August, 2011

6 Animals That Kill Nature’s Scariest Creatures For Fun – [Cracked]

’25 Frightening Photos Of Hurricane Irene’s Destruction – [BuzzFeed]

MTV 2011 Video Music Awards Wrap Up Because I Didn’t Watch It – [The Daily What]

When @Irene Met Hurricane Irene – [WSJ]

When Hurricane Irene started moving up the eastern seaboard, Irene Tien, a 28-year-old New Yorker, provided a punch line for her coworkers.

“I’m very, very calm and pretty relaxed and laid-back—pretty much the opposite of a hurricane,” says Ms. Tien. “I guess that’s funny.”

It became less funny when people started mistaking Ms. Tien for the hurricane on Twitter. On the social-messaging service where people post 140-character messages that anyone can read, Ms. Tien has since 2006 had the handle “Irene.”

How Time Warner Profits From Anonymous Protests – [NY Times]

When members appear in public to protest censorship and what they view as corruption, they don a plastic mask of Guy Fawkes, the 17th-century Englishman who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

Stark white, with blushed pink cheeks, a wide grin and a thin black mustache and goatee, the mask resonates with the hackers because it was worn by a rogue anarchist challenging an authoritarian government in “V for Vendetta,” the movie produced in 2006 by Warner Brothers.

What few people seem to know, though, is that Time Warner, one of the largest media companies in the world and parent of Warner Brothers, owns the rights to the image and is paid a licensing fee with the sale of each mask.

After The Taking Of Tripoli (Photos) – [In Focus]

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Freddie Wong and glam metal band Steel Panther pay homage to Milton Bradley’s classic commercial.

Freddie Wong

From The Old Guard’s Facebook page:

A lone Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), walks his tour in humble reverence during Hurricane Irene in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Aug 27. Members of The Old Guard have guarded the Tomb every second, of every day regardless of weather or holidays since April 6, 1948.

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Swiss artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli makes common objects or situations more appealing to the OCD crowd by arranging the elements in a more organized manner. The photos will be part of his new book, The Art of Clean Up, due out next month.

See more photos here.

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By James “heartjack” Mitchell for Tee Fury (available today only).

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Never forget.

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In the last four years, roughly 43,000 people have been killed in Mexico in drug-related killings. Some Wall Street Journal reporters went to three of Mexico’s most violent cities to track down the 25 murders that occurred in those cities over a 24 hour period, an ordinary day of death in our neighbor to the south.

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Toothpaste for Dinner

Eric Fisher reporting from Virginia Beach, which is currently being hit with high winds and heavy rains along with a 100% chance of this guy’s junk.

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Good luck east coasters.

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