Category: random idiocy
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tongue
So that you might feel, I don’t know, unclean for the rest of the day, here is a 24-inch long disembodied tongue licking a snail: Or, it could be a Florida Horse Conch. You decide. Read.
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funhouse
Yet more proof that you can’t believe everything you see: “The flashed face distortion effect is an optical illusion involving the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. Faces appear grotesquely transformed whilst one focuses on the cross midway between them. As with many scientific discoveries, the phenomenon was first observed serendipitously … The phenomenon … also… Read.
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spontaneously generated boo
Recipe for cats: When folding clothes fresh from the dryer, stack them on the table. Within the hour, cats will begin to appear. Read.
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dinosaurs!wtf?
This is the blog my oldest son would’ve written if there had only been such a thing as blogs back around 1989 or so: Nanotyrannus was only about a third of the size of the biggest tyrannosaurs, which you might think would preclude it from this list [of the 5 most awful Tyrannosaurs]. The problem… Read.
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rudolph
Finally, somebody else said it too: When I was a kid, I used to watch the old Rankin-Bass version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer same as everybody else without thinking much about it. Then as a grown-up I started showing it to my kids and when we got to the scene where Santa tells Rudolph’s… Read.
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backstory
I would love to know the back story that lead up to the video of a person on a scooter running into two cars, another scooter and a bus before finally plunging into a well or a caisson or a pit of despair. There’s got to be one hell of a good story here. Was… Read.
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FLING!
I just can’t stop watching this and snorting every time it flings the trash all over the sidewalk. I’ll probably still be here when you wake up tomorrow morning, giggling hysterically. And, just to put the needed dark spin on it: This is a vision of the robot apocalypse. We won’t be killed off by… Read.
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man-eating chair
Is it just me, or does the Inada DreamWave massaging chair look like the kind of soul-sucking weaponized Lay-Z-Boy used by the villain of a sci-fi movie to make Our Hero scream like an infant? Read.
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interrogative
I started to type “Why does 68 degrees feel cold in the winter and warm in the summer?” I got only as far as “why does” when the spirit of Dr. Suess furnished me with this page out of Green Eggs and Ham, if Green Eggs and Ham had included a page where Sam-I-Am wanders… Read.
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javaless
I’ve been on the road for a couple days in the service of the Great State of Wisconsin, which means that I haven’t had a decent cup of coffee until just this morning. The hotels we stay in on these trips are all the kind that serve a complimentary breakfast of dried cereal or make-your-own… Read.
