Random internet link of the day

[Saintslass]

Latest offering by Boston Dynamics. Freaky!

[ckn]

Ants and battlefield medicine  

Fascinating stuff really. Just shows how little we actually know. 

[ckn]

Opportunity 5000 Mars days into a 90 day mission.  Electronic, electrical and mechanical engineering done right

 

[ckn]

For your Saturday morning entertainment: Confuse-a-Cat

 

[Farmduck]

It's hard to believe there was a time, before the internet, when I couldn't have done [url=http://duck47orgy.corgiorgy.com/] this [/url]

Edited February 26, 2018 by Farmduck

[ckn]

This is how Skynet starts... watch how they treat the robot from about 1 minute 20s in, that information will be stored away for future evidence for the robot uprising.

 

[Bleep1673]

Alas, and alack, I have had my internet, and phone services removed by O2 due to lack of payment. I am using a public computer now.

Bon Voyage everybody.

[ckn]

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[ckn]

♫ I'm begging of you please don't take my maaaaan ♫

[tonyXIII]

3 hours ago, ckn said:

♫ I'm begging of you please don't take my maaaaan ♫

Did you mean "Please don't take my naan"?

 

[ckn]

I thought I'd share the pain on this one.  My inner jukebox is stuck on this song and it just WILL NOT go away, thanks to the wife being annoying and playing it earlier:

At least it wasn't as bad as Thursday's courtesy of hearing it on Radio 2:

 

[Futtocks]

Maybe I should have stuck this in the 'Cheesy Movies' thread, but why not spread the joy? The Ugandan maniacs from Wakaliwood Studios come up with another utterly deranged trailer.

 

[Farmduck]

How do you know a country's living standards have declined? When China starts outsourcing pig-farming to North Carolina because it's cheaper than doing it at home.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-is-china-treating-north-carolina-like-the-developing-world-w517973

[Futtocks]

A letter from Carl Sagan to Chuck Berry.

[ckn]

Half an hour well spent watching this.  Warning: does contain a couple of seconds of a nude Pete Postlethwaite. 

 

[Bearman]

10 hours ago, ckn said:

Half an hour well spent watching this.  Warning: does contain a couple of seconds of a nude Pete Postlethwaite. 

 

I enjoyed that.

[Farmduck]

Here's an interesting question on quora.com:

How would the World be different if America didn't get carved up by New Zealand after WWI?

Nobody has answered it yet. I can't think of an answer bad enough to match the question.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-would-the-world-be-different-if-America-didnt-get-carved-up-by-New-Zealand-after-WWI

[Futtocks]

43 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

Here's an interesting question on quora.com:

How would the World be different if America didn't get carved up by New Zealand after WWI?

Nobody has answered it yet. I can't think of an answer bad enough to match the question.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-would-the-world-be-different-if-America-didnt-get-carved-up-by-New-Zealand-after-WWI

Wow! I never realised that the Kiwis were so evil!

And now they're coming back to Denver to finish the job...

[Farmduck]

34 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Wow! I never realised that the Kiwis were so evil!

And now they're coming back to Denver to finish the job...

Turns out it's even worse than we realised. Another quora question:

Why did the US not send troops to fight in the Vietnam War? They usually join New Zealand in its international military efforts.

Quora.com

Good question. I know the Yanks let NZ use their airbases when the Kiwis nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki but they didn't help much when NZ invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[bobbruce]

31 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

 

For some reason when I watch that I’m expecting it to turn into a python sketch. 

[ckn]

The pigeon, by a beak, I think:

[ckn]

Tiffany's, the up-market jewelers, sell a tin can for £945.

Seriously.  You can also find their other "everyday objects" here, including a silver or gold crazy straws.

We seem to have reached peak WTF.

[M j M]

On 25/03/2018 at 11:11 PM, Bedford Roughyed said:

 

That Andrew Harris was years ahead of his time - probably too many years.

They have the modern equivalent of his brochures here -

http://www.visitoldham.com/

(which mentions Kevin Sinfield as one of a list of famous people from the town )