Bag of Randomness for Friday, April 15, 2016
- io9 – So Now We Know How C-3PO Got His Red Arm In The Force Awakens
- Benjamin L. Corey – Things I’d Do Differently, If I Could Do Seminary Over Again
- Buzzfeed – This Virgin America Employee Writes The Most Hilarious Signs – He works at Love Field in Dallas.
- Not sure if this YouTube video is fake – Snowboarder Girl Chased By Bear – I Was Singing Rihanna Work And Didn’t Know It Was Behind Me!
- The TICKET dominates the ratings again but baseball season should put a kink in the armor – Sportsradio KTCK-AM (1310) and KTCK-FM (96.7) The Ticket dominated radio’s sports talk world again in the March book, released this week. In fact, the station dominated the radio dials regardless of format in men 25-54, the target demographic. The Ticket was No. 1 in the ratings period that covered Feb. 24 to March 23.
- @BeschlossDC – President Kennedy at Abraham Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield, 1962–13 months before his own assassination
- Natural gas pipeline could be end of mysterious Marfa lights in West Texas, group claims
- Coming soon to Dallas – Thai-style ice cream, or ice cream rolls – ice cream mix is poured over an icy cold disc until it freezes, then it is rolled into eye-catching pinwheels and doused with toppings.
- State helicopter used to retrieve Alabama Governor’s wallet
- Iowa news – Principal Won’t Punish Ninth-Graders Who Hired Male Stripper
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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, April 14, 2016
- I hardly tune in to any NBA games anymore and I’ve started to go to bed earlier, but I don’t regret watching the second half of Kobe’s last game. It looked like the Jazz were going to run away with it and then he took a sip from the fountain of youth and scored 60-points and lead the team to a win. The Lakers are out of playoff contention, so there wasn’t really a lot of meaning or significance to the win, but that has to go down as one of the best final performances.
- Amazing how Steve Kerr has played an important role in the two winningest teams in NBA history.
- ‘The Americans’ had an exceptional ending last night, one reason, it was paired with some great music. And no, it wasn’t U2.
- After Annie Oakley died, her widower was so depressed he didn’t eat for 18-days and died from starvation.
- Buzzfeed – A Hidden Message In “Better Call Saul” Hints An Iconic “Breaking Bad” Character Is Returning
- Bloomberg – Interactive chart – The Best—and Worst—States to Avoid Income Taxes
- FiveThirtyEight – Roughly 100,825,272,791 people have ever died.
- FiveThirtyEight – The New Science Of Hitting – I’m mainly posting this article because I’ve never seen a batting helmet with a facemask like that.
- Washington Post – In the shadow of the Washington Monument, a Christian group attempts 14 months of nonstop prayer – The tent was pitched seven months ago by a nondenominational Christian nonprofit group committed to performing nonstop worship music on the Mall for 14 months, from last Sept. 11 to November’s Election Day. Hershey said it costs $25,000 a month to run the tent, funded by donations.
- Bill Would Require Airlines To Let Parents, Kids Sit Together At No Extra Charge
- Phone-friendly movie theaters for millennials are coming
- GIF – Punk band singer dropkicks girl trying to take selfie on stage – This reminds me of the scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indy is on the Zeppelin and throws a guy off and then says, “No ticket.”
- Why J.J. Abrams is betting on ‘immersive cinema’ with Star Trek Beyond – The film will be released in the multi-screen Barco Escape format, a modern take on the kind of ultra-widescreen spectacle made famous by things like Cinerama decades ago. In the most basic terms, Escape is a panoramic setup that adds two additional screens to the sides of the movie theater frame you’re used to seeing. The result is a movie theater experience with a 270-degree field of view that filmmakers can use for super-widescreen imagery, or treat as three discrete screens, each with their own shots and action, if desired.
- Autoblog – How and why automakers work hard to camouflage their cars
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