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Baby And Cat In Snuggling Nirvana

This is the cutest baby and cat video I’ve ever seen! It’s almost too cute. These two are just enthralled with each other. Whenever you’re experiencing stress overload, a few seconds of this snug fest is the medicine that will instantly lower your blood pressure to bliss level. Enjoy.

This is the epitome, the very definition of dogged determination! This pooch is totally convinced a statue of a man is actually alive and has to play fetch with him. Must play! The border collie barks and cries and bounds about with such enthusiasm, I was half expecting that statue to give up and toss the stick. It’s quite funny and shows how it’s darn hard to dampen the passion of a canine who desires to do something. Now!

A winning combo of a creative and cute concept with dancing babies! Hard to resist. It is a cute fantasy of seeing yourself dancing with you as a baby looking back at you through a reflection.  A highly imaginative commercial video that shows people in the commercial being engaged in the action–drawing the viewer to be engaged as well. Evian had a series of Evian Baby commercials before Baby & Me included the Roller Babies the most viewed video ever to that day.

 My fave poor pooch behavior clip! Very funny. Maymo the lemon beagle is caught on video making very poor choices. This dog rolls in pickles, hoards water jugs, and destroys an antique stuffed panda bear before he gets caught and ultimately ‘shamed’ for his skullduggery.

Do yourself a favor and go watch it right now. Oh, (mother) boy, do we have a treat for you It is so good that I’m actually crying from laughing so much. Watch this outtake, in which Buster (Tony Hale) and Lucille (Jessica Walter) take their relationship to new heights. If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing the most carcinogenic version of Lucille as a mama bird and Buster as a baby bird.

This goofy dog acts like a little kid who thoughly protests and refuses to do what you tell him to do. The pooch refuses to stop watching TV on the couch. Remind you of anyone?

Remembering Jonathan Winters, the ‘father of improvisational comedy’

The trailblazing comic improviser Jonathan Winters, who died Thursday at age 87, was a seminal influence on scores of comedians and the person Robin Williams credits as his mentor.

Winters’ high energy, unpredictable and often surreal comic riffs included an array of characters, reenactments of movie scenes and pointed, quick-morphing sound effects that he often produced on the spot.

Take, for example, his 1964 appearance on “The Jack Paar Program.” In order to illustrate Winters’ genius for creating comedy out of thin air, Paar gave him a simple wooden stick. “Do something with the stick” Paar said, and in what’s now a classic bit, Winters morphed from wayward fisherman to tepid circus ringmaster with a whip, to highbrow flute player.

PHOTOS: Jonathan Winters | 1925-2013

Johnny Carson was just as taken with Winters’ comic brilliance, said Andrew John Nicholls, head writer for “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” from 1988 to 1992.

“Jonathan thrilled Johnny down to his socks,” Nicholls said. “They became like two 8-year-olds together. Harmless anarchical craziness, the loopy connection of disjointed ideas, deliberate mental misfiring just to see what’d happen, where it’d go. Johnny loved that stuff, it just tickled him pink, and Jonathan was the all-time master.”

Dan Pasternack, vice president of development for IFC and a stand-up comedian himself, was one of Winters’ closest friends — they spoke on the phone weekly. “Jonathan’s influence is absolutely singular,” Pasternack said. “There are so few original voices where you can say ‘it starts with this guy.’ As far as I’m concerned, anything in contemporary improvisational comedy starts with Jonathan Winters.”

VIDEO: Jonathan Winters’ improv genius on TV

He pointed out that Williams hardly ever accepts an award without crediting Winters’ influence on his fast-paced, free-form streams of consciousness. Winters, however, who always watched proudly from home on TV, humorously took issue with that, Pasternack said.

“He’d tell Robin after: ‘Don’t say mentor, say idol!’”

The cherubic-faced Winters, also an accomplished painter, appeared in several films, including now-classic performances in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and “The Loved One,” and he was no stranger to TV — his hourlong variety show for CBS, “The Jonathan Winters Show,” ran from 1967 to 1969 and “The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters” was in syndication from 1972 to 1974.

But he never achieved the kind of major, A-list Hollywood success that many of the comedians he influenced did. His legacy, however, is a cumulative one, living on in the plethora of comic voices he inspired.

Maria Bamford, who talks about her lifelong struggles with depression, anxiety and OCD in her comedy special, “Maria Bamford: the Special Special Special!” said she turned to Winters — who also talked openly about his mental health struggles — for personal advice recently.

PHOTOS: Celebrities react to Winters’ death

“He didn’t know me at all, but he took time to talk to me on the phone, this was about a year ago,” Bamford said. “I was worried about going back to work and not stressing my brain and not feeling afraid and going back to performing live. And he said: ‘Well, you got a good shrink?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said: ‘Well then, you just keep going!’ I thought that was very simple, but it was a relief to me. I’m now touring again and working on new material and feeling pretty great.”

“I was honored to have talked to him” said Marc Maron, who interviewed Winters on his WTF podcast in 2011. “I’ll miss him. There was no one like him and there won’t be ever again. He took comedy where no man had gone before.”

Added Andy Kindler, who’s also appeared on WTF and who was a series judge on the final season of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing:” “Jonathan Winters had a quote that I always loved and agree with wholeheartedly: ‘Most people don’t have a sense of humor. They think they do, but they don’t.’”

Jamie Masada, owner of The Laugh Factory in Hollywood, said he remembers a night in 1986 very fondly. “Jonathan came into the club with a bunch of comedians that night — he didn’t go onstage, but he walked around and did impressions of Groucho Marx. Everybody was on the floor laughing. It was such a moment.”

“He’s the father of improvisational comedy,” Pasternack said. “Nobody did it before him.”  By Deborah Vankin

Video of a hound dog going about the daily human activities from waking up to the alarm, getting dressed, brushing teeth, having breakfast, watching TV and driving to work.

Babies are cute. Dogs are cute. Babies laughing at dogs? You do the math.

CompilarizTV put togethera montage of adorable babies laughing their huge little heads off as rambunctious dogs lick their faces and jump around. The babies in the clip laugh uncontrollably, as if they’re hearing a comedian tell bawdy jokes at a club. Comments at YouTube range from “cutest supercut ever” to “why do dogs make babies laugh? and why do babies make dogs curious? and why is life so beautiful?”

Of course, all the babies are hilarious, but we recommend you pay special attention to the kid with the water hose near the end of the clip. Mark our words — that one’s gonna be a troublemaker.

This Boston Terrier puppy tips over while eating his food. I’ve seen a lot of dogs eating and this puppy takes the cake for strangest method ever. Hilarious!

This is the best and funniest Seinfeld bloopers collection I’ve ever seen. This video includes uncut scenes that never played on TV. Hilarious!

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David pitched Seinfeld as a “show about nothing,” similar to the self-parodying “show within a show” of Season 4′s finale “The Pilot.” Seinfeld stood out from the many family and group sitcoms of its time. None of the principal Seinfeld characters were related by blood or worked together but remained close friends throughout the seasons.

#3 Anyone on this boat

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19 people who are having a way worse day than you – video

Alex Koloskov Magic Liquids - Mystical Forest Images – Secret Life Of Ice – Wet & Wild – Visual Illusions – Light Comes Out At Night – Pooches & Peeps – Celebrities & Nobodies

Alex Koloskov is a photographer in Kiev who creates amazing images with liquids. Check out the wonderful photos by this splash master.

How Alex Koloskov created the water ball photo…

First we thought to shoot a completely separate shots of the model and a splash and combine them into one composition in post. But when started, we have decided to do all in one shot: the model and the splash.

The post production part was quite extensive, as we formed a water ball from the pieces you see below.

Post Production assembly pieces

This is our (mine and +Genia Larionova‘s) gift for Google Plus 1st Year Anniversary. We truly love G+, this is the only social network where we feel home. Here we found so many friends, meet like-minded people, and created interesting and fast growing community of studio photographers.

Alex Koloskov
I grew up in Kiev, Ukraine where I later attended college and received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Needless to say, I’ve never put my degree to work in its specialty. It was a time of economical collapse after the fall of the Soviet Union, where the entire country was in chaos. This was when my “official” education ended. Since graduating I’ve never had any other formal education, all of my skills have been self-taught. I’m a mix of technicality, innovation and out of the box thinking. I love taking on technical challenges in anything I do, including photography. I don’t know the rules, nor do I care about them. I don’t follow the herd, I do it my way. That’s turned out to be invaluable in what I do. It has allowed me to experiment, see outside the borders, challenge the authorities and create a stunning photography style that is crisp, sharp and crystal clear. I’m inspired by progress and movement. I’m incredibly persistent and never take “less than perfect” for an answer. If I don’t have the right tools, I’ll build them myself. I like to make stuff happen.

Science Friday - Mohr Stories – The Bugle – Slate’s Political Gabfest - Fresh Air - Dana Gould Hour – Manners For The Digital Age – Slate‘s Culture Gabfest – Marc Maron’s WTF – The Tobolowsky Files – Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show – BrainStuff

Science Friday is a weekly discussion of the latest news in science, technology, health, and the environment hosted by Ira Flatow.

Science Friday is broadcast over public radio stations nationwide as part of NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’ programming. Each week, they focus on science topics that are in the news and try to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand.

Panels of expert guests join Science Friday’s host, Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science – and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.

Science Friday video – Art Meets Geek in Toni Dove’s Studio

Toni Dove takes a high-tech approach to art—her mixed-media performances star cyborgs and robots and employ mechanical three-dimensional projection screens. Performers animate video puppets through custom-built motion-sensing software (easier seen than said). With some operatic singers thrown in, a visit to Dove’s studio feels like a trip into a futuristic Wonderland.   

Dove has spent the last 20 years figuring out how to tell stories in new ways and through new technology. Defying any particular artistic tradition runs in the family: Her grandfather, Arthur Dove, was among the first abstract painters in America. “Probably in the family DNA was the idea that it’s okay to get off the path with a machete,” she says. Her newest creation, Lucid Possession, premiers at Brooklyn’s Roulette in April.

Ira Flatow

Veteran NPR science correspondent and award-winning TV journalist Ira Flatow is the host of Science Friday. On television, Flatow has discussed cutting-edge science stories on a range of programs, including the four-part PBS series Big Ideas.

For six years Flatow was host and writer for the Emmy award-winning Newton’s Apple on PBS and he has been a science reporter for CBS, Westinghouse, and CNBC. In his 35 year career, Ira has talked science on the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Merv Griffin and Oprah.

Ira is the author of numerous books. His latest is Present at the Future.

10 Productivity Apps – Pocket – IMDB – Big Oven - Plan B & Find My iPhone – Viddy – Layar & Junaio – Parker – GasBuddy – Fido Factor – RedLaser – Dragon

If you’re looking to boost your workday productivity, that smartphone in your pocket can help. The mobile app revolution has produced hundreds of apps to help ease the stress of everyday life. The 10 apps here will get the work done.  by Fran Berkman

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1. Wunderlist

Wunderlist is a free app that will help you manage your daily tasks. It acts as a digital to-do list. The app is not just for lists, but also setting reminders, making notes and sharing events. It is cloud-based, so your data easily syncs across all of your devices.

2. Genius Scan

Scan documents of any kind into PDF files with this nifty app. It’s a great way to catalogue handwritten notes or items seen outside the office and share them with colleagues.

3. Cloud Storage Apps

Cloud-based storage lockers can be utilized in any number of different ways. Not to mention there are quite a few options available. Any worthwhile service should include a mobile app to allow you access documents while away from the nest. Three of the most popular, SkyDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive

4. Evernote

Evernote is another popular app that can be helpful for a wide variety of professionals. It seamlessly syncs your your personal notes across devices. The app is capable of working with audio notes and photos as well.