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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
MacBook thief
This gentleman stole a MacBook back in March from an apartment in Oakland. The owner began to use the Hidden app and took pictures of the thief. Eventually the police arrested him.
He made a dedicated Tumblr blog about it.
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Animal help in Joplin
Joplin, Missoury, May 28-29 2011: An elephant from Picadilly Circus, who was in town scheduled to perform but canceled due to the tornado, is making itself useful.
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Infrared camera catches man shooting himself
A suspect in San Diego gets in a tight spot while being chased by police during the night, takes the easy way out.
(Warning: man shooting himself)
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(Warning: man shooting himself)
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Baloon Boy's flying saucer is up for auction
Richard Heene, "the brains" behind the whole Balloon Boy operation, is selling the infamous weather balloon. The original "purchase now" price is set at $1 million and, unlike you might expect, all the proceeds will go to Japanese tsunami relief charities.
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Joplin tornado home security camera footage
The author of the video comments on Youtube:
The tornado was behind the camera. 2 and 3 blocks north of us, there are no houses standing and the trees are not only down, but stripped of bark. My sister was in that area and had to catch her 2 year old girl from being sucked out of the basement. It has been determined to be an F5via
Trolling a beer
Apparently, a beer company from Lithuania is looking for a name for its product so somebody decided to do something about it.
Just for teh lulz!
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Thanks Mykolas
Just for teh lulz!
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Thanks Mykolas
Movie villains
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50 Baddies, by Robert Ball.
There's a cheat sheet, in case you can't name them all.
Limited edition prints available - here
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Isaiah Mustafa as Luke Cage
A video starring Isaiah Mustafa as Luke Cage out of freakin' nowhere: apparently the man your man could smell like wants to be the Marvel superhero. So he made this teaser trailer happen, trying to prove his suitability for the role.
A Youtube commenter helped out:
A Youtube commenter helped out:
Look at you, now back to me, now back to you, now back to me, sadly you aren’t me, but if you start to get some radiation tests in prison you could be as strong as me, look down, back up, where are you? You’re on the streets of New York with the skin and strength you could have, what’s in your hand? I have it, this piece of coal that you’ve got somewhere, crush it with you bare hand, the coal is now diamonds, anything is possible when you’re a Marvel Character. I’m in a movie.via
Monday, May 30, 2011
Navy SEALs obstacle course helmet cam
Man wearing a video camera on his head goes through the obstacle course at the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in San Diego, CA.
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Baby masks
A family of three stroll down a street in Denver holding hands while wearing freaky Aphex Twin-like baby masks. That is all.
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Don't text and drive
It's just like a PSA, only it's not: a man films a car in front of him, suspecting that the driver of texting.
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PBS hacked
Apparently, PBS.org was hacked yesterday by a "hacktivist group" called Lulz Security. They published an article on the site's rundown blog according to which Tupac is alive and well and hanging out with Biggie Smalls (another rapper)(sic!) down in New Zealand.
More on the story - on TheDailyWhat
Life-size Hot Wheels car breaks the world record
Tanner Foust, driver for The Yellow Driver of Team Hot Wheels, makes an incredibly long jump from a ramp, flying 332 feet through the air and dropping 10 stories, at the Indianapolis 500, on May 29th.
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Dog is dolphin-curious
Maverick the German Shepherd watches dolphins from his owner's boat, gets confused about his identity for a moment.
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Shootout at the kindergarten
A kindergarten teacher keeps the children under control during a drug-related gunfight outside their building, near Monterey, Mexico.
Redditor Tillhony offers a translation:
Yes my love, everyone on the floor. Mandy, no, nothings happening just put your little heads down. Precious put your little heads on the floor, nothing is happening, just don't put your heads up please!...........Lets to sing a song? class says yes, Lets sing.....I know which! ♩♩♩The rain drops are made of chocolate, I would love to be there, who wants chocolate!!!??? Opening our mouths to taste the flavor♩♩♩ Put your heads down yes? Now put your heads on the floor and lets open our mouths ♩AA AA AAA AA A AA♩ Are you guys opening your mouths? You have your little mouths open facing up? So the rain drops can fall into your mouths! Miguel you havent opened up your mouth?via
Fathers and sons
Redditor BeerIsDelicious says: "My dad at 29, me at 2 weeks (my dad's first). Me at 29, my boy at 2 weeks (my first). "
Feel free to call bullshit on this one.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
50 states stereotypes
After graduating college, Paul Jury took a 19,000-mile road trip through all 48 contiguous states, in an attempt to find a direction in life, and wrote the book States of Confusion. He also made this 2-minute video in which he stereotypes all the 50 states:
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The world's first BMX triple backflip
After "three intensive months of practising and training", New Zealand BMXer Jed Mildon finally did it at the Unit T3 Mindtricks BMX Jam in Taupo, this Saturday.
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Sigle serving site: Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Claire Danes, Giancarlo Giammetti, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Valentino and Anne Hathaway
More: Awesome People Hanging Out Together
Famous Marilyn Monroe dress for sale
Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress from The Seven Year Itch is going to be auctioned:
The pleated halterneck dress is being sold in an auction of iconic film costumes and is expected to fetch up to $2 million.Daily Mail
Other lots include Judy Garland's costume from The Wizard of Oz, Audrey Hepburn's Ascot dress from My Fair Lady and Julie Andrews' clothes from The Sound of Music.
All belong to actress Debbie Reynolds who is selling off her entire memorabilia collection, of 3,500 items, in Beverly Hills on June 18.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Cute kid video of the day: boy loses camera
From the POV of children: little Miles loses his brand new video camera and shares his worries about the potential consequences with his sister.
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From the archives: Isaac Asimov on libraries
In 1971, the Troy Public Library opened. To mark the occasion, children's librarian Marguerite Hart wrote a lot of famous public figures of the time, asking them to write letters to the children of Troy about books and the importance of libraries. Among the 97 respondents was Isaac Asimov:
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Troy Library | via
Before and after: bird's eye view of Joplin
Drag the slider across the image to see instant devastation made by the tornado in Joplin.
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Previously: Before and after: Joplin neighborhood
BAMF: teen pulls knife out of own chest, stabs attacker with it
From ABC News:
The ABC understands CCTV footage shows the victim of a fatal stabbing at a train station in Sydney's south-west pulled the knife out of his own chest and repeatedly stabbed his alleged killer.
Brandon Siaa, also known as Brandon Nunu Asiata, 16, managed to stab the man in the face, head, wrist and leg before he collapsed and died in front of commuters on the busy platform at Bankstown train station about 6:45pm yesterday.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Roswell conspiracy theory updates
In her book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, Annie Jacobsen says that the UFO that crashed at Roswell in 1947 was, in fact, "Russian-made and crewed by human children who were surgically altered to resemble aliens by Nazi death-camp doctor Joseph Mengele, acting at Joseph Stalin's behest."
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Lady passes out while eating a hot dog on the subway
This just like with babies falling asleep while eating, or puppies or kittens, only it's with a grown woman, probably on crack.
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Here's a bar tab
Someone had one hell of a party at the Tryst Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas.
Makes Roman Abramovich look like a little pussy.
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Makes Roman Abramovich look like a little pussy.
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Awesome mash-up: The Great Dictator vs. Inception
Charlie Chaplin's famous speech from The Great Dictator on Hans Zimmer’s Time from the soundtrack of Inception is undoubtedly a pretty awesome thing.
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Bug eats turtle
A clear case of 'you're doing it wrong' from the animal kingdom:
A giant water bug has been photographed eating a juvenile turtle in an unusual predatory role reversal.BBC Nature News
Dr Shin-ya Ohba recorded the unusual behaviour during night sampling in western Hyogo, central Japan.
Writing in the journal Entomological Science, Dr Ohba describes observing a Kirkaldyia deyrolli eating a Reeve's pond turtle in a ditch next to a rice field.
Using its front legs the giant water bug gripped the turtle, inserting its syringe-like rostrum into the prey's neck in order to feed.
Supercut: You can't park here
Filmdrunks's epic supercut editor Oliver Noble brings you another movie cliché phrase compilation:
Filmdrunk
Filmdrunk
The roast of Facebook
Social networking sites roast the hottest one of their peers. A College Humor original animation, starring Penn Jillette, Gilbert Gottfried, and Lisa Lampanelli.
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CollegeHumor
Obama's signature
Doodle of Boredom: Barack Obama’s signature is totally a cartoon baby Tyrannosaurus playing with a ball of yarn.
Also. And also.
Giant Bin Laden destroys NYC and Washington
From The Onion:
NEW YORK—Just weeks after his body was buried at sea, Osama bin Laden burst forth from the ocean depths early this morning, rising to the monstrous height of 500 feet and rapidly making his way down the East Coast of the United States in a rampage expected to leave hundreds of thousands dead and easily eclipse 9/11 as the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.Update: Bin Laden Returns To Sea
Currently, much of New York City and Washington, D.C., including the Empire State Building, the White House, and the Capitol Building, lay in ruins, with overwhelmed rescue crews struggling to assist a country ravaged by the gigantic, irate al-Qaeda leader.
"Our nation faces its gravest challenge yet," a visibly shaken President Obama said, interrupting his prepared remarks to both houses of British Parliament in London. "I cannot say that we will prevail, only that we will fight to the last."
"May God help us all," Obama added as the walls and ceiling shook around him.
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Maria Kushner, one of the lucky few to escape via the Coast Guard vessels arrayed along the East River, told reporters she looked back to land and saw bin Laden using the Empire State Building as a club to pulverize the U.N.'s headquarters.
"There were all these soldiers shooting at him, but he was relentless," Kushner said. "Just smashing and smashing. It's like he killed 3,000 people on 9/11 and finally came back for everyone else."
"Isn't that fucker supposed to be dead?" added Kushner, who told reporters she would never forget looking out her office window on the 72nd story of a Midtown skyscraper and seeing nothing but bin Laden's enormous eye looking back at her. "Why isn't he dead?"
What New Yorkers are listening to on the street
Tyler Cullen stops and asks random people on the street in New York City what they are listening to on their headphones.
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Geek wrist watch
The Geek Wrist Watch is the kind of wrist watch that you can't tell the time by, unless you're a math wiz or something.
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Also: the Math Clock
Conversations with cannibals
Members of the Stone Korowai from West Papua in New Guinea, one of the few tribes that still eats human flesh, discuss how they consumed a khakhua - "a sorcerer disguised as a human", after they blamed him for the death of a 5-year-old boy from their tribe.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Obama's National Anthem gaffe
President Obama manages to get himself into another embarrassing moment during the Queen's banquet, when he continues his speech and makes a toast to her over the British National Anthem. Seriously, Obama?
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Alan Rickman's goodbye letter to Harry Potter
Alan Rickman, the man behind Severus Snape, writes a farewell letter to the Harry Potter movies for Empire Magazine.
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Biggest domino pyramid attempt
Youtube user Annodomino2007 spent about 30 hours completeing 96% of what was going to be the largest 3D domino pyramid in the world, when...
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The human balloon
Compressed air turns NZ trucker into human balloon:
A New Zealand truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch.via
Steven McCormack was standing on his truck's foot plate Saturday when he slipped and fell, breaking a compressed air hose off an air reservoir that powered the truck's brakes.
He fell hard onto the brass fitting, which pierced his left buttock and started pumping air into his body.
"I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot," he told local media from his hospital bed in the town of Whakatane, on North Island's east coast.
"I was blowing up like a football," he said. "I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon."
Husband gives life to save wife's during Joplin tornado
25-year-old Bethany Lansaw talks to NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams about how her husband Don was taken during Sunday’s devastating tornado in Joplin, while he was covering her with his body in their bathtub.
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How Scotland became part of Great Britain
Colin Gregory Palmer Grey of The difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England fame brings you the tale of how the Scottish joined Great Britain.
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Also from C.G.P. Grey: The true cost of the Royal Family
Grey's blog
Also from C.G.P. Grey: The true cost of the Royal Family
Happy Birthday Maru!
Yesterday Maru turned 4. And to mark the occasion, his human posted this compilation of stuff he did in the past year.
I am Maru
I am Maru
Before and after: Joplin neighborhood
A picture of an intersection in post-tornado Joplin, Missouri, taken by photographer Aaron Fuhrman and the same intersection seen on Google Street View.
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Nyan Cat dubstep
DJ Alex S offers you the inevitable dubstep version of the flying-through-outer-space-cherry-pop-tart-cat meme.
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Previously: Nyan Cat Man
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Previously: Nyan Cat Man
500-year-old child mummy
The "Llullaillaco Maiden" is a 15-year-old girl that was sacrificed during the Inca Empire for both religious and social control purposes. She was put on a weight-gain diet for a whole year before her sacrifice and then she was drugged and left on top of a the Llullaillaco volcano in northwest Argentina.
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