Zoopraxiscope

Presenting the Pulp-O-Mizer.

(Via dotclue)

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While researching jurisimprudence, I came across some additions to The Rules:

Cunningham’s Law – The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.

Muphry’s Law — The principle that any criticism of the speech or writing of others will itself contain at least one error of usage or spelling

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Chuck Jones’s Law – If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a bunny.

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Via the professor, here’s the Monty Python “Happy Valley” skit. which I hadn’t come across before.

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I quit watching teevee decades ago, so I missed this classic commercial. (Via Robbo.)

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When assembling a web page, be sure to close all tags. (How large a monitor would you need to read the final line above the footer?)

(Via Dustbury.)

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Even rapidly-flowing, basaltic lava, such as that which Tolbachik is currently erupting in Kamchatka, is dense stuff, as illustrated by the process of taking a sample, above.

Here’s a spherical panoramic movie of a helicopter touring Tolbachik. You can click and drag to change the direction of view.

Since lava is so dense, is it possible, with the appropriate footwear, to walk across a fresh flow? Sometimes, if conditions are right:

At Etna you can walk on small lava flows with good hiking boots (it might be their last hike, though), because the lava is more viscous than on Hawai’i. However, you won’t try on a larger flow because heat radiation is so huge.

You go first.

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Mt. Rainier erupting the Milky Way.

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Some true rock music, made with volcanic phonolite.