I really need to do some regular linkdumps to clean out my bookmark folders, but these gifs keep proliferating...
Animals
Squirrel ejector
Happiest dog ever
Dog knows how to chill at a swimming pool
Is there a T. rex chasing everyone?
Peanut butter motivation for a dog on a treadmill
Praying mantis vs. mouse
Hit and run
Dog caught in the act (of being a dog)
Is the little fishy dead? Nope!
Cows try to intimidate a Canada goose
Cat with cerebellar hypoplasia
Dog shares the last half of his cookie
Duck vs. tiger
Sports
Jugglers
Throws like a girl
Catching the bridal bouquet
Couldn't do this again if he tried
Kid in green in a one-man wrecking crew
Impressive
Street magic
Using electricity to burn wood
Superb invisible man costume
Runaway anchor (relevant to the etymology of "bitter end.")
Excellent moonwalk
Young woman climbs a wall
Parisian immigrant climbs building exterior wall to save infant
This is Ona - a yacht owned by a Russian oligarch. No, not that one. The big one
Something something cliffs, in Ireland I think. Can't remember.
Unicycle
Pasta extruder - very cool
Mastery of repetitive tasks
Timber!!!
No hands after the first couple tumbles!
How a wire mesh is made (full video here)
Fails
This is not how you perform the "human wheel"
What would happen if you jump around in an elevator?
"Horizontal directional drilling" badly done
That's a cool way to drink beer! Let me try that...
Dude picks fights with random people on street
How not to feed the birds
Miscellaneous
Crushing candles with a hydraulic press
Installing foam insulation
Tea leaves come back to life
Airplane windshield cracks mid-flight. Science explained in this video.
A compilation video of what's wrong with FOX News
Baggage handler doesn't even try
How an Archimedes Screw works
Liquid can boil and freeze simultaneously
Calligraphy on watercolour paper
Humor
Simple magic trick
Speed-eating watermelon
Alright. Who stole the carrot?
Dog wants to help his human
How your brain can confuse a fake hand with your real one
Shopping with children
The difference between sisters and brothers
Dad trusts his kid too much
The images embedded in this gif-fest are photochroms from Germany's Belle Époque. More images (and explanations for these) at Hyperallergic.
Something something cliffs are the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland. (Also known as the Cliffs of Insanity in Princess Bride!) I was at the same spot about a month ago. Beautiful place.
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DeleteThan one with the two boys whipping each other is called "Lap Jack" in southeast Tennessee. My dad told me they used to play this, and whoever gave up first, lost. I only played it a couple of times, and only because I had been told about it. I don't reckon it's even known by most folks today.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things about Trump meeting with North Korea (per the Fox link) is that, in a sense, he is like Nixon meeting with China. Nixon had such a reputation for being a communist fighter that he was "trusted" when meeting with China. If a liberal had done that, everyone would probably have been saying, "Aha! I knew it: he's a communist." But Nixon could go precisely because no one remotely thought he was a communist.
ReplyDeleteSame with Trump. Of all the rotten things he can say and do, not mistakes him for a pushover. I have wondered if the G7 thing was really a way of telegraphing North Korea that if Trump would stand up even to allies, how much more will he be someone to consider when it comes to an enemy.
Of course, we all know Trump is an, um, "acquired taste." But even then, he is someone we know will not give away the farm.
I don't think Obama would have given away the farm either (and he was dead right to be willing to meet with enemies--that's how we avoid wars...and maybe even make new allies). But the fact that he was a liberal would have caused any little flaw to be magnified as a compromise with the enemy, I think.
Always appreciate these. The new UI at Reddit is pretty slow to load (over and over), it would be great to link directly to the gif if you can.
ReplyDeleteSome nice ones here, e.g. the juggling.
ReplyDeleteHaving difficulty keeping up with your never-rains-but-it-pours blog these days, largely because my Internet priorities have been changing. Am spending less time on blogs and more on forum discussions. Can be a tad overwhelming to return.
The calligraphy medium looks more like watercolour paper whith its characteristic texture. The bleeding effect looks like it's done on wet paper.
ReplyDeleteI'll take your word for it (I was just guessing). Text amended. Thanks for the proofreading. :-)
DeleteThank *you* for the single most enjoyable blog I know. "Wonderful" is a somewhat lame word usually, but it fits tywkiwdbi in its truest sense.
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