I have a soft spot for Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag," mostly as a fun karaoke song that namedrops Iron Maiden and a boyfriend who's a dick. But I've always been surprised… Read the rest of the article: There's actually an interesting (and obsessive) story behind Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag"
On January 4, 1910, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on a wildly tragic incident that had occurred in Des Moines, Iowa. The strangest accident recorded in local history occurred here… Read the rest of the article: Award-winning duck eats yeast, explodes, and blinds a man
Irish radio DJ Elaine Howley posted this on Twitter the other day: The teddy display at Cork City dump has always been strong but it is reaching new heights pic.twitter.com/AgHIfhAlp3… Read the rest of the article: The Cork City Dump is a haunted graveyard of your childhood
Shakespeare's Globe — a reconstruction of the original Globe Theatre opened by William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1599 — has issued a plea for donations in the… Read the rest of the article: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is feeling the financial strain of coronavirus
The New Yorker has a great new profile on singer-songwriter / human treasure Phoebe Bridgers, whose new album, Punisher, will be released on June 19. Any interview with Bridgers is a… Read the rest of the article: This Phoebe Bridgers profile is a fascinating look at journalism in the time of coronavius
Inspired by a tweet from March 2018, Jesús Roldán put together this Antidepressants or Tolkien Character? quiz, and god damn, it's a lot harder than I anticipated. The Council of… Read the rest of the article: Can you tell the difference between antidepressants and Tolkien characters? Take the quiz!
From the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum on Facebook: Quarantine has caused everyone to go a little stir-crazy, even the residents of the Kansas City Zoo. So several of the penguins decided… Read the rest of the article: Penguins tour an art museum in Kansas City
On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted about taking the Red Pill, which Ivanka Trump enthusiastically retweeted as "Taken!" The Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski offered the perfect response to this: Fuck both… Read the rest of the article: Fox & Friends host explains the Matrix, poorly
Courtesy of the Funk Turkey, who explains his methodology: Using lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database, I made a Markov Chain write AC/DC lyrics. This is the end result-… Read the rest of the article: Someone trained a bot to write an AC/DC song
From Global News: A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them. ABC Displays… Read the rest of the article: Someone invented convertible hospital beds that turn into coffins
View this post on Instagram a fun game 💜 collab w cyber bb @404loko A post shared by Aiden :) (@aidenarata) on May 13, 2020 at 4:29pm PDT I've shared… Read the rest of the article: Pass the time with Dystopian Future Bingo
Progressive Christian blogger Joe Forrest has a great piece up on Medium about conspiracy theories, that begins with the story of how he convinced his sixth grade class that… Read the rest of the article: How come so many Christians fall for conspiracy theories?
May 16 marks 30 years since Jim Henson passed away. To remember his delightful legacy, here's a public access video of him and Don Sahlin (who went on to create… Read the rest of the article: Making DIY Homemade Puppets with Jim Henson in 1969
Wow. Inspiring.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Image via Wikimedia Commons / CC 4.0
Deep in the depths of the hydrothermal volcanic vents of the Indian Ocean lives a type of scaly-footed snail that has learned how to protect itself from the elements with… Read the rest of the article: These volcano-dwelling snails are metal as hell, and also have iron shells.
First Quest was an all-exclusive campaign for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Released in 1985, the campaign map and other documentation came packaged as the insert to an epic ambient synth soundtrack… Read the rest of the article: Listen to this 80s ambient synth playlist during your next D&D game
It's beautiful pic.twitter.com/uDI9nlnI4A — beef (@shittyfriend) May 13, 2020 Image: Evan Swigart / Flickr (CC 2.0)
In hopes of minimizing the spread of coronavirus in their community, the Cheyenne River Sioux have established a series of checkpoints on state highways that run through tribal reservations in… Read the rest of the article: South Dakota governor tries to crush Native American efforts to contain the coronavirus
The 75-issue Sandman comic book series was of course Neil Gaiman's first big foray into fame. What began as a story in the DC Comics Universe about Morpheus, the Avatar… Read the rest of the article: Casting announced for the upcoming Audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman"
