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Petsami has uploaded a cute video of a young fox stealing and playing with a man’s golf ball.

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As part of CEO Marissa Mayer’s strategy to expand the company’s social and mobile presence and attract younger users, Yahoo will purchase the popular blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.

After making a mere $84 million at the U.S. box office, Star Trek Into Darkness is considered by some to be a disappointment. Perhaps the problem is that it was a touch confusing. To help our readers better understand it, we've complied and answered these Frequently Asked Questions about the movie.

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Given the growing importance of American whiskies in the marketplace, Landor was asked to redesign the George Dickel line of whiskies – while remaining true to the roots of the brand. Landor developed a new Rye variant for the line and created more premium and distinct labels for the entire Dickel family.

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“I believe we [baby boomers] have given you a gift, a particular form of independence, because you do not owe the previous generation anything. Thanks to us, you owe it to the Chinese.”

The correct answer is: It's Brave's Merida. The more correct answer: It could be any of the white ones (so... almost all of them?) with a wavy — it's not even curly! Jesus! — red wig on. Ugh!

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“Picture a croissant dough that is fried and then flavored in three ways: filled, dusted with sugar, and glazed.”

image via Dominique Ansel Bakery

The Cronut is a donut-croissant hybrid invented by New York City pastry chef Dominique Ansel. These hybrids have flaky layers like a croissant but are shaped and filled like a donut. Cronuts are available now in several flavors at Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood (189 Spring Street) but get there early, people are lining up early to get a taste and they have been selling out each day. Paige Beaumont of Thrillist went to the bakery to taste test the cronut and says, “you can rest assured that the icing-topped, flakey, sweet, cream-filled treats definitely ‘back up the hype’ and are ‘holy sh*t good’.” Niko Triantafillou of Serious Eats New York also tried it and says it’s “a deep-fried dessert lover’s dream.”

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The comic actor met Los Angeles laundry woman Elizabeth 'Mimi' Haist almost 20 years ago. After learning she was homeless, he got her a one-bedroom apartment and began paying her rent.

Every Wednesday for a couple of weeks now, The Lonely Island has been premiering videos for cuts off its forthcoming record, The Wack Album. While it’s not Wednesday, it is YouTube’s Comedy Week, and so the group has just dropped a new clip a couple of days early.

This time around, Jorma, Akiva, and Andy take on heavy adult issues with “Diaper Money.” While “I Fucked My Aunt” and “Spring Break Anthem” extolled the virtues of incest and gay marriage, “Diaper Money” reps hard for solid family life, “wife pussy,” and purchasing cemetery plots in advance.

The Wack Album is out June 11. 

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Minard’s Map of World Migration (1862)

Charles Joseph Minard's map of World immigration (French), from 1862. Charles Joseph Minard's map of World immigration Date: 1862 Author: Charles Joseph Minard Dwnld: Full Size (18.1mb) Print Availability: See our Prints Page for more details pff This map isn't part of any series, but we have other thematic maps that you might want to check out. Beautiful and quite brilliant map of world migration by Charles Joseph Minard. If...

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Artemis is a multiplayer, multi-computer networked game for Windows computers, and now IOS devices too. Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the “main screen”, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (“bridge”) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle, doesn’t have a workstation, and tells everyone what to do. Artemis is a software game for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. It’s also an app for iPhones, iPads, and iPods, and is cross-compatible with the PC version.

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Ancient Arch, St Dunstan-in-the-East, London, England by franziphotos

Best press release ever? Best press release ever.

riverat1 writes "After being embarrassed when the Europeans did a better job forecasting Sandy than the National Weather Service Congress allocated $25 million ($23.7 after sequestration) in the Sandy relief bill for upgrades to forecasting and supercomputer resources. The NWS announced that their main forecasting computer will be upgraded from the current 213 TeraFlops to 2,600 TFlops by fiscal year 2015, over a twelve-fold increase. The upgrade is expected to increase the horizontal grid scale by a factor of 3 allowing more precise forecasting of local features of weather. The some of the allocated funds will also be used to hire some contract scientists to improve the forecast model physics and enhance the collection and assimilation of data."

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An oversight by the U.S. Congress two decades ago led to the inclusion of models in the H-1B class. A 2007 bill to put them in another category -- and let their numbers soar -- failed. Its sponsor: then-Representative Anthony Weiner of New York, who quit Congress in 2011 after engaging in lewd online behavior.

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Justice Department affidavit labels Fox News journalist as possible 'co-conspirator' Fox News A Fox News correspondent was accused in a Justice Department affidavit of being a possible criminal "co-conspirator" for his alleged role in publishing sensitive security information -- in a leak case that takes the highly unusual step of claiming a journalist ... Justice Department's scrutiny of Fox News reporter James Rosen in leak case ...Washington Post Obama Administration's Media Surveillance Unleashes Wave Of CondemnationHuffington Post Coulter And Hannity Tear Into Obama Admin. For Systematic Targeting Of ...Mediaite KUHF-FM -KpopStarz -Newsmax.com all 238 news articles »

The team of creatives at 1A4 Studio condensed the entire 1986 James Cameron directed sci-fi film Aliens into a 60 second animated speedrun. Previously we wrote about 1A4 Studio’s 60-second versions of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, The Matrix and Back to the Future.

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sciencehabit writes "Whooping cough, or pertussis, has exploded in the United States in recent years. A new study (abstract) confirms what scientists have suspected for some time: The return of the disease is caused by the introduction of new, safer vaccines 2 decades ago. Although they have far fewer side effects, the new shots don't offer long-lived protection the way older vaccines do."

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A hero that Gotham deserves has risen thanks to redditor chrismusaf and a photo he posted of his friend’s facial hair shaven in the shape of the Batman logo. Previously we wrote about another great attempt at a facial hair Batman logo.

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A Florida family says their 18-year-old daughter was charged with a felony and expelled from high school as a result of a consensual, same-sex relationship with another student.

Kaitlyn Hunt started dating a female classmate at the beginning of the school year when she was 17 and the girl she was about three years younger. According to an account posted to Facebook by Kaitlyn’s mother, in February, shortly after Kaitlyn turned 18, she was arrested on felony charges at the behest of her girlfriend’s parents. The specific crime was “sexual battery on a person 12-16 years old.”

Kaitlyn’s mother believes the charges were motivated by anti-gay animus:

They were out to destroy my daughter, they feel like my daughter “made” their daughter gay. They are bigoted, religious zeolites [sic] that see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter.

But Kaitlyn’s problems did not end there. Her girlfriends’s parents appealed to the school board and had her expelled from Sebastian River High School. Kaitlyn’s mom reports that the State Attorney, Brian Workman, has offered Kaitlyn a plea deal of “of two years house arrest and one year probation.” Kaitlyn has until next Friday to accept the plea deal or face a trial.

The family has started a petition calling on the state attorney to drop the charges against Kaitlyn.

Cumberbatch himself has recently piped up about the Cumber-"B"-word faction after having made light of their existence to other press outlets (including our own). He refuses to call them by their name and instead refers to them as the "Cumberwomen" or "Cumbergirls." "It's not even politeness," the 36-year-old actor told The Times of London. "I won't allow you to be my b----es. I think it sets feminism back so many notches. You are… Cumberpeople," he said.

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Look! There was a fan fiction article in today’s  Washington Express (a free daily I newspaper put out by the Washington Post in Washington DC)

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Article credit, Beth Marlowe (Express)

Art credit, Patrick Leger (For Express)

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I’m just sitting here chuckling at the illo.

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