Morning Links:
- Twitter loosening following requirement for Direct Message receipt.
- VP Joe Biden joins Twitter.
- Morning Distraction: The Haunted Ruins.
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Let me save you quite a bit of pinching and tell you that you are in fact awake, and that is in fact Tom Hanks doing a weather report dance with Chiquinquira Delgado on Univision morning show, Despierta America.
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Deep Fried Thing of the Day: Chicken Charlie Boghosian purveyor of all things artery-clogging shows off his latest homewrecker: Deep-fried Kool-Aid.
According to Boghosian, the doughnut-hole-shaped death warrant was a best seller during opening weekend at the San Diego County Fair, with as many as 9,000 deep-friend Kool-Aid balls served.
It tastes just like a doughnut ball, remarked fair attendee Rashed Karram, who noted that he preferred Chicken Charlies deep-fried Klondike Bars.
Rebecca Black’s “Friday” is off YouTube due to a copyright claim from … Rebecca Black. The “singing” “sensation” is in a legal battle with the song’s producers, Ark Music Factory.
RB alleges that Ark never gave her the master recordings for “Friday,” and they didn’t obtain the necessary publicity rights to advertise her as one of their “artists” and sell ringtones and other Fridayphernalia.
tl;dr: Friday, Friday, got a takedown on Friday. Everybody’s looking forward to the lawsuit, lawsuit.
You don’t come to Dave Grohl’s show and fight — you come to Dave Grohl’s show and f*cking dance, you a**hole.
(sNSFW, THE BEST.)
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Corgi Cross-breeds of the Day: Redditor Lbj1212 spotted a corgi/husky mix(huggi) at the beach, touching off a corgi cross-breed show-off, which yielded a corgi/chihuahua mix (chorgi, second above), a corgi/Jack Russell mix (jorgi), and a corgi/lab mix (corgidor, below).
Got an even cuter corgi mix? Let’s see it.
[reddit.]
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: Sesame Streets newest talk show, Conversations With Bert, hosts actor, comedian, filmmaker, esteemed Leo, haiku lover, pancake visionary, and all-around groovy guy Andy Samberg.
Source: THD
Before And After of the Day: Missourian Aaron Fuhrman a self-taught landscape photographer has been traveling around Joplin, photographing heartrending panoramic shots of the devastation left in the aftermath of Sundays tornado.
Fuhrman lined up one of these panoramic photos with a Google Street View screencap of the same intersection to illustrate the comprehension-challenging extent of damage caused by the twister.
Say Redditor rorykins: “I think my dog is a cat.”
Responds Redditor andeegal126: “No…he/she is just pioneering Dog planking. Way ahead of the curve, you should be proud.”
[reddit.]
Things That Are Real of the Day: If you must believe in something, believe in Pole Fitness for Jesus.
Source: ABC