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The Family That Cosplays Together Stays Together.

Hospital staff plead with bite victims to stop bringing snakes to emergency departments. (via Boing Boing)

Roy Scholten's LEGO Letterpress Birds. (via Metafilter)

Why The BMW ActiveHybrid X6 Might Be The Worst Car Of The 21st Century. Almost all commenters agree on this model's shame.  

Tom Curtis renders his kids' drawings as something akin to a photograph, by adding color, contours, and backgrounds.  Go to Instagram to see what he's done with artworks submitted by children from all over. (via Nag on the Lake)

Ode to a Faux Grecian Urn. McMansion Hell focuses on a 12,700 square foot monstrosity.  

The World's Getting So Hot, Scientists Needed a New Color.

Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars—but only in poorer countries.

Let’s Entertain the Theory of the Tartarian Empire for a Moment. It was supposedly the land of unlimited free energy until the powers that be suppressed all knowledge of it. 

Crazy Logic

A mashup of Gnarls Barkley, Supertramp, The Who, and Rockwell. It’s not at all logical, but it works. 

Tweet of the Day

this is a good video 😏 pic.twitter.com/Pkse8FxvqI

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) April 20, 2024

Three?

(via Bad Newspaper)

Warning Sign

(Thanks, WTM!)

Theo and His Bowls

Most pets love their bowls for the simple reason that the bowl is where to food is. They don't like empty bowls. But Theo the bulldog is different. He really loves his bowl. Or your bowl. Or that other bowl. Theo had several metal bowls that he carried, played with, and even slept with. But it was a glorious day when his human Andrew received a shipment of twenty new metal bowls of all sizes! Andrew must be a very patient man, to put up with the racket all those bowls make, but he loves Theo, and we make sacrifices for those we love. You can keep up with Theo and his bulldog buddies Rosie and Mortimer at Facebook and Instagram. (via Metafilter)

TMI

When your fantasy group includes certain species with certain biological differences, telling the truth can be a humiliating experience. Even when you don't tell the truth. This comic is from Ché Crawford at The Immortal Think Tank. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

Coffee

I never forget Irish coffee exists. (via She Who Seeks)

Horror Dance

B Unique Crew is an Indian dance crew with three dancers and one genuine contortionist. They achieved notoriety with this horror dance on the Indian TV show Hunarbaaz: Desh ki shaan (Pride of the Country) a few years ago. They are using modified traditional dance moves to illustrate a classic story that was retold in the horror comedy movie Bhool Bhulaiyaa.

The judges were properly horrified, but the crew didn't win. Since then, B Unique Crew has appeared on various version of the Got Talent franchise in different countries. See more of their dance routines at YouTube. If you dare. (via Digg)

Rescue

(via Fark)

The Adele/Bieber Passover Mashup

Passover has begin, and will run until the 30th. Aish tells the Passover story to the tunes of Adele’s “Hello” and Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself,” using clips from The Ten Commandments, starring Charleton Heston and Yul Brynner. Does that sound weird? It is. But it’s clever and rather well done.  

Tweet of the Day

Thank you.. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/omMr0HdhCA

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 21, 2024

Since 1955

(via Bad Newspaper)

Jon Stewart at the 1997 White House Correspondents' Dinner

This Saturday night is the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. It's always a hoot to see, but rarely stays with you except for that one in 2011 when Seth Meyers roasted Donald Trump and then Obama did as well over his racist "birther" conspiracy theory, lighting a conflagration we are still trying to put out. But back in 1997, the organizers were at their wits' end when Rosie O'Donnell pulled out of hosting at the last minute, and then Dennis Miller turned down the offer, so lesser-known comedian Jon Stewart stepped in when he was needed. The humor is good, but very topical, and won't make much sense unless you remember 1997 and the scandals that were in the news at the time. But for those who do, you can see how this speech put Stewart in the political map. He later got the hosting job at The Daily Show. (via Cracked)

Vision Test

(via Buzzfeed)

Hector the Farmer

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This little farmer has a way with the animals. Every rabbit and chicken gets a kiss before they head out, and the ducks and goats provide an escort. Original video from TikTok by Alexandro Borges. There's a lot more where that came from. (via Everlasting Blort)

Sitting in a Tree

We all known the rhyme, a sort of childhood chant. But did you know that you can vary the meaning just by substituting the spelling? There are many verbs that fit, but use caution in your selection. This comic is from Randall Munroe at xkcd.

Curse You, Cursor!

(via Bored Panda)

An Alchemists's Confession

"I was human once" begins a soliloquy from a successful alchemist who developed an elixir that gave him immortality and magical powers. What would you sacrifice for immortality and magical powers? We find that the price was quite high, and he wouldn't do it again if he had a choice. You can't appreciate the value of time when it's unlimited, and all the power in the world doesn't help you in your relationships with other people if you are no longer human.

Cory Williams of Daydream Studios made this animation in just five days with the help of various modern animation tools, including Unreal Engine. You can see a behind the scenes video here. It will give you a new appreciation for the technology, and you will surely appreciate Williams' voice work. (via Laughing Squid)

Miss Cellania's Links

How Jewish Soldiers Celebrated Passover in the Midst of the Civil War.

The Nuclear Test That Vaporized an Island. The first hydrogen bomb was nicknamed Ivy Mike.

When is a Stately Home Not a Stately Home? Learn the difference between a stately home and a manor house. (via Strange Company)

A Most Sinister Hot Sauce from a Galaxy Far, Far Away.

Coffee Shops Make You Want To Poop? That’s The Mariko Aoki Phenomenon. (via Nag on the Lake)

Hoarding can start in childhood – here’s why early intervention is so crucial for all age groups. (via Damn Interesting)

The First Full Trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine. Contains lots of NSFW language.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees for 2024. (via Fark)

50 Modern Passover Recipes To Spice Up Your Meals All Week Long. Chag Pesach Sameach!