(via Bits and Pieces)
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
Welcome to Edgewood
Welcome to Edgewood, BC
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Redditor robinnuber make a promotional video for Edgewood, British Columbia. Despite the dry humor, it ends up being a place everyone wants to visit, or even live there. When you have a ribbon factory and more ostriches than people, you've got something to talk about. Edgewood has only a few hundred residents, but it has an extensive Wikipedia entry detailing the history of the town, with no mention of the population. That means that some Wikipedia member is pretty proud of their town.
A noticeable detail is the can-and-string microphone. It makes this video look comically pre-industrial, but it's a genius idea. The phone slipped inside the can records the narrative while being protected from wind noise. (via reddit)
A Milestone
There is no links list today because I've been out of town. Dr. Dolittle got the commencement ceremony she didn't have four years ago when she graduated from college. She put in a ton of hard work in three years of classes and 15 months of clinical practice. I couldn't be more proud of my baby girl. She's come a long way from the toddler who was determined to run out into the street in traffic. Now she's getting ready to move to another state to start her first paying job as a veterinary surgeon.
Baby Rhinos
These baby rhinoceroses live at Care for Wild Africa Rhino Sanctuary in South Africa. Redditor Nkandla works there. He says they are fed milk every three hours, and make these noises when their milk is gone. The sad part is that the little rhinos are in the sanctuary due to poachers killing their mothers.
They should never have needed to come to us in the first place. They are the victims of poaching, even if they're still alive. We do everything we can to give them as normal a life as possible and the bigger they get, the less dependant on us they will become. Our bigger rhinos, which were once in the same position, are already grazing in the big open fields, without any form of human interaction.
We really do hope to have them back out in the wild one day!
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Fallout Upgrades
This video contains NSFW language. In the game Fallout, it's not whether you win or lose, or even if you survive. And it's not like the TV show, either. It's really all about the power armor upgrades and how you can impress other players. The choices are vast, and the results can be ultra ridiculous. Look at me! Look at me! Watch this game of one-upmanship from Dorkly and get some insight into the real point of online gaming. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Hamburglar
If he's going to steal hamburgers, he should be called the Hamburgerburglar. When he gets out of jail, maybe he will begin to steal hams. This comic is from Cameron Spires at goattoself. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Ultra-Processed Foods
My doctor said I needed to stop eating processed food, so I stopped buying candy and instead kept a fruit bowl handy. I lost 15 pounds in about a month. It's really hard to cut out ultra-processed food altogether, but I no longer buy ready-to-eat meals. Instead I make my own chili, vegetable soup, marinara sauce, etc. and freeze it in single portions. I've gotten to the point now where I don't crave junk food or fast food at all. My tastes have turned away from sugar and grease so much that I even order salad in a restaurant. (via Digg)
Miss Cellania's Links
Witches Frolic in a 2024 Walpurgis Night Celebration.
Here’s Your Chance to Own the Lamest Indy 500 Pace Cars. Of all the cars to choose from, the big wigs at Indy thought these would be the best… for some reason.
Nothing Could Prepare Me for the Bizarre 'Live Birth' Experience at Babyland Hospital. (via Damn Interesting)
The Flashlight Gun Is Peak WTF America.
The Country Bumpkins who gave us Parisian Café Culture.
There are many ways to spell "birthday," and Cake Wrecks has seen them all.
7 Extremely Weird Inventions From the Grandfather of Science Fiction.
The Research Error That Gave Us the Phrase ‘Missionary Position.’
Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration
The above chart shows where U.S. immigrants came from over the past 200 years, measured as a percentage of the U.S. population at the time. Max Galka crunched the numbers and made an interactive map showing the places U.S. immigrants have come from between 1820 and 2013. Each dot represents 10,000 people. The 79 million people who immigrated to the U.S. during that period only include those who became permanent legal residents. (via Boing Boing)
Tweet of the Day
Who can relate? 😂 pic.twitter.com/BmefYlJ7lD
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 4, 2024
Monday, May 06, 2024
Odin Runs on the World
Odin is a good boy. He's a Swiss shepherd who has learned to carry a camera as he zooms around and explores. This is an Insta360 camera, which gives the effect of Odin is traipsing around the globe wherever he is. And he's so happy doing it!
If you enjoyed that, there are plenty of videos of Odin and his 360 camera at TikTok. Odin has been to a lot of exotic places -and worn a lot of costumes- for his art. (via Laughing Squid)
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