Sunday, 30 November 2014
Saturday, 29 November 2014
Want your vagina steam-cleaned but don't have a spa nearby? Here are the do-it-yourself instructions.
Posted on 17:01 by raja rani
via Vice:
Vaginal steaming, sometimes called V-steaming by those too squeamish to say the word "vagina," is remarkably similar to making tea. You put a bunch of special herbs in hot water, then—and this is where the tea similarity ends—hover over it, allowing the steam to "deep-clean" your vagina and uterus. This is said to dislodge any "buildup" and can allegedly relieve hormonal imbalances, menstrual discomfort, and digestive issues.
Right. Well, doesn't sound like something I'd be willing to either pay for or do in public (or maybe not at all, really), but if you want to try it, here are do-it-yourself instructions from the YinOva Center:
Pour eight cups of water (preferably purified water) into a medium-size pot.
Place a handful of fresh herbs (about a quarter cup) into the water.
Bring water to a soft boil (with the lid on) for five minutes.
Turn off the heat and steep for another five minutes with the lid on.
Pour four cups (half of the pot) of water into a bowl you've placed in your toilet.
Wave your hand eight to ten inches over the herbal water to make sure it's not too hot.
Remove your underwear and sit on the seat above the steaming water.
Drape a large blanket or sheet around your waist and down to the floor to make sure no steam escapes.
Keep yourself warm by wearing something on your feet (socks, slippers) and neck. You do not want any cold to get into your body while you are trying to warm it.
You should feel a warm, rolling heat for about ten to 12 minutes.
When the steam dies down, dump the water into the toilet. Starting with step four, begin the second dosage with the other half of the herbal water. If it has cooled too much you'll need to reheat it, but test again before sitting over the steam.
If you get your V-steam done at a spa, they'll seat you in chair with a little hole in the middle, which allows the steam to rise into your hoo-ha (see the hoto above). Since I do not own a chair with a hole in the middle, I was pleased to find that the YinOva Center recommended steaming on your toilet - you just put a bowl full of steaming herbs in there and have a seat, and it's a handy place to dump the bowl when you're done.
Vaginal steam baths come from an ancient Korean tradition called chai-yok, which uses mugwort and wormwood to cleanse the vagina. Good luck finding those at Walgreens. I'd be tempted to use some herbal tea, but per the author at Vice, the mugwort package claimed that it could "increase or develop psychic powers". That sounds kind of cool, although I keep trying to imagine how vaginal psychic powers would manifest.
Anyway, there's more at Vice and YinOva if you're interested. If you end up doing this, please leave a note in the comments and let me know how it went!
Anyway, there's more at Vice and YinOva if you're interested. If you end up doing this, please leave a note in the comments and let me know how it went!
6 way to modify your baseball bat into a zombie-killing weapon: real versions and an infographic
Posted on 16:13 by raja rani
From the Art of Manliness blog (they also have a book by the same name) comes this excellent infographic on ways to modify baseball bats into zombie-killing weapons. It's based on a post (see below the onfo graphic) by a guy who actually made them:
Survival expert Creek Stewart of Willow Haven Outdoor decided to take a break from teaching his usual, realistic survival skills to have some fun. He let his imagination run wild and conjured up 6 ways to mod an ordinary baseball bat into the ultimate zombie slaying weapons. Creek admits that the results are absolutely ridiculous. They are also absolutely awesome. And we decided it would be equally awesome to have Ted turn them into an illustrated comic book tutorial for us. Hope you enjoy. And when the zombies attack, you’ll be ready to turn your Louisville Slugger into a walking dead decimator. Batter up!
Click here to embiggen |
The infographic is based on the real bat mods from the web site Willow Haven Outdoor - the are a few here but you'll find more (and additional pictures) there.
I really wanted to make a version of the rusty spiked bat that everyone thinks of when they allow themselves to wonder about such things. However, I wanted it to be different than anything I’d ever seen before. What better way to make it different than to mount a machete to the end? So that’s what I did. A 12″ machete blade is bolted right into the end of the bat. But that’s not it. Just in case the machete blade doesn’t do the trick, eight massive steel spikes shroud the base for some extra collateral damage. I topped it off with a cobra weave wrist lanyard because I don’t want an aggressive zombie running off with my bat just in case it gets stuck. Batter up!
I call this one ‘Tina for short. Concertina wire, or popularly called razor wire, is some nasty stuff. It’s like barbed wire except instead of barbs it’s lined with razors. Typically reserved for warfare and to line the perimeter of maximum security prisons, I figured a nice nest of this stuff fence stapled around a baseball bat would be a pretty formidable zombie face smasher. Geez, I cut my hands up wearing leather welding gloves just wrapping this ‘death wire’ around the bat. I understand first hand why this stuff has such a bad reputation. I remember watching prison break movies thinking, “I bet I could crawl over that razor wire.” Well let me tell you, there ain’t no freakin’ way you’re crawling over this stuff. Concertina wire was birthed in warfare and it gives off that eerie feeling when you look at and handle it. If plants grow in hell I imagine they look like this stuff. “Hey, zombie, I want you to meet someone. Her name’s ‘Tina.”
Oooouch! With it’s roots in the Middle Ages, the Flail is absolutely barbaric. I cut the last 6″ off a normal bat, connected it to a steel chain and then studded it with archery field target points.
This thing hurts just holding it in your hand. These target points actually screw into studs that I mounted into the wood. You could theoretically replace all of these field points with razor broad-heads if you wanted a spiked razor bat but the idea is to be able to replace damaged spikes ‘on-the-fly’ with a pocket full of extra points. The spiral wrap paracord handle gives plenty of grip when the G’s from spinning try to rip it out of your hand. The amount of momentum generated with just a couple rotations of the 5 pound spiked head is terrifying. I think this weapon could actually elicit FEAR in ZOMBIES. That’s how scary this thing is once it gets-a-spinnin’. Home Run every time – guaranteed!
Previous manly posts:
How To Gird Up Your Loins (An Illustrated Guide).
Dave Barry's Manliness Manifesto is a hoot.
The Tactical Order of Dressing: An Illustrated Guide (as taught to military and emergency personnel).
Because it's important to always be battle-ready: How to Poop Like a Samurai.
The manliness test - how manly are you? I took it, and I'm a mewling kitten. But I'm an old, overweight female, so presumably you'll do better.
The Boy Scouts of America: Then and Now — A Comparison of the 1911 and Modern Handbooks and Merit Badges.
Science video: Why Do Dogs Smell Each Other's Butts?
Posted on 15:42 by raja rani
C'mon you know you've always wondered, and I'll bet your kids have asked (or will ask) at some point, so now you'll be prepared:
Bonus: Dog Butt Looks Like Jesus Christ In A Robe:
Bonus: Dog Butt Looks Like Jesus Christ In A Robe:
Princess Rap Battles: Galadriel vs. Leia, Snow White vs. Elsa
Posted on 08:17 by raja rani
Warning - PG-13 language.
Lord of the Rings or Star Wars?
Lord of the Rings or Star Wars?
The same people previously produced a Snow White vs. Elsa rap battle, although this one contains an F-bomb. I wish they wouldn't do that because it means lots of little girls (including my granddaughters) won't get to see it:
Friday, 28 November 2014
ICYMI, here's the trailer for Jurassic World: Dinosaurs vs Star Lord
Posted on 05:27 by raja rani
As was the case with Jurassic Park, it may not win any awards for scientific accuracy, but, really, who cares?
Speaking of Chris Pratt, the Blu-Ray version of the Guardians of the Galaxy (to be released on December 9th) has an outake of a dance-off between Star Lord and Ronan the Accuser:
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Happy Thanksgiving links
Posted on 05:40 by raja rani
Here's a huge roundup of Thanksgiving links.
'A Day of Thanksgiving and Praise': Remembering President Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation.
The Weirdest Incidents Involving Wild Turkeys This Week.
The traditional drunken turkey recipe.
Calls from the Butterball Turkey help-line, and here's the Butterball Turkey help-line help-line.
A definitive ranking of Thanksgiving sides, taking into account the availability theorem and the leftover theorem.
The Onion's 11 Steps For Cooking A PERFECT Thanksgiving Turkey and their Comprehensive Guide To Thanksgiving.
Manly Ways to Prepare Turkey.
Have an excellent Thanksgiving, and be good to all of those people you're thankful for!
The traditional drunken turkey recipe
Posted on 05:27 by raja rani
For those of who combine our cooking and drinking...
Step 2: Take a drink of whiskey, scotch, or JD
Step 3: Put turkey in the oven
Step 4: Take another 2 drinks of whiskey
Step 5: Set the degree at 375 ovens
Step 6: Take 3 more whiskeys of drink
Step 7: Turn oven the on
Step 8: Take 4 whisks of drinky
Step 9: Turk the bastey
Step 10: Whiskey another bottle of get
Step 11: Stick a turkey in the thermometer
Step 12: Glass yourself a pour of whiskey
Step 13: Bake the whiskey for 4 hours
Step 14: Take the oven out of the turkey
Step 15: Take the oven out of the turkey
Step 16: Floor the turkey up off the pick
Step 17: Turk the carvey
Step 18: Get yourself another scottle of botch
Step 19: Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey
Step 20: Bless the saying, pass and eat out!
Step 12: Glass yourself a pour of whiskey
Step 13: Bake the whiskey for 4 hours
Step 14: Take the oven out of the turkey
Step 15: Take the oven out of the turkey
Step 16: Floor the turkey up off the pick
Step 17: Turk the carvey
Step 18: Get yourself another scottle of botch
Step 19: Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey
Step 20: Bless the saying, pass and eat out!
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Round-up of Thanksgiving links
Posted on 05:00 by raja rani
A Thanksgiving miscellany: Mark Twain, science, WKRP, Cicero and the best turkey fryer PSA ever.
10 Thanksgiving Words With Bizarre Origins.
In 1939, the U.S. celebrated Democrat Thanksgiving and Republican Thanksgiving.
A bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig: the TurBacon Epic.
What's a Wishbone, and Why Do We Crack It? Related, Tyrannosaurus Rex Had a Wishbone.A bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig: the TurBacon Epic.
This Man Made the First Canned Cranberry Sauce.
Benjamin Franklin’s account of the First Thanksgiving.
How Much Stuffing Would It Take to Stuff Your House Like A Turkey?
8 Thanksgiving Flowcharts.
How Much Stuffing Would It Take to Stuff Your House Like A Turkey?
8 Thanksgiving Flowcharts.
For those of us born between the 22nd and 28th and have always wondered, here's how it works:
Thanksgiving Birthday Pattern
Thanksgiving in 1810, 1910, and 2010.
For the kids, a virtual field trip to the first Thanksgiving.
Dave Barry Thanksgiving columns from 1996, 1998, 2004... feel free to add more in the comments.
Buffy Thanksgiving episode: "Ritual sacrifice, with pie."
Christopher Walken and John Madden: The First Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Birthday Pattern
Thanksgiving in 1810, 1910, and 2010.
For the kids, a virtual field trip to the first Thanksgiving.
Dave Barry Thanksgiving columns from 1996, 1998, 2004... feel free to add more in the comments.
Buffy Thanksgiving episode: "Ritual sacrifice, with pie."
Christopher Walken and John Madden: The First Thanksgiving.
A Thanksgiving miscellany: Mark Twain, science, links, WKRP, Cicero and the best turkey fryer PSA ever
Posted on 03:58 by raja rani
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
~Jon Stewart
Science answers the important questions: Why you’ll still have room for pie after turkey and stuffing. Related, The Turkey-Tryptophan Myth and What Goes on in Our Stomachs After Eating Too Much?
Cartoon (The Oatmeal): Thanksgiving as a kid VS Thanksgiving as an adult.
Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and to extend the usual annual compliments.
~ Mark Twain AutobiographyWKRP Turkey Drop episode: "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
Gratius animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquaram.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oratio pro Cnaeo Plancio, 23
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the mother of all other virtues.
Turkey fryer alert: 86 year old man deep fries own leg. Or as he calls it, his drumstick.
Tutorial: How to draw a turkey.
Pi vs Pie.
Most commercial turkeys are conceived via artificial insemination. And Turkey Prices Have Been Exploding In The Last Decade.
Monday, 24 November 2014
Monday links
Posted on 05:07 by raja rani
Supercuts of Cheesy Computer Hacking Scenes in '80s and '90s movies.
On November 24, 1793—or what then became known as Frimaire 4, II, the revolutionary French government officially replaced the Gregorian calendar, introducing one of thirty days each, comprised of three ten-day weeks (each day lasted ten hours, or one thousand minutes, or ten thousand seconds). It was abolished by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806.
For those of us born between the 22nd and 28th of November and have always wondered, here's how it works: Thanksgiving Birthday Pattern.
Things you can get away with if you don't have to worry about an HOA.
Unicorns Don't Really Dig Virgin Women, and Other Lessons From Medieval Bestiaries Debunked.
ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include the Star Lord and Ronan dance-off, what to take when you time travel, the reason for thumbs, and a gallery of things you don't see every day.
Sunday, 23 November 2014
SNL’s parody: Obama Shoves The Schoolhouse Rock Bill Down The Capitol Steps
Posted on 08:07 by raja rani
Saturday, 22 November 2014
Really awkward engagement photos
Posted on 06:24 by raja rani
Wow, this guy has really white... teeth.
Is there something symbolic about these parking meters? I don't get it:
Why does she have a snake in her hand?
Awww...
Well, doesn't she look happy...
Huh.
More at Distractify, via Neatorama.
Is there something symbolic about these parking meters? I don't get it:
Why does she have a snake in her hand?
Awww...
Well, doesn't she look happy...
Huh.
More at Distractify, via Neatorama.
In this 1880's ad, a cautionary tale about choosing the right whisker dye
Posted on 06:10 by raja rani
For fellow fans of vintage advertising:
Part of this excellent Flickr set of old ads from the Boston Public Library, via Weird Vintage
Part of this excellent Flickr set of old ads from the Boston Public Library, via Weird Vintage
Friday, 21 November 2014
Supercuts of Cheesy Computer Hacking Scenes in '80s and '90s Movies
Posted on 16:19 by raja rani
Boy, these bring back memories, and make me realize that the grandkids (or kids, depending on your age) should see some (certainly not all) of the '80s movies - they're familiar with at lot of '90s films already. Lists of included movies are below the videos:
'80s movies:
'90s movies:
Movie list ('80s):
Real Genius
Movie list ('90s):
Jurassic Park
Under Siege 2
Universal Soldier: The Return
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Nirvana
Johnny Mnemonic
Sneakers
The Lawnmower Man
The Matrix
Masterminds
Independence Day
The Thirteenth Floor
Virtuosity and (of course)...
Hackers (which, in case you've forgotten, starred not only Johnny Lee Miller, who now plays Sherlock Holmes on Elementary, but an extremely young Angelina Jolie.
Movie list ('80s):
Real Genius
War Games
Superman 3
Revenge of the Nerds
Weird Science
Brainstorm
Blade Runner
Never Say Never Again
Jumping Jack Flash
Electric Dreams
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
TRON
Prince of Darkness
Spies Like Us
Cloak & Dagger
Superman 3
Revenge of the Nerds
Weird Science
Brainstorm
Blade Runner
Never Say Never Again
Jumping Jack Flash
Electric Dreams
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
TRON
Prince of Darkness
Spies Like Us
Cloak & Dagger
Jurassic Park
Under Siege 2
Universal Soldier: The Return
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Nirvana
Johnny Mnemonic
Sneakers
The Lawnmower Man
The Matrix
Masterminds
Independence Day
The Thirteenth Floor
Virtuosity and (of course)...
Hackers (which, in case you've forgotten, starred not only Johnny Lee Miller, who now plays Sherlock Holmes on Elementary, but an extremely young Angelina Jolie.
A Scientific Look at How Female Turkeys Choose Their Mates
Posted on 14:41 by raja rani
Per Dr. Richard Buchholz:
With its fanned plumage and bold strut, a male wild turkey’s display conjures images of Americana and festive feasts. But this grandstanding isn’t intended for human eyes – it’s for female turkeys who actually use it to discern a male’s genetic prowess.
This female has figured out how to get rid of a male - just make him dizzy until he falls over:
via Science Friday
Friday links
Posted on 04:46 by raja rani
When the Guardians of the Galaxy DVD comes out next month, the extras feature has this outake: the Star Lord and Ronan dance-off actually happened.
Can You Fix A Machine By Smacking It?
Very cool animated chart of North American butterflies.
Why Do Humans Have Thumbs?
ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, and include the origin of Humpty Dumpty, illustrated fainting technique (to attract the attention of a specific gentleman), terrifying non-existent animal hybrids, and a quiz to find out which famous brains are most similar to yours.
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Man armed with photograph of gun threatened to kill supermarket staff
Posted on 18:27 by raja rani
Think schools are ridiculous going after kids for drawing pictures of guns, or biting their Poptarts into gun shapes? Turns out that it might be gateway behavior:
A man brandishing a photograph of a gun threatened to kill staff at the Tesco Extra store in Bar Hill, Cambridge.
Officers were called to the giant supermarket after staff told operators in the force control room that a man was threatening to kill them and showing them an image of a firearm. Police were called by staff at 1.30am on November 12.
Cambridgeshire police then dispatched officers to the store where they arrested a man on suspicion of making threats to kill. A force spokeswoman said: “A 34-year-old man from Cambridge was arrested on November 12 on suspicion of making threats to kill.
“He was released on police bail to return to Parkside police station in Cambridge on January 14, 2015.” A Tesco spokesman said: “This is now a matter for the police and we are helping them with their inquiries”.
How To Make Your Own Doritos-Flavored Mountain Dew
Posted on 17:32 by raja rani
"You know it's gonna be good when you see the chunks in it!"
Guardian of the Galaxy DVD extra outake: the Star-Lord and Ronan dance-off actually happened
Posted on 08:10 by raja rani
Guardians of the Galaxy fans, the Blu-Ray version of the movie (to be released on December 9th) has an outake of a dance scene between Star-Lord and Ronan the Accuser, with Gamora and Drax joining in:
Buzzfeed interviewed Chris Pratt:
“We were filming what was essentially, you know, the climax of the entire movie … and I was dancing,” he said, still laughing. “I was standing there … in front of 200 extras in full alien makeup. And none of them knew what the hell was happening either. They thought they were on a serious movie because of all the time and the effort that had been put into their makeup. So I just had this energy of, like, What am I doing?!”
Pratt said he didn’t work with a choreographer on the scene, nor did the script really specify how exactly he was supposed to be dancing. “But I did have a pretty good sense of the era from which I would be drawing dance moves, given that Quill draws all of his pop-culture references from a certain time frame of basically 1985 and earlier.”
He ended up doing a kind of Michael Jackson-esque thing (and did a pretty good job of it, too), while Ronan went with running man moves.
Dancing Baby Groot is still my favorite, though:
Previous related posts:
A conversation between the Lego versions of Peter Quill (Guardians), Han Solo (Star Wars), and Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly), discussing the age old question: when is it ok to shoot first?
Star Wars recut into a Guardians Of The Galaxy style trailer, plus a 3 minute review of the 1st trilogy. (Lucasfilms (or Disney, if they own the previous films) should hire the guy who did this, because it absolutely makes you want to watch Star Wars again (and Guardians))
Peter Quill from GOTG teaching an Gamora about the Legend of Footloose and the great hero Kevin Bacon.
via Buzzfeed
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Wednesday links
Posted on 04:21 by raja rani
The Gettysburg Address was seven score and eleven years ago: history, photos, video and more.
Photoessay: Co-Worker Asked Me to Watch Her Plant While She Was Out for the Week…
Basic Fainting Technique: how to faint in a manner that attracts the attention of a specific gentleman.
30 Hilariously Terrifying Animal Hybrids That You Can Be Glad Don’t Exist.
Take this Map Your Mind quiz and find out which famous brains are most similar to yours.
ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include Pliny the Elder's advice for avoiding mushroom poisoning, film from a 1937 Nazi boys summer camp in upstate NY, the history of prosthetic limbs, and the top 50 all-time video games, ranked.
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
The Gettysburg Address was seven score and eleven years ago: history, photos, videos and more
Posted on 21:01 by raja rani
Today is the 151st anniversary of President Lincoln's delivery of his few "brief remarks" at the dedication of the new national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (wiki), only four or so months after the great Civil War battle there that emerged as "the high-water mark of the Confederacy."
One of the only two confirmed photos of Abraham Lincoln (sepia highlight) at Gettysburg, taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before the speech. To Lincoln's right is his bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon |
At the time, the final issue of the war was still in some doubt, and Lincoln received second billing to a lengthy speech by Dr. Edward Everett, then president of Harvard University and reputedly America's greatest orator.
Everyone's familiar with the Gettysburg Address - didn't we all have to memorize it in grammar school? But in these troubled times, its mere 272 words remain well worth reading again. The full text is below.
By the way, Garry Wills' brilliant study Lincoln at Gettysburg analyzes the Gettysburg Address in terms of its role in defining the ethos of the United States for subsequent generations, while also tracing the antecedents of Lincoln's argument and the structure of his peerless prose back to Thucydides' account of Pericles' 430 B.C funeral oration at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. (Wills notes that despite the popular view that Lincoln generally preferred short, pithy utterances, the final sentence of the Gettysburg Address is 84 words long - almost a third of the whole.)
Here's Wikipedia on the similarities:
Lincoln's speech, like Pericles', begins with an acknowledgment of revered predecessors: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent..."; Lincoln, like Pericles, then praises the uniqueness of the State's commitment to democracy: "..a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...government of the people, by the people, and for the people..."; Lincoln, like Pericles, addresses the difficulties faced by a speaker on such an occasion, "...we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground"; Lincoln, like Pericles, exhorts the survivors to emulate the deeds of the dead, "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the great task remaining before us"; and finally, Lincoln, like Pericles, contrasts the efficacy of words and deeds, "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract...The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." It is uncertain to what degree Lincoln was directly influenced by Pericles' Funeral Oration.
Wills never claims that Lincoln drew on it as a source, though Edward Everett, who delivered a lengthy oration at the same ceremony at Gettysburg, began by describing the "Athenian example".
This article on Obama's recitation of the speech last year (the 150th anniversary) in which he left out the words "under God" is from WMAL. Excerpts:
WASHINGTON -- One nation under God? Under President Obama, maybe not so much.
Union soldiers dead at Gettysburg, July 1963 |
In advance of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address (full text below), which President Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863, filmmaker Ken Burns gathered every living President, along with several prominent members of Congress, celebrities and news media stars to deliver the address themselves. Burns edited the individual speeches into one final mashup that is available on the site, but he also provided the complete speech as delivered by each individual dignitary.
Curiously enough, in his version of the speech, President Barack Obama's delivery contained an omission - in a line that every other celebrity delivered as "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom" (click here for proof of that), the President left out the words "under God."You can watch all of the speeches at learntheaddress.org.
You can see the President's reading of the Gettysburg speech here - his omission is at the 1:35 mark:
Gettysburg Address full text:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any other nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here died that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
~Abraham Lincoln ("The Gettysburg Address," 19 November 1863)
Here's a brief documentary which includes most of the available photographs of Lincoln, some photos of battlefields, and several (non-photographic) illustrations from contemporaneous newspaper accounts. It also describes the historical context of the speech and Lincoln's feeling that it had been a failure:
An animated version of the speech:
This video is a series of photos from the morning after the battle, set to music:
Related: Paper prints retraction for 1863 article calling Gettysburg address "silly remarks"; retraction written in the style of Gettysburg Address (read the whole thing!):
Seven score and ten years ago, the forefathers of this media institution brought forth to its audience a judgment so flawed, so tainted by hubris, so lacking in the perspective history would bring, that it cannot remain unaddressed in our archives.Mental Floss has an excellent post - Gettysburg: The Great Reunion of 1913.
Just in time for Christmas: Firefly Clue, Serenity Yahtzee and adult Underoos!
Posted on 12:40 by raja rani
Forty dollars for a Yahtzee game that isn't gold-plated? Well, yes, if you're a Firefly fan, because the dice cup is a 9 inch long version of the Serenity! Behold the Serenity Yahtzee:
As for Firefly Clue, here's the Amazon description:
River has been betrayed to the Alliance!
Now with CLUE: Firefly Edition, help the Serenity crew to discover who is working with the Alliance, what they used to betray River and where on Serenity the kidnapping took place. Was it Inara with the Med Kit in the Engine Room? Or Mal with the Leather Necklace in the passenger dorm? Solve the mystery and save River!
Also, apparently as a result of this post last year: Where the hell are my goddamned adult Underoos? (NSFW - language), Hot Topic has started selling a limited line of Underoo sets for adults (Amazon has a decent Wonder Woman set, but nothing else):
Bonus: this Underoos commercial from 1980:
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