Culture Buzz That's not a rat, that's a destroyer of worlds. This obscenely large rodent, thought to actually be a coypu or nutria, was discovered near the home of Brian Watson in the U.K. town of Consett. It was 4-feet-long and so heavy it snapped in half the paddle you see in the photo.
Culture Buzz Or he's just reaching for an apple. Okay, fine, he's just reaching for an apple. Stop smothering my dreams! My wonderful, wonderful dreams of panda dancing!
Celebrity Buzz This photo was taken backstage when the diminutive NPR host was a guest on “The Colbert Report.” Yes, yes…he's not really that tall, but it's still funny.
Culture Buzz No, no…the other side. And also, holy bejesus uh uh fetal position.
Politics Buzz And it looks like he's piggybacking a little person? A reverse Master Blaster, if you will. Which you shouldn't. From Paul's second place victory speech in New Hampshire.
Celebrity Buzz Eve Arnold, pioneering photojournalist, passed away today at the age of 99. While Arnold was the master of many styles and subjects, she is best known for her intimate portraits of Marilyn Monroe. Here are a few of those photos to celebrate the life and work of an amazing talent.
Culture Buzz Just in time for Christmas. Etsypreneur Erin Pearce is a mad genius.
Celebrity Buzz So…womanly. Pregnant Jessica Simpson is your new favorite pregnant anything. You might say that these photos will give you PREGNANT pause. Vom. Apologies.
Celebrity Buzz I'm formally submitting this to National Geographic's eventual “Best Photographs of 2011” list because this is simply perfect.
Culture Buzz Let's all titter at these Dick's signs. And then titter at the word “titter.” I'm a grown up.
This is Arthur, a ten foot puppet with a drinking problem. I want to see a drunken brawl between Arthur and Big Bird.
Courtesy of Epic Meal Time, a cute girl eats a disgustingly large corn dog. She's beautiful. And the girl ain't half bad, neither! Heyo!
Culture Buzz Know what the best animal ever is? The anteater. Those guys can do anything.Know what's better than a regular anteater? A baby one, of course!
Artist Eric Testroete created this giant paper-craft reproduction of his own head for Halloween. He probably was worried that own his head wasn't bizarrely angular or nightmarish enough.
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Software giant apologises for altering a photo on its website to change the race of one of the people in the picture.
This horn for giants sounds, by default, f*cking hilarious. We'd totally line up for an orchestra featuring instruments that sound like God's farts. To be fair, we'd totally line up for an orchestra called God's Farts. (via Urlesque)