https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqCT9Exq58
When the EU's legislative committee voted last month to advance a bizarre copyright proposal that would mandate mass commercial surveillance and censorship of the internet, it was the beginning of the fight, not the end. (more…)
Karma the Corgi says it's all about attitude not altitude: 
He sought out medical treatment for minor burns, Dexheimer told the Wisconsin State Journal. As it turns out, the explosion hurt not only his foot but also his conscience.
The man opened up about what happened to a clergyman, Dexheimer said. The clergyman suggested that the man turn himself in to the authorities and accompanied him to the police station.
At about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, police officers at a Madison station were contacted by the man, who admitted to his failed upskirting plans. The man was “counseled on his actions,” Koval wrote, but ultimately released because he had not taken any illegal videos.
Speaking from experience, a few extra pounds makes everything worse.
&lquo;What we cannot talk about clearly must be passed over in silence.&rquo; — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Update: Here is the story: a card declined, a suspicious clerk, a prompt policeman, and all hell breaking loose.
On Monday afternoon, a 29-year-old woman fell through the ceiling of the King Street Reddi Mart and into the store below while trying to escape police. She was arrested without further incident.
She was with a 28-year-old man who was Tasered and then wrestled to the ground by an RCMP officer and the store owner.
The man and woman, both from Edmonton, have been charged with multiple counts, including using a stolen credit card, resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer, attempting to disarm a police officer and resisting arrest from someone aiding the police.
Active-duty and retired U.S. military officers and enlisted personnel are expressing a sense of moral emergency over the Defense Department setting up detention camps for undocumented immigrants on military bases. “It smacks of totalitarianism,” said Steve Kleinman, a retired Air Force colonel and military intelligence officer. Raf Noboa, an Iraq War veteran and former Army sergeant, said he was astounded by the “enormous moral offense” the camps represent and which the military will be ordered to support. “America’s military once liberated people from concentration camps,” Noboa told The Daily Beast. “It beggars the mind and our morality that it might be used to secure them.” “I knew something bad was going to happen. I have always taken [President Trump]’s rhetoric at face value and right now, I’m not banking on the president having good will towards people of my nationality,” said an active-duty military officer of Mexican descent currently stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, one of the sites under consideration for the detention camps.It's a terrible position for a professional soldier to be in. As noted by The Daily Beast, placing the camps on military bases places the nation's military personnel "... in an agonizing situation that pincers soldiers and airmen between the need for military discipline and a policy harking back to the infamous detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II or the forcible separation of children of native nations after Wounded Knee." Even if a solider is able to sleep soundly with this knowledge, the civilians who the military stands to protect may not. Bases built near the Mexican border are serviced by towns and cities full of people of Mexican, South and Central American descent. Trust and respect for a uniform associated with the incarceration of individuals who come from the same countries as their families did could become a stretch. Those who joined the military, for whatever reason, did not do so to be put in contention with their nation's people. They did not join to find themselves reviled for having a part in tearing apart families or detaining refugees seeking nothing more than safety. For a solider to say that they were simply following orders has not been enough to shield them from fault since the end of the Second World War. The policy of housing detainees on military property is putting the men and women of America's armed forces in harm's way – moral injury will be unavoidable. It goes without saying, but let's say it: no good will come of any of this. How The West responds to the hatred and vilification and othering of minorities will decide our era's standing in history. Right now, we're looking pretty shitty. Image via U.S. Army, courtesy of Staff Sgt. Corinna Baltos
It's hard to believe, but according to Axios and Yahoo Finance, as well as my own ears, The Stuttering John Podcast just recorded a prank phone call with Trump.
Yesterday, comedian John Melendez just called the White House switchboard and was put through to Trump (or a really good impersonator). Melendez told the switchboard that he was NJ Senator Bob Menendez's assistant, Sean Moore – "S-E-A-N as in Sean Connery" and "Moore as in Roger Moore."
The fun starts at about 32:00 into the podcast. After getting hung up on, then getting a vapid switchboard operator who believed him, and then a call back asking why he had a California phone number (to which Melendez responded that he was on vacation), and finally getting a call from Jared Kushner from Air Force One, Trump calls him back (at 1:10:00 on the recording).
“You went through a tough, tough situation, and I don’t think a very fair situation, but congratulations,” Trump tells The Stuttering John prankster.
The two chit chat about various items, including immigration, to which Trump said, "Bob, let me just tell you I want to be able to take care of the situation every bit as much as anybody else at the top level. I'd rather do the larger solution rather than the smaller solution."
And who's going to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. "I have a list of people, I have a big list of people, Bob, and we’ll take a look at it and we’re gonna make a decision. I’ll probably make it over the next couple of weeks," Trump assures him.
From Axios:
Why it matters: This calls into question White House security. White House staff members are freaking out today trying figure out how the podcast host was so easily transferred from the White House switchboard to Air Force One, per a source familiar.
The whole thing is ridiculous. Melendez, the host, had three different interactions with two White House operators and got through two call screens before Jared Kushner called him from Air Force One. According to Melendez, Kushner asked if he wanted to talk to the president then or have them call him back later, which is what he did.
You can listen to the podcast and hear it for yourself here.
Image: Michael Vadon/Flickr
If you don't have hex key without ball ends, you are missing out. The ball end allows you to tighten/loosen hex nuts from an angle up to 25%, which helps get around obstructions that would block a regular hex key set. Amazon has a good deal on a double set of ball-end hex keys (one metric, the other inch) for $11.
Michael Moore is just finishing up his anti-Trump documentary, which he talked about – along with the plight of America – on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night.
His new film, Fahrenheit 11/9 – a title that references both his 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary about President George W. Bush and the date that Trump won the presidential electoral vote – is about "how we got in this situation and how we're going to get out of it."
He shows us a short clip of the film, and then asks Colbert, "When you read the paper every day or watch the news, do you ever cry?...It happens to me now every day...That has become the norm."
He reminds us that the majority of Americans are liberal, which is proven by the fact that Democrats have won the popular vote in the last 6 out of 7 presidential elections, losing only once since 1988 when George W. Bush won in 2004.
Fahrenheit 11/9 will be released September 21.
Alex Chadwick and his 1958 Fender Strat present one hundred great guitar riffs of all time in one 12-minute take. (The only riff here I can play is Blitkreig Bop, but fortunately, it's the best one.)
From Open Culture:
So central is the riff to the catchiness of a song that one could write an entire history of rock ‘n’ roll in riffs, which is exactly what Alex Chadwick has done in the video above, opening with the groovy jazz lick of 1953’s “Mr. Sandman” and wrapping up with St. Vincent’s “Cruel.” Though the more recent riffs might elude many people—having not yet become classic rock hits played at hockey games—nearly all of these 100 riffs from 100 rock ‘n’ roll songs will be instantly familiar. The video comes from music store Chicago Music Exchange, where employees likely hear many of these tunes played all day long, but never in chronological succession with such perfect intonation.
An an all-you-can-eat buffet in Chengdu, China closed its doors after just two weeks because customers ate too much and also cheated, causing the owners to go over $100,000 in debt.
From Matador Network:
Hoping to attract a loyal following, the restaurant allowed diners to buy a $25 all-you-can-eat card giving them unlimited access to the buffet for an entire month. Upon learning this, Chengdu residents lined up to take full advantage of the offer, forming lines in front of the restaurant each morning. After gorging themselves, the diners decided to optimize their investment even more by passing the card on to friends and family, creating utter chaos inside the dining room and sending over 500 people through the buffet line (multiple times, of course) each day.
Police in Dover, Delaware were flummoxed on Tuesday when they found a house sitting in the middle of a two-lane road with an "Oversize Load" banner hanging across it.
According to the police on their Facebook page:
"Sooooo somebody left a house on Long Point Road. Nope this is not a joke. We are unable to get anyone to move the house until Wednesday, so Long Point Road is closed until further notice. Please use an alternate route of travel."
Turns out part of the trailer had fallen into a ditch, and it was too late in the day for the owner to have someone come out and fix it. By Wednesday the big load was taken away and a state of normality on Long Point Road was restored.
Via Inside Edition
Image: Dover Police Dept. (Delaware)
The San Angelo Police department have arrested 19-year-old Caleb Wilson on multiple felony charged after he drove his large red pickup truck through a Texas Walmart.
From the police incident report:
After several interviews of store patrons and staff, Investigators learned the suspect, later identified as Caleb Wilson, was at the store with an 18-year-old female acquaintance when Wilson, whom was exhibiting erratic behavior, attempted to purchase a pallet of water. After Wilson and his female acquaintance exited the store, a nearby patron observed what appeared to be a verbal argument between Wilson and the woman. Concerned for the woman’s welfare, the patron intervened and convinced the woman to go back inside the store. When the woman and the patron later exited the store to see if Wilson had left, they were confronted by Wilson’s truck, which was speeding towards them. The woman and patron narrowly avoided injury by jumping out of the truck’s path.
Once inside the store, Wilson drove into multiple displays and store fixtures before exiting the store. The incident lasted several minutes. Preliminary damage to the property was estimated to be around $500,000. No injuries have been reported.
Investigators have obtained Arrest Warrants for Wilson for First Degree Felony Criminal Mischief and two counts of Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon. Wilson remains under medical care at this time.
A woman from Rock Hill, North Carolina, was taken into custody shortly after robbing the Express Beverage store there. Unfortunately for her, dozens of cops were training over the road and arrived within a minute of the heist going down.
The store owner told police the suspect took cash from the register, Faris said. The owner then pulled out his phone to call police and told the woman he would not make the call if she gave the money back and left, Faris said.
The woman chose to make a run for it, Faris said.
"She left with the money on foot," Faris said.
Walden allegedly refused to identify herself to police and was taken to Piedmont Medical Center after complaining of health problems, Faris said.
She was fine.
Kenichiro Okamoto, a Japanese blogger and cybercrime consultant, was murdered in a restroom following a lecture he gave in Fukuoka on how to deal with Internet trolls.
From The Washington Post:
About 15 minutes after he concluded his talk, authorities say a man that had trolled and harassed Okamoto online attacked him in a men’s restroom, stabbing him repeatedly in the chest and neck, Asahi Shimbun reported. The man then fled the scene on a bicycle, according to the Japanese newspaper. Okamoto was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Immediately after the stabbing, a post appeared online in which the user wrote, “I am going to go now to my neighborhood police box to voluntarily surrender and take responsibility for my actions,” Mainichi Shimbun reported.
Late Sunday, a man identified as Hidemitsu Matsumoto turned himself in, saying he was “responsible for the murder in Chuo Ward,” the neighborhood where the seminar took place. A bloody knife was reportedly found in his bag, according to Mainichi Shimbun.
On Monday local time, police announced that they had arrested Matsumoto in connection with the killing.
According to Asahi Shimbun, police quoted Matsumoto saying, “I held a grudge against him over Internet (exchanges),” and “I thought I would kill him.”
Image: Kenichiro Okamoto, YouTube
For note taking with a fountain pen, which I do, there is no better paper than Maruman Mnemosyne.
While there is a lot of variety in ink, and I like to swap between several colors and pens, Maruman Mnemosyne is the most reliable paper I've found to write upon with my fountain pens. It takes a lot of ink to bleed through, doesn't feather very much, and allows my nibs to glide over the paper.
I like quad-ruled paper, as well. Makes it easier for me to sketch things, or to organize the page. College-ruled paper annoys me.
Mnemosyne was the Greek goddess of memory and gave birth to the muses. "Nemo" is right there in the middle. He's my dog.
Maruman Mnemosyne Inspiration 5 mm Grid 6.3 x 8.3" via Amazon
After releasing and withdrawing their long awaited 'Playground' Limited Time Mode (LTM) due to server load problems, Fortnite is poised to bring it back.
Popularity of Epic's massive 100 player Battle Royale tanked the Playground mode on release. Epic failed to realize just how popular a practice/friends only/clip making mode would be.
Playground mode will let players practice with their friends. Allowing folks to learn to aim and to build outside of a Battle Royale. 4 players get 1 hour to do anything they can imagine on 'The Island.' Resources are 10x, every spawn for loot will be populated, and players will respawn after an elimination.
Already a wild time, Fortnite just got a lot more competitive.
Tyrannosaurus rex is known for being huge and threatening. What's with those tiny arms though? Don't call them useless.
The oldest ingredient in the s’more’s holy trinity is the marshmallow, a sweet that gets its name from a plant called, appropriately enough, the marsh mallow. Marsh mallow, or Althea officinalis, is a plant indigenous to Eurasia and Northern Africa. For thousands of years, the root sap was boiled, strained and sweetened to cure sore throats or simply be eaten as a treat.
The white and puffy modern marshmallow looks much like its ancient ancestor. But for hundreds of years, creation of marshmallows was very time-consuming. Each marshmallow had to be manually poured and molded, and they were a treat that only the wealthy could afford. By the mid-19th century, the process had become mechanized and machines could make them so cheaply that they were included in most penny candy selections.
"Let Us Tell You S’more About America’s Favorite Campfire Treat" (Smithsonian)
image: Kevin Smith/Flickr
Before he demonstrates an elaborate example of using a laser to push an object, The Action Lab gives an accessible overview of light physics and relativistic mass. (more…)
Daisy Kadibil and her two young sisters were separated from their family by the Australian government, and the children were sent to an internment camp. Their escape and return home across hundreds of miles of brutal desert, following a rabbit-proof fence, inspired a book and film. (more…)
Redditor sp__ace filmed the popping of popcorn and provided a handy analytical study of the outcome, with pops-per-second in a fitted normal distribution to illustrate just how crazy things get on the stove.
The most useless data I've ever organized. First I counted 300 kernels into the pot and rolled the camera. All the data was obtained from the sound from video file. I used Audacity to look at the waveform to then manually retype exact time when each kernel popped and repeated that 288 times (never doing this again). I then used Wolfram Mathematica to plot the data and calculate normal distribution parameters.
It's an ISS supply run, but what a beautiful boat. Check out the plume -- "Holy Cow, look at that thing!" -- in this clip: https://youtu.be/u0dXiFKZY_o?t=98
Urban histories can be told in a thousand ways. The archaeological research project of the North/South metro line lends the River Amstel a voice in the historical portrayal of Amsterdam. The Amstel was once the vital artery, the central axis, of the city. Along the banks of the Amstel, at its mouth in the IJ, a small trading port originated about 800 years ago. At Damrak and Rokin in the city centre, archaeologists had a chance to physically access the riverbed, thanks to the excavations for the massive infrastructure project of the North/South metro line between 2003 and 2012.
Jun seo Hahm likes to create strange and wondrous beings, like this mouth-walker or these "negative-metaballs" below: (more…)
https://twitter.com/ErinatTheSun/status/1012466939325833216 The Guardian
In the aftermath of the shooting, the Gazette’s reporters were back out covering the tragedy that had been inflicted on their own colleagues. By late on Thursday evening, the newspaper posted its front page on social media as it went to press – “5 shot dead at The Capital” and “Laurel man, the suspected gunman, in custody”, read the headline and subhead. As evidence grew that the gun rampage had been committed by an individual who specifically targeted the newspaper and its editing team, the response of the surviving journalists on the title was one of resolute defiance.
One of the passengers, who later spoke to the Daily Mirror, said the smell coming from the unfortunate passenger was “like he hadn't washed himself for several weeks.” The passenger identified himself on Facebook as Russian art-rock guitarist, Andrey Suchilin, who had been vacationing on Gran Canaria. “The tragic and comic component of this whole situation is that I caught a disease, which (let’s not say how and why) makes a person quite stinky. As a result, a group of passengers may demand the captain for you to be removed from the plane,” Suchilin wrote. The embarrassment soon turned to horror, however. What the doctor on Gran Canaria diagnosed as “a simple beach infection,” curable by antibiotics, turned out to be tissue necrosis.That’s right: the infection was causing the flesh to die while he was still walking around breathing. Thanks to a misdiagnosis, the rot rapidly progressed through his body, causing the smell encountered on the airplane and doing serious physical harm to Suchilin. A day after being removed from the plane, Suchilin fell into a coma. Over the past month, doctors fought to save the musicians life. On June 25th, Suchilin’s heart, lungs and kidneys all shut down, killing him at the age of 59 years old. So yeah, maybe take care of those scrapes, cuts or itches in special places you get while traversing tropical locales. Still not feeling better? GET BACK TO THE DOCTOR. Your body might not be up to the task of fighting off what follows. Image via Wikipedia Commons
In this video by INTO, three lesbian elders -- Belita, Phyllis, and Sabel -- learn some new lesbian slang. They also relate to slang still being used today, like scissoring and uhauling, that they say dates back to the 1970s.
If you see an elephant on the road and do anything but breathe, you're gonna have a bad day.
YouTuber Mr Mash likes to make flipbooks. His latest is a depiction of Raven from Fortnite dancing. (more…)
Sea slugs, aka nudibranchs, are weird and wonderful psychedelic sea creatures. Earth Touch caught a frisky couple kissing beneath the waves. (more…)
Remember when the words "shithole country" erupted from Trump's oozing, racist mouth-hole? Yeah, so does everyone else. (more…)
With climate change comes extreme temperatures, and scientists just recorded a new low.
Nearly 15 degrees colder than the previous record-breaking coldest temperature, which was -128 degrees in 1983 near the South Pole, the temperature in Antarctica dropped to -144 degrees Fahrenheit.
Temperatures this low make Antarctica "almost like another planet," says lead researcher Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, quoted in Forbes.
Taking just a few breaths of air this cold would kill you. According to Forbes, "At that temperature, just a few breaths of air would induce hemorrhaging in your lungs and quickly lead to death."
The temperature was recorded using satellite measurements in the middle of Antarctica during the depths of winter where the sun never rises. These findings, recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, are close to the theoretical coldest temperature Earth can get down to.
Image: bhart9070/Pixabay
12-year-old composer Alma Deutscher improvised a beautiful sonata from 4 musical notes drawn from a hat.
From Open Culture:
"At age six she composed her first piano sonata. At age seven, she completed her first major composition, the opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra, which she premiered in a 2015 performance." And at "the age of ten she completed her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna on 29 December 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta." Fast forward to age twelve, you can watch Alma pull off something that, at this point, shouldn't come as a surprise. Above, 6o Minutes correspondent Bob Pelley pulls four random notes out of a hat. Then, soon enough, Deutscher uses the notes to start improving a sonata. Watch more of her performances on her YouTube channel.
The world’s being overrun by fascists and feckless fools, both consecutively and concurrently. You deserve a break from the stress they’ve been causing. So, here’s footage of every frigging duck who ever waddled or quacked making their way, on foot, to an emergency meeting of the waterfowl Illuminati. It’s OK. You deserve it.
Whoa, check out what happens when you tear open cattails, aka corn dog grass!
From Cattails.info:
Under the right conditions, cattails can grow and spread vigorously. The pollinated flowers develop into fluffy seed heads, blowing across a pond in autumn breezes. Just as commonly, cattails spread through their root system. The thick, white roots, called rhizomes, grow underground near the edge of ponds and in shallow swales. As long as the water is not too deep, the cattails feast off the open sunshine and abundant water, storing a large amount of food in the root system. In fact, cattails at the edge of pond can grow faster than fertilized corn in a field! The dense foliage and debris from old growth makes it very difficult for competing plant species to grow.
screenshots via erickkony
Thanks, Melissa!
When a man in his underwear was first spotted vaping, dancing, and hanging banners from an exit sign over a Los Angeles freeway, some witnesses who called the police worried he was suicidal.
Mind you, this was at 8am, already a bumper-to-bumper time slot on any LA freeway. But traffic came to a grinding halt while the guy hung posters that read, "Fight pollution not each other," "Give a hoot, don’t pollute," and "Dephree," this last one a dead giveaway that this was actually a publicity stunt.
Dephree is the stage name of 29-year-old rapper Alexander Dunn, who was planning on using images of his stunt for a music video. According to the Los Angeles Times:
The man, who was identified by police as 29-year-old Alexander Dunn, was booked on suspicion of delaying a police officer, trespassing on state property and failure to obey a regulatory sign.
Dunn, who performs under the stage name Dephree, was being recorded throughout the incident, his producer told The Times. They planned to release the images in a music video Wednesday evening, said King Graint...
The man scaled the exit sign for southbound 6th Street, Wilshire Boulevard and downtown 4th Street offramps. All southbound lanes on the 110 freeway leading into downtown were closed by 9:30 a.m.
Witnesses said the man was alternating between yelling about himself, love and God, and freestyle rapping. He also took breaks and would sit down and vape.
By 10am police officers talked Dunn into ending the spectacle, and the rapper came down in style, performing a backflip as he leapt onto an inflated mattress below.
He was booked on "suspicion of delaying a police officer, trespassing on state property and failure to obey a regulatory sign."
Dephree might be a hero to some, but they have now closed traffic on the 110s, it appears. pic.twitter.com/9Qk2uJiAwK
— Benjamin Oreskes🦅 (@boreskes) June 27, 2018
Dephree has just done a backflip of the sign. pic.twitter.com/d5qh6qybQ6
— Benjamin Oreskes🦅 (@boreskes) June 27, 2018
In 1985, a 15-year-old Southern Californian girl went to a shopping mall in Northridge and bought the Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist album, which included an H.R. Giger poster called “Landscape XX,” also known as “Penis Landscape.” The girl's mother was horrified and she complained to the LA city attorney. According to Quartz, "A few months later, nine police officers stormed into Biafra’s apartment in San Francisco and his record label’s offices, seizing copies of the album and demanding to know where Giger lived."(Giger lived in Zurich.) Biafra and record label manager were arrested and charged with "distributing harmful material to a minor." Biafra said “We were the first people to be prosecuted over an album in American history.”
From Quartz:
The jury deadlocked 7-5 in favor of acquittal, and the judge declared a mistrial. A few of the younger jurors asked Biafra to autograph the poster. (It was no longer included in the record after the trial, though it was available long afterward by mail order from Alternative Tentacles—with proof of age.).
The case reverberated for years. “If any of us had been convicted, there would have been a precedent set where even an artist or a crew member working on a project that someone deemed obscene would be responsible for the whole project,” Biafra told the Miami Herald after the trial. Even though Biafra was acquitted, many chain stores still pulled his band’s—and his label’s—records from their shelves.
From Dangerous Minds:
The hysteria that surrounded rap and rock music 30 years ago is hard to imagine today, now that the anti-smut crusaders have elevated Mr. Obscenity himself to the White House, but the incoherent language of the reactionary right hasn’t changed much: at one point during the trial, in an ecstasy of outrage, the prosecutor compared H. R. Giger to the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez.
In the above video, Biafra and his father are interviewed about the case outside the courtroom.
If this interests you, here's a 1986 episode of Oprah, taken during the height of the moral panic about profanity and violence in rap and rock music, which was led by Al Gore's then-wife Tipper Gore. The episode has a pearl-clutching Tipper facing off against an articulate Jello, along with a constantly-interrupting Bob Guccione Jr (publisher of Spin), and others: https://youtu.be/ZpUeo6wR7M4 https://youtu.be/iZmDkn-VVuQ https://youtu.be/72Q6KFem4xo https://youtu.be/olEGy_0fzgY
When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy quit yesterday, it was a nightmare for liberals: now Trump was going to get to appoint a second judge, and he'll be replacing a judge who cast deciding votes for marriage equality and habeas corpus rights for Gitmo prisoners. (more…)
One six-year-old kid, one thousand dollars, one day to spend it.
The guys at Yes Theory gave Huck a cool grand in cash to spend on anything he wanted. Inspired by a scene in Home Alone, he starts with renting a limo. Then it's eating pizza in the limo and then it's taking the limo to the toy store. By the end of (what is a surprisingly heartwarming) video, he's got a bag full of candy and empty pockets (because he gave a bunch to people in need).
I have wonderful childhood memories of Jiffy Pop over a campfire. They are absolutely false.
Jiffy Pop is the hardest way to make popcorn I've seen. Even stove top preparation is a pain. If you pay a lot of attention, and keep the pan in constant motion, Jiffy Pop on a gas stove is still a pleasure. The spiral aluminum top is just heaven to watch fill up.
Cooking Jiffy Pop over a campfire results in upset children. Jiffy Pop really can not be popped over dancing flames and massively uneven temperatures. If you really want to make campfire Jiffy Pop I suggest you dig some coals out of the fire, make a small pile, and try with more even heat.
I'm going camping, and I take Jiffy Pop with me! I jsut use a gas stove I use to pop it.
Jiffy Pop Butter Popcorn via Amazon
Inconsiderate drivers cause accidents. This guy used clips recorded from his dashcam to show examples of rude, annoying driving behaviors - people who don't use turn signals, people who slow down when they merge, people who speed up when someone tries to pass them, people who slow way down at a slight bend in the road, and my pet peeve - people who pull in front of you and force you to slow way down.
Can an electrified bandage really kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria (and make the wear not as smelly)? Chemical and Engineering News put one, made by Vomaris Innovations, to the test, and the answer seems to be yes.
Although the bandage is about a decade old, recent research has shown the technology can destroy hardy, antibiotic-resistant biofilms in pigs (Ann. Surg. 2017, DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000002504). Soon, the makers hope to prove the bandage’s efficacy in human clinical trials, and they also have their eyes on other commercial applications, including sportswear that fights smelly bacteria (shown). The latest episode of Speaking of Chemistry explores the science behind the bandages and puts their odor-fighting claims to the test.
Jessa Reed was addicted to meth for years, and it's great she survived to tell us about her rock bottom, which involved drinking her own pee to get high. (more…)
Annabelle Narey hired a London construction firm called BuildTeam to do some work, which she found very unsatisfactory (she blames them for a potentially lethal roof collapse in a bedroom); so she did what many of us do when we're unhappy with a business: she wrote an online complaint, and it was joined by other people who said that they had hired BuildTeam and been unhappy with the work. (more…)
So far, prosecutions have been launched across 19 states as a result of the operation, seizing more than $3.6 million in cash. The same raids seized large quantities of Schedule IV pharmaceuticals — including 100,000 tramadol pills and over 24 kilograms of Xanax — as is typical of trade on dark net markets. Agents also recovered more than 300 models of liquid synthetic opioids and roughly 100 grams of fentanyl. Further investigations are still ongoing.Given the number of lives that these drugs could have destroyed (seriously fuck anyone that sells fentanyl) I’m very OK with all of this. Image via Flickr
Buckingham Palace showed how deep their love is for Barry Gibb, the only living member of the Bee Gees, by knighting him in honor of his work in music and charity. Prince Charles performed the ceremony on Tuesday. The 71-year-old pop singer and songwriter dedicated his knighthood to his late siblings in a moving speech.
Sir Barry is the last surviving member of the band after the death of Maurice following a bowel operation in 2003 and his twin Robin in 2012 from cancer. "If it was not for my brothers, I would not be here. If I had spent my whole life writing songs on my own, it would have meant something else altogether. "I hope and pray they are aware of what's happened..."
A mysterious metal object washed up on a beach in Corolla on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and nobody seems to know its origin. Is it part of a Russian nuclear sub? An ocean buoy? Advanced alien technology? Or something far stranger? From the Charlotte Observer:
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which controls much of the land along the Outer Banks, says the object is outside its jurisdiction. "I don't know what the object is," said Mike Barber, a spokesman for the National Park Service.
Sam Walker, news director at Max Radio of the Carolinas in Nags Head, is the one who first started asking questions about the object. He says it's sitting far from any beach access ramp, making it tough for heavy equipment to remove it. "Stuff washes up all the time, and if it's not bothering anything, it just stays," he told the Observer. "There's no telling how deep this thing is in the sand."
This Saturday (6/30) in San Francisco, Brooklyn-based artist/designer Scott Albrecht opens "A Forgiving Sunset," a large solo exhibition of new woodworks, works-on-paper, and steel sculptures. Scott continues to amplify his blend of artistic vision and exquisite craftsmanship in captivating works that are based in simple typographical forms but manifested from his puzzle-like assembly of numerous individual pieces of paper, wood, or, now, steel.
“The work for this show pulls from a range of experiences and inspirations over the last two years," Albrecht says. "A recurring point of reference in the work was the social climate and the growing gaps I was seeing among relationships — both on a cultural level as well as a personal level — and my own desire to return to something more connected. When I began this collection I developed a somewhat daily habit of listening to the poem, Desiderata by Max Ehrmann. Although it was originally written in 1927, it is, among many things, a fairly timeless call for empathy, compassion and understanding, which seems just as relevant and needed today as I’m sure it did when it was written.”
A Forgiving Sunset hangs at the First Amendment Gallery until July 28. The opening reception is Saturday, June 30, from 7-10pm.
CARNE y ARENA is a timely virtual reality project from Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound that allows people to feel the terror of being apprehended by border patrol. (more…)
Ever drive over a manhole that was not flush with the pavement? This is how they fix them.
Via Mr. Manhole:
In 2002, we recognized that there had to be a better way to remove manhole frames from the road, and came up with the Mr. Manhole system, a state-of-the-art set of tools, and a repair method that makes manhole removal and repair easier and safer for your crew.
It looked like it was starting to snow a bit at one point. Let's hope Mr. Manhole has the number for Mr. Plow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYXEt7xOh1M
• Mr. Manhole Full Process - How it works (YouTube / Mr Manhole)
Here is a clip from a 1975 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood where Mister Rogers interviews Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.
Looking at this video, it's hard not to pine for a time when you could talk so sweetly and innocently about witches on a children's program and not risk fundie villagers showing up at the neighborhood's gates with pitch forks and threats of a boycott.
https://youtu.be/W23FRsHnegE
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