Friday Ephemera
September 25, 2015
Battleship probability calculator. // Cat eggs for breakfast. // Caffeinated shaving cream. // Cashless money box. // A brief history of modern art. // Nutcracker of note. // “How well do you know your toes?” // A global map of racial tolerance. // Enterprise-D VR headgear tour demo. Do the crew quarters have curtains? // Invisibility cloak. Hides particles, not people. // Raccoon earns her keep. // Donkey in a hammock. // Land’s End, from the makers of Monument Valley. // The lost tunnels of Liverpool. // Supersonic shock waves. // McDonald’s straws. // Speed chess. // Walther PPK rubber band gun. // Peek-a-boo fence. // Giant wooden megaphones “amplify the sounds of nature.” // And finally, cheerily, an interactive chart showing how many years you have left to live, probably.
Caffeinated shaving cream.
Needs more.
A brief history of modern art.
Ehn. Dada would be a broken tea cup.
Posted by: Hal | September 25, 2015 at 00:25
That Peek-a-boo fence fairly screams "cat entrance here" or at least a handy escape hatch.
The rubber-band gun's engineering is highly creative.
How is it that Indians don't feel any compunction in admitting they don't want to live next to someone of a different race?
Posted by: dicentra | September 25, 2015 at 01:40
I wonder if the racially intolerant map will be updated after the current onslaught occurring in Europe?
Posted by: Pete of Perth | September 25, 2015 at 02:21
How is it that Indians don't feel any compunction in admitting they don't want to live next to someone of a different race?
They grow up positively accepting concepts of caste.
Racism is the least of it. They're not that fond of most of their own race.
Posted by: Chester Draws | September 25, 2015 at 02:27
Too much time on my hands...
Posted by: jabrwok | September 25, 2015 at 03:17
Did we do the dream-dogs last week?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPaCWJL7XI
Also, as to the somewhat-interactive life-span visualizer - The XKCD-store will soon introduce this neat Christmas Calendar;
https://xkcd.com/1577/
A perfect gift for that special someone who thinks he is immortal.
Tomorrow we'll have sheep-in-cabbage, because it's that time of year again, yehey!
Hugs,
-S
Posted by: Simen Thoresen | September 25, 2015 at 04:51
Did we do the dream-dogs last week?
I think I’d remember.
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 06:47
A perfect gift for that special someone who thinks he is immortal.
I wonder how differently people might live if they were more regularly aware, and vividly aware, that a countdown is underway.
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 07:02
One of our regulars, David Gillies, is quoted, approvingly, over at Samizdata.
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 09:57
Who would have thought that the West, far from being the worst racists in the world as the Left continually claims, is actually the least?
Posted by: Rob | September 25, 2015 at 10:11
The lost tunnels of Liverpool.
Made by people trying to escape.
Posted by: sk60 | September 25, 2015 at 10:46
They grow up positively accepting concepts of caste.
We took a tour of India a couple of years ago. One of the most amusing aspects of this trip was watching a young Guardian type couple's brains short circuit every time our Brahmin guide demonstrated his haughty contempt for anyone who wasn't either within his caste or white.
Posted by: DH | September 25, 2015 at 13:03
Enterprise-D VR headgear tour demo.
So they're building the whole ship?
Posted by: Min | September 25, 2015 at 14:04
So they’re building the whole ship?
It’s a work in progress, but yes, that’s the plan.
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 14:11
Via Instapundit:
https://twitter.com/JPFreire/status/647092411794067456
(Scroll down for another gem.)
Posted by: Anna | September 25, 2015 at 15:08
(Scroll down for another gem.)
Oh that’s precious. And this one...
Where to start...?
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 15:20
Oh that’s precious.
What is *up* with those stupid nose rings? Are these women (and I'm seeing it more and more at the school where I work) declaring themselves chattel property? Do they not realize that nose rings are used to control livestock?
For that matter, how much snot gets stuck on those things?
People are weird.
Posted by: jabrwok | September 25, 2015 at 15:55
You Suck At Cooking.
Presentation is the key.
Posted by: R. Sherman | September 25, 2015 at 16:26
Presentation is the key.
I tried hard not to laugh but surrendered when the whole thing started to violently rotate. Which is what you look for in a meal.
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 16:39
Isn't the woman with the iphone trolling liberals? If you follow the link, she turns out to be a libertarian making a satirical point..I think..
Posted by: Kevin Donnelly | September 25, 2015 at 17:15
Isn’t the woman with the iphone trolling liberals?
Ah. It’s so hard to tell where the parody ends and the real joke begins.
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 17:28
Well I've often wondered if the Laurie Penny types are just conducting an ongoing situationist prank. It's hard to rationalise it all otherwise.
Posted by: K. Donnelly | September 25, 2015 at 17:30
Who would have thought that the West, far from being the worst racists in the world as the Left continually claims, is actually the least?
Indians may be less fussy about admitting their racism than other nations. That's the bias built into the survey: what people are willing to say to a pollster, let alone themselves.
Posted by: dicentra | September 25, 2015 at 20:23
Well I've often wondered if the Laurie Penny types are just conducting an ongoing situationist prank. It's hard to rational<== THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM ise it all otherwise.
There's nothing rational about what they're doing, there's nothing rational in their aspirations, so there's nothing rational about trying to pound that square peg into a rational round hole.
Posted by: dicentra | September 25, 2015 at 20:31
True Dicentra, but in practice the West IS less racist (except France, which in my experience should be that red colour).
A better measure is "Are you friends with someone of a different race" and "Have you invited a person of a different race to your house".
The numbers will be low most places, but higher in the West.
Posted by: Chester Draws | September 25, 2015 at 21:06
Ah. It’s so hard to tell where the parody ends and the real joke begins
And yet, there appears to be so many who are deathly serious ...
One learns new words everyday ...Posted by: Darleen | September 25, 2015 at 21:41
Some kinds of madness are best bricked up in a cellar.
Posted by: David | September 25, 2015 at 21:59
This seemed to belong here
Posted by: Henry | September 25, 2015 at 22:06
Learn to speak Sewell
Posted by: RobAnzac | September 26, 2015 at 01:56
I kid you not: http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/#botanical
Posted by: dicentra | September 26, 2015 at 08:24
God, how I want that Categg thing.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | September 26, 2015 at 09:00
"You're seriously making all women look like crazy bitches."
https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/status/647383385166491648
Posted by: Karen M | September 26, 2015 at 09:55
“You’re seriously making all women look like crazy bitches.”
Amen, sister.
Posted by: David | September 26, 2015 at 13:10