With no teeth of his own, Mario cooks up a scheme to muscle in on the Tooth Fairy’s choppers for cash racket.
Previously (before the long hiatus and recent return of BS’s favourite webpuppet show): Apodyopsis
Author Archives: Chompsky
Muzzletov!
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Behold: the immense spiral galaxy of Messier 96 – 31 million light years distant in the Constellation of Leo. To wit:
…it spans 100 thousand light-years or so, making it about the size of our own Milky Way. M96, also known as NGC 3368, is known to be about 35 million light-years distant and a dominant member of the Leo I galaxy group. The featured image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The reason for M96‘s asymmetry is unclear — it could have arisen from gravitational interactions with other Leo I group galaxies, but the lack of an intra-group diffuse glow seems to indicate few recent interactions. Galaxies far in the background can be found by examining the edges of the picture.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Leo (what are the chances?) Shatz)
Ill Disposed
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Yesterday.
Location (somewhere in or adjacent to Dublin) unspecified, but problem apparently ubiquitous.
Tech Radio tweetz:
This was once a picnic area.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the Vandenbrink Ferrari 612 Shooting Brake – a 2005 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti 2+2 reworked by Dutch company Vandenbrink Design in shooting brake style with two skylights over the rear seats and a small rear spoiler linking to the original back end with its four round tail lights.
With no change to the Scaglietti’s 5.7-litre, 540bhp V12 power plant, this unique one-off is yours for £300,000. An unaltered 2005 612 Scaglietti (admittedly not the most beautiful of Ferraris) costs around €100,000, depending on mileage and condition.
A fascinating TedEd lesson exploring the bizarre and gruesome history of European and American witch hunts (essentially the victimisation, torture and murder of innocent women by religious zealots) from the 15th to the 18th century.
Written by Brian A. Pavlak, narrated by Adrian Dannatt and animated by Lisa LaBracio.
The evocative watercolours of Chinese painter Zhifang Shi who travels the world painting each of his subjects en plein air, focussing on architectural points of entry and, elsewhere, modes of transport.
His instagram is well worth a browse.
An illuminating, nostalgic, mildly oh-god-were-people actually-like-that time-line of interviews with the great Debbie Harry by documentary maker Meghan Fredrich of Public Interest. to wit:
Blondie’s Debbie Harry endures years of superficial, tedious, and demeaning questions from journalists until she devises a brilliant way to turn interviews on their head.
Instagram ‘influencers’ flock to Chernobyl, risking cancer for likes in the aftermath of the HBO miniseries.
Chernobyl writer urges Instagram tourists to ‘respect’ nuclear site (Guardian)