Brandon Scott Gorrell

A victim of cancer, Miller knew that his time was near, and so wrote his own obituary on his blog, in a blog post titled “The Last Post.” Equal parts moving and uplifting, the man reminisces about the time in his life before he knew he had cancer, and bids farewell to his wife and two daughters. He was “unafraid of death.”

While outward displays of masculinity, affability, confidence and power may be a regular part of the Insecure Boyfriend’s behavioral repertoire, the Insecure Boyfriend in fact has low self-confidence and extremely low self-esteem, both of which aggregate to produce a constant, needy second-guessing of his girlfriend’s love and loyalty to him and the belief that if she cheats on him he will have “deserved it” or it will have “made sense.”

If you know how to navigate the internet, odds are you’ve already seen the slow motion water balloon to the face, the slow motion sneeze, the slow motion baby laugh, and Justin Bieber slowed down 700 times. It might be that this video tops them all, the funny characters (“The Slow Mo Guys”) recording their attempts in slow motion to break a gigantic water balloon that appears to have a diameter of upwards of six feet.

I like Seattle. It offers a pretty unique and special blend of nature, weather, space, and culture. It has its downsides and things one might consider lame, but generally it’s a pretty nice place to live, and I’ve lived in a lot of places. But as a writer and editor, I often feel a sort of pressure to move out to NYC, where “everything’s happening.” Here’s why I’m a bit cautious about that prospect.

Seattle is the Emerald City, where It Rains All The Time, and where The Space Needle is, and where Kurt Cobain shot himself. Seattle is a place for Hipsters, and a place for lots of suicides (because of the rain). Every city’s got its stereotypes – here are a few for your reading pleasure.

This version of Home Alone by Freddie Wong & Brandon Laatsch represents a much more realistic interpretation of the types of pranks you’d actually play if you were expecting robbers on a specific day at a specific time (if you were like, really going to play pranks on violent home intruders that might possibly kill you/ rape your wife). Video inside.

This slick art installation at the Contemporary Art Museum MNAC in Bucharest, Romania is basically just a bunch of cardboard boxes… that sound like rain. It appears is if motors (200 in total) attached to boxes in strategic locations produce the sound, while the acoustics of the structure itself serve to enhance and propagate it. The whole thing is really quite calming, if not for the sound it makes, than for its large, fragile, temple-like structure.

A heavy sort of mediocrity will set in; it will be a realization that single life is just as lonely/ depressing as monogamous-relationship life; that porn isn’t real; that unfortunately, time spent dating ? time spent having awesome sex with girls with perfect bodies; that time spent dating actually = the disappointment of profile pictures, the awkwardness of hookups…

And this is TL;DR in action, sort of, and it’s also why humanity is funny. Perhaps this is why ‘discussion’ on the internet can turn into 20,000 comment-long threads full of misunderstanding, nitpicking, semantic call-outs, and accusations of not being intellectual enough. Because no one actually knows what they’re talking about, so in essence, everyone’s posturing (which is one of the most satisfying things to accuse someone of)!

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — Las Vegas Man Carlos Barron has been accused by the North Las Vegas police of opening fire on the crew of Spike’s reality TV show Repo Games.

Anyways, the real story behind this video is that it’s footage from the extremely fun-looking Bring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW) 2011 on Easter Sunday, a race where the colorful citizens of San Francisco race down the city’s hills – in this case, Potrero Hill – on big wheels they most likely stole from their kids.

This internet rapper appears to be on both the path to fame and an aneurysm via this video he recorded of himself, which, for some reason, he decided to upload to the internet. In the video, we see the dude talking large and boastful – as is the tradition of freestyle rap – about money, street savvy, and the ability to fuck “niggas” up. But all that soon comes to an end. Video inside.

Is this extremely funny, or am I just being weird? This baby laughing at half speed is funny as hell! Who would have thought that a baby excited about dogs and bubbles could have sounded like a forty year-old fat man on an acid trip? Or like your hallucinations on an acid trip gone bad? Hah! Video inside.

Created by Lernert Engelberts en Sander Plug, this video is three years old, but just as Yahweh rose from the dead three days after his crucifixion at the hands of the Romans and the Jews, the video of the melting of the chocolate bunny has now been resurrected from the depths of viral detritus three years after its birth.

Royal College of Art PhD student Julijonas Urbonas has created a design for a roller coaster that is intended to murder you… with fun! No, but you would actually die if you rode this roller coaster. It’s called The Euthanasia Coaster. Sounds quite horrifying to me, but Urbonas doesn’t think so. He actually intends for the thing (if built, which won’t happen) to lead to a meaningful death.

Six people were arrested this Tuesday for the murder of 15-year-old Florida boy Seath Tyler Jackson. Lured by a text message to the home where he was murdered, Jackson was shot to death with a .22 calibur revolver by 18-year-old suspect Michael Bargo. Bargo “hated” Jackson, according to the CBS News report.

Artist Scott Weaver recently unveiled “Rolling Through the Bay,” a toothpick Rube Goldberg machine of the Bay Area. A product of 35 years of work and over 100,000 toothpicks, the piece can be explored via a number of ball runs that take you through toothpick replicas of Bay Area sights and attractions. Pretty cool!

In 1985, our Center for Disease Control obesity map shows just a few states at a 10-14% obese population – but there are far more that simply provide no data at all. So, in 1995, when all states reported their “obesity levels,” the majority have a 10-14% obese population while a growing number are at 14-19%. Fast forward 14 years to 2009, and most of US has a 25% – ? obese population!