Thursday, December 3, 2015
Baby Picture of the Day: People Respond to Baby Max Zuckerberg and the $45 Billion Dollar Donation She Inspired
On Facebook following the birth of his daughter Max, Mark Zuckerberg posted a heartfelt note to her with a picture of the new family. The note announced that he and his wife Priscilla Chan donated 99% of their shares of Facebook to charity. That's about $45 billion and people have started responding positively to the new parents' effort to better the world for their daughter.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
You Won't Be Able to Look Away From This Adorable Video About How to Calm a Crying Newborn
Pediatrician Dr. Robert Hamilton shares a secret of the trade in how to calm a crying baby. He suggests that you hold them at a 45 degree angle and shake, shake, shake their booty.
Who knows why it works? Maybe the baby is too confused to cry any more when someone suddenly starts wiggling their butt around. If you're a parent of a newborn, this video may be lifesaving. Even if you're not it's worth the watch for the calming ambiance and adorable, tiny humans.
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Some Guy Tries to Pull a FHRITP, But This Reporter Has the Last Word
A List of 2015's Most Popular Baby Names is Out and Instagram Filter Names Are On the Rise
The parenting site BabyCenter.com gathered data from more than 340,000 parents in the world, it said, though the findings are unofficial.
Along with Lux, Instagram filter names Ludwig, Amaro, Reyes, Hudson and Kelvin have also increased in popularity for boys, while Juno, Valencia and Willow jumped in popularity for girls.
BabyCenter.com, the pregnancy and parenting site also said names of planets and characters on the hit TV show Empire were trending this year. The name Royalty also jumped 88% in popularity for girls.
Here is BabyCenter.com's top 10 most popular names for both genders this year:
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A Woman's Cake Mistake From Meijer Went Viral for All the Right Reasons
Lisa Sarber Aldrich went to her local grocery store to get a birthday cake with a personal message. The cake didn't turn out as well as expected, but Aldrich had the chance to make someone's day much better simply by being polite and kind to the person who had helped her. She shared the story below with the image of the cake on Facebook and the feel-good post now has over 90,000 shares.
Picked out a cake at Meijer. Asked bakery-looking-employee if she could write on it for me. She said she would, and after a long time, she came and presented me with this cake. I looked her In the eye and said thank you before I even looked at the cake. After looking, I nervously laughed and headed to check out- it didn't really matter to me that it looked so bad- I thought people would think it was funny. The cashiers at the self check out didn't think it was so funny though, and called a few more cashiers and a manager over to look, even taking pictures. To my surprise, after they discussed it, one cashier put her arm on my shoulder and said "the girl who wrote that has Autism. Thank you for smiling and thanking her- even though she's not supposed to write on cakes, you probably made her day."
So I guess the moral of the story is that kindness is important!
Aldrich also shared this quick update addressing a few of the most common comments she received.
1. I am a real person. 2. This is not a Meijer marketing ploy. 3. I never asked for all this publicity, I just wanted...
Posted by Lisa Sarber Aldrich on Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Remember to be nice to each other everyone!
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Disney Missed a Real Golden Opportunity by Not Having Gordon Ramsay Voice Remy in Ratatouille
Hateful Fat-Shamers Are Handing Out These Cards on The London Underground
National Health Services (NHS) worker Kara Florish took to Twitter to document receiving a body-image shaming business card on London's Underground.
The card, which states to be from a group called "Overweight Haters Ltd", reads "fat" in large letters on one side. The other side contains a paragraph with a description of the "organization".
Writer Sean Thomas Knox witnessed a similar, separate body-shaming card incident, and tweeted about it's authenticity.
British Transport Police on Twitter are asking anyone with any information to get in touch with them.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
With Politicians in Paris Discussing Climate Change, This 'Brandalism' Group Hung Clever Ads Challenging the Corporate Presence
The BrandalismProject, is a self-declared anti-advertisement art movement and has claimed responsibility for over 600 fake advertisements recently installed throughout Paris. The driving force behind the group's effort is the beginning of the UN Climate Change Conference.
"Amidst the French state of emergency banning all public gatherings following the terrorist attacks on 13 November in Paris, the 'Brandalism' project has worked with Parisians to insert unauthorized artworks across the city that aim to highlight the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change," BrandalismProject said in a statement.
The project is a collaboration between 80 artists from 19 different countries and the targets include AirFrance, Dow Chemicals, and Volkswagen, which is getting a lot of attention for perpetrating an environmental fraud.
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Britney Spears Declares Her Love For Adele's 'Hello' by Dancing to It
Only Adele's Hello Can Put This Crying Toddler's Woes Into Perspective
When This Mom Ruins Her Son's Netflix and Chill, He Loses His Chill
This kid's chill does not include censoring himself, so be careful where you listen to it.
Submitted by: (via Jeremiah Olson)
Name of the Day: Nutella Refused to Customize a Jar of Nutella for a Little Girl Named Isis
ISIS has come to be known as a terrorist group but before that Isis was an Egyptian goddess who brought her brother/husband Osiris back to life after he was murdered. It's also the name of a five-year-old Australian girl who really wants her name on a jar of Nutella.
The company Ferrero Australia started a campaign called “Make Me Yours” which allowed people to add their names to jars of Nutella. Allowing the internet to brand your product went predictably wrong. Department stores, such as the Meyer Isis's mom tried to buy from, are unable to print everything submitted. It might have something to do with gems like this one:
via @JayBattestelli
For the mom of this little girl, being denied a personalized jar of sweet, hazelnut chocolate spread is the last straw in a long line of unforseen consequences cause by the unfortunate name. She told the Sydney Morning Herald, "I am starting to get to the point where I don't want to call her name out because she's going to start noticing people looking."
Now she's on a mission to reclaim the name.
Submitted by: (via nicchristensen)
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