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Childhood Ruined: Puppeteer For Sesame Street’s Elmo Accused of Affair With Teen
This morning in “Things That Are Terrible” news, The New York Post is reporting that Kevin Clash — the puppeteer who brought beloved muppet Elmo to life for decades — has taken a leave of absence from...
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YouTube to Drop at Least 60% of Original Programming Partners
When YouTube decided to support original content channels, they pretty much just threw $100 million at a bunch of different creators in order to give the entire system a boost. Now that almost a year...
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Hubble Spots New Red Galaxy, Perfect Example of Cosmic Middle Age
This is NGC 5010, a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo and the latest to be discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. While the red and yellow colors of NGC 5010 make it look vibrant and...
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Massachusetts Commuters Can Now Use Their Smartphones to Ride the Rails
One of the problems faced when trying to improve public transit is the fact that so many still cling to the vestiges of the past. Thankfully, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has just...
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Facing New, and Somewhat Vague, Fraud Allegations
As if his new life in a Swedish prison for allegedly hacking the tax records of Swedish company Logica weren’t bad enough, The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (“anakata” to his pirate...
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Not Your Imagination: Humanity Getting Progressively Dumber and Crazier
When the news of the day consists of things like Elmo’s underage sex scandal, it’s easy to think sometimes that the world and everyone in it is just getting more awful by the minute. According to a...
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Geekolinks: 11/12
Los Angeles adopts Meatless Monday (The Week) The Nobel winners who foiled Hitler (Mental Floss) Stitch yourself a merry little meme (GeekSugar) Russia blacklists Wikipedia parody site (The Daily Dot)...
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Why Are Hundreds Of Deer Throwing Themselves Off Of An Idaho Bridge?
In sad but perhaps predictable news, hundreds of deer have leapt to their deaths from an Idaho bridge in recent years. The rash of suicides has left Idaho Fish and Gameofficials baffled as to why the...
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This Working Camera Is Made Of LEGO, Cardboard, Duct Tape and (We Assume)...
This is a full, working reproduction of a vintage Autochrome Lumière camera, made of nothing but LEGO pieces, cardboard, and duct tape, supposedly. We would be fools to believe there is not also some...
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Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Wait More Than Two Seconds For a Video to Load
Inigo Montoya once said “I hate waiting,” but he never had to deal with a less than lightning fast Internet connection. Or any Internet connection. He is fictional, and there were no computers in The...
View ArticleRed Bull Releases Ridiculous Rube-Goldberg-esque Kluge
Red Bull did another sports thing! This is The Athlete Machine, a collection of Rube Goldberg devices connected by a series of impressive feats of derring-do performed by what we assume are well known...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 PC Gamers Surprised to Find Mass Effect 2 Instead
Today is the day. A vast number of gamers will be excitedly mashing buttons on controllers thanks to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 hitting shelves. Many keyboards may be suspiciously silent, however,...
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Old Dogs, Old Tricks: David Petraeus Used a Tactic Known for Years to Hide...
If you’re trying to hide an extramarital affair, and you’re the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, it’s probably a good idea to use a method that hasn’t been publicly known for years....
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Louis C.K. Continues to Buck Tradition, Will Offer New HBO Special as...
Of all the comedians out there to which folks are currently paying attention, Louis C.K. is probably the one being the most innovative. Amusingly, this has nothing to do with his ability to tell a...
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Labor Dispute Could Finally Bankrupt Hostess, Wipe Out World Twinkie Supply
A labor dispute between management and union bakers at financially troubled American snack cake icon Hostess could do what decades of age, trampling by herds of elephants, and nuclear holocaust could...
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Oxford Dictionaries Names GIF 2012 Word of the Year, Celebration GIFs Abound
It’s time to celebrate, Internet denizens. We don’t need anyone to legitimize our hobbies, but it’s nice when the more traditional establishments make note of our various and sundry online endeavors....
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Moving On Up: Lifelike Spontaneous Motion Seen In Lab Created Gel
Brandeis University researchers have created a gel from organic components that, despite being lifeless, seems to move of its own volition. While the movements are too small to be seen with the naked...
View ArticleWatch Adorable Dogs Explain Chemical Bonds, Be Almost Too Cute
Science is great. Dogs are great. Dogs teaching science is amazing. Here are two dogs demonstrating how different types of chemical bonds work, or something. It’s really hard to pay attention to what...
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Seems Legit: Man Arrested in U.K. for Posting Picture of Burning Poppy
The United Kingdom has some odd rules when it comes to what’s considered offensive. Libel laws and the like in the U.K. tend to receive a lot of flak from the Internet, and perhaps there’s a perfectly...
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Eric Idle Declares Today “Dick Day,” Celebrates by Releasing Play Online
Eric Idle has declared it “Dick Day,” and so “Dick Day” it must be. The Monty Python alum has been working with a group of British comedy legends and also Russell Brand on a project called What About...
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