Posts tagged “Sesame Street”

• This essay had me literally laughing out loud. “Cookie Monster has operated in plain sight for over fifty years, and no one has asked the obvious question: What is he?” – via @philplait
• It took just seven minutes to deploy the massive and intricate set for the Bad Bunny halftime show at Super Bowl LX and you can watch an amazing time-lapse video of the process. – via hiro.report
• Good news: Federal Judge Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered the restoration of public Philadelphia slavery exhibits and compared the administration’s effort to remove the panels to something out of the dystopian George Orwell novel 1984.
• Some wise words from Anil: It often takes more than one time before your idea actually resonates or sticks with the people you’re trying to reach.
• Crews search for 9 skiers missing after California avalanche near Lake Tahoe

Winter Olympics

• The newest Olympic sport goes by the name skimo, which is short for ski mountaineering.
• The president of the biggest soccer club in the Ukraine has announced a $200k+ donation to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was banned from the Winter Olympics.
• Does US speed skater Jordan Stolz really eat pizza every day before training?
• Mac Forehand, the freestyle skiing Big Air silver medalist, reveals the process behind stomping a world’s first trick on the penultimate jump of the competition, which helped push the sport to new heights. (Click the image to view his jump!) – via Sports! with Rodger Sherman
• Higher-than-anticipated demand led to a condom supply shortage after organizers provided only four for each Olympian, compared to the thirty given to everyone competing at the Paris games.
• Meet the cameraman who skates backward to capture Olympic triumph and defeat.

None of This Is Normal:

• Reading this chilling account of how the current administration is abusing a repurposed Navy logistics program to rapidly expand its ability to hide people is enough to make anyone sick to the stomach, but ignorance is not an option these days. The bottom line is that the Department of Homeland Security is buying warehouses across the country to build out concentration camps for caging and deporting immigrants, and this program is allowing them to be operational in a matter of weeks.
• Speaking of terrible immigration policies, I give you a very rare 20+ thread post that is well worth reading.
• Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a rare and lethal toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs.
• “I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race.”
• In case you’re still on the fence about whether to use their service or read publications there, you can read about how Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters. – via Kottke
• The current administration is using $15,000,000 from USAID funds to pay for security for budget director Russ Vought for the year.

• Take a moment this holiday season to indulge in the Southern University sousaphones playing the Veggie Tales theme in the Superdome parking lot.
• Actor Michael Sheen purchased and then forgave $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts.
• This first-person account from a high school kicker of what it’s like to miss a game-tying PAT is riveting.
• There are no words to convey how excited I am about the return of The Muppet Show, even if it’s just a one-off. See also: Forks Out: A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery
• Yes, There’s a Parallel Parking Championship – via Jason
• “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken

  If you’ve been extremely online (and building things on the web) since the middle of the 1990s, you will enjoy reading this Christoffer Artmann essay: 30 Years of <br> Tags

• After much cajoling, last night our son finally convinced us to watch Interstellar (2014, Matthew McConaughey) and I loved it. Brilliant film.
• I feel like this archive of fictional companies is missing a few thousand references from The Simpsons alone, but it’s a good start.
• Fahlo is a wonderful service that (for a nominal fee) allows you to track an animal in the wild. I can confirm that kids love this app.
• The full story of Fedora Man is in the running for the best thing on the Internet this year.
• Ugh: The rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools.
• The serial killer epidemic in 1970–80s US may have been caused by lead fumes from cars and factories, and solved by environmental regulations. – via Tom Whitwell
• Take a minute to recall The 2017 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog – via Lauren
• Friendly reminder: The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war.
• Just in time for Christmas! “This lightproof, soundproof vat filled with our signature vine-ripened, zesty sauce marks the beginning of an exciting new era in tomato-based relaxation.

• The Banana Song will haunt your dreams.
• The photo of an iPhone 4 on the cover of the September 2010 issue of Macworld was taken with an iPhone 4.
• “He needed to know how Big Bird could possibly have arisen from evolutionary history: What are its relatives? How did it achieve such a unique bone structure? What happened to the other members of his species?” … The Taxonomy of Big Bird, Grandicrocavis Viasesamensis
  (This is the same guy who is running The Beibignorance Project, a scientific exercise to determine just how little one can possibly know about Justin Bieber.)
• There’s more to the story of how America got her name than just ol’ Americus Vespucci.
• And while we’re talking about maps… Check out this awesome map of New Jersey (larger) based on the music of Bruce Springsteen.
• Serenity Now! could be the scariest movie of the summer. The Oregon Trail is going to be the big one at the box office, though.
• The Periodic Table of Swearing is now available in color.
• “Two Michigan coffee shops have said that since throwing their employees into bikinis to serve up cups of joe, they’ve experienced a sizable jump in sales.”
• I pity those who suffer from RAS syndrome.
• It’s nice to know that according to Laver’s Law, I have always been shameless.
• “There’s an age at which it is no longer cool to have your own name and number on the back of a jersey. That age is 10.” from Sports Rule #2