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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Arya Stark does the cinnamon challenge
12-year-old actress Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark in Game of Thrones, participates in the internet meme competition that involves attempting to swallow a teaspoon of cinnamon and then getting laughed at.
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Shepard Fairey's MCA tribute billboards
Street artist Shepard Fairey was asked to participate in a billboard project that tributes late Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch. The result? These two billboards seen in LA, one in unset at Las Palmas and another on Fairfax just south of Santa Monica Boulevard.
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Kitten freed from exhaust
When noticing his car was losing power, a driver in Rio Verde, Brazil, took a look under the hood and found a kitten stuck in its exhaust system.
The part was taken out and rushed to a fire station where a crew cut the feline free.Metro
The kitten had intestinal surgery and is now recovering at a sanctuary in Rio Verde, western Brazil.
Fire commander Coronel Candido Cleber said: 'The kitten was cold and must have climbed into the engine to try to warm up.
But when the driver started the engine he was suddenly sucked in.
It’s a miracle he was still alive. The driver drove around for hours before deciding to find out what was wrong.'
In which a squirrel delays a monorail
Youtuber Floatingaxehead writes:
Monorail passengers at DisneyWorld had a 45 minute ride between stops because a squirrel got on the track and the woman driving couldn't bring herself to run it over. They made progress a few feet at a time, honking at the squirrel to continue further down the track.via
Man throws own intestines at police
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Officers encountered 43-year-old Wayne Carter on Sunday morning when they responded to reports of a man barricaded in a room in Hackensack and threatening to harm himself, police Lt. John Heinemann said.Just a day earlier, there was the guy eating the other guy's face. Apparently a zombie apocalypse is upon us. And if you're a non-believer, check out this set of headlines.
Two officers kicked in the door and saw Carter in a corner, holding a knife in his hand, police said. Carter, ignoring the officers' orders to drop the knife, stood up and stabbed himself in the abdomen, legs and neck, they said.
Carter yelled at the officers and took an aggressive stance, and the officers used pepper spray in a bid to subdue him, but it had no effect, Heinemann said.
Police said Carter then cut off pieces of his skin and intestines and threw them at the officers.
The officers decided to retreat and call in the Bergen County SWAT team, Heinemann said. Carter finally was restrained and was taken to a hospital just before midnight.
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World record: tightest parallel parking
Chinese master wheelman Han Yue breaks the world record, that has been changed five times in the past two years, by parking his Mini in a space just 15 cm (5.91 in) longer than his car. Like a boss.
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Flipping iceberg
Footage filmed from a catamaran a rare occurrence in which a pretty big piece of iceberg flips over off the coast of Argentina.
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Pulling out of Iraq
America and Iraq have called it quits, but there’s the little issue of a bunker in the oven.
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CollegHumor
Banksy IRL photography
In his series You Are Not Banksy, photographer Nick Stern captures real-life versions of the Bristol-based street artist.
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Teaser trailer: Les Misérables
Hugh Jackman is Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe is Inspector Javert, Anne Hathaway is Fantine, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter are Mr. and Mrs. Thénardier, Amanda Seyfried is Cosette and Eddie Redmayne is Marius, in the upcoming musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel, directed by Tom Hooper. In cinemas December 14th.
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Zombie garden gnomes
Chris Stever and Jane DeRosa's zombie garden gnome collection description on their Etsy shop goes:
Something bad has happened in the garden. The once happy garden gnomes have been infected by a strange virus which has turned them into flesh eating monsters. There are only a few survivors left who are desperately trying to stay alive.Flesh-eating gnomes such as Legless Larry or Gertrude Guts are available for purchase on said shop.
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Alt: Gnombies (via)
Stop-motion short: Claycat's The Raid
Lee Hardcastle brings homage to the movie The Raid with this awesome clay animation starring cats.
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Bonus: behind the scenes
Lee Hardcastle
Bonus: behind the scenes
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Religious intolerance video of the day
Yes, this actually happened: a toddler at the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana, recites something that ended in "Ain’t No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven," and all the crowd cheers with admiration. This.
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Previously: Pastor Charles L. Worley, Pastor Sean Harris
Lennon & Maisy - Call Your Girlfriend
12 and 8-year-old sisters Lennon and Maisy do their own adorable version of Erato's performance of Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn.
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Truck drift fail
Truck attempts to drift while making a turn, doesn't go quite as planned, carries on. Like a boss.
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Prank of the day: beach treasure
So these guys buy $100 worth of chocolate coins, put them in a "treasure chest," bury it at Venice Beach in California during the night, dig it out the next day, with people on the beach watching.
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From the archives: elevator psychology conformity experiment from
A classic Asch conformity experiment elevator prank conducted on a Candid Camera episode from 1962, that shows how easily individuals are influenced by the group.
Here's a more recent version.
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Here's a more recent version.
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Forever a Hulk
Paulo Henrique dos Santos aka MC Marronzinho from Vila Cruzeiro, Brazil, used something he bought in a jar at a local store as make-up, to paint his body green for an Incredible Hulk cosplay at the 'Peace Race.' That was 20 baths ago because apparently this thing doesn't want to come off.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Rockelbel's Canon
The Piano Guys take the classic Pachelbel's Canon, which is pretty boring since it's the same 8 notes over and over again (just ask this guy), and play it in a more interesting manner.
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ThePianoGuys | via
Fighting off mama falcon
Last week, naturalists from the Ohio Department of Natural Resource’s Division of Wildlife went on the dangerous mission of banding some peregrine falcon chicks in the clock tower at The University of Toledo. Why so dangerous? One of the chicks' parents was seriously displeased with the whole thing.
Here's some GoPro cam footage:
This is something they've been doing every year since 2007, when a nesting platform was installed on the top of the tower.
Here are some more pictures.
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cdza - Pianists in Paris
The passionate instrumentalists from cdza use a Steinway piano to cover Jay-Z and Kanye's Ni**as In Paris their own cool way.
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Collectivecadenza
Supercut: creepy children in movies
In his compilation Creepy Kids - Children in Horror, video editor Peter Schneider combines clips of 39 of the scariest children in film.
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Peter Noster | via
Monkeys and synthesizers
As an ad for this year's edition of the Swedish Volt Festival, six different types of monkeys are given six different types of synthesizers just to answer the age-old-question if monkeys can play synthesizers.
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Garfunkel and Oates - 29/31
LA-based comedy-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates play the same woman, two years apart, at 29 and at 31.
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Garfunkel and Oates | via
Goal celebrations FX
Preparing for Euro 2012, Surrender Monkeys teams up with advertising agency Buzzman and brigs us this After Effects'd video of soccer players celebrating their goals.
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First look: Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix
Rapper Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000 was photographed on in the town of Bray, Ireland, where he is filming the Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Cantaloupe the kleptomaniac greyhound
From CamelsandFriends:
Cantaloupe, the Italian Greyhound loves to steal things off my friend's desk. You could walk out of the bedroom for a minute and something else would disappear. It didn't matter what it was, she'd take it the second you shut the door. It's almost like magic. It got me wondering how exactly she gets up there and how she chooses what she steals, so I decided to start filming! I left the camera on a tripod pointed at the desk and a week later these are my results of Cantaloupe's exploits.via
Today, in books that exist
In case you have a fear of something and you want to scare yourself with it, there's The Pop-Up Book of Phobias:
Fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of flying, fear of death--everyone is afraid of something. And these pop-ups place you in the hot seat--whether it's the dentist's chair as the drill comes spinning toward you; looking over the edge of a skyscraper whose sheer face plummets thousands of feet to the sidewalk far below; or the window seat of a plane as the oxygen mask deploys, your drink spills, and the horizon line shifts to an angle that is suddenly, terribly wrong...Here's a video:
Brought to life by outrageously macabre artwork and startlingly innovative pop-ups, The Pop-up Book of Phobias is an engineering marvel and cult classic in the making--an offbeat holiday treasure sure to become this season's most talked-about gift book.
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There's also: The Pop-Up Book of Sex (w/ demo video)
Meanwhile, in Miami: zombies on LSD bath salts
Happened Saturday afternoon, on MacArthur Causeway, where a police officer came across a naked man chewing on another naked man's face and had to shoot him because he wouldn't stop.
From CBS Local Miami:
The bizarre shooting happened shortly after 2 p.m., when police responded to a 911 call about two naked men fighting on a bike path along the Causeway, which was packed with traffic on a busy holiday weekend.The victim is in critical condition in the hospital. Here's a picture of his face (warning: gore)
Miami police have not confirmed the details of what happened next, but sources close to the investigation told CBS4 News that officers found one man gnawing on the face of another, in what one police source called the most gruesome thing he’d ever seen.
The head of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Armando Aguilar, said drugs are at the root of the attack.
"We have seen, already, three or four cases that are exactly like this where some people have admitted taking LSD and it’s no different than cocaine psychosis," Aguilar said.
Emergency room Doctor Paul Adams agreed with Aguilar saying similar cases have showed up in the ER.
Adams said the new LSD is commonly called "bath salts." The drug, Adams said, can raise a persons body temperature to such a high degree that logic and the ability to feel pain are lost; then delirium sets in and that often leads to disaster. Aguilar, who heads the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he has spoken with the officer who responded. Aguilar said the officer saw what the man was doing, and ordered him to stop. He said the man growled at the officer, and then returned to his meal.
Aguilar said the man ate his victim’s nose and eyeballs.
The officer then used his service weapon and shot the man, Aguilar said, but the gunshot had no effect. Other sources confirmed that the man refused to obey, and continued his attack. Aguilar said the officer had no choice but to keep shooting until the attacker was dead.
Strong wind lifts Boeing 747
Video shot last Wednesday at an aircraft boneyard in Mojave, California, and posted on Youtube by CaptainHarlock999 shows a decommissioned Boeing 747 Jumbo jet confronting an over-70mph wind.
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Huge dog welcomes home soldier
After a long 9 months apart from his military dad, Emmitt Thunderpaws the Great Dane is really happy to see him again.
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So Socrates was acquitted
A trial re-run was organized in Greece last Fridasy, after ancient philosopher was found guilty and sentenced to death over 2,500 years ago.
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From RT:
A re-trial of Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates in Athens, the very city that sentenced him to death in 399 BC, ended with his acquittal.
A panel of ten judges from Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland and the United States was hearing the case at the event at the Onassis Foundation. Five of them cast their votes for "guilty" verdict while five other said "not guilty."
Unlike the historical proceedings, the judges did not choose the form of punishment, since organizers felt it would unnecessarily complicate the process.
In the original trial Socrates was charged with failing to acknowledge gods worshiped by the city and a separate charge of corrupting the young. His teachings of skepticism challenged conventional moral, political and religious notions, which won him powerful enemies. Ancient Athens accused him of conspiring with their enemy, the Spartans, to inspire a violent uprising of the Thirty Tyrants, a group of oligarchs, the leader of which was a pupil of Socrates. The philosopher spoke for himself in the trial before more than 500 jurors. The result was his sentencing to either death by drinking a hemlock-based liquid or permanent exile from the polis. Socrates opted for the former punishment.
David Attenborough narrates a Youtube video
In which Sir David Attenborough, asked by host Graham Norton, does a voice over for the famous nature video of a tortoise raping a frog, on his show on BBC One.
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The Graham Norton Show | via
Lip-dub marriage proposal
With some help from his friends and relatives, Portland-based actor Isaac Lamb asks his girlfriend to marry him, using a very well-choreographed live lip-dub performance of Bruno Mars' Marry You.
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Isaac's Live Lip-Dub Proposal | via
