End Of Year Open Tab Bankruptcy Roundup Jamboree, Part 3 : Pop Culture & General Potpourri
I’m declaring bankruptcy on my open tabs; these are all things I’ve had open on my laptop or phone over the last several months, thinking “I should send this to someone? Or Is this a blog post?” Turns out the answer is ‘no’ to both of those, so here they are. Day 3: Pop Culture and other random items. Let’s see if I can avoid accidentally fuging out into a rant today!
An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism. To paraphrase something I read once, Tim Curry was in a lot of 1-star movies, but he was the reason for that one star. Come for the amazing behind-the-scenes stories, and stay for people who actually work in space being humorless jerks.
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge Why is there an unused pedestrian bridge over the interstate from a taco bell to a warehouse? Great setup, and then a whole set of incredible punchlines & reveals. Mini-Spoiler: there is an answer, and it has a whole lot of things to unpack.
How We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars Something I had absolutely no idea about.
The coloured stripes that explain climate change & #ShowYourStripes. Very snazzy data visualization project to do simple diagrams of the average temperature over time. The image for where I live was, depressingly, exactly was I was expecting.
Hilchos (Laws) of Xmas. What if Christmas was a Jewish holiday? (Subtitled for the humor impaired: this is satire)
‘Tetris’ Review: Taron Egerton In Thrilling Video Game Origin Story – Deadline This is a positive review of the Tetris movie, but Pete Hammond casually mentions at the outset that he’d never even heard of Tetris before seeing the movie. How is that possible? I have so many follow-up questions.
Mattel didn’t want their executive to get shot in ‘Barbie’ beach scene Before Barbie came out, there was a story going around that there was a scene Mattel didn’t want in the movie, and the CEO flew out to the set to try and talk Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig out of it. Allegedly, they performed it for him live, whereupon he withdrew all objections. The specific scene it was went unmentioned. After watching the movie, I tried to guess which one, and it turns out I was right.
FXRant: The Most Egregious Example of "We Didn't Use CGI" Mythology (So Far)
The ocean grave for 264 spacecraft. Point Nemo! POINT NEMO!! My next tabletop RPG campaign is going to include a heist of spaceship parts from Point Nemo.
The defector tracked down the person in wikipedia’s photo for “shrug”: In Search Of Wikipedia's Shrug Guy | Defector
Also don’t miss: The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
History | AMEDD Center of History & Heritage: COMBAT INTERVIEWS: BATTLE OF HURTGEN FOREST. Finally, my Grandfather (with a slightly misspelled last name) makes an unexpected cameo halfway through this fairly dry description of the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest!