Unomathemba.

     “Here comes the scream, full and round, hearty and high, a heltering sound.” -Walt Kelly

Marco here, bringing you the recording of last night’s (2022-08-19) Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA), ready to re-enjoy:

 

Thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with not only the above MOTA show but also other ones going back quite a way. And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided or at least alerted me to almost an hour of the above eight-hour show’s most locally relevant material without asking for anything in return. And KNYO, which does not at all consider it an insult to accept to accept a little charity now and again, so why not now? And again?

FURTHERMORE, here’s a fresh batch of not-necessarily-radio-useful but worthwhile items that I set aside for you while gathering the show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

History of Earth generated by A.I.
https://theawesomer.com/history-of-the-earth-generated-by-ai/678136/

Harp player with a symbolic metal horseshoe stuck through her nose –which, we’ve all seen much worse, and it’s their own business, not any of mine, how people mutilate themselves for fashion– tries out various wah devices. Wah means wah, it’s onomatopoeic. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnXgaWFgACw

Rerun: Onomatopoeia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-pnU8hGSw

Every time I see a really great optical illusion I think the same thing: Just as this entertainingly fools the eye, logical fallacies and emotional arguments fool our mind into believing things that are not so. With an optical illusion, you can sometimes put a finger or a straight edge or something against some part of it and see what’s going on, just as you can use evidence and reason and critical thinking skills to debunk religious/superstitious/political bullshit. And in all cases, no matter what you do or how carefully or scrupulously you construct your presentation, there are always a million people ready to take that in and continue to believe passionately and militantly in whatever their crazy focus is this week or month or year or era, not to mention their and their club’s mission is to save the world from degenerate unbelievers like you. You are always as outnumbered by loons as were the 300 of Sparta by the hordes of nose-eyebrow-ear-lip-and-nipple-pierced Xerxes, whose flights of arrows were thick enough to blot out the sun. Raise your shield of reason and fight in the shade. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1559324236291969026

Also this. Different graphs from the same stats. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://t.co/iSvUaB0Z1J

And this: “I’m taking you in the other room.”
https://boingboing.net/2022/08/16/donald-trumps-murder-spree.html

A boggling math puzzle. Too hard for me. Maybe you can figure it out.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/help-star-treks-lieutenant-uhura-in-this-probability-puzzle-20220818/

Hey Jude flowchart. (via Clifford Pickover)
https://t.co/8cPEpYAo6P

As long as they’re requiring the song, maybe this lovely instrument should be /required/ to play the song. Or a theremin. Or musical Tesla coils! Or, for our times, and to match the patriotic solemnity of the occasion of a sportsball game, chiptunes.
https://laughingsquid.com/national-anthem-on-musical-saw/

If your kink is baseballs.
https://www.theonion.com/if-your-kink-is-baseballs-here-you-go-1849424441

If System Of A Down were from India. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi106DZJhuQ

Rocket cats of the 1500s. Rocket birds. Further rocket things. They’re not really rockets for flying; they’re rather animal-borne firebombs, though in the cartoon illustrations they are sometimes shown flying, especially the birds. From the DARPA of the time. Your tax florins at work.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/objects-of-intrigue-rocket-cats

Dogs of space.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/08/sunbelly.html

Thingu. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrZ7PnolbQ4

A real war story.
https://plus.u-aid.org/

1930s mind-control chemtrail tech. Military peek-a-boo. (via TackyRaccoons
https://twitter.com/ILoveH1story/status/1557904187802808320

A sweary botanist. It fits: flowers are the lurid sex organs and perfumed flapped-open lingerie of plants; they thrive in dirt and filth of all kinds. Out of the muck grows the lotus.
https://digg.com/video/botanist-with-the-vocabulary-of-joe-pesci-discovers-the-weirdest-frigging-carrot-youve-ever-see

“No, please, I’d love to be a Mason. Freemasonry opens doors. I was a bit on edge just now, but if I were a Mason I’d sit at the back and not get in anyone’s way.”
https://catandgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-08-09-cgconspiracy.gif

Journalist catches scammers. Two birds with one stone. Eh, one got away. They’ll get him later.
http://www.cynical-c.com/2022/08/10/money-changing-scammer-gets-caught/

Georgia’s finest. That’s some fine police work, boys.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/16/2117048/-Georgia-officers-on-leave-after-video-appears-to-show-one-of-them-using-the-N-word

How we get bricks.
https://theawesomer.com/inside-a-brick-factory/678385/

How we get beams.
https://theawesomer.com/steel-beam-factory/678015/

“Step on it, Sis!”
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/08/lock-him-up-yesterday.html

The development of an electrical machine gun that throws knives, spins them exactly the right speed in the air, and sticks them accurately into whatever you shine its laser dot on. Years ago I read the phrase somewhere, “a gun that shoots knives”*, and it stuck in my mind. Apparently it stuck in this man’s mind as well, very like a knife from a gun that shoots them.
https://boingboing.net/2022/08/18/video-man-builds-beautiful-machine-to-throw-knives-with-incredible-laser-guided-accuracy.html

It says matvelloso, but I think marvelloso is more accurate. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/matvelloso/status/1555963971387043840

Patton Oswalt, ubiquitous, which in this case means everywhere at once, is entertaining just sitting in a chair chatting about movies for fifteen minutes. Here:
http://www.cynical-c.com/2022/08/10/patton-oswalt-critiques-sci-fi-films-top-5-bottom-5/

“If they can take Trump’s black hole, they’ll come for yours next.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/16/2116927/-Cartoon-Black-hole-seized-from-Mar-a-Lago

Does the past still exist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzN5YwMzv0

No!
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/08/15/can-not-more-drunk/

Moravian missionary socks. (Scroll down for photos of the socks.)
https://nickyskye.blogspot.com/2022/04/moravian-missionary-socks-knitted-in.html

Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9QZBGyXjU

Crank it up to eleven.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/can_you_speak_venusian

The car has a great shape, but my admiration veers away from its sinister puckered robot chipmunk mouth. And even with soft tires and springs, sitting right over the back wheels is as queasy-making as right over the /front/ wheels like in a 1960s Econoline van or an old VW bus. Ideally, you really want to be in the middle of all four wheels, and if the thing has three wheels, the two side-by-side wheels should be in front and they should steer, and you should be in the middle of all three. But, except for the grille and the pasenger compartment placement, here, look how cool this is:
https://www.vintag.es/2022/08/jaguar-c-type.html

What. (via Fark)
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/d09f4868-a236-4f28-8ff2-166845cd700d/dfaonz4-d354b636-a96a-4557-a0c4-cd0862779d96.jpg

Dolls.
https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2022/08/14/repost-tiny-couture/#more-86896

Silent birds, excellent birds.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/08/your-birthday-at-huntington.html

I’d think you’d need a /Snow Crash/ inflatable Michelin-man suit to ride this. In the illustration the guy doesn’t even have leather on, nor elbow protection. He’ll be a bloody bag of broken bones, but at least they’ll be able to identify him from his protected head. And yet, I predict that soon there’ll be a Red Bull video about attractive college kids jumping off ski jumps on things like this, twisting and flipping in the air, or riding around a roller-coaster track on one.
https://newatlas.com/urban-transport/inmotion-v13-challenger-87-mph-electric-unicycle/

Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer – Big Top. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pINzrMgPUcc

Flamenco staccato. (via Everlasting Blort) (You might have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/TG22110/status/1557944654133346304

Rerun: Competitive music. (via TackyRaccoons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKezUd_xw20

Rerun. Competitive music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQS26W3QmfI

And further competitive music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BIpuOUz0GE

Go forth and multiply.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/08/bug-class.html

Color.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/99v4jj/what_voltage_turns_titanium_different_colors/

Zinga-zinga baclava. (via Everlasting Blort)
https://twitter.com/DIAS/status/1556295411404382208

Just what it says on the tin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqLdxYvS1_I

Inequality explained in a very polite New Zealand comic scroll.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/16-08-2022/the-side-eyes-two-new-zealands-the-table

Abandonment issues.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/08/an-abandoned-florida-resort.html

BNN.
https://laughingsquid.com/news-anchor-parents-morning-routine/

The cuteness, it burns. For me, the mythical wizard one wins, hands down. They are so right: 14 out of 10 for that one.
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-dog-rates-twitter

About making new old-looking films.
https://theawesomer.com/can-digital-movies-really-look-like-old-movies/678309/

French pixilation.
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/topic_i_et_ii

So beautiful and so dangerous.
https://theawesomer.com/fireworks-sorting-machine/678570/

Spanish through the filter of a Southern accent.
https://laughingsquid.com/speaking-spanish-with-southern-accent/

It was /I/.
https://i0.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/It-Was-Me.jpeg

A thing birds do that I didn’t know they do. It says it’s a courtship action, but it might be fighting. Or both, I guess, why not.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/08/19/the-original-game-of-chicken-wholl-let-go-first/

British humor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dgwxLbZXhk

Forty-five classy minutes of Justin Johnson on slide dobro.
https://laughingsquid.com/justin-johnson-acoustic-steel-slide-rock-covers/

Also Pearl Jam is a slang term for semen, as well as being a Seattle band. Oh, I see there’s a Seattle band called A Gun That Shoots Knives. What a strange coincidence, see above.
https://boingboing.net/2022/08/12/what-pearl-jam-sounds-like-to-people-who-dont-like-pearl-jam.html

The velvety wet antlers of a giant placid moose lounging in a lawn sprinkler. (Antlers are made of bone. Horns are made of hard hair.) Moose antlers look like trees on another planet.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2022/08/tweet-of-day_01847745052.html

“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war, this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall or as a moat defensive to a house, against the envy of less happy lands, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”(via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=votMnm43yGw

Pal Yat Chee. (It’s only in the left channel; there’s nothing wrong with your headphones.) (I imagine Kristin Chenoweth doing this. Or Nellie McKay. The singer here looks very like Nellie McKay, doesn’t she.)
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/pal_yat_chee

Almost too fast for the eye, yet it shorts out the male brain like a bobby pin in an Edison outlet.
https://boingboing.net/2022/08/19/nsfw-bewbs-cause-race-car-pilot-to-spin-like-kid-on-go-kart.html

Rerun: Happiness.
https://theava.com/archives/196192

They put cameras on U.S. navy dolphins. The results are creepy..
https://gizmodo.com/navy-dolphin-hunting-videos-1849423882

The entire Star Trek canon in 20 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANnFNfVuZeM

And a spectacular finale.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-shining-star.html