expected: no, but they are damaging to feet in all the expected ways. I found the variations between persons and shoes pretty interesting though.
- Medical Emergencies at 40,000 Feet: Wow, don’t get sick on a plane…. really.
- The High Cost of Facebook Exhibitionism: “People who post the most extreme tell-all Facebook photos and updates actually do so on purpose. It’s not as if they forget to change their security settings or even have their photos updated by other people. They actually think they will look more popular, cool, and attractive if they reveal their wild, partying sides.” Wow.
- Some social conservatives threaten to abandon GOP: Here, let me open the door for you…
- What FDR said about Jews in private: Now that I’ve done so much reading on the Holocaust, I’m not surprised in the slightest. I’ve come to appreciate that many virulent strains of racism and anti-semitism were only eliminated from supposedly civilized countries quite recently.
- 20 Photos that Change the Holocaust Narrative: Three quick comments about the common narrative that Jews didn’t resist their own extermination. First, the “like lambs to the slaughter” line was used by Jews in an effort to spur more Jews to resistance, but then Germans embraced it to excuse their barbaric atrocities. Second, Jews had every reason to expect yet another spell of oppression that would make life difficult for a while then ease up, but not the mass slaughter that the Germans inflicted on them. Third, Jews did resist, particularly once they knew their fate, but mostly they weren’t able to do so effectively. Alas, most everyone under the yoke of Nazism — the Poles, French, Dutch, Germans, etc — didn’t resist either.
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Apr 192013
- Disgruntled hare is having a terrible morning: He’s even better than Grumpy Cat!
- Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet: Oh hai, major security risks!
- Why the Mantis Shrimp Is My New Favorite Animal: The Oatmeal hits it out of the park, once again!
- JC Penney’s Johnson Forgot the First Rule of Retail: An interesting analysis by Virginia Postrel.
- If Facebook existed during WWII: It’s the history of World War 2, in Facebook status updates. It’s delightful to be able to understand the jokes, mostly thanks to reading William Shirer’s classic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
- Vatican City Explained by CGPGrey: It’s crazypants run wild!
- Hipster Baby Name Generator: My hipster child will be name “Bedazzled Feta Hsieh” … really!
- Quora: Is Jimmy Wales the Chuck Norris of Quora?: Geeky math joke for the win!
- Hermit living in wild for 27 years with little human contact arrested for burglary: Hermit Ethics 101: Learn to fend for yourself or die, don’t steal the fruits of civilization from a camp for people with disabilities (!!).
- RNC approves anti-gay marriage resolution: The GOP wants to continue to lose elections, apparently.
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Apr 122013
- 28 Incredibly Beautiful Places You Won’t Believe Actually Exist: Wow!
- Porn Copyright Lawyer John Steele, Who Has Sued More Than 20,000 People, Is Now The One In Legal Trouble: I wonder how many people this law firm ruined before being taken down by this judge. Sheesh. Oh, and Popehat has an awesome description of the hearing in which these lawyers pled the fifth here.
- 14 Reasons to Avoid Public Transportation: Some of these are crazyawesomefun. However, others made me recall some of the horrors I witnessed on the L in Chicago — such as the homeless woman sitting down with her pants around her knees, scratching at her disease-ridden skin.
- Creative Food Art Portraits by Hong Yi: Nifty!
- Ohio CPS Wants to Snatch Kid Away from Family that Has Taught Her Self-Sufficiency: This is so beyond infuriating.
- Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina: *HEADDESK*
- Obama calls Kamala Harris ‘the best looking attorney general’: This is infuriating. There’s no better way for a president to take all attention away from a woman’s intellect and achievements than by making this kind of off-hand comment about her looks. THANKS OBAMA. Alas, I’m only worsening the problem in this case by mentioning it. But I do because many men seem honestly oblivious to just how destructive such comments are to women in the public eye.
- 19 Photos Taken at Just the Right Angle: Nothing like 19 double-takes in a row!
- Flowchart: Dammit! Foiled again! And again! And again!
- Rep. Diana DeGette draws criticism for “pretty stupid” ammo-magazine comment: No one who is this woefully ignorant about guns should ever touch one, let alone be permitted to pass laws pertaining to them.
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Apr 052013
- Pogue’s Proposal: Any marriage proposal that invoves a humorous reference to horse urine is a win in my book!
- Games Kittens Play: Merlin plays many of these games, but “Harassing Oliver at Bedtime” is definitely my favorite.
- Reinventions: Band-aid: On the one hand, this is pretty nifty. On the other hand, band-aids are gross and awkward. It’s 2013… get some New-Skin instead!
- Bet You Can’t Tell The Difference Between These Actual Anti-Interracial And Anti-Gay Marriage Quotes: True that.
- How to Resuscitate a Drowning Victim in 1916: I wonder how effective this method would be, in comparison to current methods!
- Best Coin Ever Spent: A fabulous orchestral flash mob that begins with a coin given by a child. Nothing makes me want to cry of happiness like Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”
- The landscape of abortion bans, in one must-see map: Thank you, Colorado!
- 28 Reasons The Doctor Would Make A Terrible Boyfriend: Paul sent this to me as a “reminder,” but I’d still fly off in the TARDIS with the Doctor any day of the week!
- ESPN airs Rutgers coach Mike Rice abusing players: WTF #1: That a college coach was physically and verbally abusing his players. WTF #2: That said coach was not fired immediately. Be sure to watch the video… give some props to the whistleblower, former director of player development, Eric Murdock. More details are here. The coach was fired, thanks to a firestorm of controversy… now I just hope that the athletic director meets the same fate… and he has!
- No April Fool’s Joke: Samoa Air Charges Passengers By Weight: I love this idea!
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Mar 292013
- News Anchor Loses It During Fat Cat Coverage: How could she not giggle?!?
- Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old: Nifty!
- Elvis Dumervil fires agent after contract fax debacle, wants to stay in Denver: This is a mind-boggling story of incompetence… with very serious consequences for a great NFL player.
- I’m Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage: Oh hai, Platonism, self-loathing, and repression. (Really, I find this immensely tragic.)
- College student creates instant-healing gel to stop heavy bleeding: Wow, I love this!
- “Do I Look Fat in This?”: Fashion headdesk, at its finest.
- How to Catch a Wild Rabbit in Australia: “How do you catch a rabbit in the wild? Australia shows you the way! Outdoors adventurer Andrew Ucles gives us the step by step: First, take off your shirt. Then, catch yourself a few venomous snakes …”
- Marina Abramovic and Ulay: This is very strange but intense.
- Google Keep? It’ll probably be with us until March 2017 – on average: “Once the geeks stop trusting you, they stop recommending you.” They look hard for alternatives too, then your products don’t gain traction. Then, hello death spiral.
- Disruptions: F.A.A. May Loosen Curbs on Fliers’ Use of Electronics: I’ve not travelled in a while, and I was shocked on our recent flight when I was told that I had to power down all devices, not just put them in airplane mode and put them away. Of course, I just put them in airplane mode and put them in my bag, and I’m sure that most people do the same. Soon, that might actually be the rule… thank goodness. *cough*stupidgovernmentregulations*cough*
- Child follows workbook instructions literally: Funny, I have a square named Bob too… Also, check out this one.
- Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost: This is the best commentary I’ve seen on this brouhaha in the tech world.
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Mar 222013
- The most badass response to tailgating ever: I’ve always wanted a bumper sticker that says, “I brake for tailgaters,” but this is so much better!
- Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits: “Nina Katchadourian whiles away long plane journeys by locking herself in the lavatory and pretending to be a 15th century Dutch painting. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010 and is ongoing…”
- Fashion photography of prize-winning chickens: No, really.
- The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures: Interesting! I’d love to see some well-done studies on the health of time indoors versus time outdoors, including in cold.
- High school fashions, 1969: I must admit, I like some of these… and I must confess to owning three vaguely hippy-ish shirts too.
- The Tunnels of NYC’s East Side Access Project: This puts my house repairs in perspective!
- 50 Years Ago: The World in 1963: Wow, how much the world has changed, and often for the better!
- Trailer for Much Ado About Nothing: Much Ado is a favorite of mine, and I think I’m going to love Joss’ version!
- Two mega mezzos respond to maestros Pappano and Luisi on singer cancellations: This is a fascinating article on balancing short and long term interests in an opera career. Happily, it makes so much more sense to me after hearing Pablo Alberto Ordeñana awesome talk on opera at SnowCon!
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Mar 152013
- Flowchart: Are You Good at Following Flowcharts?: To save you the googling, here’s a hedgehog taking a bath. (Do yourself a favor and turn off the sound…. unless you enjoy hearing annoying southern women coo over a hedgehog.)
- Adoptive mom’s ‘newborn’ photo shoot with 13-year-old son goes viral: I love this so very much. It’s funny and sweet and full of love!
- An artist’s progression from 2 years old to 25: What an awesome progression! I love the lion at the end too.
- Amazingly awful tattoo leads to amazingly public Facebook breakup: I’m all in favor of such an insane tattoo if it can spawn such an epically hysterical Facebook thread! (It was a practical joke…)
- 5 Facebook Posts That Make Me Stabby: I hate #4 the most, I think.
- The Importance of Protocols for Living Well and Avoiding Problems: Are your habits helping or hindering your pursuit of values? Sometimes, small changes can make a big difference!
- Don’t get Apple picked: How to protect your Mac from theft in public places: I’d heard of “apple picking,” but I didn’t realize that people’s laptops were being stolen while in use on their owners’ laps. That’s insane!
- Fetuses Don’t Have Rights; Pregnant Women Do; This Distinction is Crucial: Fetuses are not persons with rights, but that doesn’t mean that random people can intentionally or negligently cause the death of a fetus without legal penalty.
- Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders Versus US Soldiers: “Call Me Maybe”: Oh American soliders, you rock.
- Panera’s Hidden Paleo-Friendly Menu: Finally, something worth eating at Panera!
