Post-mortem photography is alive and well today, thanks to the efforts of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.

https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/

There's nothing morbid about it.

You might reconsider your admiration for their method after reading Gerard Hoffnung's famous "The Bricklayer's Story"

http://monologues.co.uk/004/Bricklayers_Story.htm

That "waggle" of the images is totally annoying. I don't understand what artistic purpose it is intended to achieve.

Here is the same trailer without that annoying overlay -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yfy2I2R5-g

An article in the Los Angeles Times explains why the ice cream sandwich doesn't melt:

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-walmart-ice-cream-sandwich-wont-melt-20140728-story.html

TLDR: stabilizers and lots of fat, less water in the product

Excellent choice, John. Tx for posting this.

They were probably in the process of being made into "fake calamari" (as featured in This American Life, or you can Google it...)

There is an argument that this is not a valid passing of the Turing test, to wit -

"It's not a "supercomputer," it's a chatbot. It's a script made to mimic human conversation. There is no intelligence, artificial or not involved. It's just a chatbot."

More at Techdirt.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07284327524/no-computer-did-not-pass-turing-test-first-time-everyone-should-know-better.shtml

Kudos for not revealing any details about Little Lady; it is a superbly-plotted and very underappreciated movie.

There is a relevant story in today's StarTribune reporting on the state high school basketball tournament. The favored team lost, and some team members were taking off their second-place medals, but the team's student manager - with Down syndrome - was beaming with joy and became the favorite of the crowd and media.

http://www.startribune.com/sports/250724991.html

I couldn't believe that anyone could move while wearing a 250-pound costume. Perhaps that was the weight of the actor+costume, since this Dune website lists the costume as weighing 100 pounds:

http://www.duneinfo.com/arrakis/baron/

Relevant:

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/when-best-friends-can-visit/

And this "advances the science of ophthalmology"... how???

"Some of the magical properties attributed to the lake include its ability to extend life – for those who are willing to risk a dip in its 23 °F (-5 °C) waters."

A lake of supercooled water - that is magical.

"...we are always open to pictures of all animal images, whether or not they happen to contain balling kitties..."

"Balling" has several meanings. Be careful what you wish for.