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UpdatedThu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:59 pm ET Reply If youre searching for the perfect adoptable cat in New Jersey, look no further. Mr. Marbles, a recent addition to the Halfway Home Animal Rescue family in Oakland, has a Grumpy Cat look and a lot of love to give. (Courtesy of Halfway Home Animal Rescue) OAKLAND, NJ — Could New Jersey be home to the next "Grumpy Cat"? The folks at Oaklands Halfway Home Animal Rescue seem to think so. Last week, the organization introduced Mr. Marbles to the world ...

NFT Craze Heightens As ‘Disaster Girl’ Meme Sells For Over $430K Last Updated: 28 April 2021 It seems meme owners are now embracing the Non-fungible tokens (NFT) industry more as a meme dubbed ‘Disaster girl’ just sold for $430,000 in an auction. Meme Gets Sold For 180 ETH The Disaster girl meme, which features a four-year-old girl smiling slyly into a camera as a house burns down behind her, sold after it was listed on April 16 for a 24-hour auction. The 24-hour auc...

If you’re one of Puddin’s fans — and who isn’t — you may recall that she doesn’t care for vet visits. Here’s her take on her latest encounter. I couldn’t believe my good fortune when I heard Mum on the phone in December telling the vet that my dental appointment would have to wait for the New Year. It was something to the effect that both she and Dad had dental work done in November plus the fact that my canine brother had his teeth cleaned in December. I...

Creativity is our superpower — 13 stories of inventive nonviolence This collection of stories from the news showcases the incredible versatility, imagination, and super creativity of nonviolence in action. Alaska’s Herring Protectors. (Facebook/Herring Protectors/Caitlin Blaisdell) At Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence, we strive to build a culture of active nonviolence. Invariably, we’re asked, “What is (or isn’t) nonviolence?” While we speak about everyt...

Internet creators cash in on their early 2000s memes by selling non fungible tokens of original files - as Nyan Cat goes for almost $600K and Grumpy Cat owner rakes in $100K Chris Torres, creator of Nyan Cat, sold his iconic meme for roughly $590,000 and finally gained attribution for the artwork  More than $10 million in NFT transactions are now taking place daily  Sales of NFTs are made in Ether, a cryptocurrency that has a fluctuating value. Even though Tartar Sauce the cat died in 2019, t...

@badluckbrian via foundation.app Zoe Roth is 21 and gearing up to graduate from university. Sixteen years ago she was standing in front of a burning building in North Carolina when her dad, an amateur photographer, snapped a picture that would take on a whole life of its own. The pre-schooler’s sinister expression in the face of apparent disaster made for perfect meme material; soon it was appearing on messageboards and forums, and eventually named Disaster Girl by Know Your Meme. It took on ...

An executive with New Jersey’s largest private health care system is accused of performing lewd acts in front of female University of Delaware students. Newark Police on Friday charged 57-year-old Gerald Picerno of Morristown, New Jersey, with lewdness, indecent exposure and other counts. New Jersey’s RWJBarnabas Health Systems says Picerno is on leave as chief strategy officer. A phone...

Alerts In 2004, 17-year-old Steve Ibsen took photos of his cat Kayla and realized that if he animated the images, he could make it look like his cat was dancing. In one take, he recorded a song to accompany the animation: “Cat! / I’m a kitty cat! / And I dance, dance, dance / And I dance, dance, dance.” Advertisement YouTube didn’t exist yet, so he uploaded the animation to his website, and then-popular flash animation sites like Albino Blacksheep reached out asking to share his work. K...

UpdatedWed, Mar 17, 2021 at 1:04 pm ET Replies(2) On Monday, the host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO appeared on NBCs "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock) DANBURY, CT — Comedian John Oliver is still talking about that time he managed to get a city in Connecticut to rename its sewage plant after him. Last October, Danbury renamed its municipal sewage plant the John Oliver Memorial Sewage Plant. The christening occurred after the satirist made a seri...

SHARE Memes – pronounced meems, not me-mes, because you’d be surprised how many people still don’t know that – are one of those global cultural touchstones that have become synonymous with the internet. Pre-world wide web, it used to be global events that united us, such as the 650 million people who watched the 1969 Moon landing, or the 750 million who came together to watch Prince Charles and Diana’s 1981 wedding. But these days, with the dissemination of content across too many pla...