Not only can he play tunes with his mouth, but he built a device to make it easier! Too bad the gentleman's name and the year of this video are not available. -via the Presurfer
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Coco Chan the Golden Retriever noms right in the camera. Watch Coco do other things at her YouTube channel. Link -via Daily Picks and Flicks
This spider has the rumba down! How can any lady spider resist such sexy moves? -via Arbroath
Vintner Mike Hayes of Queensland, Australia, is planning to recreate an ancient ritual to improve his wine. That means picking the grapes under a full moon sans clothing.
Mr Hayes, 48, from Symphony Hill Wines on the Granite Belt, said he was studying 4000-year-old winemaking techniques as part of a Churchill Fellowship.
He said the first records of naked harvesting and naked crushing of the fruit with bare feet came from Georgia, an independent state of the former Soviet Union and the birthplace of winemaking.
"I don't know if it will work, but I'm certainly going to give it a shot," he said. "The ancients believed the moon drew energy from the grapes and goodness from the soil - just as the moon pulls the tides."
"I know some people will think I am mad with a double D.
Hayes grows dozens of rare alternate varieties of grapes, and his winery was awarded five stars. Link -via Arbroath
Here's a silly little song that fits in the Suicide Food trope we presented years ago. Pig Out was a student project by Deborah Tudtud for the Classical Animation program at the Vancouver Film School. -via Kuriositas
The post Arctic Ice Flowers showed us one of the strange things weather conditions can do to water. Here's another: frost flowers.
A frost flower is created on autumn or early winter mornings when ice in extremely thin layers is pushed out from the stems of plants or occasionally wood. This extrusion creates wonderful patterns which curl and fold into gorgeous frozen petioles giving this phenomenon both its name and its appearance.
See many more of them at Kuriositas. Link
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings and fans of the Harry Potter series constantly argue over which is better, when there is plenty to love about both, including the similarities. But that doesn't settle anything.
Yes, LOTRians simply believe theirs is better because it isn’t kid stuff. While Potterites believe theirs is clearly the best because it’s more fun. It turns out, they’re both right and wrong. How can this be true? All the answers will be revealed if you look into my crystal ball… just ignore that large dog signifying your imminent demise. Or, read below to discover exactly how Harry Potter is obviously superior to Lord of the Rings and how Lord of the Rings easily defeats Harry Potter.
Pajiba breaks down what each series is best at, of the two. Throw in another franchise, and there'd be mayhem on our hands. Link
You still can't beat the homemade stuff! This odd show is from Awkward Spaceship. -Thanks, Aaron!
When people are hauled in by the police, they aren't at their best. Still, some mug shots are head and shoulders above the rest, and tell a story all by themselves. This guy only ranked #15, so you must see the others. Link
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The little monkey wearing a shearling coat that showed up at a Toronto IKEA last week is now a case for the courts. Toronto Animal Services lodged the monkey named Darwin at the Story Brook Farm Primate Sanctuary. Yasmin Nakhuda, who owns the monkey, wants him back.
…defendant Nakhuda, a real estate attorney by profession, filed a claim Thursday that states the authorities had no right to take the monkey. “The officer’s refusal to return Darwin was unlawful because the Code does not authorize the officer to keep an animal other than dogs and cats,” it reads. “The only penalty under the Code is a fine. Animal Services therefore unlawfully detained Darwin.”
The motion also states that, if Darwin cannot be returned, Nakhuda should be allowed “reasonable access on a schedule to be fixed by this court.”
Meanwhile, Story Book Farm seems to have undertaken a PR campaign in its efforts to keep Darwin. Read all about it at Death and Taxes, in a post that includes its own soundtrack. Link
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Floyd Hayes' Christmas video greeting illustrates what the holiday is like for his company.
'Tis the season for agencies to send out holiday videos in a thinly veiled attempt to get new business. Here's my attempt.
May your holidays be a break from the perpetual grind of quiet desperation. -Thanks, Floyd!
Jared Diamond contrasts our modern methods of raising children with those used in more traditional societies, such as the villagers of New Guinea.
We are struck by the precocious development of social skills in their children. These are qualities that most of us admire, and would like to see in our own children, but we discourage development of those qualities by ranking and grading our children and constantly telling them what to do. The adolescent identity crises that plague American teenagers aren’t an issue for hunter-gatherer children. The Westerners who have lived with hunter-gatherers and other small-scale societies speculate that these admirable qualities develop because of the way in which their children are brought up: namely, with constant security and stimulation, as a result of the long nursing period, sleeping near parents for several years, far more social models available to children through allo-parenting, far more social stimulation through constant physical contact and proximity of caretakers, instant caretaker responses to a child’s crying, and the minimal amount of physical punishment.
But that's just the beginning. Children in traditional societies have more freedom to roam, multiple caregivers, and access to adult experiences that we consider not quite safe. Of course, not all those practices are transferable to a more modern society -after all, we have automobiles, which is the most dangerous thing for a child. But a generous excerpt from Diamond's book The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? is very much worth a read. Link
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I find that cats usually make allowances for juveniles of any species. Try that in a couple more years, Junior, and see what happens! -via Daily Picks and Flicks
You're feeling like a movie, and since Christmas is only a week away, you may as well watch a holiday film. What to select? It's a much more complicated decision than it was a few decades ago, when the answer was "whatever's on TV or at the theater." A handy flowchart from Lemon.ly helps you make your choice! See an enlargeable version at the site. Link
Hello! Your quarry is behind you! This delightful picture was taken at the Kabardino-Balkaria reserve in Russia. Commenters believe this goat is either a Caucasian Tur or an Alpine ibex. Either way, it's a big goat! Link -via reddit
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