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• Chickens In Tutus: A New Trend In Instagram
• The Life of the 'Voice of God'
• Almost Endless Indoor Exercise
• The Cat Fight That Started a Fire
• Why Our Selfies Look Weird
• When You Need To Go To The Bathroom, But It’s The Mandatory Birthday Picture
• Guy Tries To Make A Beautiful Cake For His Wife, Fails Big Time
• The Worst Typo I Ever Made
• Would Your Dog Rescue You? Scientists Made a Test to Find Out
• What Happens When Cats Have Catnip?
• Chris Toledo's Miniature Rooms

Chickens In Tutus: A New Trend In Instagram Posted: 02 Jun 2020 11:22 PM PDT Ballerinas aren't the only ones who can wear a tutu. Chickens can, too! A new set of viral photos have once again stormed the internet, this time in the form of chickens in tutus. Because of these tutus, the once ordinary-looking chickens now have become fabulous fowls, more fabulous, even, if I may add, than the magnificent peacock. See the photos over at Sad and Useless. (Image Credit: Sad and Useless)

The Life of the 'Voice of God' Posted: 02 Jun 2020 07:23 PM PDT Embed from Getty Images In a world where movie trailers set the stage for our entertainment choices and a lot of revenue for a certain Southern California town, Don LaFontaine reigned supreme over the audio content of those promotional shorts. From 1964 until his death in 2008, LaFontaine's voice imparted the importance of what you were invited to see. Movie trailers weren't his only voiceover work, but it's what he was most known for. LaFontaine came about that deep, resonant voice naturally, and suddenly, when the adolescent's voice broke in 1953.   As you might expect, being of an age when a boy's life primarily consists of playing flappy with Mr. Happy and otherwise spending the remaining 12 seconds of the day when he wasn't doing that making fun of his friends and being made fun of in turn, LaFontaine stated he was afraid to speak the next day at school after his voice changed and thus, initially refused. When his teacher became frustrated with this now mute student and forced him to speak, LaFontaine uttered a phrase he no doubt would say countless times to execs the world over, "What do you want me to say?" This apparently prompted his already frustrated teacher, who thought he was putting the voice on, to send him to the principal's office. He would later recount that this caused him to feel even more self-conscious about his voice. However, it didn't take long for his friend's to realize his baritone vocals allowed him to be "everybody's dad" on the phone- i.e. he could be used to call the school, represent himself as their father, and let the secretary know his kid was sick and would be missing school that day. Some of these instances apparently were his first paid voice acting gigs. Read about the exceptional life of Don LaFontaine at Today I Found Out.

Almost Endless Indoor Exercise Posted: 02 Jun 2020 12:05 PM PDT Here's the way to automate a puppy's playtime and/or exercise. All you need is a leash and the proper size furniture -and a camera, of course. The kicker here is that the puppy eventually catches his prey! That's a good dog. -via Digg

The Cat Fight That Started a Fire Posted: 02 Jun 2020 12:05 PM PDT The papers ran colorful accounts of an 1897 fire in a Manhattan apartment building that was started by a cat fight. That in itself was newsworthy, but the description of the ensuing escape by the residents reminds us of a Three Stooges comedy. According to the Sun, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. McIlvaney, who lived in the back rooms behind the Gallaghers, tried to make it down the stairs at the same time. Both women were "stout and short of breath," and they ended up getting wedged together on the first-floor landing. The two women began fighting and pushing at each other, both refusing–or unable–to budge. Finally, the firemen arrived and, "after some difficulty," they were able to some kind of wedge tool to separate the women. I have no idea if any firemen were able to get past the women in order to get to the fire, or if the fire continued to burn until the human "blockage" was removed. Either way, as I like to say, you can't make this stuff up. Considering the fun the newspapers had with the incident, we are glad to find that no one was hurt. "The only other damage was to the tempers of Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. McIlvaney." But what you'll want to know is the story of the cats who started the blaze, which you can read at The Hatching Cat.

Why Our Selfies Look Weird Posted: 02 Jun 2020 09:03 AM PDT If there's one thing that you might realize while taking selfies, it is that the one in the picture doesn't look like your normal self; it's you but with a bigger nose, and awider forehead. But why does this happen when we take selfies? Gizmodo Asks reached out to a number of experts in photography and psychology and asked them the reason behind this rather perplexing phenomenon. One of the experts, Scott Klinger, has this to say: Selfies are usually taken with wide-angle lenses, which expand space, distorting the image to get everything in. This works great for landscapes, but not so much for faces—you wind up with a bigger nose, or a bigger forehead. This is why selfies are often taken with arms extended as far out as they can possibly get, or with selfie sticks—the closer the camera is to your face, the more pronounced that distorting effect is. Distance minimizes it, but the distorting effect is still there, and it makes our faces look unfamiliar, which can be disturbing. Then there's the fact that people, when they're looking at pictures of themselves, are often highly attuned to their flaws. They look at the things they don't like, rather than seeing themselves as someone else might. Check out Klinger's full answer, as well as another expert's explanation, over at the site. (Image Credit: Lars_Nissen/ Pixabay)

When You Need To Go To The Bathroom, But It’s The Mandatory Birthday Picture Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:50 AM PDT Mark badly needed to go to the bathroom. Unfortunately, his mom did not allow him to do so, as she was so excited to take the mandatory birthday pictures first before allowing his son to relieve himself. Mark assumes that this might have been his 4th birthday, as the "well-decorated 'Happy Day' cake wasn't overly descriptive." It wasn't stated if he was eventually allowed to go to the bathroom after this photo was taken. Hopefully, he was. What do you think? Image via Awkward Family Photos

Guy Tries To Make A Beautiful Cake For His Wife, Fails Big Time Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:47 AM PDT What you see here is not dog poo. I repeat, what you see here is not dog poo. It's chocolate frosting. Here is what happened before this disaster of a cake happened. When 31-year-old Andrew decided to bake a cake for his wife after a satisfying dinner, he had a box of cake mix to use for the cake. Unfortunately, he didn't have frosting to put on top of the cake. In response to this, Andrew's wife, Aubrie, gave him her grandmother's chocolate frosting recipe, and left everything to him, as Aubrie believed that nothing could go wrong because the recipe was "simple" and "foolproof." Cut to the moment Andrew presented the cake, and Aubrie and her husband both 'burst out laughing'. It turns out the frosting had been too hard for Andrew to spread nicely over the cake, so he put it in a plastic bag and attempted to pipe it on instead. Rather than ending up with elegant swirls, Andrew created a series of long, clumpy, brown trails… [...] She thinks her late grandmother would have loved Andrew's efforts, explaining she 'had a good sense of humour and would have found the situation funny.' Andrew stated that the cake "tasted better than it looked". However, he also states that from now on, he'll be leaving the baking to his wife. His wife, on the other hand, has this to say: He loves to grill and smoke meats – he's a very good cook, but apparently not the best baker. Well, it's still a happy ending, and they sure had a good laugh with the cake. (Image Credit: Kennedy News and Media/ UNILAD)

The Worst Typo I Ever Made Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:45 AM PDT When working on anything having to do with a computer, it is best to 1. backup your work first, 2. make edits on a copy, and 3. get cozy with your "undo" button, and allow time to consider using it. There are times when all these steps are skipped, and the worst thing possible happens. Tom Scott explains his most egregious "onosecond." The story is a couple of minutes shorter than the video.

Would Your Dog Rescue You? Scientists Made a Test to Find Out Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:44 AM PDT We love to read stories of heroic dogs who save lives, but you have to wonder- would your dog be so brave and helpful? Dogs are known for loyalty, but there is a wide variation in dogs (as in people) when it comes to loyalty, empathy, bravery, and maybe most of all, intelligence. Scientists put a bunch of dogs to the tests to see if they would "rescue" their humans. For the main challenge, called the "distress test," dog owners were placed inside a large box, where they pretended to be trapped and in distress. The owners, who were trained beforehand to sound realistic, cried out to their pets, shouting "help!" or "help me!" Dogs were able to rescue their owners by opening a light-weight door on the box, but they had to figure that out for themselves. A total of 60 dogs participated in the experiment, none of whom received any kind of special rescue training prior to the experiment. Of these, 20, or one-third, rescued their owners, "which doesn't sound too impressive on its own, but really is impressive when you take a closer look," said Van Bourg, in reference to the two control tests used for the experiment. The dogs participated in the two control tests and one rescue test in random order. It turns out that figuring out how to do it is crucial. Dogs who learned how to open the box under other circumstances were very much more likely to rescue their humans. So your dog would most likely want to save you ...if he could figure out how. Read how the experiment showed that at Gizmodo. (Image credit: Flickr user torbakhopper)

What Happens When Cats Have Catnip? Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:43 AM PDT Oh, we know what happens to cats when they get near catnip, but it's always fun to watch as they indulge -especially with psychedelic music and a few visual effects thrown in. It's totally harmless, because cats don't have to make it to work on time or impress their in-laws or or keep an eye on those burning candles. BBC Earth presents a montage of cats enjoying some nip from the series Pets: Wild At Heart. -via Digg

Chris Toledo's Miniature Rooms Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:38 AM PDT You've seen dollhouses, but you haven't seen the graceful art of 1/12 scale rooms like those of Chris Toledo! His subject matter is historic interiors, so detailed that you wouldn't know they were miniatures if he didn't include something else, like his hand, for scale. Some of Toledo's creations are for sale. See more at his website and at Instagram. -via Nag on the Lake

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