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The Daily What

Before They Were Famous of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:31 PM PST

Before They Were Famous of the Day: A pre-Linsanity Jeremy Lin — then with the Golden State Warriors — is challenged to a friendly game of PIG by a couple of idiots comedians.

Things go as expected for Lin until he gets a bit cocky mid-way through the game, and, well… let’s just say it’s fitting that a comedian gets the last laugh.

[thanks craig!]


Tagged: BTWF, Jeremy Lin, Linsanity

Interspecies Intermingling of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:11 PM PST

Interspecies Intermingling of the Day: A dog and a foal play the cutest game of capture the flag you’ll see today, guaranteed.

[dpaf.]


Tagged: Dog and Horsey Show, doggeh, horseh, Interspecies Interminglin

Breaking Community News of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:51 PM PST

Breaking Community News of the Day

Breaking Community News of the Day: Community showrunner Dan Harmon took to Twitter a short while ago to announce the impending return of the much-loved NBC sitcom.

“What you call 8:00, we call home,” tweeted Harmon. “Community returns to Thursday nights on March 15th.”

NBC has already made several schedule adjustments to accomodate Community‘s third season restart, pushing 30 Rock to 8:30, and moving Up All Night to 9:30. Parks and Rec will take a brief break, returning April 19th at 9:30 following the conclusion of Up All Night‘s first season.

[@danharmon / tvline.]


Tagged: community, dan harmon

Damn Nature U Majestic of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST

Damn Nature U Majestic of the Day: Henry Jun Wah Lee journeys through the expansive wilderness of America’s southwest — from Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon to Yosemite National Park and the eastern Sierras — and returns with an SFX-less, CGI-less testament to the beauty of a nature untouched.

[devour.]


Tagged: Damn Nature U Majestic, Henry Jun Wah Lee, The Wild Heart

Sick Lollipop-Making Skills of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:39 AM PST

Sick Lollipop-Making Skills of the Day: A Chinese street vendor whips up an intricate dragon-shaped caramel sticky-pop for a young sweet-toothed patron.

[likecool.]


Tagged: Meanwhile, In China, Sick Lollipop-Making Skil

Short Film of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:04 AM PST

Short Film of the Day: “This Is My Home“: A short profile of a New York City curio collector whose home is regularly mistaken for a vintage shop.

Money: “This is my home. And I invite people in my home. They’ll stop outside while I’m sitting — usually in the summertime — they’ll stop and say, “what is this?” And I tell them, “well, go inside, satisfy your curiosity, and then come out and tell me what it is, ’cause I don’t know!”

[thanks mark!]


Tagged: Short Film, This Is My Home

TV Show Promo of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 10:38 AM PST

TV Show Promo of the Day: The first official trailer for Girls — the upcoming HBO series from Tiny Furniture writer-director-actor Lena Dunham — has been uploaded online.

The Judd Apatow-produced single-camera comedy, which “follows the lives of a small group of friends in their early 20′s trying to navigate their lives in New York City,” is set to star Brian Williams’ daughter Allison and David Mamet’s daughter Zosia, as well as Dunham’s Tiny Furniture castmates Jemima Kirke and Alex Karpovsky.

The show will premiere at SXSW, and make its HBO debut on April 15th.

[hbo.]


Tagged: girls, Lena Dunham, TV Show Promo

Is Nothing Sacred? of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 10:14 AM PST

Is Nothing Sacred? of the Day: Vivid Entertainment has released a safe-for-work trailer for their latest porn parody: Pee-Wee’s XXX Adventure.

Partial synopsis:

Pee Wee loves Dolly more than anything else in the world. The only thing is, she’s not human. She’s a doll. But Pee Wee doesn’t want to admit it. To him — and only him — she’s as real as the bowtie around his neck, much to the chagrin of Lizzy, a sex worker with a heart of gold who longs for Pee-Wee as much as Pee-Wee lusts for Dolly.

Ouch. My childhood.

[jmg.]


Tagged: Downgraded Childhood, Is Nothing Sacred?, Pee-Wee Herman, vivid entertainment

From The Archives

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 09:56 AM PST

From The Archives: This 1970′s ad for Dole bananas featuring Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig In The Sky” is delightfully bananas in a Pink Floydish sort of way.

[copyranter.]


Tagged: Dole, From The Archives, Marketing Campaign, pink floyd

Not The Onion of the Day

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 09:31 AM PST

Not The Onion of the Day

Not The Onion of the Day: A Minnesota man recently filed a lawsuit against his uncle for uploading an unflattering Christmas photo to Facebook.

In his harassment suit, Aaron Olson says his uncle posted childhood photos of him on Facebook, and proceeded to add “mean comments” underneath. Among the offending photos: “[Olson] posing in front of a Christmas tree.”

When confronted, the uncle, Randall LaBrie, agreed to untag Olson, but suggested that if he didn’t care for the photos “he should stay off Facebook.”

After the district court tossed out Olson’s request for a harassment restraining order against LaBrie, he took his case to the Court of Appeals, which also turned him down.

In its ruling, the court determined that mean comments “coupled with innocuous family photos” do not adversely effect “the safety, security, or privacy of another.”

[atl / newsfeed.]


Tagged: Facebook Lawsuit, First World Problem, Not The Onion