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Randomness for 4/2
1) The obituary of England’s “King of the Cat Burglars.”
2) The major causes of death in the 20th century, visualized.
3) The Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year has been awarded.
4) The anatomy of Goofy, Mickey, Pikachu, and more. Warning: a little disturbing.
5) Paperback covers for Quentin Tarantino movies. Of course, no one does paperback covers like this any more, but they look great.
6) Japanese schoolgirls blast each other with the kamehameha wave, in still photos.
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Randomness for 3/10
1) “World’s Greatest Armchair” refills your beer automatically.
2) Six Board Games That Ruined It For Everyone. We own three of the six games they recommend as replacement games, and they’re awesome.
3) Inventors can stop inventing now. The pinnacle of all technology has been achieved.
4) Women vs Tropes in Video Games: Damsel in Distress. Video.
5) You may only kill a Yeti in self-defence.
6) Garage full of art turns out to be worth $30 million.
7) A Mississippi newspaper addresses reader reaction to a story they ran on a same-sex marriage.
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Randomness for 2/22
1) How a web designer got revenge on a company that wouldn’t pay its bills.
2) Okc_ebooks: Pick-up artists trying to chat up a robot horse.
3) Finding optimal marriage pairings using the assignment problem.
4) Forbes posts an infographic showing the effects of vaccines on morbidity.
5) “Invisible Man” artist has himself painted to camouflage himself into his environment.
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Randomness for 2/12
1) The Galactic Empire responds to the White House refusal to build a Death Star.
2) Goodreads review in 2250 of a historical novel set in the present time: “Most of the details were correct, but the author forgot that, in the early 21st century, people had to wear special clothes in the rain because their clothes were not yet water- mud- and oil-proof.” Video.
3) An index to fantasy maps. Would it be ungrateful of me to suggest that this seems thin?
4) Walter Cronkite describes the space age kitchen of the far-distant future of 2001. Video included but no auto-play.
5) A chart to demonstrate that fantasy series get longer with each book.
6) “Game of Thrones” Valentines
7) OH MY DAYUM. Video. Normally I’m not big on autotuning normal dialog but this is brilliant.
Things “everyone knows” about obesity that aren’t supported by the evidence
“Everyone knows” the best ways to fight obesity, but how much of that information is supported by evidence? And how much of it is flatly contradicted by the evidence.
The Washington Post highlighted a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that examined common beliefs about weight loss and compared them with the relevant research. It’s amazing how much is simple presumption without any basis in evidence, and also how much is straight up wrong.
I wish I had access to the full paper.
Added later: Don’t read the comments.
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Randomness for 2/6
1) The Periodic Table of Super Powers.
2) It’s Downton Abbey for Super Nintendo!
3) Leeroy Jenkins: the short film. Video.
4) The best way to eat from a Chinese takeout box. Video.
5) Dorothy Parker’s telegram to her editor.
7) Yes, of course you’re sick of Gangam Style. But have you seen it done as flip-book animation? Video.
Bonus! Chicago comedian Joe Kwaczala got himself banned from OKCupid with this profile. This is funny as hell. Seriously.
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Randomness for 1/15
1) “The Hatchet Job of the Year Award is for the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months.” Read the nominated reviews here.
2) I’d say that the question of whether President Obama would rather fight a single horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses has been answered pretty authoritatively.
3) Movie plots done as pictograms. I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t get all of these.
4) Minor characters get their own movies. I didn’t get all of these, either
5) Emotions for which the English language has no words. “Viitsima” is my new pen name.
6) A comprehensive list of things that made David Banner “Hulk out” in the TV show THE HULK.
7) Segway inventor patents portable bulimia machine, demonstrates that he’s one fucked up human being.
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Randomness for 12/11
1) A motorcycle with a track instead of wheels, from 1939.
2) Do people gain weight during the holidays? Science says no, not usually.
3) A six-year-old tries to guess the plots of classic novels by their covers.
4) How much we care about Star Wars, graphed over time.
5) Look at this Instagram (Nickelback parody) Video. Not only have I never knowingly heard Nickelback once, but I have never been to Instagram. I still laughed at this.
6) Why is ‘w’ pronounced ‘double u’ rather than ‘double v’?
7) Author Christopher Priest shares his opinion of Robert McCrum, an associate editor of the Observer.
Reuben Salad
The boy didn’t like it, but my wife did. I’ll be updating the recipe for next time.
It’s fancy potato chips at the bottom, then lettuce, then corned beef, then sauerkraut, then swiss cheese, then thousand island dressing. I may heat the cheese next time so it’s more melty–the residual heat from the meat and kraut didn’t do it–but overall it was pretty good. Not great, but pretty good.
Best in small doses, I think.
TDay prep list
Grind pork for sausage
Brine turkey
Make GF cornbread for stuffing
sweat onion and celery for stuffing
Make sweet potato pie
Make flavored cream cheese
Make apple pie (assigned to wife and kid)
Combine stuffing
Make cranberry sauce.
The rest I’ll manage on the day.
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Randomness for 9/27
1) “Because in my own way, I can (unfortunately) point out exactly what is wrong with men when they don’t realize how hard it is to be a woman. How we do not have equal opportunities and freedoms in everyday life. How most men, even good caring men, have no clue what we go through on a daily basis just trying to live our lives.” Warning: That could be triggering.
2) In Plain View: How child molesters get away with it.
3) Are you at a hipster wedding? A flowchart.
4) Thirteen congressional candidates with interesting ideas.
5) How to make the perfect ice cube.
6) Interested in giving up masturbation? Try 50 Cent’s four-step plan.
7) i09 calls this “The worst death scene ever comitted to film.” I was doubtful until I watched it.
The kitchen gadget meme
The kitchen meme making the rounds: Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don’t use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.
pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, food processors, ice cream makers, takoyaki makers, fondue sets
I’ve never had a pizza stone, but I have several pizza screens. I love them and would never switch to a stone. And I left “sandwich maker” untouched but I do have a George Foreman.
Anyway, my breadmaker was one of the first ever. My mom bought it off the TV and gave it to me, and it didn’t work very well.
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Randomness for 9/3
1) An easy way to separate eggs. Video.
2) The Hobo Convention via @sblackmoore
3) Nine Crazy Things People Find Inside Walls.
4) Yet another dumbass concept bike.
5) Yet another dude making awful threats against female comics pros. One instance where reading the comments section is a good thing.
6) Seven deadly weapons you should never make out of common household items. aka: the prop list for the next season of Burn Notice.
7) Film school in comic form! Part one: Writing the screenplay. via @RodRamsey
Bonus 7A thing) Read “comics” on an iCabinet (powered by a hand-crank). There’s no app for this.
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Randomness for 8/14
1) Some Advice For How To Cope In These Tough Times.
2) 17 Images You Won’t Believe Are Photoshopped, (part 10)
3) A labyrinth created from a quarter-million books.
4) The self-described “Hardest Game In The World.” h/t to my son
6) A $2 Million Dollar “Batcave” Movie Theater.
7) Brilliant or Gross? 20 recipes. None of these sound good to me, and I’m not a particularly conservative eater.
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Randomness for 7/25
1) The secret menu at In N Out.
2) How to light a fire with your pee.
3) 20 Unusual (to me) ice cream flavors. I’d try any of these except the cigar and condom ice creams. Even the hay.
4) Rejected Star Wars toy proposals.
5) The 11 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Religious Paintings. Sorta Jesus-centric, but yeah, those are pretty awful.
Unjuice fast, day 2.5
My last (maybe) day of the raw veg only “fast” and I just took a very hot, long shower.
Normally that would trigger a massive hive outbreak and unbearable itchiness, but today I only have the ugly red welts. I seriously have more spots than a cheetah.
However, the itching is almost non-existent. I call that progress, but I don’t know if it means I should continue on or not. I’ll discuss it with my wife later.
Unjuice Fast, Day 1.5
I’m part way through the second day of my “unjuice fast,” in which I partake of a juice fast that focuses on ingesting large amounts of green veg and nothing else, except without actually juicing them. Instead, I’m setting a large bowl of uncooked, undressed greens beside me and chowing down.
Yes, it’s been difficult. (Details, and some digestive TMI, behind the cut) more »
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Randomness for 6/5
1) Amazon changing its sales ranking algorithms again?
2) Why movies have so many explosions in them, in graph form.
3) This is an animal, not a monster.
4) Proof that anything is more dramatic with a movie soundtrack: Slinky on a treadmill. Video.
5) How fast food serving sizes have grown out of control, in infographic form.
6) 102 Awful Celebrity Portraits, Drawn By Their Fans.
7) Film producer Keith Calder on Scientology and what it feels like to finally stop biting your nails.
Bonus item: “What does Satanism mean to you?” Video
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Randomness for 4/6
1) A webcomic appreciation of Doctor Who. via @sinboy
2) The invasive species diet. I don’t care how much good it does for the planet, I’m not eating nutria.
3) The Dalek Relaxation Tape. Video.
4) Worst Album Covers Ever. Some of these are NSFW.
5) It’s Official: Star Wars Kinect Is the Worst Star Wars Thing Ever. I don’t know. To me, a little silliness if just fine.
6) D&D: The Important Questions
7) Awesome animated gifs. No, seriously for real.
