The Sylvia Plath Effect “refers to the phenomenon that creative writers are more susceptible to mental illness [and] that female poets were more likely to suffer from mental illness than any other class of writers.” Via Neatorama.
Scenes from Hitchcock films recreated with modern actors (Seth Rogan’s is fantastic) and movie posters from every Academy Award Best Picture winner. Via Neatorama and Neatorama.
Crazy Nokia Fish
The original, 1868 Nokia logo is fantastic:
That totally makes me want to buy a cell phone.
Via Neatorama.
Los Angeles’s Original Name
Los Angeles was originally known as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula” (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the river Porciúncula).
City Placement
Place world cities on a world map. It starts easy and gets harder. I got to level 9 with a score of 323,801 and a “Traveler IQ” of 107. Damn you Africa!
Via Neatorama and Militant Platypus.
Tufts Stinkymeat Project
Tufts students are always out for a good time, I tell you.
Two enterprising Tufts students have undertaken an homage to the Stinkymeat Project, a twenty day experiment to determine what would happen if you left a plate full of unrefrigerated meat in an unsuspecting neighbor’s backyard. The results, while tantalizing, were fairly predictable. The two anonymous Tufts students have undertaken a slightly different challenge:
we will be conducting our experiment above a shower stall in a Tufts dorm. This particular shower is located in a building adjacent to our own, in a suite populated by our arch-enemies. In this way, we will not only be examining the rate of decay of various meats. We will also be testing the amount of time it takes before a group of unwitting residents try to seek out the source of an unbearable odor in their bathroom.
They’re currently up to day 5 day 6 and the meat is just starting to turn fragrant.
Man, this is great, it feels just like the RumorsDaily of yore. Can anyone figure out from the pictures which dorm it is?
Via Neatorama and Joel’s Blog.
Baseball Fight
To complete my recent baseball trifecta, here’s a clip of a recent baseball fight in South Korea. Sort of.
Magic Tricks
I went to the Magic Castle last night, and attended a seance for Houdini, which was all well and good, but does nothing to explain to me how this trick is performed:
Olympic Medals by Population
A breakdown of the countries that have won the most Olympic medals when population is taken into account. Go Bahamas!
Via Neatorama and Look at This.
