The Cast of 'Sesame Street' Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED

So this video is delightful for every possible reason but 3 things jumped out at me:

1.) Oh man, those voices have all changed haven't they? (at least for the long-running characters). I mean, I get it, but it's still a little sad.

2.) I feel like whoever is doing Cookie Monster still has most original muppet sensibility. By which I mean he happily plays with the people around him and taps hard on the forth wall even if he doesn't break it.

3.) If the Count is being honest, that makes him the Eldest Vampire which I want to be true in every White Wolf Vampire game I play in from now on. I mean, he's clearly achieved Golconda, he walks around in daylight and doesn't kill anyone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2yFoq09ug

Oh, Sweden, you're the best:

Oh, Sweden, you're the best:


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/laid-off-swedish-workers-could-be-given-paid-sex-breaks-improve-well-being-1607836

Stop reading this on your phone...

Stop reading this on your phone...


https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603730/constant-phone-checkers-are-totally-strung-out/?set=603711

Not From Venus, Not From Mars: What We Believe About Gender and Why It’s Often Wrong

Of interest to many of you, I suspect:


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/books/review/testosterone-rex-myths-of-sex-science-and-society-cordelia-fine.html

Fighting a wildfire on a gun range, or, the sensuous memories of #fieldwork

I read a book about Smokejumpers last year. Wildfires are a big deal out West. Some states use prison labor to help fight these fires and an anthropologist went out to do some fieldwork among them. Although the article here is more about her experiences than her research subjects, I did find it to be an interesting article about what it's like on the line.


http://allegralaboratory.net/fighting-a-wildfire-on-a-gun-range-or-the-sensuous-memories-of-fieldwork/

Attention Epidiah Ravachol

Attention Epidiah Ravachol

Japanese Professional Wrestling is the best Professional Wrestling.


http://kotaku.com/japanese-wrestling-photos-that-look-photoshopped-but-a-1792666577

Beethoven's Ode of Joy played with pistols

It's a Glock-enspiel.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hL2Ml9WHo

SNL Dr. Strange (eng sub)

That's what I've been missing from my life...hype men.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXOZFrnOBVA

Attention Joanne McLernon

Attention Joanne McLernon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2KxL7pEy8s

Title

Metropolis, Gotham, Star City, Central City...you ever think the citizens of Bludhaven are like..."it won't solve our underlying structural issues, but maybe we should change the name of our town"?

And now...something delightful:

And now...something delightful:


http://londonist.com/london/best-of-london/foxes-of-london?utm_content=buffer39c19&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Scout | The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

Remember kids, stay the hell away from social media...

(the title is a bit sensationalist, but the reporting seems pretty solid.)
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine

Hey

Hey,

I found this really helpful the other day. I realize it's not applicable to every situation, but it really helped shut up my brain weasels so...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-dwoskin/a-simple-but-radical-way-_b_840998.html

This seems relevant to some of you -- mostly as a cautionary tale, but a couple of you will probably get inspired:

This seems relevant to some of you -- mostly as a cautionary tale, but a couple of you will probably get inspired:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMGBvcGBZL8

Wind Games 2017 freestyle Maja Kuczyńska final Exceptional

I would love to do this...well, there's no way I'm going to do this, but the general experience seems fun.

Also...now I want a burlesque done in a wind tunnel...I'd call it Blowjob Burlesque.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN3-4Z4ae_0