May. 22, 2012
Redditor Bret16 posted this pic he snapped at a local gas station.
Top thread comment: “As a father, I’m just pissed that I don’t have to buy condoms at the same rate as I buy diapers.”
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May. 22, 2012
Today on The Daily What Geek: How to make Avengers cocktails
Elsewhere on the Internets:
- Happy Birthday: Morrissey, who almost looks happy in this collection of pics
- Included: Amanda Knox, on Maxim’s Hot 100
- Compiled: The Internet’s reactions to Dan Harmon’s firing from Community
- Released: Whitney Houston’s final studio recording
- Adopted: Johnny Depp, by the Comanche Nation
- Testing: Facebook’s latest update to timeline
Lunchtime Leisure: Housefly.
Lunchtime List: 6 Reasons People Gave Up Their Super Bowl Rings
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May. 22, 2012
Oregon Zoo keeper Michelle Schireman got an odd call in mid-April: “Michelle, we need your help.” With her experience taking in and placing orphaned cougar cubs — some 75 over the years — the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife figured she’d have no problem fostering an orphaned American black bear cub. So she did.
She got permission to house the cub temporarily at the zoo’s Veterinary Medical Center during her workday, taking him home with her at night since the cub was still of nursing age and required around-the-clock care. At just a couple of months old, the bear weighed 4 pounds — about the same as a half-gallon of milk — which, surprisingly, is normal for an animal that could grow to be 6 feet tall and weigh up to 600 pounds.
While Schireman was busy caring for the cub, ODFW got in touch with the NEW Zoo in Suamico, Wisconsin, home to an adult black bear named Winnie who was preparing for a new addition. The cub now is thriving in his new home, where he goes by the name Aldo.
“I’m glad they were able to find a home for him so quickly,” Schireman said. “When ODFW called, I told them the Oregon Zoo already had a full house with four black bears. But I hoped there was a zoo out there that would be thrilled to take him in.”
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May. 22, 2012
Researchers in China donned panda suits last month to help a 21-month-old panda and its mother transfer to a new home; the costumes were meant to ease the process by limiting the animals’ interaction with humans.
And the real pandas were like: “Really? How dumb do you think we are?”
See the rest of the ridic pics here.
May. 22, 2012
Rumor has it that this spot was nixed by RFSU, a Swedish organization that promotes sexual health and reproductive rights. Too bad — it’s terrific.
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May. 22, 2012
It’s like The Cove, but with seals.
Animal Planet will air next month a one-hour documentary, Seal Wars, on Namibia’s brutal seal slaughter — more than 85,000 Cape fur seals (the majority are pups) are clubbed or shot to death each year. According to Humane Society International, such methods are not only cruel, but also unsustainable to the South African seal population.
The footage for the documentary was shot covertly last year, when Sea Shepherd Conservation Society launched Operation Desert Seal in an effort to expose “Namibia’s dirty little secret” and drive international awareness “until the Southern Hemisphere’s sole seal cull is abolished.”
“We created quite a controversy in Namibia,” said SSCS’s Steve Roest, who led the team into Namibia. “But the suggestion by the Namibian government that we breached their national security and the fact that they used the navy, army and police to keep this slaughter hidden speaks volumes to the corruption involved.”
The documentary airs June 8.
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May. 22, 2012
The latest Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom, is out Friday, and star Bill Murray gives us a preview. The pair go back quite a ways — the actor has worked on every Anderson-directed film except Bottle Rocket (“I still haven’t seen that one,” Murray laments during his video tour of the project).
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May. 22, 2012
The great libertarian Penn Jillette derides President Obama’s medical marijuana policies, his appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and his drug use — all without taking a breath.
(Not Safe For Work — explicit raving.)
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May. 22, 2012
Yet further proof that everything — even the quick-advice videos from America’s Test Kitchen — is better with bacon. You’re welcome.
