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Its unknown whether or not Hosni Mubarak, ousted leader of Egypt, is alive or not. He's either A) dead B) in a coma C) In a secure US facility. Either way, here are some of the funniest reactions to his "death" (?) Oh twitter!

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Some of you may be following the dispute between web content aggregator FunnyJunk and popular webcomic theOatmeal. Basically, last June, theOatmeal creator, Matt Inman, posted a blog complaining that a number of his comics were posted in their entirety on FunnyJunk without attribution. "I know that if FunnyJunk disappeared, 50 other clones would pop up to take its place overnight, but I felt I had to say something about what they're doing" he said.

FunnyJunk responded by telling it users that theOatmeal was threatning to sue and "shut down" their website and that they "contact Oatmeal anyway you can." Inman of course, had simply delivered a "Cease and Desist" letter as is customary with Digital Millennium Copyright Association procedure. Nevertheless, his Facebook was "trolled" by fans of FunnyJunk. Eventually, FunnyJunk removed some of the material (albeit only the correctly attributed ones) and the situation was thought to be over.

That all changed on June 10th, when an attorney representing FunnyJunk contacted Inman, claiming his blog post was defamation and that he had to pay $20,000 or risk a lawsuit. This of course, after FunnyJunk profited off of stolen theOatmeal comics.

Attorney Charles Carreon alleged that theOatmeal had maliciously manipulated SEO in order for his blog post to come up whenever FunnyJunk was searched on Google, and that he had intentionally misled readers to believe that FunnyJunk hadn't yet removed the links (even though there is another blogpost refuting this).

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Inman responded by saying that he "(didn't) want to get tied up in courtroom nonsense." Instead, he started a donation drive on Indiegogo to raise the $20,000, promising to send one half to the National Wildlife Federation and the other to the American Cancer Society. Inman said he would also send FunnyJunk a photo of the raised money and a picture of the lawyer's mother seducing a Kodiak bear.

The operation, dubbed BearLove Good Cancer Bad, reached its goal within a mere 64 minutes, and had raised roughly $100,000 at the 24 hour mark. As of this post, it has raised $127,776 with 14 days left of the drive.

The incident has sparked debate over the effectiveness of DCMA policing and the morality of user upload based websites. Even now, Viacom is engaged in a lawsuit with Youtube over the very same accusations. Although according to Inman, all FunnyJunk had to do was correctly attribute the comics to him, "Just proper attribution; just give me a link!" he told Arstechnica.

Whatever the case, FunnyJunk now has a lot more controversy than it originally banked on.

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On Monday, May 28th, cinematographer DevinSuperTramp (also known as Devin Graham) released his most recent project, an epic 3 minute long paintball game of Capture the Flag.

The video will likely remind Community fans of the Seasons 2 and 3 episodes, "Modern Warfare" and "For a Few Paintballs More", which also featured massive paintball battles. All in all, 100,000 paint balls were fired during the video's production, which also featured a paraglider, a mounted turret, multiple jeeps and dirtbikes, and what seems like a paintball bazooka gun.

The video has accumulated 2.7 million views in the past two weeks alone. And although it may be scripted (there's a "Behind the Scenes" follow-up coming soon), real-life events such as The Paintball War meet every year to engage in a massive, 24 hour long, paintball battle.

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A jeep flies off a ramp as a para glider flies above.

The Red Team mobilizes.

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Earlier this week, leaked schematics of what may be the new design of the rumored iPhone 5 leaked online. A day later, on May 30th, the schematics of the what may be the front followed suit. Using the pretty detailed (and official Apple logo stamped) blueprints as a basis, tech website TechnoBuffalo decided to create a mock-up of the device as it would compare to the current iPhone 4S.

Perhaps you're asking why they went through the trouble of what may be just another baseless rumor. After all, Apple hasn't confirmed whether or not the designs are theirs or not. According to TechnoBuffalo, the schematics line up exactly with the (alleged) iPhone 5 parts that also leaked on May 29th. Furthermore, the schematics are apparently immensely detailed, a task incredibly time consuming and unlikely for a fake model.

All that said, here are their results.

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The schematics line up perfectly with the leaked parts

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A rendered image of the iPhone 5 from the blueprints side by side with an iPhone 4S.

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And if you're wondering how the device might fit in your hand, TechnoBuffalo has you covered.

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