Old style: getting angry, logging into Twitter, then saying something regrettable.
New style: hulking out, logging into Twitter, then smashing your keyboard.
If the Avengers used social media, what would they use? Captain America is obviously your grandmother on Facebook. Tony Stark would post pictures of himself being awesome on Instagram. Jamie Jones of BuzzFeed photoshopped the 6 members of the Avengers team on different social media tools. Is there a Marvel superhero who would still be using MySpace?
Lindsay of Filth Wizardy, a kids crafting site, explains the finer points of making art with ordinary snails and (presumably, non-toxic) food coloring. After wrangling snails from your yard, it seems you can simply dip them in the food coloring and let them loose on a big piece of white butcher paper.
Cat furniture company CatastrophiCreations makes all kinds of unconventional home furnishings for felines, but their latest one takes the cake. Fans of video games are going to love this, it's a cat bed that looks like Chain Chomp, a Super Mario Bros. character that looks like a a ball and chain with sharp teeth.
Look! These two kittehs love it!
See photos of how they made it over at Bored Panda.
The idea of some joker using cheap gadgets and stinky gas to make an entire city laugh themselves to death really got under Wade's skin, and seeing as how he was fresh out of chimichangas Wade decided to pay Gotham's clown prince of crime a visit. Pool wanted to shoot him dead, but the villainous madman had a plan- use him as a wildcard and the two of them could split the loot, that way they'd both make a killing and the joke would be on old Bats...
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BB-8 is the name of the spherical droid that appears in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Ever since it first appeared on screen for a couple seconds in an early trailer, fans have been fascinated by it.
You can count on nail artist Kayleigh O'Connor to express a pop culture phenomenon on her hands. In the past, she's made nails inspired by Breaking Bad, Futurama, The Lord of the Rings, and more. For Star Wars Day, she made this rounded thumbnail droid that looks like it's ready to roll off her hand.
Ben Zurawski is a collector of flipbooks and flipbook artist for people who want a tangible, animated story of important parts of their lives. Sometimes people hire him to tell their personal love stories. That’s what Wayne Brandes did. He married his wife Rachel in January and gave her this flipbook as a wedding present.
"I think it is perfect," Brandes said of the finished product. "Ben obviously put a lot of effort into making it special. Rachel loves it. She cried when I gave it to her."
The Pet Collective proves that everyone, regardless of species, can get into the thrilling story of Star Wars. It recreated scenes from the original trilogy using puppies in place of the main characters. It is up to Yo-dog to train Luke to avoid the Bark Side of the Force and show him how to defeat Darth Hound.
The Chocolate Covered Company covers things in chocolate, then sells them. That’s a great business premise! Everything is better when drenched in chocolate. I’ve never had chocolate covered jalapeños, but I can definitely imagine how wonderful the combination would be.
The crew at 7 Deadly took them even further. They injected half a shot of tequila into each pepper. The combination was perfect:
The result was an explosion of liquor (we used some leftover Los Abuelos), followed by the unforgiving single of a densely-seeded jalapeño. The heat was only lightly tempered by the chocolate, which for amusement’s sake, was quite tasty.
The felines shown in this compilation have figured out how to penetrate the barrier between them and tasty treats. Knowledge is power, and a cat with power is — to the cat — an appropriate state of affairs. All is right with the kitty world. -Via Tastefully Offensive
Jenny Harrison used to work with computers. But she found it unsatisfying. So she decided to become a faerie. Fortunately, Happily Ever Laughter, a company in the San Francisco Bay area, employs many faeries. Harrison found a way to stand out from the competition. In an impressive piece of longform journalism, Lauren Davis of io9 learned about the modern faerie world and how Harrison broke into it:
But she figured out a way to make her application stand out anyway. For one thing, she made her cover letter rhyme. For another, she transformed her resume from that of tech professional to that of a silly faerie who happened to work in the tech industry. She removed the references to servers and MySQL, for example, replacing them with job descriptions like, “I look at computer screens all day! And oh my gosh, there are so many numbers!” She scored an interview.
As soon as people cross that line into adulthood, they are met with the slow bombardment of signs telling them that being an adult isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Suddenly your bills aren't paid unless you pay them, your toys and treats are no longer free and sleeping with a teddy bear to ease the stress is no longer acceptable. This Lunarbaboon comic emphasizes the joys of childhood in the context of the "children's table."
Manhattan's Met Gala is an annual, star-studded fundraiser to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Each year, attendees walk a red carpet similar to that of a movie premiere or the Academy Awards and show off their expensive designer gowns. Most of the ensembles match a theme based on the yearly fashion exhibit by the Costume Institute. This year's theme was "China: Through the Looking Glass."
Singer Rihanna showed up at the Gala last night outfitted in a yellow embroidered gown with a huge train. Once pictures of the over-the-top gown circulated, the People of the Internet took to their keyboards and image editors. Some of the results are shown here. See more jokes about Rihanna's dress here.
See also this article, in which other celebrity outfits are joked about, including a connection made between Sarah Jessica Parker's head gear and Heat Miser of Christmas special fame.
There's song covers and then there's YouTube star Rob Scallon covering Metallica's "Enter Sandman," in reverse. Perhaps this should be called, "Exit Sandman"?
In 2005, Drs. Simone Shamay-Tsoory and Judith Aharon-Peretz published an article in the journal Neuropsychology that examined how the brain processes sarcasm. They studied how people with selected brain damage understood sarcasm and concluded that the prefrontal cortex provides essential information processing of sarcasm:
The authors explored the neurobiology of sarcasm and the cognitive processes underlying it by examining the performance of participants with focal lesions on tasks that required understanding of sarcasm and social cognition. Participants with prefrontal damage (n 25) showed impaired performance on the sarcasm task, whereas participants with posterior damage (n 16) and healthy controls (n 17) performed the same task without difficulty. Within the prefrontal group, right ventromedial lesions were associated with the most profound deficit in comprehending sarcasm. In addition, although the prefrontal damage was associated with deficits in theory of mind and right hemisphere damage was associated with deficits in identifying emotions, these 2 abilities were related to the ability to understand sarcasm. This suggests that the right frontal lobe mediates understanding of sarcasm by integrating affective processing with perspective taking.
A 2005 article in The Guardian summarizes the implications of these findings:
First the language centre in the brain's left hemisphere interprets the literal meaning of words. Next, the frontal lobes and right hemisphere process the speaker's intention and check for contradictions between the literal meaning and the social and emotional context. Finally, the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex - our sarcasm meter - makes a decision based on our social and emotional knowledge of the situation.
Therefore you should be sarcastic whenever possible in order to demonstrate to people your superior intellectual abilities.
