I understand John B travels the world buying and selling these items, very much on top of the market.

Those colorized picture are fascinating, they allow picking out detail I'd need a B&W copy twice the size to see, if at all. :thumb:

Damn you Digr, through great personal determination and grit, I just escaped that colorization site after 2 1/2 hours. :haha:
Did you know 1,007,671 WW I bayonets, were shortened in WW II, from 16 to 10 inches for use with the M1 Garand? Or that Singer sewing machine got an order for 500, M1911A1 pistols in an experiment to see how quickly a company with zero weapons-making experience could become a military supplier? And those guns go for $20,000 to $40,000 today? That's only a taste of the information that pulled against my escape.

Five-o'clock shadows...

Not withstanding an occasional trimmed mustache and/or beard,
I noticed that almost every soldier was face-washed and clean-shaven.
In all that muck and mire, how did they all manage that ?

The Brit's are a strange, but impressive lot.

Whiskers were too scared to come out. :unsure:

A World War is but a minor inconvenience in the great scheme of things.

Certainly no excuse to let standards slip, old chap. :)

Mental floss has an article about seven Charities which can use help from yarn crafters.
1. Afghans for Afghans
2. Binky Patrol
3. Knots of Love
4. The Baby Bird Nest Craft-along
5. Knitted Knockers
6. The Mother Bear Project
7. Leggings For Life

Tall Ships Coming to Philly
 

Tall ships in Philly at the end of June. Tickets to tour or sail on them are on sale now.

That looks like a good day trip. thanks bruce!

From Cromulent to Craptacular: The Top 12 Simpsons-Created Words

Over at Cracked.

A fascinating instagram feed from a traveler in China. You can get lost in here going through her posts and looking at her pictures.

One example:

Don't show this to UT or Classicman.

They would demand references to the "The Science of Manliness",
the credentials of the author(s), and to know who really paid for the study.

Dismiss the rabble, I find this truth to be self evident.
:noevil:

Blade Runner model shop pictures. I had never seen these before. Star Wars gets all the attention, but just as much went into making Blade Runner. This is getting to be ancient history, over 30 years ago. 142 images you've probably never seen before.

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A Whale Without A Tail

A gray whale spotted off Southern California appears to have to lost its tail, somehow.

It's doing fine, apparently. Short vid at the link.

Oh that's good!

You got the reading part down, next we move on to comprehension.

A .gif showing the evolution of the Batmobile.

In about six seconds.

Why you gotta be a dick? :eyebrow:

Gentlemen, relax your sphincters.

Look at these pics of damaged B-17s that actually made it home.

If they still had most of two wings, propulsion, and a way to keep them right side up, they'd fly. Amazing.

Here's one story.

The Most Googled Product Categories - For Every Country

Scroll past the world map for individual continent view.

24 Famous Photos & Their Backstory

@ Cracked

Squeamier Dwellars will want to skip this one:

Uno más por el toro!

:cheerldr:

All the good stuff about Scotland Limey's been hiding from us. ;)

Definitely

Sent by thought transference

Reminds me of that movie, The Memphis Bell.

Funny but the writer of the story didn't know how to spell "Miraculously"

Pics of various cruise ships. From above.

Example:

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Those are cool, but the one that caught my attention was...
http://cellar.org/2015/raf.jpg
WTF? One arm? OK, squadron leader, desk job... but standing beside HIS fighter???

1940-41, Eight kills (two at night).
February 1941, loses arm.
1941-42, five kills, (all at night)
1942-43, USA lecture tour.
1943, three kills, shot down over France, Germans reported he was a POW, but died in a hospital.
Wiki says...
But the lad could fly... boy, could he fly. :eek6:

Wow.

Here’s how much of your life the United States has been at war
Washington Post - Philip Bump - May 25,2015

Upload a picture of a bird to Merlin, and it will ID the bird's type.

Wow. That works very well.

Thanks for posting that, Bruce.

It got everything from hummingbirds to wild turkeys. It had a bit of trouble with mockingbirds, though. They were in the possibles list, but, pretty far down. It called my wild turkey a turkey vulture, but, the next thing on the list was wild turkey. I assume you're helping it learn when you click "This is my bird.".

My work here is done... YoYo Copper, awaaaayyyy.

Wordinary helps you find any of the 411331 English words in the dictionary.

The one bird I have no problem identifying ;p

A vid of kids doing awesome shit, and some of that shit pretty damn awesome.

"a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase"

The kid at 0:16 sec's gets my vote !

Impressive, yes. But my favorite was the young lady ninja at 1:45. And the phase-shifting soccer striker at 1:51 is the most baffling. Excellent video Gravdigr.

Where old clothes go.
Trailer...


The full 15 minute video.

Danny Luckett made Louisville Sluggers for 45 years, nine months, and eight days.

Among other notable bats, he made the bat Hank Aaron used to swat homerun number 715. Many of the bats he made are in museums.

After it got computerized, I wonder who he made bats for, just certain teams, certain players, special orders?

Google Maps Streetview Player.I tried this out by putting in my house to a friends just over the river in Jersey. Google did it, but instead of just bopping over the Barry bridge, it took the most round about route possible. Across the county, through Philly, then not even the Walt Whitman bridge, but up over the Ben Franklin Bridge, and down the Jersey side. Your mileage may vary. :(

Try this Declaration of Independence quiz - its pretty good...

I missed 4, but one was the (pick all that apply) and I got two of those correct. Good stuff.

I don't know shit about that Declaration of Independence. And I just proved it.

5 out of 12

:(

6 of 12

9/12

Adequate? Adequate! They sound like my ex wives. http://cellar.org/2015/shades.gif

A 50 Year Timeline of Hard Drives

Cellar member Kisrael makes a video every month consisting of one second from the videos he takes each day of the month. Only 30 seconds long, but always some WTF seconds. :D

Attended an outdoor wedding in the parking lot at Nubble Point with the lighthouse in the background. Nice!

Maine lighthouses are teh beautiful.

It's an interesting video. I wonder if I could get a second of interesting video each day?

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edit - Well, it worked in edit mode...

The hell is this now

http://www.xn--vi8hiv.ws/

It's supposed to make URLs into wingdings.

That's fun. Too bad it doesn't work here.

When you look at the source, it creates a tinyurl kind of link. I linked to the Cellar and when you inspect the source of the resulting link I got this for mine.

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From Samoa, no less...