Unnerving Happy Thing

This is not an improvement on a clown. Bloomberg:

No:

It looks like you can't pick him up without putting your fingers into the back of his eyeballs. His big, firm, squishy eyeballs. The Verge says the Memes Have Just Begun.

ART The creations of WW2 US airmen need saving:

It's the Guardian, so you steel yourself for the anti-American comments. Let's see . . . Yep! First:

To be fair, the rest of the comments are supportive of the effort to defeat Nazism, and seem comfortable doing so without five minutes of apologetic preambles. That's a relief.

ELSEWHERE Finally, a good practical use for Google Glass: taking pictures of North Korea while your minders aren't paying attention. It looks like the minders knew exactly what was going on, though - everything seems Approved. Still interesting. From the comments:

At the other end of the Planned Community spectrum, there's this amazing document uploaded by BoingBoing: the original Disneyland prospectus.

You could bring one of those to Lilliputian Land:

There are four comments, two of which are anti-Disney on general principle. It is very important when someone sees something about Disney to remind everyone how much they hate it and its influences and products and behavior, and so on. You should hate it too and will be judged if you don't.

MUSIC Kraftwerk would approve. And if you're one of those people who grouses that pushing buttons isn't the same as playing an instrument . . . just wait.

If only the original ringtones included a cowbell.

Elsewhere in the past: the German Stonehenge. It was discovered last year, but now they're releasing the details.

Typical. At least we've progressed; in millennia to come, if they ever unearth the ruins of 20th century observatories, they won't find bones in the closet, suggesting that scientists had sacrificed a few locals before searching for quasars.

Votd Well, two ds ago, but it's still cool. A supercell in Wyoming. The sort of thing the ancients probably believed they could ward off if they reallypicked up the pace on the human sacrifices.