Baby bangs. // The clap-off bra. When time is short. // The $6 foot-long black hotdog. // Ways to say “beer.” // A brief history of wiretapping. // Swing of note. // Japanese schoolgirl with an electromechanical exoskeleton. // How to make slime. // Waterspout, Florida. // How clothes should fit. // Cat wedding, 1914. // Alfred Hitchcock explains the MacGuffin. // It’s a law, like gravity. // Attention UFO enthusiasts. // New York’s summer of ’69. // A stylish radiophonograph. // Frank Zappa plays the bicycle. (h/t, Coudal) // Piglet, ice cream and parasol. // And Kate reminds us why San Francisco’s public transport is second to none. 

At last, fake tampons for smuggling hooch. // This is not a Muppet, this is Pootoo. Yes, Pootoo. // Milk Seafood Noodle and other Japanese commercials. // “The English profanity ‘shitstorm’ is widely used by Germans.” // Cleaning out the hippo enclosure of Milwaukee County Zoo. // Six hours of Nevada’s night sky (with no time lapse). // Trainers repel water, shirt repels gravy. // Afghanistan of yore. // A history of aspect ratio. // Roam the stars in comfort. (h/t, Coudal) // House climbing. // How common is your birthday? // How cows work. // Life-size whale portraits. // My dad was in a band. // I do believe it’s Elvis. // Duct tape surfing. 

In a memorable scene from The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster crosses wits with Anthony Hopkins. And Samuel L Jackson. 

One of these. 

You know, for kids. Via sk60, via here. 

Chick flick. // Farm your own insects, then eat them. // Following air through Facebook’s Oregon data centre. (h/t, MeFi) // Origami. // Optimism. // Pussy People: “What do the cats bring to the marriage?” // A machine that draws penises (badly). // Tactile comic books for the blind. // Coffee table of note. // Dogs versus citrus fruit, the great struggle of our time. // That towel will not allow you to fly. // Ladies, mouth your vowels and slim your face. // Not-quite-still movie stills. // Wine glass of note. // Ewok sushi. // Wipe
your phone on your shirt. // Phones replaced with sandwiches. // The
complete House of Cards. // Giant rodent hugs cats.