Cleveland second baseman Jason Kipnis gives us a lovely rendition of 'Someone Like You' from the infield during the Indians' spring training game vs. the Diamondbacks. It's important for players to get that defensive routine down early during training camp.
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Guess you gotta do something to take the edge off being a teacher. And “painting with your tongue” is an ingenious way to hide a crippling paint fumes addiction.
It's about what you'd expect. Exciting score, high-profile interviews, dramatic cuts — and yes, killing Osama Bin Laden. Of course, Tom Hanks is the narrator.
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A campaign official confirms that Tom Hanks is indeed the narrator of the documentary, which is directed by Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim.
Tim Riggins got a haircut and channeled James Dean for a new photoshoot for GQ magazine. Thoughts?
Any one of these photos would make a great album cover for your Danish black metal band. A recent forensic anthropology study at Texas State University, using the remains of those who have donated their bodies to science, is turning up important new information on how vultures eat us when we die.
The skeletal remains of Patty Robinson are shown at Texas State University's “body farm,” officially the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in San Marcos, Texas. Robinson donated her body for research at the school. What they're finding at the research facility debunks some of what they and other experts believed about estimating time of death for a person whose remains are found outdoors and exposed to the environment.
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Kate Spradley, an assistant professor at Texas State University, looks over the skeletal remains of Patty Robinson. For more than five weeks, Robinson's body lay undisturbed in a secluded field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours.
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Experienced investigators would normally have interpreted the absence of flesh and the condition of the bones as evidence that the woman had been dead for six months, possibly even a year or more. This recent vulture study has turned that assumption on its head.
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"If you say someone did it and you say it was at least a year, could it have been two weeks instead?" said Michelle Hamilton, an assistant professor at the school's forensic anthropology research facility. "It has larger implications than what we thought initially."
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Nick Offerman has a twitter account. Though it's not verified yet, multiple castmates have confirmed that it's the real deal. Plus, Serena Williams has a pimple on her forehead, Fred Willard does “Who's On First,” and plenty of jokes about it being International Women's Day (duh).
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Their puppet program seems to be much more advanced than their nuclear program. Here are photos of a rather elaborate (and apparently violent) puppet show based on the life of 14th century Persian poet Hafez. Looking forward to Spike Jones' “Being Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
Puppets are used during a rehearsal for a performance based on the Iranian poet Hafez's life story at Ferdowsi Hall in central Tehran, March 6, 2012.
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Check out these awesomely professional dogs working hard. It's a ruff job, but someone's gotta do it!
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Sometimes you just have to sing a pop song about abortion. These artists really knew how to write songs that outraged middle America — and various other groups — over the years.
This series of twenty French photographic postcards depict the various occupations, ranging from academics to firefighters, photographer A. Bergertet imagined future women would pursue. Some of the costumes are a touch risque, indicating that the photographer's intent may have been humor. What do you think?
In honor of International Women's Day , here's an awesome parody of “Bad Romance” that deals with the history of the women's suffrage movement in the US.
Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage is a parody music video paying homage to Alice Paul and the generations of brave women who joined together in the fight to pass the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote in 1920.
For more information about this video, go to Soomo's "Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage" site here.
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First KISS, then gay marriage , and now Whedon? Archie is really hitting it out of the pop culture park these days.
Find out if Veronica gets staked this June.
The French game developer Quantic Dream who brought us Heavy Rain now presents “Kara”, a tech demo that, like all good science-fiction, features unintended consequences.
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As one of the TAL editors just pointed out, "Oh hey, it's the Bjork video."
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Quantic's new video bears a strong resemblance to the tech demo they featured for their PS3 exclusive title, Heavy Rain.
This 'actress,' never made it into the game, so it should be interesting to see just what Quantic Dream's new project is, and what elements of their latest tech demo do make it into the game that follows.
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Way to ruin science fiction, science! Turns out fictional man's hubris once again leads to fictional man's downfall.
Seriously, check out this mash-up featuring Sean Paul, Coldplay, Nicki Minaj, and Childish Gambino. It even has Macaulay Culkin. Macaulay freakin Caulkin!
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Opossums became a sad subject for all of us when the German cross-eyed opossum Heidi died last year, but little Ratatouille really rocks (despite the obvious lack of snow in the video).
It's the new New Testament. If Louis C.K. were to ever start a religion, these are the tenants his followers would live by.
Behold the wonderful “Bashful”! Named after the dwarf in Snow White, this prototype was created in 1983 alongside the Apple II computer series
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Headline of the piece: “Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians”.
Above is a transcript from Rush Limbaugh's radio show on October 14, 2011. An excerpt:
Lord's Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people." Now, again Lord's Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord's Resistance Army, what they're trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology." Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield.
It's pretty clear that Limbaugh knew very little about Kony during the airing of this show. However even at the end when he apparently gets some information to the contrary, he can't help but continue to hammer on the fact that LRA are Christians:
Is that right? The Lord's Resistance Army is being accused of really bad stuff? Child kidnapping, torture, murder, that kind of stuff? Well, we just found out about this today. We're gonna do, of course, our due diligence research on it. But nevertheless we got a hundred troops being sent over there to fight these guys -- and they claim to be Christians.
The transcript of the show is still available at his website. However, a keen redditor has provided the screencap above for those who do not want to give Limbaugh ad views.
You can also view the Stephen Colbert treatment of Limbaugh's statements here.
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It should be mentioned that Joseph Kony and the LRA are gaining widespread attention now, due to the Invisible Children social media campaign and the Kony 2012 video that has recently swept the web.
However, in mentioning this, it is also important to note that concerns about the organization running the awareness campaign have been raised.
If you're wondering what the photo above is all about, that's the Invisible Children filmmakers striking a rather worrisome pose.
For a brief outline of some of the criticisms leveled at Invisible Children, check out the Vice article linked below.
When it comes to an issue this complex and with as much history as this has behind it, it's probably a good idea to become as informed as possible before passing judgement on either side of the spectrum... as it's possible Rush may now agree.
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Pure talent, a fearless demeanor and the will to win…the elements needed to become an athletic champion. But while many athletes have possessed ability and eccentricity, few have displayed that deep need to succeed, that yearning for greatness.
