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Afternoon Snack

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:10 PM PDT


Kid sure knows how to set a precedent.

[uniquedaily]


Tagged: Afternoon Snack

Lunchtime Links

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:31 PM PDT

- Lunchtime Links
Today on The Daily What Geek: The latest set pics from Doctor Who

Elsewhere on the Internets:

  • Confirmed: Zach Galifianakis’ Between Two Ferns is headed for Comedy Central
  • Cheat Sheet: To Wal-Mart’s Mexican bribery scandal
  • Dangerous: Ron Artest/Metta World Peace’s elbow
  • Finally: Instagram joins the fight against thinspo

Lunchtime Leisure: Talesworth Adventure (via)
Lunchtime List: 50 Animated Gifs For Every Situation Ever

[image: mylifeisperfect]


Tagged: Lunchtime Links

Movie Trailer of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:14 PM PDT


In which Morgan Spurlock sends Will Arnett and Jason Bateman to investigate: “What makes men manly?” Mansome, which thankfully guest stars Zach Galifianakis, hits theaters in May.

[theworldsbestever]


Tagged: mansome, Movie Trailer

Red Sox Fans of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT

- Red Sox Fans of the Day


Die-hard Red Sox fans in Oregon couldn’t be farther from Boston’s famed, 100-year-old Fenway Park. So one day in summer 2005, Ben Maciarello, the governor of the state’s Red Sox Nation fan club, asked his dad, Jim: “How cool would it be to have our family and friends trying to hit balls over the Green Monster?”

Dad was more than game for building a one-third Fenway replica on the family property in rural Oregon. And so the pair spent 12 hours a day — and $7,000 — in June 2006 building the Green Monster scoreboard, the odd-shaped “triangle” in the center-field wall, and “Pesky’s Pole” in right field. “We wanted it to look authentic,” Jim says.

No worry there — in giant letters, on the back of the Green Monster, you can’t miss it: “Fenway West.”

[registerguard]


Tagged: fenway west, oregon, red sox

Marketing Campaign of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:47 AM PDT


In a “public-private partnership between the travel industry and the U.S. government,” this $12.3 million “Land of Dreams” ad campaign by Discover America will hit the U.K., Japan, and Canada in the next few months, then expand to Brazil and South Korea. Just in case no one realizes that THIS is what America is really like.

[consumerist]


Tagged: america, Marketing Campaign

Inspirational Motivational of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:22 AM PDT

- Inspirational Motivational Site of the Day


The annual Everest climbing season is in full swing, and a National Geographic team is live-updating online its quest to recreate the first American ascent — the 1963 National Geographic-sponsored American Mount Everest Expedition. From the blog:

Since we’re at the beginning of our expedition, our current dread is the Khumbu. It was once thought to be one of the most dangerous places on Everest, but statistical research by Professor Ray Huey at the University of Washington has shown that passing through the Icefall is far, far less dangerous than going for the summit. But that’s not how it feels when you’re inside the maw of the Khumbu!

Read the blog, visit the photo gallery, and follow the expedition on Twitter.

Meanwhile, the second casualty of the season was recorded today: Tshering Sherpa tripped on a ladder on his way to Camp 2 and fell 150 feet to his death in a crevasse.

[neatorama]


Tagged: everest, Inspirational Motivational

Reopened Missing Case of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:47 AM PDT

- Reopened Missing Case of the Day


Etan Patz was the first missing kid to appear on a milk carton — the 6-year-old disappeared from his New York City neighborhood in 1979. He has never been found, and the case was all but considered closed.

But five years ago, the Etan Patz case was reassigned, and the result is a story straight out of Criminal Minds. A persistent FBI detective named Thomas MacDonald, given the instructions, “See what you can do with it,” took it upon himself to reexamine the case from scratch. His search led him to the basement of a building in SoHo, where cadaver-sniffing dogs indicated remains might be buried.

But after five days of digging, the FBI has “concluded the on-site portion of the search.” Said one official: “I fear we’re at a dead end.”

[dailyintel]


Tagged: etan patz, missing kid

Bard Chart of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:54 AM PDT

- Bard Chart of the Day


Shakespeare took his last breath 396 years ago today — but did we ever really lose him? Esquire columnist Stephen Marche, author of How Shakespeare Changed Everything, gives us a little perspective:

“Shakespeare is the foremost poet in the world. All of the scriptwriting books cite him as the dominant influence on Hollywood. He has had more influence on the novel than any novelist. The greater the artist, the more he or she was influenced by Shakespeare. Dickens and Keats were more inspired by Shakespeare than anybody, and their familiarity with Shakespeare seems to have made them more original, not less.”

[explore]


Tagged: shakespeare

Rubber Duck of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:31 AM PDT

- Rubber Duck of the Day


Inadvertently creating perhaps the greatest photo ops ever, Rubber Duck has been traveling the world since 2007 as part of an ongoing art project by Dutch creator Florentijn Hofman. “The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers,” he says. “It doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation.” The artist’s large-scale art installations have graced public spaces spanning the globe since 2003.

[twistedsifter]


Tagged: Art Installation

Robot Future of the Day

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:14 AM PDT


A pair of scientists in New Zealand are predicting that the brothels of the future will be staffed by robot prostitutes. In a research paper on the sex industry, “Robots, Men And Sex Tourism,” Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars believe that by 2050, clients will pay nearly $10,000 for an all-inclusive evening that features everything from lap dances to intercourse from “a range of sexual gods and goddesses of different ethnicity, body shapes, ages, languages, and sexual features.”

If the reality is anything like this clever preview by the Taiwanese animators at NMA, progress won’t be pretty.

[hypervocal]


Tagged: robots