July 2011
Today On TDW: Geek —
Above: “Pac-Man Highway”: Pac-Man and David Lynch — together at last.
Mark Zuckerberg joins Google+, Facebook announces “something awesome.”
Julian Assange stars in WikiLeaks spoof of MasterCard ads.
George R.R. Martin’s UK publisher begs fans not to spoil A Dance With Dragons after mixup ships books early.
All of Middle Earth made of...
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June 2011
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Diehard Women’s Football Fan of the Day: I’m no expert on body language, but this gentlemen seems rather unhappy about Equatorial Guinea missing a scoring opportunity during yesterday’s FIFA Women’s World Cup matchup against Norway.
[tosh / thd.]
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Slo-Mo Thing of the Day: PopSci celebrates Independence Day by filming fireworks blow sh*t up at 2,000 frames-per-second on a Phantom v641 ultra-high-speed video camera.
Just as the Founding Fathers intended.
[popsci.]
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In Case You Missed It of the Day: Conan “accidentally” double-booked two comedians — Jon Dore and Rory Scovel — for last night’s show.
Solution: Have them go on together.
[teamcoco / joemande.]
See Also: “Weird Al” Yankovic sings the “never-before-heard” lyrics to Conan’s theme music.
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Caught On Camera of the Day: National Enquirer has released a snippet of the hidden camera footage alleging to show To Catch a Predator’s Chris Hansen cheating on his wife with 30-year-old WPTV NewsChannel 5 reporter Kristyn Caddell.
According to the Enquirer, the couple can be seen entering the Ritz-Carlton’s Angle restaurant in Palm Beach. The tabloid says Hansen later spent the night at...
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Short Film of the Day: In Plot Device, Seth Worley’s nine-minute short film/promo for Magic Bullet Suite 11, “a young filmmaker obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn.”
See Also: Behind the Scenes of Plot Device.
[b3ta.]
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Tell Us How You Really Feel of the Day: On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, Time editor-at-large Mark Halperin was asked by Joe Scarborough about the President’s strongly-worded press briefing.
“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin responded, after an assurance from Scarborough that the show was on tape-delay. “I was joking,” Scarborough exclaimed.
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After Hours: Couldn’t/wouldn’t access Mubi? Watch the Spike Jonze / Arcade Fire short film collab Scenes from the Suburbs in full above.
Synopsis:
Co-written by Jonze & Arcade Fire’s Win Butler & Will Butler, this companion piece to the album follows the narrator, living in a suburban dystopia, trying to piece together fragmented memories from when he was a...
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Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth installment in the successful Mission: Impossible film series, co-penned by J.J. Abrams, and helmed by Iron Giant/Incredibles/Ratatouille director Brad Bird.
The film, which stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Jeremy Renner, Josh Holloway, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, and Anil Kapoor, is...