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The FBI has released its 207-page file on Muammar Qaddafi, for those of you looking for some light T
The FBI has released its 207-page file on Muammar Qaddafi, for those of you looking for some light Tuesday-afternoon reading.
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A fülével issza a sört a cseh nő, nekünk végünk van
Meghaltunk, hazamentünk, mára vége a munkának. Mi, akik már százezer vicces videót láttunk életünkben. Ember nem bírja ki ép ésszel, ahogy egy cseh nő szinte szülési görcsökben fetrengve, a fülébe dugott szívószállal, hallójáraton át szív ki egy korsó sört.
Ez az a kategória, hogy még az is teljesen mindegy, hogy "igaz" vagy "kamu". Ezt látni kell és megszenvedni. A vicces videókra majdnem mindig igaz a klasszikus "beszívottötlet-szabály" , miszerint a címük vagy rövid leírásuk sokkal humorosabb, mint maga a videó. De nem ebben az esetben! A videót a prágai cseh sörök fesztiválja posztolta ki, csehül tudó ismerősök segítségével próbáljuk lefordítani, miről beszélnek benne, az eredményeket azonnal kiposztolom.
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(The beer-through-the-ears video below is brought to you from Cink, which is like Gawker an online p
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OK.
OK. Look: "Sarah Jessica Parker came complete with a mohawk... 'Trying to emulate the punk rock icon Debbie Harry,' she told CBS 2." It's thrilling to see Sarah Jessica Parker's AI software briefly hang, so that she applies the exactly correct verb "emulate" to her behavior-behavior. But: That is not a fucking mohawk.
[Photo via Getty.]
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St0p-motion visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday in London.
St0p-motion visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday in London. He was 92 and responsible for effects in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and 1981's Clash of the Titans.
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Where on Google Street View Can I Find This Wonderful Half Cat?
This cat was, apparently, cut in half by Google Street View cameras. But the blog from which the image comes—Google Street View World—doesn't provide the coordinates that would allow us to see half cat in his (her?) natural Street View habitat. Where can I find half cat?
(The image itself appears to be a couple years old, and I can't find any instances of it with tell-tale GSV iconography. But I choose to believe, to believe in half cat.)
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Boy Pretending to Be a Marine Suspended from School for 'Pencil Gun'
The father of a second grader from Suffolk, Virginia, who was suspended for making "gun noises" while pointing a pencil at another student says the school's zero tolerance policy on weapons lacks common sense.
"When I asked him about it, he said, 'Well I was being a Marine and the other guy was being a bad guy,'" Paul Marshall, Christopher's dad and an ex-Marine himself, told WAVY.
But Bethanne Bradshaw, Suffolk Public Schools spokesperson, said other students might find the 7-year-old's pencil gun threatening, given recent school shootings.
"A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made," Bradshaw said. "Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day."
But Paul says the school didn't need to suspend his son for two days, particularly since, as noted in his suspension notice, Christopher stopped as soon as the teacher asked him to.
"It's gone too far. Enough is enough," Paul told Fox 43. "Where do we draw the line? A pencil - was it sharpened? Was it now? Is it a No. 2? I mean what's the big deal? He's just being a kid."
Christopher is far from the first victim of zero tolerance policies gone too far.
Back in January, a first grader from Maryland was suspended for pointing a "gun gesture"
[screengrab via Fox 43]
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Syria Has Disappeared From The Internet
Multiple sources are reporting that internet traffic to Syria just dropped in a way that suggests a country-wide outage. It's unclear what's responsible. Syrian internet traffic was cut off last year--for 40 minutes
[Graph via Akamai]
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The Delaware Senate just voted to approve same-sex marriage, making Delaware the 11th state to pass
The Delaware Senate just voted to approve same-sex marriage, making Delaware the 11th state to pass marriage equality. During debate over the bill this afternoon, state Senator Karen Peterson came out as a lesbian.
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Gay Couple Violently Attacked by Knicks Fans in Broad Daylight
A New York couple reported that they were the victims of a hate crime Sunday afternoon, when they were assaulted in Madison Square Garden by a group of attackers dressed in Knicks gear. Nick Porto and his partner Kevin Atkins were reportedly walking arm-in-arm on Eighth Avenue by 34th Street around 5 P.M. when they were allegedly surrounded by four men and physically and verbally assaulted.
Porto, a clothing designer, stated that the group shouted homophobic slurs. The attackers, all in their early to mid-twenties, reportedly punched and kicked the couple repeatedly. They broke Porto's nose and Atkin's wrist.
A bystander managed to take a photo of one of the assailants (pictured below). He is described as a Hispanic man in his twenties with a tattoo on his left forearm.
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American Gets British Roommates to Try, Review American Junk Food
"Beauty blogger" Rita, an American, spent a semester abroad in the UK last year, sharing a flat with four British roommates. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before she decided to introduce them to classic American junk food and film their reaction as they consumed it.
Among the staple snacks featured in the taste test: Butterfinger, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers, Cheetos, Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Cracker Jacks, Twinkies, and a bunch of breakfast cereals.
While their feedback certainly offers valuable insight into the actual appeal of a given foodstuff versus its purely nostalgic allure, the truly shocking review is found in this follow up video, where Rita tries the notorious British delicacy known as Marmite for the very first time.
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One Trillion Cicadas Are About to Take Over the East Coast
According to the Smithsonian Institution researcher Gary Hevel, one trillion cicadas—a giant insect the size of a human finger—are about to take over the East Coast. Some had said it would be a mere 30 billion, which were already enough bugs to go to the moon and back. How gross this could be? University of Maryland entomologist Mike Raupp says "there will be some places where it's wall-to-wall cicadas." [io9
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Dr. Phil Lawsuit Blames Deadspin For His Ratings Success
Television host Philip "Dr. Phil" McGraw's Peteski Productions filed a copyright-infringement suit yesterday against Gawker Media. Peteski accuses Deadspin of having harmed the ratings of two episodes of the Dr. Phil program by posting video clips from the show—in which McGraw interviewed Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the confessed perpetrator of the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax—online.
Peteski Productions is arguing that Deadspin spoiled a two-part cliffhanger on the Dr. Phil program by posting a clip of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo speaking in what he said was the voice of the fictitious girlfriend "hours before the Dr. Phil Show aired to over 98% of its viewers." In other words, the clip was posted after the episode of Dr. Phil had already been broadcast in some markets, breaking the show's own news blackout on the question of whether or not Tuiasosopo would perform the female voice.
According to Broadcasting & Cable, the first and second parts of the interview drew 4.8 million and 4.3 million viewers respectively, exceeding the show's average of 4.1 million. That performance helped make Dr. Phil the No. 1 rated syndicated talk show for that sweeps period.
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The lawsuit specifically claims that Deadspin's second-day post caused viewership to drop between the first and second parts of the interview. That post has 103,342 pageviews; Dr. Phil lost 500,000 viewers. So by Dr. Phil's account, Deadspin's use of the video clip discouraged some 400,000 people from watching the program even though they could not possibly have seen the video clip on Deadspin.
The lawsuit quotes former Deadspin editor (and now former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio) as having mentioned the site's "dubious reputation as content remoras." The suit goes on to explain what a remora is:
A remora is a fish, sometimes called a suckerfish, which attaches itself to other fish like sharks. The host fish gains nothing from the relationship but the remora is enriched by obtaining benefits (usually food and transportation) from the host.
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo's involvement in the Manti Te'o hoax, the basis for the Dr. Phil program's interest in interviewing him, was first publicly reported by Deadspin
(I was working at Deadspin during this period and helped edit the Te'o coverage, though I didn't edit the Dr. Phil posts. Also I was brought up to believe that anyone who goes by "Dr." without an M.D. is a charlatan.)
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Vanity Fair Guy Must Retire to Summer Home After Intense Fashion Labor
Jamie Pallot, who has some job with Vanity Fair's website, is leaving the magazine voluntarily, because, as he tells Erik Maza, “There’s a summer house in Sagaponack that’s calling my name."
In the last year, Vanity Fair has taken on a number of labor-intensive digital projects that fell under Pallot’s watch, like the expansion of the International Best-Dressed List, which was opened up to take submissions from readers, an undertaking that involved significant logistical management.
Gosh that does sound labor-intensive. Fucker.
Erik Maza knows how to write a dry takedown piece, my friends.
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America Is Gay For Pizza
There’s only one thing modern day humans want to do and that is take flat circles of dough, layer them with sauce, cheese, and two helpings of pepperoni sausage, and then stuff them into mouths by triangles. We are pizza-crazy pizza monsters and we cannot get enough pizza. "I love you, Mommy," whisper our kids, as we tuck them into bed at night. "I...pizza," we respond.
“Hot Pizza,” declared a headline on TIME's website Monday. “So Popular Restaurants Will Try Almost Anything.”
Murder. Incest. The Devil’s magic. A free pizza with every pizza. These are but a few of the things restaurants will almost try in their unflagging efforts to...pizza.
For the time being, retailers have resigned themselves to less showboat-y tactics than capital offenses. Dominoes set up cameras at a location in Salt Lake City where anyone can play health inspector (or cockroach!) and watch workers preparing piping hot pizza pies 12 hours a day from five different angles. Chili's has begun offering pizza for the first time in its nearly 40 year history. (How did we, as a nation, allow Chili's Grill & Bar to prosper for four decades without offering some sort of pizza-based item on the menu? This is a question we'll have to ponder in retrospect, perhaps at a Chili's over one of its "four mouth-watering pizzas.")
Pizza is so hot right now.
TIME notes that “[p]izza has been popular for decades."
[Image via Shutterstock]
To contact the author of this post, pizza caity@gawker.com.
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Neighbors Detail Horrors and Police Negligence at Ohio Kidnapping Home
As police sift through the ramshackle Cleveland home where three women who'd been missing for almost a decade were recovered yesterday afternoon
In a USA Today article published this evening, people who lived near Ariel Castro, Onil Castro, and Pedro Castro at their home on Cleveland's Seymour Avenue claim that they witnessed a cavalcade of creepy incidents over the years, including women on leashes crawling around naked in the Castros' backyard and women desperately banging on windows:
- "Elsie Cintron, who lives three houses away, said her daughter once saw a naked woman crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard several years ago and called police."
- "Israel Lugo said he, his family and neighbors called police three times between 2011 and 2012 after seeing disturbing things at the home of Ariel Castro. Lugo lives two houses down from Castro and grew suspicious after neighbors reported seeing naked women on leashes crawling on all fours behind Castro's house."
- "Lugo said about two years ago his sister told him she heard a woman pounding on a window at Castro's home as if she needed help. When his sister looked up, she saw a woman and a baby standing in a window half covered with a wooden plank."
- "A third call came from neighborhood women who lived in an apartment building. Those women told Lugo they called police because they saw three young girls crawling on all fours naked with dog leashes around their necks. Three men were controlling them in the backyard."
Sources tell Cleveland's WKYC-TV that what was happening to the captive women inside the house was even worse than what neighbors saw. Citing "several police sources," the station reported that the three kidnapees were repeatedly raped over the years, resulting in up to five pregnancies. A a 6-year-old girl discovered in the Castro home is believed to be one of the kidnapped women's daughter, but at this time it's unclear what happened with the other pregnancies.
Exacerbating the fact that the three women were apparently tortured for years and years is that neighbors say they frequently called police to the Castro home only to have the cops ignore them. One woman said that officers "didn't take it seriously" when she called 911 to complain about a woman crawling naked in the Castro backyard. Another person said a call about women being led around by leashes yielded no action whatsoever: "[T]hey waited two hours but police never responded to the calls."
In response to these allegations, the Cleveland Police Department is saying it never received calls about naked women at the Castro house:
Police spokesperson: There are no such calls or response involving a naked woman seen at the home, despite "rumors" - CNN
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) May 7, 2013
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Disney Trying to Trademark "Día De Los Muertos" (Updated)
El Día De Los Muertos may be a Mexican holiday that traces back to the Aztecs, but Disney would like to give the silent treatment to those 2,000-3,000 years of cultural tradition and co-opt the phrase for its own greedy gringo purposes: On May 1, Disney filed 10 applications for various trademarks relating to the phrase "Día De Los Muertos." And, hey, why not—the Aztecs never bothered to trademark it.
Disney, you see, would like to be legally entitled to the phrase because Pixar has something in development called "The Untitled Pixar Movie About Día de Los Muertos" from the makers of Toy Story 3. Since this is nation built on cultural theft, the Mickey Mouse Legal Department proactively imagined all the licensing and merchandizing opportunities and sponsorship deals that would accompany an animated movie about a Mexican American holiday that remembers dead people produces sugar skulls. Consequently, the corporate behemoth applied for all the standard character marks that could be associated with the branded term. (Their 10 trademark applications cover everything from backpacks to gum to mac and cheese.)
Twisted X Brewing Company applied to trademark "Cerveza de los Muertos" in 2010, back when they were called Barbed Wire Brewing Company, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
It's unlikely Disney will be granted the trademark. Then again, they are Disney and they own childhood, so you never know.
Update 11:14pm EST: Deadline Hollywood reports that Disney has issued a statement saying they plan to withdraw the copyright claim.
[Phoenix New Times // photo via Sugar Skull Creations]
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