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This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: The long-awaited fourth and final installment in Kirby Ferguson’s fascinating series on how “everything is a remix.” In the last chapter, Ferguson looks at the failure of the law system to “acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity.” By the way, Ferguson is already hard at work on his next... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
![This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: The long-awaited fourth and final installment in Kirby Ferguson’s fascinating series on how “everything is a remix.”
In the last chapter, Ferguson looks at the failure of the law system to “acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity.”
By the way, Ferguson is already hard at work on his next project, This is Not a Conspiracy Theory. Learn more here.
[e.i.a.r.]
Earlier: Part 1; Part 2; Part 2: One Last Thing; Part 3.](/static/images/film.png?v=d071 "This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: The long-awaited fourth and final installment in Kirby Ferguson’s fascinating series on how “everything is a remix.”
In the last chapter, Ferguson looks at the failure of the law system to “acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity.”
By the way, Ferguson is already hard at work on his next project, This is Not a Conspiracy Theory. Learn more here.
[e.i.a.r.]
Earlier: Part 1; Part 2; Part 2: One Last Thing; Part 3.")  |
Morning Fluff: A motherless litter of wild boar piglets gets an adoptive parent in the form of a French bulldog named Baby.
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ABCs Of Cinema of the Day: The modern English alphabet, as recited through minimations (mini-animations) corresponding to iconic moments in 26 movies.
Name them all and win yourself some sweet bragging rights.
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Louis C.K. Clip Compilation of the Day: YouTuber JayPivot pays tribute to his favourite comedian of all time.
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Early Bird Special: This is not nearly as good an idea as these gentlemen appear to believe it is.
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Lights Out: Remember how you told me the last item on your scavenger hunt list was a video of a hissing cockroach giving birth?
You’re welcome.
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This x That: Know This: Syrian President announces referendum on new constitution, opposition demands his resignation. Iran successfully loads domestically made fuel rods into nuclear reactor. Over 350 inmates killed in Honduran prison fire. RIP: Dory Previn, Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter, dead at 86. Read This: New FCC rules require... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
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Photoshopbomb of the Day: And so it begins?
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![Photoshopbomb of the Day: And so it begins?
[noelattack / context.]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgov2JN4V1r0yh90o1_75sq.jpg "Photoshopbomb of the Day: And so it begins?
[noelattack / context.]") |
Loading Artist.
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![Loading Artist.
[tastefullyoff.]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgt0w00w81qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Loading Artist.
[tastefullyoff.]") |
Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: In court today, a Portland couple pled guilty to disorderly conduct a day after they were arrested for playing a kidnapping-themed sex game. Police responded to reports of a naked woman bound with duct tape spotted in the back seat of a car, only to learn from the driver, 31-year-old Nikolas Alexander Harbar,... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
![Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: In court today, a Portland couple pled guilty to disorderly conduct a day after they were arrested for playing a kidnapping-themed sex game.
Police responded to reports of a naked woman bound with duct tape spotted in the back seat of a car, only to learn from the driver, 31-year-old Nikolas Alexander Harbar, that he and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Stephanie Morgan Pelzner, were merely engaging in some harmless role-play.
“He said ‘yeah, that’s my girlfriend we’re role playing for Valentine’s Day,’” Sgt. Pete Simpsons told KGW. “And she was in the back naked tied up. And she confirmed it was all part of a role play.”
Despite the consensual nature of the mock-kidnapping, police arrested the two, and charged them with disorderly conduct. They have accepted the charge, and agreed to perform 16 hours of community service.
An informal survey on KGW’s website finds that most people feel the couple committed no crime. 57% of respondents say that Harbar and Pelzner “chose poorly,” but should not have been charged with disorderly conduct, while 26% disagree.
17% don’t care either way.
[kgw.]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgqq3gCEw1qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: In court today, a Portland couple pled guilty to disorderly conduct a day after they were arrested for playing a kidnapping-themed sex game.
Police responded to reports of a naked woman bound with duct tape spotted in the back seat of a car, only to learn from the driver, 31-year-old Nikolas Alexander Harbar, that he and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Stephanie Morgan Pelzner, were merely engaging in some harmless role-play.
“He said ‘yeah, that’s my girlfriend we’re role playing for Valentine’s Day,’” Sgt. Pete Simpsons told KGW. “And she was in the back naked tied up. And she confirmed it was all part of a role play.”
Despite the consensual nature of the mock-kidnapping, police arrested the two, and charged them with disorderly conduct. They have accepted the charge, and agreed to perform 16 hours of community service.
An informal survey on KGW’s website finds that most people feel the couple committed no crime. 57% of respondents say that Harbar and Pelzner “chose poorly,” but should not have been charged with disorderly conduct, while 26% disagree.
17% don’t care either way.
[kgw.]") |
Ryan Gosling Doppelganger of the Day: Normally I would scoff at an online tutorial called “How To Look Like Ryan Gosling,” but this dude looks like he knows what he’s talking about.
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Optical Illusion of the Day: To promote the “psychologically and physically thrilling” Nemesis Sub-Terra ride set to open next month at Alton Towers Resort, artist Andrew Walker was commissioned to design an equally psychologically and physically thrilling 3D illusion for an elevator at the Southside Shopping Centre in the south London district of... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
![Optical Illusion of the Day: To promote the “psychologically and physically thrilling” Nemesis Sub-Terra ride set to open next month at Alton Towers Resort, artist Andrew Walker was commissioned to design an equally psychologically and physically thrilling 3D illusion for an elevator at the Southside Shopping Centre in the south London district of Wandsworth.
“When creating the illusion inside the lift we considered some our most common fears including heights, darkness and claustrophobia that are also a core part of the new attraction,” said Alton Towers spokeswoman Katherine Duckworth. “The reactions of the public were fascinating and we can’t wait to see what happens when people come and experience the new attraction for the first time.”
[mmm.]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgnnmIKj01qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Optical Illusion of the Day: To promote the “psychologically and physically thrilling” Nemesis Sub-Terra ride set to open next month at Alton Towers Resort, artist Andrew Walker was commissioned to design an equally psychologically and physically thrilling 3D illusion for an elevator at the Southside Shopping Centre in the south London district of Wandsworth.
“When creating the illusion inside the lift we considered some our most common fears including heights, darkness and claustrophobia that are also a core part of the new attraction,” said Alton Towers spokeswoman Katherine Duckworth. “The reactions of the public were fascinating and we can’t wait to see what happens when people come and experience the new attraction for the first time.”
[mmm.]") |
On-Air Blooper of the Day: Woman selflessly takes it upon herself to educate CBC News viewers on the dangers of texting and walking by demonstrating its painful consequence live on the air.
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Vintage Bike Stunts of the Day: Mickael Dupont puts a vintage “ladies bike” through a punishing freestyle street trial that it somehow manages to survive (relatively) intact.
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Too Cool For School of the Day: Springs Academy in Sheffield has banned students from using slang and “text speak” while on school grounds. The academy says its students, mostly children from working-class families, stand a better chance of landing a job later in life if they learn to be less reliant on slang phrases early on. The policy applies... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
![Too Cool For School of the Day: Springs Academy in Sheffield has banned students from using slang and “text speak” while on school grounds.
The academy says its students, mostly children from working-class families, stand a better chance of landing a job later in life if they learn to be less reliant on slang phrases early on.
The policy applies to such common colloquialisms as “cheers,” “hiya,” “ta” (thank you), and “soz” (sorry).
“What we want to make sure of is that they are confident in using standard English,” said Kathy August, deputy chief executive of the trust that runs the school. “Slang doesn’t really give the right impression of the person.”
But some, including South Yorkshire MP Angela Smith, a former English teacher, are wondering how the academy plans to enforce the ban — and whether they even should.
“I really think they have set themselves a task that is impossible to achieve,” Smith is quoted as saying. “Who is going to adjudicate? Who is going to say slang, dialect or accent? And which one is right and which one is wrong?”
If the school is truly interested in training kids for real-world situations, perhaps they should be encouraging slang usage. According to a recent survey, one in four Brits have admitted to using “text speak” in everyday conversations.
[telegraph.]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgm1ztw8M1qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Too Cool For School of the Day: Springs Academy in Sheffield has banned students from using slang and “text speak” while on school grounds.
The academy says its students, mostly children from working-class families, stand a better chance of landing a job later in life if they learn to be less reliant on slang phrases early on.
The policy applies to such common colloquialisms as “cheers,” “hiya,” “ta” (thank you), and “soz” (sorry).
“What we want to make sure of is that they are confident in using standard English,” said Kathy August, deputy chief executive of the trust that runs the school. “Slang doesn’t really give the right impression of the person.”
But some, including South Yorkshire MP Angela Smith, a former English teacher, are wondering how the academy plans to enforce the ban — and whether they even should.
“I really think they have set themselves a task that is impossible to achieve,” Smith is quoted as saying. “Who is going to adjudicate? Who is going to say slang, dialect or accent? And which one is right and which one is wrong?”
If the school is truly interested in training kids for real-world situations, perhaps they should be encouraging slang usage. According to a recent survey, one in four Brits have admitted to using “text speak” in everyday conversations.
[telegraph.]") |
Homemade Nature Film of the Day: Mark Rober holds up a mirror to the orangutan enclosure at the zoo and records the resulting reactions with an iPhone strapped to the back.
Make sure to stick around till the end where he tries something similar on humans.
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Punny HeadLINs of the Day: Speaking of which, here’s a collage of every Jeremy Lin pun made by the New York Post and New York Daily News in the past two weeks. (Click to embiggen.)
It took the Post 14 whole days to work in the fact that he’s Asian? Looks like someone’s sleepLIN on the job.
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![Punny HeadLINs of the Day: Speaking of which, here’s a collage of every Jeremy Lin pun made by the New York Post and New York Daily News in the past two weeks. (Click to embiggen.)
It took the Post 14 whole days to work in the fact that he’s Asian? Looks like someone’s sleepLIN on the job.
[bwe.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgfhmSnpO1qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Punny HeadLINs of the Day: Speaking of which, here’s a collage of every Jeremy Lin pun made by the New York Post and New York Daily News in the past two weeks. (Click to embiggen.)
It took the Post 14 whole days to work in the fact that he’s Asian? Looks like someone’s sleepLIN on the job.
[bwe.]") |
Game Face of the Day: A Crimson Tide fan attempts to distract Florida’s Patric Young with a funny face during yesterday’s game in Tuscaloosa.
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![Game Face of the Day: A Crimson Tide fan attempts to distract Florida’s Patric Young with a funny face during yesterday’s game in Tuscaloosa.
[cajunboy / gregrutter.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzg6m2GKj31qz82xho1_75sq.jpg "Game Face of the Day: A Crimson Tide fan attempts to distract Florida’s Patric Young with a funny face during yesterday’s game in Tuscaloosa.
[cajunboy / gregrutter.]") |
C*ckblocking Bear of the Day: Purity Bear returns with some sass to prevent a couple of mild-mannered adults from throwing their lives away for some meaningless, natural sex. Seriously, don’t these registered voters know that [enter completely made-up statistic that will ultimately do far more damage than a few minutes of a safe and healthy... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
Life-Altering Shower of the Day: I think we could all use a nice, hot horizontal shower after that last post, don’t you?
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![Life-Altering Shower of the Day: I think we could all use a nice, hot horizontal shower after that last post, don’t you?
[awesomer.]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgalde8qq1qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Life-Altering Shower of the Day: I think we could all use a nice, hot horizontal shower after that last post, don’t you?
[awesomer.]") |
Pet Detective of the Day: Alex Farnham does a mean Ace Ventura impression so he’s got that going for him which is nice.
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Smear Campaign of the Day: GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who has been battling a certain “Google Problem” for nearly a decade, apparently thought it wise to have his latest political ad feature a Mitt Romney lookalike firing a brown, frothy substance at a cardboard cutout of his image. Then again, considering Santorum is now tied for... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
Playing With Food of the Day: Chefs at Grant Achatz’s fancy-shmancy “food deconstruction” eatery Alinea prepare their world-famous edible Granny Smith Apple balloon.
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Heart Of Darkness of the Day: A Valentine’s Day balloon is being blamed for a power outage that left over 15,000 Southern California Edison customers in the dark. According to Edison spokesman David Song, the metallic balloon hit a substation in Fontana, triggering the outage. It took a utility crew over an hour to restore power to the area. Song... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
![Heart Of Darkness of the Day: A Valentine’s Day balloon is being blamed for a power outage that left over 15,000 Southern California Edison customers in the dark.
According to Edison spokesman David Song, the metallic balloon hit a substation in Fontana, triggering the outage. It took a utility crew over an hour to restore power to the area.
Song said that while balloons are a frequent source of power line and transformer shortages, it is rare for one to knock out a substation.
Edison recommends balloon givers ensure their gifts are kept indoors or tied down. Or maybe just go with flowers next time.
[press-enterprise.]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzg5f9Wq2j1qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Heart Of Darkness of the Day: A Valentine’s Day balloon is being blamed for a power outage that left over 15,000 Southern California Edison customers in the dark.
According to Edison spokesman David Song, the metallic balloon hit a substation in Fontana, triggering the outage. It took a utility crew over an hour to restore power to the area.
Song said that while balloons are a frequent source of power line and transformer shortages, it is rare for one to knock out a substation.
Edison recommends balloon givers ensure their gifts are kept indoors or tied down. Or maybe just go with flowers next time.
[press-enterprise.]") |
![TLL of the Day: Little known fact: Colonel Sanders makes every piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken himself.
[copyranter.]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzg1tz44lZ1qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "TLL of the Day: Little known fact: Colonel Sanders makes every piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken himself.
[copyranter.]")
Future Darwin Award Recipient of the Day: A patron of the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas went all literal on employees and had to be carted out of the restaurant on a gurney by EMTs. The establishment where customers over 350 pounds eat for free and a sign on the wall reads “a taste worth dying for” is known for serving 6,000 calorie burgers... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
![Future Darwin Award Recipient of the Day: A patron of the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas went all literal on employees and had to be carted out of the restaurant on a gurney by EMTs.
The establishment where customers over 350 pounds eat for free and a sign on the wall reads “a taste worth dying for” is known for serving 6,000 calorie burgers stacked high with cheese and bacon.
The unidentified man, who was in the process of scrafing down a Triple Bypass Burger, began sweating and shaking profusely, prompting one of the nurse-themed waitresses to alert the restaurant’s proprietor, “Doctor” Jon Basso.
“One of the nurses came back to me and said, ‘Dr. Jon, we’ve got a patient who’s in trouble,” said Basso. As Fox 5 Vegas deemed it necessary to note, “Doctor” Jon is not a real doctor, so he phoned 911 and told them to send an ambulance.
“I actually felt horrible for the gentleman because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt,” Basso told Fox 5. “Even with our own morbid sense of humor, we would never pull a stunt like that.”
He said this was the first real heart attack the Heart Attack Grill has experienced.
Meanwhile, the “patient” is reportedly “alive and recuperating.”
[fox5vegas.]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzg2trW8Xl1qzpwi0o1_75sq.jpg "Future Darwin Award Recipient of the Day: A patron of the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas went all literal on employees and had to be carted out of the restaurant on a gurney by EMTs.
The establishment where customers over 350 pounds eat for free and a sign on the wall reads “a taste worth dying for” is known for serving 6,000 calorie burgers stacked high with cheese and bacon.
The unidentified man, who was in the process of scrafing down a Triple Bypass Burger, began sweating and shaking profusely, prompting one of the nurse-themed waitresses to alert the restaurant’s proprietor, “Doctor” Jon Basso.
“One of the nurses came back to me and said, ‘Dr. Jon, we’ve got a patient who’s in trouble,” said Basso. As Fox 5 Vegas deemed it necessary to note, “Doctor” Jon is not a real doctor, so he phoned 911 and told them to send an ambulance.
“I actually felt horrible for the gentleman because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt,” Basso told Fox 5. “Even with our own morbid sense of humor, we would never pull a stunt like that.”
He said this was the first real heart attack the Heart Attack Grill has experienced.
Meanwhile, the “patient” is reportedly “alive and recuperating.”
[fox5vegas.]") |
For Science of the Day: Blowing up oxyhydrogen bubbles.
Also: THAT’S IT PETER YOU’RE DONE.
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Controversial Movie Trailer of the Day: A viral promo for highly controversial film claims to show scenes from the arrest and trail of former Russian president and current prime minister Vladimir Putin. The images, as the Daily Telegraph notes, are lifted from real-life footage of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s 2010 tax evasion and fraud trial,... - http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post...
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