MUST WATCH: Derrick Rose - The Rise
I’ve decided I’ve never seen anything like Derrick Rose. That’s a good thing.
Surf Video of the Day: On August 27th, 2011, the waves off Teahupo’o, Tahiti — deadly on a calm day — were labeled “double code red” by the French Navy, which, according to cinematographer Chris Bryan, threatened to arrest who entered the water.
So, naturally, the surf was on.
Shot with a Phantom HD Gold camera. Music: “Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun” by M83.
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David & Funkhouser at Dodger Stadium, 2003
In 2003 a man named Juan Catalan was arrested for a murder in Los Angeles. He repeatedly professed his innocence and asked to take a lie detector test, a request that the police denied. He also had an alibi: he swore that at the time of the murder he was at Dodger Stadium with his little girl, watching the Dodgers vs. the Braves, but his lawyer was unable to find him in any of the Dodger Vision or FOX footage he subpoenaed. However, he discovered that there was another source of crowd footage in the episode The Car Pool Lane, which had filmed at Dodger Stadium that night. Although Catalan did not make the final cut of the show, his lawyer was able to find him and his daughter in the outtakes, and determined from the timestamps on the tapes that Catalan could not have been the killer. When told that his show had released a wrongfully accused man from prison and a trial that could have led to the death penalty, Larry David commented, “I tell people that I’ve now done one decent thing in my life, albeit inadvertently.” [IMDB]
Watch a clip: “The Carpool Lane”
(Mighty Thanks to The Tens, who reminded me of this story after seeing my Seinfeld post earlier today)](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxpo7dHPWx1qzniimo1_500.jpg)
David & Funkhouser at Dodger Stadium, 2003
In 2003 a man named Juan Catalan was arrested for a murder in Los Angeles. He repeatedly professed his innocence and asked to take a lie detector test, a request that the police denied. He also had an alibi: he swore that at the time of the murder he was at Dodger Stadium with his little girl, watching the Dodgers vs. the Braves, but his lawyer was unable to find him in any of the Dodger Vision or FOX footage he subpoenaed. However, he discovered that there was another source of crowd footage in the episode The Car Pool Lane, which had filmed at Dodger Stadium that night. Although Catalan did not make the final cut of the show, his lawyer was able to find him and his daughter in the outtakes, and determined from the timestamps on the tapes that Catalan could not have been the killer. When told that his show had released a wrongfully accused man from prison and a trial that could have led to the death penalty, Larry David commented, “I tell people that I’ve now done one decent thing in my life, albeit inadvertently.” [IMDB]
Watch a clip: “The Carpool Lane”
(Mighty Thanks to The Tens, who reminded me of this story after seeing my Seinfeld post earlier today)
COLLEGE KID IS BEST TEAMMATE EVER
Give it up for this kid from Seton Hall. Glad he’s enjoying the ride. Good luck to the Pirates, good luck to Peter Dill.
(via @IamaGM)
Not Sure If Funny Or Just Stupid of the Day: This (NSFW) video from sketch group Last Call Cleveland generalizing on the nature of “female hordes” in nightclubs is amusing quite a few people judging by the number of likes its received on YouTube, but I have to admit I don’t see whatever it is they’re apparently seeing. There’s just a bit too much slut-shaming going on here for my taste.
Help me out. Is this funny?
[clevescene.]
Beauty Pageant Kids These Days of the Day: I have a theory about Toddlers & Tiaras that involves TLC working with Child Services to lure unfit parents into a trap a la police station lotteries.
It has to be that. It just has to.
[bwe.]
zoya:
Cannot get over just how awesome our Musical Landscape map is. Drag around! Zoom in on the brushstrokes! Click names to play music! Nicholas’s illustration is gorgeous and witty, and it just gets better as more of the landscape comes into view each day. We currently have a monitor devoted just to this map. It’s that good.
