These followed by this. // A chorus of keys. // Cat-ear headphones. They glow, obviously. // Rubber stress mushrooms. You tug them for relief. // Blowing Billie Jean. (h/t, EBD) // Tiny brontosauruses. // It’s basic science, people. // Make your own music video with SeeHearParty. // 3D-printed car. // Scorpion chair. // The chemistry of pizza. // Spacecraft selfie of note. // The world’s roundest object. // The world of Ronco. // Chocolate skulls gone nuts. // Owl massage. // Lego Galactus is so adorable. // Hallowe’en masks of yore. // This woman is a psychic. // A map of Autumn foliage. // Teamwork. // Burning wood. // Testing 5G. // Star Trek fact check, for hardcore enthusiasts. // The first spacewalk. // And finally, this is my belly, here. I’ll tell you when to stop.
Hey, guys! More racial fretting, pretension, condescension, baiting on the behalf of the Graun.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/16/west-ebola-response-black-patient
It deals with Ebola virus, this time.
Posted by: Account Deleted | October 17, 2014 at 00:04
Gosh is it Friday already? Will it be one of those rare days when the Graun does not publish an article which is beyond parody? The article by Hannah Giorgis represents a new low - but then the Graun seems to be approaching rock bottom asymptotically, so it will almost certainly go bust before it gets there.
Posted by: Richard Powell | October 17, 2014 at 00:39
Apparently this woman was said be to throwing "truth bombs" from her cohorts on her twatter feed. It gives you a good idea that these cretins really believe their hype and self importance but than what is Twatter than one big echo chamber?
Posted by: Account Deleted | October 17, 2014 at 00:46
That CIF article is quite deranged, even by the standards of the Graun. How would Hannah manage it without the anonymising "we"?
"[I] will try to hide [my] fear behind jokes with dying black bodies as their punchlines." NO
"[You] will try to hide [your] fear behind jokes with dying black bodies as their punchlines. UM, MAYBE NOT
So who are you taking about, Hannah? As always, "we" means "other wicked people, not me or the reader".
Posted by: JL | October 17, 2014 at 03:32
Somehow disappointed that scorpion chair isn't a little chair for scorpions.
Posted by: Jimmy | October 17, 2014 at 04:45
Need a consultant not afraid to tell it as it is? Try a$$holeconsulting.com
Posted by: Pete of Perth | October 17, 2014 at 04:54
The spacewalk link is interesting. The first US spacewalk, by Ed White, appeared so effortless that NASA concluded that it was pretty easy (Ed was having such a great time that Capcom had to order him back into the capsule). Subsequent missions demonstrated that space-walking was much more difficult than they thought.
Posted by: JL | October 17, 2014 at 06:39
Samsung's… been able to crank its 5G network download speeds to 940MB while stationary, which is bananas.
I want it now.
Posted by: Sam | October 17, 2014 at 07:33
One for Dr Westerhaus:
And if that’s not a good time waiting to be had, I don’t know what is.
Posted by: David | October 17, 2014 at 07:35
I want it now.
It is rather brisk.
Posted by: David | October 17, 2014 at 07:36
More racial fretting, pretension, condescension, baiting on the behalf of the Graun.
Re Ms Giorgis and her bizarre column, it’s worth noting that this “feminist and organiser” has most likely been taught to think in the way she does. Which is to say, to make lurid and sweeping assertions with no regard for evidence or internal consistency. It’s also worth noting that, as yet and despite well over a thousand replies, she’s chosen not to engage with any of her critics.
Posted by: David | October 17, 2014 at 08:21
Rubber stress mushrooms.
I'm a bit put off by the fact they're so phallic and the instructions say 'Stretch them, twist them, smash them on the desk'.
Posted by: Connor | October 17, 2014 at 08:57
Lego Galactus is so adorable.
I can't believe I watched it all to see how it ended.
Posted by: svh | October 17, 2014 at 10:31
I can’t believe I watched it all to see how it ended.
I’m almost tempted to buy the game.
< spoiler >The mighty Galactus, devourer of worlds, is foiled by a wormhole and a giant Lego cake.< /spoiler >
Posted by: David | October 17, 2014 at 10:39
Up to date art criticism.
Posted by: Hal | October 17, 2014 at 14:20
Have you ever considered doing a 'greatest hits' of your animal behaviour clips, David? Many are fascinating.
Posted by: Theophrastus | October 17, 2014 at 20:05
Theophrastus,
It’s a thought, but I try to use cute in small doses.
Posted by: David | October 17, 2014 at 20:30
How a square baler ties its knots, courtesy of New Holland. Fantastic mechanical engineering.
Posted by: Tim Newman | October 17, 2014 at 21:21
How a square baler ties its knots, . . .
A while back a friend commented online that if just one more of her co-workers walked over to her desk to yet again ask the same totally and surreally stupid question---whatever the question was---she was going to go rampaging through the hallways with a farm implement.
Always happy to be helpful, I sent her a link.
After a bit she replied that she wasn't certain it would quite fit through the apparently limited spaces . . .
Posted by: Hal | October 17, 2014 at 22:09
The Billie Jean on bottles is better than the original.
Posted by: dicentra | October 18, 2014 at 00:24
Now it can be shown: Deleted scene from the Tennant era of Doctor Who.
Posted by: dicentra | October 18, 2014 at 05:30
David - Point taken about cuteness, but many of your animal video links are astonishing rather than cute.
Posted by: Theophrastus | October 18, 2014 at 16:35
but many of your animal video links are astonishing rather than cute.
I think so too. Of course then there’s the question of finding the bloody things. By my reckoning I’ve posted close to 8,000 ephemera items over the years. Which of us volunteers to sift through them all?
Posted by: David | October 18, 2014 at 16:50
David,
I'm certain that you will find this most...well, um, edifying. Or dismaying. Take your pick.
http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/09/reclaiming-sacred-black-indigenous-qtpoc-science-sustainable-living-survivor-ship-magic/
Posted by: Agha_Memnun | October 18, 2014 at 22:08
Wow, that person sounds like a bigger cretin than the aforementioned cretin mentioned in the Ebola article above. First of, do these people live in the real world? Secondly, are they trying to recreate reality? More importantly, ethnocentrism from POC is every bit as disgusting, ugly and creepy as if it where coming from the hateful, micro-aggressing, privileged, patriarchal, heteronormative, cis, white males (see what I did there). Also, let me say these twats really are beyond parody.
I say this as a gay US Latino/Hispanic of Puerto Rican descent, but surely my fair skin for some Social Jusice/race warriors would involve me having to spank my own ass and apologize for my very own existence and "privilege", even if I'm just as much as descendant of Blacks/slaves and Amerindians, those nose peoples, as the rest of them non-White folk. And for writing this, I'd probably considered a reactionary, a right wringer, and even a Tio Thomas (Uncle Tom).
It's all very exhausting.
Posted by: Account Deleted | October 18, 2014 at 23:06
Mercy Medusa Mahogany Immanuel Thokozane Minah is a genderqueer survivor chronically ill writer, artist and revolutionary who writes themselves into a magical existence everyday of their life.
I think maybe she needs some professional help.
Is she living multiple lives through her writing while stuck in bed (due to her chronic illness) ?
Posted by: jimmy | October 19, 2014 at 00:21
Ebola is now a stand-in for any combination of ‘African-ness’, ‘blackness’, ‘foreign-ness’ and ‘infestation’ – poised to ruin the perceived purity of western borders and bodies
These incantations have become every bit as tedious, canned, and irrelevant as the preachers who declare everything to be Judgment from God because Gays.
If everything is Judgment/Racism, then nothing is.
Posted by: dicentra | October 19, 2014 at 00:38
I like this one best.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lightbox/nikon-small-world-2014-unranked-entries-1413410871-slideshow/nikon-small-world-2014-unranked-entries-photo-1413470221889.html
I'd title it "A bug planet!".
Posted by: ac1 | October 21, 2014 at 00:30