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Watch a five-year-old snowboarder




Watch five-year-old snowboarder Bailey Duran shred. Via.
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A Second Chance to Win by Asaf Hanuka.




San Diego Comic Con exclusive edition of Severed #1 by Attila Futaki.




Fantastic Fest 2011 poster by Mike Saputo.
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Wedding at a museum





Really great gallery of photos from a wedding at a museum.
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Little kid playing Dance Central in a store



Little kid dominating Dance Central (and don't miss the older gentleman at 40 seconds in). (Watch w/o sound if you don't like Disturbia.) Via.
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Let's Panic About Babies



This would be better if it was a book collecting media fear-of-the-day stories. Instead, it sounds like a collection of cliched jokes about how babies are a pain to raise. Via.
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Fun with shopping carts.




Hipster Ariel.




Mandarin duck.




Bereaved wolf being comforted via.




Fearsome toddler via. See also.
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Video of a boy playing with an otter




Video of a boy and a playful otter at Sea World. Via.
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Little kids kissing



Really cute kids kissing. "Yaaay!" Via.
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Happy Mother's Day

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Julia Sweeney recounts telling her daughter about sex



Finally got around to watching this, absolutely hilarious - - Julia Sweeney recounts telling her eight-year-old daughter about sex.

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1. Calvin and Hobbes by Francesco Francavilla.

2. Penelope Trunk on how to turn your child into an entrepreneur.

3. "Wrightwood woman who drugged, painted horses as part of sales scam sentenced."
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Little girl submits to the Dark Side




Watch as a little girl spurns the jedi at Disneyland's Jedi Academy and offers herself to the dark side.

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Workout equipment for little kids






Not an April Fool's Day prank - - treadmills, weights, and more for little kids:
It's not about vanity or unrealistic beauty standards. It's about your child's present and future health and well being. The fact is, childhood obesity levels have tripled in the past two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children who are significantly overweight are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes and are more likely to become obese adults. Establishing a fitness routine early in life will help prevent current and future weight problems.
Available at Amazon.
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A few gems from Reddit:


Jenga is off the hook.



College classes.



X-Ray photobomb.



Power plant breaking through the clouds, perhaps?.




Fast and the Furious Jr.



Yin and yang cats.
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Lil' Spider-Girl



Spider-Girl and her little brother show off their climbing prowess. (My kids taught themselves to do this with no encouragement from me.) Via.
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1. Peter David recently posted a lengthy review of Timecop (originally published in 1994) and in part of the review offers a tip for making your day more exciting:
Me, I’ve got my own theory. I think that time is constantly in flux. That there are fault lines in the time stream, and they’re constantly shifting in thousands of little subtle ways, just like tremors rearranging California real estate. Or think of time as telephone lines stretching from the present back to infinity (kind of like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and you get line noise that screws the connection up. It’s part of your day-to-day existence; you accept it and move on.

Proof? That’s easy.

Ever walk into a room to get something and suddenly you can’t remember what it was you wanted?

Ever put something down, go back and look for it, and it’s not there?

Ever run into someone who greets you like you’re old friends, and you are absolutely clueless as to their identity?

We chalk it off to lapsed memory, but it’s not. It’s Time Burps. You can’t remember what you wanted in the room because time just burped and suddenly the reason why you went in there ceased to exist. The item you put down has vanished because time burped and you never put it there in the first place. Your newfound old friend, in his or her past, was a close buddy, but in your own past, you never met.
2. From a review of a retelling of the Lord of the Rings:
In Yeskov's retelling, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because science "destroys the harmony of the world and dries up the souls of men!" He's in cahoots with the elves, who aim to become "masters of the world," and turn Middle-earth into a "bad copy" of their magical homeland across the sea. Barad-dur, also known as the Dark Tower and Sauron's citadel, is, by contrast, described as "that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic."
Via.

3. Funny Dr. McNinja comic about raising kids.
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1. JAW Cooper is giving away art again.

2. Today's Tee Fury t-shirt is Back to the Future meets Big Daddy Roth by Kari Fry.

3. It's cute when little kids sing inappropriate songs.

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