The OSU marching band tries to top their video game routine with a halftime show featuring dancing aliens, UFOs, time travel, and a dig at Michigan. Any show that starts with "O Fortuna" will catch my attention! -via The Daily What
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They're heavy on effects, light on dialogue, and all available thanks to YouTube. But seriously, here's how this list came about: last week, the A.V. Club posted a four-part post listing the best films of the 1990s (links available) that, of course, brought a firestorm of opinions.
As a lark, we started talking about a companion list covering the best films of the 1890s. But the more we talked about it, the more it seemed like a good idea to turn back the clock to the very beginnings of film. We selected 10 films we found artistically compelling and historically significant. And because they’re all in the public domain, available on YouTube, and short, you can easily watch them in their entirety as you read along.
Not only that, but none of these films will cause a fight over which was the most important to readers' childhoods. Don't miss my favorite of the bunch, The X-Ray Fiend (1897). Link
If you've ever had the urge to drop a cat to see if it bounced, but you don't want to hurt the animal, here's a web toy for you! Click, drag, release, smile. Link -via Metafilter
Oh, you knew it was going to happen. If everyone else is doing their version of "Gangnam Style," why not a house? I found three videos of homes doing this kind of light sequencing to "Gangnam Style," and I liked this particular home the best.
Nick Carr was intrigued by a tiny fenced yard that turned out to be the smallest (and one of the oldest) cemeteries in the city. How did this little triangular patch in Manhattan come to be? That called for some research.
The West 11th Street graveyard is all that remains of the Second Cemetery of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue of the Congregation Shearith Israel. Shearith Israel, the first Jewish congregation in North America, was founded in 1654; the cemetery dates to 1805.
Some further digging revealed how the cemetery became so small with such a strange shape. The real wonder is that it survived at all! Read the rest of the story and see more pictures at Scouting New York. Link -via mental_floss
Neatoramanaut Marcelle took this photo of delicious, refreshing, seasonal watermelons. -Thanks, Marcelle!
You know the pairs, but do you know which is which? That's the challenge of today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. You'll be given eleven famous duos, and all you have to do is determine which one is one the left. Simple? No! Some of these pairs made me realize that I never bothered to learn one from the other. I scored 64%, which is about the average. No doubt you will do better! Link
Which costume idea is the most trendy and fleeting? The most overused? The hardest to figure out? The list of possibilities is a lot longer than what you see here. Vote for the costume idea you believe is the lamest at Ranker. Link -via Breakfast Links
You probably won't be able to recreate these eyeballs just by watching the video, because the products shown won't be familiar outside Japan, and they glossed over the all-important part of creating the pupil and iris. From what I can tell, it's a gelatin recipe with raspberries inside. You'll get a kick out of how they are used! -via Everlasting Blort
When you read about the huge cost (in money and lives) of building railroads through the roughest parts of America, you have to wonder what it would be like to travel those routes. The guys at For 91 Days found out when they rode bikes on the 15-mile Hiawatha Trail in Idaho.
The Hiawatha Trail opened up in 2001 as part of the Rails to Trails initiative, which seeks to restore life to decommissioned train tracks across the country. The Milwaukee Road Railway Company had constructed these tracks between 1906 and 1909, recruiting laborers from around the world to work on an unprecedented line through the rough and largely unexplored Bitterroot Mountains. The men worked in unimaginably dangerous conditions, and the result was an engineering marvel: tunnels, bridges and the first long-distance tracks to be electrified. Eventually, passengers were able to travel west along the rails in the fabulous Olympian Hiawatha: a domed, double-decker car which connected Chicago to Tacoma. Eventually supplanted by air travel and semi-trucks, the route saw its final train in 1980.
See pictures of the high bridges, dark tunnels, and awesome scenery at For 91 Days. There's a video, too! Link -via the Presurfer
I'm not sure what they were trying to do here, or what was supposed to happen, but there's a good reason for wearing goggles in chemistry class. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
The Free Art Society staged the third annual Massive Mad Hatter Tea Party in Tompkins Square Park in New York on Saturday. Hillary Reinsberg took plenty of pictures of creatively costumed characters from the world of Alice in Wonderland. See her collection of images at Buzzfeed. Link
(Image credit: Hillary Reinsberg)
C Merry has a dog named Oscar Madison. Oscar was rescued from the streets and his back legs don't work, so he gets around on a set of wheels. Now, how do you dress up a dog on wheels for Halloween? Merry was inspired to make Oscar into Max, the dog who belonged to The Grinch Who Stole Christmas! Poor Max was forced to dress as a reindeer and pull a sleigh full of stolen toys and Christmas trees. Oscar pulls this intricately-decorated handmade "sleigh" attached to his wheels. His sister Tiki is dressed as Drogon, the black baby dragon from the TV show Game of Thrones.
You can see closeups of the details of Oscar's costume at Flickr. Tiki's costume, too!
Previously from C Merry: Happily Ever Over
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