Youtube Offers GIF-Making Share Option On Some Channels

You Can Now Make GIFs Directly From YouTube

 

 

 

 

” If you love making GIFs (and really, who doesn’t?) today is a happy day for you. YouTube has finally heeded the call of millions of users and quietly added a GIF-creator tool to some of its videos (for example, anything uploaded by the PBS Idea Channel). The share button (which previously only had share, embed, and email as options) now includes an extra feature: GIF. 

  It’s a pretty bare-bones affair: tap share, set your start and end points, add any captions if you’d like, and click “create” — YouTube will host the GIF itself. The clip can only be a maximum of 5 seconds long, which makes it somewhat of a crude tool for GIF-makers, but it will help keep file size small. The ease with which one churn out GIFs and add meme-like bottom and top text will certainly be enough for the casual user and perhaps spur on a Mememageddon the likes of which we haven’t seen since 2011. The future is now. “

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Popular Mechanics 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fishing Fails To Start Your Friday With A Laugh

15 Fantastic Fishing Fails

 

 

 

” These fishing fail GIFs are guaranteed to make you laugh. “

 

 

 

 

View the others at Wide Open Spaces and start your Friday with a smile .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Watch These Super-Dads Make Super-Saves

These 13 Superhero Dads Were Caught On Camera Making Epic Saves. The Last One Is Insane

” Great parents will go to any length to protect their children. Whether it’s answering the door with a shotgun before their first date or catching a baby free-falling from a window, parents can truly be amazing. Of course, they can be pretty awful too as these 18 so kindly proved.

  Fortunately, this post is dedicated to the Dads out there with reflexes that would put a cat to shame. When it came to their children’s safety, they transformed from normal dad to superdad. Just check them out below (note: could take some time to load on slower connections).”

 

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Optical Illusions To Make You Scratch Your Head And Smile

These 22 Optical Illusions Are Going To Blow Your Mind

 

 

 

Like the Energizer bunny , it just keeps going and going and going …

 

 

 

 

 

 

” Optical illusions are a fun art form that can completely trick your brain. By using color, light and patterns, images can be created that can be misleading. The stimuli our eyes gather can be altered to create some amazingly deceptive perceptions.”

 

 

 

Take a look at this one …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

” The optical illusions you’ll see in the animated .gifs below aren’t extremely complicated. In fact, sometimes the simplest optical illusion can be the most impressive. Check these out:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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40 Hilarious Kids Images That …

 … Put The Eternal Joys Of Parenting In Perspective

 

 

Here are a few samples to start your day off with a smile .

 

 

 

10. Basic hygiene… 

 

 

 

 

 

16. Sometimes they raid the fridge for midnight snacks…

 

 

 

 

 

Kids can be mean …

 

 

 

21. So mean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

34. Their first jobs can be a little dirty.

 

 

 

 

See the other 36 examples of parental joy at IJR . Have a nice day .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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American Atlantis ? GIFs Of Projected Sea Level Rise Over The Next Century

Rising Seas Swallow 8 Cities in These Climate Change GIFs

” Climate change and global warming may cause sea levels to rise and flood coastal cities across the world. Over the past century, the Global Mean Sea Level has risen by 4 to 8 inches. And according to estimates by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (PDF), it will keep rising between 8 inches and 6.6 feet by 2100.

How will the world look if that happens? In November of 2012, The New York Times published interactive maps displaying the effects of the sea level rising, in a series titled “What Could Disappear?” The maps show how much land the sea will claim in the future, if it rises by 5, 12, and 25 feet.

Nickolay Lamm, a 24-year-old researcher and artist saw the interactive maps and wondered: “What would this actually look like in real life?” Lamm told Mashable in an email interview that “the only imagery I had of sea level rise came from Hollywood.” So he decided to put his skills to work.”

Related articles

• What America Will Look Like Under 25 Feet Of Sea Water (businessinsider.com)
• No Sea Level Rise In California For Half A Century (stevengoddard.wordpress.com)
• Uncertainty be damned, let’s make ice and sea level projections anyway (wattsupwiththat.com)
• Despite ‘Lack of Knowledge,’ Obama Administration Says Sea Level Could Rise 0.66 to 6.6 Feet in Next Century (cnsnews.com)
• NASA’s most famous climate scientist is retiring. Here’s a look back at his work. (washingtonpost.com)
• ‘A better path’ toward projecting, planning for rising seas on a warmer Earth (princeton.edu)
• Why Tokyo has more to fear from sea-level rise than Vancouver (washingtonpost.com)

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