The Daily Mann

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thedailywhat:

Lunchtime Links:

Today on The Daily What Geek: An MIT grad student has invented a real-life Mario Kart

Elsewhere on the Internets:

• Crazy: True Blood season 5, as evidenced by a new trailer
• Over: Ron Paul’s campaign for the GOP nomination… sort of
• Scrambling: JPMorgan, after a $2 billion loss on a risky bet
• Fined: 117 Fort Lee, NJ, residents, under a new law that prohibits texting and walking
• Rebutted: The Obama camp’s new campaign targeting Romney on the economy, by the GOP
• Lectured: The women of Barnard, by Obama, at their commencement today
• Screwed: People on the kidney transplant list, since many Americans are now too fat to donate
• Recognized: Same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, by the state of Rhode Island

Lunchtime Leisure: Live Forever!
Lunchtime List: The 7 Most Awkward Mark Zuckerberg Moments

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Okay there are a couple of interesting things about this post but you know the real reason why I’m sharing it- Grill Master Corgi! Part BBQ chef, part DJ. Available for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

thefluffingtonpost:

Kitten Housekeeping Startup Acquired by Tidy Cats

Entrepreneurial kittens Smoky and Freya have been cleaning homes in Washington State since 2009. But their business name — The Tidy Cats — has always been a point of contention.

Rather than send a cease and desist, Purina cat litter brand Tidy Cats reached out to the kittens in early February. After nearly three months of negotiation, the cleaning startup was acquired for an undisclosed amount.

The duo will continue their cleaning work as Purina employees, and be folded into the Tidy Cats brand as occasional spokeskittens.

Via kcxd.

thedailywhat:

Arrested Development Lego Set of the Day: Just when you thought the Arrested Development news couldn’t get any better, Lego builder Matt DeLanoy has created a Lego playset (complete with minifigs!) based on the recently-resurrected sitcom.

Structures include the Bluth home, the Bluth Company stair car, and the banana stand (money presumably not included).

The stair car is currently up for voting on Lego’s crowdsourced idea site, Cuusoo, and could be turned into an official Lego set if it gathers enough votes and meet the approval of Lego’s design jury.

Meanwhile, it’s probably safe to say that the Lego version of the Bluth house is better-constructed than the real thing.

[collider.]

This proves you’re never too old to play with toys.

trextrying:

T-Rex Trying to Fit In… (at the HMNS)

#TRexTrying

thefluffingtonpost:

U.S. Military Testing Hover Dogs

According to a special report in The Atlantic, a DARPA-funded research project is currently testing hover dogs as a potential means of transportation over rocky terrain.  The research takes advantage of what is called the Zero-G Growl Distortion Field, which allows dogs to hover after being trained to bark at their own anatomical resonance.

“Once a dog achieves resonance match, its fur will oscillate at such a high speed that the air around the dog’s body will bend — then BINGO, hover dog,” researcher Hans Applethorpe explained to The Atlantic. 

If the project makes it out of the lab, dogs will likely be used for fetching things in the field.

Via RingoCalamity.

thefluffingtonpost:

PHOTO OP: Green and Blue

Via Deathraderx.

thedailywhat:

RIP: Maurice Sendak, at 83: Maurice Sendak, the beloved author and illustrator of Where The Wild Things Are, has died after complications from a recent stroke. He was 83.

Sendak won nearly every major book award, including the Caldecott Medal,considered the Pulitzer Prize of children’s book illustration. He had lived with his partner, Eugene Glynn, for 50 years before Glynn’s death in 2007.

Watch an excerpt from the documentary Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak here.

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A sad day indeed

cracked:

popculturebrain:

laughterkey:

monday-friday:

Kids, back in 2012, your aunt Robin wanted to do something more with her life. So she took her love of guns to an organization called S.H.I.E.L.D and fought alongside the Avengers.

Now, your Uncle Barney and I took it pretty hard; she was getting to spend a lot of time with another billionaire playboy, this guy named Tony Stark. Your Uncle Barney almost went crazy when he found out the guy had a metal suit.

“It shoots fireballs, Ted! He looks like a freakin’ storm trooper!”

Then your uncle Barney decided to fight back.

And Lilly showed up and was like, “I’m in a Joss Whedon thing too.”

But anyway, I met your mother through a mutual friend.

thedailywhat:

Street Art of the Day: Max Zorn, a self-taught Dutch street artist, uses only translucent packing tape and a mere scalpel to create intricately layered portraits on Plexiglas, which he then hangs on public street lights — you know, for best viewing.

To promote his street art, Zorn has launched a project called Let’s Stick Together,which lets fans sign up to receive their own pieces of tape art, provided they promise to post them publicly.

His gallery can be found here.

[laughingsquid]

This is just insane.