Marimba Coldplay Viva la Vida — For your pleasure here is a marimba version Coldplay’s Viva la Vida as performed by Maikel van den Boomen who was 15 when this was uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 2, 2010.
And how many of you even knew what a marimba was?
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Memes mostly
Whittier Alaska Where All Live Together
With the night time temperatures in the teens — single digits come Friday — let us bring you the story of cozy Whittier Alaska where all live together. That’s right, almost all 177 residents live in the same building according to the below PBS report, which also includes the school, gymnasium, municipal offices, post office, and grocery store.
One never has to go out on cold nights.
Whittier Alaska Where All Live Together
Lars Andersen, Super Archer
The video below of Lars Andersen, super archer, is making the rounds of the web. Andersen is a Danish writer and painter who has decided to make his fame as an archer, investigating and relearning the forgotten skills known by our bow fighting ancestors.
Concerning the video, he told Snopes.com that none of it is digitally enhanced but many of the shots required much practice and multiple takes, and that there were some tricks involved such as using bamboo arrow and weaker bow for the shot in which he shoots an arrow from the air.
Lars Andersen, Super Archer
Polar Bear Puzzle
Here is the polar bear courtesy of Bjarke Mønsted who posted it at Quora.com
Someone rolls a few dice and asks how many polar bears there are. The objective is to figure out the system.
“How many polar bears are there?”
Answer: 6.
Let’s try again:
Answer: 4.
Last one pre-spoiler:
Answer: 4.
OK, here’s a hint: “The game is in the name of the game – polar bears around an ice hole – invented in the days of Ghengis Khan.
A clue for you to keep you true – like petals around a rose, you can count each bear’s nose.”
Get it yet?
The system is: Dots in the center represent a water hole, and only dots around a water hole represent polar bears. People tend to try a lot of numerical approaches before realizing the system is about the image of the die rather than the number it represents.
Polar Bear Puzzle
New York Taxi Driver Names
The five most common first names of New York taxi and limousine drivers are variations of Mohammed, as is the one in 10th place, Mamaoud.
Holding spots 7 through 9 respectively are Abudl, Syed and Ahmed.
In 6th place is Jean.
In spots 11 through 20 are Joseph, Ali, Michael, John, Jose, George, Kahalid, David, Luis and Ibrahim.
The most common last name by far is “Singh”.
The complete list of the top 10 first and last names can be found here.
New York Taxi Driver Names
The top five names of New York taxi drivers are variations of Mohammed.
Physician Sentence Riddle
A riddle for a rainy day.
In each blank in the following you have to place the same letters in the same order to make a sentence that is both grammatical and sensible:
The ______ physician was ______ to operate because he had _____
Hat tip Peter Flom posting on Quora.com
The Answer? Go here
Physician Sentence Riddle
Lithuanian Knife Thrower Sans Talent
A knife throwing act was featured on Lithuania’s Got Talent. If it managed to advance, it would have only meant that the judges have a real sick sense of humor. The guy who was the target deserves a lot of credit. His expressions at the near misses are a classic.
Here it is with the fun stuff starting at 4:30:
Lithuanian Knife Thrower Sans Talent
Guns Make Music With Cup Song
Jim Huish of the Tennessee band Amber’s Drive has recorded a video of The Cup Song made with firearms as the musical instrument.
The Cup Song, also known as When I’m Gone, was made famous in the 2012 movie Pitch Perfect.
Below is the Huish version. It was made in Utah during a spell of global warming. It was placed on YouTube on Dec. 28 and already has 2.2 million views
Jim Huish of Amber’s Drive shows how Guns Make Music With Cup Song also known as When I’m Gone.
Tyler Vigen Correlation Charts
It has been discovered that there is almost a perfect correlation (.992558) of per capita consumption of margarine in the United States with the divorce rate in Maine.
And did you know that the correlation between the number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets with revenue generated by American skiing facilities is .969?
Pretty spooky.
And let us not even try to consider the strange connection between swimming-pool drowning deaths and Nicolas Cage movies.
Kudos to Tyler Vigen for the noble effort to show that correlation does not equal causation.
For those who love conspiracy theories, and especially debunking them, TylerVigen.com is here.
Tyler Vigen Correlation Charts
Physician Sentence Riddle Answer et al
In each blank in the following you have to place the same letters in the same order to make a sentence that is both grammatical and sensible:
The ______ physician was ______ to operate because he had _____ .
The answer is: The notable surgeon was not able to operate because he had no table.