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Thursday, March 31, 2011
NKOTBSB
Believe it or not, they are back in a merged formula and preparing for a tour. So here's they're first single together:
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They've found the Bronx Zoo Snake
The deadly venomous Egyptian Cobra that escaped confinement a week ago at the Bronx Zoo has been finally found yesterday, crawled up in a corner of the reptilian house.
"We're really happy to announce that cobra missing for seven days has been found," Jim Breheny, director of the Bronx Zoo, said at a press conference Thursday afternoon. "She's alive and well ... resting comfortably and secure."Ssssearch is over
Breheny said the key strategy in recovering the snake was patience.
"We did fairly extensive sweeping searches throughout the [reptile house] and in the non-public back area," he said, explaining that the non-public areas of the zoo's buildings are a labyrinth of pipes and equipment for filtration system, furnaces and the like. For days now, zoo staff members armed with tongs have been combing the back of the reptile house in an effort to find the reclusive snake.
They finally spotted her in a secluded, dark corner at about 9 a.m. Thursday.
Waiting for the Twitter updates.
Home from Afghanistan
Brian gets a surprise wake up from his brother Bill, who's been away in Afghanistan for the past 9 months. You will probably cry a little.
Also: Dog welcomes mom home from Afghanistan
Also: Dog welcomes mom home from Afghanistan
Kid wants to be Governor of New Jersey
You may have seen him on America's Funniest Home Videos: it's 3-year-old Jesse, whose life is ruined, because he can't be the Governor of New Jersey.
The GoDaddy elephant hunting scandal
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons is getting some seriously bad press these days after he filmed himself during a trip to Africa while shooting "problem elephants".
More, on The Daily What
Britney Spears Jackass 3D deleted scene
In this one, Johnny Knoxville is Jimmy Kimmel's guest and shows a video of Britney Spears doing the Porta Potty slingshot scene for the movie Jackass 3D.
Don't worry, it's not actually real, it's just a sketch they made for the Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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Don't worry, it's not actually real, it's just a sketch they made for the Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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The Chinese Shirt Roll
Redditor InternetKing spent a summer in China and incidentally, he documented the phenomenon known as "The Chinese shirt roll."
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Juggling quadrocopters
We've seen them before doing amazing maneuvers and playing a piano. Here they are doing some ball juggling.
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The World's largest 360ยบ indoor photo
It's a 3D digital rendering of the Strahov Library in Prague and it was created from 3,000 individual photos stitched together into a single image that is 280,000 x 140,000 pixels. That's around 40 gigapixels, or 4,000 megapixels. If you printed this photo it would be 23 meters (or 78 feet) long!
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Geeky growth chart
The daughter of a "geeky dad" is going to celebrate her first birthday soon and, to mark the occasion, he made her this science-fiction themed growing chart. It features characters from Star Wars, Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings and Dr. Who.
Here's the chart printed and hung on the wall.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tara Reid in Big Lebowski 2
As you may remember, Tara Reid expressed her enthusiasm about being part of the Big Lebowski 2 project in an interview a couple of months ago. Since then, the movie was completed and Funny or Die is bringing you the trailer:
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Viral pareidolia of the day: the house that looks like Hitler
It was spotted in Swansea, Wales, by a resident who tweeted the picture. Next thing you know, it's all over the Internet and everyone is talking about it.
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'Regulate' on toy instruments
Paying tribute to the late Nate Dogg by playing an acoustic remix of his classic tune featuring Warren G. on some toy instruments and a cello.
Related: Wikipedia synopsis for Regulate.
The Gunbrella
The "Bang" umbrella you've been waiting for is now available.
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Also available on Amazon
Also: the Samurai/Ninja umbrella
Movie montage: 25 Years of Pixar Animation
Scenes from 12 feature films and 20 short films mixed into a tribute to Pixar tribute celebrating it's 25-year anniversary.
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Man looks after 140 dogs
For former chef Li Zongwen a man's best friend is really his dog, as he looks after more than 140 strays in his home in China.
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Insane fly-by
An extreme base jump skydiver wearing a wing suit just says hi to his friends on a Norwegian TV show.
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Real-life Poltergeist caught on camera
A family have called in a real-life ghost buster – after capturing this video of a poltergeist moving a chair across a bedroom. Lisa Manning and her children Ellie, 11, and Jaydon, six, have fled their house in terror several times because of spooky goings-on. They include pots and pans being thrown around the kitchen, window blinds moving up and down by themselves, lights being switched on and off and drawers being opened. Last week they were even forced to climb out of a window after their being trapped in their living room when the door locked by itself.Small World News Service | via
Now they have been advised to wear crucifixes by a priest after capturing video footage of a chair moving by itself in Ellie’s bedroom.
Reptilian tweeter of the day: The Bronx Zoo snake
The venomous Egyptian Cobra that escaped the Bronx Zoo yesterday, is enjoying the sweet taste of freedom by using Twitter.
@BronxZoosCobra
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Baby sings 'Baby'
Kid on the back seat of a van is really passionate about his Justin Bieber.
Here's another baby singing Baby.
Also: Baby loves Kid Cudi.
Here's another baby singing Baby.
Also: Baby loves Kid Cudi.
From the archives: Robin Williams commercial from 1977
A pre-Mork from Ork Robin Williams plays in a commercial for the Illinois Bell Phone Center Store and he's making funny voices before it was hip for Robin Williams to make funny voices.
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Cheezburger acquires Know Your Meme
From the press release:
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Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Seattle, WA, March 28, 2011 – Cheezburger (www.cheezburger.com), the Internet publisher best known for popularizing LOLcats, FAILS, and other Internet memes, today announced it has acquired Know Your Meme, the most authoritative site that researches and documents the history and origins of Internet memes and viral phenomena. Created by Rocketboom, a leading Internet video network founded by Andrew Baron, Know Your Meme is dedicated to giving people an accurate inside look at up-and-coming as well as already viral Internet memes.KYM / Cheezburger
"I’m excited to see the Know Your Meme community joining the Cheezburger community," said Ben Huh, CEO and founder of Cheezburger. "Since Cheezburger is the playground of choice for millions of Internet culture fans, this acquisition is a natural compliment for our community. Now, in addition to delivering 5 minutes of happiness through I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, Memebase, and The Daily What, we can help the public understand the origins of memes and how content goes viral on the Web."
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Angry Birds movie trailer
To promote the new season of their web series, Red vs. Blue Season 9, the guys for Rooster Teeth have created this faux trailer for the war movie Angry Birds. Web viewers actually called their local movie theaters to ask about the release date for the movie.
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Beatbox cover of the day: 'Where is my Mind?"
THePETEBOX uses his voice, an acoustic guitar, a beatbox and a RC-50 loop station to cover The Pixies' Where is my Mind?.
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Twin baby boys have a conversation
We may never know what they're talking about but they sure are talking about something and they're bringing valid arguments to the discussion.
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Footage from the Kuwait sandstorm
At approximately 5.30 PM (GMT +3) a dust storm swept through Kuwait turning the setting evening sun to immediate darkness reaching 0 visibility in mere minutes. What first seemed to be smoke from a burning building, everyone soon started running for cover.Jabelmathew
Cobra escapes the Bronx Zoo
An Egyptian Cobra, a venomous snake whose venom can kill large elephant in 3 hours, has escaped the Bronx Zoo. There's nothing to worry about.
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Playful dog invades soccer pitch
A Turkish game between Sky Blue FC and LdB Malmo women's teams gets interrupted by a dog asking for a belly rub.
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Before and during Earth Hour
As you may know, this Saturday, between 8.30 and 9.30 PM, was Earth Hour. It's that hour of the year in which everyone everywhere turns off their lights. Buzfeed has compiled some Earth Hour/Non-Earth Hour images from great cities around the world for you.
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Baby likes Black Metal
TIL: When your baby keeps crying and you've tried everything and just can't get him to stop, there's always Norwegian Black Metal.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Considerate dad
Redditor Pr3fix writes: "Roommate mentions Cosmic Brownies (the "Little Debbie" brand snack) on Facebook status. A week later his dad mails him this."
Mug shot of the day: Jessi Slaughter's dad
The father of "Jessi Slaughter," the 12-year-old girl who last year became the victim of a vicious online swarm, was arrested last month on a felony child abuse charge for allegedly punching his daughter in the mouth during an argument, The Smoking Gun has learned.The Smoking Gun | via
Gene Leonhardt, 53, was busted for striking his daughter Jessica, who told Florida cops that she had been arguing with her father when he "punched her, causing her to have a bloody and swollen lips."
Friday, March 25, 2011
Zidane embarrasses goalkeeper
Retired French soccer player Zinedine Zidane shows an amateur goalie why the two of them should be playing in different leagues.
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Radiohead Fans Anonymous
There's a support group for Radiohead fans: it's where people listen to you if you wanna talk about how shitty the band's latest releases are and how they're not what they used to be anymore.
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Then and now: Tennis Girl
The woman who appeared in one of the most popular posters of all time has revealed her identity 35 years later.
Mrs Walker is now a 52-year-old freelance illustrator and mother of three.BBC | photo via
But in 1976, aged 18, her then photographer-boyfriend Martin Elliot persuaded her to let him take a shot of her on court hitching up her dress to reveal a bare bottom.
The setting was a university tennis court in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the area where the modern game of tennis was pioneered in 1859.
Mr Elliot sold the image to the poster chain Athena and more than two million copies were sold worldwide.
Mumbai skateboards
Under the supervision of German curator Tobias Megerle, a dozen Mahim woodcarvers produced their own take on the traditional skateboard. The project - Final Cut - will be showcased at THE LOFT at Lower Parel.CNNGo | via
From the archives: The Kelly Family in 1990
Before they were annoying the European pop scene with their music, The Kelly Family was also into some rather WTF stuff: check out the youngest member, 9-year-old Angelo, singing about how he ain't gonna pee-pee his bed tonight:
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Cute little girl covers Caitlin Rose's "Own Side"
An extremely talented 5-year-old girl sings Caitlin Rose's Own Side with her dad's help on the guitar.
Also watch: Jorge and Alexa Narvaez do Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros' Home.
Also watch: Jorge and Alexa Narvaez do Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros' Home.
OMG, LOL added to the English Dictionary
From the Oxford English Dictionary updates:
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For the March 2011 release of OED Online, we have selected for publication a number of noteworthy initialisms—abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of a name or expression. Some of these—such as OMG [OMG int. (and n.) and adj.]: ‘Oh my God’ (or sometimes ‘gosh’, ‘goodness’, etc.) and LOL [LOL int. and n./2]: ‘laughing out loud’—are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications (email, texting, social networks, blogs, and so on). They join other entries of this sort: IMHO (‘in my humble opinion’) [IMHO at I n./1], TMI (‘too much information’) [TMI at T n.], and BFF (‘best friends forever’) [BFF at B n.], among others.Definitions: LOL, OMG
Of course in such a context initialisms are quicker to type than the full forms, and (in the case of text messages, or Twitter, for example) they help to say more in media where there is a limit to a number of characters one may use in a single message. OMG and LOL are found outside of electronic contexts, however; in print, and even in spoken use (see, for example, the 2003 quotation for LOL int.), where there often seems to be a bit more than simple abbreviation going on. The intention is usually to signal an informal, gossipy mode of expression, and perhaps parody the level of unreflective enthusiasm or overstatement that can sometimes appear in online discourse, while at the same time marking oneself as an ‘insider’ au fait with the forms of expression associated with the latest technology.
As such usage indicates, many people would consider these recent coinages, from the last 10 or 20 years, and associate them with a younger generation conversant with all forms of digital communications. As is often the case, OED’s research has revealed some unexpected historical perspectives: our first quotation for OMG is from a personal letter from 1917; the letters LOL had a previous life, starting in 1960, denoting an elderly woman (or ‘little old lady’; see LOL n./1); and the entry for FYI [FYI phr., adj., and n.], for example, shows it originated in the language of memoranda in 1941.
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The Asian Jersey Shore is coming
It's still unknown where or when it's going to air, but one thing is clear: MTV's K-Town all-Asian, Jersey Shore-inspired reality show is going to happen, since this short intro has been released.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Dog forgets to jump
Stanley the dog is doing his usual post-bath running around the house and jumping over the bed routine. Things go awry when he skips a jump.
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