FOLIO OLIO: WEDNESDAY #1943

Just a reminder that yesterday was the last day to unsuccessfully sign up for Obamacare.

I used to worry that my children would grow up before I did.

A man who sent a potential employer a photograph of his penis along with his curriculum vitae remained unemployed as of Monday.

The search for a 43-year old man, swept out to sea during a baptism on a south California beach, was called off this weekend: "A wave pulled three people into the ocean about 10 a.m. off Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve and only two managed to return to shore on their own."

The German labor ministry has banned managers from calling or emailing employees outside of working hours as a means of preventing "self-exploitation," wherein workers end up putting in hours while they're off the clock.

Archaeologists and historians came out on top yesterday in a battle against The National Geographic Channel. The channel was promoting a new show — all about treasure hunters, metal detectors, and collectibles salesmen digging up World War II graves in Eastern Europe. Called, classily, Nazi War Diggers, the show appeared to violate some pretty key tenets of scientific archaeology. Video clips and press materials for the show featured body parts being yanked out of the ground (and misidentified), rather than carefully excavated. And, despite promises that the relics uncovered would go to museums, there's evidence that an American Nazi memorabilia dealer was selling some of things that were found. In general, the show seemed to involve a lot of behaviors that, while legal in Poland and Latvia where the filming was done, are viewed as horribly unethical by the folks who do this kind of work professionally.

Another image you are forbidden to masturbate to...

15 year old invents a flashlight that works on the warmth of your hand...

Believe it or not, it's just a hollow aluminum tube. Somehow, the contrast between the warmth of the outside of the tube and the coolness of the inside creates a current. Go figure.

Damn, Australia, now you're just showing off...

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If slogans were honest...

Mary Willingham, a Learning Specialist teaching remedial skills at UNC's Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes, commented publicly on the abysmal educational skills of athletes enrolled at the school, most of whom had reading skills of grade-school children, some of them at a third-grade level and not having ever written a paragraph in their life.

She reports her experience with literally illiterate college student-athletes who were unable to write. They were enrolled in "paper classes" that didn't really exist (they just had to write a paper, not attend classes, and that help was given to them to write that paper). The classes were typically in African-American Studies. She calls the situation a "scam," "a joke," that "everyone knew" and that the NCAA doesn't care about this.

Biggest fucking bummer I've seen in a while...

Talk about an emotional swing.

Workers used to take up a collection to hire someone to read them a book to break the monotony....

You can't imagine how much I like this...

I posted a .gif yesterday of this...

A viewer sent me this in comments...

I watched the video and came up with these images of another way to think of train bombing...

Then they threw colors squirted in egg shells...

Why it was written in English was not explained.

The saddest Spice Girl was Hospice.

My bartender’s wife is an Ultra-Runner. This past week-end she completed a 50 mile “marathon” through the mountains of North Carolina on a mountain dirt trail in an all day rain with mud up to her ankles.