Sunday, July 31, 2011
Mama Octopus
A giant pacific octopus mother who lived just across from downtown Seattle had her hatch right under the noses of local divers. Her den was sequestered in Cove Two in West Seattle, in a location that spared her from predators and over-visitation by humans. On September 4 (aka early, early on September 5), 2010, the eggs began hatching. It's a time of mixed emotion; joy at the hatch, and sadness at the knowledge that this event means the mother's life will end. The hatch lasted a full week, after which the mother died. Spoiler alert: Best footage comes starting at 3:24. Enjoy!
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Pop tops BD
Tupper founded the Tupperware Plastics Company in 1938 and in 1946 introduced Tupper Plastics to hardware and department stores. Around 1948, he joined forces with Brownie Wise who caught his attention after she made a lengthy phone call to his office in South Grafton, Massachusetts, in which she explained her extraordinary success selling Tupperware via home parties. Based on a marketing strategy developed by Wise, Tupperware was withdrawn from sale in retail stores in the early 1950s and Tupperware "parties" soon became popular in homes. This was the first instance of "party-plan" marketing, which has been successfully emulated by other companies. The Corporate headquarters was moved from Massachusetts to Orlando, Florida. After a falling-out with Wise which resulted in her 1958 dismissal, Tupper sold The Tupperware Company for $16 million to Rexall. Shortly afterward, he divorced his wife, gave up his U.S. citizenship to avoid taxes, and bought an island in Costa Rica. In 1984, the year after he died, the patent on Tupperware expired
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Questions and sort of answers
1. How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?
They Take The Psychopath
2. How Do You Get Holy Water?
You Boil The Hell Out Of It
3. What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall?
Dam!
4.What Do Eskimos Get From Sitting On The Ice too Long?
Polaroids
5. What Do You Call a Boomerang That Doesn’t Come Back?
A Stick
6. What Do You Call Santa’s Helpers?
Subordinate Clauses.
8. What Do You Get From a Pampered Cow?
Spoiled Milk.
9. What Do You Get When You Cross a Snowman With a Vampire?
Frostbite.
13. Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils?
Because They Have Big Fingers.
16. What Is The Difference Between a Harley and a Hoover?
The Location Of The Dirt Bag.
17. Why Did Pilgrims’ Pants Always Fall Down?
Because They Wore Their Belt Buckles On Their Hats.
19. How are a Texas Tornado and a Tennessee Divorce the Same?
Somebody’s Gonna Lose A Trailer.
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Euthanasia Coaster from Julijonas Urbonas on Vimeo.
“I grew up in a Soviet amusement park, which was headed by my father. The park was my substitute kindergarten and its employees - ride operators, event managers, technicians, cashiers, administrators - were my nannies. I witnessed the transition from communism to westernisation from quite a unique perspective of that architectural amusement. The entire Soviet Union was filled with these carefully crafted packages of standardised 'military-grade' amusement rides that functioned rather as communist propaganda machines, saturated with Soviet memorabilia.”
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