This is the truth of raising children. You may recall doing plenty of chores for your parents in your own childhood, but they remember it differently. For them, it was a matter of either teaching you how to do them or getting you to do them, and they always ended up expending the lion's share of the effort. That's because it is a parent's job to teach you the things you need to know to deal with life. That's one reason being a grandparent is so great. You reap that sweet, sweet karma when your kids find out how hard they made it for you. This comic is from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Fight the Beast by Crumblin' Cookie
The Knights of the Round Table were quite good at singing and dancing, they rode their imaginary horses like champion horseymen, and they deflected taunts like a swallow deflects curses flung at them by coconut farmers. But it seems they'd never considered what might happen if they encountered a little bunny in a cave, so the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog was able to get the jump on the well-trained heroes and bite their heads off before they even knew what hit them. That's why I'll take the Knights Who Say Ni over those holy rollers from Camelot any day!
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Godzilla has battled some mighty giant kaiju during his storied career as a movie monster, and he even battled King Kong at one point, but if you think about it on-screen monster meetings are few and far between.
Therefore we have no real idea how Clover the Cloverfield monster measures up to Godzilla, or how big Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. is in comparison to Frankenstein.
But now thanks to this cool CGI visualization created by MetaBallStudios we can see how puny they all are when compared to the King of the Monsters!
-Via Laughing Squid
A wholesome meme these days means one that doesn't involve politics or death threats between participants. So how about a meme that involves death threats from nature? This game has sparked a lot of interesting yet non-earth-shattering conversation about the animals around us. Here's the premise. Which is most dangerous: 50 eagles, ten crocodiles, three grizzly bears, seven bulls, one armed hunter, 15 wolves, 10,000 rats, five silverback gorillas, or four lions. You can pick two sets of creatures to be your allies in order to defend against the rest of them. The whole idea is to hear your reasons for your picks, but as far as I'm concerned, you are doomed. That's a lot to defend against, no matter what is helping you. -via Metafilter
It may be about time for us to stop referring to machines as "lifeless" because despite their lack of sentience or a soul the machines all around us are full of life.
Their electronic eyes never stop roving, their doors open and close all day and their gears turn and turn and turn, their only period of rest coming after something has broken inside them.
In fact, these "lifeless" objects have more life and energy inside them than many people I know!
Lifeless is a hypnotic CGI short created by Fokke Mars, Bas Jansen, and Max van der Ree from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and after watching it I can't decide if we need more automation in our lives or less...
Forty-two years ago, the U.S. government was just starting to use computers. Few Americans at the time understood computers at all, and couldn't wrap their heads around what they did. Honestly, they didn't do much, compared with how we all use computers today, but it was a big step forward in replacing large banks of file cabinets. When the Domestic Council implemented computer use, people complained. George Humphreys, the Domestic Council’s Associate Director for Environment, sent this letter to Domestic Council Executive Director Jim Cannon encouraging the use of the new technology.
“The basis of the complaints, valid or invalid, was with the implementation of the concept… Many people think of ‘computers’ as a dark, mysterious force that somehow pulsates ominously in an unknown recess, ready to bite if not properly respected.”
Read more about the Domestic Council and how they used their computer at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. In other news, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum has a Tumblr blog. -via John Overholt
You know that old codger who's always yelling things like "you can marry anybody these days!" angrily at the TV? They need to change their irate rant from "anybody" to "anything" because quite a few kooky folks have actually married inanimate objects, and the things they've married are getting stranger and stranger.
A young woman from Jacksonville, Florida named Noorul Mahjabeen Hassan, who prefers to be called Fractal Tetris Huracan, says she's been in love with the video game Tetris for over 20 years.
She sleeps with the NES cartridge every night, plays about 12 hours a day and after a bad breakup with a graphing calculator she's ready to tie the knot with Tetris:
‘I think Tetris is so beautiful, he is about perfection and he stimulates your mind. Physically I get that feeling that people in relationships get – that you know they are the right one.
‘I love him so much and get an immense sense of satisfaction with him. I have a strong connection with him and have invested so much in him.’
‘I want to say I’m married to Tetris and have a legitimate ceremony,’ says Fractal. ‘I want everybody to be there.
‘I feel like that would be an official thing which would set it in stone and say “I love you and want to prove it to you” by making it permanent and calling myself Mrs Tetris.’
The 2010 film Eat Pray Love is based on a true story of Elizabeth Gilbert, a woman who traveled the world to find out what's important in life. It starred Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, James Franco, and a whole slew of actors who we didn't know at the time, but who have become big names since then. The movie was panned by critics, but was a box office success. And there are things about Eat Pray Love that you don't yet know.
8. Many fans didn’t agree with Bardem’s casting as a Brazilian.
Bardem is Spanish, and many Brazilians had a big issue with his Portuguese accent since it wasn’t as accurate as it should have been.
7. Julia Roberts says she gained 10 pounds during the Rome scenes.
If she was eating the entire time it would make sense. Being overseas usually makes people want to try the local cuisine as much as possible.
There's more trivia about Eat Pray Love at TVOM.
The TV adaptation of Westworld has given us all kinds of weird and interesting feelings about AI, virtual reality and the inevitable battle between humanity and our robotic overlords. And as Beth Elderkin of io9 discovered they're gearing up for the return of the show by sharing some dark and creepy guerilla marketing online via the Delos Incorporated website.
There fans will find a new employee handbook that is covered in bloody handprints, scrawled warnings and a possible hint at characters we'll be seeing in season 2:
Whoever has smuggled out the handbook looks to be located in Manufacturing, where hosts are created. This could be a hint at a character for season 2, since we didn’t really spend time with any host creators besides Robert Ford.
Bonus: For anyone looking for an extra cool tidbit, you can visit Discover Westworld and ask its AI Aeden about the guidebook.
Another interesting section of the guidebook called Training hints at an upcoming Westworld mobile game, which a Redditor claims to have played already saying it's a base management game similar to Fallout Shelter. And hopefully the creators will add more fun new stuff to the site in the future, as season 2 of Westworld begins sometime this spring.
-Via io9
This is a throwback to the kind of goofy video the internet was built on- four guys in bathrobes imitating water fountains. While the production is quite low-tech, the idea is genius and they do it well. Stay with it for the grand finale.
This reminded me of something else, and a quick search told me I was right. They are doing the dancing water routine of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas. The song is "Time to Say Goodbye" by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman. -via The Adora Project
The Man Of Steel has bridged generational gaps like few other characters ever could, and he continues to capture the imagination of kids who read his comics or watch his cartoons just as much as he did back in the early 20th century.
And over the last 80 years of Supermania the character has made people truckloads of money, but did you know the creators originally sold the rights for a mere $130?
Creators Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to DC without any future right to royalties, and although they continued to write and illustrate Superman comics as he became a huge hit they didn't get another dime. They tried to sue DC comics for royalties and were summarily fired in 1947.
But despite the enmity between creators and publisher Superman has found a lot of love over the years, and for some strange reason almost every single one of them has had the initials "L.L.":
Lois Lane, a reporter who tends to pine after Superman while rejecting his meek alter ego, Clark Kent, has been around since Action Comics #1. Competing with her for Superman’s attentions are Lana Lang, his high school sweetheart from Smallville, Kansas; Lori Lemaris, a mermaid he dates while attending Metropolis University; and Lyla Lerrol, an actress from Krypton who meets him when he travels back in time before the planet’s destruction. Numerous other supporting characters also have the initials L.L., including Lex Luthor, Lucy Lane (Lois Lane’s sister) and Linda Lee (Supergirl’s secret identity).
(Image credit: Flickr user Pablo Necochea)
Four must-see locations for those in search of some local color.
1) CHILE’S MOST VIBRANT CITY
Hugging the Pacific coast, Valparaíso (shown above) was South America’s greatest international waterway until the Panama Canal stole the spotlight. The city is home to Latin America’s first stock exchange, Chile’s first public library, and the world’s oldest continuously running Spanish-language newspaper. Colorful homes dominate, mostly perched on hillsides in a maze of cobblestone alleys. In 2003, its historic quarter was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2) WYOMING’S PSYCHEDELIC HOT SPRING
There are times when everyone feels like smashing stuff, and whether it's out of frustration, anger or simply for the joy of destruction the act of smashing something can be quite freeing- and it feels so good. It's no wonder the primal Hulk lives to smash, and the beasts smash any manmade thing they come across, because to them life is not complete without the release of SMASH! It's time we got back in touch with our primal nature, so that we can revel in the power of smashing again and tear down any wall that rises in our path...
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People, especially women, have often put their lives at risk to be attractive. Some fads and fashions are more dangerous than others, and throughout history, it took more than few deaths to change what we considered beautiful. Jennifer Wright is the author of the book Killer Fashion: Poisonous Petticoats, Strangulating Scarves and Other Deadly Garments Throughout History, which chronicles 26 deadly fashions, one for each letter of the alphabet. They cover a range of dangerous fashions from Chinese foot-binding to flammable crinolines.
Many women have heard the old adage, “One must suffer for beauty”—“Il faut souffrir pour etre belle” in French—so like the pain of an uncomfortable push-up bra worn to achieve a curvier silhouette, death by fashion might seem like a grim comeuppance for feminine vanity. But the most troubling stories in Killer Fashion aren’t even about the style mavens who wore the toxic looks, but the poor souls tasked with making the clothes.
While fashionable flappers adopted the questionable habit of applying glow-in-the-dark radium on their lips and teeth to shimmer on the dance floor, the women who suffered most from exposure to radioactivity were the “Radium Girls” who worked in factories in the 1920s carefully painting the small numbers on the faces of swanky Undark watches and licking their glowing paint brushes to make a finer point. In a particularly gruesome Killer Fashion passage, Wright explains, “The radium painters’ teeth began to rot. When they went to the dentist to have their teeth pulled, some of their jawbones crumbled under the pressure.” In fact, the radium weakened all their bones and gave them tumors. In a few short years, the radium-factory death toll had reached 50.
Read more about the various ways that fashions have killed at Collectors Weekly.
Kayla Barham's cockatiel doesn't like cluttered surfaces. It all goes on the floor! It doesn't matter whether the object is heavy, or valuable, or important in its place, off it goes! Maybe she thinks she's a cat.
Well, she did put the scissors away in their proper place, and looked pretty proud about it, too. This is great to watch, but it would be exhausting in real life. My cat annoys me by knocking things off my desk, but I'll put her out and close the office door when she gets too rowdy. If I were Barham, this bird would be in a cage until she learns some manners. -via Laughing Squid
