The Daily What

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• Lunchtime Links
• Street Art of the Day
• Bad Lip Reading of the Day
• Supporting Our Troops of the Day
• Say What Now of the Day
• Wedding Brawl of the Day
• Campaign Slogan of the Day
• Tribute Video of the Day
• Bin Laden Letters of the Day
• Single-Serving Site of the Day

Lunchtime Links Posted: 03 May 2012 12:17 PM PDT Today on The Daily What Geek: Wil Wheaton talks about his departure from Star Trek: The Next Generation Elsewhere on the Internets: Skyrocketing: Negative political ads, up 750 percent over 2008 Yanked: Ashton Kutcher’s racist ad for Popchips, after a massive backlash Trailblazing: America’s first Pirate Party candidates for office Licensed: Michael Jackson’s likeness, for use in upcoming Pepsi ads Ditched: The “Fig” in Fig Newtons Lunchtime Leisure: Closure (via) Lunchtime List: 10 Beautiful Bridges Inspired By Famous Books [image: thanks, aubrey!] Tagged: Lunchtime Links

Street Art of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 11:48 AM PDT Max Zorn, a self-taught Dutch street artist, uses only translucent packing tape and a mere scalpel to create intricately layered portraits on Plexiglas, which he then hangs on public street lights — you know, for best viewing. To promote his street art, Zorn has launched a project called Let’s Stick Together, which lets fans sign up to receive their own pieces of tape art, provided they promise to post them publicly. His gallery can be found here. [laughingsquid]

Bad Lip Reading of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 11:30 AM PDT Even the guys at Bad Lip Reading can’t avoid Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.” [thehighdefinite] Tagged: Bad Lip Reading, Gotye

Supporting Our Troops of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT Oregon Ducks head football coach Chip Kelly has made honoring the military a tradition at the annual spring game, and this year was no different. To the cheers of 44,129 fans, the team welcomed 100 military personnel onto the field, where Ducks football players presented them with jerseys. And not just any jerseys — the notoriously gaudy, Nike-designed jerseys off their stinky, sweat-soaked backs. Next year, Ducks, if you’re going to saddle military personnel with ugly unis, at least spring for new ones. [cosbysweaters] Tagged: ducks football, military, supporting our troops

Say What Now of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 10:45 AM PDT Under fire this week from gay rights activists for a Sunday sermon in which he encouraged parents in his congregation to assault their kids if they showed signs of being gay, North Carolina pastor Sean Harris now claims he only was trying to be funny: The second you see your son dropping that limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Harris, who was preaching about gay marriage ahead of the state’s upcoming vote on Amendment One, defended his support of the legislation, if not his poor choice of words. “What I do stand by is that the word of God makes it clear that effeminate behavior is ungodly,” Harris said. “I’m not going to compromise on that.” [theweek] Tagged: Say What Now, sermon

Wedding Brawl of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 10:13 AM PDT Multiple people — including the groom’s mother! — were arrested this past weekend in a wedding brawl that started when the groom’s brothers were cut off at the bar. The Boston Herald‘s Jessica Heslam recounts the he said, she-said mayhem: This service slight somehow incensed [groom Anthony] Delorio-Weiner, 25, who punched a wall and began tearing apart the coatroom after someone from the bride’s side of the family told him to calm down. When the bride’s brother approached Delorio-Weiner, the groom punched him and the pair were soon tussling on the floor, police say. [Mother of the groom] Darlene [Delorio]‘s version of the story is a bit different. It was all about disrespect, she said. According to her, the whole kerfuffle began when the bride’s mother began yelling at Darlene’s 70-year-old mother and waving her finger in her face. Darlene insists she was only defending her mom and her family’s good name. How could that be assault? As the fighting escalated, Darlene claims she went to leave but was insulted by her ex-boyfriend’s galpal, who told her she was no lady. The couple are (hopefully) patching things up on their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. “They’re in love,” Delorio said. “They’re doing everything in their power to make it work.” [mediaite] Tagged: wedding brawl

Campaign Slogan of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 09:50 AM PDT In a swipe at President Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, “Hope & Change,” the GOP today is rolling out new messaging — “Hype & Blame” — that accuses Obama of breaking promises to the American people during his first term in the White House. Kirsten Kukowski, with the Republican National Committee: “Obama has no record to run on so he’s out on the trail resorting to the same tactics he campaigned against in 2008. He has a litany of broken promises so what does he do? Lay blame, make excuses, run on gimmicks and engage in divisive politics. Four years later we know the candidate of Hope and Change is now Hype and Blame.” The bumper sticker can be yours for $10. [politicalticker] Tagged: campaign slogan, gop

Tribute Video of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 09:40 AM PDT The USC Trojans honor alumnus and NFL great Junior Seau, who died Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [cosbysweaters] Tagged: junior seau, tribute video

Bin Laden Letters of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 09:14 AM PDT A study of newly declassified documents seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound a year ago reveals the Al-Qaida leader to have had a tumultuous relationship with his “affiliates” around the world; the documents show also that Bin Laden had chosen CBS as the recipient of a Sept. 11 anniversary propaganda message by Al-Qaida.  The series of 17 letters penned by Bin Laden to his henchmen, dating from September 2006 to the weeks leading to his death in 2011, has been made available in Arabic and their helpful English translations by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A cheat sheet to the letters — which detail Bin Laden’s increasingly disenchanted perceptions of Iran, Pakistan, and the Arab Spring and the dysfunction within his own network — can be found here. [dailyintel] Tagged: bin laden letters

Single-Serving Site of the Day Posted: 03 May 2012 09:03 AM PDT Replaceface, in which the brilliant Steve Payne re-imagines celebrities as Russian generals. [imwithkanye] Tagged: russian generals, Single Serving Site

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