Web App of the Day: We See in Every Direction, A Synchronized Shared Web Browser

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Sure, you share your web experiences with your friends via social media sites, but what if you had to share your web browsing time with strangers simultaneously? Swedish artist Jonas Lund built a browser to do just that, turning surfing the web into a massive, collaborative activity. The project launched on May 29th, with a Surf Party (shown above) consisting of approximately 100 people, with many of them vying for control over the URL or search bars at the same time. The browser, called We See in Every Direction, is still available online, and its most recent visits can be viewed from the homepage. Hat tip goes to Wired!

Ruined Childhood of the Day: Child Hoping to Meet Iron Man Crushed When Robert Downey Jr. Arrives

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Ruined Childhood of the Day: Child Hoping to Meet Iron Man Crushed When Robert Downey Jr. Arrives
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Here's a photo of 18-month-old boy Jaxson Denno from Sunderland, Massachusetts, bawling in utter disappointment after his hope to meet The Iron Man was instantly crushed by the arrival of plain-clothed Robert Downey Jr., the 48-year-old Hollywood actor who stars in the film adaptations as the superhero's alter ego Tony Stark. Hat tip goes to Gawker!

A New Perspective of the Day: Kim Dotcom Releases Footage of Police Raid

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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has released an edited montage of video recordings from the January 2012 police raid against his mansion in Australia, which shows anti-terrorism units armed with assault rifles, attack dogs and helicopters descending on his New Zealand home.

Weird Stats of the Day: Toddlers killed more Americans than terrorists did this year

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Weird Stats of the Day: Toddlers killed more Americans than terrorists did this year
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Opposing Views brings some frightening (though obviously tongue-in-cheek) statistics about the future of America: more American lives have been claimed by gun fatalities involving American toddlers than terrorist attacks this year. In the past five months, a total of 11 people were killed by preschoolers with firearms compared to the four that perished in the Boston explosions -- the only terrorist attack to occur this year. We can only hope the NSA will ramp up surveillance on children less than 5 years of age in order to counter this threat to national security.

Weird Tube of the Day: The Best-Worst Phone Conversation in History of Cinema

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Check out this awkwardly scripted dialogue scene from an unidentified 1980s South Indian film. It is one of the most dramatic phone conversations in film history.

Artsy Fart of the Day: The Pirate Cinema

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Artists Nicolas Maigret and Brendan Howell have teamed up to create The Pirate Cinema, a site-specific video installation which constantly downloads the most-viewed torrents at the time and projects them on to a screen. Since torrents aren't downloaded sequentially, the films are often streamed with their video or audio out of order and displayed across multiple screens in the room, resulting in an audio/visual collage representative of our illegal desires for media consumption in real-time.

Marriage Proposal of the Day: America's Got Talent Contestant Travis Pratt is Full of Surprises

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In this unexpected crowdpleaser from America's Got Talent, 31-year-old Georgia native Travis Pratt blows away the audience and judges with his epic falsetto range shortly before warming everyone's heart with a surprise event for his girlfriend.