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 Trump's inaugural ball cake looked suspiciously like Obama's from 2013
Looks like we have a copy-cake on our hands. Baker and Food Network personality Duff Goldman created a cake for President Obama's "Commander-in-Chief" inaugural ball in 2013. On Friday, however, he noticed a very similar cake in the news — the cake at one of Donald Trump's inaugural balls.
Turns out, the resemblance wasn't a coincidence. According to Tiffany MacIsaac of Buttercream Bakeshop, the order she received from Trump's team requested an exact replica of Goldman's 2013 creation. Read more... More about Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Inauguration 2017, and Watercooler Read More »The Force is strong with women marching to protest Trump
While parts of Friday's Presidential Inauguration seemed like they came straight out of a movie (like the political regime shift portrayed in the third Star Wars prequel, Revenge of the Sith), today's marches in protest of now-President Donald Trump have reminded many of a different (and way better) entry in the Star Wars saga: Episode IV: A New Hope. As women march in cities around the world, they've channeled the rebellious spirit of The signs emphasize the rebellious nature of the character and also fit with Fisher's life as an advocate for mental health and proponent of women's rights. Read more... More about Marches Demonstrations, Star Wars, Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher, and Women S Issues Read More »Sundance hacked! Cyberattack shuts down box office in Park City
PARK CITY, Utah — A cyberattack briefly crippled the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, knocking out the network that supports its ticket sales, though service at the main box office was quickly restored and no screenings were affected. The festival issued a statement in the afternoon, just as the ski resort town had concluded its own version of the Women's March on the bustling Main Street. Festival organizers sent the following statement to Mashable: It wasn't immediately clear who carried out the attack or whether the festival was specifically targeted. Read more... More about Sundance Film Festival, Hacking, Cyberattacks, Movies, and Sundance Read More »Madonna out-Madonna'd herself at the Women's March on Washington
Leave it to Madonna to sneak a couple of F-bombs onto CNN. Speaking at the Women's March on Washington on Saturday, the iconic singer urged protestors to remember that although "good did not win in this election, good will win in the end." Oh, also, she said "fuck" a lot. To critics of the march specifically, she said "fuck you." According to Rolling Stone, both CNN and MSNBC quickly cut away from her speech after her swearing. They cut so quickly, in fact, that they missed her next notable quote: that she'd "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But that won't change anything." Read more... More about Cnn, Twitter, Madonna, Women S March, and Watercooler Read More »Sir Ian McKellen's Women's March sign is a top-notch friendship troll
While they are important showings of solidarity in retaliation to the threat of oppression, today's Women's Marches held in cities around the world have also been possibly the greatest display of sign-making skills and cheeky wit in recent memory. It should come as no surprise, then, that one of the world's most treasured actors, Sir Ian McKellen, showed up to London's event with an absolutely top-notch sign that both extolled the fed up message of the day and trolled his good friend, Sir Patrick Stewart. McKellen was spotted by a fan, who snapped a pic of him and posted it to Twitter. Read more... More about Protest, Women S March On Washington, Sign, Ian Mckellen, and Sir Patrick Stewart Read More »Trump extended family member spotted at Women's March on Washington
The Women's March on Washington has already made history as perhaps the biggest post-inauguration protest march in D.C. in history. But while the Trump family is apparently staying far away from the massive protest, at least one member of the extended family was reportedly spotted in the middle of the action. Venture capitalist Joshua Kushner, the brother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was spotted in D.C. amid thousands of marchers, many of whom may have been unaware of who was in their midst.
Hey Trump, check out these YUGE Women's March crowds across America
The Women's March on Washington has taken solidarity to a whole other level. On Saturday, the peaceful protest, which took place in Washington D.C. one day after Donald Trump became the country's 45th President, inspired a global movement, leading to marches in 160 cities across 60 countries. All across the world, people stood in unity for a chance to have their voices heard; to fight for their beliefs, values and equality; and to give a big old "screw you" to President Trump. With the United States at the heart of it all, an overwhelming number of Americans flooded the streets, taking over their cities and making a powerful statement. Read more... More about Protests, Pics, Conversations, Politics, and Donald Trump Read More »7 can't-miss apps: Color by Disney, 'Time Turner' and more
After an eventful weekend, you may need to take some time away from your news apps. Instead, check out some of our favorite apps from this week that might make your day-to-day life a little easier and funner. Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week's list includes a time travel game, an adult coloring app by Disney and an app that helps you learn languages faster by connecting you with a native speaker. BazaartImage: Bazaart Thanks to Bazaart, moving photo edits between your iPhone and Photoshop just got a lot easier. Designed for the photography-obsessed, Bazaart allows you to edit your photos across both platforms seamlessly, and even allows you to access Creative Cloud Assets if you're a subscriber. Read more... More about Weekly App Roundup, Apps And Software, Tech, and Apps Software Read More »The Trump administration spent its first full day in power complaining about media coverage
There was a clear theme of the Trump administration's first full day in power, and it wasn't "Make America Great Again." Instead, in both President Trump's address to CIA employees and Press Secretary Sean Spicer's combative conference held with the White House press pool, a theme of an administrative war against the media emerged. Spicer was not subtle in his comments to the press. After taking the podium, he told the room that before sharing news on the President's first actions in office, he wanted to address the coverage of the previous day. Read more... More about Sean Spicer, Inauguration 2017, Media, Donald Trump, and Us World Read More »Virtual reality offers spooky, realistic view of Trump in the Oval Office
A new virtual reality experience for the HTC Vive is dedicated to depicting the newly elected President Donald Trump. But it doesn't deliver the post-inauguration fanfare some might expect. Created by Los Angeles-based VR production studio MacInnes Scott, the hyper-realistic model of Trump stands alone in a darkened Oval Office — an environment you can explore in full detail by walking around the room. The preview video (above) features no sound, just a stern figure cloaked in shadow, a setting that appears designed to produce a chilling, almost spooky effect. However, in the description of the VR experience on its website, the creators instead describe the scene as one of readiness. Read more... More about Htc Vive, Virtual Reality, Vr, Donald Trump, and Tech Read More »Rihanna dabbing at Women's March in New York is as good as it sounds
Where was Rihanna Saturday night? Dabbing out front of Trump Tower in New York City, why do you ask? The pop star has been posting supportive messages about the Women's March on Instagram, but it wasn't clear whether she would be joining herself. Now we know, with images and video on social media showing Rihanna in a pink cap, protesting against President Donald Trump outside his New York residence. Rihanna also posted pictures of herself at the protest, including a closer look at her pink "this p***** grabs back" hoodie. "So proud to be a woman!!" she wrote. "So proud of the women around the world who came together today for pro-choice." Read more... More about Womens March On Washington, Donald Trump, Trump Tower, Rihanna, and Watercooler Read More »Chelsea Handler leads defiant, star-studded Women's March at Sundance
PARK CITY, Utah — Twenty-one degree weather and a steady sprinkle of snow couldn't dampen the enthusiasm at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday morning, where an estimated 8,000 women, men and children took to the streets of Park City for a peaceful but potent Women's March on Main. Organized by Chelsea Handler (as Mashable first reported), the procession was one of several hundred sister marches taking place the day after Donald Trump's inauguration, with other gatherings drawing hundreds of thousands of participants across the country and around the world. "I just don't know how you can't get involved," Handler told Mashable of her decision to organize the event at the film festival. "I don't have a choice. This is just too scary. I've always had a big mouth, so now I have a real reason to use it." Read more... More about Women S March, Donald Trump, Chelsea Handler, Sundance Film Festival, and Entertainment Read More »Don't worry, America: Shirtless Putin's got this in SNL cold open
Friday's inauguration of Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the United States gave a lot of us, well, some anxiety about the future. Fortunately, shirtless Vladimir Putin is here to assuage all our fears. In a "Paid Message From the Russian Federation" to the American people (carried on Russia's government-funded English language channel, RT), the Russian president, played by an expert Beck Bennet, assured us we have nothing to worry about with Trump's leadership. "You are worried that your country is in the hands of this unpredictable man. But don't worry, it's not," he said with a wink. Read more... More about Cold Open, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Saturday Night Live, and Entertainment Read More »The world’s best wildlife photography reveals a fragile, beautiful realm
From a leopard slipping through a Mumbai alleyway to giant cuttlefish courting under the sea, the striking images featured in the current Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition are at once beautiful, technically astounding and, often, incredibly moving. Before the widening rupture between humans and nature, creating images of animals was of the utmost importance: animals were among the first subject matter for painting. In his essay Why Look at Animals, the late and renowned art critic John Berger argues that animals "first entered the imagination as messengers and promises." Wildlife photography joins in this ancient representative tradition, giving new life to animals as symbols and storytellers for the natural world. Read more... More about Natural History Museum Of London, Award Winning, Wildlife Photography, Wildlife, and World Read More »That didn't take long: Trump's press secretary is already a meme
We're one day into the Trump presidency and the memes are already flying. President Donald Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave a press conference Saturday in which he complained about the media's "false" reporting of crowd numbers at the inauguration. Although he admitted to not having any, you know, hard figures, he declared: "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe." In so many ways, he was just plain wrong. Pictures from President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009 show many more people on the mall than on Saturday, and D.C.'s transport agency told the Washington Post that 570,557 people took trips Friday compared to 1.1 million trips in 2009. Read more... More about Inauguration 2017, Inauguration, Reporting, Media, and Donald Trump Read More »Figuring out what Aussies think about Trump on Twitter is pretty difficult
Australians reacted more "positive" than "negative" to the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, according to a sentiment analysis study of tweets that were posted at the time. Only tweets sent on November 10, 2016, (just after the result of the US election) that included the word "Trump" and were sent from an Australian capital city were analysed. SEE ALSO: 6 ways to push your online activism into the real world in the Trump era This resulted in 32,908 tweets including retweets being retrieved. For the purpose of this analysis we classified the tweet sentiment as either positive, negative or neutral. Read more... More about Twitter Bots, Election, Australia, Positive, and Twitter Read More »'SNL' stages a hilarious musical tribute to Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway
The latest Saturday Night Live highlighted what a long, strange trip it's been for Kellyanne Conway over the past year. And it did so in the classiest (and sassiest) way possible: with a musical number. Kate McKinnon-as-Conway ditches her interview with CNN's Jake Tapper (Beck Bennett) to lay out exactly what her motivations are as Donald Trump's appointed "Counselor to the President." And the way SNL sees things, Conway shares Donald Trump's penchant for narcissism. Syfy's 'The Magicians' does 'some g*ddamn magic' at Brooklyn installation
In the first episode of Syfy's The Magicians, Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) walks into a shadowed corner of his city and ends up in a magical new world. The same is now possible for fans of the show and Lev Grossman's original book series who walk to the sparse corner of Wythe Avenue and 12th street in Brooklyn, where the doors of the William Vale open to reveal a world of magic and mystery. The Hall of Magic features 10 rooms of immersive exhibitions to simulate the world of The Magicians, and Mashable got an exclusive sneak peek at the construction of this epic exhibition. More about Brakebills, Lev Grossman, Installation, Exhibition, and Brooklyn Read More »Aziz Ansari's 'SNL' monologue is a blistering attack on the 'lowercase kkk'
Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live the day after Donald Trump's inauguration. So he turned his opening monologue into a lighting-fast stand-up set with a distinctly political bent. Like most sane, reasonable people, Ansari is not a fan of racism or intolerance. And he's really not a fan of the way Donald Trump's election campaign emboldened a segment of the public to embrace previously hidden racist sentiments — a phenomenon her jokingly refers to as "the lowercase kkk." There are some killer punchlines in here — "Yesterday, Trump was inaugurated; today, an entire gender protested against him" — but Ansari's best moment is a serious one. He closes the monologue with this hopeful statement: Read more... More about Aziz Ansari, Snl, Saturday Night Live, Tv, and Entertainment Read More »Lazy sea lion decides this car roof is a great place for a nap
Sometimes, you just need to take a little nap. Melanie J. Sceva Hill happened across an odd scene on Saturday in Freeland, Washington. A careless sea lion made its way to a Honda Civic in a parking lot and decided that the roof was a perfect place to catch a snooze. "That's the weirdest thing," Hill can be heard saying in the clip. "Why would he even do that?" Apparently Honda Civics are like lounge chairs to sea dogs. Hill says that two local sheriff’s cars responded to the incident and broke up the slumber party. 'SNL' persecutes Aziz Ansari for his controversial 'La La Land' opinions
In Saturday Night Live's view of the world, feeling wishy-washy about awards season favorite La La Land is a criminal offense. That's what earns Aziz Ansari a turn in the interrogation room of his local police precinct. He didn't hate the Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone musical, he just had some problems with it. The nerve, right? Also: if you think that's bad, just wait until you hear what Kenan Thompson thought of Westworld. People who swear more may be more honest? Get the F*ck out of here
If you’re one of those people who can’t stop swearing, I have some great f*cking news and some bad f*cking news. The good news first: A study published online in Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that people who swear more may be more honest, or may be perceived as being more honest. Also, it may help explain why voters saw Donald Trump as more authentic and trustworthy compared to his opponent, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. And now the bad news: that study is not conclusive and is nowhere near the final word on this topic. Read more... More about Politics, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Psychology, and Swearing Read More »This cute robot will teach your 3-year-old to code
The educational kids toy 'KUBO' uses an intuitive puzzle-based design to help kids learn coding, math, language and music. Read more... More about Robots, Robot, Real Time Video, Real Time, and Robot Coding Read More »Sundance comedy 'I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore' doesn't let the a-holes win
In his directorial debut, Macon Blair cooks up a world full of assholes. Ruth, a rehab nurse, lives quietly among them in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore — until a home break-in pushes her over the edge. And Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness) shines equally as lonely Ruth and the full-charging vigilante she becomes as she hunts down her thief. Her performance will have you rooting for the good-girl-gone-bad, and by the time this comedy takes a turn for the dark side, you're ready for the ride. She clocks an old antique salesman in the face, and you are still on her side. The ride can get real wacky, but that's part of the charm. Read more... More about Sundance Film Festival and Entertainment Read More »We might be saying goodbye to the iPhone's home button
When the iPhone 7 killed off the headphone jack, some Apple fans were up in arms. If the rumors about the features of 2017's iPhone X (or whatever Apple winds up calling it) are true, the flagship phone will be losing another long-standard feature: the home button. Don't be too sad about its passing, though — everyone will likely be too excited about what's replacing it to even notice that it's gone. MacRumors reports that KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has been a reliable source for iPhone leaks in the past, released a research report today hinting at Apple's plans to remove the device's physical home button in favor of a thumbprint sensor embedded in the screen — the first step toward a new biometric sensor system. Read more... More about 2017, Touch, Home Button, Rumors, and Iphone 8 Read More »Sundance review: 'Ingrid Goes West' is the Instagram horrorshow you fear most
PARK CITY, Utah — We've all been there: The 7th Circle of Instagram Jealousy Hell. Maybe not the demonic depths to which Aubrey Plaza's character goes in Ingrid Goes West — or with the same monstrous consequences — but its flames have licked at anyone who's ever posted, liked, commented or cyber-stalked on Insta. Lookin' at you, everyone with an account, ever. As pervasive in our daily lives as social media-envy may be, movies (Men, Women & Children, Nerve) and TV shows (Black Mirror) have only begun to reckon with it — and nothing's dredged up a more heinous, yet fully realized and relatable evil than Ingrid, the most blinding light yet shone into the ugly corners of human nature on social media. Read more... More about Instagram, Elizabeth Olsen, Aubrey Plaza, Sundance Film Festival, and Movie Reviews Read More »Yes, Trump watched the Women's Marches, and yes, he tweeted about it
Donald Trump rose to global fame thanks to his reality TV career. Now as president of the United States, he remains fixated on the small screen. President Trump on Sunday morning touted the Nielsen ratings for live TV coverage of his Jan. 20 inauguration. He did so right after tweeting critically about the demonstrators who poured into cities worldwide on Saturday to challenge Trump's agenda and his misogynistic, xenophobic and anti-science remarks. Trump said he watched the Women's Marches on Saturday, but he questioned why the demonstrators didn't bother to vote last November. In fact, 48.2 percent of U.S. voters chose Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, versus 46.2 percent for Trump. Read more... More about Trump Protests, Sean Spicer, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Womens March Read More »Women of the tech world march for their companies and their causes
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, and the night before 1 million women marched on Washington, Lauren Schulte knew she had to figure out how her tech company would navigate America's new future. "We're going to do some stuff and we're not going to be quiet," Schulte, the co-founder of Flex, a Y Combinator startup that produces a tampon alternative, told a group of her peers from Silicon Valley during dinner at a Mediterranean restaurant in Capitol Hill. It would be hard to find Silicon Valley founders and staffers more attuned to the risks of the Trump administration than the ones who gathered with Schulte in D.C. on Friday night. In town for the Women's March on Washington, the 18 women and one man all worked in some way on women’s health — a growing segment of the tech industry and an area under continued threat by attacks on reproductive rights and the impending repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Read more... More about Healthcare And Medicine, Glow, Flex, Trump, and Women S Health Read More »Trump aid calls administration's lies 'alternative facts'
In the world of fake news, now we also have "alternative facts." On Saturday, President Donald Trump's first full day in office, his press secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference in which he falsely claimed that the previous day's crowd was the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period." Spicer's false remarks instantly became a new meme and sent the internet into a fury. On Sunday, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, appeared on NBC's Meet The Press, where Chuck Todd grilled the Trump administration for spreading falsehoods on their first full day in office. In response, Conway called the falsehoods "alternative facts." Read more... More about Inauguration 2017, Donald Trump, Politics, Kellyanne Conway, and Watercooler Read More »Astounding 1800s portraits capture the diverse subjects of the Russian Empire
An Afro-Abkhazian mountaineer. Image: Library of Congress In 1864, young Ohioan George Kennan joined a crew of explorers scouting a possible telegraph route from the Bering Strait across Siberia to Europe as an alternative to a cable across the Atlantic. After Kennan spent two years surveying frigid wilderness and encountering myriad indigenous peoples, the planned telegraph was abandoned with the completion of the Atlantic cable. A devastated Kennan returned to the US with nothing but his diaries, which he adapted into a popular book, Tent Life in Siberia, and a successful lecture series. He returned to Russia in 1870, sailing from St. Petersburg down the Volga to the Caspian Sea and roaming the highlands of the Caucasus, meeting Georgians, Armenians and dozens of ethnic groups. Read more... More about Indigenous, Portraits, Russia, History, and Retronaut Read More »Graceful dog jumps over doggy gate like it's NBD
Some dogs are good at fetch, others can show off their sweet tricks. This pup is a master in jumping over a gate that's likely intended to keep her out of a certain area of the house. Her form is simply perfect throughout the entirety of the launch. It's remarkable. @GeoMcBerry tweeted the clip of the dog in action on Friday, and has since racked up over 92,000 retweets and some hilarious comments.
Why they marched: Mothers and daughters share their inspiring stories
On Nov. 8, mothers all across the country walked with their daughters to cast their votes for what they'd thought would be the first woman president. On Jan. 21, 2017, they came together again, this time for a different reason. Anywhere from 3.6 to 4.8 million people marched at the Women's March on Saturday — and that's just in the United States alone. In more than 600 U.S. cities, in 60 countries and on seven different continents, mothers and their daughters walked together at Women's Marches. They came with signs in their hands and knitted vaginas on their heads and warm granola bars in their pockets. For one day, feminism didn't seem like a thing of the past but a hopeful force for the future — uniting daughters with their mothers, as well as the mothers who fought before them. Read more... More about Womens March On Washington, Watercooler, and Politics Read More »Lin-Manuel Miranda gives fans the gift of his solo 'Hamilton' demos
Before Hamilton was a Broadway smash and a lightning rod for controversy in Trump's America, it was just a searing collection of beats and rhymes. And now you can listen to those formative rough drafts. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda released eight "Hamildemos" via SoundCloud on Saturday. These stripped-down takes on some of the show's music give fans a glimpse into Miranda's creative process. The collection of tunes — many of which are labeled "first draft" or "early draft" — obviously doesn't cover the entire show. The playlist includes demo takes on "Say No To This," "Guns & Ships," "Congratulations," "You Obedient Servant," "The Story of Tonight," "Satisfied," "Right Hand Man," and "My Shot." Read more... More about Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, Theater, Broadway, and Music Read More »25-year-old MLB pitcher killed in car accident
Yordano Ventura, the Kansas City Royals star young right-handed pitcher, died early Sunday in a car accident, per ESPN. He was 25 years old, and died in his native Dominican Republic. The Royals confirmed Ventura's death in an official statement. "Our prayers right now are with Yordano's family as we mourn this young man's passing," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said in the statement. "He was so young and so talented, full of youthful exuberance and always brought a smile to everyone he interacted with. We will get through this as an organization, but right now is a time to mourn and celebrate the life of Yordano." Read more... More about Mlb, Baseball, Entertainment, and Sports Read More »Here's a twist: M. Night Shyamalan is king of the box office again
It's been 13 years and seven directing gigs since an M. Night Shyamalan movie opened at the top of the box officeSplit broke that drought over the weekend. While Sunday box numbers are admittedly estimates, there is zero chance for #2 finisher xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. The Vin Diesel-led action movie nabbed an estimated $20 million domestically — it's not a bad showing, but it's far behind the $40.2 million domestic estimate for Split. While Split marks a milestone for Shyamalan, its opening numbers still don't top The Village. The 2004 thriller was the director's second-most successful domestic opening ($50.7 million) after Signs ($60.1 million), in 2002. Read more... More about Blumhouse Productions, Disney, Moana, Rogue One, and Xxx The Return Of Xander Cage Read More »At Women's Marches across the globe, dads were out in full force
The Women's Marches brought together millions of people in the United States — and not all of them were women. Dads, too, came out to show their support for the march and the women in their lives. The subways and streets of Washington, D.C., were full of grown men wearing knitted pink vagina hats on their heads. At the march, they were seen handing out sandwiches, pushing strollers and raising their children and their fists. Though there's no official estimate on the number of men participating, the visual and anecdotal accounts of their participation were strong. Here's why a few of them chose to participate: Read more... More about Dads, Women S March On Washington, Watercooler, and Politics Read More » | ||||
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