Tuesday links

Composer Dimitri Shostakovich was born September 25, 1906: some quotes, history, and music.

When the U.S. Government Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky.

Georgian era stand-up routines.

Hypnotic breast enlargement.

This Is Your Octopus On Drugs.

 

A short history of Sleepwalking. 

ICYMI, most recent links are here, and include the physics of swirling your wine, Firefly's Unification Day, the 17th century Russian beard tax, seamless underwater-to-air communication, and the Great British Hedgehog Census. 

The 2016 Election as a Football Play

If the election had been a football play rather than a presidential election, and Hillary Clinton had been handed her position in it by Make-A-Wish rather than the Democrat establishment, the 2016 election would have looked something like this:

h/t Moonbattery