Porn viewers have a definite preference when it comes to emoticons and emoji, and thankfully, it’s not a farm animal. According to Pornhub, it’s the simple winking face. Since 2014, more than 12 million comments have been left on the adult site, and over 1.5 million of those comments contain an emoji or emoticon, the …
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Poor Captain Jean-Luc Picard. He has such a refined soul, dreaming of his family vineyard and a nice cup of Earl Grey and longing to just settle down in a plush armchair with a volume of Shakespeare. Too bad all those darn Borg and Klingons and crew members clamoring for attention keep getting in his way. Related stories The new …
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“Find My iPhone” is probably my most-used app. I’ve even been known to be talking on my phone, reach for it to do a quick Google search and declare that I’ve lost it. (Mom, I’m sorry now for all the times I made fun of you for looking for your glasses when they were propped on your head.) So this …
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Where the superheroes of the disappointing “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” failed us, the caped clawsomeness of “Batcat v Supercat” is our salvation. It’s just an ordinary day for Supercat until he spots an Animal Control van, and then takes off, faster than a speeding laser pointer, more powerful than a whole batch of catnip, able to leap tall …
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This Independence Day, British actor Patrick Stewart showed his all-American side by tweeting out a link to his cowboy crooner side. “Happy 4th ‘merica, yer a mighty fine country. Luv, Cowboy Pat,” the “Star Trek” star wrote, providing a link to the above YouTube video. In a hilariously accurate infomercial parody, Stewart dons western duds and belts out such western …
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Who doesn’t like watching things blow up? And who doesn’t like watching others make a gigantic mess that you don’t have to clean up? Following their April stunt where employees wrapped hundreds of rubber bands around a watermelon until it exploded in a satisfying juicy mess, BuzzFeed staffers on Thursday staged a similar event. This time, they filled a white …
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What’s real in the below photo? Did the artist paint a hand around one of her eyes, or an eye on the back of her hand? What we think we see isn’t always what’s really there, and vice-versa. Ask anyone who marveled at the wolf optical illusion, or squinted to try and see the shark in Blake Lively’s Magic Eye …
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Hey, karma, thanks for biting me so fast. Tuesday, I wrote about this wolf optical illusion, which satisfyingly resolves itself if you sit for 43 seconds and watch the video. And in passing, I mentioned Magic Eye puzzles, which were displayed all over US shopping malls in the 1990s, and which I could never, ever see. Then actress Blake Lively, …
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Some optical illusions require you to stare at them for a long time until you finally see something — like the brick wall illusion that made its way around the internet recently, and those Magic Eye puzzles that ruled American shopping malls back in the ’90s. (Never could see the sailboat. Lied every time. Then called it a day and …
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The pain of the Orlando, Florida, shootings early Sunday morning at the Pulse nightclub has reached even into the fictional world of wizardry and magic. Author J.K. Rowling learned that one of the victims had a Harry Potter connection, and tweeted that she was devastated by the news. Luis Vielma, 22, worked at Universal Studios on the “Harry Potter and …
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