Friday Ephemera

“Because love is forever!” // Smart collar for dogs. // Brain-controlled bionic leg. // There are duck lanes in London. // Star Trek-inspired office building of note. // That holiday in Iceland you’ve been planning. // How to prolong battery life. // Belly paint. // Rihanna farts in a bath. // Giant strawberry. // Tasty hedge. // Stayin’ Alive. // How to make gummi Lego. // Wet-fold origami animals. // An interactive global map of meteorite falls. // Interactive pixelated fur pompoms. // Cruise ships from above. // “Masturbating men will find their hands pregnant in the afterlife.” Don’t question Islamic science. // Smartphone screen-to-body ratios. // Retro-ironic gaming cabinet of note. // Hurdler. // Dad interventions. // And finally, fiercely, drag queen Storm versus drag queen Dark Phoenix. 

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[R. Sherman]

NB the cluster of meteorite impacts near Roswell, NM.

[Dave M]

Karnak: I will now read the next envelope!
Ed McMahon: (Stepping on Johnny's next line) HE WILL NOW READ THE NEXT ENVELOPE!
Karnak: (Glowering)... May your hands be impregnated in the next world!

Anyway, I got your ephemera right here, buddy.

[sk60]

“Because love is forever!”

Bet someone will though.

[Joan]

And finally, fiercely, drag queen Storm versus drag queen Dark Phoenix.

He's way better than Halle Berry.

[David]

Via PootBlog, I bring you... this.

[Tim Newman]

On the subject of cruise ships. I used to sit beside a naval architect, who told me two things:

1. If you want to compare their sizes, count the lifeboats.
2. One of the hardest things to locate is the nightclub, because of the noise. So on the modern ships, that weird saucer-shaped thing perched right on top of everything is the nightclub.

He also told me that the takings from the casino pays for the vessel in short order, but I don't know how true that is. What I do know is these things are being built bigger and bigger, and there appears to be no drying up of orders.

[Sam]

How to prolong battery life.

That's something else I didn't know.

[Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA]

From Harvard Business School: How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

The money quote:

“Most of the disagreements were on projects that the crowd liked but that the judges would potentially have given less money to or not have funded at all”

[Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA]

Classic sentences from the Guardian Summertime livin' is easy for rich

When rich people aren’t fleeing town, they get to enjoy the best their cities have to offer – unlike the rest of us. When they do go outside, they can walk around in expensive organic fabrics rather than the kind of sweltering polyester which can drive someone as crazy as Divine in the heat.

[Ten]

The unbridled brilliance of envious materialism.

Or as it's known, feminism.

[David]

Most of the disagreements were on projects that the crowd liked but that the judges would potentially have given less money to or not have funded at all.

Imagine my surprise.

sweltering polyester

Christ almighty. The pious Mr Thrasher opens with this: “I resent rich people in general, but I hate them especially during the summer.” Pretension aside, I can’t help thinking that cultivating a worldview in which irrational resentment is presented as a virtue, something to display, must take its toll on a person’s mental wellbeing.

[Jonathan]

Because love is forever!

Or: how to put your primary school - age children to work

[Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK]

What, is it illegal for the poor to wear seersucker?

[Hal]

. . . the Guardian Summertime livin' is easy for rich

Errrr . . . at least from the descriptions, and definitely that picture, the rich, or the frantically middle class---aka merely other hipsters?

A few years back in San Francisco, there was an enraged howl from someone who had deliberately parked a more glitzy than not car in a somewhat so-so neighborhood, just in time for a "protest march" to come along, complete with "anarchists", who immediately targeted the car and did some variety of damage . . . Or as I and several other readers noted; Oh, so a hipster is pissed off about encountering other hipsters.

[Min]

David, a 't-shirt of note'... https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/604330223266451457

[David]

Heh. Works for me.

[ac1]

But Crowds are the "experts" at art.
i.e. you cannot be expert judge of subjective value.
of course failed "artists" resent this as they understand (yet cloud with obfuscation) the masses rejection of their work and their assignment of a low productivity to the failed artists time.
Which is where the artistic narcissist comes in and demands that the public are somehow "wrong" and should be extorted from for selfish benefit.

[Henry]

Dad interventions

It's all true! I hate to boast, of course (cough), but I've done numbers 1, 3 and 6 on that list in the last fortnight

Evolution made men do all that sport so we could catch babies. Fact(oid).

[R. Sherman]

@Henry

Alas, my evolutionary tree prevented me from catching small children pre-mishap. Rather it prepared me to keep a death grip on my beer and then say, post tumble, "Rub some dirt on it . . . and don't tell your mother how this happened."

[Hal]

but I've done numbers 1, 3 and 6 on that list in the last fortnight

Number six . . . the one where, as far as I can tell, he doesn't just scoop up a kid, but fires her over the horizon?

[David]

In other news, Mark Littlewood reminds Laurie Penny that on May 7th the electorate didn’t seem overly keen on Laurie’s far-left Occupier “full communism” politics, resulting in the election of a Conservative government. Laurie regards this electoral detail as a “cheap debate point.”

[The Lurker on the Threshold]

Because love is forever!

Now if only they could get these as 3D tattoos.

[Darleen]

Belly paint

How could you forget the TRIGGER WARNING on that one? Why do you hate women?

[David]

How could you forget the TRIGGER WARNING on that one?

It’s best to take my evil intent as a given.

[mojo]

Only the poor wear white after Labor day, m'dear.