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Laurie Anderson, a performance artist, once had a marvelous dream: "I have this fantasy where I look out, and the whole audience is dogs." 8 years ago, she did so outside of the famous Sydney Opera House. Now she's bringing that experience to the dogs of New York City. Tonight at 11:30, she will perform music that only dogs will be able to hear. Joshua Barone writes for the New York Times:

Dogs and their owners are invited to sit on the red steps of Duffy Square while she performs music that, to passers-by in Times Square, may not sound like much because of the low frequency. Humans can tune in with wireless headphones — there are 350 total — that will be given out beforehand.

What song titles do you think would be most appropriate at a concert for dogs?

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Boomer in his ball pit | Image: Catmantoo

The footage in the video below features a gray Bengal cat named Boomer who comes from an lllustrious feline family (his big sister is Didga, a cat who has an amazing talent for tricks). Thus far, Boomer has shown that he has a flair for having fun. This video of him entertaining himself with bunch of rubber balls shows his commitment to the pastime of being playful. Via Laughing Squid

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Give Justin Fiddler a hammer--specifically, a Stiletto brand hammer--and step back. He slings that hammer around like an acrobat. It flies through the air with ease, as though Fiddler is controlling it with his mind.

When he's done, Fiddler slides the hammer back into its holster in a single, smooth motion. Nailed it!

-via Laughing Squid

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People in Seattle, Washington often call the 31-storey Rainier Tower the Beaver Building. You can see why: it clearly looks like a beaver chewed into the 11-storey pedestal on which the tower stands.

Minoru Yamasaki, a Japanese architect who also designed the Space Needle in Seattle and the former World Trade Center in New York City, developed this unique shape. His goal was to offer more space for pedestrian traffic and shopping at the base. Constuction finished in 1979.

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The first step is to borrow a friend's quadcopter drone. You certainly wouldn't want to use your own, right?

I advise against explaining why you want to borrow the drone.

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Speed Motion Films used a $60,000 Phantom Micro high speed camera to capture this horrendous abuse of an aerial drone in slow motion. The crew sends through the blades eggs, fruits, vegetables, sausage, breadsticks, and more.

Amazingly, at the end of the ordeal, the drone takes off and flies away. Its freedom is short lived, though, as we see in the final few seconds of the video.

-via That's Nerdalicious!

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It's easy for fans to see why anime is entertaining to watch, but for those who "don't get it" anime is mind boggling, with characters flailing around doing all kinds of weird things that don't make sense.

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If you know somebody who thinks of anime this way you're going to want to show them these Nonsensical Anime GIFs and give them little loopy reasons to REALLY dislike anime.

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The rest of us will go on loving all the laughs and strange moments you can only see in anime...I hope llama senpai will notice me...he noticed me! *drool*

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See 30 Weird Anime GIFs To Confound Your Eyeballs here

The Temple of Bel in Syria was an ancient structure built all the way back Mesopotamia. It managed to survive up until August of last year, when ISIS destroyed the building. Now as both a way to honor our history and as a method of resistance against the Islamic State, researchers from Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and Dubai’s Museum of the Future are working together to transform 2D images of the temple into a 3D model that will then be 3D printed and put on display in both London and New York. The replicas will be on display as part of UNESCO's World Herritage Week in April 2016 to remind people just how important the protection of our ancient structures is.

Via FlavorWire

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Mothers at the Gelderse Vallei Hospital in the Netherlands can get a new type of bed for their newborn babies while recovering from childbirth. These cribs clip onto maternity beds easily to provide the mothers with easy access to their babies. They're especially helpful for breastfeeding mothers who want to have their infants close by, as well as cesarean section patients who may be immobilized as a result of surgical birth.

-via My Modern Met

Crusoe goes by the sobriquet "Celebrity Dachshund" with reason. He's charmed the internet with his costumed antics, such as becoming Batman and putting out fires.

But, like Tom Cruise, he's still short. So his human made him a set of stilts. Now he can take up much taller roles as well as have a better shot at stealing treats off high counters.

-via Dog Solution

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If you've been reading the heaps of 2015 "end of" articles, you've seen the year summed up in any number of different ways. But how about weirdness? Allow Neatorama's own Miss Cellania to present you with the year 2015 in terms of its weird news. Read on for a couple of stories included in the mix: 

19. VEHICLE FLATTENED BETWEEN TWO SEMIS

And the driver is fine. Despite his Chevy Silverado being crushed to the size of a smart car, Kaleb Whitby only received a few cuts and bruises in the January I-84 accident near Baker City, Oregon.

More than 100 people were involved in the morning pileup on Interstate 84, about 33 miles east of Baker City. At least three separate collisions involving more than 20 vehicles, most of them semi-trucks, injured a dozen people.

Black ice conditions led to the multiple accidents. In Whitby’s collision, a tractor-trailer jackknifed across the highway. Whitby slid into the truck. Another tractor-trailer saw the first truck and slid sideways into the first truck, crushing Whitby’s pickup. After ascertaining that Whitby was alive and not seriously injured, the second truck driver, Sergi Karplyuk, asked if he could take a picture. Karplyuk helped Whitby free himself of the crushed pickup within a half-hour. He and Karplyuk joined other bystanders to help injured people. Whitby was checked out at a hospital later and came home with two Band-aids on his finger. You can read the details, and see more pictures, at Oregon Live.

If that wasn't odd enough, try this zoo drama on for size:

9. MEERKAT EXPERT SENTENCED OVER ASSAULT ON MONKEY HANDLER

Working at a zoo can be as much of a soap opera as any other workplace. The first sentence from the Associated Press story spells it out:

 A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper. 

Caroline Westlake, who worked with meerkats, was sentenced to 12 months of community service and must pay £800 to the victim of her assault, monkey handler Kate Sanders. The assault happened at an employee Christmas party at the zoo last year, when the two women were arguing about a third zoo employee, llama keeper Adam Davies. The designation of “former meerkat expert” does not mean Westlake is no longer an expert, but that she was fired from the zoo over the incident.

See all 20 items of the year 2015 in weird news at mental_floss.

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Human hearts bleed for those poor innocent animals who are burned trying to help their humans, and human blood starts to boil when somebody posts a fake animal story online to garner sympathy or donations.

But what happens when the story is simply a harmless joke Facebookers felt was in poor taste? People get all kinds of mad anyway, because the internet.

It all started when Stephen Roseman slapped a piece of ham on his dog's face and snapped a pic, posting it to Facebook with a silly caption asking people to pray for his dog via likes and shares.

A silly pic posted by a playful dog owner quickly became a comment crapstorm simply because of what Stephen wrote, or more precisely, because people believed what he wrote.

The post got over 100,000 shares and brought the craftiest and most ham fisted commenters out of the woodwork to weigh in on the issue.

However, the real problem is that people are far too willing to believe everything they see posted online, and yet they blame the original poster for "deceiving" them when even a three-year-old can tell it's a fake.

-Via Cheezburger

YouTube user 10 Cats has 10 cats (I checked by counting because I'm a professional). By feeding them with carefully arranged bowls and appropriate angles, he can use their bodies to write letters and numbers. In this video, the herd wishes you a happy New Year.

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I would like to see more text works composed with cats, such as the collected works of Shakespeare.

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A hobby of my youth was to drive around to small towns and explore little public libraries. It was always fun to see what treasures could be found in these isolated little archives often run by a single librarian who had to get creative with limited resources. I saw many small town libraries this way, but never visited one on an island, such as this one.

Mantinicus Island is a community off the coast of Maine. The 51 people who live there are quite isolated, as they lack a high school or a doctor, among many other amenities of modern life. But they do, now, have a public library. It's housed inside an 8 by 20 foot utility shed. Eva Murray, a resident of the island, writes about this cute little library in the Penobscot Bay Pilot. When complete, the library will offer educational extension services that are otherwise inaccessible:

We hope to have our nascent library recognized by the Maine School and Library Network, and to eventually have our Internet through them. This was in fact the initial impetus for the whole library project. Last year Matinicus had no school-aged children on the island. In June of 2015, despite firm assertion on the part of our Superintendent of Schools that there would be enrolled students the following year (and indeed, there now are,) MSLN disconnected service to our school. Reconnection was, for some reason, an exceedingly drawn-out and laborious process. The connection provided by MSLN is much more than household subscriber Internet; it supports the school's Tandberg videoconferencing unit, useful for meetings such as fisheries and energy-related informational workshops organized by the Island Institute, University of Maine courses for professional development and adult continuing education, special services or counseling that may be required by community members including students, and routine inter-connectivity among all of Maine's one-room island schools. This level of service would not be affordable without MSLN.

-via Jessamyn West

In-N-Out Burger is a fast food restaurant chain famous for excellent hamburgers in towns where people don't have access to a Whataburger. Its loyal fanbase loves the chain's famously large burgers which are improved with a not-so-secret secret menu.

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If you're in the mood for something a bit fancier than burgers for breakfast, than FoodBeast has you covered. In this video, FoodBeast chefs turned In-N-Out foods into a pie. After laying out a pie crust, they put down French fries, then sliced hamburgers, more fries, and special sauce. The only item they neglected to add was a chocolate milkshake. Presumably that will come in the next video.

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One Page by Machmigo

They say the best way to start a trip is with the first step, and the same can be said about writing the story of your life- it all begins with one page. The first page is always the hardest, as our minds struggle to figure out where we're going and where the entire trip will end, but as we start to move about and see new people in new places the pages seem to write themselves. And next thing you know you'll have an entire book full of memories and life experiences to share with those who have yet to finish writing their first page.

Spread some words of wisdom from St. Augustine with this One Page t-shirt by Machmigo, it's one mighty inspirational tee!

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