Most viral stars have a moment in the spotlight before quickly fading away from the public consciousness, and grandmother of four Sara Coull—who spent two minutes falling in the mud as an unconcerned friend took a video—​is no different. But Sara is also notable for having a pretty positive reaction to all the attention, however fleeting, that came from this being uploaded to Facebook:

"It's mental," Coull said, according to the Telegraph. "It's had more than 2.7 million views in three days. I just think it's crazy."

Pretty calm reaction, considering nearly three million people—and counting—have watched her scream obscenities, struggling desperately to get free like a determined Bear Grylls escaping quicksand (but without all the pee-drinking).

The ordeal ended when Sara's friend finally rescued her with a tractor. "I had to drive home in just my underwear and coat," Sara recalls, "It was in the evening, too, so it was freezing. Luckily, it was dark." Lucky? Sara Coull is more than a good sport, she's a viral saint. Do it for the Vine.

Combining the isolated vocals from various concert performances of 'Under Pressure' by Queen and David Bowie, Playback.fm earlier this week created an a capella duet with Bowie and Freddie Mercury that really should have existed sooner. The song was co-written by Bowie and Queen in 1981; the band had brought Bowie in to sing on a different track, 'Feel Like,' but they were unhappy with the song's development. However, an impromptu studio jam and scat session yielded 'Under Pressure,' one of the coolest rock collaborations of all time. Even though the bassline is probably the most famous part of the song, any song sung by Freddie Mercury and David Bowie is going to be pretty good a capella.

Related: Someone turned Freddie Mercury's vocals on 'We Are The Champions' into its own concert film.

Bowie never performed the song with Mercury in real life. He sang it live for the first time at a tribute concert for Mercury in 1992. He did perform it with Annie Lennox, whom you can see in the video. Wherever they are, Bowie and Mercury are probably planning to put on a pretty cool concert soon.

Related: In honor of David Bowie, here he is mercilessly mocking Ricky Gervais. In song, of course.

In Hollywood, this time of the year is devoted to rewarding the major film achievements of the previous year, whether for their astounding prowess or sheer entertainment factor. On the flipside, the Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the Razzies, are dedicated to bringing attention to the embarrassments Hollywood produced and would like to pretend didn't cost them tons of money. 

Here's the video announcement for this year's nominations:

It was to be expected that Mortdecai, 50 Shades of Grey, Fantastic Four, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2, and Pixels would be up for Worst Picture. But Dakota Johnson for Worst Actress in 50 Shades of Grey? Wasn't she the only redeemable part of the film?

Oh, right, the entire thing was awful. 

Johnson is facing off against Katherine Heigl (Home Sweet Hell), Mila Kunis (Jupiter Ascending), Jennifer Lopez (The Boy Next Door), and Gwyneth Paltrow (Mortdecai) for Worst Actress.

The actors vying for a Worst Actor Razzie are Johnny Depp (Mortdecai), Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey), Kevin James (Paul Blart Mall Cop 2), Adam Sandler (The Cobbler and Pixels), and Channing Tatum (Jupiter Ascending). 

The winning loser of the Razzies appears to be Pixels, which racked up 7 noms, compared to 50 Shades' and Jupiter Ascending's 6 noms.  

If anyone saw all these movies, their 2015 must have been awful.

Christian Ott, an astrophysics professor at the California Institute of Technology, has been placed on unpaid leave after complaints by two female graduate students that worked with him.

According to BuzzFeed News, Ott confessed to grad student Sarah Gossan that he had fired another grad student, Io Kleiser, from his lab after falling in love with her. Unsurprisingly, this violates all academic ethics policies, and is illegal under Title IX. The university learned about Ott's actions after Gossan reported it in a Title IX complaint. According to the university, the evidence against the professor was clear and compelling:

There was unambiguous gender-based harassment of both graduate students by the faculty member.

Interestingly, when Gossan filed the complaint, Kleiser did not know that she had been fired by Ott because of his feelings for her. She reported that while he was her graduate advisor, he put unreasonable pressure on her to work lengthy hours and constantly criticized her performance and dedication. This is troubling because it could have been an attempt by him to push her out, or to give himself excuses to fire her.

When Kleisser met with the Title IX coordinator about the case, she showed her 86 poems Ott had posted about her on his Tumblr page. So it sounds like his romantic feelings also crossed over into obsessed weirdo territory.

Ultimately, the professor will not  be fired. In addition to his unpaid leave, his communications with students in his research group will have to be supervised, and he will be required to undergo training. He will return to campus after his leave with the same tenured position. Kleiser is transferring to UC Berkeley to continue her graduate work, and Gossan will finish her graduate degree at Caltech under a different advisor.

Both women are disappointed that Ott will keep his job, especially since they had years of their lives impacted while pursuing an extremely difficult and competitive graduate degree. An astrophysicist should be smart enough not to allow personal feelings to impact their working relationship with students. And if they choose to do it anyway, their career should explode like a dying star.

Babies! People keep getting them, from god knows where. And that means baby gifts, baby showers, and, of course, baby shower cards. One company, Joker Greetings, has created a baby card to congratulate your friends on their upcoming newborn in the most realistic way possible—with a prank card that cries when you open it and will not stop crying no matter what for at least three hours, possibly longer.  

In fact, the only way to get the card to stop crying once it starts is to wait for the batteries to run out or to destroy it all together. 

Travis Peterson, who started the company with his brother Nick, told BuzzFeed that his experience with his own baby, now three years old, inspired him to make this card in particular. Their company makes similarly obnoxious, sort-of-mean but definitely funny noisy cards for just about every occasion. 

The baby shower card is actually not ready yet—the card is expected to ship in March 2016. Funding to create the card was recently raised via KickStarter, where the project earned the honor of being a Staff Pick. 

A recent Reddit thread asked the Internet, "35yo+ Redditors, what would you like to scream to your 18-22yo self?" While a lot of the words of wisdom and regrets sound like they could have come from inspirational posters, they're still good advice. Whether it's to stop caring what other people think about you, to motivate yourself to get out of a funk, or to not make very specific business decisions, the most important message is:

1. Keep trying. 

2. There's life after the Navy.

3. Be your f*cking self.

4. Keep it safe.

5. Schmooze. Swallow your pride. Practice good judgment.

6. It doesn't matter what other people think of you. 

7. Everything a person does is about validation.

8. Make sure there's a good reason behind what you're doing.

9. Do the thing. 

10. Choose Coke.

11. Just do it.

12. Talk less, listen more.

13. Learn how you learn.

If you win the record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot tonight, be prepared: it might really suck. That's the advice of Reddit user BlakeClass, who posted a guide to dealing with a huge lottery win on Reddit last year back when the jackpot was a measly $656 million. It's percolated back to the top of the social network this week, for obvious reasons, and the advice is both good and terrifying. Imagine having to wear a disguise just to pick up your reward money, or not tell anyone but a lawyer that you're suddenly, horrifyingly rich. That's only the beginning.

First, BlakeClass provides some background info on the horrifying fate of real-world lottery winners:

Congratulations! You just won millions of dollars in the lottery! That's great.

Now you're f*cked.

No really.

You are.

You're f*cked.

If you just want to skip the biographical tales of woe of some of the math-tax protagonists, skip on down to the next comment, to see what to do in the event you win the lottery.

You see, it's something of an open secret that winners of obnoxiously large jackpots tend to end up badly with alarming regularity. Not the $1 million dollar winners. But anyone in the nine-figure range is at high risk. Eight-figures? Pretty likely to be screwed. Seven-figures? Yep. Painful. Perhaps this is a consequence of the sample. The demographics of lottery players might be exactly the wrong people to win large sums of money. Or perhaps money is the root of all evil. Either way, you are going to have to be careful. Don't believe me? Consider this:

Large jackpot winners face double digit multiples of probability versus the general population to be the victim of:

1. Homicide (something like 20x more likely)

2. Drug overdose

3. Bankruptcy (how's that for irony?)

4. Kidnapping

And triple digit multiples of probability versus the general population rate to be:

1. Convicted of drunk driving

2. The victim of Homicide (at the hands of a family member) 120x more likely in this case, ain't love grand?

3. A defendant in a civil lawsuit

4. A defendant in felony criminal proceedings

Believe it or not, your biggest enemy if you suddenly become possessed of large sums of money is... you. At least you will have the consolation of meeting your fate by your own hand. But if you can't manage it on your own, don't worry. There are any number of willing participants ready to help you start your vicious downward spiral for you. Mind you, many of these will be "friends," "friendly neighbors," or "family." Often, they won't even have evil intentions. But, as I'm sure you know, that makes little difference in the end. Most aren't evil. Most aren't malicious. Some are. None are good for you.

 

Finally, here's his advice if you do meet this horrible fortune:

This is the absolutely most important thing you can do right away: NOTHING.

Yes. Nothing.

DO NOT DECLARE YOURSELF THE WINNER yet.

Do NOT tell anyone. The urge is going to be nearly irresistible. Resist it. Trust me.

/ 1. IMMEDIATELY retain an attorney.

Get a partner from a larger, NATIONAL firm. Don't let them pawn off junior partners or associates on you. They might try, all law firms might, but insist instead that your lead be a partner who has been with the firm for awhile. Do NOT use your local attorney. Yes, I mean your long-standing family attorney who did your mother's will. Do not use the guy who fought your dry-cleaner bill. Do not use the guy you have trusted your entire life because of his long and faithful service to your family. In fact, do not use any firm that has any connection to family or friends or community. TRUST me. This is bad. You want someone who has never heard of you, any of your friends, or any member of your family. Go the closest big city and walk into one of the national firms asking for one of the "Trust and Estates" partners you have previously looked up on http://www.martindale.com from one of the largest 50 firms in the United States which has an office near you. You can look up attorneys by practice area and firm on Martindale. 

There's even more detailed, lengthy, and cautious advice here. 

Good luck tonight... whatever that means to you now.

In an interview with Howard Stern Wednesday morning, Khloe Kardashian revealed details about Lamar Odom and his sexual exploits following their marriage. She specifically addressed Lamar's overdose in a Nevada brothel, which led the pair to postpone their divorce while Lamar worked on his recovery.

When Stern asked her why a former NBA star would need to visit a brothel, Kardashian didn't have a good explanation:

I’ve said, 'You do whatever the f**k you want to do, but please promise me you’ll never go back to a disgusting brothel again. If you want to pay someone, you can pay someone in the privacy of your hotel.' Like, what are you doing?

Stern also questioned why Odom took herbal Viagra at the brothel, and Kardashian responded that it likely had to do with the other drugs in his system:

I think when you are doing so many things, you're limp down there.

Kardashian's answers and reactions are quite sensible: stay out of brothels and don't put your penis on the inactive list because of too many drugs. That's advice everyone should follow, not just Odom.

Steve Noviello, a reporter for FOX 4 in Dallas, visited the Nebraska Furniture Mart and discovered some glittery $149 pillows. He posted a video of himself checking out the so-called mermaid pillows, which have since become insanely popular because they seemingly change color depending on the direction you swipe your hand across them.

Available online and on sale for $99 at the aptly named Bling Is the New Black site, the pillows come in many colors and allow one to write whatever they please on them.

The pillows have captivated many:

Judging by the sudden popularity of these pillows, one might think the pillow fans had never seen sequins before, which very often have this effect. Or fabric. The same thing happens with a lot of fabric.

As you may have heard, tonight's Powerball jackpot is the largest in history. While the odds of you taking home the 1.5 billion dollar prize are similar to that of getting struck by lighting (while simultaneously having your leg bitten off by a polar bear who's shaking hands with David Lee Roth) you've still gotta go for it. Here are the best tweets about the Powerball from hopeful winners and people who have given up on their dreams.

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With any luck, this will be you tomorrow.

New York State Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther of Sullivan County has proposed a bill to stop cable companies from applying early termination fees to dead customers. That's right, if you thought dying was a reasonable way to cancel your cable or phone contract early, you'd be dead wrong. Sure, the companies don't expect you to pay the fee—that would be ridiculous. They just expect your family or whoever is left in charge of your estate to pay it for you. Much more reasonable, yes? 

Assemblywoman Gunther described the practice as an “unseemly demonstration of corporate greed." Her bill, if passed, "prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has become deceased before the end of such contract." 

Gunther drafted the legislation based on personal experience. After her mother's death, she and her sister received a bill from her mother's cable company, charging her an early termination fee. 

The bill doesn't just cover cable companies however. It also prohibits this practice for any "provider of telephone, cellular telephone, television, internet, energy, or water services." Furthermore, violations would cost the offending companies a penalty of up to $1,000. So before you ask what the point of state government, remember what Aileen Gunther is trying to accomplish: making death affordable.

Adam Driver, the man behind the Kylo Ren mask, is hosting Saturday Night Live on January 16th. NBC just released the first round of promos, which show that Driver will indeed bring balance to the Force. He channels Emo Kylo Ren when Kate McKinnon steals a fry, but then laughter calls to him, to just let it in.

On Saturday, nothing will stand in his way. He will finish what he started.

Antonio Cromartie is cornerback for the NY Jets, and the 31-year-old must have some stamina, because the father of 10 is expanding his family. His wife Terricka, with whom Antonio has two kids, is pregnant, and that's a little strange because Antonio had a vasectomy. "I didn’t even tell Antonio right away because I didn’t think it was possible," his wife told Us Weekly. 

The real kicker is that Terricka is carrying twins.

So Antonio, whose eight other children are from previous relationships, intended to have no more kids, but he got two instead. 

"I just really thought that his procedure was the best protection you could have at this point," Terricka said, adding that she considers her pregnancy a blessing. Apparently even vasectomies are not a 100% guarantee. Take note. 

A woman named Sophie posted an ad on Gumtree (an Australian classifieds site) for a human cat to sleep at the foot of her bed at night. It sounds like a weird request because it is totally a weird request. Ads like this are the reason you should never go on the Internet with your parents. But the job isn't all bad. Sophie offers amenities fit for cats, and wages fit for humans, if one would be so daring to do this for money:

Night Time Watcher Required, $30 p/h neg. 

Hey there, 

I would like to state that this add is not a joke and all joke replies will be deleted. If however, you want to make some extra cash and don't have much previous work experience this may be for you. 

What is required you ask? 

I'm looking for somebody to curl up on the end of my bed an purr softly like a sleeping kitten as I sleep. I have had a lot of trouble sleeping and I think it would be comforting falling asleep to the sound of a cat purring and also knowing that someone is there to keep an eye on me as I sleep. 

I'd also appreciate it if you could arrive in a realistic cat costume and enter my house on all fours. I have always found great comfort in the idea of having a pet cat but I just don't have the time to clean up after one and feed one.

I'd be prepared to pay you up to $60 if you can make a nice and relaxing and consistent purr and maybe $35 to $40 if you 'lets say' ain't the best .

The shift times will vary and i'm really looking for a rotating roster of one or two permanent 'staff'. I was thinking that the ideal candidate would be able to cover 3 nights between the hours of 11pm - 6 am. 

I will provide you one bowl of milk and one bowl of tuna for if you get hungry or thirsty during the night. I'd prefer if you didn't eat or drink whilst I am still awake as I would find that very off putting.

You can of course use my bathroom. But only two hours after I fall asleep to ensure that I won't suddenly wake up to find the room empty.

Please no time wasters, 

Sophie

So in addition to being good at purring, you better be good at lapping milk out of a bowl. While it sounds like the person playing the cat could be at risk of getting murdered, her ad did say this job is great for strangers with little professional work experience. That would seem to put Sophie at greater risk, if anything.

Thankfully, no one will get murdered. Mashable Australia confirmed through correspondence with the author of the ad that it was just a joke, despite beginning the ad by specifically saying it was not a joke:

It was written just in humor to brighten up a shady day. I have had a series of responses from serious to sarcastic. It is rather amusing reading some of them.

Yes, it must be amusing for Sophie to read serious inquiries from unemployable loners that want to watch a stranger sleep while they wear a cat costume. If she has this much free time to brighten up a shady day, she could try reading a book or getting a real cat instead.

Disney's shortlist of actors for the Han Solo Star Wars prequel is full of good-looking dudes, but none seem to quite have the persona required to play the wonderfully charming and selfish Han that Harrison Ford created. Can you imagine Dave Franco illegally transporting goods in a galaxy far, far away? Nope.

There's been a widespread call for Disney to get real and cast this dude named Anthony Ingruber. There's a very obvious reason why this needs to happen: Ingruber is a dead-ringer for a young, so very attractive Ford.

They are the same person, and everyone agrees Ingruber needs to play Solo.

Plus, Ingruber is capable of an excellent Han Solo-impression.

And Ingruber even played a young version of Ford in that Blake Lively movie Age of Adaline. 

Since Disney was all about the unknowns for The Force Awakens, Ingruber is even more ideal than say, Miles Teller, who is too arrogant to play the incredibly arrogant Solo.