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Meanwhile in Venezuela of the Day: How to Get Onto the Metro
Mashup of the Day: Marching Band Performs Hollywood Blockbusters
The Ohio State University marching band perform a medley of musical numbers from blockbuster movies that include Superman, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, and others.
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Fan Tribute of the Day: The Evolution of Jesse Pinkman
Crazy Lawsuit of the Day: Man Sues His Wife for Having Ugly Children and Wins
Jian Feng of China insisted that his wife must have cheated on him because he claims he could not have fathered such ugly children. After DNA tests confirmed that the children were his, their mother admitted to having over $100,000 worth of plastic surgery before she and her husband met and continued to keep it a secret.
A judge agreed that Feng was duped into thinking that his wife was beautiful and awarded him $120,000! "I married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began having marital issues," Feng reportedly told the Irish Times. "Our daughter was so incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me."
UPDATE: We know this story is fabricated but hey, still funny!
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This Looks Shopped of the Day: The Green Hill Zone in Buenos Aires?
Avenue 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photoshopped by digital artist Martin de Pasquale.
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Help Rewrite History
For over a hundred years, boxes of cornflake-sized scraps of ancient paper have been tucked away at Oxford. Waiting to be decoded. And now you can help shed light on what they say.
The fragments are thousands of years old, dug out a of 30-foot deep trash mound in what was once the city of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. Oxyrhynchus turned out to be a great location for a stash of papyrus to ride out the centuries -- it doesn't get a lot of rain, and the dry desert sands kept the ancient writings from dissolving into oblivion.
The Oxyrhynchus papyri are a classical gold mine -- an accidental archive of literature that historians thought had been lost to the ages:
The traditional classical world leaves us no actual books: the great Library of Alexandria, the twenty-eight public libraries of imperial Rome have disappeared without trace. We are left with copies of copies, chance survivals through the Empire and Middle Ages. We have ideas of what’s missing, but these losses seemed final. -- P.J. Parsons, "Waste Paper City"
Because of Oryrhynchus, words that no one had read in a thousand years were suddenly reintroduced to the world. As the first pieces were dusted off in 1897, they were so startling they helped inspire a whole new field of study: Papyrology. Since then, they've revealed a heap of historic discoveries -- discoveries that lead to a footnote to Revelation, a challenge to Homer, and an unexpected glimpse into everyday life. (If you haven't heard our episode Detective Stories, that's all I'm going say about Jad's three favorite Greatest Hits of Ancient Garbage...go listen.)
Scholars have continued to painstakingly sort and translate pieces of text for over a century, but mining all these bits of papyri is a slow, slow process. Only a tiny fraction have been studied so far. That's where you and the Internet come in.
To speed the process along, researchers are looking for game volunteers to pitch in on some crowdsourced transcribing -- you don't need to know anything about the classics or read Greek (the language of most of the texts). All you need is an eye for detail, a little spare time, and maybe some swelling music to remind you how insane it is that some of these snippets could reshape history.
Take a few minutes to spin through the interactive tutorial, then dive in and start matching up characters. The work you do will automatically get saved, and passed on to scholars who'll carefully check everything and start trying to identify and translate the texts.
It's a staggering amount of work -- more than any one person could ever get through in a lifetime. And even with tons of volunteers, it's still going to take a long time. But come on, how often do you get a shot at maybe, possibly...someday...helping to unlock a 2,000-year-old secret?
1995-style opening title sequences for contemporary dramas
A nascent trend on YouTube is to take contemporary dramas and imagine what their 1995-style opening credits sequences might look like. The first one appears to be this Walking Dead one, followed by Breaking Bad, which is the best of the bunch:
The Game of Thrones one is pretty great as well:
These seem to be a variation on the recut trailers meme, e.g. The Shining as a romantic comedy or Toy Story as a horror film. (via @aaroncoleman0)
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How to find out the gender of your computer
How to find out the gender of your computer
Add OneTab to your Chrome and “save up to 95% memory and reduce...
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Add OneTab to your Chrome and “save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter in Google Chrome.” No signup or registration required (from my experience, I’m telling)! How it works?
Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once. […] When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome.
There is a God and he listens to my internet problems.
Single Topic Blog of the Day: Actresses Without Teeth
Well, this is one way to promote dental hygiene. The newly launched Tumblr blog Actresses Without Teeth features disturbingly photoshopped images of Hollywood actresses without any teeth. So far, the blog has curated at least 100 of these creepy photos, with many of them racking up hundreds of notes over the weekend.
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Share on FacebookParody Ad of the Day: The First Honest Cable Company
Extremely Decent Films pokes fun at the problem of oligopoly in the broadband Internet access industry with a clever parody commercial for "the first honest cable company."
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Share on Facebook'90s Nostalgia of the Day: Pictures We Didn't Take Before Digital Cameras
Webcomic artist TwentyPixels brings this list of things that we take pictures of now that we wouldn't have during the age of film photography.
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