Early Bird Special: Adorable male Justin Bieber fan asks his idol to please, please, please go to Junior Prom with him. Just with him. As friends. As brothers. They can jerk together! No homo. (Okay, maybe just a little.)
[thanks samantha!]
Archive for June, 2011
Lights Out
Jun. 29, 2011
Lights Out: Reportedly besting Alex Roy’s long-standing record for fastest driven lap around the Island of Manhattan by just under a minute, the Corporate Broadcasting Company — an “anonymous quasi-anarchist global collective dedicated to ‘IDEAS MEDIA PEOPLE’” — completed the 24.48-mile drive in 26 minutes and 3 seconds.
The feat, which was accomplished on a Monday night “early in the summer of 2010,” required three weeks of surveillance and test runs, including six false starts.
[jalopnik.]
Teste Tincture of the Day
Jun. 29, 2011
Teste Tincture of the Day: Wellington, New Zealand’s Green Man Pub recently introduced a rather night-marish sounding cocktail that’s equestionable at best: Apple-infused horse semen.
The “active ingredient” arrives fresh from a Christchurch stallion farm, and is served chilled in a shot glass for NZ$25 (US$20) a pop.
According to pub co-owner Steve Drummond, women were the drink’s chief clientele. “”Ladies thought it was great,” he told The Dominion Post. “A couple were going to go home and get their husbands to eat grass.”
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Today On TDW: Geek
Jun. 29, 2011
Today On TDW: Geek –
- Above: The lobby scene from The Matrix, remixed with a capella sound effects courtesy of Matt Mulholland‘s mouth.
- Anonymous, AntiSec hacks, releases continue apace.
- Google launches Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool.
- Monty Python meets Fight Club. Also: My Little Pony meets Serenity.
- Evil Mad Scientist Labs build geekiest footstool of all time.
- A robotic armpit for some reason.
- Greenpeace attacks VW with Darth Vader Kid spoof.
- Foursquare hack yields Risk-like game.
This x That
Jun. 29, 2011
This x That:
Know This:
- President Obama calls on Congress to “do tough things” in order to reach agreement on debt ceiling raise. Boehner: No tax increase in debt ceiling bill.
- Rhode Island Senate approves same-sex civil unions, Gov. Lincoln Chafee promises to sign into law.
- Greek parliament passes necessary austerity measures package.
- Over 1,000 injured after violent night of clashes in Egypt.
- French journalists held hostage by the Taliban since December 2009 finally freed.
Read This:
- Associated Press signs agreement to open news bureau in North Korea. See Also: Anti-government graffiti locks down Pyongyang.
- Diet drinks’ dirty little secret: They make you fat.
- Unlikely Celeb Beef: Harrison Ford calls Shia LaBeouf “a f*cking idiot.”
Look At This:
- Spoiler Alert: No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits are the same movie.
- RPattz got pied.
The Other:
- NewsFeed: A Child Called ‘Friend’: Swedish Preschool Eliminates ‘Him’ and ‘Her’.
- Tea x Time List: 6 Beloved 80s Toys With Bizarrely Horrifying Origin Stories.
- Above: “Organizational charts for tech companies.” (via.)
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This Looks Shopped of the Day
Jun. 29, 2011
This Looks Shopped of the Day: A few days ago, a frequenter of China’s immensely popular Tianya Club Internet forum visited the official government website of Huili County, where they spotted a poorly shopped photo of three county leaders supposedly inspecting a freshly paved road.
The club member quickly posted the photo to Tianya under the headline “Too fake: the propaganda photo for our county,” excoriating the county for having “the nerve to put this on the home page” when “[e]ven a rank amateur like myself can tell that this was a PhotoShop job.”
Other users latched on to the post, and soon transformed “The Three Levitating Government Officials” into a full-fledged meme (see a few examples after the jump).
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Life Imitates Art of the Day
Jun. 29, 2011
Life Imitates Art of the Day: Specific Media, which just unloaded the once-mighty MySpace off News Corp for a couch change sum of $35 million, has announced that one of the partners in the deal is none other than triple-threat Justin Timberlake, who memorably played Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, in David Fincher’s The Social Network.
“We look forward to partnering with someone as talented as Justin Timberlake who will lead the business strategy with his creative ideas and vision for transforming MySpace,” Specific CEO Tim Vanderhook said in a statement. The financial specifics of Timberlake’s stake have not been released.
“There’s a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect,” the Grammy-winning musician was quoted by the statement as saying. “Myspace has the potential to be that place.”
I don’t necessarily know what’s cool, but I’ll stake a billion dollars on it not being MySpace.
[thr / businesswire / image: wandsout.]
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Make Way For Turtles of the Day
Jun. 29, 2011
Make Way For Turtles of the Day: Some 100 diamondback terrapins caused mild delays at John F. Kennedy International Airport this morning after shutting down Runway 4 Left during their annual trek across the airstrip in search of “sandy spots to lay their eggs.”
“[T]here is an ideal location on the other side of Runway 4L,” said Port Authority spokesman John P. L. Kelly. “They come out of the water and cross the runway to lay their eggs in the sand.”
Wildlife specialists moved the turtles to “a part of the airport where they can keep traveling west, but in a safe direction,” according to assistant state director for New York wildlife service Allen Gosser.
Naturally, it was only a matter of time before the turtles took to Twitter to react to the brouhaha surrounding their ritual:
Meanwhile, Jellyfish in Scotland shut down a nuclear power plant.
[cityroom / mashable / reuters / image: ap via csmonitor.]
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To Catch A Cheater of the Day
Jun. 29, 2011
To Catch A Cheater of the Day: The National Enquirer is reporting that NBC’s Chris Hansen, best known for telling perverts to take a seat over there on his hidden camera show To Catch a Predator, was caught cheating on his wife Mary Joan with 30-year-old WPTV NewsChannel 5 reporter Kristyn Caddell through a hidden camera sting operation orchestrated by the tabloid.
The Enquirer alleges that the two were spotted having a romantic dinner at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manalapan just before heading over to Caddell’s Palm Beach apartment to spend the night.
According to a source, the pair have been hot and heavy for the past four months since meeting in the VIP area of a West Palm Beach club. “Chris and Kristyn got on so well that she ended up going back to his room at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach,” says the source, “and later boasted to pals about staying the night with him.”
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