Culture Buzz As the poor sap who was mauled to death by his pet hippo unfortunately found out, hippos are not cute and cuddly—they are 5 ton murder machines. The hippopotamus is not a pet, it is nature's morbidly obese psychopath.
Vlogbrother Hank describes humans and life on earth for any extraterrestrial life forms that may be listening. (via metafilter.com)
Tech Buzz 0 to 100 is a new iPad app with interactive portraits of faces at every age and stage of life. From an infant to a great grandmother, you can browse people's portraits and read their stories in brief interviews and videos. Their demo video is a lot of fun to watch and I could see myself getting hooked on the Facemaker. (via Fast Co Design)
Everyone's chain mail-forwarding family members are searching for pictures of the Human Dog hybrid this morning. It's a sculpture called “The Young Family” by Patricia Piccinini, and is her depiction of what a hu-dog would look like with combined DNA. The real-life scientific hu-dog sample died in a North Korean prison camp years ago. Wait, what?
One dude attempts to do what Maru did, except he's bigger. Now that's a dick in a box. Thank you, Internet.
In the tradition of Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians, this new website recognizes folks who look like our furry brothers in evolution. Sure, this photo of cricket player Andrew Symonds suspiciously brings to mind blackface, but on a site that compares the same dude to Bindi Irwin, it seems like anyone and everyone a target.