I think surprise parties are the best, but some people totally hate them. Even if those trying to make your day have the best of intentions, their surprise can make your anxiety peak. That initial shock sometimes causes people to do some crazy things… When one Spanish teacher was taken aback by his students singing the Spanish version of “Happy Birthday,” he was not pleased at all. A student tried to take a selfie with him to mark the occasion, but the teacher did something completely crazy. Watch what happened in the video below. Read More: He Kept His Daughter’s Back To The Stage. When She Spun Around, Her Jaw Dropped! I was in shock after he threw the kid’s phone, but don’t worry. It seems like this prank was actually on us. Reddit / mcmp87 Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/teacher-surprise/
Shane Dawson, one the dozens of YouTube stars coming to Vidcon in Anaheim.Image: YouTube Vidcon Stars Smosh With just over 18 million subscribers, the comedy duo Smosh (Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla) is one of the top YouTube acts in the game. Video: YouTube, Smosh TheFineBros The FineBros, who make the popular “Kids React” videos and submitted for an Emmy nomination, boast nearly 9 million YouTube subscribers. Video: YouTube, TheFineBros Bethany Mota Bethany Mota is among the biggest beauty/lifestyle vloggers on the internet with 6.5 million subscribers. Video: YouTube, Bethany Mota Shane Dawson Shane Dawson is a YouTube star mainstay and is creeping up on 6 million subscribers. And check out that new haircut! Video: YouTube, Shane Dawson TV Tyler Oakley With 4.6 million subscribers, Tyler Oakley is one of many YouTube stars to start in one city and make the move to Los Angeles. Video: YouTube, Tyler Oakley Annoying Orange Annoying Orange creator Daneboe will be at Vidcon celebrating the channel’s recent 2 billion views milestone — a club that includes just over 100 channels overall. Video: YouTube, Annoying Orange JoeyGraceffa The Massachusetts native treats his 3.5 million subscribers to a little bit of everything — he’s a gamer, singer, spoofer, actor — whatever suits his fancy. Video: YouTube, JoeyGraceffa TomSka TomSka (real name: Tom Ridgewell) calls himself a “20something British Comedy Person” — which about says it all. He’ll be up over 3 million subscribers soon. Video: YouTube, TomSka Kingsley Kingsley describes himself as “some goofy ass kid from Missouri” — good for 2.8 million YouTube subscribers. Video: YouTube, Kingsley MysteryGuitarMan Joe Penna, a.k.a MysteryGuitarMan, uses animation, stop motion and other tricks to trick out his music vids to the delight of his 2.8 million subscribers. Video: YouTube, MysteryGuitarMan missglamorazzi Ingrid Nilsen goes as missglamorazzi, and brings a mix of “beauty, fashion and healthy food how-to’s” to her 2.7 million subscribers. Video: YouTube, missglamorazzi Grace Helbig Grace Helbig had some 2.4 million subscribers on her DailyGrace channel before leaving MyDamnChannel to strike out on her own. She’s rebuilt 1.8 million of those subscribers and is just getting re-started. Video: YouTube, Grace Helbig Vlogbrothers Let’s not forget about Hank and John Green (yep, the one who wrote “The Fault in Our Stars”), who conceived of the very first Vidcon in 2010 and will make their return this week. Video: YouTube, vlogbrothers Read more: http://mashable.com/2014/06/26/vidcon-2014-13-top-youtube-stars-youre-sure-to-see/
It’s basically the end of the world if you need a glass of wine but can’t find a bottle opener. Okay, so maybe I’m being a bit dramatic… But it is pretty terrible! While you could open your bottle with a key or a shoe, if you have a blowtorch just hanging around your home, this hack is quick and probably way more fun than any other trick you’ll try… How satisfying is this?! YouTube / DaveHax It might not be the most useful hack around… But it’s still pretty fun to watch and play around with! Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/bottle-blowtorch/
“How are we going to build a house? We have no idea what we’re doing!” After leaving a violent and abusive relationship, Cara Brookins wanted to start over by giving her four kids a home they could be proud of. Funds were limited, so Brookins knew that they couldn’t purchase a new home — but they could certainly afford the supplies to build one. With the help of YouTube tutorials and friendly strangers at Home Depot, the family slowly began to build the house of their dreams. Incredibly, Brookins and her children, none of whom have prior home-building experience, constructed this entire house! Brookins, who is already a successful author, details the experience in “Rise: How a House Built a Family,” which will be released on January 24, 2016. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon here. Read More: Man Builds A House For A Homeless Woman After He Sees Her Sleeping In The Street Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/mom-builds-house/
Don’t be afraid to take on this extremely challenging cover of “Take On Me.” Read more: http://www.wimp.com/insanely-complex-guitar-cover-of-a-has-take-on-me/
Despite nearly 8% unemployment, a tepid economy and millions of dollars in negative advertising, President Obama managed to pull off a sizable Electoral College win on Tuesday. While Obama’s 2008 campaign is now seen as a real-world demonstration of the power of social media, his operation four years later was much more complex. The ’08 campaign is the stuff of textbooks, but the lessons of ’12 are brand new. Marketers of all types studied Obama’s ’08 campaign and they would do well to take a look at his subsequent mobilization effort. Here are some of the obvious lesson of Obama’s triumph this time around: 1. It’s the Big Data, Stupid Big Data may have its flaws, but this election shows that it’s indispensable. New York Times columnist Nate Silver showed how crunching numbers can render most pundits’ gut instincts irrelevant. The Obama campaign proved the same for the marketer’s gut. As Time chronicled, the O campaign relied on a team of dozens of number crunchers who made predictive calls on exactly the right type of pitch to right the right type of voter. After consolidating its database into one megafile, the team relentlessly tested pitches based on the targeting and learned from its testing. As the article states: A large portion of the cash raised online came through an intricate, metric-driven e-mail campaign in which dozens of fundraising appeals went out each day. Here again, data collection and analysis were paramount. Many of the e-mails sent to supporters were just tests, with different subject lines, senders and messages. Inside the campaign, there were office pools on which combination would raise the most money, and often the pools got it wrong. 2. Facebook Advertising Works There are lots of reasons to doubt Facebook’s assertion that ad units like Sponsored Stories are effective. For instance, the recommendation you see may be from a Facebook “friend” you actually barely know. You may find it creepy to see advertising intrude upon friendships as well. But in Obama’s ’12 campaign, Facebook worked. As Time detailed, the O campaign used Facebook to “replicate the door-knocking efforts of field organizers” on a mass scale. During the final weeks of the campaign, Obama’s supporters received pictures of their friends in swing states. They were then urged to click a button asking the swing state voters to register to vote, vote early or get to the polls. The campaign found that the tactic worked 20% of the time “in large part because the message came from someone they knew.” 3. All the Money in the World Can’t Overcome Bad Advertising Super PACs supporting Mitt Romney poured millions into swing states to convince voters that voting for Obama and other Democrats would be against their self interest. However, as Slate points out, many of these ads were crude and insulted the intelligence of targeted voters. For instance, a Super PAC attack ad against Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown “portrayed Brown as a demented cartoon, sitting at a desk with an […]
SpaceX’s "autonomous spaceport drone ship" measures 300 by 170 feet (91 by 52 meters) with its "wings" extended.Image: SpaceX SpaceX will attempt one of the boldest maneuvers in the history of rocketry early Tuesday morning (Jan. 6) during a supply mission to the International Space Station for NASA, and you can watch the attempt live online. The California-based private spaceflight company will try to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean, shortly after the booster launches SpaceX’s robotic Dragon cargo capsule from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:20 a.m. ET Tuesday. NASA officials have said there is a 60% chance of good launch weather for the planned launch. You can watch the SpaceX launch live on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, beginning at 5 a.m. EST (1000 GMT). “The odds of success are not great — perhaps 50% at best,” SpaceX representatives wrote of the platform landing in a mission update last month. “However, this test represents the first in a series of similar tests that will ultimately deliver a fully reusable Falcon 9 first stage.” SpaceX will offer its own launch webcast on the company’s website beginning at 6 a.m. ET). Developing a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is a key priority for SpaceX and its billionaire founder, Elon Musk, who has said that such technology could cut the cost of spaceflight by a factor of 100. SpaceX has made strides toward this ambitious goal already. For example, the company successfully brought a Falcon 9 first stage down for a soft ocean splashdown twice last year — once in April and again in July. But Tuesday’s test will be much more challenging. The drone ship measures just 300 feet long by 170 feet wide (91 by 52 meters) with its “wings” extended, and the 14-story-tall Falcon 9’s leg span is about 70 feet (21 m), SpaceX representatives said. “During previous attempts, we could only expect a landing accuracy of within 10 km [6 miles],” they wrote in the update. “For this attempt, we’re targeting a landing accuracy of within 10 meters [33 feet].” Furthermore, although the drone ship will be equipped with position-stabilizing thrusters, it will not be anchored. Three separate engine burns will help get the rocket stage on course and slow its speed from 2,900 mph (4,600 km/h) down to 4.5 mph (7.2 km/h) at the time of touchdown. The landing legs will deploy during the final burn, company representatives said. SpaceX has also outfitted the Falcon 9 stage with four independently steerable “hypersonic grid fins,” which will be deployed upon atmospheric re-entry to aid in precision targeting. As bold as Tuesday’s test is, SpaceX has even more ambitious goals in mind for 2015. “Over the next year, SpaceX has at least a dozen launches planned, with a number of additional testing opportunities,” company representatives wrote. “Given what we know today, we believe it is quite likely that with one of those flights, we […]
It’s a cool idea, but you’d be better off asking your next-door neighbor to sing it for you. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/kickstarters-rokblok-bluetooth-enabled-vinyl-player-doesnt-quite-work-as-planned/
The Earth existed for a long, long time before humans came around. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/using-dominos-to-chart-the-last-two-billion-years-of-life-on-earth-really-puts-things-into-perspective/
Detroit Tigers pitcher Doug Fister was hit square in the head with a line drive off the bat of San Francisco Giant Gregor Blanco in the second inning of Thursday night’s World Series matchup. He did not appear to be seriously injured, however, and continued pitching. The GIF here, which comes to us via the sports blog The Big Lead, shows the scary play. We don’t yet know how fast the ball was traveling, but similar drives have been clocked in the region of 130 miles per hour. Have you ever seen a ball player continue with a major game after an accident like this? Let us know in the comments. Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/10/25/world-series-pitcher-hit-line-drive/