Heap o' Links Sat Dec 17, 2022

Bluebird of Bitterness
🎅 Friday funnies — holiday edition
😸 Caturday funnies —video
😸 Happy Caturday — winter wonderland edition —pix

🐶 Ace of Spades Pet Thread A♠
Discussing our critter companions. Pix and stories.

h/t Anonosaurus Wrecks on A♠
Hippo Swallows 2-Year-Old Boy, Throws Him Back Up Alive

A man named Chrispas Bagonza managed to save the boy by throwing stones at the hippo… The boy was rushed to hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries and vaccinated against rabies.…

h/t BlazingCatFur
Lee Harvey Oswald was too crazy for us, KGB official told America

John F Kennedy’s killer was “too crazy” to work with the KGB and the Soviet security agency cut ties with him a year before the assassination, newly declassified documents show.

The Phonautograph Recording from 1860 of 'Au Clair de la Lune'
Sound restoration. The first known recording of a human voice, from April 9th, 1860. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
Part 1 - Sound denoising
Part 2 - Time Stretch: 50%-70%
Part 3 - Tuning & quantizing
Part 4 - Cleaning of harmonics
Part 5 - Addition of harmonics, reverberation, stereo panoramma