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Is it really worth it, Mario? She keeps running away, you keep dying and spending your lives and you never get anything out of this except your own unrequited love. It’s time to find someone else, man. Or just enjoy life and hang out with some Koopas. Let Bowser deal with that shit. Update from…
Princess Snowflake Quin Woodward Pu—self-described as a “a 25-year-old with two published books and a condo”—seems to be mentally and/or emotionally unbalanced enough to try to humiliate a man who rejected her via text after only three dates, forwarding said man’s texts to his employers. http://gawker.com/guy-breaks-up-with-girl-by-text-girl-publicly-shames-g-1389989148
It’s no science fiction anymore: clumping photons into molecules, scientists have discovered a completely new form of matter that works just like the lightsabers in Star Wars. “The physics of what’s happening is similar to what we see in the movies,” said one of the researchers. Don’t expect actual lightsabers in your nearer Wal-Mart anytime…
Two retired U.S. Lieutenant Colonels predicted the Nairobi mall terrorist attack scenario in the September/October 2003 edition of Military Review. The worst thing is that a) their solutions are appalling and b) they say it’s bound to happen again, perhaps in a stadium or a mall in the United States. Photo by AP Images https://gizmodo.com/what-kenyas-mall-siege-reveals-about-the-urban-future-1379625024
These boxes aren’t real. They’re made of light, created with a technique called projection mapping, which uses projectors and perspective-corrected graphics to create the illusion of alternate dimensions in real life. The best example I’ve ever seen, by far. https://gizmodo.com/this-short-film-just-took-projection-mapping-to-the-nex-1383033085
Did you know that George Lucas originally wanted Luke Skywalker to become Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi? His last lines were going to be “Now I am Vader. Now I will go and kill the [Rebel] fleet and I will rule the universe.” That would have been cool. It’s one…
Blame Miley Cyrus on Detroit, people: “Detroit’s where I felt like I really grew up. It was only for a summer, but that’s where I started going to clubs, where I got my first tattoo. Well, not my first tattoo, but my first without my mom’s consent.” Poor Detroit. https://jalopnik.com/how-miley-cyrus-accidentally-enraged-all-of-detroit-wit-1381008264
At 220MPH, the $580,000 Jaguar XJ220 is not the fastest or the most expensive car in the world. But, in Dubai, a company called Mooyah will deliver burger and fries to your door using it, which makes it the fastest and most expensive delivery car in the world. https://crankandpiston.kinja.com/jaguar-xj220-fastest-delivery-vehicle-in-the-world-1364969435
Jack in the Box has new improvised explosive caloric devices in its menu. Check out this disgusting—and probably delicious—fried chicken sandwich with mozzarella cheese sticks and white cheese sauce. https://thisiswhyyourefat.kinja.com/jack-in-the-box-exploding-cheesy-chicken-sandwich-1384005267
Ted Cruz—a rabid anti-Obamacare Republican Senator from Texas and 2016 Presidential candidate wannabe—has been talking non stop for more than 20 hours in the Senate, in a futile try to stop a bill he supports. In the process, the multi-talented Cruz is saying a lot of things, like “my father invented Green Eggs and Ham,”…
The National Enquirer has allegedly scooped a photo of this actor? singer? former Disney star passed out in the Thompson Hotel last January, after an overdose of Oxycontin aka hillbilly heroin. https://jezebel.com/zac-efron-passed-out-from-an-oxy-overdose-and-some-jerk-1382787491
After retiring this year, Mariano Rivera will become a baseball legend. Which is why 18,000 fans are now at the New York Yankees’ stadium eager to get their free Rivera bobblehead. But tragedy! There are no bobble heads in sight. Come on New York, it’s time to start rioting. https://deadspin.com/mariano-rivera-bobblehead-night-is-a-fiasco-1379900267
Gawker’s Rich Juzwiak cherry-picks the ten most depressing excerpts of “Night Club Royale,” an article on the state of dance music and partying in Las Vegas casinos’ nightclubs. And while $300,000 salaries per gig and private jets for—fake, since they don’t actually DJ anything—DJs are nothing new, it’s still a sickening and depressing story. http://gawker.com/the-10-most-depressing-parts-of-the-new-yorkers-e-d-m-1379714380
“I wish I had a huge fart saved up to describe our love: silent but deadly,” says Nick Offerman about her love with Megan Mullally. It’s also hilarious and occasionally noxious, says Playboy’s Danielle Bacher in this equally hilarious and occasionally noxious article. Photo by Getty Images https://playboysfw.kinja.com/the-hilarious-occasionally-noxious-marriage-of-nick-o-1374258342
One of my two dreams is about to become a “reality:” Fly like Luke Skywalker in an X-Wing fighter, swooshing across the Death Star trench in a run to kill the Empire’s space station. All thanks to the Oculus Rift—the first virtual reality headset that truly makes you feel in an alternative reality. I just…
There are few things more enjoyable than seeing someone getting instantly punished for a bad action. Here’s a perfect example. Enjoy! https://jalopnik.com/watch-a-road-raging-asshat-get-instant-karma-via-a-tram-1377023101
The protagonist of this Emmy-awarded series about the lives of surgeons—which uses “a color-blind casting technique” to represent “the world that [she] walks around in every day”—said that she didn’t see any diversity in the Emmys at all. https://jezebel.com/ellen-pompeo-thought-the-emmys-were-racist-and-embarass-1376427369
If you like to run to keep yourself in shape, you need to read this guide by running coach Jason Fitzgerald. Patience, other kinds of exercise, and even napping—among other things—are all necessary to run effectively and not get hurt. https://lifehacker.com/seven-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-started-running-1370937569
A casting call shows that JJ Abrams may be planning to bring the legendary wookie Chewbacca back to the new Star Wars movie. Peter Mayhew—the actor who played Han Solo’s buddy in the original trilogy—may have too many health problems to reprise his role, but nobody will notice. http://gawker.com/tsa-attempts-to-confiscate-chewbacca-actors-light-sabe-512212752 Luke, Han and Leia, on the…
Pokemon. I remember playing it a couple times and it was more boring than C-SPAN. But it’s one of the most popular games in history. People have been playing this video game—which started as a card game—for seventeen years now. Insane. https://kotaku.com/seventeen-years-of-pokemon-in-a-single-image-1376377672
