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At the University of Nebraska's football, Spring Game (essentially a practice scrimmage that is attended by more than 60,000 rabid fans) on Saturday, there was an incredible play that you must see. It was 4th and 1 from the Red's 31 yard line. Into the game came 7-year-old Jack Hoffman, a 7 year old brain cancer patient. Just watch the play.
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There is no way this could possibly go wrong.
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When it hits you, no matter how much you expect it, it comes as a surprise — a literal shock, like a baseball bat swung hard and squarely into the small of your back. That sensation — which is actually two sharp steel barbs piercing your skin and shooting electricity into your central nervous system — is followed by the harshest, most violent charlie horse you can imagine coursing through your entire body. With the pain comes the terrifying awareness that you are completely helpless. You cannot move. You lose control of almost everything and the only place you can go is down, face first to the floor. That’s what it feels like to be hit with a Taser.
comment posted at 2:48 PM on Apr-5-13

1:42 minutes of a crow taking a bath.
comment posted at 8:17 PM on Mar-31-13

23-year-old Garrett Holeve is an aspiring MMA fighter from Cooper City, Florida, just north of Miami. He trains six days a week, and has fought in amateur exhibition matches. He also has Down syndrome. This is his story
comment posted at 4:40 PM on Mar-30-13

The Big Picture fires up the wayback machine to take us back to 1972.
comment posted at 7:08 PM on Mar-28-13

"It strikes me, as I look down at the Realtouch device nuzzling my crotch like a baby goat sucking on a bottle, that I'm now effectively masturbating professionally." Loz Blain "road-tests" the male sex aid of the future, today.
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Stevie Wonder, in his prime. Jesus.
comment posted at 8:04 AM on Mar-26-13

Why Claw Machines Filled With Live Lobsters Delight and Disturb Us
comment posted at 7:54 AM on Mar-26-13

"When I was a little guy I was infatuated with firetrucks. That's probably not unusual. Boys like trucks. But kids usually grow out of this kind of thing. I didn't. I'm 32 and a half years old and never stopped thinking firetrucks are awesome. So I bought one."
comment posted at 12:10 PM on Mar-24-13

The second most tattooed man in the world. Jim Hall, a retired Baltimore city planner, very articulately discusses in this article and associated video how he has tattooed and modified himself into a work of art and personal sexual fantasy he calls Blue Comma.
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How I Know Eddie Van Halen (an exercise in the history of Rock & Roll collaboration, in 182 steps.)
comment posted at 11:54 AM on Mar-20-13

On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine pub­lished a 25-year look ahead to 2013.
comment posted at 9:39 AM on Mar-17-13

So a Ford Mustang Mach 1 shacked up with a Ford GT40 and, under the watchful eyes of engineer Terry Lipscomb and designer Mike Miernik, a child was born. Its name is Mach 40, and it is beautiful and healthy.
comment posted at 1:45 PM on Mar-15-13

Amazing Water & Sound Experiment #2 - brusspup synchronizes his video camera to a water stream run in front of a speaker outputting a 24 Hz sine wave
comment posted at 8:18 PM on Mar-12-13

Of all the things to livetweet, a trip to the hospital with a dildo stuck in your rear would have to be the pinnacle of TMI. "What did you do last night" "I shoved a dildo up my ass and needed the hospital to extract it" "oh man me too"
comment posted at 5:01 PM on Mar-11-13

The Pirate Bay has announced via a blog post that they will be using North Korea as a haven to serve pages without facing prosecution from copyright authorities.
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This past Friday, the ground opened up and swallowed Jeff Bush of Seffner, Florida. He may never be found.
Sinkholes are common in the state of Florida, due to the gradual creation of caverns in the limestone that underlies the entire state. How much of a role can human development play in their formation?
comment posted at 11:08 PM on Mar-2-13

"Oh, Anne! With your small head and pert nose and oversized, ready smile and glossy pixie cut and squeakily tuneful speaking voice, uttering lines like “It came true!” as you gaze at your newly won Oscar with moistened doe-eyes, wearing a powder-pink Prada gown adorned with diamonds and bows: Why are you so annoying?"
comment posted at 11:33 AM on Mar-1-13

The BBC reports that "Beer drinkers in the US have filed a $5m (£3.3m) lawsuit accusing Anheuser-Busch of watering down its beer." The lawsuits are based on information from former employees at breweries owned by the multinational.
comment posted at 7:22 AM on Feb-27-13

Record review website Pitchfork has released a documentary about the creation of Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister. The film is part of the Pitchfork Classic web series.
comment posted at 3:55 PM on Feb-23-13

What will your last ten years look like? A powerful PSA that will get you off your couch. Another health-related PSA that will make you cry.
comment posted at 8:38 AM on Feb-23-13

"In between surviving multiple point-blank-range assassination attempts and a failed kidnapping in which he emerged alive from the burning wreckage of a battleship his own air force had just bombed, Pibulsongkram decided that Thailand needed noodles that would advance the country’s industry and economy."
comment posted at 7:59 AM on Feb-23-13

"Companies like Rope Partner exist because rope access is the cheapest way to maintain the surfaces of wind turbines."
comment posted at 7:32 PM on Feb-21-13

In a meticulously planned raid that took barely five minutes to execute, armed men disguised as police officers drove onto the tarmac at the international airport in Brussels on Monday night and stole diamonds worth around $50 million as they were being loaded onto a plane bound for Switzerland, officials said. (SLNYT)
comment posted at 10:11 AM on Feb-19-13

'Bladerunner' Oscar Pistorius (previously), the South African olympian and paralympian sprinter, charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp whom he shot four times through a locked bathroom door, has now given his account of what happened that night at a bail hearing. In an affidavit he claims that he loved Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, and fired at what he thought was a burglar, before breaking down the bathroom door with a cricket bat and watching his girlfriend die in his arms. The prosecution takes another view. Police have asked for blood tests on Pistorius, anticipating a possible 'roid rage' defence after steroids were found in the home following the shooting. Pistorius is the latest in series of elite male athletes to find themselves mired in controversy.
comment posted at 9:44 AM on Feb-19-13

Danica Patrick is the first woman to qualify for the Daytona 500 pole position, or any other Nascar Cup race.
comment posted at 8:16 PM on Feb-17-13

Before thawing out their former cold-storage facility, Fulton Market Cold Storage (now Hasak Cold Storage) invited nature photographer Gary Jensen to document their abandoned building full of ice. (Via.)
comment posted at 2:46 PM on Feb-10-13

Not little fluffy clouds in Arizona, but little squishy, um...orbs. In the desert near Tuscon, thousands of tiny purple spheres have appeared, isolated from the rest of the terrain. The mysterious objects, described as being like "gooey marbles that ooze out a water substance when squished," have yet to be identified.
comment posted at 6:18 PM on Feb-8-13

It's not even February yet and we seem to have our worst movie of the year.
comment posted at 11:25 AM on Jan-27-13

Baseball Card Vandals Baseball cards, vandalized. Slightly NSFW.
comment posted at 9:53 PM on Jan-26-13

About a year after her participation in the groundbreaking Comedy Central documentary series the Comedians of Comedy, Maria Bamford was on stage at the Friars Club in LA when a heckler began shouting at her. What happened after that isn’t entirely clear, other than Bamford had a breakdown, walked off stage, and disappeared. She was found three months later selling clock radios on the sidewalks of Detroit. A fellow homeless person, who was also a Comedy Central fan, recognized Bamford and eventually her parents were contacted. They brought her back home to Deluth, Minnesota and began to get her help. Maria decided to document her recovery in a series of short videos called The Maria Bamford Show, which were first posted to the TBS networks' now abandoned Super Deluxe Web site.
comment posted at 4:53 PM on Jan-26-13

The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum, located near Atlanta, will close forever today. The collection will be auctioned off in February. Only the virtual tour will remain as a way to see all of these cars together, but now is your chance to collect any one of these unique pieces of automotive history. Who among us hasn't desired a car you could drive into your office?
comment posted at 1:28 PM on Jan-26-13

It might strike you as a sick Internet joke, but Gareth Morgan isn't kidding . The prominent New Zealand economist and environmentalist wants his country 100 percent cat-free and he's willing to go extraordinary lengths to make it a reality.
comment posted at 11:35 AM on Jan-24-13

Two weeks ago, Lee Thompson ("Uncle Poodle" of Honey Boo Boo fame) gave an interview stating that he had successfully prosecuted his ex-boyfriend for transmitting HIV to him. Now, one blogger has come out saying that Uncle Poodle might actually be lying.
comment posted at 3:36 PM on Jan-22-13

"Most American high schools are almost sadistically unhealthy places to send adolescents." Does the "worst of adult America looks like high school because it’s populated by people who went to high school in America?"
comment posted at 11:18 AM on Jan-21-13

Corgi puppy attempts to eat treat. [slyt]
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Patrick Stewart performed with NYC's Improvised Shakespeare Company. Famed thespian Stewart joined five lads from Chicago to perform improvised Shakespeare this past week. The Improvised Shakespeare Company reports that "Patrick Stewart is the coolest person [they] know."
comment posted at 5:27 PM on Jan-11-13

Drive-thru invisible driver prank
comment posted at 4:15 PM on Jan-10-13

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to determine if this shadowy internet shill has a Metafilter account. Not really. Although I knew paid shills existed, I am a little surprised at just how organized they seem to be. I probably shouldn't be.
comment posted at 12:59 PM on Jan-10-13

Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie. The movie in question is The Canyons, the Kickstarter-funded erotic thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Paul Schrader. There's no release date yet, but the film does have several retro-themed trailers.
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New research can detect five different emotions with 81 percent accuracy. [Additional project information].
comment posted at 5:11 PM on Jan-8-13

Fellow Norwegians used a quadcopter in the woods and came up on a moose. The audio when they discover it is funny, even if you don't understand Norwegian.
comment posted at 2:40 PM on Jan-8-13

'Meet Sluggo – a green semi-subterranean inhabitant of Ann Arbor, Michigan. This strange little creature first appeared back in 2008 on a sidewalk, and since then started peaking out of walls cracks, chilling on ledges or doing his daily routines all over the town. Turns out, it was drawn by a local graphic artist David Zinn.'
comment posted at 2:34 PM on Jan-8-13