“Contrary to the impression that I apparently gave from my tweet, I am not his girlfriend. Nor am I the wife, girlfriend or mistress of Barack Obama, Ray Allen or Cristiano Ronaldo, despite the fact that I have made similar assertions about them via Twitter.”
–21-year-old journalism student Gennette Nicole Cordova, alleged recipient of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s alleged wiener pic, speaks out.
[nydn.]
Look At This Dog-Paddling Dog of the Day: Says YouTuber : “We held our puppy in front of our air conditioner and he started trying to swim.”
inb4 what’s actually happening.
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Upgraded Childhood of the Day: JR Hildebrand may have lost the 100th Indy 500 to Dan Wheldon after crashing into the wall with one turn to go, but over at the life-size Hot Wheels V-Drop, Top Gear‘s Tanner Foust nailed a world record-setting 332-foot jump in a modified Pro 2 truck.
Those two things may not be directly related, but they both happened.
[mashable.]
Animated Short of the Day: In his 4th year film, Dinosaur Battle Town, Sheridan animation student Eddie West finally asks the question that’s been on everyone’s mind since time immemorial: What if dinosaurs had survived long enough to form the foundation of roaming medieval battle towns?
[mefi.]
Kids React To The Darndest Things of the Day: The Fine Brothers subject their kids to the memetic scourge known as Nyan Cat.
I’m not 100% up on the latest Geneva Conventions, but isn’t this a form of torture?
[finebros.]
See Also: The origin of the Nyan Cat theme song.
Big Deal of the Day: Long story short, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) allegedly tweeted a photo of his underwear-covered junk to a female follower.
The photo (sNSFW) — which was posted to the Congressman’s yfrog account on Friday night — was summarily deleted (along with all other photos) by Weiner himself. He then promptly tweeted that his Facebook had been hacked. However, the “incriminating” tweet was retweeted several times before Weiner managed to get to it, and an alleged screencap of his yfrog page was posted on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government.
Rep. Weiner, meanwhile, took the incident in stride, tweeting a Sherlock Holmes-themed joke at his own expense. He later told Politico’s Jonathan Allen and Ben Smith that he thought it was “obvious” that he had been hacked. “The weiner gags never get old, I guess,” he is quoted as saying. Weiner’s spokesman Dave Arnold told the New York Post that both the congressman’s Facebook page and Twitter account had been hacked.
Big Government remains adament that something isn’t adding up in Weiner’s claim that he was hacked; Daily Kos says this is nothing but a “sex smear,” and a commenter used Error Level Analysis (sNSFW) to prove the yfrog screencap was faked.
Meanwhile, the follower at the center of “Weinergate” — a Bellingham, WA-based journalism student — has since deleted both her Twitter and Facebook accounts (some say her online presence is being scrubbed). Bloggers on the right have gone so far as to claim that the 21-year-old is Weiner’s lover, putting up as evidence a tweet from Weiner referencing “Seattle time” and a tweet from @GennetteNicole calling him her “boyfriend.”
Among the questions being asked on the right is why Rep. Weiner never mentioned alerting the authorities to the hack. A better question might be, if this was indeed a nefarious hack aimed at destroying the Democrat, why use a photo of someone so handsomely endowed?
[politico / nyp / biggovernment / dailykos / @repweiner / villagevoice.]
UPDATE: Meet @patriotusa76: A Weiner-obsessed Reagan Republican who was supposedly the only person quick enough to retweet the Congressman’s wiener.
How It’s Done of the Day: Boss Rule #162: A boss doesn’t slow down his swag for anyone, not even a car door.
[arbroath.]
This May Or May Not Be Accurate of the Day: Old and Busted: State motto. New Hotness: State stereotype.
(Alphabetized transcript here, in case you want to skip ahead to your state.)
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