A minor trampoline malfunction, and the next thing you know, the object of your dunk is you.
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Pauly D's got Bieber fever
Jersey Shore star and Justin Bieber lookalike Pauly D advertises the upcoming documentary Never Say Never:
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From the archives: Star Trek first pitch
Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, submits his first draft for the show, in 1964:
Read the whole thing: 16-page pdf file | via
Read the whole thing: 16-page pdf file | via
Improv Everywhere: Worst ice skater ever?
No. Actually, it's figure skater Kenny Moir. The pranksters from Improv Everywhere teamed up with him at Bryant Park, in New York City, to make it possible for a novice skater to turn into a professional.
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Guessing stuff
A contestant on a game show called Total Blackout has to identify things by smelling them in the dark. He comes across a rather unusual item.
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Book of the day
Based on the website with the same name, this book apparently makes rap lyrics understandable for everyone.
Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand
Look inside
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From the archives: What is the Internet?
A clip from The Today Show from 1994: Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric try to figure out what Internet is.
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Unique Egyptian protester
An Egyptian protester was photographed Friday using an interesting technique to display her hope for peace through the turmoil taking place in Cairo.LA Times
While many are throwing rocks and flaming projectiles at government troops, she is kissing riot policemen who were sent to quell the madding crowds.
Update: *Not so unique
Comparing speeds: F1 vs. FIA GT
2 overlapped videos of Formula 1 and FIA GT cars racing in the same spot on the Spa Francochamps racing circuit. Considerable differences of speed are considerable.
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The United States of Awesome
Tumblr user Ilya Gerner maps all the good things in each state, as a reaction to the previous Pleated Jeans' United States of Shame:
Big Trollface in Finnish newspaper
It's an article about Internet trolling in Kalena newspaper. Some of the text's translation (more - here):
"Gary started trolling about three years ago.via
'I do it mostly for my own pleasure. Maybe it began from getting frustrated from people complaining all the time. I get pleasure when I create disturbance and people get angry.'
Gary spams and trolls. He may appear using his own name or under a nickname.
'I don't bother to spam anywhere else than in Facebook. That too has become tiresome. Nowadays I troll more.'
Have you ever thought how mean it is to disturb other internet users?
'Yes. Every day. I don't mind.'"
How to cheat dice
Dice-master Jigaboo Jones, who has accumulated 20+ years in dice-cheating experience, shows you how it's done. He is much faster in person.
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Egypt has left the Internet
Since last night, Internet in Egypt has been shut down.
Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air.Renesys | via
Follow updates - on Huffington Post
High school girl's touching coming-out speech
Kayla Kearney is a senior student at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa, CA. and she is giving a speech about being gay in front of her whole school during an assembly honoring Dr. Martin Luther King jr. She tells it like it is.
Previously, in gay teens speeches: gay 14-year-old defends teacher.
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Previously, in gay teens speeches: gay 14-year-old defends teacher.
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Mystery of the sandbar piano solved
Teenager takes responsibility for hauling the grand piano on the Biscayne Bay sandbar:
Nicholas Harrington, 16, told CNN affiliate WPLG that he was behind the mystery, with a little help from his friends.CNN
"I liked the idea of an anonymous piano out there, no explanation to it," he said, adding that he viewed it as art for a portfolio in a future college application.
Harrington shared with the station home video from before the holidays, when he and his father moved the baby grand piano from his grandmother's house to his, on a boat.
Weeks later, after purposely setting the piano on fire at a party, he, his father, and two of his friends decided to place it out on the sandbar, WPLG reported. "It was a solid surface. It wouldn't float away," Harrington told the station.
Trolls in the news
Internet trolls have been around for some time now and most people don't even know what they are and how they should deal with them. FOX11 reporting:
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Quantum mechanics teacher of the day
Redditor Etane, who's teaching at the University of Washington, sneaked into his classroom before a midterm to draw an xkcd comic on the board:
In other news, P. Diddy is being sued for a trillion dollars
Not The Onion: A woman named Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks decided it's time to take legal action against P. Diddy, his ex-girlfriend, Kim Porter, and police brutality victim Rodney King, because they "knocked down the WTC and then they all came and knocked my children down".
She also claims Sean "P. Diddy" Combs date-raped her 24 years ago and that he is the father of her child. She is asking for 900 billion dollars in child support and 100 billion for 'loss of income.'
Oh, and also, P. Diddy should return that casino chip "worth over 100 zillions of dollars" he stole from her.
Radar
She also claims Sean "P. Diddy" Combs date-raped her 24 years ago and that he is the father of her child. She is asking for 900 billion dollars in child support and 100 billion for 'loss of income.'
Oh, and also, P. Diddy should return that casino chip "worth over 100 zillions of dollars" he stole from her.
Radar
Lego nominees for Best Picture
Scenes from all of this year's Academy nominees for Best Picture recreated by Lego movie enthusiast Alex Eylar - on Buzzfeed.
Penguin mass mourning
Wildlife photographer Daniel J. Cox captured the extraordinary image of this mass mourning of adult penguins as they grieved the loss of their babies on the Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Daily Telegraph
Supercut: It's showtime!
Movie editor extraordinaire Harry Hanrahan is back with a new one: people saying "It's showtime!":
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Pic of the day: Guy running with ice cream in snowstorm
A picture of Arlington resident Zach Burroughs running on the street while holding an ice cream in his hand for some strange reason, has made it to the front page of yesterday's issue of the Washington Post.
Inevitably, Buzzfeed and reddit meme creators took to their image editing softwares.
Premake: Up!
What if the animated movie Up! was made in 1965? And it starred Spencer Tracy and Kirk Douglas.
If the Best Picture nominee posters told the truth
Slightly altered posters for this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Picture:
More - on The Shiznit
Update: The site appears to not be working, so here's a mirror (thanks Viper Pilot)
More - on The Shiznit
Update: The site appears to not be working, so here's a mirror (thanks Viper Pilot)
Family shield
A Harps grocery store in n Mountain Home, Arkansas found the cover of US Weekly Magazine featuring Elton John and his life partner holding their newborn son too offensive, so they had to do something about it.
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Bad ass protester of the day
During the anti-government protest in Cairo in Egypt, an unnamed protester takes on the riot police like a boss.
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Advances in drug smuggling
Smugglers catapult pot over border fence:
TUCSON - Smugglers using a catapult to launch marijuana across the border were observed on a remote video surveillance system, and National Guard troops coordinated with Mexican authorities to disrupt the far-flung operation.Video
On Friday evening, National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station observed several people south of the International Boundary Fence preparing a catapult and launching packages over the International Border fence, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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New Old Spice guy comercial
Isaiah Mustafa is back with "a campaign of new advertisements to inform the people on this crazy blue marble that we call Earth how they or their man can use Old Spice to smell as fresh as the freshest smelling places on Earth".
WTF of the day: piano on a sand bar
The 650-pound grand piano showed up on a sandbar in the waters of Biscayne Bay in North Miami, about 200 yards from the Quayside condominiums off Northeast 107th Street.
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2011 Oscar nominations
Nominees for Best Picture (vote for who you think will win):View the other categories
The United States of Swearing
1.5 million geotagged tweets posted between March 9th and April 12th, 2010, mapped according to frequency of profanity.
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BFF of the day
Goose, Highland bull together 10 years:
Gisborne's oddest couple celebrate 10 years together this month.
The friendship between a Highland cattle beast and a goose was forged in January 2001 in the paddocks of Knapdale Eco Lodge off Back Ormond Road, after the two bonded following the death of one of their mates.
The goose has since become an unlikely member of the Highland cattle herd and is completely devoted to Hamish, born two weeks after the goose lost her mate.
The unlikely pair have been inseparable since.
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