Gutsy call for the script writers of Glee. Respect.
I was impressed and surprised by the Nationals episode, 3rd season.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Brilliant.
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“Pinball Wizard”, by Unique and Vocal Adrenaline, insanely great.
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I could end this TV series right now.
The beautiful losers. Are winners. 
Huge study. Over 400,000 subjects. Even a single cup a day seems to help …
MARILYNN MARCHIONE – AP – Coffee drinkers live longer, big study finds; regular and decaf are equally good
It’s sad times for those of us, like me and Mason, who love Hawkins Cheezies.
… Around 1940, a young Ohio farmer named Jim Marker was looking for a way to preserve corn to feed his cattle year-round. So, with the help of a friend, he built a special extruder to mould the grain into porous sticks.
Chicago confectioner W.T. Hawkins got word of the unusual invention and dispatched his son, Webb, to acquire Mr. Marker’s idea and develop it into a snack food. The farmer agreed, and went into business with Mr. Hawkins. The cornmeal concoctions, now fried in oil and coated in powdered cheddar, were dubbed Cheezies. …
Globe – Jim Marker moulded Cheezies into a Canadian icon
I imagine he was submersed in a vat of Cheezies slurry.
Here’s the evidence. Newborn to teenager in 3min.
Frans Hofmeester filmed his daughter Lotte once a week for the past twelve years and produced this time lapse film. …
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(via Kottke)
I’ve no opinion on make-up.
But suddenly see the appeal for women …
It’s difficult to believe this is the same woman.
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Cory Doctorow – Half-made-up woman is very asymmetrical
UPDATE: ‘Bird man’ admits flying video is a fake
Too bad. I truly wanted that to be REAL.
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This is Jarno Smeets, the “Flying Dutchman”, a mechanical engineer. Carrying out the design originally proposed by Leonardo DaVinci.
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(via Human Birdwings)
UPDATE: Some are claiming this is a hoax. We need Myth Busters to confirm.
… In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds …
That costs $1,395. Wikipedia is free.
What’s next?
Britannica will still have an online version:
… “Britannica is going to be smaller. We cannot deal with every single cartoon character, we cannot deal with every love life of every celebrity. But we need to have an alternative where facts really matter. Britannica won’t be able to be as large, but it will always be factually correct.” …
That’s debatable. Most studies find Wikipedia nearly as accurate.
… About half a million households pay a $70 annual fee for the online subscription, which includes access to the full database of articles, videos, original documents and to the company’s mobile applications. …
Congratulations Britannica, on staying alive.
ANDY IHNATKO is one of the biggest Mac advocates. Yet he loves Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
With the Metro user interface, they’ve created a simple and beautiful design language that’s relevant to a broad range of devices and to the ways that people use computers in the second decade of the 21st century. …
Metro is all about reducing the screen to the absolute minimum of visual noise necessary to do the thing the user has chosen to do at a given moment. There’s no overlapping windows and no menus or toolbars. When you launch a Metro-based word processor, your document occupies the whole screen. …
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The “sharing” options is superb.
Task Manager is brilliant.
Even simpler than Mac. Congratulations Microsoft.
Verge has a more detailed review.
Kelsey showed me that any device with an external speaker can be amplified, merely by placing it in a mug.
I bought this. And I don’t even like gesture interfaces.
It’s pretty cool. And the top selling app right now.
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Clear is designed to help you manage your life without adding clutter. It’s a beautifully-designed, gesturally-driven app that we’ve created to improve on a pencil and notepad for flexibly keeping quick, simple todo lists.
