You did a man’s job!
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Blade Runner As An 8-Bit Videogame Is The Best Thing You'll Watch Today
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Why It's OK To Be Upset About Someone You Didn't "Officially" Date
There was a spark… a little sumthin’ sumthin’… Something great was going to happen. And then BAM. Just like that, it was over like it never existed in the first place.
It seemed like you both liked each other.
There was a lot of flirting going on.
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Watch What Happens When Porky Pig Hammers His Finger
“Th-th-th-that’s all folks!”
This very short black-and-white cartoon, titled Porky's Breakdowns, was created in 1939 for the annual Warner Bros. Christmas party. The short remained unseen by the public until 1998, when it aired as part of the Warner Bros. 75th anniversary TV special.
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Stop What You're Doing Right Now And Look At This Sailor Moon Nail Kit
All your childhood dreams right here.
Someone is selling a rare, never-been-opened Sailor Moon nail care set. It comes with two nail colors, nail gems (!!!), a brush and a crescent-shaped buffer. All this can be yours for $64.95. Moon Prism Power, indeed.
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"Sex And The City's" 29 Most Ridiculously Outdated Fashion Moments
We need to have a conversation about rhinestone studded bandanas.
When Carrie suffered an unfortunate Paris Hilton-esque Juicy Couture phase.
Getty Images
Where would you wear Carrie's flared cargo capris to now?
HBO / Courtesy of Everett Collection
What would happen now if someone wore a rhinestone studded bandana?
Miranda, dressed like a Backstreet Boy.
Via hbo.com
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10 Common Words You May Be Mispronouncing
Language is always in flux, but you still don’t want to look like a fool. A FOOL!
How you may be pronouncing it: mis-CHEE-vee-ous.
How it's actually pronounced: MIS-chə-vous.
Despite the fact that many people drop an extra "i" in there, "mischievous" is three syllables, not four.
How you may be pronouncing it: Chi-POL-tay.
How it's actually pronounced: Chi-POAT-lay.
You would never do this, of course, because Chipotle burritos are the crux of your vernacular. But SOME people do it.
How you may be pronouncing it: OF-ten.
How it's actually pronounced: OFF-en.
The temptation lurks to add that extra "t," but historically, it's pronounced without it, just like the way we pronounce "soften."
How you may be pronouncing it: SHER-bert.
How it's actually pronounced: SHER- bet.
Remember, only Ernie says "sure, Bert."
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The Definitive Ranking Of Drunk Food From Worst To Best
An impartial and highly scientific undertaking.
Cereal
Minimal effort, minimal reward. Cereal is for the boozer who just wants to go to bed.
Rustlers
The WKD of post-pub snacks. You could say you were being ironic, but we all know the truth.
Via images2.mysupermarket.co.uk
Crisps
A stopgap, nothing more. Even with hummous, crisps aren't going to help your head tomorrow morning.
Toast
Plain buttered toast (never margarine) is to drunk food what Ant and Dec are to presenting. It's familiar and comforting, and will do a perfectly fine job.
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7 Things The U.K. Does That The U.S. Needs To Do
The USA is great and all, but we could use a few pointers from the U.K…
Based on this post.
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Toronto Man Looks For Weed On Twitter And Police Respond With "Awesome!"
Sunith Baheerathan shared with the world on Tuesday that he “needed a spliff or two” at his job in Canada and the local police department replied back “Awesome! Can we come too?”
Here is the original tweet captured on Twitter:
Twitter: @kmcz89 / Via Twitter: @kmcz89
After the police department shared Baheerathan's tweet he sent the following tweets captured by Canadian Press on Storify:
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11 GIFs Of Julia Child Tasting Things
In honor of the iconic chef’s birthday, here she is, doing what she loved best.
Boeuf bourguignon. "I've made quite a few beef stews lately."
Sauce for boeuf bourguignon. "Doesn't taste good now at all."
Bouillabaisse a la Marseillaise. "You don't want to fuss around with it afterwards, so be sure to taste it. It should be absolutely perfect at this point."
"Mm, that is, 'cause I already had tasted it before."
Mashed baked potatoes. "It's always a good idea to taste it because you want to be sure you've got enough salt and pepper in."
"That's good. Nothing like butter."
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London Taxi Ad Blasted For Showing Possible Rape Victim
The Data Cars promo postcard shows a soaking-wet, distressed woman.
200,000 of these promotional postcards were recently distributed by Data Cars, a London minicab company. (The back of the card has contact and app information).
They sparked an immediate backlash, according to The Drum and the Daily Mail, with angry comments left on the Data Cars Twitter feed and several complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority and Transport for London.
Some commenters pointed out that shadowing on the woman's arms resembled bruising, and that it could be construed that she had just suffered a rape.
Katie Russell from the charity, Rape Crisis, called the postcard:
"...a really unfortunate and misguided piece of advertising. The best case scenario, giving the company the benefit of the doubt, is that they're not aware of the associations that the image on this postcard conjures. The worst case scenario is that they've knowingly used scare-mongering, sexist and victim-blaming imagery and messaging in a cynical marketing ploy."
Data Cars manager Les Chapman defended it:
"The way we viewed the image, it is simply a girl who has gone out on a hot summer evening and the predicable British weather has opened the heavens and she got soaking wet. "This is something we see every year and this year we decided to place an advertising campaign with this in mind."
There is a precedent here that may be on critics' minds.
Below is a poster ad from 2010 via the London Mayor's Office that twisted a sexually-assaulted woman's cry for help into a snappy headline for London's Cabwise campaign.
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15 Reasons We Should All Be Rooting For Johnny Manziel To Stay Eligible
Love him or hate him, college football needs Johnny Football. Here’s hoping that the NCAA’s investigation to money-for-autographs allegations doesn’t turn anything up.
We're talking about the most exciting college football player since Michael Vick.
With all apologies to Reggie Bush, Vince Young, Cam Newton, Adrian Peterson and RGIII — this isn't even up for argument. The kid from Kerrville is the most thrilling player we've seen in over a decade.
Ronald Martinez / Getty
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26 Signs You Grew Up On A Scottish Island
Island life is the best life.
On a map, home often appears in the wrong place - in a box at the side.
And home sometimes looks terrifying.
Via magicseaweed.com
You got your Sunday newspaper on a Monday (if you were lucky).
You also saw films two months after the rest of the country.
Via Flickr: topgold
People ask if you had running water or electricity when you were a kid.
Via Flickr: cr01
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14 Newsletters You Should Have In Your Inbox
Yes, you’re trying to hit inbox zero and cut back on email. But these newsletters will make you laugh, smile — and maybe even feel a little more informed. Sign up!
A daily link roundup by West Coast writer and investor Dave Pell, and it's especially great at zeroing in on the latest ideas about technology and the future of our society. Dave's got a knack for digging up interesting stories that others aren't talking about. Sign up here.
This is what it would look like if Reader's Digest and Ripley's Believe Or Not came together as a modern email newsletter. It's written by Dan Lewis, a Sesame Street staffer, and he writes with a childlike curiosity for the stories behind everyday things. Sign up here.
The Digg team spends their day curating the best content on the web; this daily email curates the best of the best. You never really know what's going to show up in here, but it's always worth clicking. Sign up here — you'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page to sign up, but it's worth the trouble.
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Birchbox Makeup Samples Get 10 Times More Buyers Than Traditional Beauty Companies
The seller of monthly beauty and grooming subscription boxes is booming, showing the strength of the “discovery retail” model.
Birchbox / Via Facebook: media
Birchbox, the company nearing half a million subscribers of its monthly beauty and grooming sample boxes, is also now generating one-fourth of its business from the web, underscoring the strength of its "discovery retail" model.
The company's online sales are set to triple in 2013 after quadrupling last year, helped by its increasingly personalized boxes, it said today. For example, Stila, after sending a sample eye shadow palette to 7% of Birchbox's subscribers saw 11.2% of that group go on to purchase a full-size version of the product, which the company says is more than 10 times the average success rate for the beauty industry. (Think: the samples you get at a department store, or Sephora.)
The statistics are helping Birchbox, which has raised just under $12 million in venture capital from investors including Accel Partners and First Round Capital, and continues to generate growth even as more monthly beauty box rivals crop up. It's also highlighting the potential of "discovery retail," the practice of sending curated samples of items to customers, who might not otherwise come into contact with them, and getting them hooked for the long haul. That's particularly attractive in beauty, where people don't tend to change products once they're in. (The women's box is $10 a month and men's is $20.)
While Birchbox — which has successfully launched a separate box for men — has its fair share of beauty product junkies, it's winning in particular with the large segment of women "who would never spend time and hang out in a beauty department," Katia Beauchamp, co-founder and co-CEO of Birchbox, said in a telephone interview with BuzzFeed yesterday.
"We see so many of our subscribers telling us that this is really uncharted territory for them," she said. "Now they're really engaged and they're learning, they're spending, they're really reaching outside of what they have ever done, from their perspective."
Birchbox, which was founded in 2010 and hit its five-year growth plan in seven months, says more than half of its subscribers go onto purchase full-size items from the monthly boxes.
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Everything You Need To Know About Sinkholes
The ground under your feet isn’t as solid as you think.
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A Chinese Zoo Tried To Pass Off This Huge, Fluffy Dog As A Lion
There was also a rat in the snake’s cage and a fox in the leopard’s den.
The People's Park Zoo in Luohe, Henan, made international headlines Thursday after Chinese newspapers reported the zoo was trying to disguise a dog as an African lion.
Sina Weibo / Via scmp.com
The "lion" was really a Tibetan mastiff. Visitor's reportedly called the zoo's bluff when they heard the animal bark.
A Tibetan mastiff dog at a mastiff show in Baoding, Hebei province, south of Beijing on March 9, 2013.
ED JONES / Getty Images
"The African lions will be back. They went to another zoo to breed," an administrator at the People's Park Zoo explained to the Oriental Daily.
ED JONES / Getty Images
Ticket buyers were outraged. "To use a dog to impersonate a lion is definitely an insult to tourists," a visitor named Sharon Liu told reporters. "The zoo is absolutely cheating us."
ED JONES / Getty Images
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The Strange Violent Sleazy World Of Russian PSAs
Some disturbing images ahead.
Second-hand smoke.
Translation: "Smoking in child’s presence is a much bigger torture for him. You don't care?"
This much-discussed billboard was up in several locations in Moscow in 2010.
At the time, a spokesperson from the ad agency said: "Any normal person will be disgusted with what the picture shows. But if thousands of children have a chance to stop inhaling tobacco smoke every day, we believe we could sacrifice our visual comfort for that."
Smoking is suicide
From the same Moscow campaign as the ashed-baby billboard above.
Again, the tagline is: "You Don't Care?"
HIV Awareness for highway prostitutes.
Headline translation: "A complete set of the road rubber."
This billboard targets "women who provide sexual services along routes/highways."
Anti-Abortion.
"She is going to kill me.
"She is going to kill me."
Via adme.ru
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The Trailer For Cory Monteith's Final Performance Is Here
The late actor plays a drug addict in the cop drama, which premieres next month.
In a sad twist of irony, Cory Monteith's final role will see him portray a drug-addled man on the run; last month, the 31-year-old actor died of drug toxicity involving a mix of heroin and alcohol.
The trailer for the Canadian cop thriller McCanick, released last night by the Toronto International Film Festival, features a long chase for the troubled young Simon (played by Monteith), which takes on an extra somber significance in the wake of his all-too-young death. The former Glee star has little screen time in the preview, acting as an elusive mystery and point of speculation.
His girlfriend, Lea Michele, gave a tearful tribute to her late co-star at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday. Glee will air an episode dedicated to his passing early this fall.
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9 Vine Videos That Prove You Should Have Stayed In Bed
Life is weird sometimes.
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