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A guy recorded a "super-selfie" with eight other dudes and ended up with an amazing music video.

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More of a Selves-ie.

Using a budget that even MC Hammer could afford, Gabriel Valenciano records what he calls "Super Selfies," because that has a better ring to it than "extremely cheap, exceptionally choreographed and edited music videos." Referring to himself as a "dance champion, music producer" on his Facebook page, Valenciano chooses one stationary spot from which to aim his lens at himself and whomever he recruits to join him, taking the art of selfie-photography to its max while churning out some of the best music videos since before MTV switched to an all teen-pregnancy format.

Here is the latest from the "Super Selfie King," Legit.

His videos have been going viral for a little while now. Last year he explained the philosophy behind the "Super Selfie" to SocialNewsDaily.

"I guess it’s a ‘selfie’ that has nothing to do with taking a photo of yourself," Valenciano said. "Rather, a video of yourself disregarding (most important word) your self-image, letting loose and just tearing it up."

Here's his summery take on Katy Perry's 'Birthday":

(by Bob Powers)


Here's two minutes of nothing but little kids cursing in movies.

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Kids say the damnedest shit. 

Ahh, to be a child and say the word "fuck." You can't get those days back, but you can relive the experience with this cinematic highlight reel of just children cursing.

Avaryl Halley cut this shit together and fucking put it up on cock-sucking Vimeo (it is OK that I write that because I am a child). Enjoy!

(by Myka Fox)

A cafe's sign was posted to Facebook and they became instant heroes to exhausted breastfeeding moms everywhere.

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Maybe they're just sick of the laptop drones who stay 8 hours for the wifi. (Via)

Earlier this month, a Starbucks barista stood up to a customer who complained about a mom breastfeeding inside the location. The story went viral, as stories about global mega-chains proving they aren't monsters often do. 

But one cafe in the UK is finding out you don't have to be a mega-chain to get mega-press. A Cheltenham branch of the Brasseri Blanc chain of restaurants hung this sign outside their location recently. When someone posted it on Facebook, it blew up, earning over 10,000 likes and almost as many shares.


(Via)

The restaurant manager told The Independent that she was inspired to hang the sign after serving a tired mom one day. "I made her a cup of tea and she looked like I'd given her am million pounds," Emm O'Connor said. “Sometimes you just need to sit down with your baby. Not everyone is as confident, and it’s not as easy for everyone. You can’t just sit on a park bench sometimes."

It seems like a slam-dunk business plan: directly appeal to a group that is exhausted and feeling ostracized for doing something as natural as giving a baby sustenance, show them you're even the slightest bit appreciative of their ordeal, and they'll "Like" the living crap out of your cafe.

Seriously, though, it's got to be nice to have a bunch of babies taking up seats that would normally be taken up by sullen dudes who spend three hours complaining that the Internet's too slow.

(by Bob Powers)

Danger.

Forget the impending world war with two minutes of houseflies being blown away by a table-salt shotgun.

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There are certain times in life it becomes necessary to kill. This is one of those times.

What's that? The world is looking like 1914, with confusion in Eastern Europe and the Middle East inexorably drawing the great powers into conflict? I've got no time for that—today is all about BUG-A-SALT, the anti-insect assault shotgun that was successfully crowdfunded on Idiegogo a few years ago.

That's right BUG-A-SALT, the ONLY firearm designed to shoot salt at flies. Why salt? Because when you're a fly, a salt crystal is like a brick-sized, uh, brick that someone is throwing at your head. Does it really work? I don't know, but I could watch slow-mo footage of black flies being stunned and bounced across the room all day. And if I'm going to sit and ponder the probability that my generation will be drawn into armed conflict, I would rather it be the one against houseflies (the website notes it's also effective against mosquitos).

(bJohnny McNulty)

New cat feeding system uses cat facial recognition to monitor your cat's eating habits.

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Scanning for cat-orexia.

Is your cat becoming a fat embarrassment because you aren't there to passive-aggressively judge his eating habits? Time to pass your food issues on to your pets! 

A San Mateo, California start-up has the answer to your mortifi-cat-ion with Bistro, a feeding system that allows you to monitor your cat's weight and food intake while you are out making the most of your fading youth. You won't even have to look Fidel Catstro in the eyes while you sanction his meals. 

"But Feline Dion claims another cat has been eating her food," you say? Well, Bistro has that covered like your cat is covered in unwanted layers of adipose tissue. Bistro comes equipped with cat facial recognition so you can hold your critter accountable. Let me repeat that, just in case it went by too quickly: cat facial recognition.

Yeah, you know, one of the more subtle technologies only recently introduced for human use is now being offered to bust your beast when he goes for seconds. Of course, Bistro also weighs and measures the food, so the days of Meow Zaedong overeating are over. There's even a scale right in front of the food bowl, just like your parents wish they could have done to you during your "awkward phase."

Of course, this product is marketed so you can notice any weirdness in your cat's habits and get early warning signs of failing health, but you can also use it to body shame Hisstina Aguilera!

See furr yourself: the smartest cat feeder ever. 

Coming soon: body monitoring and shaming for dogs and birds!

(by Myka Fox)

17 rules everyone needs to follow when using their building's laundry room.

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The shared laundry room. It's where the crap goes down in every apartment building. You meet your neighbors, cross their boundaries, get mixed up in their unmentionables, and if you're not careful, you can have a building-wde bloodbath on your hands. Unless you adhere to these 17 simple rules.

1. Be careful what you leave in the dryer, or you could end a marriage (even if it's for the best)...


There are better ways of handling this! (Via)

2. Mind your business, and try not to pay attention to your more ignorant neighbors...


Black truck means lesbian? Thought that was just a Subaru thing. (Via)

3. Be generous and fight corporatism any way you can...


It's true. Robin Hood would totally take down Walmart first. Then Time Warner Cable. (Via)


4. Do your best to reunite your fellow building occupants with their most prized possessions...


Sounds like Derpy has "ridden the pony" some as well. (Via)

5. Or even their possessions that are not quite so prized...


People really shouldn't let their socks run around without a collar. (Via)

6. If you must move other people's clothes, be civil and gentle as can be...


Screw promises. Swear it! (Via)


7. If you think someone was malicious when they removed your clothes, make sure your vengeance is creative...


People will think someone's suitcase opened up after falling from a passing plane. (Via)


8. But if you're not there when your machine's done, you're surrendering to the mercy of your neighbors...


"All other residents" have quite a potty mouth. (Via)

9. Seriously, don't leave it in there too long. Life is short...


That is one productive naked person. (Via)

10. If a machine's broken, spread the word, but try not to get personal...


Perhaps you were inserting an undersized load. (Via)

11. No need to offer proof of a broken machine. They'll take your word for it...


You could have provided a copy of the forensics report if you were really sorry. (Via)

12. And no need to over state the obvious...


You don't say. (Via)

13. If someone accidentally ends up with your clothing, it's sometimes best if you let it go...


At least you know it went to a good, weird home. (Via)

14. Unless it's clear that the theft is getting way out of hand...


Get ready for a life wearing specially medicated underwear. (Via)

15. Then it might be time to resort to extreme measures, but no need for violence...


Leave the fish out of it! (Via)

16. Best to just do unto them as they have done unto you...


They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the laundry way. (Via)


17. Things can get real shady. Just do your best to get your clothes out on time, and keep your head down. 


Laundry just brings something out of people. (Via)

(by Bob Powers)

Deep in love.


Black bear with a white batman logo on his chest is rescued from a horrible fate...so he can play in a kiddie pool.

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This is the least-fabulous thing Georges the bear does with his paws in this video.

This is Georges, an Asian Black Bear, which are also known as Moon Bears or White-Chested Bears because of the white v-shaped markings on their chests, or (by me) as the "Batman Bear." These creatures weigh between 145-440 lbs at adulthood and have been known to walk on their hind legs for up to a quarter of a mile (ironically, their hind legs are the weakest among the bears, but their upper body strength and climbing ability is impressive).

They also get farmed for their bile, which has no medicinal value whatsoever except in superstition in folklore. That superstition and folklore makes it expensive enough, though, for poachers to trap the bears and keep them imprisoned in horrific conditions, kept alive in small cages for years while tubes inserted into their chests continuously drain their body of bile. Fortunately, Georges was saved by AnimalsAsia from that fate, and he can now splash around giving medicinal-level feels to YouTube viewers worldwide.

(by Johnny McNulty)

An American tourist got robbed while he was busy saving a man's life in Ireland.

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Portrait of the tourist as a broke man. (via)

I don't really like it when people say, "No good deed goes unpunished." I think it's both defeatist and a lazy way to look at the circumstances of life. That's why I won't be making any reference to the phrase as I recount this story of an American tourist who had all of his possessions stolen from him after jumping into the River Liffey to rescue a drowning Dubliner. You have my word on it.

Granted, if I were ever going to use that old adage concerning good deeds and unjust punishment, I can't imagine a better scenario for it. I mean, the idea of a trained lifeguard from Nebraska leaving all his money and valuables on a river bank so that he can jump into the dirty, filthy water that courses through a city he had only just entered a few hours earlier would certainly constitute a 'good deed.' Just as the notion of having his wallet and smartphone taken by some shameless opportunistic douchebag while he was busy splashing around saving a man's life would easily absolve him from any claims of having his actions 'unpunished.'

Sure, it's kind of hard to focus on the positive when when you learn that even though somebody attempted to chase the thief down, he still somehow managed to get away with the hero's possessions. And, yeah, it's a bit gut-wrenching to hear the robbery victim explain what it was like climbing out of that river after pulling a human being from the clutches of eternity: "I'm standing there in my underwear, just soaking wet, and I literally have nothing now." But that's no reason to descend into dispirited aphorisms like the one I've promised not to dwell on.

Instead, I'll just warn you that if you're going to try doing something good in this world, you should expect some sort of negative retribution for your efforts. That's all.

(by Dennis DiClaudio)

An old man drops his crutches, then drops some serious dance moves.

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Shake, rattle and roll. Then dance.

This video is all about power -- the power of music, the power of the opposite sex, and the power of whatever pharmaceuticals are in the plastic bag tied around this old guy's belt loop.

Unless, that is, the crutches that he tosses away at the beginning of "Rock Around the Clock" belong to a partner that passed away earlier in the afternoon. In which case, the video is about the power of one man to cope with loss and move on with life, because the clock he's rocking around is ticking, so you may as well dance while you can. 

After watching this dude in action, there's a good chance that "drop the crutches" is just one of his dance moves, along with "the hair pull" and "shake the plastic baggy." Moves that were popular back when "doing Molly" meant actually having sex with a woman named Molly.

Whatever the case, he's an inspiration to players of all ages.

(by Jonathan Corbett)

Here are two puppies making out. Pray it doesn't awaken anything inside of you.

A woman has designed a pair of anatomically correct "vagina panties."

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There will be a test. (Eleanor Beth Haswell via Tumblr)

Artist Eleanor Beth Haswell has designed what are probably the most revealing pair of panties in existence. These "vagina panties" were created for an art project entitled, "Why are you so afraid of your own anatomy?" It would appear Haswell wants to demystify the female body with this pair of underwear that lets a woman become a walking game of Operation. She's even gone ahead and created a bra to match.


Behind the curtain. (Eleanor Beth Haswell via Tumblr)

According to BuzzFeed, the 18-year-old Haswell is part of the Clandestine Collective, a North East England feminist art collective.  Her work often addresses body issues and body shaming.

There's no plan to market these for purchase yet, but considering how quickly they've been shared across the web, there might be some high demand. In the near future, we'll all be wearing X-ray underwear. No more secrets. 


(Eleanor Beth Haswell via Tumblr)

While this kind of undergarment might take some by surprise, I can think of one person who would be way into it.


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View more of Eleanor Haswell's work on her Tumblr, or at Dropr.

(by Bob Powers)

Benefits without friends.

A girl's smiling selfie from Auschwitz has people angry. Her response was "I'm famous yall."

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Good look, bad idea. (via)

Teens take selfies everywhere they go, which unfortunately includes many places where taking selfies is probably a bad idea. That said, if you're going to throw decency to the wind and take a selfie while standing at one of history's most gruesome crime scenes , a good rule of thumb is to not to make it look like you're at the premiere of 22 Jump Street standing next to Channing Tatum. And including a smiley face emoticon with the words "Selfie in the Auschwitz concentration camp" will only make matters worse.

Some people don't see a problem with that. People like American teen Breanna Mitchell.

By every account, Breanna's visit to the Nazi concentration camp was made with the best of intentions. She claims she and her late father studied the Holocaust for years and she was happy to finally make the trip.  She clearly wasn't looking to upset people or become famous, but once people began retweeting the picture, that's exactly what happened.

Pretty soon the Tweet was being sent around and Breanna started taking heat. She seemed annoyed by the attention at first, and tried to explain herself, tweeting, “Omg I wish people would quit tweeting to, quoting, retweeting, and favoriting my picture of my smiling in Auschwitz Concentration Camp.” 

For some reason, Business Insider deemed it newsworthy, and Breanna responded the way most self-absorbed American teens would, by announcing, "I'm famous yall." 

Not surprisingly, that jump-started the Internet outrage machine, with thousands of people jumping in to criticize the shot, and others lending their support with words of encouragement. One guy even felt the need to make sure everyone knew that he was the original player in the death camp selfie game.

And no story about selfies, teens, and poor decision making would be complete without the good folks at reddit getting involved, and turning the entire situation into a tasteless competition in r/photoshopbattles.

"I'm infamous, yall."(via)

As of now, Breanna's original tweet is still up. But at this point, it hardly matters, because, regardless of her original intention, or whether she has a change of heart, Breanna's name will forever be linked to inappropriate selfies.

(by Jonathan Corbett)


CNN anchor chooses worst possible pun while reporting at the crash site of MH17.

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He's having a turbulent career (excuse the pun).

While most puns are just simply terrible, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo managed to land (excuse the pun) on the worst possible one.

Cuomo was interviewing Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) from the crash site of Malasia Airlines flight 17 when he asked whether Rogers could "shoot down" the theory that Ukraine used missiles to take down the plane. 

Click the upper left to un-mute this bad boy and watch Cuomo's phrasing blow up in his face (excuse the pun).

You can actually see the regret in Cuomo's face as he realizes his career is about to fall to pieces (excuse the pun). His choice of phrasing crashed and burned (excuse the pun) and, obviously, distasteful puns like that just aren't going to fly (excuse the pun). 

(by Myka Fox)

5 people who are having a worse Monday than you.

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She's the little one who's looking off-camera over at trouble. (via Getty)

5. Former Destiny's Child member Farrah Franklin, who terrified NFL players into calling the cops. Although she played it off the next day on Instagram by posting an inspirational quote (yes, to a picture-sharing site) and a comment about the "dumb media," a former member of the hit group Destiny's Child had a very exciting weekend. The singer, who was in the group with Beyonce Knowles, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland back in 2000, was flown out to Myrtle Beach, SC by NFL player Daquan Bowers (of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) to party with himself and fellow NFLer Ricky Sapp. When the three went back to Sapp's house, Franklin became belligerent, "yelling, slamming doors and refused to stop when asked." The panicked football players called the cops, who arrived to find Franklin in a neighbor's yard, "planning on sleeping in the woods."

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4. Cory Tschogl, who rented her house on Airbnb to two brothers who are now trying to legally steal it. Cory Tscogl bought a small property in Palm Springs, CA to try and make extra money using it as a rental unit on Airbnb. After fixing it up with her sister and father, she rented it out to two brothers from Texas for 44 days. On day 30, they stopped paying. When she said they had 24 hours to leave, they sued her for all sorts of damages and refused to leave, based on California's lenient squatters' rights laws, which give them rights after 30 days of residency. They have also threatened to sue her for thousands of dollars a day if she shuts off the electricity because they claim they need it for their business which generates "$1,000 to $7,000 a day." Meanwhile, Airbnb's customer service has been noticeably absent on the issue, only replying to Tschogl by email every 48 hours or so while thousands in legal fees add up. She should have just taken the easy route and started a brothel.

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3. The creator of the world's largest and unluckiest rubber ducky. Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created the Rubber Duck, a huge, inflatable version of the universal bath toy that travels around the world making people happy. Its most recent stop was Guiyang, the capital of China's southwestern Guizhou province. Unfortunately, heavy rains caused flooding on the Nanming River. According to local duck co-ordinator Yan Jianxin, "the duck flopped over and was flushed away really quickly." All this despite the fact that "the duck itself weighted around one ton, together with its over 10-ton floating metal platform, and several steel wires fixing it to the bottom of the river." This comes just a few months after the duck exploded in Taiwan following an eagle attack.

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2. Kim Jong-Un, who is starring in the latest viral video hit. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't want to be. Kim is trying to get the Chinese government to scrub a satirical video featuring a CGI version of the North Korean dictator from the Internet. Even the Chinese, however, recognize that governmental power has limits when it comes to retrieving things from the tar-lined quicksand pit that is the Internet, and the interest that Kim's wrath has generated means that now the video has spread to major sites worldwide...sites like ours.

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1. Parents and infants in Yolo County (for real) who are worried about Whooping Cough. If you know someone who opposes vaccines, take this opportunity to hit them upside the head (or, if possible, quietly sterilize them). The unfortunately-named Yolo County in California has seen 80 cases of pertussis, aka Whooping Cough, in the past month, an absolute explosion in the disease that has sadly included two infant deaths. Vaccines are available for pertussis, however infants are too fragile to be fully immunized. While pregnant women can get a vaccine in the third trimester that will improve an infant's defenses against whooping cough, essentially any infant that gets the disease can directly blame some a-hole adult who is suspicious of vaccines. These nutjobs have caused cases of pertussis to hit 5,400 in California as a whole in 2014 so far...compared to 2,372 for all of 2013.

(by Johnny McNulty)

Road test.

Good listener.

How to make sure your neighbors never say another word about you again.

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Not trying to start trouble, but that lawn's a little patchy.(Via)

Here's a pic, shared on reddit, of a friendly homeowner's announcement to his concerned neighbors after the sign-maker reportedly received word from the city that people complained about some garbage in his yard.

Forget the yard, this is some remarkable use of space on that slab of cardboard. Did he start from the middle, landing "YARD" with the left and right emphasis dead center, then scaling his font size for the rest from there? Excellent use of justify text to keep everything flush against both margins without any squishing (except for "payment," he shit the bed there). And the final addition of the middle finger at the bottom right. Did he linger over the finished text thinking, "It still needs something. I've got it!"

Really wonderful design and care taken here. Shame we can't say the same about his shit yard.

(by Bob Powers)

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