The Daily What

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• Pale Kid Raps Grammar of the Day
• Quote of the Day
• Movie Trailer of the Day
• Seeing-Eye Horses of the Day
• Infographic of the Day
• Marketing Campaign of the Day
• Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day
• This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day
• Letter Of Note of the Day
• Morning Fluff

Pale Kid Raps Grammar of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 11:42 AM PDT Fast-rapper Mac Lethal lays down a little Strunk & White to Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.” Your move, Watsky. (Not Safe For Work, your a f*cking idiot.) [hypervocal] Tagged: Mac Lethal, pale kid raps grammar

Quote of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 11:13 AM PDT Norwegian massacre survivor Ingvild Leren Stensrud testified today in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik: “I thought they (the attackers) were exchanging messages but realizing he was alone, I think the scream was actually a battle cry.” Stensrud, 17, survived the attack with a gun shot to the left thigh, after being knocked over — and subsequently covered by — the body of another victim. [shortformblog] Tagged: Anders Behring Breivik, Quote, trial

Movie Trailer of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 10:27 AM PDT Tom, a man who suffers from Fragile X syndrome — “a sort of autism with bells on” — had just one dream: to meet Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Mission To Lars is the epic story of how his brother and sister try to make his dream reality. (Don’t miss the intro trailer, which details the method to their madness.) Premieres in the U.K. on June 6; sadly, no word on a U.S. release. [thanks, mat!] Tagged: mission to lars, Movie Trailer

Seeing-Eye Horses of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 10:10 AM PDT Miniature horses are one step closer to being recognized as service animals in Illinois, after the state Senate voted Tuesday to allow them to accompany people with disabilities. The horses — which range from 24 inches to 34 inches tall and weigh 70 to 100 pounds — are already considered limited-use service animals under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but it’s a rare occasion to see a disabled person walking with the assistance of an animal other than a dog. Critics say the mandate is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and indeed, a California man filed suit in March claiming a restaurant denied him — and his mini-steed — service. “I like horses. My daughter likes horses. But even in the Wild West, they put them outside,” said Angelo Amador, vice president of the National Restaurant Association. According to the Guide Horse Foundation, miniature horses can be useful for people with severe allergies or phobias to dogs, or people who want an animal likely to live longer than a dog. The horses are strong enough to provide support when handlers need to lean on them, and they are not easily distracted by crowds. [animalplanet] Tagged: seeing-eye horses

Infographic of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 09:33 AM PDT No surprises here — a February 29 birthday is hard to come by, while the summer months trend reflects the traditional spike in holiday hookups. [explore] Tagged: birthdays, inforgraphic

Marketing Campaign of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 09:07 AM PDT A new campaign called “Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry” — whose debut video will give you chills — takes aim at the Defense of Marriage Act and its impact on gay and lesbian military families. The video follows the devastating trajectory of a lesbian relationship when one of the women serves in Afghanistan. Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry, one of the organizations behind the campaign, spells it out for us: Many people assume that, with the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” gay men and lesbians serving our country are now being treated fairly and equally, but that’s not the case. We ended the ban on open military service for gay and lesbian Americans, but there is still federal ban on treating married service members as what they are: married. [towleroad] Tagged: DOMA, Marketing Campaign

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 08:35 AM PDT The sheer cliffs at the mouth of Sydney Harbor have long been a popular Australian suicide spot. But they’re about to get a lot more deadly — the local man who is credited with talking at least 160 people out of killing themselves since 1964 died this week. Window-watcher Don Ritchie, known as the Angel of the Gap, could spot the troubled ones from his home across the street; he’d wander down to the cliff-edge and calmly ask, “Can I help you in some way?” More often then not, he could. He’d chat with them a bit, then invite them back to his place for a cup of tea. “My ambition has always been to just get them away from the edge, to buy them time, to give them the opportunity to reflect and give them the chance to realize that things might look better the next morning,” Ritchie once said. “You just can’t sit there and watch them. You’ve got to try and save them.” [advocatingprogress] Tagged: angel of the gap, don ritchie, Heartwarming Tearjerker

This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 08:09 AM PDT If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em — in a new, Seinfeldian comedy sketch released by Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, he pokes fun at his exasperation with Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his superhero exploits. But when Mitt Romney calls, there’s one situation for which Booker isn’t prepared… [playbook] Tagged: Chris Christie, cory booker, This Is Funny, you should watch this

Letter Of Note of the Day Posted: 16 May 2012 07:48 AM PDT Wedding season once again is upon us, and a June 1971 letter from future U.S. President Ronald Reagan to his soon-to-be-wed son, Michael, contains advice for the groom that stands the test of time. An excerpt: If you truly love a girl, you shouldn’t ever want her to feel, when she sees you greet a secretary or a girl you both know, that humiliation of wondering if she was someone who caused you to be late coming home, nor should you want any other woman to be able to meet your wife and know she was smiling behind her eyes as she looked at her, the woman you love, remembering this was the woman you rejected even momentarily for her favors. Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Now you have a chance to make it come out the way it should. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. Read the letter in full here. [lettersofnote] Tagged: Letter Of Note, reagan

Morning Fluff Posted: 16 May 2012 07:41 AM PDT So, so, so close. Points for trying? [to] Tagged: dougie, morning fluff

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