Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The Warsaw Uprising- An Entire City Stops
Every August 1st, the people of Warsaw, Poland pay homage to 200,000 of the fallen during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Germany.
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8 Reasons We Still Love Katherine Chloe Cahoon
She wrote “The Single Girl's Guide to Dating European Men” in 2010, and has been making videos and entertaining ever since.
Her videos
If you don't know KCC, this is her first video. It perfectly displays her charm and wit. Just look at how comfortable she is in front of the camera!
Her book
Eloquently written and endlessly empowering to women, The Single Girl's Guide To Meeting European Men is a must-read.
Via: amazon.com
Her Casual Seated Positions
KCC is a big fan of sitting in normal ways in front of normal backdrops.
The reviews
People have some incredible things to say about Cahoon's book.
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24 Fictional Movie Characters With Undeniable Olympic Potential
Athletes in London are lucky they aren't competing against these big screen legends.
Rowing - Lucas McNamara - "The Skulls"
Captain of the 4-time Ivy League Champion Yale crew team. Member of the Skull and Bones Society. Possesses the skills of a misspent youth.
Sailing - Charlie St. Cloud - "Charlie St. Cloud"
Recipient of a full scholarship to Stanford for sailing. Bad driver of automobiles.
Shooting - Bob Lee Swagger - "Shooter"
Retired US Marine Corps Force Recon Gunnery Sergeant and Scout Sniper. Can kill from over a mile away. Fueled by vengeance.
Archery - Legolas - "The Lord of the Rings"
Elf warrior who enjoys killing Orcs with his dwarf buddy, Gimli. Over 2000 years old.
Bar Refaeli In A Lace Onesie
While this ensemble would look comical on most, she makes it work.
Via: @BarRefaeli
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Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Returns" Gets Animated
Fans of The Dark Knight Rises will see a lot of parallels. Nolan was obviously a fan of Miller's work.
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Real Actors Reading Yelp Reviews
Watch the first two videos from a new Internet series that has real actors performing dramatic readings of Yelp restaurant reviews.
Award winning audio-book narrator and actress Therese Plummer (The Good Wife, Law and Order SVU)
Professional actor Chris Kipiniak
English Farmer Pays Very Elaborate Tribute To Usain Bolt
Cuts a huge maze into his 15-acre maize field featuring Bolt in his famous lightning pose.
Farmer Tom Robinson defiled his land in Staffordshire, England.
Robinson says he is a massive fan of the Jamaican athlete, and had a dream Bolt would win the Olympic 100 meters race in record time, according to Dangerous Minds.
Looks more like a shot-putter.
The Bolt Maize Maze is opened to the public until harvest time.
Via: dangerousminds.net
If Niagara Falls Hosted A Rave And Other Links
Ooooo, pretty lights! Plus, Harry Potter turns 32 today and Olympic fever can't trump physical limits.
Niagara Falls are lit up in neon colours during a light show.
Picture: RAJEEV NAIR / CATERS NEWS
To the (hopeful) surprise of no one, turns out claw machine games are rigged. - [Geekosystem]
11 facts about Harry Potter to celebrate his 32nd birthday. - [MentalFloss]
Why are villains always going out of their way to screw up their own plans? - [Cracked]
A new eye injection gave sight back to a blind mouse. - [Tecca]
Fox News is trying...and failing...to tie the Aurora shooting to World of Warcraft. - [GammaSquad]
Direct TV dropped AMC so people protested in the best way possible; by dressing up like zombies and scaring New Yorkers. - [Neatorama]
Cremation urns shouldn't be this creepy. - [Oddee]
Safety rules for the pool, the elevator, the bathroom and more. - [CollegeHumor]
Man gets swept up in Olympic fever, vows to swim from France to America...fails. - [DeathAndTaxes]
Today was a great day for once in a lifetime photos. - [Telegraph]
What Is A 'Text-Only' Twitter Feed?
The text feed trend on Twitter takes content from other social networks or online databases, and describes that content using only words, or posts quotes devoid of context. See, what it does is point out the inanities of online culture by distilling them down to their 140-character essence.
Michael Phelps Was Caught At The Very Last Moment Of The 200m Butterfly
In a heartbreaking photo-finish, South African Chad le Clos beats Michael Phelps to prevent him from becoming the first male swimmer to win the same event in three Olympics.
Phelps leads going into the last 25 meters, but the ending is a shock. On the bright side, Phelps did get his 18th Olympic medal; one more gives him the most of any athlete ever.
UPDATE: As part of the men's 4x200 freestyle relay, Michael Phelps won gold this afternoon. That's his 19th Olympic medal — the most by any one athlete.
First Look At Matt Damon And Michael Douglas In HBO's Liberace Film
The two actors will portray Scott Thorson and Liberace in the upcoming biopic, Behind the Candelabra , which is being directed by Steven Soderbergh. Holy wigs, Batman!
Liberace and Scott photographed in Paris
The movie will look at the relationship between Liberace and Scott who first met the entertainer when he was 17. He was later hired by Liberace as a personal companion - a position that turned into a five-year romantic relationship. Following the demise of their relationship, Scott filed a multi-million dollar palimony suit against Liberace.
The movie also stars Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd and Debbie Reynolds.
Via: bobsliberace.com
Matt Damon as Scott Thorson
Michael Douglas as Liberace
Watch The US Women's Gymnastics Team Clinch The Gold Medal
For the first time since 1996, the US Women have won the gymnastics team gold.
After the Russian Federation's team struggled in their later apparatuses, all Aly Raisman had to do was avoid "catastrophe" in her floor routine to ensure gold:
Look at that excitement!
But it's not official until it shows up on the board. So nerves reappeared.
A sigh of relief:
The Top 25 Best Tom Daley GIFs Of All Time
A scientific ranking of Tom Daley gifs. Enjoy.
Because the text on this gif is perfect.
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Because he's really good at this move.
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Because he's also really good at this one.
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Because I like this one but it's not quite top 20 material.
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7 Scary And Surreal Quotes From The Trial Of Pussy Riot
Three young women in Russia may go to jail for seven years because they dared to offend the church and Vladimir Putin .
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How Things Will Be Different Now That Snoop Dogg Changed His Name To "Snoop Lion"
So, Snoop Dogg had a spiritual awakening, changed his name to ” Snoop Lion ” and is planning on releasing a reggae album. Here's everything that will change.
He'll wear different hats:
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Federal Trial Court In Connecticut Strikes Down DOMA's Marriage Definition
On DOMA's definition of “marriage,” court finds “that no conceivable rational basis exists for the provision.”
Janet Geller & Joanne Marquis, two of the plaintiffs in the Connecticut case.
(Photo courtesy Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders.)
U.S. District Court Judge Vanessa L. Bryant today held in a federal case in Connecticut that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act — the federal definition of marriage — is unconstitutional.
Bryant, in a case brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, follows several other federal judges over the past two years to have reached the same conclusion. Federal judges in Massachusetts, California — in two different courts — and New York also have found DOMA's provision defining "marriage" and "spouse" as only being unions of one man and one woman in all federal laws unconstitutional, as well as one federal appeals court.
Bryant — appointed to the bench by President George W, Bush on April 2, 2007 — found that laws that classify people based on sexual orientation should be subject to heightened scrutiny by courts — as the Department of Justice and plaintiffs argued in the case — but found the provision of the 1996 law unconstitutional "even under the most deferential level of judicial scrutiny."
The House Republican leadership had defended the law's constitutionality in court, through its 3-2 majority on the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group. The group has been defending the law since the Obama administration stopped defending the law in February 2011.
In her decision in the case, Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management, Bryant found:
Having considered all four factors, this Court finds that homosexuals display all the traditional indicia of suspectness and therefore statutory classifications based on sexual orientation are entitled to a heightened form of judicial scrutiny. However, the Court need not apply a form of heightened scrutiny in the instant case to conclude that DOMA violates the promise of the equal protection as it is clear that DOMA fails to pass constitutional muster under even the most deferential level of judicial scrutiny.
She later concluded:
In sum, having considered the purported rational bases proffered by both BLAG and Congress and concluded that such objectives bear no rational relationship to Section 3 of DOMA as a legislative scheme, the Court finds that no conceivable rational basis exists for the provision. The provision therefore violates the equal protection principles incorporated in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The ruling comes as the Supreme Court is facing requests in several cases to decide the question of DOMA's constitutionality once and for all.
The People Who Won In July
This is eight and a half minutes of pure feel-good win. That plunger gets me every time.
A Dog Adopts A Baby White Lion Cub And It's Adorable
My heart is melting.
This is Lejon and Jojo:
Lejon is a 2-year-old pointer mongrel, and Jojo is a 3-week-old white lion cub. They are both energetic guys.
Lejon is Jojo's adoptive dad. Jojo was adopted because his mother had an infection from the umbilical chord and couldn't take care of him.
Now Lejon gets to take care of Jojo, with the help of a human caretaker who bottle feeds him.
13 Sexts From Danell Leyva
Boy, does this Olympic gymnast love to take slightly NSFW photos of himself on his iPhone. And people thought his spread in the ESPN Body Issue was ridiculous.
The Only Snoop Lion Picture You'll Ever Need
Snoop Dogg is now Snoop Lion . Hi haters. Bye haters.
Image by Chris Ritter/Buzzfeed
The Unnecessary Censorship Of Men's Olympic Diving
It's not a nudist event. It just looks like one. Have to love accidental censorship.
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