Tuesday, November 03, 2026

Return of The Great Indian Bustard

This lovely stopmotion film tells the story of the rise of the phoenix, the firebird, through a medium that itself emerges transformed after being burnt and fired.


Fog Eaters

Environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias and a team of researchers investigate unusually high levels of methylmercury in mountain lions along California’s Central Coast. Tracing mercury pollution through the food web, they tie it back to an unlikely source: coastal fog.

Monday, November 02, 2026

LAKE ONTARIO

Bryan Adams sings about a deranged leader’s pattern of executive actions  to rename major geographic features and bodies of water. 

Uranium Prospecting Fashions for the Family

The good old days days when looking stylish was more important than fretting about pesky radiation exposure.



(Weird Universe)

Don’t Eat It



McDonald’s China has released the French Fry Wireless Mouse, made from repurposed Happy Meal toys. It arrives as part of the brand’s ongoing “Reimagine Good Things” sustainability campaign. Via Link Molto Belli,

How Wildwood Was Made

This behind the scenes featurette of the making of the film Wildwood provides an understanding of the time-consuming attention to detail that is required to put a stop-motion animation film together.

Sunday, November 01, 2026

Sunday Links

Sorry for the late Halloween links here. All week I thought today was October 31 and when I checked in this morning I got a surprise. Yikes!

Creepy Doll “It’s got a ruined eye that’s always open.” Thanks for the link Marco.

Trump denies writing 2036-volume comic titled Don And Jeff : Time Pedophiles

This Prostitute Set tells a story of glamour, temptation, deception, and self-preservation. Via Messy Nessy

Halloween Party

100 Objects #22 In 1998, the recording industry was thriving. But the company pressing more compact discs than anyone else in America wasn’t a record label…

Before the polio vaccine lots of people got the disease  Here are some poliomyelitis survivors whose names you may recognize  

 It’s hearty soup season Yay!

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Halloween Horror Poems

How far from shore can a kangaroo swim? Probably further than you thought.

Sure, vote (an oldie but still à propos)

The xylophonist

The Unread turns your unread emails into zombies to kill 

This is a good one from Jeb’s Jukebox: ‘Every Now And Then I Have To Cry’. (A repost from 2018)

Parable 

This guy found a solution to high rents in Vancouver.

A gondola system to get rid of mice

Canada’s Eurovision 2027 finalists have been revealed. They hail from across the country, British Columbia to New Brunswick.

Kudos to the post office for delivering this letter in a timely fashion

Artificial Intelligence Still Needs Human Supervision 



Saturday, October 31, 2026

Time Change

 

Feed your pet an hour early 🐈 #pet #cat #dog #catlife #doglife #fish #wintertime #timeshift #timechange

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— Stuff I found (@stuffifound.politicalmemes.org) October 25, 2026 at 6:27 AM

Music For Halloween Morning



The Thing on the Fourble Board

This radio horror story is perfect for Halloween. A worker on a deep-drilling oil rig finds that something has found its way up the well - something that can't be seen.