May. 16, 2012
Brazilian Matheus Candido has made it his mission to right a serious injustice; he’s hard at work Photoshopping Nicholas Cage into the starring roles of the handful of movies in which he doesn’t already appear. Candido’s Facebook gallery is glorious.
[uproxx]
May. 16, 2012
Today on The Daily What Geek: The earth’s water supply, condensed into a big, blue marble
Elsewhere on the Internets:
Lunchtime Leisure: Star Drill
Lunchtime List: TV’s Most Notoriously Short-Lived Shows
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May. 16, 2012
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.)
May. 16, 2012
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.
May. 16, 2012
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!]
May. 16, 2012
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.
May. 16, 2012
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]
May. 16, 2012
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.
May. 16, 2012
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.”
May. 16, 2012
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]
