More oddities spotted in the news

[robkelk]

The last thread hit 300 posts, so here's a new one.

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New movie to star one Anne of Green Gables and be directed by another Anne of Green Gables.

[robkelk]

Something old, something (relatively) new... both for the shutterbugs.

Period piece movie uses period-appropriate photography for on-set photos

Ektachrome is coming back!

[Star Ranger4]

Bet Dartz will be putting in an order for Ektachrome if he didn't have one already.

[Dartz]

Have a roll in the camera. And used it a few times over the last year. Slide film is the shit.


Meanwhile.....

Street Racing in Ireland.

[robkelk]

Some improvised fixes are worse than others

That's right, this guy

Spoiler

gave his own car the raspberry

[Labster]

I spent the first few minutes confused why he didn't just use water, and eventually I was like, oh yeah, they have ice up there.

[robkelk]

WW II vet Fred Arsenault wanted 100 cards for his 100th birthday. Canadians are making it happen

Including the local Army unit letting him carry a machine gun again.

[Bob Schroeck]

SETI@Home is shutting down -- not because it's out of money or someone stomped on it, but because it's been so successful they've got a massive backlog of data to go through, and are shifting focus to analyzing the data they have instead of getting more data from contributors. They describe it as a "hiatus", giving every indication they plan to start parceling out data to users again just as soon as they get their analysis on their current data done.

[robkelk]

Are you ready for bug butter?

According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake.

[DHBirr]

Are you ready for bug butter?

According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake.

Just mix it with maple mead from the Dendarii Mountains, and it'll be delicious.  Oh ... wrong sort of bug butter, I guess.

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“We’ve had our differences, but he’s seen the light … and I made sure he moved toward it, instead of coming back.”

[robkelk]

(blows dust off thread)

Meet Watershed Brewing Co.: Alberta's most real fake brewery

How Nickelback became the internet's most-hated band

How Trump's Yosemite slipup turned a Jewish history museum's T-shirt into an 'astronomical' best seller

[Norgarth]

2020 keeps the threats hits coming...
Asteroid predicted to pass close to Earth the day before the US election
https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/aster...eTNQNWPPa8

[robkelk]

Why accents are behind the booming business of the human voice

"I think authenticity is key," said Jonathan Love, a 45-year-old voice actor based in Calgary who's known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2002's Star Wars: The Clone Wars video game.

If that game were to be made today, Love said it's likely he wouldn't be cast.

"I think gone are the days that I would be cast to do a Ewan McGregor accent," said Love.

[Bob Schroeck]

Arkham Board of Health Feedback on Miskatonic University's Draft Plan for a Safe Campus Reopening

[robkelk]

Almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language

[robkelk]

No, no, no - I came in here for a beer.

A bear walks into a liquor store...

[nocarename]

If everyone will please check their 2020 bingo cards, we can now mark the Rocketeer off as completed.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36...de-them-on

[robkelk]

"What appears to be a blurry, dark photo is actually a view of what an amazing community can do with a lot of determination"

[Dartz]

If everyone will please check their 2020 bingo cards, we can now mark the Rocketeer off as completed.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36...de-them-on

I read this and was reminded of Jet Jaguar in Fenspace.

[robkelk]

Lisa Campbell becomes the first woman to head the Canadian Space Agency

Only an oddity in that "first woman to..." is still newsworthy.

[robkelk]

An indigenous project: Bead your State / Province

[Norgarth]

Pair of FlatEarthers try to sail to the edge of the world, complications ensue
https://www.indy100.com/article/flat-ear...1599408927

[Norgarth]

Ryan Renolds brings Rick Moranis out of retirement for Mint Mobile commercial
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/rick-m...ommercial/
(article includes the commercial)
it also includes a synopsis of Moranis' return to the big screen in the upcoming 'Honey I shrunk the kids' movie

[Norgarth]

modern scanning techniques allow ancient text on the Antikythera mechanism to be read, explaining it's purpose.
https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/an-anc...ts-at-last

[Bob Schroeck]

Wow. Very cool. The discovery that it wasn't a one-off is amazing -- that means there must be more still lurking about somewhere, in various states of disrepair...