News ~ Corpse: Your Daily Posterous subscriptions July 4th, 2011 Texting teens [infographic] Posted 1 day ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post 1 Media_http9mshcdncomw_thhdp Full story at Lab 42 via Mashable. Like infographics? So do we. Groovy sticker art of the ‘60s and ‘70s Posted about 24 hours ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post 2 Media_httpfarm1static_rdyql Gone are most of the junkers that still sported the classic bumper art of a bygone era, but luckily, JasonLiebig has rounded up an incredible collection of stickers from the 1960s and 1970s that’ll make you feel like you’re right back in the rear of the pickup truck or station wagon flaunting your non-seatbelt-wearin’ self. Media_httpfarm1static_tugor Media_httpfarm1static_eipir Full story at JasonLiebig @ flickr via Boing Boing. The art of pop culture. Cheers to perspective! Posted about 24 hours ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post 1 Media_httpgraphjamfil_acpxk Full story at Graph Jam. By sixonefive72. Half-cup of ha-ha. 4th-of-July BBQ at Kobe Club in Japan with friends/family (a few pics) Posted about 23 hours ago by Garr_thumb Garr Reynolds to Garr's posterous Like this post Family Flag Ball See the full gallery on Posterous Family pose. Daughter loves basketball...already Swim Swim1 See the full gallery on Posterous Time to hit the pool for the first time ever. Happy She was very happy to get *out* of the pool. Doug_nathan Bryans See the full gallery on Posterous Friends pose with their sons... Pianos When we make it home, my wife and daughter begin playing pianos at the same time in my daughter's room. Big fun for the NYPD [video] Posted about 18 hours ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post Media_httpfarm7static_icjbb This weekend is bound to be tough one for the NYPD, so to kick start the holiday weekend they blew off a little steam (aka, 5000 lbs of confiscated illegal fireworks, including sparklers). Cops have all the fun. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Gothamist via The Daily What. Explosive video. Champion surfers duck disaster in monster waves Posted about 18 hours ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post 1 Media_httpfarm6static_pjpvf Shooting for a film with a title like Storm Surfers 3D is bound to involve navigating some dangerous conditions, but surfers Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones made an almost miraculous escape last week. Carroll was towing Clarke-Jones into a six meter wave on a jet ski off the coast of Western Australia when the wave overtook him and ripped the jetski apart. According to Carroll: "The waves were so wild and unpredictable that it was hard to tell what was happening…I towed Ross into a wave then tried to get the ski over the back of the wave, however a large bit of chop bounced me back onto the face. From there I did all I could but just couldn't get the ski off the wave before it broke." Miraculously, Carroll only suffered a bruise on the shin and his companion escaped unscathed, but the is one the surfers won’t soon forget. They did get their footage for the film, though one wonders if movie-goers will ever know what it could have cost to get. Full story at Perth Now. Extreme surfing. Photo credit: Jamie Scott/Storm Surfers The Gizmodo Fireworks Atlas Posted about 15 hours ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post Media_httpcachegawker_cfrgr We know there’s no one out there who would ever be tempted to break the law when it comes to fireworks, but with all the people hitting the open road for the Fourth of July, you may not be aware of what the attitude toward fireworks is at your vacation destination. Pity if you miss out on the fun of playing the “Firework or gunshot?” game, but not everyone can be so lucky. Full story at Gizmodo. Nothing says “freedom” like firecrackers. What your pet says about you [infographic] Posted about 15 hours ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post 1 Media_httpakaimg2himg_pzgbi Full story at Hunch via Neatorama. By ColumnFiveMedia. Like infographics? So do we. Hemingway’s fatal fears of FBI surveillance justified Posted about 14 hours ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post Media_httpfarm6static_tffxp The seemingly fearless Ernest Hemingway spent the last year of his life haunted by suspicions he was under scrutiny by the ever-seeing eye of the FBI, a fear many dismissed as a symptom of mental illness rather than a very real possibility. Those who knew the legendary writer well were no exception, including A.E. Hotchner, author of “Papa Hemingway” and “Hemingway and His World” who recounts the heartbreaking nature of his last memories of the author and his shock at the revelation that, rather than being a manifestation of mental illness, Hemingway seemed to somehow know the FBI was indeed watching his every move. Full story at New York Times. The dark side of genius. Top 150 social media blogs Posted about 12 hours ago by Unknown35 Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! Like this post 1 Media_httpdldropboxco_pcafv eCairn is a software technology company that tries to determine who matters. Using their tool, they've ranked what they believe are the top 150 social media blogs. Here are the top 10: Jeremiah Owyang http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ Chris Brogan http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ Seth's Blog http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ Brian Solis http://www.briansolis.com/ Logic + Emotion http://darmano.typepad.com/ Social Media Explorer http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/ Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/ Social Media Strategy http://www.convinceandconvert.com/ Conversation Agent http://www.conversationagent.com/ Marketing Profs http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Full story at Influencers and Community Marketing. Top social media news. Photo credit: Fotolia World's longest hair [video] Posted about 11 hours ago by Dsc08006_thumb Noelle Chun to Holy Kaw! Like this post Did you know that humans grow about 10 miles of hair every year? Learn other weird facts about human hair in just a minute and a half. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Odd news. 1957 murder mystery may be solved Posted about 11 hours ago by Unknown35 Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! Like this post Media_httpdldropboxco_ccyvd In 1957, young Maria Ridulph went missing in her home town; months passed and her remains were found. The town was generally described as a family-oriented, safe place, so the killing came as a shock to everyone, even drawing the attention of Washington D.C. Police suspected a man named Jack Daniel McCullough, but his alibi cleared...until a recent twist in the investigation blew a whole in McCullough's alibi. He claimed to have taken a train out of town, but an ex-girlfriend provided police with the unused train ticked. Once the ticket cropped up, police piled up evidence against McCullough, leading to an arrest. Full story at Yahoo! News. Top crime news. Photo credit: Fotolia Weird Al writes lyrics to Conan's theme song [video] Posted about 11 hours ago by Unknown35 Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! Like this post The master of musical comedy meets the master of late-night comedy; hilarity ensues. Take a look at this clip, courtesy of Best Week Ever, of Weird Al Yankovic singing Conan's theme song, with lyrics befitting Conan's uniqueness: Embedded media -- click here to see it. Top music news. 10 hidden benefits of smiling Posted about 11 hours ago by Unknown35 Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! Like this post Media_httpdldropboxco_egfgc They always say it takes more muscles to frown than to smile. Besides being less work than frowning, though, what are the scientific benefits of smiling? PsyBlog explains some of the other plus sides of smiling, and offers scientific studies that back them up. For example, Recover from social slip-ups Did you forget to buy your partner an anniversary present? Has an important client's name slipped your mind? Have you accidentally kicked a small child? If you've tripped on a social banana, embarrassment is your go-to emotion. The function of embarrassment is to get us out of tight social spots (Keltner & Buswell, 1997). The embarrassed smiles we display involve looking down and sometimes we emit a silly little laugh. This is designed to elicit fellow-feeling from other people so they think less of the slip and forgive us more quickly. So the embarrassed smile helps us get out of jail free(ish). Once again, the power of a smile. Full story at PsyBlog. Top psychology news. Photo credit: Fotolia James Brown doing miso soup commercials Posted about 6 hours ago by Unknown35 Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! Like this post Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the twilight zone. This features the legendary James Brown adversing miso soup in Japan. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Top news from Japan. I made this "Hawaii wedding slideshow" in iPhoto after our honeymoon 5 years ago Posted about 5 hours ago by Garr_thumb Garr Reynolds to Garr's posterous Like this post Embedded media -- click here to see it. Today is our 5-year wedding anniversary. We got married on the Oregon Coast on the 4th of July. (We had just had a wedding ceremony in Japan two days earlier. ) Yes, in Oregon they had a huge fireworks show on the beach that night—not sure what the occasion was. Then we went straight to Hawaii for a photo shoot and honeymoon, mostly on the Big Island, but the photos were shot on Oahu. This slideshow is not very slick or professional -- but it took only minutes to throw together. Even five years ago iPhoto was easier to use than falling of a log. I heard that my mother loved seeing it, and that's all that matters. Anyway, hard to believe it has been five years..... This is the photographer, Susanne Pridoehl: http://www.leilaniphoto.com/ Skies over the Canary Islands time lapse [video] Posted 43 minutes ago by Po-wed_006__2__thumb Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Like this post Media_httpfarm6static_udhye The first in a series of films about each of the Canary Islands, Daniel Lopez spent a year capturing this footage of Tenerife, the largest island, in order to portray all of its striking features in this time lapse video. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Vimeo via Kuriositas. As the world turns. FOX News Twitter Account Hacked, Says Obama Shot And Killed