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How are you enjoying the new Facebook layout? Still avoiding clicking on the button for fear of change? Well here's an idea that was had by French artist Alexandre Oudin. The profile page allowed him to flex his artistic muscles (Far as I can tell they are located just behind your eyes) and he came up with this Magritte-inspired collage. 


Anyone who wants to try this is free to upload pictures that are the exact pixel resolution as they display on the page, block the photos you are tagged in, and upload your own set. (Or, you can just enjoy this image and pass this article along... it's the lazy choice, but it's the right choice!)


Cheers to thinking outside the box, and into multiple cleverly designed boxes adjacent...


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If only there was a God, Putin would have climb onto the stage and starting playing "Putin on the Ritz"! His actual performance was quite spectacular all-the-same. After being begged by organizers of the charity function, Putin finally gave in to the pressure and told everyone that he would sing for the children.  "Like the majority of people I cannot -- but do like to sing and to play -- so you'll have to rough it," he warned as he sat at the piano and played the beginning of Blueberry Hill. The song went on for only a short while before a Jazz band, lead by Maceo Parker, took up the tune. Putin and others than began to sing the song for the delighted audience. 


This isn't the first time the PM takes to the stage, but usually it's for empowering speeches or the occasional how-do-you-do at luncheons. I believe that more world leaders should embrace the media and have some fun...maybe governments wouldn't be so stuck-up and war happy! 


Many spectators caught the act on their phones, but RT has the real footage and is available on YouTube and right here on Memento Mori:

Cheers to a government with a sense of humour, and people's willingness to do just about anything for charity!


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What? No Cheezeburger?
This story was too good to pass up! In Springfield Illinois, this Thursday night, a man was pulled over for speeding in his '97 Grand Prix. The officer asked the man to step from the car and wait while the officer took a look at the interior of the vehicle. 


When the officer asked the driver if their was anything illicit in the vehicle the driver reacted very nervously. It wasn't long before the cop noticed the bottles of booze and the digital scale in the vehicle... when the officer asked the driver what the scale was used for the driver bolted.


The officer took pursuit on foot at which point the, now fugitive, driver turned around and hit the officer in the face with...what else?... a cheeseburger! (And this is why we love the Americans...not every crime is violent; sometimes they are just comical and stereotypical) 


After receiving the burger to the face the police officer stunned the driver with a taser and took him into custody.


Cheers to crime that may not pay off for the criminal, but keeps the rest of us entertained!


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Well THAT got your attention... time to disappoint the horny and arouse the geeky! (It's kinda what I do) So anyone who's a child of the 90's had found themselves signing "If I had a million dollars" or pretending to sing "One Week". (Yeh, we've all heard you do it and we're not convinced!)

"[...]Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi 
'cause s nemer too FRY Pan!
Hot like wasabe went eye bus rimes
Bit light lean *cough*imes
Because I'm all about VALUE
Bercampfert's got the mad hits
You something something... try to hold me but I bust through
 !!!!"

No shame in it, it's not the end of the world... (because if you were trying to sing the end of the world you'd get less that that out!)

In reality the little bit of (slightly geeky) awesome is the combination of Canadian icons and superstars (success may be wildly over exaggerated, but what's awesomness without a little hyperbole?) Great Big (freakin!) Sea and the Barenaked Ladies (not actually naked [or ladies]) in concert; Live from Niagara Falls Canada! Ringing in 2011 on a (hell'uva) highnote!