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Sunday, March 31, 2013
YouTube's Ready to Select a Winner
It's all so clear now -YouTUbe was a big, eight-year-long contest. And we'll have to wait ten years to find the winner. But then again …when YouTube is scheduled to go black at midnight tonight, it will be April Fool's Day. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Stand By Me
The Muppets Easter music video from a couple of years ago features a monster disguised as the Easter Bunny.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Walking Dead on Piano
Sonya Belosouva plays the theme to The Walking Dead while zombies cause mayhem all around her. (via Buzzfeed)
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Highland Trouveres
The Highland Trouveres, a group of students at Highland High School in Pocatello, Idaho, performed a lip-dub of thd mashup Pop Danthology 2012 by Daniel Kim. This video was made from a single take -although I doubt it was the first one. They did an awesome job! (via Digg)
Bunny Game
These two rabbits are playing a game in the backyard. Arbroath called it "opposite of leapfrog," and the video uploader called it the "bunny hop," and said he watched for several minutes before getting his phone to record it. A commenter thinks it's a mating dance. I wonder if they ever switch off and let the other bunny be "it"? (via Arbroath)
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Fight to the Death Inside a Moving Elevator.
Jon Hamm Is Being Treated Like an Actress. He Hates It.
13 Cats That Want To Help You Move. They're not really much help, but they sure so have fun in the process!
10 of the Coolest Librarians Alive. You've probably seen a few of them hanging around on the internet, because they're that cool.
Bill O'Reilly's turnaround on the issue of same-sex marriage surprised a lot of people, but none more than Comedy Central talking head Stephen Colbert. He was completely distraught over the news.
The Book Teach Your Wife To Be A Widow Shows How Different Things Were In 1953. The assumption was that woman just don't know enough to get along without a father or husband.
The 16 funniest Game of Thrones parodies. This should keep you busy for a few minutes while your waiting for the season premiere Sunday night.
Enjoy marshmallow Peeps recreating movies, TV shows, art and literature, and scenes from real life.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
9 Ways to Enjoy Cadbury Creme Eggs
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More and more people are turning to online crowd funding to pay huge medical bills. This only works if you have a good story or a lot of friends.
#SafetyTipsForLadies - or, Why Victim Blaming is Moronic.
21 Vintage Easter Cards That Will Totally Creep You Out. And to think that they were considered perfectly normal in their time.
It's not as easy as it once was for kids to see R-rated movies at the theater. But buying mature video games is much more difficult for underage shoppers.
Those Facebook Ads On The Right Are Moving To Your Feed. It's only a matter of time before your feed is all ads, all the time.
Game of Thrones returns Sunday after a long break. Brush up on what you'll need to know with the GOT Glossary.
Dutch spammers are waging an online war with an anti-spam organization. Their attacks against each other could drag a large piece of the internet down with them.
The IRS could be doing our tax forms for us, like some Europeans nations do. But Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax, lobbies against the plan every year.
6 Easter Traditions You Might Not Know. And 6 more from mental_floss readers.
Lie Detector
This poor 5-year-old is forced by a fake lie detector to reveal her innermost secrets. She manages to stay adorable the entire time.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Beat Club
Stevie Wonder, performing in 1973. Yeah, it's a half-hour long, but open another tab or window to continue surfing and let this play along. You'll be glad you did. (via Metafilter)
Ostrich Dance
Play a tin whistle tune for an ostrich and he dances to the music. Yeah, you might think he loves you, but maybe we should have that talk about the difference between true love and mating, young man, because this is a mating dance. (via Arbroath)
Dealing with Spring Snow
A father in Kiev, Ukraine, announces his intention to clear the snow from his 7th-floor apartment balcony this past Saturday. His child considers idea hilarious, as the snow is quite deep. He manages to clear at least a path! (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
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Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? That's the first question you are asked in the personal combat game Super Duck Punch. (via Metafilter)
Do Birds Fart? (via the Presurfer)
A woman's experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts.
36 Illustrated Truths About Cats.
Charlie Haughey was not a trained photographer when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967, but he shot over 2,000 pictures, most of them unpublished for decades. (via Metafilter)
The brilliant colors of India's Holi festival. Bright powder and dyes are thrown around to welcome in the spring season.
A Convincing Argument That The Walking Dead And Toy Story Are One And The Same. The similarities are uncanny, and may possibily contain spoilers.
The annual Christmas Island crab migration is a jaw-dropping show. If you can't make it to the other side of the world in the fall, watch the millions of synchronized moving crabs on video.
Hauntingly Empty Photos of Infamous War Landmarks. I recognized every one of these backgrounds even without the iconic subjects.
An Honest Trailer for Les Miserables
I'm glad I didn't go to the theater to see this movie. My kids did, and really didn't have anything to tell me about it. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Cat Walks Dog
Dafna Kopelis told her cat to take the dog the rest of the way home. And that's exactly what happened! (via Daily of the Day)
10 Extreme Easter Eggs
Prince Rupert's Drop
YouTube channel Smarter Every Day examines a Prince Rupert's Drop, which is a quickly-cooled glob of glass, and the strange physical properties of them. Slow-motion video shows us how really strange and cool this glass is! Of course, there's a perfectly logical explanation that's just as neat as the demonstrations. You don't want to try this at home. (via Metafilter)
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Just outside the CERN Computer Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, the world's leading physicists have built a shelter for retired and obsolete mice. (via reddit)
"The people who can least afford to give are the ones who donate the greatest percentage of their income." (via Fark)
Clickbait. Automatically generated by a simple code. (via Metafilter)
How do you take a light show to the next level? Instead of showing it on a wall or the sky, how about we just float it down the river!
Find out what new movies are like by seeing the equations of the movies that came before. That is, if you've seen enough of the earlier films to figure them out.
25 April Fool’s Day Pranks That Probably Won’t Make You A Terrible Person. Choose wisely; we don't want you to get fired.
Meet the Real Life Models for Your Favorite Disney Characters. Surprise: Tramp was a real dog, which turned out to be female!
What’s the smell of Finland?
Really Weird Bird Anatomy. And why such research is important.
Twenty Dollar Bill
"No," said her husband.
She gave him a sexy little smile, slowly reached into her cleavage and pulled out a crumpled twenty dollar bill.
"Have you ever seen a fifty all crumpled up?" she asked.
"Uh, no," he said.
She gave him another sexy little smile, seductively reached into her panties and pulled out a crumpled fifty dollar bill.
"Now," she said, "Have you ever seen 40,000 dollars all crumpled up?"
"No," he said, now really intrigued.
"Well, go look in the garage..."
(Thanks, Rich!)
Monday, March 25, 2013
How To Draw A Cartoon Baby Chick
Learn how to draw this simple cartoon baby chick, and you'll be ready to draw one in wax on your Easter eggs, and it's also good for for decorating notes and correspondence between now and Easter! Get the step-step-instruction from Mark Anderson at Andertoons.
Dayenu, Coming Home
The Ein Prat Fountainheads celebrate Passover with a song to recall the history of the holiday. Have a blessed Passover!
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He Bought a Firetruck. (via Metafilter)
The Bookseller has announced recipient of the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. The winner is Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop. (via Arbroath)
The crew of the Voskhod 2 mission in 1965 had to not only survive a difficult space mission (featuring the world's first EVA), but then landed off course and had to survive subzero temperatures and wild animals in the wilderness! (via Greg Laden)
The 12 biggest reasons everybody hates Duke. (via Fark)
When other arguments are debunked, opponents of gay marriage have to admit that it's all about sex. That argument in itself does more damage to the definition of marriage than who gets to marry.
The new web series Literarily Drunk features Shanna Carrick discussing books after quite a few cocktails. The first episode combines tequila and To Kill a Mockingbird, and also Bo Diddley and Boo Radley.
10 Of The Greatest Photoshop Battles Of All Time. Culled from redditors who went crazy with a crazy image.
Pope Francis is the first Jesuit to become pontiff in the Catholic church's history. Here's the history of the order that may now influence the entire world.
The Best Breakup Lines in Film. Who said it better, Bogie or Rhett Butler?
Sunday, March 24, 2013
The Roommate with the Laugh
Comedian Aaron Burell used to live with a guy who had a crazy laugh like a hyena, which had to be a wonderful incentive to come up with funny stuff. Now, he pays Allen Dexter to come to his shows and laugh. You can barely make out the jokes because the sound is awful in this video, but the laughter is worth it. (via Daily of the Day)
Flamingo Pride
An awkward pink flamingo falls in love with a white crane, and must figure out a way to impress her. (via the Presurfer)
Dancing Airplane
Mark Barnes flies a remote control airplane to classical music. This looks like it would be almost as fun as watching it! (via reddit)
IRS Apologizes for $60,000 Star Trek Parody
The Internal Revenue Service got chewed out by Congress for wasting taxpayer money on a couple of videos made for a training and leadership conference in 2010. One was a parody of Gilligan's Island, but most of the $60,000 spent was for a Star Trek parody that "does not appear to have any training value."
The production value is high even though the acting is what one might expect from a bunch of tax collectors. In the video, the spaceship is approaching the planet “Notax,” where alien identity theft appears to be a problem.Congressional investigators concluded that the Gilligan's Island parody video was a legitimate training tool. Although the $60,000 spent on the two videos is a pittance compared to, say, a day at war, we've posted much better parodies made for $500 or less. The IRS should consider looking to the YouTube community to produce future videos. Read more at the Washington Times. (via Viral Viral Videos)
“The IRS recognizes and takes seriously our obligation to be good stewards of government resources and taxpayer dollars,” the agency said in a statement. “There is no mistaking that this video did not reflect the best stewardship of resources.”
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Elisabetta the Hard Rock Singer
Little Elisabetta sang an Italian children's song in hard rock style. Then musician Christian Ice (who may or may not be her father -he didn't say) wrote an original song to accompany her. You can see the original video before the music was added. She may grow up to be a star! (via Daily of the Day)
Lion King Outtakes
This is a lot of fun, and it's a reminder of what a star-studded cast this film had. Almost twenty years later, I can almost hear "The Circle of Life" without tearing up. This time I laughed!
Star Wars Meets Jurassic Park
One Minute Galactica took the audio of the Jurassic Park trailer and synched it with video from Star Wars, which makes more sense than it should. (via Viral Viral Videos)
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