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Cute puppies and funny doggies: I Has a Hotdog has 'em all!

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Bet you have no idea what those long legs and neck on a giraffe are really for.

Watch this short film to find out, AFTER THE JUMP...

For talented artists, the sky is the limit. For French artist Thomas Lamadieu (AKA Roots Art), the sky is a canvas. Literally! He turns the skies in photographs of buildings around town into an artboard for whimsical doodles. The results are fantastic: Link

View more at Lamadieu's website: Link

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The children's literature market has come a long way since (the ever wonderful and important) Pat the Bunny. These days, kid's tales tackle topics from adoption to egg donation — and they do it in giant books with adorable, full-color illustrations. Basically, if you're looking for something to explain to your daughter that she was adopted by three dads who live in a New York City loft and all love her very much (no matter which one is her biological father!) — there's a book for that.

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TV personality and interior designer Nate Berkus and former Rachel Zoe assistant Jeremiah Brent are engaged, Us magazine reports:

The pair, who have been dating for 8 1/2 months, made it official atop Machu Picchu in Peru on Monday, April 8 -- and are excited for the next chapter of their lives together.

TV personality and interior designer Berkus, 41, was the one to pop the question to Brent during their trip to Peru, Berkus' rep confirms to Us. Brent was completely surprised -- the couple was originally traveling as part of a shopping trip with One Kings Lane for a designer sale project Berkus is working on for the site.

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To say that the game Guacamelee! contains a few references would be a massive understatement — The game is absolutely brimming with them.

While playing the game for review (which should be coming soon) I kept track of whatever hat-tips, homages, and internet memes that I could find in Guacamelee!. Most of them should be pretty obvious. A few of them may very well be paranoia on my part.

Fair warning: Contains joke spoilers.

Though she's a photographer by trade, Eva Senín Pernas is rapidly developing as a makeup artist. Her work is often inspired by popular movies, such as Alice in Wonderland, The Hunger Games, Mulan, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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who also ties damsels in distress to railroad tracks.

Melly, all he needs is a top hat. Awww.

The Tumblr, RuPaul Says, created four brilliant book titles that make use of Alyssa Edwards’ interesting choice of words. These covers are better than the fake memoirs the girls have had to come up with on RuPaul’s Drag Race.

1. Santino Rice Will  You Please Shut The Fuck Up?

2. Bitch Sityoassdown Andshutthehellup Bitch

3. Coco Was The One Stabbing Me Behind My Back

4. Girl Look How Orange You Fucking Look

A few more of these and we’d have a great Young Adult novel series about drag queens on our hands.

Mad Men is back. More importantly Jon Hamm’s scene-stealingly large bulge is back and who wouldn’t want to drink to that? The authors of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook, Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin, shared a few boozy recipes inspired by and featured in the award-winning series. So tonight, you can drink along to Don’s douchebaggery, Roger’s rambunctiousness and Peggy just plain ole bein’ a boss.

Check out some Mad Men-inspired booze below — all recipes yield one drink.

Old Fashioned

The first drink ordered on Mad Men, the sip that launched a thousand ships and Don’s drink of choice. He orders it in season 1, episode 1 — “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” — and Mr. Draper is seen getting all kinds of sloppy to it throughout the show.

1 orange slice
1 maraschino cherry
1 tsp sugar
Few drops of Angostura bitters
A splash of soda water to muddle ingredients
2½ oz rye or bourbon

1. In a mixing glass, muddle orange slice, cherry, sugar, bitters and a little soda water; push around and break up cherry and orange until flavor is released.

2. Add soda water so cherry is wet and sugar is melted. Add rye or bourbon and serve over rocks, if desired.

Martini

Silver fox Roger Sterling’s signature drink.

½ oz dry vermouth
2½ gin

1. Fill a martini glass with water and large ice cubes (enough to keep it cold while mixing drink).

2. Pour vermouth and gin into a mixing glass and stir.

3. Pour ice and water out of martini glass. Pour martini from mixing glass to martini glass.

“21″ Traditional Bloody Mary

The drinking day starts early at Sterling, Cooper et al, and Bloody Mary’s are a staple at the Draper breakfast table or early morning meetings. The roots of the drink lie at New York’s famed 21 Club where this recipe originates.

1½ oz vodka
2 oz tomato juice, chilled
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
Dash of celery sauce
Dash of Tabasco sauce
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Add ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and pour into a chilled cocktail glass.

Manhattan

Nothing says Manhattan like a Manhattan.

2 oz rye whiskey
½ oz sweet vermouth
2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
Maraschino cherry, for garnish

1. Pour whiskey, vermouth, and bitters into a mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well.

2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the cherry.

Vodka Gimlet

When Betty and Don were heading down the road to divorce, Betty took the wheel and drunkenly crashed into a handsome stranger. After finding out she’s pregnant with their third child, Betty stops into a bar and orders a gimlet. Continuing her reckless behavior, she then has anonymous sex in the bar’s office. Betty Draper, everyone — mother of the year.

2 oz vodka
1 oz Rose’s Lime Juice

1. Add vodka and Rose’s Lime Juice to a shaker filled with ice.

2. Shake and strain into martini glass or pour over ice.

Bacardi Rum Frappé

Remember that time Peggy Olson started smoking pot? While brainstorming ideas for Bacardi over the weekend, Peggy and the boys decided to get tropical with some frappés, aka daiquiris. Next thing you know, Peggy’s getting high and living the island life. Coincidence? Doubt it.

1 cup finely crushed ice
Juice of half a lime (½ oz)
1 tsp sugar
1½ oz light Bacardi rum

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until thoroughly frappéd.

Season six of Mad Men premieres tonight at 9pm/8 c.

A fun new Tumblr transforms Grindr profile pics into pleasant illustrations that are easier on the eye than some of the over-filtered selfies found on the hookup app. No word on who these portraits are modeled after but feel free to let us know if you find their likeness in real life. Here are a few highlights:

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Suzy Lee Weiss is a high school student with stellar academic records. A GPA of 4.5, an SAT score of 2120, and even an experience as a page for the US Senate. You'd think she'd be a shoo-in for colleges.

Well, she didn't get accepted to any of the Ivy League school that she applied to. But instead of being bitter in private like many of us would, Suzy Lee decided to pen a scathing op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, titled To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me:

Like me, millions of high-school seniors with sour grapes are asking themselves this week how they failed to get into the colleges of their dreams. It's simple: For years, they—we—were lied to.

Colleges tell you, "Just be yourself." That is great advice, as long as yourself has nine extracurriculars, six leadership positions, three varsity sports, killer SAT scores and two moms. Then by all means, be yourself! If you work at a local pizza shop and are the slowest person on the cross-country team, consider taking your business elsewhere.

What could I have done differently over the past years?

For starters, had I known two years ago what I know now, I would have gladly worn a headdress to school. Show me to any closet, and I would've happily come out of it. "Diversity!" I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. If it were up to me, I would've been any of the diversities: Navajo, Pacific Islander, anything. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, I salute you and your 1/32 Cherokee heritage.

I also probably should have started a fake charity. Providing veterinary services for homeless people's pets. Collecting donations for the underprivileged chimpanzees of the Congo. Raising awareness for Chapped-Lips-in-the-Winter Syndrome. Fun-runs, dance-a-thons, bake sales—as long as you're using someone else's misfortunes to try to propel yourself into the Ivy League, you're golden.

Having a tiger mom helps, too. As the youngest of four daughters, I noticed long ago that my parents gave up on parenting me. It has been great in certain ways: Instead of "Be home by 11," it's "Don't wake us up when you come through the door, we're trying to sleep." But my parents also left me with a dearth of hobbies that make admissions committees salivate. I've never sat down at a piano, never plucked a violin. Karate lasted about a week and the swim team didn't last past the first lap. Why couldn't Amy Chua have adopted me as one of her cubs?

The reaction was swift: many people accused her of being a whiny, petulant child (and perhaps a racist). Others applauded her describing the brutal college admissions procedure and calling a spade a spade.

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What do you think? Do you agree with Suzy Lee Weiss? Does the college admissions process unfairly penalize good students for being born with the (in this case) wrong skin color?

The covers would look a little like this.

The artist, DrFaustusAU, was featured on Kotaku before. This time, he's back with two covers: one for BioShock, and one for Silent Hill. Check em out, they come with accompanying rhymes (which are from the original DeviantArt pages):

She is just a small girl,
but has no fear of capture.

She has a Big Daddy
down with her in Rapture.

What is this place?
I cannot tell.

Is it just fog,
or is it hell?

Some Time to Kill in Silent Hill! [DrFaustusAU]

Under the Sea with Mister B! [DrFaustusAU]

Note: Can I borrow someone’s time machine and make this the Darkseid design that DC kicked off the “New 52″ and the new Justice League with? Kris Anka does it again.  – Chris A.

Jesse Pepe (aka J Pee) offers up a new addition to the "Homobros" rap genre.

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Monsters by Greg Abbott

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