April 2015
April 20, 2015
Worm Weather Visits Southern Norway
I finally tracked down the original story. It's copyright so click here and read all about it.
Posted By: Expat47 - Mon Apr 20, 2015 -
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Category: Europe, Weather
Lost Inhibitions Wine
Church & State wines offers a product line they call "Lost Inhibitions." The bottles are printed with "evocative" messages in bright block lettering on the labels. They say the wines are "Made to enjoy with friends, family and great food." Yes, I can see a nice family dinner sharing a bottle of "Hashtag This Mother F#cker."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 20, 2015 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants
Alligator Joe
Proving that Florida, home to our esteemed Chuck Shepherd, has harbored weirdos for over a century.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 20, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, 1900s, 1910s
April 19, 2015
Weird Universe goes Mobile Friendly
WU has taken a tentative step into the 21st Century by going "mobile friendly". Which means that if you look at the site on a mobile phone, it should actually be readable.The biggest design change this involved was bringing back Rick Altergott's WU banner — because making an image banner automatically resize was a lot easier than rejiggering the old header.
All else should be relatively familiar. So please proceed as normal!
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 19, 2015 -
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Category: Weird Universe
Kearton’s Imitation Ox
Find more info about Kearton and his ox here.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 19, 2015 -
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Category: Photography and Photographers, 1900s
Balloon Land
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 19, 2015 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Death, Surrealism, Cartoons, 1930s, Fictional Monsters
April 18, 2015
Seaweed Collecting
Back in the Victorian era, this was apparently a popular hobby. From Collectors Weekly:
And yes, the seaweed did smell bad. But Collectors Weekly reminds us that the Victorian era was "a more pungent time."
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 18, 2015 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, Nineteenth Century
The Living Theatre, Deceased
With the death this month of Judith Malina, the world will be forever deprived of "happenings" like the one in the first clip, where, I regret, Ms. Malina does not appear until the final few seconds.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 18, 2015 -
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Category: Drugs, Avant Garde, Outsider Art, Performance Art, Pop Art, Obituaries, 1970s
April 17, 2015
Pee .. Beer .. Recycle
A company is now making Beer from urine and other sewage waste water. I think this would be good for the space station as they do something similar but only get back the water.
http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/17/brewing-company-makes-beer-out-of-human-urine-5154534/
Posted By: BrokeDad - Fri Apr 17, 2015 -
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Category: Garbage, Trash, Waste and Other Detritus, Body Fluids, Excrement, Alcohol
My human time
Man sits in front of the camera for 24 hours. The result is 3 videos, each 8 hours long. Every minute his computer chimes, and he says what time it is. He claims this is the "most boring video ever." He's possibly correct.I suppose that if you managed to sync the time in the video with the time in real life, you could have the video running continuously and use it as a speaking clock. Or you could just ignore the video, like the rest of the world.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 17, 2015 -
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Category: Boredom, Video
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