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Panda nanny, daddy-daughter lip-sync and more links we love right now

Editor's note: There's so much that's beautiful, funny, smart and informative on the Internet. Problem is, there's also a bunch of garbage. Here's the best of the web right now:

1. The world's best job is hiring: panda nanny. If you've been feeling like it's time to make a career change, then this new posting will likely push you right into the job-seeker pool. China's Giant Panda Protection Center needs nannies willing to spend a year with pandas "sharing in their joys and sorrows."

2. Father-daughter lip-dub to Iggy Azalea is totally adorable. Cool dad Jesse Lozano doesn't just sing along to songs in the car; he does full-scale lip-dub YouTube productions, complete with props. It probably doesn't hurt that he's also a popular radio morning-show host in California.

3. Time-lapse supercell video will strike the fear of Mother Nature into you. When you aren't caught in the middle of them, thunderstorms and natural disasters are frighteningly beautiful. Storm chaser/photographer Stephen Locke has created a jaw-dropping, three-minute time-lapse video of a May supercell in Kansas that will blow your mind.

4. Take a look inside a tricked-out tree house in Texas. When you think tree house, you probably don't picture running water and a wine cooler. But Bobby Page turned his tree house into a man cave, complete with alcohol storage and a smoker.

5. High schooler dancing to 'Bille Jean' might be reincarnation of Michael Jackson. Yes, the hologram was pretty dang cool. But it pales in comparison to the flesh-and-blood talent of 17-year-old Brett Nichols. The teen's fancy footwork is the spitting image of the King of Pop himself.

Jesse Lozano lip-syncing with his daughter is adorable.

Video Game Fun

Immersive version of Minecraft videogame makes world premiere in Plano

Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue

Photo courtesy of Mojang Studios

The Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue will be in Plano starting on October 18.

A new interactive game experience will make its world premiere right here in Dallas. Called Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue, it's an immersive event that combines gaming with a scavenger hunt, and it will make its debut on October 18 in Plano, in a former Buy Buy Baby location at 2712 N. Central Expwy., adjacent to DART's Parker Road Station.

The limited time event will take place through at least January 5. A release claims it will hit additional cities around the world, but to be announced at a later date.

Minecraft is a game first invented in 2011 that gives players a virtual sandbox where they can explore, create, and survive. It's one of the most popular video games of all time.

This immersive experience gives gamers a chance to enjoy an in-person version — to be heroes in real life as they go on a one-hour journey featuring an interactive scavenger hunt.

Participants embark on a rescue mission with a team of fellow Minecrafters and travel through multiple Minecraft biomes while building structures and interacting with iconic mobs, aka creatures from the game.

No prior knowledge of Minecraft is required to enjoy the event, as organizers promise that new players, creators, and longtime Minecrafters will experience the game in an entirely new way.

All guests will receive a code to get a commemorative half-zombie, half-villager cape that can be used to customize their in-game character in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.

The event was originally announced in May with a debut forecast for September; at that time, the original Stockholm-based developer of Minecraft, Mojang Studios, was involved. But the current producers are two entities identified as Experience MOD and Supply + Demand.

Single ticket prices start at $32, with friends and family multipack tickets starting at $28 per person. Tickets can be purchased in advance at minecraftexperience.com.

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