Ticklish Achilles’ Heel of the Day: Have you ever been tickled so hard that you passed out?
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Sick Juggling Skills of the Day
Feb. 2, 2012
Sick Juggling Skills of the Day: Joe Showers took home the Best Juggling Trick award at the 2010 RIT Spring Juggle-In by turning a near-blunder into a pitch-perfect save.
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Afternoon Snack
Feb. 2, 2012
Afternoon Snack: Donkeyotee the donkey tries to sing along to his owner’s fiddling, makes a total ass of himself.
[bunnyfood.]
Worst Luck Ever of the Day
Feb. 2, 2012
Worst Luck Ever of the Day: A man in the small Spanish village of Sodeto is giving “bad luck” a whole new meaning after each of the community’s 70 households won the Spanish Christmas Lottery jackpot except for him.
It seems Costis Mitsotakis was accidentally passed over by the homemakers’ association, which every year knocks on doors in Sodeto collecting money for a collective lottery buy-in.
Wouldn’t you know it, this year was the town’s year, and each resident took home a fat slice of the “El Gordo” pie — some $950 million dollars in all.
Believe it or not, Mr. Mitsotakis isn’t too upset about the whole being-the-only-one-in-town-without-at-least-$130,000-in-his-pocket thing.
The Greek filmmaker is hoping the extra money his neighbors made will help him make some of his own bank selling a strip of land he’d previously had a hard time unloading.
After the lottery, two residents immediately expressed interest in the plot. Refusing to take advantage of the situation, Mitsotakis wouldn’t allow a bidding war. “This is a small village,” he is quoted as saying. “You don’t want bad feelings.”
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Follow Up of the Day: Susan G. Komen Backlash
Feb. 2, 2012
Follow Up of the Day: Crafty hackers last night managed to hijack the official website of embattled breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and express their dismay at the organization’s politically expedient decision to pull Planned Parenthood grants funding breast-cancer screenings for uninsured and underinsured low-income patients.
The switch was simple, but the message was clear: A banner previously calling women to join a run aimed at ridding the world of breast cancer now read “help us run over poor women on our way to the bank.”
The hack, which briefly redirected www.komen.org visitors to ww5.komen.org, was only the first in a series of notable developments that have taken place since the charity announced its controversial grant withdrawal on Tuesday.
Planned Parenthood, which called out Komen for bowing to “political pressure,” has managed to raise nearly $1 million from online donations and generous contributions from deep-pocketed supporters such as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
That number, which is continuing to rise, is nearly as much as Komen gave the nonprofit in 2010 and 2011 combined.
Pressure on Komen to reverse its decision is also mounting. 22 Democratic Senators have reportedly signed a strongly worded letter calling on Komen to resume its partnership with Planned Parenthood.
Additionally, Komen’s top public health official, Mollie Williams, has resigned to protest her employer’s defunding decision. The executive director of Komen’s Los Angeles County chapter has also stated her intention to resign.
For its part, Komen continues to deny anti-abortion links to its decision, despite their anti-choice SVP Karen Handel’s well-established goal to defund Planned Parenthood. (Handel recently retweeted a remark critical of Planned Parenthood that concluded with the phrase “cry me a freaking river.” The retweet was soon deleted.)
The organization is further denying its deletion of pro-Planned Parenthood comments from its Facebook page and message board, claiming it only removes comments for profanity.
One poignant comment Komen couldn’t delete was left by award-winning author Judy Blume on her Twitter feed: ”Susan Komen would not give in to bullies or to fear. Too bad the foundation bearing her name did. Support @PPact. Save lives.”
When even Judy Blume is calling you out, you should probably stop and listen.
[image: atlanticwire.]
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Tags To Riches of the Day
Feb. 2, 2012
Tags To Riches of the Day: Graffiti artist David Choe is no slouch when it comes to getting his hands dirty for big names: His artwork covers Jay-Z and Linkin Park’s Collision Course; he’s provided set decorations for Juno; and a portrait of Obama he painted is hanging in the White House.
But it’s his contribution to Facebook that might be Choe’s magnum opus.
The L.A. native was compensated for mural work he did at Facebook’s Palo Alto HQ in 2005 with company shares in lieu of a few thousand dollars. In light of yesterday’s IPO filing, Choe’s shares may now be worth upwards of $200 million.
Best part? He once called Facebook’s concept “ridiculous and pointless.”
Watch the artist at work below:
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Strongest Cheerleader In The World of the Day
Feb. 2, 2012
Strongest Cheerleader In The World of the Day: Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts sits down with Anna Watson – a University of Georgia cheerleader so brawny, she could probably serve as the base for an extension-level stunt in which all the other team members are flyers.
Watch the interview below:
Lunchtime Links
Feb. 2, 2012
Lunchtime Links:
- NSS Institute study finds two-thirds of all tweets are pointless.
- When Is White History Month? (Hint: Every month.)
- Single Serving Tumblr of the Day: Food On My Dog.
- Lunchtime Lady: Chrissy Bertrand.
- Lunchtime List: Top five regrets of the dying.
[photo: p.a.n.]
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OMG! Adorbz of the Day
Feb. 2, 2012
OMG! Adorbz of the Day: Jamie’s dad hopes his son will grow up to be the next Hugo Hoyama, but I’m sure he’ll settle for the next Andrzej Grubba.
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World-Record-Setting Waterskiers of the Day
Feb. 2, 2012
World-Record-Setting Waterskiers of the Day: A new world record was set off the coast of Strahan, Tasmania, where 145 waterskiers were pulled by the same boat across Macquarie Harbour, successfully maintaining an upright position for a full nautical mile.
The previous record, set by the same group, was 114. The youngest participant? 12-year-old Alexandria Seaton.
Watch the world record attempt below:
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