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Lunchtime Links

Posted: 10 May 2012 12:09 PM PDT

- Lunchtime Links


Today on The Daily What Geek: The original R2-D2 coffeemaker, with a guide to making your own

Elsewhere on the Internets:

  • Debuted: The new Swizz Beatz video for “Street Knock,” which features young rapper A$AP Rocky
  • Iconic: The Ford Bronco — but how did it get this way?
  • Stolen: A bike, by its original owner, from the Craigslist seller who stole it from him
  • Idiots: People who think Obama’s support for gay marriage means he’s gay
  • Intriguing: Could humans ever hibernate like bears?
  • Ill-fated: The search for the next Glee
  • Remixed: The Meow Mix jingle, by Cee Lo Green with Purrfect

Lunchtime Leisure: Forty Thieves Solitaire
Lunchtime List: 10 Terrible Movie Moms And The Awful Things They Said

[image: from Obama's Instagram feed, death+taxes]


Tagged: Lunchtime Links

Gift For Mom of the Day

Posted: 10 May 2012 12:04 PM PDT

Hold the flowers — just in time for Mother’s Day, the American Coalition for Labor Reparations has teamed up with ad agency Mother (natch) to spur you to pay Mom back for the nine months she was saddled with you, not to mention labor and delivery. A handy form on the ACLR website lets you “calculate and repay the expenses we incurred as a fetus, which include:

  • A base labor fee (for the hours spent trying to push you out of her body)
  • Embarrassment
  • Weight gain and emotional instability during pregnancy
  • Stretch marks and navel disorders discovered later

When the form is complete, Mom gets an IOU email declaring your intention to pay her labor reparations for Mother’s Day.

[adweek]

Supercut of the Day

Posted: 10 May 2012 11:14 AM PDT


Not only are these news anchors unoriginal — they’re also uninformed. Dogster was founded in 2004.

[teamcoco]


Tagged: social network for dogs, Supercut

Kickass Kid of the Day

Posted: 10 May 2012 10:52 AM PDT


Tom Schaar — a skateboarding prodigy at the tender age of 12 — recently landed the world’s first 1080-degree spin, which subsequently landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Now he’s made history a second time, becoming the youngest X Games gold medalist ever with top honors in the Mini MegaRamp event.

“I tried the 1080 once before the contest and then three or four times during the contest and was stoked to get it,” Schaar said. “I’m just excited to be here and be skating with all of these pros that I’ve looked up to. It’s the best feeling!”

[gww]


Tagged: Kickass Kid, skateboarding prodigy

Sad ‘Cause It’s True of the Day

Posted: 10 May 2012 10:34 AM PDT


It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, and Jimmy Kimmel’s gift to educators across the country was an opportunity to give their students’ parents a piece of their minds.

[jimmykimmel]


Tagged: jimmy kimmel, sad 'cause it's true, teachers

Awkward Denial of the Day

Posted: 10 May 2012 09:54 AM PDT

- Awkward Denial of the Day


The Washington Post is out today with a deeply reported piece on Mitt Romney that paints him as a privileged bully who picked on classmates he suspected of being gay. A particularly horrific story is that of classmate John Lauber, a new kid at the exclusive Cranbrook prep school whose long, bleach-blonde hair offended Romney’s conservative sensibilities.

A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

Confronted about the incident this morning on a radio talk show, Romney tried in vain to save face.

I’m not gonna be too concerned about their piece. I played a lot of pranks in high school, and they described some that, uh, well, you just say to yourself that, uh, back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that, obviously I apologize. But overall, high school was a long time ago, and I’m glad I’ve got some good friends from those years.

Pressed further, he responded:

I don’t, I don’t remember that incident. And I certainly don’t believe that I, or, I can’t speak for other people, of course, but thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from my mind back in the 1960s. That was not the case.

[washpo]


Tagged: awkward denial, gay bully, mitt romney

Titillating Magazine Cover of the Day

Posted: 10 May 2012 09:06 AM PDT

- Titillating Magazine Cover of the Day


Jamie Lynne Grumet, a 26 year-old parenting blogger, offers her nipple to 3-year-old son Aram on the cover of this week’s Time magazine, to promote a story about attachment parenting, an approach that encourages parents to breastfeed and co-sleep with their children.

“To me, the whole point of a magazine cover is to get your attention,” says Rick Stengel, Time‘s managing editor. “From the moment that we started talking about this story as a cover possibility, it was like I couldn’t get out of the meetings. There was so much opinion and passion about it and discussion. What that told me is, boy, this is a story that people care a lot about.”

[hypervocal]


Tagged: time, titillating cover

Follow-Up of the Day: Reactions to Obama’s Gay Marriage Announcement

Posted: 10 May 2012 08:11 AM PDT

- Follow-Up of the Day: Reactions to Obama's Gay Marriage Announcement
The fallout from President Obama’s announcement Wednesday that he backs gay marriage:

  • Nationwide polling shows support for gay marriage outweighs opposition, according to genius pollster Nate Silver.
  • House Republicans voted to add an amendment to a $51.1 billion spending bill that prohibits the Justice Department from using taxpayer dollars in any future fight against the anti-gay rights Defense of Marriage Act. Which means the Obama administration’s hands are essentially tied as far as opposing DOMA.
  • Mitt Romney toed the GOP line: “My view is that marriage itself is between a man and a woman.” He said Wednesday that he still believes states should be able to decide whether to offer certain legal rights to same-sex couples.
  • In the first 90 minutes after news of Obama’s position surfaced, spontaneous donations to his campaign totaled $1 million.
  • Some argue that Obama’s announcement is BS. “He now believes that gay couples should be able to marry. He doesn’t believe they have a right to do so,” points out Aaron Cook, writing for Gawker.
  • Log Cabin Republicans, the gay arm of the GOP, gripes ”that the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous.”
  • Obama breaks his silence on Vice President Biden:  ”He probably got out a little bit over his skis.”
  • Jon Stewart throws a party on The Daily Show.
  • The "Jeep Party” scene from Zoolander beats out the competition for the No. 1 GIF.
  • Twitter — predictably — explodes.

Tagged: obama gay marriage reacti

Movie Trailer of the Day

Posted: 10 May 2012 07:56 AM PDT


It’s Ryan Gosling and the LAPD vs. the East Coast Mafia, circa the 1940s and ’50s. Oh, yeah — Gangster Squad also stars Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Emma Stone. Out October 19.

[laist]


Tagged: gangster squad, Movie Trailer

Morning Fluff

Posted: 10 May 2012 07:46 AM PDT


Is a little conga music too much to ask?

[petsami]


Tagged: morning fluff