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- This Week in Hobbies: a lot of guys dote on their cars so much — detailing them, fussing over them, on and on — that you think they might as well fuck their damned cars. Then one dude goes ahead and actually fucks a car and you realize, no, actually that sounds terrible. Like, that’s a whole different kind of lube than you’d use elsewhere in the car. (Link contains video; video doesn’t contain nudity but it does contain, y’know, a dude fucking a car.)
- The oldest piece of gold found so far is over 6500 years old, found in modern Bulgaria.
- Be aware of continuing disease risks of some brands of frozen vegetables. Don’t let corn kill you.
- My favorite kind of Tumblr thread is a goofy-looking photo that turns into a super-interesting history lesson. See, it’s both a Greek god’s fursona and a marker of the history of sociology in Egypt.
- We have all sorts of things on this fair internet, including a site dedicated to the truck-maiming ways of one bridge in North Carolina.
- Captain America is basically Austin Powers, except he managed to have a much better third movie. I look forward to the upcoming Austin Powers Cinematic Universe, though.
- Aretha Franklin sings Nessun Dorma. Your argument is invalid.
- In the ancient middle east, building the best library was a matter of some competition. We just know about Alexandria because that one won (and then we all lost).
- Drug overdoses claim a tragic number of lives every year. Were you to overdose on any number of street or pharmaceutical or commercial drugs, you would meet an ugly, ugly end. Or you could overdose on pot and maybe wind up insulting your cat.
- Keep anything moist enough for long enough and potentially-harmful bacteria will develop, such as the triggers for bagpipe lung.
- Give me all of the exposés of the terrifying nature of furniture catalogs. Check out the dude who has a room dedicated to shelves of jeans, but whose “kitchen” consists of a few racks shoved against a wall.
- Everyone’s been passing this around, so: in the midst of all the strife going on in mainstream superheroics, Thor’s found time to settle down. Send a raven.
- Calligraphy is immensely satisfying to watch.
- This Week in Wasteful Government Programs: many states in the US murder prisoners by leaving them in deadly heat during the summer. Louisiana recently spent four times more than it would cost to install air conditioning units in one prison on a court case defending their refusal to install air conditioning units. Because prisoners aren’t human beings, right?
- A bit of good news: California is removing its statute of limitations for rape.
- This windmill that spins as it burns and burns as it spins is pretty much how we’ve all been doing lately, right?
