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Monday, October 31, 2011
Music history chart
How Music Travels – The Evolution of Western Dance Music details the evolution of western dance music over the last 100 years. The map shows the time and place where each of the music styles were born and which blend of genres influenced the next.
Here's an interactive version.
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Explosion pumpkin carving
Science teacher Chris Bergmann uses science to make a jack-o-lantern in front of his chemistry students.
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demonstrates the power of chemistry, while at the same time carving his Halloween pumpkin the best way possible. Why is it our teachers were never this cool?
Art jack-o-lantern: Starry Night
MoMA wishes you a Happy Halloween by posting a Van Gogh's Starry Night-carved pumpkin on its Facebook page.
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Hole in torso costume
Youtuber onemeeeliondollars uses two iPads to create a costume that makes him look like he has a hole in his torso.
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Previously: Gaping hole costume
A description of a relatively simple Halloween costume using 2 iPad2s to make it look like you have a huge hole in your torso. You'll also need a MiFi hotspot (if you don't have a WiFi network available where you want to use the costume). Basically you start a FaceTime chat between the iPads and then tape one to your front and one to your back. Add a little red paint and you're good to go.
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Previously: Gaping hole costume
Anonymous vs. drug cartel
International hacker group Anonymous released this video warning Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate's associates, from corrupt cops to journalists and taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates' businesses.
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Halloween costume: 'The Son of Man'
Redditor HemlockForAlgernon shows us his René Magritte's Le fils de l'homme costume he wore for Halloween this year.
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Paraglider vs. eagle
Russian paraglider crash lands using his emegrgency chute, after an eagle gets tangled in his paraglider's slings while flying over the Himalayas.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
State trooper arrests police officer
From the Miami Herald:
A Miami Police officer was arrested at gunpoint and charged with reckless driving after allegedly leading the Florida Highway Patrol on a seven-minute chase in his squad car at speeds that reached 120 mph on Florida’s Turnpike in Broward County earlier this month.
A highway patrol trooper pulled out her gun to arrest Fausto López, 35, after he reportedly ignored repeated warnings to stop.
Watts ordered López to step out of the vehicle, handcuffed and detained him. As he was getting out of his vehicle, López explained to Watts that he was driving so quickly because he was late to his off-duty job, which started at 7 a.m.
López could not be reached for comment. As of Saturday, he was still assigned to regular duty at the Miami Police Department, said Cmdr. Delrish Moss, "because at this point it’s a traffic offense."
López was released, but was criminally charged with reckless driving, which is considered a second-degree misdemeanor.
Halloween prank: dummy trick-or-treater
Trick or Treat with Timmy: a dummy with a microphone is dressed as death and sent trick-or-treating to scare the holiday spirit out of people.
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Police brutality of the day: cops shoot calf
(Warning: video is pretty disturbing)
A YouTube video of Gatineau police opening fire on an escaped cow has raised questions about their treatment of the animals.Ottawa CTV News
Gatineau police said two cows were headed for the slaughterhouse when they broke free from a truck Thursday, leaving them no choice but to shoot them dead.
"The cops at one point have to decide if it's threatening for the population, is it too dangerous?" said Const. Pierre Lanthier of the Gatineau police. "They decided at one point they had no choice but to shoot the animal."
Gatineau police said they had the owner's permission to shoot the animals.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Like a boss for Halloween
Redditor n8r0n's 9-year-old son Diego wanted to go as Deadmau5 to this year's Halloween school dance, so he made it happen for him. Needless to say, he partied hard.
Slumdog Millionaire IRL
From Associated Press:
A poor government clerk from a desolate region of eastern India has become the first person ever to win $1 million on an Indian game show.video via
Sushil Kumar's staggering win on the popular Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" has transformed him into a role model for millions of aspiring youth yearning to escape from lives of poverty and find a role in India's burgeoning economy.
Kumar and his wife of four months wept when Indian movie legend Amitabh Bachchan, the show's host, handed them a check for 50 million rupees (just over $1 million) after the contestant gave all the right answers.
Before Kumar went on the program, which was taped Tuesday and will air next week, he earned $120 a month as a government office worker and supplemented his income by working as a private tutor in the small town of Motihari in the eastern state of Bihar.
Downloadable Halloween masks
Don't have a costume for Halloween? Head over to Superpunh's annual collection of printable Halloween masks and get one.
Banksy caps
Japanese baseball cap manufacturer 7 Union will be launching a couple of caps featuring works of Banksy. Flower Chucker and Where's Hollywood will be available for purchase in early November.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wedding ceremony performed during sand storm
A huge haboob dust storm takes an Arizona wedding by surprise. But that's not gonna stop bride and groom Gustavo and Jenniffer Luna from performing their pouring-their-sand-together wedding ceremony.
The Telegraph
The Telegraph
The United States of Things that Come to Get Us
The things people from each state think are coming to get them.
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Previously: United States of Scary Things
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Previously: United States of Scary Things
Broken thing of the day: Steven Tyler's face
Steven Tyler had a little mishap last weekend. After slipping and having a nasty fall while showering in his hotel room in Asuncion, Paraguay, he was rushed to the hospital where he underwent treatment for a busted lip, cut forehead and two broken front teeth. In a phone interview for The Today Show he told Matt Lauer it had nothing to do with substance abuse.
"Frankly, I just passed out," he said. "I was in the shower and I got nauseous and I started to get sick and I just fell on my face. I just passed out and woke up with the water on," Tyler continued, joking that he fainted due to Montezuma's Revenge.Spinner
Smashing Pumpkins in slow-motion
No connection with the band. Just some pumpkins being dropped and getting smashed in slow-motion. Because it's Halloween.
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Genius idea: man builds smartphone into prosthetic arm
From The Telegraph:
A British man has become the world's first ever patient to have a smartphone docking system built into his prosthetic arm.
Trevor Prideaux, who was born without his left arm, used to have to balance the smartphone on his prosthetic arm or put it on a flat surface to use it.
But now Mr Prideaux, 50, can call and text his loved ones without moving the mobile, which is embedded into his fibreglass and laminate limb.
The catering manager sought help from medical experts and communications chiefs at Nokia to build the special prosthethic.
They carefully carved a phone shaped fibrecast cradle into the skin-coloured prototype, allowing his Nokia C7 to sit inside it.
Hero toddler of the day: 2-year-old girl saves her mother's life
Lia Vega can't do many things because she's only two years old, but she managed to save her mother's life, when she somehow picked up the phone and told her grandmother about the her being passed out on the floor from a diabetic seizure.
ABC Local
ABC Local
Covering Queen with a violin
Remember Sandra Bae performing Don't Stop Me Know on her guitar? Redditor nickkwasmusic does it on his violin.
Dog interrupts soccer game
A dog invades the field during Tuesday's Copa Sudamericana match between Independiente Santa Fe and Botafogo. Hilarity ensues.
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Celebrities on Will Ferrell
Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Amy Poehler, Zach Galifianakis, Eva Mendes, Christina Applegate, Maya Rudolph and Jon Heder share their personal memories of Will Ferrell, on the occasion of him winning the 14th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Funny or Die
Also: Will Ferrell's acceptance speech
Funny or Die
Also: Will Ferrell's acceptance speech
Supercut: the many deaths of Steve Buscemi
In which movies scenes of Steve Buscemi dying are compiled. A lot of them. Just like Sean Bean.
*No Reservoir Dogs because, according to Quentin Tarantino, Mr. Pink survives.
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*No Reservoir Dogs because, according to Quentin Tarantino, Mr. Pink survives.
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Vodka killed Amy Winehouse
From Associated Press:
Amy Winehouse drank herself to death. That was the ruling of a coroner's inquest into the death of the Grammy-winning soul singer, who died with empty vodka bottles in her room and lethal amounts of alcohol in her blood - more than five times the British drunk driving limit.
Coroner Suzanne Greenaway gave a verdict of "death by misadventure," saying Wednesday the singer suffered accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after weeks of abstinence.
"The unintended consequence of such potentially fatal levels (of alcohol) was her sudden and unexpected death," Greenaway said.
The 27-year-old Winehouse had fought a very public battle with drug and alcohol abuse for years, and there had been much speculation that she died from a drug overdose. But a pathologist said the small amount of a drug prescribed to help her cope with the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal had nothing to do with her death.
Movie trailer: Shark Pool
A man-eating shark shows up in a swimming pool during a pool party. What do you do about it?
Thanks Dan P.
Thanks Dan P.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Man calls police to report "flashing lights in the sky"
A British gentleman calls 999 after spotting a mysterious unidentified object hovering above his house. He subsequently identifies it and calls back (wait for it).
Mail Online
Mail Online
Big Bad Wolfing
This is what should become a new fad.
Context: in case you've missed it - Big Bad Wolf by Duck Sauce
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Context: in case you've missed it - Big Bad Wolf by Duck Sauce
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Johnny Depp on "Life's Too Short"
Scene from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Life's Too Short: Johnny Depp gives Ricky Gervais a piece of his mind for what he did on the Golden Globes.
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Book trailer: John Hodgman's "That is All"
John Hodgman, known by most of you primarily as the PC Guy opposite Justin Long, is launching the final book of his 'Complete World Knowledge' trilogy, That is All, and his doing it with style.
In 2005, Dutton published The Areas of My Expertise, a handy little book of Complete World Knowledge, marked by the distinction that all of the fascinating trivia and amazing true facts were completely made up by its author, John Hodgman. At the time, Hodgman was merely a former literary agent and occasional scribbler of fake trivia. In short: a nobody.via
But during an interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, an incredible transformation occurred. He became a famous minor television personality. You may ask: During his whirlwind tornado ride through the high ether of minor fame and outrageous fortune, did John Hodgman forget how to write books of fake trivia? The answer is: Yes. Briefly. But soon, he remembered!
And so he returned, crashing his Kansas farmhouse down upon the wicked witch of ignorance with More Information Than You Require, a New York Times bestseller containing even more mesmerizing and essential fake trivia, including seven hundred mole-man names (and their occupations).
And now, John Hodgman completes his vision with That Is All, the last book in a trilogy of Complete World Knowledge. Like its predecessors, That Is All compiles incredibly handy made-up facts into brief articles, overlong lists, and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes. It picks up exactly where More Information left off-specifically, at page 596-and finally completes COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE.
Dubstep dancing
Julius "iGlide" Chisolm of Remote Kontrol Dance dances to Christina Aguilera.
Previously from Remote Kontrol Dance: Marquese "Nonstop" Scott
Previously from Remote Kontrol Dance: Marquese "Nonstop" Scott
Banksy supports the #Occupy movement
A new sculpture made by Banksy popped up at St. Paul's Cathedral, in London: a make-believe Monopoly board with the mascot of the game, Rich Uncle Pennybags, panhandling. According to Demotix, it was created "as a show of support for their protest against corporate greed and corruption."
It also features a tribute to fellow graffiti artist, TOX, who's been recently convicted.
Advances in Halloween pumpkins
Here's a pumpkin with animatronic eyes, courtesy of Ray Villafane:
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Also: The world’s largest pumpkin carving by Ray Villafane (pictures)
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Also: The world’s largest pumpkin carving by Ray Villafane (pictures)
From the archives: dropping a hammer and a feather on the moon
You know how the say "in space, no one can hear you scream a hammer weighs as much as a feather?" Here's an Apollo 15 astronaut demonstrating this theory on the moon.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
We are the 1%
The richest 1% get inspired by the #OccupyWallStreet protesters and take it to the streets themselves.
CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor
Touching video: dog comforts dying bird
Youtuber Sonnydim says:
A bird fell out of a tree and my 1 year old retriever would not leave it's side he tried to lick it better but the bird eventually died.
Halloween costume: fully functional Nikon camera
For this year's Halloween, Tyler Card has made himself a Nikon D3 camera costume. It's fully functional, complete with an LCD display, built in flash, shutter release button/wireless remote control.
Here's a video showing how it was made.
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