Accent expert Amy Walker evaluates British accents by American actors in Maleficent, Ocean's Thirteen, The Iron Lady, Mrs. Doubtfire, Bridget Jones' Baby, The Parent Trap, Shakespeare in Love, and Imagine… Read the rest of the article: Accent expert critiques American actors' British acccents
Juggalos think Boogaloos suck!
Black Sabbath is selling a Black Lives Matter T-shirt inspired by the band's iconic logo. 100% OF THE NET PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT BLACK LIVES MATTER GLOBAL NETWORK FOUNDATION, INC. In… Read the rest of the article: Black Sabbath makes Black Lives Matter T-shirt
KCRW Radio station sent a microphone to David Lynch to improve the audio of his wonderful daily weather reports. In this video, he shows a wood stand and a protective… Read the rest of the article: David Lynch shows how to make a microphone stand
I don't know how effective this Trump ad will be against Trump's cult followers, who don't care how "weak, shaky, unfit" he is as long as he continues to embrace… Read the rest of the article: New Lincoln project ad says Trump is a "weak, shaky, unfit president"
The 130-year-old Aunt Jemima brand is coming to an end, says Quaker Oats, which said “We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype." From NBC News: Aunt… Read the rest of the article: Aunt Jemima brand will no longer be used, says owner
There are times when I get tired of all of the major sites and apps that make up a lot of the seen Internet. Sadly, I was born too late… Read the rest of the article: My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension
More than 116,000 people have died so far from coronavirus in the United States, and according to a model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University… Read the rest of the article: Model predicts 200,000 Covid deaths in US by October 1
Want to see more of this? Fans of the various Star Trek series have been using FaceApp, the popular smart phone facial editing software, to alter the faces (and gender… Read the rest of the article: Star Trek fans use FaceApp to swap genders of franchise characters
Kudos to Nashville Public Library for making a video that explains their new curbside service in 1990 style! "Curb Side Baby" parodies Vanilla Ice's megahit AND relays important info about… Read the rest of the article: Library explains new curbside book pickup with "Ice Ice Baby" parody
"Roosevelt's Big Adventure," a thoughtful, low-low-budget re-creation of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, is a hoot — such dedication from the entire family! A retelling if the classic 1985 movie by one… Read the rest of the article: A kid and his family re-created "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" scene-by-scene in quarantine
Who among us hasn't used a pair of parentheses to draw a butt? Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hertz has taken this idea one step further with Butt Types, a visual… Read the rest of the article: The Butt Types: a bootyful typographical project for parenthesis in different fonts
Republican Senators including Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley have invoked the death of retired St. Louis Police captain David Dorn as proof of some kind of awful epidemic of anti-cop… Read the rest of the article: A US Air Force Sergeant linked to Boogaloo Bois charged with killing police officer
Sugar Heist is a fun-looking new card game from YouTube comedian/animator Alex Clark and TV writer Zach Craley (Heroes Reborn, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, and Spider-Man) with a simple goal: trade… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting Sugar Heist, a delightful card game about stealing candy from babies
The New York Times has a new report on the aerosol distribution of toilet flushing: Scientists have found that in addition to clearing out whatever business you’ve left behind, flushing… Read the rest of the article: Wear your mask in the bathroom so you don't get coronavirus from poop
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Gavin Smythe of Chagrin Falls, USA, mows his lawn in a black-and-white world
Over the past five years, Apple has done its typically thorough job in making the case for its Apple Watch becoming THE name in indispensable wrist wear. With each year’s… Read the rest of the article: The Apple Watch just keeps getting better and you can grab one now for $20 off
App games are created to be addictive. Stumble over something like Candy Crush or Tetris or Minecraft and, before you know it, you’re sunk hours of your day staring into… Read the rest of the article: Learn to read music by playing video games with this mobile app
This video by sketch comedy duo Amanda King and Kieran Humphries of Dogfood cleverly explores the idea of "breaking up" in video conferencing. I won't say anymore, just watch "Breaking… Read the rest of the article: "Breaking up" or *breaking up*?
BBC Earth's "Spy in the Wild" series (also on PBS) uses animatronic animals outfitted with miniature cameras to capture wildlife close up. In this gripping scene, Komodo dragons meet the… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Komodo dragons vs. Robot Spy Pig
