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‘Stuff Being Thrown at My Head’ Is Exactly What It Sounds Like. Kaija Straumanis’ self-portraits are testimony to the suffering of artists.

The 10 Worst Pieces of Advice From Susan Patton's Marry Smart. Going to college for an MRS. degree is not a surefire recipe for happiness.

The 10 Most Striking Images of Earth From Space. From a distance, our planet is a work of art.

Come along as we debunk a few internet hoaxes. And never believe what you see until you check it out.

Don't worry: World War III will almost certainly never happen. Didn’t we hear that line in the movie Dr. Strangelove?

11 French Travel Tips for Visiting America.

The intellectual bankruptcy of claiming the poor merely 'envy' the rich.

A Brief History of First Ladies on Sitcoms.

Black Angel: The Lost Star Wars Movie. (via Digg)

Mysterious Railway Posters Depict the Dreamy Allure of Deco-Era Japan.

A Frozen Father

Both my brother and I became parents in middle age. A few years later, he expressed astonishment that kids can watch the same movie enough times to memorize it, which was unthinkable when we were kids. It’s a way of life for children of the 21st century. And every parent has a movie or song that has been played, seen, sang, or acted out enough to make them sick. To this day, my husband can’t stand The Lion King. Oh, he agrees it’s a good movie, but his son watched it a few too many times. 

And now a generation of parents are feeling the same way about Frozen and the award-winning song “Let It Go.” Joshua Elson sings a parody of “Let It Go” that he wrote with Scott S. Kramer, Tovah Kramer, and Molly Elson. I feel for you, Buddy. Don’t miss the punch line at the end. (via Viral Viral Videos)

The 2014 Academy Awards Meme Roundup

Internet culture is invading the old world of TV more and more each day. I mentioned just the other day how people who’s been watching The Tonight Show since Johnny Carson took over for Jack Paar are now scratching their heads at Jimmy Fallon’s “hashtags” and “memes.” News programs are asking viewers to “Tweet” them. And the Academy Awards program last weekend was not only full of “selfies” and “photobombs,” but the celebrities in the auditorium were fully aware of such things, even more so than the average TV viewer. Or live TV viewer, that is. Many internet citizens caught the high points of the evening on DVR, YouTube, or even Twitter. And then they had fun with them, as you’ll see in this meme roundup I posted at mental_floss.

(Image by Iain Heath)

The Hahn-Solo Case

(via Bad Newspaper)

Cookie Shapes

Vi Hart collaborated with mathematical artist Gwen Fisher, her sister Ruth at Sweets by Ruth, and software engineer Andrea Hawksley to make cookies. At least their stated purpose was to make cookies and forget about math, but that’s not the way the afternoon turned out. Read more about this video at Hart’s website. (via Boing Boing)

Grandma

(via Buzzfeed)

Dachshund Catches Shark. Now What?

A little dachshund caught an inflatable shark that’s way bigger than he is. The dog clearly wants to stash his catch in his cubbyhole (a pet carrier) but it’s too big! You think he’ll never be able to do it, but preserverance and a can-do attitude bring surprising results. The lesson here is: Never give up on the things you really want. (via Uproxx)

One of These Things is Not Like the Others

(via Daily Picks and Flicks)

Jumping Fitness Goes Wild

This is my first encounter with “jumping fitness,” but I might like to try it sometime. A trampoline with a handle is my kind of trampoline! You might want to turn the volume down, as this video is pretty loud. And it’s short. And it gets a bit, uh, exciting toward the end. (via Daily of the Day)

12 Guardians of the Galaxy Mashups

The new Marvel Comics movie Guardians of the Galaxy isn’t set to hit theaters until August, but it already has the internet buzzing. Comic book readers are familiar with the characters, and can’t wait to see how Walt Disney Studios treats the franchise. To the rest of us, the characters are new and intriguing. And, of course, when new characters are introduced into mainstream pop culture, the artists of the internet plunge headlong into mashing up those characters with other, more familiar worlds. See a dozen of those clever mashups in a list I posted at mental_floss.

Miss Cellania's Links

The Final Days of John Wayne.

The Fireman. A young writer does what he must to respectfully bury a man he barely knew.

An interactive U.S. map by Brian Lee Yung Rowe traces the geographic popularity of 29,000 baby names over the past century. (via io9)

Can Paul Ryan's poverty blitz survive contact with reality? His 200-page report is full of cherry-picked data that doesn’t add up.

15 Things You Might Not Know About This Is Spinal Tap.    

An Amicus Brief About Political Truthiness. (via Metafilter)

5 animated blockbusters combine for one huge super-fandom. Meet the fan art and mashups of The Rise of the Brave Tangled Frozen Dragons.

Live TV camera operators, switchers, and directors are too busy to ever just enjoy the show. Here’s a look at what they do in the TV truck. (NSFW language)

Why is American internet so slow? If ours worked like Hong Kong’s internet, I’d have some free time every day!

Captain Cat

(via The Chive)

Dancing Cop at Mardi Gras

Detective Winston Harbin normally works on cold cases for the homicide department of the New Orleans Police Department. But when you work for the city of New Orleans, you know you’re getting pulled for parade duty during Mardi Gras season. Still, there’s no reason not to have a little fun! Forty-nine-year-old Harbin was recorded jointing in a group doing a line dance called the Wobble during the Endymion parade on Saturday. Despite the vertical video syndrome, his dance with fellow detective Decynda Barnes and parade-goers is a real hit! Harbin was also spotted doing the Dougie and the Cupid Shuffle, which you can see at the Times-Picayune. (via Time Newsfeed)

Chad

(via Bad Newspaper)

The Steak & Egger Sandwich

The guys from Epic Meal Time enlisted the manliest man they could for a manly sandwich segment. Arnold Schwarzenegger cooks steak and ostrich eggs on the hot surface of his personal tank. And then we get to see Arnold’s buns -just not the same way we did in the Terminator movies. This is a promo for a charity raffle in which the winner gets to cook an Epic Meal. Proceeds benefit Arnold’s After-School All-Stars program.

Snoew Cave

More on this story here. (via Arbroath)