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Special sneak preview of Red 2, starring old French dude's with light sabers!

Via Gizmodo

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How is a meme born?

Who cares when it produces shit this good?

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Thanks Banksy!

This is now my iPhone screensaver!

Sometimes we need direction.

Even Banksy, who is amazing, deserves to have the piss taken out of him on occasion.

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Bill O'Reilly Has Never Seen the Discovery Channel 

Bill O'Reilly, in an attempt to prove the existence of God went clutching for straws and used the presence of the tides as an unexplainable phenomenon made possible only by the Lord Himself. I'm pretty sure I learned about the tides from my very Christian parents when I was just about nine years old. When a reader reminded him that the moon is actually responsible for the tides, poor I'm-not-as-smart-as-a-nine-year-old Bill then asked where the moon came from, and used it as his broken-mop-turned crutch of an explanation of God's existence.  

Needless to say, it has not been a good day for Bill O'Reilly 

For the real truth behind the phenomenon of the moon, Bad Astronomy has our answers.

Daily What via Bad Astronomy

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It appears that an undocumented tribe has been spotted in the Brazilian jungle. Their perfectly rational response: "What the fuck is that thing in the air and should I shoot it with my bow and arrow?"

The Indians appear to be Panoan, a tribe native to eastern Peru and western Brazil, said Survival International research director Fiona Watson.

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Sperm is, legally speaking, a gift

MSNBC has posted an AP story. The story is funny. It's about sperm, so of course it's funny.

Phillips accuses Dr. Sharon Irons of a “calculated, profound personal betrayal” after their affair six years ago, saying she secretly kept semen after they had oral sex, then used it to get pregnant...

'She asserts that when plaintiff 'delivered' his sperm, it was a gift — an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a donor to a donee,' the decision said. “There was no agreement that the original deposit would be returned upon request.'

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Seriously, who has the balls to be this forward thinking? Who wouldn't just feel stupid for even believing it was a possibility, 10, 20 even 1,000 years from now?

Nokia? More interesting, the strecthable electronics necessary to pull something like this off just got one step closer fucking real.

NC State's own Dr. Yong Zhu, who has worked with a team of gurus to create "the first coils of silicon nanowire on a substrate that can be stretched to more than double their original length."

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Dude, WTF.

I hate snow.

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This is wonderful.

thedailywhat:

Paranoia-Themed Prank of the Day: In the latest installment of his unnerving “Paranoid” prank series, Jack Vale drives around randomly asking people if they have seen themselves.

[jackvale.]

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Death Ray! We need more death rays, too bad that this one was destroyed.

Watch the psychedelia, then watch some stuff burn, and then fast forward to the epilogue.

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Beautiful.

Above: “A protester kisses a police officer during a demonstration in Cairo January 28, 2011” (reuters via bb). Meanwhile, TDW’s #Egypt liveblogging is still going strong.

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"Sasquatch Birth Journal 2"

Yep, crowning starts at around the 2 min. mark. It's gross and complete with stringy umbilical cord.

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I'm not sure what Minecraft is, or why this dude has decided to build a 1:1 scale of the World Trade Centers in the game (including the lobby and all floors), but it is an achievement of some sort, right?

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Holy crap! Someone invented kinect in the 1970s?

Stuff gets real trippy around 1:27

From YouTube description:

"Pantomation was a very early tracking chromakey system from the 1970s. Originally intended for music scoring, the system was adapted to other styles of performance art. While crude by modern standards, the concept was decades ahead of its time; it can reasonably be considered an early forebear of systems like Microsoft's Project Natal."

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“His theme last night was W.T.F., winning the future,” Ms. Palin said. “I thought, O.K., that acronym, spot on. There were a lot of W.T.F. moments throughout that speech.”

Well, I have to say that Mrs. Palin sure is classy. Puns from politicians are always better than serious debate. Wait. Is she a politician, or is she, technically, just an entertainer? 

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Yep, drug smugglers are nothing if not creative. Getting marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border has proven tricky, but these guys must have given a round of high fives when, baked out of their mind, one of them said, "Dude, let's use a catapult."

If this kind of thing has to come to an end, we're fortunate that the National Guard troops who caught them in the act using a remote video surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station uploaded the footage.

It must have been awesome while it lasted.

Yes. Drugs will find a way, dude.

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Dude! People are really smart and stuff! The smarter-than-me/more-ambitious-than-me folks who put this together deserve applause. Go full screen to get the full 360 experience.

aculturedkid:

360° Interactive Video

MIND BLOWN.