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Whatever hope I may have yet harbored for humanity’s viability after viewing Rachael Sequoia’s air-headed VC pitch was unceremoniously squelched by the “Forts & The Inbetween” project.
See Also: Cody Johnston’s alternate ending.
UPDATE: Not entirely sure if this was a joke that went too far, but the video was removed from Vimeo and the Kickstarter funding request was canceled. Either way, good.
Remix of the Day: Kutiman the cut + paste king returns to form with “My Favorite Color” — a brand new remix made from videos he found on YouTube.
[kutiman.]
Following Gilbert Gottfried’s series of ill-conceived tweetspoking fun at the devastation in Japan, Aflac informed the comedian, who has voiced the Aflac Duck for over a decade, that his services would no longer be required.
“Gilbert’s recent comments about the crisis in Japan were lacking in humor and certainly do not represent the thoughts and feelings of anyone at Aflac,” the company said in an official statement. “Aflac will immediately set plans in motion to conduct a nationwide casting call to find a new voice of the iconic Aflac Duck.”
President Obama released a statement earlier announcing that “[t]he United States stands ready to help the Japanese people in this time of great trial.” Below is a list of charities and relief organizations you can donate to in order to help bring aid to those affected by the worst earthquake in Japanese history.
- The American Red Cross has set up a special designation for disaster relief efforts in Japan. To donate, click here, or text REDCROSS to 90999 to instantly donate $10.
- International Medical Corps says it is putting together relief teams and supplies to aid Japan “and other affected countries.” Donate here.
- GlobalGiving’s Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund.
- World Vision’s Disaster Response Fund.
- Click here to donate to AmeriCares’ emergency relief response.
- Save the Children’s Japan Earthquake Tsunami Children in Emergency Fund.
- Reminder: Google’s Crisis Response Center / Person Finder.
Inappropriate Air Guitar of the Day: Conservative MP Graham Evans claims he was just tapping on the rolled-up Parliamentary order, and not providing fellow party member, Defence Secretary Liam Fox, with an air guitar accompaniment, but this video of the riff in question suggests otherwise.
What say you?
Source: Newslite
Mark Bongo of Major League Mods took R2-D2, added an Xbox 360, and then put in a 15″ x 50″ projector in the head lens. Respect!
[via Craziest Gadgets]
Despite releasing a statement earlier this week saying they would not go after the vehemently bigoted Westboro Baptist Church, it appears Anonymous has decided that the WBC’s continued heckling warranted a warning, and infiltrated their website this morning (during a live radio interview on the The David Pakman Show between Westboro spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper and an Anonymous member, no less) to post this message on its homepage.
The site has since been brought down, but the delightful defacement has been preserved.
Your mom and dad are wrong: College isn’t worth it.
UPDATE: This is for an Honors — HONORS! — Intro to Fiction course at OSU. From the course description:
…While we read and discuss some important, influential narratives about the supernatural – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight as well a few minor works…
1818: “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” 2005: “I sparkle like diamonds.”
Forthcoming Facebook Feature? of the Day: Tipster William writes: So I was just chatting on Facebook chat and I got the option to ‘call’ my friend. it swiftly disappeared. (Embiggen.)
Is Facebook in the process of adding a call feature to profile pages? Is anybody else seeing this?