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Holy cow – Wikimedia Commons! That’s a pretty daring selection for Picture of the Year! (Click on pic to enlarge.)
A question mark? On a plain white background? Really? We could see if the question mark was next to a nice, soft waterfall, or a goat—goat pictures are HOT right now!—but sheesh. And the composition is just so dull, too. If it were like this:
Like every other Doomsday prediction before it, the world failed to end on December 21, 2012, due to the “Mayan Apocalypse.” Those who believed that the ancient race’s prediction of the end of a calendar cycle somehow equated the end of humanity were left embarrassed, especially those who did things like invest in underground bunkers or expensive survival gear. So, when is the next apocalypse? The good news, doomsayers (and bad news, everyone else): according to Dr. F. Kenton Beshore, founder of the World Bible Society, the world is scheduled to end in 2018. Pop psychic Jeanne Dixon, before her death, claimed 2020. And, of course, there’s the ever present threat of a looming zombie apocalypse. However and whenever it comes, get ready with some of these not-at-all ridiculous products.
No, silly, this story’s not from the Wall Street Urinal – it’s from the Wall Street Journal!
A dog shaved like a lion made for an eventful night for Norfolk, Va., dispatchers, when several people who saw the dog on Tuesday called 9-1-1 to report a lion on the loose, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports.
The newspaper obtained 9-1-1 call audio, in which one woman says, “There was a lion that ran across the street – a baby lion. It was about the size of a Labrador retriever.”
The dog’s owner, Daniel Painter, told the Virginian-Pilot that he shaved his pet to look like the mascot for Old Dominion University.
Too much. “It was about the size – and genus – of a Labrador retriever!”
“A rubber duck obviously doesn’t belong to anyone but to all of us. It’s a mutual friend. And I think in the time of globalisation that we live in, we have a mutual bath tub.”
Hear hear! Mutual bathtubs for everyone! Oh. Wait…
Anyhoo – here’s giant rubber ducky video video:
Every year around Halloween this hilarious image makes its way around the intertubes. (Earliest one we’ve found dates to 2007.)
It was just pointed out to us that we might be familiar with the book that pooping pumpkin is reading:
Yet another Comic-Con is behind us. The last four days in San Diego have been filled with costumes, good and bad, and a few celebrity sightings. Below are some images of the fantastic convention that brought in 125,000 fans this year. First some movie news from the Con.
UPDATE: DONE. Well that was that. Hopefully you enjoyed watching the alternative sites. (Or reading the comments at YouTube…)
YouTube is up to new things, it seems: interview with Justin Bieber, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, live now.
A while back we showed you the very weird and wonderful work of jason Freeney, with “Fetal and Anatomical Hello Kitty.”
Jason’s got some new work out:
The BRI’s Mana of San Diego got on her trusty scooter and scooted all over the city searching for stop signs highlighted in yesterday’s story:
A stealth knitter has been turning Clairemont stop signs into flowers under cover of night. But San Diego is about to crack down on the so-called yarn-bomber and his cohorts.
She actually found some:
That is so danged cute and funny. “Stop, bikers! Flower Power compels you!”
A few more:
