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How to snap off a piece of Toblerone: http://i.imgur.com/CzlwDsp.png
What if the moon was only as close as the international space station from Earth? http://io9.com/what-if-the-moon-was-as-close-as-the-international-spac-1446291788
Two weeks without cable: http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/adventures-in-cordcutting-my-first-two-weeks-without-cable.php
The history of “combo-breaker”: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/combo-breaker
Consoul: a short story told via an 8-bit adventure video: http://boingboing.net/2013/10/16/consoul-a-story-of-8-bit-life.html
12 great Disney villain songs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/the-12-greatest-disney-villain-songs
What’s wrong with Agents of SHIELD? http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacelacob/whats-wrong-with-abcs-agents-of-shield
Stephen Fry lets a “gay curing” doctor speak for himself: http://boingboing.net/2013/10/16/steven-fry-let-ex-gay-ther.html
Flowchart: how would you survive the zombie apocalypse (as a zombie)? http://www.dorkly.com/article/55297/flowchart-would-you-unsurvive-the-zombie-apocalypse
Tetris: Rated M: http://www.dorkly.com/picture/55283/tetris-rated-m
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Animated maps of the Civil War: http://www.civilwar.org/maps/animated-maps/
AT&T archives: Jim Henson’s computer: http://video.wired.com/watch/at-t-archives-charlie-magnetico-by-jim-henson
A tattered flag with a surveillance camera. The USA in one photo: http://i.imgur.com/dWq6myR.jpg
A very well done, but simple, optical illusion: http://izismile.com/2013/10/12/daily_picdump_weekend_edition_98_pics-35.html
Hello again, Kitty (comic): http://izismile.com/2013/10/12/daily_picdump_weekend_edition_98_pics-80.html
Simple and creative: demonstrating the absolute racism of the Cleveland Indians: http://twentytwowords.com/2013/10/10/ad-shows-the-racism-of-the-cleveland-indians-logo-simply-creatively-and-decisively/
Creative cord sorter: http://imsoso.soup.io/post/340750665/Image
The perfect song length is 2:42: http://boingboing.net/2008/04/17/perfect-length-for-a.html
Hydrogen and Helium evolved: http://www.reddit.com/tb/1oco4v
The way you’re supposed to open a bottle cap: http://imgur.com/6LvNe0W
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Muppet Actors spider-graph: http://www.chartgeek.com/muppet-actors/
10 gifs showing how aging changes our faces: http://fstoppers.com/10-incredible-gifs-showing-how-aging-changes-our-appearance
Simple graph showing the scale of the planets in our solar system: http://www.chartgeek.com/the-planets-to-scale/
32 lifehacks: http://www.funcage.com/blog/32-life-hacks-in-pictures/
10 alternate opening scenes for movies that they should have used instead: http://www.funcage.com/blog/32-life-hacks-in-pictures/
The most crime-ridden metro stations in the Washington DC area: http://www.wtop.com/654/3476087/Metros-most-crime-ridden-stations
The Milky Way Transit Authority subway map: http://arbesman.net/milkyway/
What do you want in a new Star Trek show? http://io9.com/what-do-you-want-to-see-from-a-new-star-trek-tv-show-1444063674
Free Star Trek wallpaper (from a site straight out of 1998): http://www.startrekdesktopwallpaper.com/
The best comment from that “What do you want in a new Star Trek show” q&a: http://io9.com/comment-of-the-day-final-frontier-edition-1443910810
Filed under 1_Link / Picture Dump, DIY & Lifehacks, Star Trek
Maurice Moss (The I.T. Crowd) – A Cellphone Tip
Filed under 2000s, DIY & Lifehacks, Movies & TV, U.K.
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At my funeral… http://bitsandpieces.us/2013/07/21/at-my-funeral/
Digg founder Kevin Rose saving his dog from a raccoon…by throwing the raccoon down a flight of steps. Slightly shocking, but what else could he do? http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2013/07/digg-founder-kevin-rose-saves-his-dog.html
How to make a homemade icepack: http://bitsandpieces.us/2013/07/22/homemade-ice-pack/
How to kill a lot of money for one day of your life: http://cheezburger.com/7683971072 (Note: my wife and I had a fairly simple ceremony, but we did spend a decent chunk of money on our wedding cake. Check out “The Cake Gallery” in Omaha/Reston, Nebraska. Best tasting cake I have had on EARTH, and it looked amazing. You can get their wedding cake as a cupcake, which we happen to do whenever we’re in town.)
Salt “growing” on a cow or antelope skull, on a shoreline. Beautiful. : http://i.imgur.com/Us6W6Zq.gif
Scary bear (NSFW, really WTF): http://cheezburger.com/7652258560
Filed under 1_Link / Picture Dump, Animals & Nature, DIY & Lifehacks, WTF
Tickle Me Elmo, Frozen in Carbonite (ala Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
More info is here: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/19/tickle-me-elmo-frozen-in-carbo.html
Filed under 1990s, DIY & Lifehacks, Movies & TV, Muppets, Star Wars
Mnemonic Device for Memorizing the U.S. Presidents
I first came up with one several years ago, but only from Martin Van Buren to Ulysses S. Grant (since that’s who we were studying in American History class at the time). Once we got past that unit, my grade was so good I could just coast for the remainder of the class (which I did).
Recently, I stumbled across a “name all the presidents” quiz at Mental Floss, and I was embarrassed that I kept missing 5-6 presidents. So, I made a mnemonic for the whole batch.
Here’s the quiz: http://mentalfloss.com/node/13224/take
And my mnemonics:
A. Will anyone just make muffins and jam?
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
B. Very heavy teaching people teach fairly poor behavior, like jolly Grant.
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
C. Hey, Garfield’s a cat! How cool, man.
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
D. Real threats will hand Carl his rifle.
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
E. Try everything! Kiss jaded nuns, for Christ!
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson
37. Richard M. Nixon
38. Gerald R. Ford
39. James Carter
F. Rowdy boys create battling ocelots.
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H. W. Bush
42. William J. Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barack Obama
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