ICYMI - this week's must watch video is Too Many Cooks

I've seen this posted in a few places over the weekend but was too busy to invest 11 minutes in it. Allahpundit at HotAir convinced me:

This would work better as a late-night palate cleanser but I’m already late to it after it broke big online Friday, so late-afternoon it is. There are two rules to watching. One: If you have a weak stomach for gore, even amateurish gore, skip it. You’ll find it hard to believe that a warning like that is necessary when you’re three or four minutes in, but trust me. Two: You must watch to the end. A friend told me he bailed out after a minute or two, thinking he’d gotten the joke. He hadn’t. Again: Trust me.

Here’s eleven minutes of cheese and blood. It’s an act of annihilation three times over, aimed at the nostalgia all of us of a certain age feel for corny 80s TV genres — the family sitcom, the cop show, the cheap sci fi and afternoon cartoons designed to sell toys to kids.

Supercut: Fake Ads in Movies

Most of these I didn't recognize, but the youtube page fills in the blanks:

Movies used: Robocop (1987), Goodfellas, Wreck-It Ralph, Anchorman, Tropic Thunder, Jack and Jill, Jingle All the Way, Toy Story, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Serenity, Ghostbusters, Happy Gilmore, Batman (1989), Lost in Translation, Anchorman 2, Prometheus, Punch-Drunk Love, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Talladega Nights, The Running Man, Tommy Boy, Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Truman Show, UHF, Westworld, The Wolf of Wall Street, Total Recall, Beetlejuice, Coming to America, Dodgeball, Halloween III, I Robot, Robocop 2, Starship Troopers

Monday links

This Chinese music video is the weirdest thing you'll watch all day.

Hedy Lamarr, movie star in the '30s and '40s and co-inventor of a frequency-hopping technique that underlies most wireless technology, was born 100 years ago.

Why Are Some People Left Handed?

Here are some 1955 photos of 12 year old Christopher Walken in clown makeup.

This Walmart has a mausoleum in the parking lot.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include a Berlin Wall photoessay, telling temperature with crickets, and the rules for (and history of) wife carrying contests.

Why Are Some People Left Handed?

From Joe Hanson at It's Okay To Be Smart.

My mom was born left-handed at a time when they trained you out of it, so she ended up largely ambidextrous, although there were still things (like scissors, easy to acquire now, but less so then) that she wished were available for southpaws. Makes you wonder why we don't teach ourselves (and our kids) to use both.

By the way, if you need a Christmas present for a left-handed person, buy them a good pair of scissors specifically made to fit that hand.

Joe recommends this book - A Left Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw, although this one seems to be the Amazon favorite on the subject - Left Is Right: The Survival Guide for Living Lefty in a Right-Handed World.

via io9, which also has this in-depth primer on left-handedness.

This Chinese music video is the weirdest thing you'll watch all day

What does the chicken say? 

No translation of the lyrics, but, as you'll see, it doesn't matter much since it's mostly chicken (and other barnyard animal) sounds:

The famous (and definitive!) Chicken scientific study.

Lots more chicken stuff.

via Neatorama.