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The Literal Translation of Country Names is a remarkably researched map that plots the etymological origins of every country name in the world. Drawing from sources such as The CIA Factbook and Oxford University Press, the map offers insight into the spirit behind each name.

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In a fascinating demonstration, an unknown person drew a stick figure on a dining room table with a non-soluble marker. The person then poured a cup of water over the figure and after a few second the figure suddenly began moving as if it were dancing.

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Actor Toby Huss is a man of many talents. Aside from lending his incredible acting talent to the role of John “Boz” Bosworth on the sublime AMC series Halt and Catch Fire and his vocal talent to various voices in the animated series King of the Hill, Huss also has a fascinating alter ego named Rudy Casoni, singer Frank Sinatra’s bastard son. Like his estranged father, Casoni loves to croon and, with this in mind, performed a melodic version of the Dead Kennedys’ classic song “California Über Alles” backstage while getting dressed for a show. Maureen Herman of Boing Boing asked Casoni why he decided to do this song.

This shitbird parade of a presidential election has been trying to murder me for months now. So I fought back the only way I know how: with booze. Plenty of booze. But then a song. And then some drunken singing. Then I got sick all over a good suit and fell asleep in a warm dumpster behind a nightclub humming a punk rock tune. That’s the Casoni way, so shove it. I know that bum Jerry Brown is behind this turdshow anyway, so I’m voting for Liquor. Mr. Malted Liquor.

Politics must be very important to Casoni, because in 2008 dedicated a heartfelt song to Sarah Palin for Funny or Die.

Huss/Sinatra from 2011.

A #shitshow election interlude. https://t.co/mIKZA0H8PK #rudycasoni w help from @JamesUrbaniak @Pat_Healy @KateFlannery & the #Dago5 band

— Toby Huss (@tobyhuss) October 22, 2016

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During a 2014 interview with BBC Radio, master dialect coach Andrew Jack, who has worked on such blockbuster films as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Captain America: The First Avenger, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, offered up a wonderful verbal tour of the British Isles, explaining the sound of each regional accent in the most poetic way possible.

Here is Northern Irish with the rising inflections, but you don’t get the rising inflections down in Dublin where it has that poetic quality which is sometimes thought of as being not different from Highland speech which is also quite poetic and almost Scandinavian. and then you come down to Glasgow and into the Lowlands of Scotland where you get glottal stops and things like that. Then you come down the west coast and you’re in Wales, North Wales where it’s breathy like that and down into South Wales where you get much heavier and Welsh people who sometimes even sound a bit drunk.

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While traveling through Market Drayton in the West Midlands town of North Shropshire, England, British boater Mick Carroll caught the wonderful sight of a man in a kayak being towed down the Shropshire Union Canal by a tiny remote controlled tugboat.

dont ya just love eccentric’s , seen this fella as we were passin thru Market Drayton gettin pulled along by a remote control tug , brilliant. …as he was goin past he shouted ” just when you thought you’d seen everything ” was laughin me head off.

photos by Mick Carroll

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After tasting the raw honey that was made by his bees, Gothamist food editor Nell Casey got in touch with urban beekeeper Tom Wilk of Wilk Apiary to find out more about his craft. Wilk spoke with videographer Jessica Leibowitz about his passion for his hives, the nature of bees, why he uses smoke and how he overcame his fear of bugs by beekeeping.

I have 32 hives in nine different apiaries. Beekeeping requires patience in that you’re working around 50,000 stinging insects. You can’t rush through it. You have to be deliberate in your motions, you have to be deliberate in how you pick things up and how you move things so you’re not squishing them. It’s not right to go into their house and kill them for no reason so you want to go in and, you know, do as little harm as possible, because then
they’ll get back to work faster. I was deathly afraid of bugs. This is one way of getting rid of my fear.

go BEE-hind the scenes of today’s video on @wilkapiary https://t.co/WcxqQ4Qxgj pic.twitter.com/jpI9i5qlt8

— Jessica Leibowitz (@j_leibowitz) July 19, 2016

1500 Words by writer Jim Memzies and directed by filmmaker Andrew Chaplin is a wonderfully bizarre short film that tells the story of Stanley Franks, who is told by his dispassionate doctor that he only has a terminal illness that allows him only 1500 words to live. After using over a thousand to express his anguish within the doctor’s office, Stanley goes home and does his best to choose his words very carefully.

When Stanley Franks is told he has 1500 words left to live, he faces a battle to keep both his marriage and himself alive using the fewest words possible.

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