Uncle Bernhard

Air-conditioned lawnmower, 1961

@nguyenhdi The Handmaiden

Fellas! What are the best East Asian adaptations of Western classics? I've seen: Japan: "Ran" from "King Lear", "Throne of Blood" from "Macbeth", "Arashi ga oka" from Wuthering Heights" South Korea: "Untold Scandal" from "Dangerous Liaisons" China: "The Banquet" from "Hamlet"

Libraries worldwide are being forced to adapt as people read less. One in Japan seems to have cracked the code. Here's why the Ishikawa Prefectural Library remains Japan's most popular prefectural library for the third year running.

Pneumatic tubes connecting 23 US Post Offices in NYC across 27 miles. Used until 1957. (1900s-1950s)

Final Fantasy VIII (1999, PlayStation)

Nixon’s speech if Apollo 11 had failed, in which case the astronauts were stranded on the Moon, 1969.

@Nerdrotics You could show your gratitude by not showing three ads EVERY FIVE FRACKING MINUTES!

We just past our 400th episode of Friday Night Tights. How did we make it to 400 episodes? No idea. I started doing a Friday night show around 8 years ago. Why? At the time no one was really streaming on Friday night. I figured we can review the latest movie and recap the week in pop-culture entertainment with a focus on genre. Niche of the niche. In reality it was just an excuse to hang out with my friends and shoot the shit. There were no expectations beyond that. 6 or 7 years ago we started calling it Friday Night Tights, a name that someone in the chat came up with. Then we started adding guests and hosts. No planning, no effort, no organization, and no real idea what we were doing. Nothing has changed. Sure, there might have been some controversy over the years. Nothing we really need to TACO BOUT now. Somehow we have managed to stay together, have fun, and never miss a show. I've streamed from France, Peru, and Egypt. We've had brilliant guests including Superman, Shazam, Cara Dune, Alex Jones, a former Presidential candidate, and a guy who whipped out his micro penis. Okay, that one wasn't really that brilliant. None of this would have been possible without your support. Averaging 16K-17K across YouTube and Rumble every Friday is really inexplicable, but we are grateful. It is an honor and privilege to be retarded in front of thousands of people with the full understanding that you are laughing at us, not with us. As long as you are laughing, that is all that counts. Thank YOU🙏 - The FNT crew

Batman: The Animated Series (1992) used hand painting backgrounds on black paper to create its iconic “dark deco” style

@BarackObama @MichelleObama A tan suit? Really?

To everyone celebrating Easter, Michelle and I wish you a joyful holiday filled with reminders of the enduring power of faith and hope.

2 HOURS UNTIL THE BIG STREAM

HAPPY EASTER!

@TheAlanyst_bf Hayao! FRACKING! Miyazaki!

There’s no 10/10 movie where a female is the leading character.

@TheCriticalDri2 If you see the white rabbit, run away!

Happy Easter, everyone!

@nbcsnl The point here is that they have to change the character and the story. They will make Snape noble and misunderstood. Simply because he's black! And then it becomes a story about racism in America.

Professor Snape comments on the trailer for the new Harry Potter series

A Smirnoff Ad from the 1980s.... This vintage advertisement for Smirnoff vodka featuring the slogan "Every morning's a Smirnoff morning." © Reddit #drthehistories

Fun books for the kids

Hal Foster

The Art of James Gurney → buff.ly/02VyE6h #artist #portfolio #illustration #art

imagine this being the last thing you see before you die

20 years ago, a man screamed his own name into a microphone and ruined everything. It became one of the most famous moments in internet history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A group of players in an online game called World of Warcraft had spent several minutes planning a complicated raid. Timing, positioning, survival odds. One player calculated their chances of success at 32.33 percent, repeating. The whole time, one of their teammates wasn’t listening. He’d stepped away from his computer to reheat some chicken. When he came back, he ignored everything, screamed his character’s name at the top of his lungs, and charged straight into the fight alone. Everyone followed him in. They all died in seconds. “Leeroy, you are just stupid as hell.” “At least I have chicken.” The clip spread across the internet before “going viral” was even a phrase. It was referenced in South Park, How I Met Your Mother, and an article in a military journal. The game’s developer added the character as an official figure inside the game. His name became shorthand for anyone who ruins a plan by doing something reckless. The whole thing was staged. The group admitted years later it was a scripted re-enactment of something that had actually happened. The cameraman said: “We didn’t think anyone would believe it was real. We thought it was so obviously satire.” The player behind Leeroy Jenkins is a guy named Ben Schulz. He repairs industrial lighting for a living.