Some beautiful and awe-inspiring images of an imagined night sky where tidal forces have somehow managed to not rip the planet apart. (tags: via boingboing2013-09-01artastronomy )
I’ve always loved "This Old House" Magazine’s Home Inspection Nightmares series. As someone with a basic knowledge of DIY, and some time spend working hardware, I’ve come to appreciate how easy it is to come to a decision that makes perfect sense at the time, but later will cause others to look at you like your brain has just dribbled out of your ears. That being said, I can’t understand how any woudl look at a lightbulb that no longer works, see that it’s full of water, and think "Oh, I can leave this alone for now." (tags: lighting2013-09-01home inspection nightmaresdiy )
Normally these listicles are funny enough but not worth sharing. This one, though, makes the cut based on image #4 alone. (tags: animals2013-09-01funnyheatvia tumblr )
A collection of hidden/secret compartments, some of which you can make at home. For beauty I give top marks to the hidden garage, and for usefulness the hidden compartment in a stack of books takes the prize. (tags: via boingboing2013-09-01secret compartmentsdiy )
I can’t believe I’m considering going to see ‘Camelot’, but this new production in San Francisco sounds pretty amazing. I’m especially looking forward to hearing the reduced Medieval-style orchestra. And now that things have settled down with the move I really want to start getting out more. A tip of the hat to CaHwyGuy for alerting me to this. (tags: 2013-09-01theatrevia LJdeconstruction )
I’ve been in California a month and a half and I still haven’t tried a ‘Double Double’ yet, but after reading this I kind of want to try the ‘Cease and Desist’ burger first. (tags: lawfood2013-09-01funny )
Ostensibly, these pictures show a frog holding a leaf over its head to protect itself from the rain. They’re really very cute, but the more I look them the more I think that they’ve been faked somehow. Still cute though. (tags: animals2013-09-01cutevia tumblr )
This creator has made a series (with new episodes still coming) of ‘Doctor Who’ fan films, using puppets. The style reminds me so much of those British cartoons I used to see on Nickelodeon back in the mid-eighties, in-between programs back when they had trouble filling the commercial time. (tags: puppetsawesome2013-09-01funnydoctor whovideovia tumblr )
From the sometimes infuriating, sometimes baffling blog ‘Not Always Right’ comes one of the rare stories of a customer actually being an awesome human being. (tags: 2013-09-01funnyheartwarminganimaniacs )
A couple years ago there was a video circulating that showed a woman who’d been born deaf heraing herself for the first time after receiving a cochlear implant. The followup to that story, which I only just learned, is that Ellen DeGeneres saw the video, was moved, and invited the woman and her family onto the Ellen show. And then she had a surprise for them… (tags: 2013-09-01heartwarmingvideovia tumblrcochlear implant )
Randall Munroe of XKCD has been slowly animating a movie on his website, one frame every hour or so, over the course of four months. It finally finished last month, and now someone has compiled the entire episode into a YouTube video. Follow the travels of a couple friends, starting with building a simple sandcastle. (tags: xkcd2013-09-01video )