The Daily What

The Daily What

Bouldering Baby of the Day

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 01:30 PM PDT


A 22-month-old future superhero tackles her parents’ home rock climbing wall with very little trouble. If she climbs much higher, though, they’re going to have to attach a belay rope to that diaper.

[ohyst.]


Tagged: baby, bouldering, category:Video, rock climbing

Bacon Coffin of the Day

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 12:16 PM PDT

- Bacon Coffin of the Day


J&D’s Bacon Salt, maker of a variety of bacon-themed and bacon-flavored products, has created a way to take your love of everyone’s favorite wonderful, magical animal with you to the grave: a bacon-patterned coffin.

You can make this box of “18-gauge gasketed steel with premium bacon exterior/interior” your final resting place for the low price of $4,999 — no returns accepted.

Ron Swanson has probably already made his arrangements.

[boingboing.]


Tagged: bacon, bacon coffin, bacon salt, Bacon Thing, category:photo

Senior Gymnast of the Day

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 09:55 AM PDT


Johanna Quaas is a better gymnast at age 86 than most of us will be at any age. Her floor routine was the talk of Germany’s Cottbus Cup this week, and she also put in an impressive performance on the parallel bars.

[neatorama.]


Tagged: cottbus cup, gymnastics, johanna quaas, old people

Follow Up of the Day: Police Surveillance Tapes Show Zimmerman After Trayvon Martin Shooting

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 08:25 AM PDT


Police surveillance tapes showing George Zimmerman on the night he shot Trayvon Martin appear to contradict the neighborhood watchman’s claim that 17-year-old Martin punched him in the head and slammed his face into a sidewalk prior to the shooting.

The footage shows both the front and back of Zimmerman’s head, and he appears to have no visible injuries, contrary to claims in the police report on the incident.

Trayvon’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, watched the surveillance tape on Wednesday’s edition of Piers Morgan Tonight, and Fulton told Morgan, “We have concluded just by watching this video there may not have been any incidents at all.”

“If he had a broken nose, how did he continue to keep his head down?” Martin added.

The family’s attorney called the police report “a fabrication,” and said “there was something that night [the police] conspired to cover up.”

The tape could be a major blow to Zimmerman’s self-defense claim, and legal commentator Jonathan Turley points out that Zimmerman will now have to rely on testimony from the paramedics who treated him that night to confirm any of his alleged injuries.

[abcnews / mediaite / turley.]


Tagged: category:Video, George Zimmerman, surveillance tape, Trayvon Martin

Lights Out

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:37 PM PDT

Lights Out: Nine Inch Nails performs “Down In It” on Dance Party USA, December 2, 1989.

[stereogum.]


Tagged: Lights Out, Nine Inch Nails

Anchorman Announcement of the Day

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:06 PM PDT

Ron Burgundy himself confirms on tonight's Conan that Anchorman 2 is happening.

Deadline adds that Paul Rudd and Steve Carell will be reprising their respective roles, and Anchorman director Adam McKay will helm and co-write with Will Ferrell.

[teamcoco / deadline.]


Tagged: Anchorman, Conan, Ron Burgundy

Nostalgia Overload of the Day

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:11 PM PDT

Cartoon Network is ripping a page from the Nickelodeon playbook and bringing back a bunch of old shows with a Friday night block of programming featuring such fan favorites as Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, and others.

Cartoon Planet starts this Friday, March 30th, at 8 PM.

[ontd.]


Tagged: cartoon network, Cartoon Planet, Nostalgia Overload

Stairlift For Dogs of the Day

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:35 PM PDT

- Stairlift For Dogs of the Day


Today in inventions that are simultaneously adorable and tragic: UK insurance company More Th>n has prototyped an automated stairlift to carry obese dogs up tough flights of stairs.

The world’s first doglift, called “Stair of the Dog 2022,” was conceived in response to a doggie obesity epidemic that the company says could see 52% of the UK’s dogs dangerously overweight by 2022. The device, which a pooch can activate with a paw-press, is expected to cost $8,000.

“This is a vision of the future we really don’t want to see become a reality,” says More Th>n’s John Ellenger, who suggests dog owners show their canine friends some love without giving them “inappropriate and fat-laden foods.”

[dvice.]


Tagged: doggeh, stair of the dog, stairlift

Movie Trailer of the Day

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:30 PM PDT


First official trailer for Safety Not Guaranteed, Derek Connolly and Colin Treverrow’s misfit time travel comedy based on a famous classified ad.

The film, which premiered at Sundance, features Mark Duplass (The League) as the would-be time traveler and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) as a newspaper intern who tracks him down for an interview.

Safety Not Guaranteed, also starring Jake Johnson and Kristen Bell, opens June 8th.

[slashfilm.]


Tagged: aubrey plaza, mark duplass, Movie Trailer, safety not guaranteed

Follow Up of the Day: Bully Gets 13+ Rating from Common Sense Media

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:00 PM PDT

- Follow Up of the Day: Bully Gets 13+ Rating from Common Sense Media


The Weinstein Company has scored a couple of victories in the ratings battle over Bully, striking a deal with AMC Theaters to allow moviegoers under the age of 17 to see the bullying documentary despite Weinstein’s decision to release the movie without an MPAA rating.

Unrated movies are typically treated as NC-17 — no minors allowed, even with parental permission — by the MPAA and theater owners, but AMC has made an exception for Bully, letting kids 17 or under into the movie with a parent or a signed permission slip.

Meanwhile, independent movie rating group Common Sense Media has issued a “13+” rating for Bully, the same rating it gave The Hunger Games.

The Weinstein Company has decided to use that rating, instead of the MPAA’s proposed “R” (for strong language), on Bully’s promotional poster, marking the first time a CSM rating has been used by a studio to promote a film.

[ew.]


Tagged: AMC theaters, bully, MPAA, ratings, The Weinstein Company

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