Amusing/Entertaining/Interesting things you stumbled upon on the Internet

Berenene

Skye said:

I...  what...

Just found this
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/wheel-of-time-gets-tv-pilot-out-of.html?m=1

Apparently it was made so red eagle could hold onto the rights, which would have reverted back to bandersnatch, Jordan's estate, on Wednesday. 

Kresslack

Cynlael

Synbios

I am still waiting for the time when humanoid significant others are obsessively enamored with personal teleportation backpacks to the detriment of their partners.

Kresslack

Deladan

One of my professors has a saying "End users are idiots." I firmly agree with him. 

Tahquil

I remember when Tablet PCs came out. I was so stoked I saved for a year for one and when I finally got enough they were no long in production and I couldn't get one. So many years I tried to explain what it was to baffled shopkeepers at electronic stores....

Skye

http://www.animemaru.com/rtp-japan-falling-behind-in-education-because-students-are-idols-superheroes-etc/

Herenicus

For those of us given to distractions and procrastinating. It works if you work it, so work it; you're worth it.

Eld

Dracen

Kresslack said:

Watching one of my favourite youtubers, on Twitch for his CS:GO stream... He -just- mentioned this. lol

Herenicus

Skye

Jukilian

I watched that whole video. And I have no idea why.

Andregor

Dracen said:

Kresslack said:

Watching one of my favourite youtubers, on Twitch for his CS:GO stream... He -just- mentioned this. lol

Wasn't Reynad, was it?

Dracen

Nah, AnderZEL. I love that Swedish silly bastard.

Berenene

Not sure if this is going to work, but ESPN explains cricket to Americans:
http://media.news.com.au/multimedia/shared/content/nnd-iframes/id1423710090426.html

Also, for anyone pondering a visit to melbourne, a helpful tip:

Tibitha

Berenene said:

Not sure if this is going to work, but ESPN explains cricket to Americans:
http://media.news.com.au/multimedia/shared/content/nnd-iframes/id1423710090426.html

Also, for anyone pondering a visit to melbourne, a helpful tip:

Trying to find the match on my hotel TV... but proving unsuccessful What is this?! There's like 20 adult channels but no cricket.

Berenene

You'd think with that many adult channels one of them would at least be showing cricket porn. " Hey baby, I want you to grab my wickets." 

Eld

Berenene said:

Not sure if this is going to work, but ESPN explains cricket to Americans:
http://media.news.com.au/multimedia/shared/content/nnd-iframes/id1423710090426.html

Also, for anyone pondering a visit to melbourne, a helpful tip:

I take it this means that it's always sunny (accounting for the sunscreen, umbrella, thongs, and sunglasses) and that Melbourners (Melbournians? Melbournians?) view scarves similarly to how the Hitchhiker's Guide views towels, and/or always want to be prepared for mildly naughty bedroom shenanigans?

Tahquil

The umbrella is the random bouts of rain. Melbourne weather can fluctuate 23c and back again in a day. It is like the city  has it's own personal weather machine that once every hour a random person is allowed to press whatever button they wish on it.

Erasariel

I'm a microbiology student, and I finally got my hands on an inbuilt microscope camera today! I gleefully got as many photos and videos as I could of what we were studying today.

https://vid.me/u/erasariel has three videos I uploaded just now, and here's today's snapshots: http://imgur.com/a/Iz5JT

You know what? Let me describe each of the pictures:

1. A diatom. These are very beautiful, diverse critters whose bodies are made up of silicon dioxide. This is just one type; they come in very many shapes and sizes and they can be photosynthetic like plants.

2. A murky picture of Euglena, a fascinating creature that moves in two ways: it either runs towards nice stimuli or tumbles away from bad stimuli. I have a video of this!

3. A foraminifer. They leave behind these tiny shells made up of calcium carbonate. They look like tiny ammonites!

4. Fucus, a huge brown algae. You know it as kelp! The circular structures inside the algae contain sex cells and, in the molecular sense, reproduce much like humans' egg and sperm cells do.

5. Plasmodium, a very squishy and adorable critter that swims very smoothly. They eat the red dots, which are small grains of Baker's yeast mixed in a special dye that turns dark blue when Plasmodium digests it.

6-8. Saprolegnia, which kinda looks like a plant. They're watermolds and are notorious for causing the Irish Potato Blight. It's all one cell, but it also has a lot of nuclei inside, so it's kinda a mix between one cell and a multicellular critter. The round things contain sex cells and will fertilize once released.

Kerria

I admit, this took me way too long to understand.

Eld

Is there something relevant about Thoth and/or Bastet, or is it just "cat sits on keyboard" with Bastet as the cat?

Berenene

Eld said:

Berenene said:

Not sure if this is going to work, but ESPN explains cricket to Americans:
http://media.news.com.au/multimedia/shared/content/nnd-iframes/id1423710090426.html

Also, for anyone pondering a visit to melbourne, a helpful tip:

I take it this means that it's always sunny (accounting for the sunscreen, umbrella, thongs, and sunglasses) and that Melbourners (Melbournians? Melbournians?) view scarves similarly to how the Hitchhiker's Guide views towels, and/or always want to be prepared for mildly naughty bedroom shenanigans?

We Melbournians have a saying.  Melbourne has 4 seasons in 1 day.

Berenene

The only review of a thermomix you ever need to see:

Exelethril

Dwarf prank -

Melodie

That is amazing and I want to hug every single one of them.

Kerria

Eld said:

Is there something relevant about Thoth and/or Bastet, or is it just "cat sits on keyboard" with Bastet as the cat?

Just that cats sit on keyboards. (And annoy death. 9 lives. Har.)

Jukilian

Here's another one of the Katering Show which is awesome.

 

It also took me a while to realise that the logo was an intestine spewing/pooping out foot items.