An 81-Year-Old ‘Serial Slingshot Shooter’ Is Arrested After Decade of Mischief (archive.ph)
TIL (lemmy.world)
This week is the 50th anniversary of the first TV appearance of the world's greatest actress, singer, martial arts expert and sexpot, Miss Piggy! Here she is on The Tonight Show May 26, 1974 (www.youtube.com)
She was billed as “Piggy Lee,” and she is just lip synching, so she didn’t get her iconic voice yet. That would take until The Muppet Show in 1976. Originally, Frank Oz and Richard Hunt shared voicing her on The Muppet Show with two different voices because she didn’t start out as a main character (Oz was mostly supposed...
China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs (www.cnn.com)
Coming soon to a western military near you…
I knew it! (lemmy.world)
Some critics… (lemmy.world)
Wikipedia has a bunch of 'famous last words' pages. I compiled the most amusing ones I saw.
Note: I did these for a website that doesn’t allow swearing, so I didn’t include some funny sweary ones....
How Google Ruined the Internet | Adam Conover (www.youtube.com)
Why yes, Memory Alpha does have a page on every time anyone used any sort of profanity in any Star Trek TV show or movie. (memory-alpha.fandom.com)
This sort of joke is my signature... (lemmy.world)
I feel like "alleged" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here... (lemmy.world)
Finally, a use for microplastics... (lemmy.world)
There are a lot of low-paying jobs out there. I'm just saying... (lemmy.world)
We found this old matchbook in our kitchen. It's for a coroner's election. The Democrat candidate is on one side and the Republican candidate is on the other. (lemmy.world)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Was Forced To Follow A Strict William Shatner Rule. [It's all about Kirk all the time.] (www.slashfilm.com)
“The approach we were told to take is that Kirk really had to be the one to lead everyone. […] Not necessarily that he had to actually have the idea to do something, but it had to appear as if he has the idea.”...
Dangerous to his what now? (lemmy.world)
Listen to a genius, kids. (lemmy.world)
Venus volcanoes might still be active (cosmosmagazine.com)
Mayanderthals (lemmy.world)
Edit: Here is how the Mayans deformed their childrens’ skulls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation#/media/File:Maya_cranial_deformation.gif
Of course, it's the way you tell them... (lemmy.world)
People the world over have discovered the incredible technology of putting one rock on top of another. How is this possible? (lemmy.world)
LeVarAfro Burton (lemmy.world)
His high school yearbook photo....
Normalize it! (lemmy.world)
Are we going to halt this Bronze Age collapse or what, Minoans?
Constructing a post-apocalyptic Sydney model for Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (more in the body) (lemmy.world)
Construction of a miniature post-apocalyptic Sydney, Australia, for Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985). At the end of filming, the models were too big to be put into storage and were all destroyed....
We're studying the wrong monkeys. (lemmy.world)
Yes, I know chimps aren’t monkeys. I didn’t make this.