Tuesday links

February 5th is World Nutella Day - here's a canonical list of Nutella recipes.

Mapping the Oceans - How cartographers saw the world in the 16th century.

Here's a toilet seat that monitors your heart health.

"I should have killed you when I had the chance" - the movie supercut.

When the U.S. Interned Italians in Montana, They Rioted Over Olive Oil.

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Photo Gallery of Early Supercomputers.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and are all February, Groundhog Day and Super Bowl-related.

"I should have killed you when I had the chance" - the movie supercut

NSFW language. Also includes also "You should have killed me when you had the chance" and "You should have killed him (or her) when you had the chance", and a few longer/shorter versions thereof and permutations. List of films below:

Featured titles:

Spy
Star Trek
Hercules Reborn
The Frozen Ground
Drop Dead Gorgeous
This Means War
Game of Death
Enemies Closer
Pit Fighter
Born to Be Bad

00:27

Cold Mountain
Ella Enchanted
Harbinger Down
Vampire Academy
No Way Out
Bend of the River
21 Grams
Hulk
The Dead Pool
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth

00:49

Bad Medicine
Life During Wartime
Vacancy
Valdez Is Coming
Tai-Pan
The Lion in Winter
Silverado
Street Trash
Gorky Park
Lost Command

01:13

Redirected
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Leprechaun
Noah
Chisum
Brick Mansions
Who’ll Stop the Rain
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Expendables
Point Break

01:36

Frontera
Gran Torino
Animal Factory
Blade: Trinity
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
The Emperor’s New Groove
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

02:07

X2
The World Is Not Enough
Run All Night
Lost in Space
Above the Law
The Getaway
Vendetta
Shocker
Freejack
Sergeant Rudlege

02:31

Law and Order
The Two Faces of January
Crank
Hard Rain
Bamboozled
Get Lucky
Mindwarp
Mission: Impossible II
Quo Vadis
Red River

02:59

The Perfect Sleep
Black Mama White Mama
Welcome to the Punch
Spawn
Your Highness
Tall in the Saddle
The Wild Bunch
Without a Clue
The Desperadoes
Hard Candy

03:25

Invasion U.S.A.
Heavenly Sword
The Rookie
Bound
Alex Cross
Severance
Last Knights
The Ant Bully
New Jack City
A History of Violence
The Night of the Generals

Wednesday links

August 29th, 2:14 AM: Skynet Becomes Self-aware.

How drunk were the Founding Fathers? Revolutionary-era Americans could drink you under the table.

Scientists look to music of volcanos to better monitor eruptions: the Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador is "the largest pipe organ you've ever come across."

Excellent Supercut of Improbable Weapons.

How to Fight Multiple Assailants.

LBJ's birthday was earlier this week: he was the President Who Marked His Territory.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, the U.S. Senate monorail (a private subway system under Washington D.C.), and the anniversary of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii in A.D. 79.

Supercut of Improbable Weapons

As cool as any of these were in the original movies, aggregating them is even better:



Weapon and film list (in order of appearance):

Ladder - First Strike
Melons - Transporter 2
Umbrella - Kingsman
Afro Picks - Undercover Brother
Ship - Pacific Rim
Shirt - Transporter
Tea Cup - Chronicles of Riddick
Guitar Case - Desperado
Trash Can - First Strike
Ballpoint Pen - The Bourne Identity
Gopher-Chuks - Kung Pow: Enter The Fist
Credit Card - The Glimmer Man
Guitar - Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Record - Shaun of the Dead
Limo Antenna - Crocodile Dundee
Banjo - Zombieland
Hairspray + Cigar - Live and Let Die
Guitar Case #2 - Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Bowler Hat - Goldfinger
Toothbrush - Oldboy
Calligraphy Brushes - The Magnificent Butcher
Forks - Mystery Men
Carrot - Shoot ‘Em Up
Belt - Pootie Tang
Magazine - The Bourne Supremacy
Chair - Thunderball
Bike Pedals - Transporter
Toilet Cover - Zombieland
Fire Hose - Transporter 2

Tuesday links

The Swiss Army Survival Tampon: 7 Survival Uses. Related, from the same guy: 11 Ways A Condom Can Save Your Life.

Getting angry and flipping over a table: the supercut.

Interactive Map Shows Where Your House Would Have Been 750 Million Years Ago. Type in your address and use the drop-down arrow at the top of the page to chose how far back to go, or just use the up and down arrow keys.

As a recruiting tool, the U.S. Navy built a battleship in New York City's Union Square. It was there from 1917-1920.

The parakeet has a goiter: the best standard publisher rejection letter ever.

Dinosaur Doom Almost Wiped Birds Out, Too.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include the birthday of Ambrose Bierce (author of The Devil's Dictionary), the history of state liquor laws, awkward pregnancy photos, Japanese spider fighting, and that time the U.S. released a bioweapon in San Francisco.

Monday links

A Supercut of Epic Movie Explosions.

Can You Solve These 10 Medieval Riddles?

The cost to make a Margherita pizza: $1.77. How much restaurants charge on average for a pizza: $12. The actual costs of restaurant foods.

Vintage animation lessons - how to make things cute.

London's "Great Stink" and the challenge of engineering a sewer system in the middle of a crowded city of 2.5 million.

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include the science of knuckle cracking, how a simple artificial heart could permanently replace a failing human one, the legend of Blackbeard’s silver-plated skull, and a look inside the FBI's pre-computer fingerprint factory.

A Supercut of Epic Movie Explosions

From Screen Junkies - watch full screen. List of movies below the video.

Movies used:

Fight Club,
Lethal Weapon 3, 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), 
The Mask, 
Face/Off, 
Die Hard with a Vengeance, 
Independence Day, 
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 
The Dark Knight, 
Transformers: Age of Extinction, 
Tropic Thunder, 
The Expendables, 
Guardians of the Galaxy, 
Star Wars, 
Return of the Jedi, 
Die Hard, 
Django Unchained, 
Caddyshack, 
V for Vendetta, 
Dr. Strangelove, 
Ghostbusters, 
The Lord of the Rings: 
The Two Towers, 
Robocop (1987), 
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 
The Terminator, 
Speed, 
Oz The Great and Powerful, 
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 
Mary Poppins, 
Rio, 
Paul, 
The Theory of Everything, 
Neighbors, 
The Croods.

Monday links

The 1945 assault on Iwo Jima started Feb 19 and the famous flag raising was on Feb 23: some quotes, history, and a brief documentary.

Half the DNA on the NYC Subway Matches No Known Organism.

From Nazi Germany to Australia: The Incredible True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey

Supercut: Cursing Without Cursing.

Guy Spends A Year Gluing Together 42,000 Matches To Make A Giant Sphere, Sets It On Fire.

The romantic benefits of snail slime.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include how bird feeders are changing bird evolution, a strange tale of triplets separated at birth, why we yell Geronimo when we jump out of planes, extreme breath-holding, and advice from 1761 on surviving cold and flu season.

Friday links

Kids re-enact the first Black Friday.

Tomorrow, November 25 is "Evacuation Day (wiki), when the British ran 'way" from New York City at the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's the story of the young man who slithered up a greased flagpole to rip down the British flag.

The Forgotten History of Jingle Bells.

Getting angry and flipping over a table: the supercut.

The Serial-Killer Detector - A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

Cat and Dog Research. Including two studies on how dogs affect their owner's urine.

ICYMI, Thursday's links consisted of a boatload of obscure Thanksgiving-related material.

Getting angry and flipping over a table: the supercut

Has film brought us a better short hand for "uncontrollable anger" than the table flip? Watch full screen!

Cinematic Table Flips from Roman Holiday on Vimeo.

The films used in this table flipping montage:

00:05 - Angel's In The Outfield (1994)
00:12 - A Clockwork Orange (1971)
00:13 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1984)
00:15 - Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
00:16 - Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)
00:17 - Taken (2008)
00:18 - Pulp Fiction (1994)
00:20 - Die Hard (1988)
00:21 - Citizen Kane (1941)
00:22 - Magnolia (1999)
00:24 - The King Of Kings (1927)
00:25 - Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
00:31 - Jesus (1999)
00:38 - Happily Ever After (2007)
00:46 - Thor (2011)
00:51 - Moneyball (2011)
00:56 - Moonstruck (1987)
00:58 - The Sea Hawk (1940)
01:00 - The Gospel Of John (2003)
01:01 - Pollock (2000)
01:03 - Jesus Of Montreal (1989)
01:04 - P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! (2002)
01:06 - The Artist (2011)
01:07 - Raging Bull (1980)
01:08 - Son Of Frankenstein (1939)
01:10 - The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
01:11 - Peter Pan (1953)
01:13 - Titanic (1997)
01:14 - Splice (2009)
01:15 - The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
01:17 - Red Lights (2012)
01:18 - Being John Malkovich (1999)
01:21 - Scum (1979)
01:27 - Take Shelter (2011)

Music: Carmen Overture - Georges Bizet

via io9.

A Map of Every Goat in the United States, with bonus goat-related links

At WaPo:

There were 2,621,514 goats in the United States as of 2012, the year of a recent USDA Agricultural Census. If America's goats were their own state, its population would be larger than that of Wyoming, Vermont, D.C. and North Dakota -- combined. This is what all those goats look like on a map.

America's goat population is heavily concentrated in the Southwest, Texas in particular. Nearly 80 percent of America's goats are raised for meat. Sixteen percent are raised for milk, with the remaining 6 percent is comprised of Angora goats raised for mohair.

You'll find commercial goat farms operating in 2,996 of the country's 3,143 counties. Of the top ten goat-producing counties, 8 are in Texas and two are in Arizona. In Sutton County, Texas, goats outnumber people 14-to-1. In Edwards County, also in Texas, the ratio is 22-to-1. All in all, goats outnumber people in 21 U.S. counties, all but one of which are in Texas. 

And, because no post about goats is complete without it, here's the supercut of goats yelling like humans (Turn the sound down but not off):

Pelated posts and links:

Here are goats singing the US national anthem.

Apparently "Goat Arousal Expert" is a real job.

The Obama administration put in place new goatherder regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S.

How Mariah Carey makes goats produce more milk.

Tree-Climbing Goats Scatter Seeds By Spitting.

Wednesday links

Yesterday was National Fruitcake Toss Day: here's a video of people launching fruitcakes from trebuchets, catapults, air cannons, and giant sling shots.

Floridians and Mastodons Once Coexisted.

Know Your Sh!t – Identifying wildlife droppings.

This will get your morning off to a rousing start: a supercut of people falling and landing on vehicles, set to the cannon-punctuated finale of the 1812 Overture.

The Giant Concrete Arrows Across The US.

The Crazy Tricks Early Filmmakers Used To Fake Snow.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include a life-size T-Rex balloon animal, Isaac Asimov's birthday (including his 1964 essay predicting life in 2014), an explanation of leap seconds, and video of the infamous 11'8" tall "can opener" bridge shearing the tops off of trucks.

Airplane Crash Supercut

What not to watch just before flying: this airplane crash supercut. The movies included here are listed below the video.

Watch full screen!



World War Z
Fight Club
Hook
Final Destination
LOST
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Flight
The Grey
Almost Famous
Final Destination 5
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
Donnie Darko
Snakes on a Plane
Air Force One
Turbulence
Iron Man 3
Passenger 57
Home Alone
Twilight Zone, The Movie
Breaking Bad
Superman Returns
Executive Decision
Cast Away
Wayne's World
Airplane!
Die Hard 2
Con Air
Knowing
Alive

And just in time for Christmas, 30 day free trials of Amazon Prime:

Every James Bond gadget ever on screen

For 007 fans, every gadget used by James Bond . . . plus a few from the Q Branch that were just too good to leave out. 

From every James Bond film ever, in chronological order:

h/t HolyKaw

A supercut tribute to the first six seasons of Game of Thrones

From TheGaroStudios, a supercut of some memorable scenes from the first six seasons of Game of Thrones:

Watch in HD and full screen!

Previous posts and links:

Very cool new visual effects reel from season 5 of ‘Game of Thrones’: Mastering the Dragons

Game of Thrones season six: three latest leaks from on set (spoilers).

Season 4 Bloopers

Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Visual Effects From Game of Thrones Season 4

Queen Elizabeth Visits Game of Thrones Set (and Pugs of Westeros)

Iron Throne Shoes.

For $20K, Game of Thrones Author Will Write You Into Future Novel Then Kill You Off

Valyrian steel, length of the seasons, dragon biology: The Science of Game of Thrones, bonus geological map.

If Game Of Thrones Characters Were Drawn By Disney

Game of Thrones infographic chronology: 4 seasons of the 4 main families and the Night’s Watch.

Peter Dinklage Summarizes Game of Thrones In 45 Seconds.

Super Mario Game of Thrones.

Video: Hodor (Kristian Nairn) Describes His Awkward Game of Thrones Nude Scene.

Game of Goats, A Yelling Goats Version of the Game of Thrones Theme Song.

Game of Thrones Wine Map: The Wines of Westeros.

Supercut of pithy quotes from Game of Thrones, Seasons 1-3.

Fallen behind on Game of Thrones, or want a refresher before Season 4? All 3 seasons recapped in 9 minutes.

Game of Thrones: new trailer and an interview with the actors on who should end up on the iron throne.

Deleted And Extended Scenes From Game Of Thrones Season 3 (NSFW - language)

The Game of Thrones Travel Guide.

August 24: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii in A.D. 79.

They Drew Fire is a collection of paintings selected from the works of the World War II combat artists.

Humongous Tunnel Boring Machines.

Supercut of Improbable Weapons.

U.S. Senate Monorail - A Private Subway System for Senators Under Washington D.C. Since 1909

NASA Just Made All Its Research Free Online.

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include which bathroom stall you should choose if you want the cleanest one, how people call cats in different countries, making bread in the Middle Ages, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and how sunflowers track the sun across the sky.

Tuesday links

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori? Today is the anniversary of the 480 BC battle of Thermopylae.

The History of French Fries.

Man fought off armed would-be carjackers with high-pressure car wash sprayer.

Some people seem to need reminding: "We don’t negotiate with terrorists": the supercut.

Norway Considers Giving Finland a Mountain to Celebrate Its 100th Birthday.

Wooden skyscrapers: a roundup of tall timber buildings.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include a compilation of dancing in ‘80s movies, the habits of highly mathematical people, the opening ceremony of the 1936 Nazi Olympic Games, and, from 1944, head shots of all of the ways US intelligence thought Hitler might try to disguise himself.

Friday links

If you grew up in the 1980s, or have kids who did, you'll love this: Supercut of dancing in ‘80s movies (set to Lionel Richie’s “Dancing on the Ceiling”)

Habits of highly mathematical people.

11 Weird Sports That Were Actually In The Olympics. Kind of related: Watch The Opening Ceremony of the 1936 Nazi Olympic Games.

From 1944, head shots of all of the ways US intelligence thought Hitler might try to disguise himself.

A 1730 map of Paris.

The Origins of All 30 Major League Baseball Team Names.

ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, and include the experimental nuclear reactor secretly built under the University of Chicago, photographs of elegant in-flight airplane dining from the 1950s, the use of trial by touch to determine guilt in colonial America. and a set on anti-communist propaganda posters (including my personal favorite, "Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?").

Supercut of dancing in ‘80s movies

If you grew up during the 1980s (or if, as in my case, have kids who did), you'll recognized most if not all of these - I don't think there was anything unfamiliar to me, and I was just around when these movies were playing on the VCR in the background. 

As is frequently the case, these supercuts make me want to watch a whole bunch of these films again. This compilation didn't come with a list of the movies included: I started to try to produce one but there are 80 clips (although lots of repeats, especially Footloose, Flashdance and Dirty Dancing), and I soon gave up. Some YouTube commenters also had partial lists, so I've cobbled together a list, below, that is both out of order and incomplete. Feel free to add more, if you recognize clips I've left out. 

Video editor Robert Jones:

August 5th marks the 30th anniversary of Lionel Richie’s album “Dancing On the Ceiling”* and to celebrate here's a nostalgia overload of 80 movie dance scenes from the 80's getting down. They bad, uh-huh!

Watch full screen!

Footloose

Dirty Dancing

Beetle Juice

Top Secret

Good Morning Vietnam

Risky Business

Grease 

Teen Wolf

Batman

Spaceballs

Stripes

The Blues Brothers

Big

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Back to the Future

Howard the Duck

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Desperately Seeking Susan

One of the Rocky movies

The Breakfast Club

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Pretty In Pink 

Breakin'

Caddyshack

Revenge Of The Nerds

Three Amigos

Annie

Roadhouse

Short Circuit

Romancing the Stone 

Coming to America

Smooth Criminal video clip by MJ

Edward Scissorhands

Perfect

Gremlins II

Labyrinth

Twins

The Goonies

Peggy Sue Got Married

National Lampoon Vacation

Add more if you recognize things I've missed!

*Here's the official music video of Lionel Richie performing Dancing On The Ceiling:

Related: This compilation video of Christopher Walken dancing in over 50 movies will make your day (movie list at this post):

Christopher Walken supercut : Dance Now by MisterBuzz

Previously:

Supercuts of Memorable Dance Scenes in Movies.

A Supercut of Birds in Movies

I have birds on my mind after spending time last week with the Audubon photo contest winners - apparently BurgerFiction does, too.

Related posts:

Supercut: 100 Greatest One-Liners Before The Kill

"I should have killed you when I had the chance" - the movie supercut.

Supercut of people falling and landing on vehicles, set to the finale of the 1812 Overture.

Supercut of Improbable Weapons.

Supercut: We don’t negotiate with terrorists.

Supercut: Hit by a Bus

A Supercut of Epic Movie Explosions.

Supercut of the Phrase ‘We’re Not so Different, You and I’ in Movies.

Supercuts of Cheesy Computer Hacking Scenes in '80s and '90s Movies

Supercut: Fake Ads in Movies

Supercuts of Memorable Dance Scenes in Movies.

Supercut: Best/Most Memorable Catchphrases in TV History, Parts 1 and 2

And my personal all-time favorite: Defenestration supercut: movie characters driving, falling, jumping and being thrown through glass windows.

All previous Supercut posts.