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Stop-Motion Short of the Day: The history of Western Civilization as told through the changing hairstyles of women over time.

[buzzfeed.]

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thedailywhat:

Morning Links:

  • Kid Casting: Adult TV and film characters, and the kids who played their younger counterparts.

[photo: reddit.]

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Breaking News of the Day: Americans Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal have finally left Iran today after being held in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison for the past two years.

The two were detained along with Sarah Shourd by Iranian border guards while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan near the Iranian border. Shourd was released on bail last year.

Bauer and Fattal were convicted in August of illegal entry and espionage and sentenced to eight years behind bars. Today, the two men were finally allowed to post bail, and, following the deposit of $1m, were released into the custody of Swiss and Omani diplomats.

They were flown to Oman, and reunited with their families and Shourd — who has since become engaged to Bauer.

Above: Bauer (r) and Fattal with Swiss Ambassador Livia Leu Agosti, moments before getting on the plane to Oman.

[usatoday / photo: daylife.]

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Video Hornbook of the Day: The second entry in Alessandro Novelli’s Alphabet series (previously) finds the artist experimenting with “different techniques and materials” to create a video hornbook in which each letter is visually represented by the meaning of a word it helps spell out.

[n9ve.]

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Adorable Animal Being Adorable of the Day: A featherless baby penguin was recently welcomed into the world at Laohutan Pole Aquarium in Dalian, China — though not by its parents, who abandoned the sickly chick to fend for itself.

Happily, the aquarium staff adopted the helpless hatchling, and reared it with the help of some stuffed animals until it sprouted some feathers and was ready to return to its waddle.

Video footage of the little guy below:

[cctv / h/t: hungeree.]

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Birthday Boy of the Day: Bill Murray is 61 years young today. Happy birthday Bill Murray!

Here’s Derek Eads’ terrific tribute to the man, the myth, the Murray.

[derekeads.]

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Today On TDW: Geek —
Above: Jim cooks up an AT-AT pancake for his 3-year-old daughter.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt testifies before Senate subcommittee on antitrust.
Report: iPhone 5 launch coming October 4.
Pandora moves from Flash to HTML5, makes a few other nifty changes.
Amazon now allows Kindle users to borrow books from public libraries.
Gripe all you want: Facebook changes are here to stay.
War-themed FPS replaces gun with camera.
Robot nominated for London’s Olympic Torch Relay.
Canada issues coins featuring mythical creatures.
Doctor Who Christmas Special details revealed.
First official clip from Batman: Year One.
This is what you get after working at Nintendo for 20 years.
You got your washing machine in my arcade machine, etc.

thedailywhat:

Today On TDW: Geek —

  • Doctor Who Christmas Special details revealed.
  • This is what you get after working at Nintendo for 20 years.
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