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Really, at the end of the day, it's the little things. The tiny joys here and there that stick with you. A sunrise on your morning commute. Your favorite song coming on the radio. A quick hug from a loved one. A clip from a reporter harmlessly falling into the sea on live television. These are the little moments that make up our days, and we need to take time to enjoy every single one ...

There's been an awful lot of chatter about Disney's Boy Meets World reboot, Girl Meets World, which will follow the exploits of Cory and Topanga's daughter, Riley. Whether or not this show will also last long enough for fans to follow Riley through junior high, high school, college and into marriage remains to be seen, but the first clip is here, and there is something heartwarming about seeing Cory and Topanga back in action. And there's something meta about Cory and his daughter talking about each other's respective "worlds" ...

Moviegoers in Exeter, England had their best-laid plans foiled after an ice machine broke down at the Vue Cinema, flooding the theater—which happened to be showing Noah. So, instead of watching Darren Aronofsky's tale of judgement, mercy and rock monsters, they were forced to file out two-by-two and find some other, non-flooded theater until the ice machine got fixed. Hopefully, this doesn't signify a new trend of biblical films coming to contemporary life. One shudders to think of what might happen to Left Behind fans ...

Any enterprising filmmakers out there, take note: If you want people to care about your comedy, get Amy Poehler and Tina Fey to sign on. Universal just announced the America's favorite best friends will be playing sisters in The Nest, which will follow the pair dealing with the fact that their childhood home has been put up for sale. That sounds sort of melancholy, but if Poehler and Fey are on board, then it can't be all that sad. The two have been in movies together before, ranging from the ho-hum (Baby Mama) to the very good (Mean Girls) but if history tells us anything, it's that this movie's best bet is to find a way to get the two to host some sort of fictional awards show ...

Will it be Jimmy Fallon vs. Stephen Colbert in the new late night network ratings wars? According to several entertainment industry insiders, executives at CBS are hoping that Stephen Colbert will take over as the host of The Late Show when David Letterman retires next year. As Mashable notes, conveniently, Colbert’s Comedy Central contract ends in 2015—around the same time Letterman said that he would be going off the air for good during last week’s retirement announcement. Though the network is reportedly eyeing a few other possible replacements (including Neil Patrick Harris, Jon Stewart and Craig Ferguson), sources close to the network say that Colbert is currently the favorite ...

From this day forth, October 3 shall be known as “The Day of Cage.” The maker’s of the new Left Behind reboot, starring America’s national treasure Nicolas Cage, have announced that the fateful fall Friday afternoon will now forever be associated with the unleashing of the actor’s most anticipated performance to date: Rayford Steele in the tribulation epic based on the bestselling series of novels. Mark your calendars, “The Day of Cage” is upon us ...

As you may or may not have realized, April 8 is a great American holiday: Free Cone Day. In honor of the company’s anniversary, ice cream maker Ben and Jerry’s is going to try and set a new record by giving away more than 1 million free ice cream cones. Just go here to find the nearest store location to you, and head down to collect your free ice cream anywhere between noon and 8 pm. Because the only thing better than ice cream, is free ice cream ...

Don’t be alarmed, but an image recently sent back to earth from a NASA camera on the planet Mars appears to show a weird, artificial light, beaming upward. Obviously, this has sparked the interest of some amateur bloggers, UFO enthusiasts and fans of the space program who don’t see any natural explanation for the strange ray of light, that is, aside from some unknown type of Martian intelligent life. Unsurprisingly, NASA is yet to comment on the image. So technically, if you read between the lines, that means they’re not not saying that the beam of light isn’t some sort of ominous beacon from a species of hostile alien invaders preparing for their eminent attack on their neighbors living on planet earth ...

NASA is holding an online vote to see which Z-2 prototype non-flight spacesuit design will go into development. Your vote is extremely important, as our astronauts have a lot of important space work to do—like checking out weird beams of light on the surface of Mars ...

Why Doesn't America Read Anymore? screeched NPR's article headline, which was promptly shot onto Facebook and Twitter with the sort of apocalyptic hype so many web articles are these days. It was a little surprising, because NPR has typically kept above the fray—at their best, they have some of the most level-headed and balanced reporting out there. Which is maybe why they were able to get away with this prank, for a prank it was. If you actually clicked on the article, all it said was the following:

Congratulations, genuine readers, and happy April Fools' Day! We sometimes get the sense that some people are commenting on NPR stories that they haven't actually read. If you are reading this, please like this post and do not comment on it. Then let's see what people have to say about this "story."

The "article" did prove their point however, as reader after reader left comments bemoaning the state of America, defending their own reading habits or criticizing NPR's analysis (an analysis, of course, that NPR hadn't actually given.) "My brain's good and I encourage others to read," protested one commenter. "I read everyday, sometimes many times," said another. Some people gave a genuinely insightful take on what they perceived as being the problem at hand, although they were responding to an issue NPR wasn't actually addressing. Regardless, looks like a few people could have done with being a little more careful with the Internet's "mob mentality" ...

In case you missed last night’s Tonight Show, here is a video of Samuel L. Jackson reading a Boy Meets World-themed slam poem that will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the great performances of his career. TGIF forever ...

One of the greatest ongoing friendships in the celebrity world is the charming, adventurous, unfailingly sweet kinship struck by Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. The two became pals while playing onscreen foes during the X-Men movies, and have been charming the world ever since with their ongoing exploits. Most recently, they've worked together on Broadway, performing acclaimed runs of Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land. This summer, they'll be back in mutant action as Professor X and Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past. For now, they're taking a big bite out of the Big Apple, as Stewart's twitter feed has faithfully logged. Engage ...

Finally, a device that will dispense a delicious, freshly made (well sort of) cupcake in just a moment’s notice. According to Adweek, at the Cupcake ATM, which is located next to the Sprinkles Cupcakes bakery on New York’s Upper East Side (naturally), “cupcakes cost $4.25 each in flavors like red velvet, Cuban coffee, banana dark chocolate and cinnamon sugar. You can also get two special mini cupcakes designed for your dog for $5.” We’re not sure if it should be cause for concern that the doggy cupcakes cost more than the ones meant for human consumption ...

Good news Greendale Community College devotees: It looks like a sixth season of Community is now increasingly likely, and to series creator Dan Harmon says that a movie could also be in the works. According to a report in TV Guide, even if NBC passes on a new season of the show—which has struggled with ratings at times—producers could find another destination (possibly Hulu) for the surreal sitcom. After that, Harmon has his eyes on the big screen. He told HitFlix, "If the movie has to be made out of clay and duct tape in my basement, then that’s how the movie will be made, because there has to be closure." But, as Vulture points out, considering that director Justin Lin (the man behind some of the Fast & Furious blockbusters), who has been behind the camera on a few episodes of the show, a Lin-helmed movie isn’t outside the realm of possibility ...

World Vision has formally reversed its two-day-old decision to drop a hiring ban on employees in same-sex marriages. In a statement, the company's president Richard Stearns said:

The board acknowledged they made a mistake and chose to revert to our longstanding conduct policy requiring sexual abstinence for all single employees and faithfulness within the Biblical covenant of marriage between a man and a woman ...In our board's effort to unite around the church's shared mission to serve the poor in the name of Christ, we failed to be consistent with World Vision U.S.'s commitment to the traditional understanding of Biblical marriage and our own Statement of Faith, which says, "We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God." And we also failed to seek enough counsel from our own Christian partners. As a result, we made a change to our conduct policy that was not consistent with our Statement of Faith and our commitment to the sanctity of marriage.

The decision—which Stearns announced on Monday—has been the source of heated controversy ...

It's 2014. Things are different. People are posting selfies. Dogs are wearing America Eagle clothes. It's a different time, and a different time calls for a different wedding. Sure, you've got to have dresses and flowers and cakes and all that—but you've also got to take into account the changing needs of the next generation, and what that generation needs is social media updates. And who are you going to trust to handle all that at your wedding? Your guests? Your bridal party? Your grandma? Get real. There's only one way to get the social media coverage your special day deserves, and that is with a social media concierge, right now available only at New York City's W Hotels, but surely soon to be everywhere.

They'll tweet. They'll Instagram. They'll Vine. They'll put your wedding into the digital spaces that matter to you, and they'll do it all with a special, custom hashtag that you can remember and cherish forever and ever. At three thousand dollars, sure, it might seem a little steep—but can you put a price on tweeting about your wedding? ...

As you doubtless heard, a selfie Ellen took at the Oscars with all the world's famous people became the world's most retweeted thing of all time shortly thereafter. Not a big deal, but it's what passes for news these days, so people paid attention. But now there is real news going on with it because the tweet appears to be missing. What happened? Nobody knows. Was it stolen? Did it break? Did one of global superstars in the selfie decide they didn't like the way they looked in the selfie, and politely ask Ellen to delete it? Is it with Arcade Fire's missing mask? Was there some sort of Avengers 2: Age of Ultron spoiler in there that we all somehow missed? So many questions. We will continue to bring you updates as this breaking story unfolds ...