Tinsley is a Shiloh Shepherd and packmate of the human Cam Laundry. A few days ago, Tinsley, Laundry, and another human were driving down a snowy highway in New Hampshire. Laundry, who was driving, had an accident and crashed the car.

Other drivers saw Tinsley late that night, trying to get their attention. She led police to the scene of the crash, where Laundry and his friend were immoblized and suffering from hypothermia. EMTs rescued and treated the humans while Tinsley calmly observed.

After Laundry and his friend were released, he set about rewarding Tinsley for her work. He tells NBC 5 News that the dog has venison burger and backstrap in her future.

-via Laughing Squid

It's a special kind of heartbreak when you come up with a great idea for a story, incubate it in your mind, write it down, polish it, and convince yourself it's worthy of a Hollywood movie, then ...you see a trailer for that movie. This isn't about plagiarism, but about convergent ideas. You can't sue for plagiarism if you've never pitched the script or published the story. Often it's not the exact story, but close enough so that you can give up on the idea of a movie being produced, at least anytime soon. Just ask Liz Smith, who in 1997 imagined a story about a rich young man who falls involve with a poor woman while both are traveling on the Titanic. Inverse has the stories of five screenwriters who were crestfallen when they found out their stories had been beaten to the punch, and how they coped with the disappointment afterward. -via Digg
 

Imagine that you've spent years planning the perfect wedding for you and your spouse. You've got everything: a luxury resort destination site, elaborate bachelor and bachelorette parties, gourmet menus, an artistic cake, and a band to perform at the reception. All that you need now is a custom hashtag so that all of the influencers at your wedding can post their content on Instagram and Twitter.

That's where the problem comes up. Some other couple has already taken #FarrierWedding, so there's no obvious way to tag your wedding and only your wedding.

That's where Happily Ever #Hashtagged comes in. The founder, Marielle Wakim, started her firm in 2016 to respond to this market demand. She tells the Wall Street Journal that her carefully developed skill for inventing clever, original, and appropriate hashtags makes her $50 fees worth it. Wakim can write hashtags that incorporate specific themes, names, or ideas and create alternate versions for elements of the wedding.

Wakim isn't alone. Her business is one of at least several who are filling this #nicheweddingmarket. Read about them at the Wall Street Journal.

-via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Marko Millivojevik

NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on August of 2022 and head toward a 140-mile wide asteroid named 16 Psyche. It lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists are interested in the asteroid because they believe it may be a planetesimal, which resembles the earth underneath its mantle and crust. We could learn about how our planet formed. But the asteroid is interesting for something else.

Asteroid 16 Psyche reflects light in a way that lead scientists to believe it is made of metal, or at least contains a lot of iron, nickel, and gold. The resources on the asteroid could be worth as much as $10 quintillion! And now you're thinking of the movies Armageddon, Avatar, Prospect, or Alien, in which earth's biggest corporations send crews to other planets to extract their natural resources. While that may be a long way off, 16 Psyche has captured NASA's imagination for many reasons, which you can read about at Smithsonian. -via Fark

(Image credit: NASA)

Look at this rat. Look at this marvelous rat. Reorganize your brain around this image of a rat.

Claire McFadden brings us a song that you think maybe is trying to teach us something or make a point, but eventually you come to realize, no, it's some kind of art. Or maybe it's just one of those weird things that make the internet an interesting place to be. It gets funnier as it goes along. Contains one NSFW word. (via Metafilter)

The Bosphorus, also known as the Strait of Istanbul, is a waterway that cuts through Istanbul, Turkey, connects the the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara, and separates Europe from Asia. That's a lot to ask of a small strait. It forms a historically important trade route for international navigation. But it's not a river. At least, not all of it is. The water flows both north and south, depending on the depth.

...in modern times, local boatmen know that the surface current flows south into the Sea of Marmara and thence into the Aegean/Mediterranean.  If they want to take a boat north, they can lower a bucket of rocks on a long rope to the bottom, where the northward current of seawater is located; it will carry the bucket north and thus tow their boat on the surface.

There's a scientific explanation at Wikipedia. Read how a horrific event in history took advantage of this weird flow at TYWKIWDBI.

(Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory)

Due to the timing of their births, these twin siblings were born in completely different years. Alfredo Antonio Trujillo entered the world first at 11:45 PM at the Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California on New Year's Eve. Fifteen minutes later and seconds after midnight, his sister, Aylin Yolanda Trujillo, emerged. As a result, they have not only different birthdays, but different birth years.

A press release from the hospital says that the odds of twins being born in separate years is about 1 in 2 million births.

The twins are healthy and strong. The hospital expects for them to go home soon with their parents to meet their three older siblings.

-via My Modern Met | Photo: Natividad

I've just discovered the wonderful (and occasionally obscene) Twitter account Threatening Music Notation. It's filled with pictures of strange slices of musical notation, such as instructions to consume cocaine, mooing like a cow, slapping a fish, and producing fart-like sounds.

What's going on in the above selection? Twitter user @ONEiROSEB says that it's taken from the works of Victor Borge, a Danish-American musical comedian.

Borge was famous for his physical comedy while playing the piano on stage. In this recording, he plays Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2 with the help of Şahan Arzruni, classical pianist. At the 2:00 mark, Borge stands up, sits on the keyboard, then sits back down to continue playing with his fingers.

-via Rebecca Baumann

🍔 Who needs a gym? In this McDonald's restaurant in China, you can exercise and eat a Big Mac at the same time.

🚽 Watch this unreleased cold open scene from The Office featuring a toilet mishap by Michael Scott (you and I would say it's toilet humor but Michael called it a "toilet tragedy").

🎬 120 years of cinema in 120 seconds: see how many scenes from these 75 iconic films you recognize.

🐍 One more reason not to move to Florida: pythons trying to hitch a ride in your car. Thank goodness that Mom was there to save the day.

🏛️ To instantly appear older (like by "thousands of years") and thus more established, colleges in the USA built buildings that look straight out of the Middle Ages. The style became known as collegiate gothic architecture.

More neat posts over at our new sites: Pictojam, Laughosaurus, Pop Culturista, Supa Fluffy and Homes & Hues.

The Madness Equation by indie artist glitchygorilla.

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Sometimes you just want to delete your last search queries. Maybe it’s to avoid any weird or invasive questions or to save yourself from sheer embarrassment the next time you type into a Google search bar. For whatever reason you have for wanting to delete your Google search history, that’s none of our business. But here’s a way to delete your recent search history, courtesy of CNET: 

Step 1: Tap on your profile picture to access your menu.

Step 2: Click Delete last 15 minutes.

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Don’t underestimate its size! This salt grain-sized camera can snap sharp, full-color images. Created by researchers at Princeton and the University of Washington, this camera is capable of capturing images measuring 720 x 720 pixels in full color, wavelengths between 400 and 700 nanometers in natural light with a spatial resolution of 214 line pairs per millimeter. According to the researchers, these images are on par with those captured with a conventional camera lens that’s way bigger than their new sensor. 

Image credit: Princeton University 

Did you know that having a morning routine can lead to a night of better sleep? According to neurologist W. Chris Winter, MD, certain components of a routine, such as light, temperature, food, schedule, and social interaction, can influence and regulate our circadian rhythm. This rhythm is the 24-hour body clock that prompts us to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Learn more about regulating your body clock here! 

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This streamer spent two weeks building a giant Oreo in the hit sandbox video game Minecraft. The player, NomALlama built the structure with all the constraints of a survival run. He used up 46,727 blocks of concrete, and a lot of candles (to keep the mobs from spawning). As for his next masterpiece, the streamer explains that he is never doing that to himself again. 

Image via PCGamesN 

The song "Creep" by Radiohead is a classic, but as far as I know, it's never been done honky-tonk style. The YouTuber we know and love, There I Ruined It (previously at Neatorama), has fixed that with a performance by Tommy Yorke and the Radiohead Boys. While the cognitive dissonance might make you laugh, the music is actually quite good. And the best part is the video editing. You may or may not recognize the background singers, but the lip-synching is astonishing; it must have been a lot of work. Don't miss special appearance by Conway Twitty, Loretta Lyn, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton, and some stars that don't sing. Go ahead and listen to it, the F-bomb is censored. -via reddit

Most of the industrial spills we hear about are dangerous because of traffic disruptions or the toxic nature of what was spilled. While floods are dangerous, industrial accidents rarely have enough liquid to drown anyone. But the London beer flood of 1814 not only drowned people, the biggest danger was the sheer explosiveness of the brewery's failure.

The Horse Shoe Brewery was one of London's biggest. It participated in a game of one-upmanship to see who could boast the largest beer fermentation vats. These ever-bigger vats were made of wood held together by iron hoops. The Horse Shoe Brewery's biggest vat held 18,000 barrels of beer. When it suddenly failed on October 17, the force was great enough to wreck the vats beside it. Combined, they sent 323,000 imperial gallons of beer surging, with enough force to break through the brewery's brick wall and into the neighborhood. Eight women and children were killed by the ghastly accident. Read an account of the beer flood at Amusing Planet.