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Robin Williams’ Final Message of Hope to a Kiwi

•August 11, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Months before he died, actor Robin Williams made a video clip of support and “love” for terminally-ill New Zealand woman, Vivian Waller, 21, who is currently in an Auckland hospice suffering from lung, bowel and liver cancer.

She drew up her own bucket list in January and on it was the following: get married, celebrate her 21st birthday, see her daughter celebrate her first birthday and meet Robin Williams. The Wallers married in February, a month after finding out Viv was terminally ill. Vivian, being too ill to travel, was “thrilled beyond belief” when one of her friends reached out to Robin, who immediately recorded and sent this clip:

Jack Waller decided to open up about the very personal message from Williams because; “we love him, we want to show people how awesome a person he was”. Read the full story here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/na…

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“O’ Captain! My Captain!”

•August 11, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Robin Williams, you made me laugh, and at times, swell a few tears. Well played, Sir.

http://blog.ted.com/2014/08/11/remembering-robin-williams/

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Remind Your Friends and Family of Their Spark

•August 11, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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The Macaque Monkey Selfie — Wikipedia Won’t Take down Because the Monkey Took It

•August 10, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Could this be the best selfie ever taken? I think so. Long story short; British nature photographer David Slater, while in the volcanic dry tropical rainforest in the far north of Sulawesi, had his camera hijacked by a Macaque monkey who on discovery of the shutter button, took many many many hundreds of photos, with one in particular happening to be this exceptional selfie:

This now famous photo has been exploited over the internet for free (non-profit public domain material) and David Slater wants it taken down because it is jeopardising his income, only Wikimedia, the organisation behind Wikipedia, has refused the photographer’s repeated requests, claiming that because the monkey pressed the shutter button and took the photo, the monkey “owns the copyright” claim, not Slater.

What a case! I think the issue has since been resolved, as pictures on Slater’s site now have watermarks over them. What a terrific photo it is though. Doesn’t it seem ironic that a monkey took the best selfie that will ever be taken? You could say, that monkey made a monkey out of people.

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Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong

•August 9, 2014 • Leave a Comment

When it comes to the ‘professional’ art of custom cakes, don’t assume the baker on the other end of the phone will 100% understand your simple request. If they don’t have what you want in writing, best not temp Murphy’s Law, especially when dealing with desserts! Unless it is your intention of paying $200 for a birthday cake that will have you questioning your hope in humanity, then Cake Wrecks has you covered:

walmart_cake1_smallThey didn’t even spell ‘underneath’ correctly

Cake bakers can be quite meticulous and passionate mind you:

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Green Hair + Wham!

•August 8, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Complimented a girl today. Shivani. She had highlighted her tips green which looked petty cool. It would have been exciting if she told me she stylized it after Laura from the comic book The Wicked and the Divine (see below), but that wasn’t the case; which sort of makes her cooler in a way. She just smiled. Biggest university in the country and I have yet to meet anyone who is into comics! I should probably find some graduates, I bet they know where it’s at. Point is, unlike these mortal Gods who live fast and die young; one meaningful compliment a day keeps monotony away, cross my heart.

Every ninety years, twelve Gods come back and possess the bodies of young people, who die after two. I only began reading WD last week, but it looks promising.

And because that title makes no sense without any reference to wham; here’s Wham!

Wham! were an English musical duo formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s.

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Lusine “Arterial”

•August 8, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Taken from Lusine’s “Arterial” EP out August 5, 2014.

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How To Have Cybersex on The Internets (1997)

•August 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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This 1997 instructional video can’t decide whether to be informational or sexy and, as a result, succeeds at neither. Tedium has never been this topless:

Dug up in a thrift store in Minnesota. It comes from 1997, a simpler time before sexting and SnapChat, when the secrets to cybersex could only be unlocked with a VHS how-to video.

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Hattie Stewart Animates Kylie Minogue’s “Sexercize” [music video]

•August 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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I watched Kylie’s recent music video because yes, I was expecting some erotic entertainment indicative of the song’s title, and a youthful memory of Kylie in golden hotpants may have piqued my interest. Alas, I was disappointed. However, Hattie Stewart went and put together this sexy-silly music video version of “Sexercize” and doodled in a few of his own manic creations, which I think is a colorful improvement:

http://vimeo.com/92636965

And here’s the boring original. So boring… *cough*

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Lady Mechanika #4 [comics]

•August 6, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Lady Mechanika is a steampunk comic created by comic artist Joe Benitez. When I revisited my adolescent hobby and rediscovered how much I admired comic books, Lady Mechanika was one of the series that sparked and held my interest. The first issue of Lady Mechanika debuted and sold out in October, 2010, the third issue was released December 21, 2011, and then the series went cold. Until last month at San Diego Comic-Con, 2014, where Joe Benitez debuted the long-awaited continuation of the unfinished Mechanika story arc! These arrived at my doorstep this morning:

Lady Mechanika is an occult and paranormal detective in England at the turn of the 20th century. She is part human, part machine and is proficient with many weapons, partly due to her own limbs having been amputated and replaced with mechanical components. The sole survivor of a serial killer’s three-year rampage, Mechanika suffers amnesia about her past and works to unravel the mysteries surrounding it.

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8-Bit Philosophy: Karl Marx — Episode 9 “What is Marxism?”

•August 5, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Super Mario Bros. Game Style.

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8-Bit Matrix

•August 5, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Nostalgic 8-16bit sound blips replace all the sound effects in this Chateau fight scene from The Matrix Reloaded. This almost makes me want to watch the sequels again. Almost.