Viral Video of the Day: Miss Utah Marissa Powell’s Flub

Miss Teen South Carolina has a new challenger! At the Miss USA pageant last night, Miss Utah Marissa Powell responded to a question about gender-based income inequality in America with a rather strange fumbling answer, proclaiming the need to “create education better.” Immediately after her response was broadcast, #MissUtah soared up to the leading trending topic on Twitter, accompanied by jokes mocking the 21-year-old’s incoherence. While amusing, her answer wasn’t nearly as disturbing as Miss Alabama Mary-Margaret McCord’s defense of the recently leaked NSA PRISM surveillance program, asserting that she would rather have her phone messages tracked than feel unsafe.

Web App of the Day: We See in Every Direction, A Synchronized Shared Web Browser

Sure, you share your web experiences with your friends via social media sites, but what if you had to share your web browsing time with strangers simultaneously? Swedish artist Jonas Lund built a browser to do just that, turning surfing the web into a massive, collaborative activity. The project launched on May 29th, with a Surf Party (shown above) consisting of approximately 100 people, with many of them vying for control over the URL or search bars at the same time. The browser, called We See in Every Direction, is still availableonline, and its most recent visits can be viewed from the homepage. Hat tip goes to Wired!

A New Perspective of the Day: Kim Dotcom Releases Footage of Police Raid

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has released an edited montage of video recordings from the January 2012 police raid against his mansion in Australia, which shows anti-terrorism units armed with assault rifles, attack dogs and helicopters descending on his New Zealand home.

Weird Tube of the Day: The Best-Worst Phone Conversation in History of Cinema

Check out this awkwardly scripted dialogue scene from an unidentified 1980s South Indian film. It is one of the most dramatic phone conversations in film history.

(Source: reddit.com)

Artsy Fart of the Day: The Pirate Cinema

Artists Nicolas Maigret and Brendan Howell have teamed up to create The Pirate Cinema, a site-specific video installation which constantly downloads the most-viewed torrents at the time and projects them on to a screen. Since torrents aren’t downloaded sequentially, the films are often streamed with their video or audio out of order and displayed across multiple screens in the room, resulting in an audio/visual collage representative of our illegal desires for media consumption in real-time.

(Source: fastcodesign.com)

Marriage Proposal of the Day: America’s Got Talent Contestant Travis Pratt is Full of Surprises

In this unexpected crowdpleaser from America’s Got Talent, 31-year-old Georgia native Travis Pratt blows away the audience and judges with his epic falsetto range shortly before warming everyone’s heart with a surprise event for his girlfriend.