Official Response of the Day: Amazon officially puts to rest the rumors concerning Skynet’s involvement in today’s EC2 outage that tragically brought workplace productivity to an all time high.
[@mecredis.]
Dog-Tired Dogs of the Day: 3-month-old boxer puppies Jarl and Buri just came back from their first walk, and boy are they pooped.
Go to sleep, little doggies; the world will still be here when you wake up.
[sayomg.]
Animated Short of the Day: Simon’s cat gets in the holiday spirit by chasing around a bunny in his latest adorable animated short, “Hop It.”
[simonscat.]
Movie Trailer of the Day: The official red band (sNSFW) trailer for Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer‘s 30 Minutes Or Less.
The loosely true adventure comedy, which stars Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Fred Ward, Nick Swardson, and Michael Peña, is due in theaters August 12.
[ign.]
Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: 37-year-old Polish art lover Tomasz Urynowicz spent a decade trying to track down the woman in a painting he owns, to no avail.
Having given up on his quest to find her real-world counterpart, Urynowicz has decided to do the next best thing: Marry the girl in the portrait.
“I don’t know what the laws on this sort of thing are in Poland,” he says. “But if I can’t do it here, I’ll go somewhere else and do it.”
Badass Dad of the Day: Nova Scotia-based family therapist Crocus Bocephus is back with a brand new art & crafts tutorial aimed at “help[ing.] single metal dads find creative and constructive ways to connect with their children.”
Street Art of the Day: Street artist Eddie Colla offers a thoughtful retort to a Huffington Post article entitled “MOCA’s ‘Art In The Streets’ Exhibit Invites Unwanted Graffiti.”
[eddiecolla / thd.]
Afternoon Snack: Friskies weighs in on the cats v. dogs debate.
Guess which side they’re on.
[urlesque.]
Guide Goose of the Day: Renata Kursa, a villager from Poland, says she was heartbroken after her dog Baks lost his sight in a recent accident.
But her four-year-old goose Buttons was more than happy to lend her eyes to Baks, leading him with her neck, or directing him with her honks.
“[G]radually Buttons got him up on his feet and starting walking him around,” says Kursa. “They’re inseparable now – they even chase the postman together.”
[metro.]
