83 posts tagged ‘Video’
Adorable capybara dramatically rescued from storm drain
Boing Boing,
Watch this capybara, stuck in a storm drain, getting rescued last month by first responders in Biguaçu, Brazil. I feel terrible for the poor creature, but I'm thrilled that the sweet capy was ok in the end. The Dodo explains what happened: Unable to lift the heavy grate using their strength, the crew from the Biguaçu Fire Department deployed the "jaws of life" to pry it up. — Read the rest
Kevin McCarthy also shoved Adam Kinzinger — not once but twice!
Looks like Congressman Tim Burchett (R–TN) isn't the only victim to Kevin McCarthy's rage — former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R–IL) says he was also assaulted by the ousted former speaker. But while McCarthy used his elbow to "sucker punch" Burchett in the kidneys earlier this week, he used his shoulder to slam into Kinzinger twice, according to the former lawmaker. — Read the rest
PJ Harvey plays a beautiful Tiny Desk Concert of her newest songs plus one "oldie" (video)
The great PJ Harvey took over NPR's Tiny Desk to perform tracks from her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, release in July. Following four of those new songs, she closed with the title track from White Chalk (2007), connecting her newest work "to her lifelong project of expressing women's solitude, pain and resistance," as described by Ann Powers. — Read the rest
Watch a dad clean a filthy baking sheet for an "ahhh" moment (video)
Wow, after all these years of making cookies with a grubby black-smudged baking sheet, a dad of four shows us how he scrubbed up his own grimy tray to a mirror-like, perfect shine. The secret ingredients are simple: just baking soda, vinegar, and "ample amounts of elbow grease." — Read the rest
Freaky photo of San Francisco Bay Area sky showing the aircraft surveillance during APEC
Seen below is photographer Ian Servin's wild image of the sky above the San Francisco Bay Area during this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APAC) summit. World leaders descended on the area, resulting in numerous surveillance aircraft monitoring the scene from above. — Read the rest
Happy Life Day, the Star Wars holiday celebrating Wookiee life
November 17 is the generally accepted date of Life Day, the holiday that according to Star Wars lore originated in Chewbacca's Wookiee culture and then spread to the rest of the galaxy. It was first introduced in the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special," a television special broadcast on CBS on November 17, 1978. — Read the rest
Celebrate Wookie Life Day with the Auralnauts
Today is Wookie Life Day, a holiday created for the Star Wars Holiday Special and then co-opted by fans to have a little fun. Now Disney seems to teeter between embracing Life Day as a full-fledged marketing opportunity and just kind of winking and nodding. — Read the rest
Marjorie Taylor Greene proves she is not antisemitic: "I actually support Jewish space lasers"
Space expert Marjorie Taylor Greene says its impossible for her to be antisemitic, because, as she puts it in her new memoir via the Daily Beast, "My Savior is a Jewish carpenter who died on the cross for my sins." — Read the rest