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A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify. Paste a share link...

2025-05-10 05:52:43

A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify. Paste a share link from Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer or SoundCloud and get links to that music on the other platforms.

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A Real Life Version of Wallace & Gromit’s Breakfast Machine

2025-05-10 05:04:53

I love me some Wallace & Gromit and so I was delighted to see that this guy made a real life version of Wallace & Gromit’s breakfast machine, complete with a spoonful of jam flying through the air perfectly meeting a piece of toast popping out of a toaster.

It starts with this crazy part here, where he falls out of bed into a pair of trousers, landing in a chair, and then his sleeves go on, and the vest. And then, probably the hardest part of all, is throwing jam — through the air — and hitting toast — in the air — perfectly. Some of these stunts are going to be the most challenging things I’ve ever attempted.

Cracking toast, Gromit! (via the kid should see this)

Tags: Aardman Animations · remix · video · Wallace and Gromit

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The help desk at Auburn University is still answering questions from the...

2025-05-10 04:01:10

The help desk at Auburn University is still answering questions from the public via telephone. “The rules are these: Be as polite as possible, end the call if the question is offensive, don’t answer anything that sounds like a homework question…”

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A Visual Celebration of Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys

2025-05-10 01:51:15

A few weeks ago, I posted about the hundreds of stills from their animated movies that Studio Ghibli has made available for free download. Since I’m a big fan of the weird little guys director Hayao Miyazaki loves to put in his films (e.g. the kodama in Princess Mononoke1 and Spirited Away’s soot sprites), I thought it would be cool to pull some images from the Ghibli archive featuring these lovable little freaks.

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

And an honorable mention to this frame from Porco Rosso:

a still from a Studio Ghibli movie featuring Miyazaki's weird little guys

The weird little guys category generally doesn’t apply to humans, but this image of little kids crawling all over a pig man’s airplane certainly classifies as an unusual swarm.

  1. I bought a shirt with a kodama on it after seeing Princess Mononoke in 1999. At some point, I got rid of the shirt — why the hell did I do that?! It was very close to this shirt on Etsy selling for $288…the collar/sleeve color was a dark blue or black on mine.

Tags: art · Hayao Miyazaki · movies · Studio Ghibli

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Bess Kalb: Hooray for Pills. “I hope you shut out the simplistic,...

2025-05-10 01:10:32

Bess Kalb: Hooray for Pills. “I hope you shut out the simplistic, reductive, anti-science voices like RFK’s who tell us that pills are bad, and suffering is good.” Co-sign!