Under normal circumstance, a coyote and a goat would be predator and prey. No so for these two. They are pets who live together in Idaho. We can assume that they both have access to a generous supply of goat chow and coyote chow, or they wouldn't be the obviously happy friends they are. Let's just hope that goat doesn't ever go out on her own to make friends. -via Boing Boing
Ah! That's what that orange arrow is! The latest comic from Alex Culang and Raynato Castro at Buttersafe is a story of high-tech meets no-tech. The horse probably already knows the way, but he's in no hurry because he knows he'll get that carrot sooner or later. He looks pretty well-fed, and his estimated arrival time is infinity. No, the horse knows where he's going. It's the guy who needs a map who's lost.
Can you imagine trying to put a headband with a GoPro on a cheetah? Odyssey must be an unusually cooperative cat. He is out on the hunt with his siblings, which gives us a chance to see a chase from the cheetah's point of view. When things get going really fast, the production slides into slow motion to keep us from falling out of our chairs.
It's a clip from the PBS Nature 3-part series Animals With Cameras. The chase itself reminds me of a study we posted last week about how prey animals benefit when a predator cannot go in a straight line. Cheetahs can run more than 60 miles per hour, but only for about ten seconds, and only then if there are no obstacles to break their stride. In this cas, we feel good for the gnu, but the cheetahs are tired and still hungry.
This image was posted at reddit with the label When Libraries Troll Their Patrons. We've all been there, trying to find a book when we recall neither the title nor the author. Commenters started telling tales about working in book stores or libraries, or getting embarrassed by being that patron with the wonky memory. Librarians and book store workers want to help, and they consider it a challenge to find that one book you can't identify, if they have the time. Then starstarstar42 told his story.
To all bookstore employees that take the time to help... thank you.
35 y.o. me walked into a bookstore after WEEKS searching on the web for the first book my now deceased mom let me pick out on my own. Thing is, 3 y.o. me was really mad at her for some reason that day and I did not want to pick out a stupid book! I cried all the way home because she made me do so.
That night she tucked me in (me, still very mad) and read me that book. I f-----g hated the story. I f-----g hated the mouse that starred in it. I f-----g hated the colors when she showed me the pictures. I f-----g hated that book, period. At the end, my mom kissed me and smiled as she smoothed back my hair. Looking back so many decades later I understand now that her love for me was dancing in her eyes as if to say, "be mad all you want, little man of mine. I can never stop loving you. You are my world".
30 years later and I was stoically mourning my mom's death when, for no reason I can explain, I remembered that book.
I wanted it. I wanted more than anything else in my life to find it. To see the mouse in it again, to hold the cover, to bring that small part, that tiny memory of her, back into my life.
Weeks on Google. All I could remember were hazy faded images of a mouse. I searched "mouse story" on Google. 2.8 million hits. It wasn't in the first 20 pages of 100 hits-per-page results. I kept trying till one night I furiously slammed my fist on my desk and gave up. I had nothing else to go on. I was unnaturally angry and upset at myself that evening; feeling I'd let her down again, as I'd done more than once when she was still around. I barely got any sleep that night.
A week later and I'm driving past a mom & pop bookstore/vinyl record shop. With little hope, I went in and bashfully asked the question that my mind knew was stupid, but had to be said.
"I'm looking for a book. It's about a mouse. I'm so sorry, that's all I remember. Can you help me?" I didn't even tell her why this meant so much to me.
The owner, a nice lady in her 50's, spent an hour helping me. She suddenly turned into a combination of "Monk" and "Sherlock". How old was I now, how old when I read it? Was the book wider than it was tall? What colors in it did I remember? Any other characters that I could remember? Most of the answers to her questions were "I can't remember".
One hour.
She found it. "Scuttle the Stowaway Mouse" by Jean Soule. It had been out of print for decades, but she found a pristine copy of it online, ordered it for me and it got to me 48 hours later. $32 she made on that sale. Not even enough to pay to keep the lights turned on in their shop for a day I bet.
Got home, opened the book, my hands softly running over the cover as if it was my mom's face. I was unashamedly weeping bittersweet tears by the first page. Each word was like a kiss on a mad little 3 y.o. boy's forehead.
I miss my mother with my whole heart.
Thank you, bookstore lady. Thank you beyond words.
Please pass the tissues. -via reddit
If you've never fallen in love with a hedgehog then you've never met Princess Pricklepants, and if you don't think hedgehogs are adorable then you probably don't dig cute critters and therefore won't dig these silly Hedgehog Facts.
But if you love Pricklepants, and all hedgehogs, as much as I do then these Hedgehog Facts will amuse, amaze and astound you, because they're absolutely astonishing!
Who knew hedgehogs were such mighty and mysterious creatures?
Hedgehog Facts like these don't come along every day, so when you have the chance to right click and save a bunch of them to share with your social media circles you should grab that JPG treasure and run!
See more Hedgehog Facts at The Pleasantries of Princess Pricklepants
When we think about microbes, we think "germs." We try our best to kill the bacteria, viruses, fungal spores, and tiny creatures that could make us sick. We kill germs constantly, and rarely ever consider all the beneficial microbes that make the world turn.
Ed Yong and Professor Jack Gilbert of the University of Chicago give us an idea of what the world would look like without microbes. It's creepy and downright apocalyptic. Remember that Horton said, "A person's a person, no matter how small." Microbes are not persons with rights, but they do contribute to the world as we know it. -via The Atlantic
Ever since the 2016 election it has become clear the U.S. is full of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists who have been hiding in plain sight until they felt comfortable revealing themselves and their patently stupid brand of hate.
But now that most of them have been exposed to the light the vast majority of Americans have proven they won't put up with them, or their hate-filled message, without a fight.
And these were just the 21st century wanna-be Nazis, so how could South American countries like Chile, Argentina and Brazil happily invite Nazis and their collaborators into their countries after World War II?:
Due to the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who lived in the country, Argentina maintained close ties with Germany and remained neutral for much of World War II. In the years after the end of the war, Argentine President Juan Peron secretly ordered diplomats and intelligence officers to establish escape routes, so-called “ratlines,” through ports in Spain and Italy to smuggle thousands of former SS officers and Nazi party members out of Europe. As with numerous other fascist-leaning South American leaders, Peron had been drawn to the ideologies of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler while serving as a military attaché in Italy during the early years of World War II. The Argentine president also sought to recruit those Nazis with particular military and technical expertise that he believed could help his country, much like the United States and the Soviet Union who both poached scientists from the Third Reich to assist them in the Cold War.
If you've ever wondered how many Nazis and collaborators made their way to South America after WWII here are the educated estimates, which are staggering:
According to a 2012 article in the Daily Mail, German prosecutors who examined secret files from Brazil and Chile discovered that as many as 9,000 Nazi officers and collaborators from other countries escaped from Europe to find sanctuary in South American countries. Brazil took in between 1,500 and 2,000 Nazi war criminals, while between 500 and 1,000 settled in Chile. However, by far the largest number—as many as 5,000—relocated to Argentina.
Would you be able to bring yourself to drink any of these lattes? After all, they are masterpieces! Yeah, sure, but only after pictures are taken to preserve their beauty. Kangbin Lee is a professor in the Hotel, Restaurant, Cooking, and Confectionary Department at the Seoul Arts Center. He is also a latte artist who puts a rainbow of colors into lattes, in both 2D and 3D versions.
I can't imagine the drink would still be hot after the painting and the photographs, but a minute in a microwave will fix that.
Watch how Lee creates the Starry Night latte in this video. See more of Lee's lovely cups of coffee at Instagram. -via Boing Boing
Twitter has become one of the most annoyingly political, and volatile, social media platforms since the 2016 election, and most people I know happily ditched Twitter and never looked back.
But if there's one thing Twitter is good for it's advertising and promotion, and if there's one thing that could bring people back to Twitter it's pictures of cute animals.
So when the National Zoo tweeted a pic of an adorable gray seal pup other zoos saw it as a challenge, so they started a cute animal tweet off battle with the hashtag #challengeaccepted.
Soon the Bronx Zoo, Zoo Atlanta, Virginia Aquarium, Zoo Miami and the Philadelphia Zoo started battling it out by tweeting their most adorable critter pics, at which point people must have started coming back to Twitter in droves!
See Zoos Get Into Brutal #CuteAnimalTweetOff Battle, And It's Exactly What The Internet Needed here
Bonus fact: while Sarah and Brian think chicken pox is normal, Debbie and Gary are afraid of shingles. Meanwhile, Shirley and John think that fear of polio is normal. Age and cohorts are constant within themselves yet changing over time. Names are trendy, but once you have a common name, it becomes part of the cohort. This is the latest comic from Randall Monroe at xkcd.
Housecats ain't no dummies when it comes to the ways of humankind, and they know exactly which things in their owner's house are most scratchable, most delicious and most fun to bat around.
And kitties who live in a cold area always know exactly where to go in the house when they want to get warm, which is why Ryuji Tan's cat Busao doesn't wants to leave his beloved heater's side.
You see, Ryuji and Busao live in Ibaraki Prefecture, where winters can get particularly cold, so Busao has made it his life mission to stay right next to the space heater at all times.
Ryuji shares pictures of Busao and his Akita Rin on their Facebook fan page Busaophoto and on their Instragram account @tanryug, but there's something about Busao's special relationship with the heater that warms my heart!
They say mutants got no human grace because they're genetic abominations, creatures who should be exterminated before they spread their mutant seed throughout the normal population. And yet mutants like Cyclops persevere, keeping the dream of unity alive and hoping to be seen as equals by the humans they fight to protect. And yet thanks to anti-mutant propoganda people still see mutants as eyes without a face, inhuman monsters who threaten the very existence of humanity, even though this X out agenda has been proven to be nothing but lies. So why do the shadowy figures pushing this anti-mutant propoganda keep the fight going? Because they're afraid the superpowered men and women who fight to keep us all safe from the forces of evil will interfere with their dark conspiracty to control the world's finances...
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The 1992 crime film Juice starred Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps in a tug-of-war over their descent into a life of crime along with their other two friends. Bishop (Tupac) goes full-tilt while Q (Epps) wants to pull back. The violent film received favorable reviews that stand up over time. Juice was Tupac's first acting job- he auditioned for it on a last-minute whim. Epps was only 17 when he was cast. Let's learn some more about Juice.
10. Tupac Shakur would often walk off the set between filming.
Fellow cast member Jermaine Hopkins decided to pull a prank on him by telling Shakur that he’d been fired. When the prank was discovered Tupac got into a fight with Hopkins.
9. Shakur wanted people to call him Bishop even when off screen.
He was that intense that he wanted to stay in character as much as possible, which meant that he was also kind of edgy.
There's more trivia to read about Juice at TVOM.
The next Star Wars movie is a stand-alone film covering the life of Han Solo in his younger days, before he met Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. Disney aired a 45-second teaser during the Super Bowl last night, and promised the full trailer would debut today. And now it's here. It's only a minute and a half, and we don't see much of Han, but this is what we have.
The film stars Alden Ehrenreich as the title character, Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, plus Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, and Thandie Newton as characters we haven't met. Solo: A Star Wars Story will be in theaters May 25.
Once upon a time, the Super Bowl was all about football. Then it became all about the party ...and the food. Then as ad rates soared, the game became a showcase for advertisers to put their best foot forward, with new and clever ad campaigns that cost millions. Well, that's still true, but those of us who don't want to watch hours of football know that those premiere ads would be easier seen on the internet. And so it is. You can watch the best of them all in one place this morning. See Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman channel Busta Rhymes and Missy Elloit, watch Wendy's diss McDonalds, get a fleeting glimpse of the new Star Wars movie, and see what the Bud Knight does.
