pyesetz | Random Links of the Ⅶᵗʰ Day (Reply)

Australian cattle dogs: It’s cute how one parent has her(?) paw around the puppy. Some commenters think these are “blue heelers”, which is an ambiguous term describing either the Australian Cattle Dog or the Australian stumpy tail cattle dog, which is smaller, does not have tan spots, and is born tailless. In this photo, there seems to be a tail between the parent dogs.
The blue colour comes from “ticking” of black hairs throughout a basically white coat. In dogs of this breed where the ticking is brown hairs, the animal’s overall look is “red”.

Dog on hoverboard. 8-second video with added Fleetwood Mac. From Reddit, where the commenters have many good jokes, such as
‣ Walkies of the future
‣ They see me rollin, they hatin
‣ How does he get off? Couple glasses of wine and some Barry White tracks.

Cat: In recent years, this posture has become known in English as the “mlem”, a word that in Armenian would be the 1^st person singular future subjunctive form of the verb that means “to shove”.

Peanuts are a tasty food. In this Science News review article, they found three pieces of good news in health for 2020: ⓵ there is now an approved treatment for curbing peanut allergies; ⓶ there is now an approved treatment for Ebolavirus^✵ (in addition to the vaccine already approved); and ⓷ some people’s immune systems have been observed to eventually obliterate an HIV infection all on their own. Great!

^✵Science News is a publication of the nonprofit Society for Science & the Public, one of whose major donors is Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, which is the manufacturer of that Ebola drug that was approved. The Society wishes for you to be aware of this potential conflict of interest. The price of Regeneron’s stock has fallen 17% since this good-news report was issued back in October.

Hyperlapse river travel: It took about 25 hours for this tugboat to ferry this cargo from Rotterdam to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. There was a camera mounted on the cargo, 30 metres up. Click to see a 10-minute video; you can use the YouTube ⚙ gear icon to increase the playback speed to ‘2’ and finish the ride in only five minutes! It’s like watching a roller-coaster video but without the up-and-down parts. 🆞 🆫 2160p!

Weather: So how often do we have White Christmases around here in Waterloo Region? On this chart, the black line is how much precip we got last month, while the red lines indicate the most extreme values seen. Note how both red lines jump suddenly upward on December 24ᵗʰ. Apparently we get Christmas Eve storms quite often.
This is the first time I have ever tried using the object-position property in CSS. You are supposed to see a chart that begins with the word “Precipitation”. If instead you see a chart beginning with the word “Temperature”, something has gone wrong.