The Daily What

The Daily What

Bill Maher Calls Out the GOP Vid of the Day

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 12:30 PM PDT


Love him or hate him, there’s no arguing that Bill Maher can certainly get a rise out of people, particularly when it comes to poking holes in political ideology. Last night, he ended Real Time with the keen observation that Republicans are basically waging a war against common sense, but not before taking some pretty good jabs at folks who probably deserve them.

[gawker]


Tagged: bill maher, commentary, politics, real time, repubicans, video

Male Seahorse Birthing Video of the Day

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT


Remember when it was taught that male seahorses are the ones who give birth to babies? Now there’s a video to accompany that lesson!

[bitsandpieces]


Tagged: birth, sea life, seahorse, videos

Record Store Day Equipment Guide of the Day

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 09:15 AM PDT

- Record Store Day Equipment Guide of the Day


It’s Record Store Day — the one day in which all music labels and stores unite to bring the public limited pressings of (probably) overpriced records. Still, it tends to be a date that is often circled many times over in peoples’ calendars and is moving ever so swiftly in becoming the music nerd’s equivalent to Black Friday.

For people just (re)discovering vinyl, this guide to proper equipment might be slightly helpful for playing some of those limited edition singles.

[pcmag]


Tagged: Record Store Day, turntables, vinyl

Meat is Murder Story of the Day

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 08:30 AM PDT

- Meat is Murder Story of the Day


In a story that would please Morrissey to no end, controversy surrounding a children’s book, Vegan is Love, espouses the moral that “hamburgers are violent and sad,” a point further driven by images of dead animals. Now meat-eaters are mad and vegans are feeling marginalized and stereotyped, so America remains unhappy. At least Man vs. Food is still on.

[jezebel]


Tagged: childrens book, mad, meat, vegan, veganism

It’s Caturday!

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 07:30 AM PDT


Call this little kitten Dominique AWWWs because she’s got some Olympic-level flips and rolls over a newly discovered ball.

[stuffistolefromtheinternet]


Tagged: cats, caturday, cute animals, video

Lights Out

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:30 PM PDT


There’s a bit of a May-December, puppet/not-a-puppet romance-type-thing going on in this music video for The Zax‘s “Nothing to Celebrate (Champagne),” directed by Ben & Julia, but who are we to judge?

[thanks, rion!]


Tagged: Lights Out

Public Transportation of the Day

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:15 PM PDT

- Public Transportation of the Day


Hate walking? There’s an awkward new way of getting around the streets of Toronto: Baxi, the piggyback taxi service.

Baxi driver walker Nick Latimer hangs out in Queen West wearing a pig nose and a pink “Baxi” t-shirt, and will (literally!) pick up passengers for a fee.

The service is a promotional stunt for Latimer’s film, Hogtown, a noir-ish tale of a Baxi-turned-killer.

Here’s the synopsis:

An insomniac who spends his nights piggybacking people in a nightmare of a city known as Hogtown. Carl Gilmour (a.k.a. Baxi) piggybacks a slew of scum bags ranging from the mildly annoying to the armed and dangerous. These “pigs” push Carl to the edge of sanity forcing him to violent, bloody street justice. A vigilante is born. Piggybacker by day, butcher by night.

On second thought, I’ll just take the subway.

[blogto.]


Tagged: baxi, hogtown, piggyback rides

Ye Olde Debunking of the Day

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:30 PM PDT


TIL: the letter y in “ye olde” was actually printers’ shorthand for the letter “thorn,” pronounced “th.” So, it’s not technically “yee olde” after all — although it’s more fun to say it that way.

If anybody needs me, I’ll be at ye olde apothecary.

[minutephysics.]


Tagged: minute physics, ye olde debunking

Afternoon Snack

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:32 PM PDT


Mom saves ducklings from heated pool!

The action starts about 50 seconds in.

[tastefullyoffensive]


Tagged: Afternoon Snack, ducklings

This & That

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:45 PM PDT

This & That

Know This:

Read This:

Watch This:

  • The kid who out-Kanyes Kanye.
  • Adorable kids narrate Animal Planet’s Planet Earth.

Other: