June, 2011

During the Casey Anthony trial today, which I admit I’m not following very closely (or at all), Matthew Bartlett tried to be slick and give state prosecutor Jeff Ashton a subtle middle finger. Unfortunately for Mr. Bartlett, the trial is being viewed by a ridiculous amount of people and there are dozens of cameras in the courtroom. Judge Belvin Perry decided to bring Matthew Bartlett back into the courtroom after today’s session and proceeded to son the shit out of  him for 12 minutes, concluding the tongue lashing with a 6-day prison sentence and hundreds of dollars in fines.

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Gets funnier the more you watch it.

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After a missed goal by Equatorial Guinea in the Women’s World Cup, a fan forever destroys that whole “no one cares about women’s soccer” thing.

Update: Fixed video courtesy of Tosh.0.

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TLC continues to subject their viewers to their endless parade of maniacs by featuring Kelly on their show Freaky Eaters, who has eaten some sort of combination of cheese and potatoes for every meal for the past 30 years. Let’s laugh at her while she absolutely loses it when her husband tries to make her eat something that won’t directly contribute to her superhuman cholesterol levels.

Thanks Lindsey.

5 Acts of Nature That Rearranged the Face of the Planet - [Cracked]

20 Craziest Job Interview Questions – [Yahoo]

8 Prehistoric Creatures From Your Nightmares – [Mental Floss]

15 Badass Recipients Of The Dickin Medal – [BuzzFeed]

MySpace Sold To Specific Media (suckers), Timberlake To Be Part Owner – [All Things Digital]

Closing another chapter on one of the Internet’s most iconic properties, Myspace has been sold to to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million. The price is well below the $100 million that News Corp. had been hoping for and a chasm away from Myspace’s one-time billion valuation. The deal includes a halfing of Myspace’s staff of 400, as well as other cost cuts. It’s likely Jones and other top staff will remain only for an interim period.

Related: Doing The Math On News Corp.’s Disastrous MySpace Years – [ARS Technica]

So what’s the real damage to News Corp. from this botched online venture? Just subtracting the sale price from the original price tag and calling it a $545 million short-sale doesn’t do it justice, because then you’re ignoring the puts and takes of running the darn business. In fact, the whole process of figuring out the numbers is tricky because News Corp. and MySpace never talked about them. That’s hardly unusual, as we still don’t really know what kind of business YouTube pulls in for Google, for example, but it’s annoying when you’re trying to figure things out. So there’s some guesswork involved.

Theory Suggests Reason For Why Fingers Get Pruney When Wet – [Nature]

The wrinkles that develop on wet fingers could be an adaptation to give us better grip in slippery conditions, the latest theory suggests.

The hypothesis, from Mark Changizi, an evolutionary neurobiologist at 2AI Labs in Boise, Idaho, and his colleagues goes against the common belief that fingers turn prune-like simply because they absorb water. Changizi thinks that the wrinkles act like rain treads on tyres. They create channels that allow water to drain away as we press our fingertips on to wet surfaces. This allows the fingers to make greater contact with a wet surface, giving them a better grip.

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Haha this is so dumb… and amazing.

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Say what you will about the National Enquirer, but they really know how to break an affair in the most ironic way possible.

The king of stings was secretly filmed on a date with 30-year-old Kristyn Caddell, a TV reporter more than 20 years his junior, in an “undercover sting operation arranged by the National Enquirer.” From The Daily Mail:

Hansen, 51, has allegedly been having an affair with Kristyn Caddell, a 30-year-old Florida journalist, for the last four months.

Last weekend he was recorded taking Miss Caddell on a romantic dinner at the exclusive Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manalapan, before spending the night at her Palm Beach apartment.

Secret cameras filmed the couple as they arrived at the hotel for dinner and then drove back to her apartment – where the pair left, carrying luggage, at 8am the following day.

Hansen lives in Connecticut with his wife Mary, 53, but he has been spending more and more time in South Florida investigating the disappearance of James ‘Jimmy T’ Trindade – and allegedly sleeping with Miss Caddell.

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A seven-person team created World of Fourcraft during a weekend hackathon at New York’s General Assembly , using Foursquare check-ins as pieces in the battle for nerd supremacy.

From Mashable:

“World of Fourcraft” uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City’s five boroughs. Checking into a neighborhood on Foursquare is the online game’s equivalent to placing plastic man on a country in the board game. An algorithm decides who owns each neighborhood using the number of people who have checked into it on each team. There are currently about 100 players.

If you’re worried that playing this might make you look like a big ol’ nerd, don’t worry, it was designed that way.

“There are no prizes. There are no celebrations. The only reward is the feeling of pride you normally only get from being re-tweeted,” explain the rules on the site.

Game on.

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