100% chance of scattered electrons

Did you know we were in the teeth of an electron storm? There's so much weather out there that isn't "weather" as we think about it. Then there's that Sunspot Death.

You keep waiting for this to be wrapped up into something that requires the X-Files theme, but no, it's straight-up Science News. Keep your eyes on that sunspot situation; it's important.

Not literally, of course, but if you try to sue the paper because you burned a hole in your retinas based on a figurative suggestion on a blog, good luck.

If that was too boring because it contained science, well: Purely by ACCIDENT a Russian dashcam captures the inevitable result of a garbage truck crushing cans of compressed bas. Almost as if someone threw them away knowing they'd blow up when crushed, then sat in the car behind the spot where the garbage truck would show up, and make explosive sounds in giddy anticipation of the real thing.

OH FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE Yes, the troubles for Penney's just keep coming. (eyeroll)

I wonder if the folks who invented Twitter ever thought "some day large retailers will use this service to tell millions of people that they did not mean for their water-boiling device to resemble the 20th century's most reviled figure." Probably not. So don't be surprised in 2017 when NASA announces it's found life on other planets through an Instagram post.

If you're wondering:

There are some other legitimately educational shorts, but there's also a few "How to" Goofy cartoons. Either the author of the list glanced at the titles and thought that the words "how to" in the title meant they were intended to be instructional, or she knew they were comedies and threw them in because the list was too short.

It's like a list of Warner Brothers Travelogues that includes the Road Runner cartoons as a guide to the Southwest.

No, I'm not linking to it. No link for you! Says the Link Teakettle.

WHOA What do you do when a 112-year old huge building is gutted by fire? Raze it or save it. The latter option required that they jack up the entire structure 40 feet in the air . . . so that's what they did.

ART It's the 100th anniversary of the "Rite of Spring," and the BBC asks if there was really a spontaneous riot during its premiere. Perhaps some folks came intent on being appalled? History judges them poorly; it's one of the greatest works of the 20th century. One can understand their shock, of course - it's a terrifying piece of music. There's nothing in it with which you can engage your sense of reason; it's all primal and strange but innately familiar. They probably wouldn't have rioted if it had been about dinosaurs, though.

RANDOM Many amusing - sorry, sassy signs, right here. Here's what happens when you send a Brony to do a man's job: