At this Saturday's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, brilliant teenager Eesha Khare from Saratoga, CA, won $50,000 for inventing a supercapacitor that could one day charge your phone battery in 20 to 30 seconds. My phone is always dying in important situations (Angry Birds), so I AM READY.
    
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KrankotaHuh!
Now you know what to do when utter tragedy strikes.
If your burger is falling apart, turn it upside down. The top bun is usually bigger and can support the ingredients better.
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Make sure both the plate and the bowl are microwave-safe, and that the plate fits snugly over the bowl.
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Motion to put a rest to this whole princess obsession once and for all.
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Get ready for a story that is just too darn cute.
After learning that Elizabeth "Mimi" Haist was homeless, Zach Galifianakis became even cooler than he already was by getting her an apartment and paying her rent. Not only that but he takes her out for dinners and brings her to movie premieres as his date. +1,000 for Zach.
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From The Daily News:
The generous star struck up such a close bond with the 87-year-old laundry worker that he decided to get her a cozy apartment and pay her rent when he found out she was homeless two years ago.
Haist told the Daily News she will be Galifianakis's date for the Monday premiere of the new "Hangover" film in Los Angeles.
"I'm looking forward to it, I like the excitement of it," said Haist, who's gone to premieres with Galifianakis before.
"If he's in town, he takes me. Otherwise he lets me take a friend. I dress up nice and a friend helps me with my makeup. It's fun, not something I've ever dreamed I'd experience. The limo takes me home afterwards," said Haist.
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Sabeen Mahmud (above, in blue), who says she fell in love with technology the first time she ever saw a Mac, just organized Pakistan’s first ever Hackathon last month, aimed specifically at finding ways to use technology to fix or at least alleviate Pakistan’s political problems. According to a piece by Wired, the gathering was pretty amazing for everyone involved.
Mahmud runs a small technology firm, but hosted the gathering of forty (whittled down from 120 applications) in her café The Second Floor, which she founded because she felt Karachi, the most populous city in Pakistan, needed “a space where people could gather around shared interests, an interdisciplinary space for collaboration and brainstorming.” And even though she’d done no research and was living with family at the time, Mahmud felt that she was the woman for the job. From Wired’s account of the hackathon itself, she still is.
Hackathons are generally known as competitions, where coders get together in teams to present a finished, useful program coded entirely within the time constraints of the event. But a competitive environment wasn’t really what Mahmud had in mind, so the participants spent their time collaboratively coming up with nine specific issues currently unaddressed or underaddressed by the Pakistani government that could be solved or alleviated by a creative technological solution, eventually churning out “an official document checklist to improve citizen and government communications, a government office locator, a map of hospital occupancy and facilities.”
Even the government official who came to observe was glad to be there. Mahmud underscored the rarity of that: “It’s a bit of a role reversal, they are now keen to see what citizens are doing in the tech sphere, and something like this had never been done before.” She knows that new technology isn’t a panacea for everybody’s problems. For example, she dislikes how social media can make it easy to feel like an activist with minimal commitment: “The democratization of technology also provides a platform for the super-efficient perpetuation of mediocrity.” Maintaining a difference between creating an easier way for citizens to communicate with their government and changing your profile picture on Facebook is an understandable position for a person who’s received death threats and frightening phone calls for protesting a government ban. But she also thinks that events like the hackathon give “people authority to become a part of the system, take ownership and bring change, instead of just bad mouthing the government,” in effect, it helps them become better activists.
You can read the whole story of Mahmud and her hackathon at Wired.
KrankotaGo home, Russia. You're drunk.
Whoever is in charge of handing out driver’s licenses in Russia is long overdue for a performance review.
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KrankotaYES.
Last time we checked in on the art of Billy the Butcher, he was drawing real-life despots as comic book supervillains and mashing up Marvel comics superheroes with stills from their film adaptations. Now he’s created “The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends” to re-cast seven ’80s music icons as comic book superheroes.
Ian Curtis or Johnny Rotten are as iconic to me as Superman or Batman. Real people or imaginary characters, the incorruptible ideals of perfect superheroes or the human flaws and desires sometimes so desperately depicted in song lyrics – all of those influences affect us to the point of defining our character and personality, career paths and life choices. The references we are exposed and specifically the ones we choose to absorb make us who we are. Who are your heroes? [Butcher Billy]
My heroes? Nobody wants to see my drawings of Norman Borlaug and Irena Sendler as Captain Planet and Power Girl. As for Billy, he drew superhero versions of Morrissey, Ian Curtis, Siouxsie, Mark Motherbaugh of DEVO, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), Billy Idol, and Robert Smith of The Cure. A few of our favorite New Wave Super Friends are below. More pictures are available at Behance, and prints are for sale at Society6.
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KrankotaThe Reddit comment thread is absolutely comedy gold. http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1eih1l/so_this_is_my_schools_prom_tshirt/
I didn’t even realize it was prom season because — much like Don Draper in Room 503 — I don’t let the high school girls I buy beer for talk about their personal lives, but just a bit ago a presumably teenage Redditor shared the above image (full below) adding, “So this is my school’s prom t-shirt…”
The Redditor in question hasn’t revealed where he attends high school, but he has answered several questions in the thread, and I have to say my well-honed FAKE detector isn’t sniffing bullsh*t yet. So I choose to believe this is an actual shirt made by an actual prom committee at an actual high school in the US of A.
Are there plenty of questions to be answered? Of course. The best theory thus far is that it made it this far because faculty members keep waiting for someone else to admit they get the reference. The important thing is that high school prom promotional tanktops parodying popular porn websites is what I want to be writing about on a Friday.
Wow. This person suddenly feels better about her prom:
Via Reddit
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KrankotaThis particular meme makes me laugh every. single. time.
The “I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” meme is applied to pictures of animals doing tasks they shouldn’t be able to do. Typically, it’s an anthropomorphized dog, which makes these adorably silly pictures perfect for people who like the Dog Fort meme or UPROXX’s own Dog Fort webcomic.
The meme started on February 27th, 2011, when The Frogman (née Ben Grelle) posted a picture of a dog doing wedding photography with the caption, “I have no idea what I’m doing.” Since then, that picture and many other variations with a similar catchphrase have gone viral, most notably at Reddit.
Our 30 favorite “I have no idea what I’m doing” pictures and GIFs are collected here. All pictures courtesy of Know Your Meme unless otherwise stated. (Banner via.)
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KrankotaSOON.
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B Clan figured out what it would look like if all the sidekicks in the DC universe were starting their first day of preschool at the same time, i.e., adorable.
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KrankotaHA!
The brain is a weird place. Three days a week, Owlturd draws the funny, bizarre musings inside his head.
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I am not the greatest parent in the world. In fact, I wrote an entire book coming out today that indisputably proves that statement. I have been arrested. I have yelled at my children. I have experimented with odd forms of corporal punishment. And I have conspired with my children to commit petty misdemeanors. All of that is bad. But I can comfort myself with knowing that, despite my many shortcomings, I am NOT the worst parent on Earth. Far from it.
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KrankotaThis whole thing is an amazing piece of work. Worth watching the whole episode that's right up top.
It's happening right now. It's happening. Click it. The owners of Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique and Bistro (0_____o), husband and wife team Samy and Amy Bouzaglo, have been getting some bad press in the wake of a disastrous episode of Kitchen Nightmares. The Bouzaglos were so defensive and ragey and impossible to work with that Gordon Ramsay quit and walked out on them before finishing the episode—for the first time in the show's 82-episode run. The couple has now taken to Facebook to defend their honor and...I suspect it's not quite the blaze-of-glory fuck you they'd hoped.
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KrankotaIf they made a Runaways movie, I might hyperventilate upon seeing the trailer. FAIR WARNING.
If you’ve been seeing a lot of news stories lately where Robert Downey, Jr. casually says something to the effect of “I’m not going to be playing Iron Man forever” or “yeah, I’d be interested in seeing who else could be Tony Stark,” it might be informative for you to remember that his contract actually is up to be renegotiated in this post Iron Man 3 era. These seemingly casual remarks are actually the first salvos in the epic game of moneyball that’s about to be played between Downey and Marvel Entertainment over what he’ll be paid to appear in The Avengers 2 and possibly The Avengers 3.
This means that some news outlets are pulling out all their unnamed sources to talk some straight insider talk about the contract negotiations between Downey, all of his Avengers co-stars, and Marvel. So you should take this with a grain of salt, but one of those news outlets is claiming that Marvel is mulling over script ideas for some pretty exciting secondary characters.
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
Marvel has a writing program it uses as a concept generator and has scripts for Blade and Ms. Marvel features, for example. Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, Black Panther and The Runaways are other projects on the horizon. The company slowly has been reacquiring licenses to characters it lost during the 1990s, snapping up Blade, Ghost Rider, Power Man and Daredevil in the past year alone.
I’m going to go ahead and assume that Marvel’s program is a group of writers and not, say, a computer that poops out movie scripts like some kind of cross between Alex Kurzman, Roberto Orci, and the Supreme Intelligence. A Doctor Strange project has long been rumored, but Ms. Marvel (who goes by Captain, these days) is something of a surprise, though a welcome one. An Iron Fist movie would be bereft without the inclusion of Power Man, better known as Luke Cage. And a Runaways film, featuring Marvel’s team of renegade, grown up hating teen superheroes, that tied into the larger Avengers universe as set up in the movies could be downright fascinating to see. In any case: none of this means that these films are getting made, just perhaps that Marvel is considering it.
And if you’re still worried about Robert Downey, Jr., I wouldn’t. It’s still a fact that the least successful Iron Man movie grossed more than any Marvel movie without Iron Man in it. When the dust settles at the end of Down and Marvel’s game, he’ll be wearing the suit.
(via The Hollywood Reporter.)
KrankotaHEAD...BREAKING...
Here’s a free idea for you Hollywood: put Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Jeremy Irons, and Charles Dance in the same room together, have them shoot the sh*t for awhile, record what they’re saying, and turn it into a TV show, called something obvious, yet classy like Old British Men Shooting the Sh*t for Awhile. I’d watch that. Or if that sounds overly complicated, just show this GIF of Dance, who plays Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones, dancing in a cheetah print shirt and hooker boots from Ali G Indahouse on repeat for an hour. Looking at you, NBC.
Footage of Dance’s namesake has been online for awhile now, but thanks to a BuzzFeed post and Tywin’s non-revelations from Sunday’s episode, Game of Thrones fans have been having some fun with the clip. Not as much fun as Tywin with his chums when he was but a boy (c’mon, man, it’s OK), but fun nonetheless.
I’m still terrified of him.
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KrankotaBest headline ever, or THE BESTEST?
An Oklahoma man is demanding an apology and the termination of a Tractor Supply Company employee after he received a "threatening dildo" in the mail following a confrontation at a local Tractor Supply store last year.
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KrankotaThis is totally hilarious.
KrankotaOTTER!
KrankotaHeck of a story. "The Stacks" is Deadspin's subsite where they reprint really excellent pieces of sportswriting/long form articles that are tangentially about sports. Pretty much everything is interesting: http://thestacks.deadspin.com/
Krankota"Grierson and Leitch" is the Deadspin weekly movie review column. Always worth reading.
1. I'm confused at to what Baz Luhrmann, the crazy over-the-top director of Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet, would possibly want with The Great Gatsby. Well, I see why he might like it as a theoretical challenge: What ambitious filmmaker (and Luhrmann is nothing if not ambitious) wouldn't want to try to solve the Gatsby mystery? (Every Gatsby movie has been terrible.) And I see why he'd want to recreate the Roaring Twenties through set design and CGI: The costumes alone could keep him occupied for months. But I have no idea why he'd want to do Gatsby. He seems to lack even a passing understanding of what the book is about. He has zero interest in class struggle, or the doom of the American Dream, or the cruel thoughtlessness of the privileged. Luhrmann has said in an interview that he was drawn to Gatsby because, in part, he loves stories about ill-fated lovers. The Great Gatsby is many things, but one thing it sure as hell isn't about is ill-fated lovers.
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KrankotaYAY!
Video: The World’s End – exclusive trailer
Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and now The World’s End the much touted final “chapter” of the Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg collab, swings into American theaters this August (Britons get it in July), and I think I might be looking forward to this more than Star Trek, Mr. Pegg.
(via Deadline.)
KrankotaSir Charles, being awesome as usual.
Chuck is the man.
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This person is a goddamn hero for the everyman.
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Originally published in the October 1982 issue of Inside Sports.
