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Major fireworks shows are computer-controlled nowadays. It seems that San Diego's 2012 show had an undetected bug or two.

(Found at Boingboing.net).

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There's a family in Alaska that likes to film their cats interacting with an eagle that likes to stop by their house. Here is a short film that I would entitle "The cat has not thought this through."



And starring a different group of cats, here is "The better part of valor."

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Your education for the day:

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Yoda finally learns how to speak proper English!

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It's easy to pick on stage fighting. But this is a well-done example of the kind of sarcasm necessary.

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My adviser is perhaps ten years older than I am. She tells me that in a recent undergraduate lecture, she talked about riddle songs for a little while, and used a recording of the most famous one as an example. Most of the students in the class found it utterly hilarious, which confused her: the riddles are clever, but not in a very laugh-out-loud kind of way.

It was left to the TA to remind her of a particular scene in the movie Animal House. The professor swears she has seen the movie, it had just slipped her mind…

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For your amusement, an award-winning short film:

While there are old books that refer to this kind of instrument, in my professional judgement (hah!) it is unlikely that any actual instruments were used;* the function of their putative existence was to insult the musical traditions of a rival culture, or to provoke horrified amusement in the reader.

* It is possible that some examples were constructed, to be installed into a cabinet of curiosities. This was the time when nobles had fake ruins constructed to make their estates more picaresque, after all.

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