Today's Wow did I just see that?

For those of us who have Doctors wanting us to cut back on salt . . .

Electrified fork makes food taste saltier

 

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Amazing optical illusion makes black and white image appear color

Stare at the dot. Enjoy the magic! (via r/gifs)

 

Unintentionally funny 1969 anti-LSD film by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

 

Watch single cell organism attack its prey

 

Seriously? I mean Seriously? What isn't wrong with this picture?

Everything about this “Beautiful Woman Soldering” stock photo Is wrong

 

1. She's holding the HOT part of the soldering iron in here hand.
2. She has no solder or solder-sucker.
3. She's wearing sun glasses.
4. She's wearing a ring on her finger.
5. She's soldering on the wrong side of the circuit board.
6 She has nothing between the circuit board and the table.
7 ?

 

I doubt anyone ever soldered anything in that laboratory, typically laminar flow booths aren't required.

I would also bet in real life that she would be ESD protected.

If this was real, a professional soldering iron probably would be used, instead of the piece of crap they have pictured.

 

Yeah...the first thought to pop into my head was "where is her wrist strap?"

 

If it were real the iron would have actually been plugged in ....

 

National Poo Museum will be crappy in a good way

Next month, the Isle of Wight Zoo in England is opening a National Poo Museum! The new exhibition will include preserved feces from a wide array of animals, from the Lesser Madagascan Tenrec to lions, and of course a 38 million-year-old coprolite, fossilized crap such as the specimen seen above.

"It's stinky, unpleasant and sometimes dangerous stuff — but it’s all around us and inside us too — and perhaps surprisingly our planet would be a much poorer place without it," a museum spokesperson told the County Press.

 

I wonder if they are planning on having an exhibit with a political theme?

 

They should. Looks like they have both parties covered.LOL

 

Since Gordon retired I really haven't been to interested in NASCAR, but I may staart rooting for Kenseth

Matt Kenseth surprises Steve Byrnes' widow, son with Bristol gifts

 

Due to travel/client issues I had an extra day with nothing to do in Iowa today, I went Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch Iowa. I forgot how many little gems are dispersed around this great country.

Also learned quite a bit a Hoover today, so easy to just go with the 5 minute lecture you got on a person in Junior High. Like Jimmy Carter, this gentleman probably was better outside the office than in it.

Below is the two room home he was born in!

 

Walter Cronkite in the computerized home office of 2001 (1967)

In this brief clip from the March 12, 1967 episode of the CBS show The 21st Century, Walter Cronkite shows us a home office from 2001. Aside from the clunkiness of the equipment, this 49 year old video is very prescient.

"With equipment like this in the home of the future we may not have to go to work – the work would come to us," Says Cronkite. "In the 21st century it may be that no home would be complete without a computerized communications console."

 

Texas police tell little girl she is in "big trouble" for buying school meal with $2 bill

 

India trying out optical illusion speed bumps
In India, 11,000 people die each year in automobile accidents tied to potholes or speed bumps, presumably because drivers fly over them, often on purpose.

 

Been busy and just getting caught up, unfortunately a lot of the "Wows!" today are not good Wow's.

After advertiser complaints, Farm News fires editorial cartoonist who criticized John Deere & Monsanto

Rick Friday has been the editorial cartoonist for Farm News for 21 years, with a weekly slot in every Friday's paper.