Monkey has a terrible itch

In which a young human female falls victim to the itch on a Gibbon's head.


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Banksy IRL photography

In his series You Are Not Banksy, photographer Nick Stern captures real-life versions of the Bristol-based street artist.









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Teaser trailer: Les Misérables

Hugh Jackman is Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe is Inspector Javert, Anne Hathaway is Fantine, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter are Mr. and Mrs. Thénardier, Amanda Seyfried is Cosette and Eddie Redmayne is Marius, in the upcoming musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel, directed by Tom Hooper. In cinemas December 14th.

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Zombie garden gnomes

Chris Stever and Jane DeRosa's zombie garden gnome collection description on their Etsy shop goes:

Something bad has happened in the garden. The once happy garden gnomes have been infected by a strange virus which has turned them into flesh eating monsters. There are only a few survivors left who are desperately trying to stay alive.

Flesh-eating gnomes such as Legless Larry or Gertrude Guts are available for purchase on said shop.



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Stop-motion short: Claycat's The Raid

Lee Hardcastle brings homage to the movie The Raid with this awesome clay animation starring cats.


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Hanksy: Marty McFly

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Previously: Pie Hard and Ice Ice Baby, U Had Me At Jello, Ted Dancin' and Drive-thru

Religious intolerance video of the day

Yes, this actually happened: a toddler at the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana, recites something that ended in "Ain’t No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven," and all the crowd cheers with admiration. This.

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Previously: Pastor Charles L. Worley, Pastor Sean Harris

Advice for Tim Burton

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Lennon & Maisy - Call Your Girlfriend

12 and 8-year-old sisters Lennon and Maisy do their own adorable version of Erato's performance of Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn.


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Obligatory of the day

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Truck drift fail

Truck attempts to drift while making a turn, doesn't go quite as planned, carries on. Like a boss.


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English classes ad in Israel

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Prank of the day: beach treasure

So these guys buy $100 worth of chocolate coins, put them in a "treasure chest," bury it at Venice Beach in California during the night, dig it out the next day, with people on the beach watching.


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From the archives: elevator psychology conformity experiment from

A classic Asch conformity experiment elevator prank conducted on a Candid Camera episode from 1962, that shows how easily individuals are influenced by the group.


Here's a more recent version.

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Forever a Hulk

Paulo Henrique dos Santos aka MC Marronzinho from Vila Cruzeiro, Brazil, used something he bought in a jar at a local store as make-up, to paint his body green for an Incredible Hulk cosplay at the 'Peace Race.' That was 20 baths ago because apparently this thing doesn't want to come off.


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Street art of the day: SpongeBob in Rome

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Rockelbel's Canon

The Piano Guys take the classic Pachelbel's Canon, which is pretty boring since it's the same 8 notes over and over again (just ask this guy), and play it in a more interesting manner.


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Fighting off mama falcon

Last week, naturalists from the Ohio Department of Natural Resource’s Division of Wildlife went on the dangerous mission of banding some peregrine falcon chicks in the clock tower at The University of Toledo. Why so dangerous? One of the chicks' parents was seriously displeased with the whole thing.

Here's some GoPro cam footage:


This is something they've been doing every year since 2007, when a nesting platform was installed on the top of the tower.

Here are some more pictures.

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Is Pluto a planet?

C.G.P. Grey shares with us the reasons why Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore.


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cdza - Pianists in Paris

The passionate instrumentalists from cdza use a Steinway piano to cover Jay-Z and Kanye's Ni**as In Paris their own cool way.


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Cycles of life

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Dog is trained to understand sign language

In this video, dog trainer Fred Dixon demonstrates how his 6-year-old dog Shinook can carry out commands given in sign language.


Here's the March video

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Supercut: creepy children in movies

In his compilation Creepy Kids - Children in Horror, video editor Peter Schneider combines clips of 39 of the scariest children in film.


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Monkeys and synthesizers

As an ad for this year's edition of the Swedish Volt Festival, six different types of monkeys are given six different types of synthesizers just to answer the age-old-question if monkeys can play synthesizers.


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Prank wallpaper of the day

Just use this and check 'tiled'

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Bottle cap blues

What manner of object can't you open your beer bottle with?


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Vet sign

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Garfunkel and Oates - 29/31

LA-based comedy-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates play the same woman, two years apart, at 29 and at 31.


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Goal celebrations FX

Preparing for Euro 2012, Surrender Monkeys teams up with advertising agency Buzzman and brigs us this After Effects'd video of soccer players celebrating their goals.


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First look: Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix

Rapper Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000 was photographed on in the town of Bray, Ireland, where he is filming the Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side.


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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - new greenband trailer

The movie is out on June 22nd.

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Drunk people compilation

Inebriated people doing inebriated people things, for your viewing pleasure.


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Here's a hamster getting shot

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Parenting lesson of the day

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Cantaloupe the kleptomaniac greyhound

From CamelsandFriends:

Cantaloupe, the Italian Greyhound loves to steal things off my friend's desk. You could walk out of the bedroom for a minute and something else would disappear. It didn't matter what it was, she'd take it the second you shut the door. It's almost like magic. It got me wondering how exactly she gets up there and how she chooses what she steals, so I decided to start filming! I left the camera on a tripod pointed at the desk and a week later these are my results of Cantaloupe's exploits.

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Today, in books that exist

In case you have a fear of something and you want to scare yourself with it, there's The Pop-Up Book of Phobias:

Fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of flying, fear of death--everyone is afraid of something. And these pop-ups place you in the hot seat--whether it's the dentist's chair as the drill comes spinning toward you; looking over the edge of a skyscraper whose sheer face plummets thousands of feet to the sidewalk far below; or the window seat of a plane as the oxygen mask deploys, your drink spills, and the horizon line shifts to an angle that is suddenly, terribly wrong...

Brought to life by outrageously macabre artwork and startlingly innovative pop-ups, The Pop-up Book of Phobias is an engineering marvel and cult classic in the making--an offbeat holiday treasure sure to become this season's most talked-about gift book.

Here's a video:


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There's also: The Pop-Up Book of Sex (w/ demo video)

Then and now: Elijah and Scarlett

Elijah Wood and Scarlett Johansson played together in the 1994 family comedy North. Elijah was 13 and Scarlett was 9.

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Meanwhile, in Miami: zombies on LSD bath salts

Happened Saturday afternoon, on MacArthur Causeway, where a police officer came across a naked man chewing on another naked man's face and had to shoot him because he wouldn't stop.

From CBS Local Miami:

The bizarre shooting happened shortly after 2 p.m., when police responded to a 911 call about two naked men fighting on a bike path along the Causeway, which was packed with traffic on a busy holiday weekend.

Miami police have not confirmed the details of what happened next, but sources close to the investigation told CBS4 News that officers found one man gnawing on the face of another, in what one police source called the most gruesome thing he’d ever seen.

The head of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Armando Aguilar, said drugs are at the root of the attack.

"We have seen, already, three or four cases that are exactly like this where some people have admitted taking LSD and it’s no different than cocaine psychosis," Aguilar said.

Emergency room Doctor Paul Adams agreed with Aguilar saying similar cases have showed up in the ER.

Adams said the new LSD is commonly called "bath salts." The drug, Adams said, can raise a persons body temperature to such a high degree that logic and the ability to feel pain are lost; then delirium sets in and that often leads to disaster. Aguilar, who heads the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he has spoken with the officer who responded. Aguilar said the officer saw what the man was doing, and ordered him to stop. He said the man growled at the officer, and then returned to his meal.

Aguilar said the man ate his victim’s nose and eyeballs.

The officer then used his service weapon and shot the man, Aguilar said, but the gunshot had no effect. Other sources confirmed that the man refused to obey, and continued his attack. Aguilar said the officer had no choice but to keep shooting until the attacker was dead.

The victim is in critical condition in the hospital. Here's a picture of his face (warning: gore)

Strong wind lifts Boeing 747

Video shot last Wednesday at an aircraft boneyard in Mojave, California, and posted on Youtube by CaptainHarlock999 shows a decommissioned Boeing 747 Jumbo jet confronting an over-70mph wind.


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Huge dog welcomes home soldier

After a long 9 months apart from his military dad, Emmitt Thunderpaws the Great Dane is really happy to see him again.


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The middle ages: then vs. now

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How to troll a spider

No spiders were harmed during the making of this video.

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So Socrates was acquitted

A trial re-run was organized in Greece last Fridasy, after ancient philosopher was found guilty and sentenced to death over 2,500 years ago.

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A re-trial of Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates in Athens, the very city that sentenced him to death in 399 BC, ended with his acquittal.

A panel of ten judges from Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland and the United States was hearing the case at the event at the Onassis Foundation. Five of them cast their votes for "guilty" verdict while five other said "not guilty."

Unlike the historical proceedings, the judges did not choose the form of punishment, since organizers felt it would unnecessarily complicate the process.

In the original trial Socrates was charged with failing to acknowledge gods worshiped by the city and a separate charge of corrupting the young. His teachings of skepticism challenged conventional moral, political and religious notions, which won him powerful enemies. Ancient Athens accused him of conspiring with their enemy, the Spartans, to inspire a violent uprising of the Thirty Tyrants, a group of oligarchs, the leader of which was a pupil of Socrates. The philosopher spoke for himself in the trial before more than 500 jurors. The result was his sentencing to either death by drinking a hemlock-based liquid or permanent exile from the polis. Socrates opted for the former punishment.

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David Attenborough narrates a Youtube video

In which Sir David Attenborough, asked by host Graham Norton, does a voice over for the famous nature video of a tortoise raping a frog, on his show on BBC One.


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Kid gets a little dizzy after surgery

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May 2012 fail compilation

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Street art of the day: Tyrion is a (P)imp

Spotted somewhere in London: Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Shepard Fairey style.

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Lip-dub marriage proposal

With some help from his friends and relatives, Portland-based actor Isaac Lamb asks his girlfriend to marry him, using a very well-choreographed live lip-dub performance of Bruno Mars' Marry You.


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The welcoming signs of Pawnee

From Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, written by Leslie Knope, which is an actual book.












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MaKey MaKey - an invention that lets you turn anything into a keyboard

Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, final-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab, bring you MaKey MaKey - a device you plug into your computer via USB, hook up to various common things with alligator clips, which you turn them into input devices, reassigning them to the keyboard keys of choice. It lets you play piano on bananas and stairs, or play Pac-Man using pencil drawings and such.


The project is still in Kickstarter phase, where it already raised $260,000+ of its $25,000 initial goal, and it will be funded on June 12th.

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Siri ups the joke in the John Malkovich commercial

Because the joke in the original commercial was good, but not that good, Siri tells a classic one.


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Supercut: The Dark Knight - just the Joker

The guys from Thecussingchannel tribute Heath Ledger's memorable performance in The Dark Knight by compiling all his on-camera dialogue moments from the movie.


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Time spent in bathroom

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Simon's Cat - "Tongue Tied"

In which Simon's Cat encounters a toad while exploring the garden.


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Minions as superheroes

Illustrator Kevin Magic Lam of Itrospect takes the minions from Despicable Me and dresses them as minimalist superheroes and other pop culture characters.






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