Staten Island resident Annette Gerhardt thought she was being sooo clever: She planned to scare her 6-year-old daughter Enayla straight after she'd acted out in school by bring her down to the police station and telling her "this is where bad girls and boys go." But the police were not in the mood. From the Daily News:
How have you lived this long without an official Wikileaks umbrella? The secret-sharing website has unveiled its official merch line through German apparel company Spreadshirt, complete with about a dozen different designs of T-shirts, messenger bags, pins, etc.—many emblazoned with Wikileaks founder and accused rapist Julian Assange's face. T-shirts start at the rather steep price of $17.99. It won't be long now before Assange follows Justin Bieber and launches his own nail polish line. (Click to enlarge)
Here's a cool five-minute documentary about a Hollywood Foley artist. Foley artists use a bunch of random objects to make those crazy sounds you hear in movies. The best part is when he has to simulate the sound of a car flying off the ramp of a cargo plane. Someone give this guy an Oscar for best weird noises! [via Kottke]
Apparently cracking a window wasn't giving this stuffy bus enough ventilation - they had to remove the entire front section.
Louis C.K. wonders why huge groups of guys go out on the town together, because it really doesn't help their chances. He used to look up to beautiful women, and now that he's older and wiser he pities them.
Libya's protests have raged for a week, and the country is on the brink of an even more violent confrontation between anti-government demonstrators and hired mercenaries commanded by Colonel Gaddafi. The whole world is watching and wondering: How will this affect Bit.ly, the URL-shortening service everyone uses on Twitter?
This trailer for ET-X: Extinction features present-day footage of original ET stars Drew Barrymore and Henry Thomas, plus impressive CGI, Bruce Willis, and Morgan Freeman to create a thrilling new chapter to the Spielberg classic. Would you see it?
33-year-old Justin Tennison was found dead in a hotel room in Homer, Alaska yesterday. He died of "unknown causes." Tennison was a crew member of one of the fishing ships followed by Discovery Channel's reality show "Deadliest Catch." This is a little less than a year after captain Phil Harris died of a stroke while cameras rolled. Deadliest indeed.
How can you be sure you're giving a great Oscar speech? Take a few hints from those that came before you. Take a trip down memory lane in this video of the best, worst, and craziest Oscar acceptance speeches ever.
Hold your keyboards close, because you're about to travel to the 90s: a magical time in which websites like Gawker.TV didn't exist to distract you from your real work.
Canadian publisher Bluewater Productions has just published a 48-page comic book which tells the true origin story of Mark Zuckerberg. The center panel here depicts the time Zuckerberg was held up at gunpoint in 2005 while driving from Palo Alto to Berkeley. Of course, we all know what happened after that brush with danger: Zuckerberg built a bulletproof robotic exoskeleton in his basement and swore to devote his life to fighting crime. (Click to Enlarge)
