It seems that the Internet had a new debate to settle. Dui is an adorable fuzzy grey animal. He has a dog’s snout and tongue, but also has cat-like ears. While some coo at his appearance, some are confused and can’t decide Dui’s species. The Internet has created speculations as to what Dui’s species is, as DailyStar details: 

They speculated he may be a cross between a corgi and a Vietnamese breed called Hmong, while others suggested he could be a corgi mixed with a British shorthair cat.

"So like is it a cat, dog, or some new kind of fox that we will keep seeing on the internet... but nobody knows how to get one?" one Reddit user pondered.

Another joked: "Do you want a cat or a dog? YES."

His owners have finally answered the speculation: Dúi is actually a mix of a native Vietnamese dog breed and a short-legged dog breed known as Dingo.

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Sam Mini, a young cosplayer with a passion for Star Wars, composed this cosplay inspired by the space western The Mandalorian and the classic cartoon character Strawberry Shortcake. Her dog, Pupcake, has become baby Yoda and his blaster is now a handheld cake mixer.

Ed Mis tells me this is what his house looked like when he woke up this morning. He says some of the ice has completely frozen over the top of his neighbor’s house and he’s worried about what will happen when it all melts. ⁦@WGRZ⁩ pic.twitter.com/XVrEomdslq

— Karys Belger (@KarysBelger) February 28, 2020

A winter storm along the coast of Lake Erie left homes at Hoover Beach in Hamburg, New York, encased in ice up to three feet thick! Waves up to 18 feet high sprayed freezing water over the neighborhood.

Homeowners on South shore Drive woke to the ice completely covering their doors and windows. In some cases, their homes were dark because of how thick the ice was.

Ed Mis, resident and homeowner in Hoover Beach, says he's never seen conditions this bad before. The front of his home is completely covered in ice that is likely one to three feet thick.

"I actually had to go out a secondary door and then chisel my way back into the house by breaking the ice," he told 2 On Your Side's Karys Belger.

The ice brought down trees and power lines, too. Officials said they cannot estimate the amount of damage until the ice melts. Read more at WTHR. -via Boing Boing

The Surrey Police displayed faces of wanted criminals on pancakes so that the public can help them locate such notorious individuals. The police force asked the help of totally real crepe artist, Philippe de Pan, to create pancake art of the criminals’ faces. Sky News has the details:

It goes on to clarify de Pan does not actually exist and that they have created the images themselves.

On one of them, the force has added the pun: "We would like to establish if he is a crepe-tomaniac?! (badoom tisch!)."

Several users have responded with their own puns, with one posting: "Take it he stole some dough?" - while another tweeted: "Don't pancake!! We are on to it!!"

One person wrote: "I hope you manage to crepe up on them and apprehend them safely!" to which Surrey Police responded: "Thank you - we'll try to be syruptitious!"

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The internet has given us glimpses of dogs, cats, and birds beating out a rhythm or offering melodic voices for years. German YouTuber Luksan Wunder remixed some of those viral videos into a virtual band for your listening pleasure. It goes into high gear once the husky starts singing. Pretty good for cats, dogs, and a duck! -via Laughing Squid

On February 29, the residents of Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia welcomed the luminaries of the world to Mulletfest--an annual celebration of the world's most prestigious hairstyle.

The contest includes age group brackets, as well as an overall best mullet. The cultivator of this mullet is considered the grand champion and ruler of the mullet people until they gather again in Kurri Kurri. You can see photos of these beautiful people at the Daily Mail.

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Is pineapple on a pizza a valid choice or an abomination? The "validity" of a pizza topping means different things to different people, so Mel magazine consulted fifteen experts: three Italian chefs, three food historians, three food writers and/or critics, three flavor chemists, and three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Really. Many of those experts qualified their answers first by saying people should eat whatever they want on a pizza, and then went ahead to give their honest opinion. You can't get any more scientific than that. Find out what they said and how the scales of those opinions tipped at Mel magazine. -via Digg

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47 years after she lost it in Maine, Debra McKenna is reunited with her late husband's class ring. But now, she's trying to figure out how it ended up in a forest in Finland. Listen to her speak with @caroloffcbc. Read more, here: https://t.co/jno1GDYHI9 pic.twitter.com/5HiIz7zR0T

— As It Happens (@cbcasithappens) February 18, 2020

When Debra Mckenna of Brunswick, Maine, was in high school, her boyfriend Shawn gave her his class ring before he headed off to college in 1973. She lost it soon afterward. But Shawn and Debra got married, had three children, and stayed together until Shawn died in 2017.

The ring was forgotten until last month when a sheet metal worker in Finland contacted the Morse High School Alumni Association. He wanted to locate the ring’s owner.

According to a Jan. 17 Finnish newspaper story, Marko Saarinen was using a metal detector in a forested city park in Kaarina, a small town in southwest Finland, when he found it.

With the school's name, year, and the owner's initials, it wasn't hard to pinpoint who the ring belonged to. McKenna got it back 47 years after it was lost! How the ring went from Maine to Finland remains a mystery. Read the whole story at the Bangor Daily News. -via Strange Company

Remember Lundy, the puppy who can’t walk, and Herman the pigeon? Thanks to Walkin’ Pets, a charity specializing in animal mobility, Lundy is now slowly learning to walk through a customized wheelchair.

The Mia Foundation, based in Rochester, N.Y., introduced the world this month to the friendship between Lundy, a chihuahua puppy unable to use his back legs properly enough to walk, and Herman, a pigeon unable to fly.

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Mia Foundation officials said they didn't know wheelchairs existed for dogs as small as 2-pound Lundy, but they received just such a wheelchair this week from Walkin' Pets.

Wholesome!

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What were once chairs and tables brimming with people have now become cold steel and empty tables. What were once tourist spots have now become desolate and lifeless. This is the city of Venice now, after the flood in November and the recent outbreak of the coronavirus.

According to Associazione Venezia Albergatori, an association of local hotel owners, 50 percent of reservations in Venice have been canceled in the last week. “The situation is dramatic for the industry,” said Vittorio Bonacini, the chairman.

Mr. Bonacini estimates that since November, Venetian tourism, worth 3 billion euro or about $3.3 billion, “has probably lost 800 million euro.” Since the outbreak began on Feb. 21, he said, Venice hotels have lost almost 70 percent of their international visitors.

Once plagued by overtourism, Venice is now ghastly empty.

More information about this over The New York Times.

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A supermassive black hole has punched a crater the size of 15 Milky Way galaxies into the universe hundreds and millions of light-years away. As of now, it is the biggest known explosion in our universe, and scientists state that they have never seen anything like this before.

"In some ways, this blast is similar to how the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 ripped off the top of the mountain," lead author Simona Giacintucci of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC said in a press release Thursday. "A key difference is that you could fit fifteen Milky Way galaxies in a row into the crater this eruption punched into the cluster's hot gas."

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Researchers believe the origin of the explosion is a supermassive black hole in a large galaxy at the center of the Ophiuchus cluster. While black holes are known for dragging material inwards, they can also blast material and energy outwards.

More details about this explosive news over at CBS News.

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You might have seen this in some video game players today. When looking up, players push the opposite direction — they press down in their controllers. They configure the setting of the game and invert Y axis. The question is, what difference does this make? And why do some players bother to do it?

It turns out there is very little research in this area, which is a surprise considering two billion people play games on a regular basis – and as I have discovered on social media, many of them are extremely invested in this issue. However, two of the academics I spoke to about inversion were happy to speculate on what might be happening – and both allowed for one very straightforward possibility: it’s habitual.

A lot of people who invert the Y axis do so because the games they started playing had that control set-up as the default option. This is especially true of older gamers – in the 1980s and early 1990s, flight sims were a hugely popular genre, and of course, the controls would be inverted to match an aircraft yoke or joystick.

Habitual use is not the only possibility when it comes to interpreting this type of behavior. Spatial perception and interpretation of the information seen on the screen could also be a possibility.

Check out The Guardian for more details about this topic.

Do you invert the y-axis when you play?

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It is thanks to science and technology that our way of life is constantly improving. Every day, new, tougher, and more durable devices are being made. But sometimes, old devices and equipment can still compete with the new ones, and sometimes even surpass them in certain aspects, such as these World War I helmets.

Scientists from Duke University have revealed that World War I helmets perform remarkably well against shock waves compared to their modern high-tech counterparts.

One helmet, the French Adrian design, even performed better than a modern design in terms of protection from overhead blasts, according to the Duke biomedical engineers' research.

"While we found that all helmets provided a substantial amount of protection against blast, we were surprised to find that the 100-year-old helmets performed just as well as modern ones," said Joost Op 't Eynde, a biomedical engineering doctoral student and first author of the study, in a statement. "Indeed, some historical helmets performed better in some respects."

Check out more details about this over at Fox News.

(Image Credit: Joost Op 't Eynde, Duke University)

A new musical remix from Pogo (Nick Bertke) gives us the pleasure of revisiting the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubfire and the genius that was Robin Williams. -via Geeks Are Sexy

People think the Pacific Northwest is a beautiful and peaceful place to live, but make no mistake some areas are just baaad. Did you know that we have goats holding people hostage? No kidding! This criminal might be the Greatest Of All Time!