You wouldn't be wrong to think that a tiny cheeseburger is just a slider but you also wouldn't be all the way right, either. That's because Miniature Space stretches (compacts?) the imagination of what tiny food can be in their tiny kitchen. Here they are grillin' up some burgers that are so tiny, they're probably meant for single tastebuds.
Bridgeti'm on board with him on this one.
Easy for you to say, George, easy for you to say…
Speaking with folks on the red carpet in San Francisco, The Verge got on the topic of spoilers with George R.R. Martin. Perhaps because of the recent revelation that the HBO series would indeed wind up spoiling some of his plots from A Song of Ice and Fire before fans can read the rest of the books.
Here’s how Martin discussed it with The Verge:
“This whole concept of spoilers is one that I’ve never gotten,” he says. “Yes, there’s a pleasure when you’re reading a book, or watching a television show — What will happen next? Who will win? Who will lose? But that is by no means the only reason to watch a movie or a television show. It’s not the only reason to read a book.”
I thought Martin had made his point, but he was just warming up. “I read a lot of historical fiction, you know? I know who won the Civil War — it’s not a spoiler to me. But I can still enjoy Gettysburg, even though I know how the battle came out. I can still enjoy historical fiction about the Wars of the Roses, even though I know who won the Wars of the Roses. And for that matter, I still enjoy watching Citizen Kane every few years even though I know ‘Rosebud’ is the sled. So there — I just gave a terrible spoiler to all the people who haven’t seen Citizen Kane. Rosebud is the sled, but nonetheless, you should still watch Citizen Kane, because it’s incredible!” Martin laughed a deep, satisfied laugh, and continued down the black carpet.
I find it odd Martin would compare fiction to non-fiction in this particular discussion. Of course you can’t have spoilers for history! I totally respect those who don’t care about spoilers in general, even if it makes zero sense to me personally (and apparently increases enjoyment of a thing for some people), but not understanding why people wouldn’t want to know details or the ending of a piece of fiction they’ve been devoting themselves to years? Come on.
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Fascinating sculptures by John Breed who lives and works in the Netherlands.
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In a plot that could have been cooked up by Dennis Hopper’s mad bomber villain in the classic 90s action flick “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down,” a Boston-area house set to go on sale was found wired to explode when someone turned on a light switch.
An explosive device was discovered wired throughout several of the house’s rooms after the homeowner and electrician were conducting a pre-sale inspection. Police were called, who described finding “a gallon container of an incendiary substance” hooked up to the wiring.
“We believe the intention was that if someone had flipped the light switch on where it ended, the device would have exploded,” said Milton Police Chief Richard G. Wells, Jr.
Investigators are searching for the house’s previous tenants–a husband, wife, and daughter–who appeared to have abandoned the house the week prior after police had been called to the home in regards to reported vandalism. Police found the house’s drains had been plugged with concrete.
[Boston Globe | Photo: CBS Boston]
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Bridgettoo bad the arts district is over
Musk is leasing a space in the Arts District to work on a high-speed transit invention that would send passengers from L.A. to S.F. at 750 mph. [ more › ]
Bridgetsharing for the headline
Bridgeti swear i saw this in a gallery recently. tallships with swearwords kinda stick with you
Bridgeti thought i was having auditory hallucinations last night or something
BridgetOVER
Bridgethonestly i'm not getting past the headline/mugshot in this because it is awesome just the way it is
Congratulations to arsonist Nancy Duarte who achieved a a state of pure positive vibes and gave the cheeriest mugshot you'll ever see after attempting to burn down American Power Yoga in Dallas, Texas this weekend.
Bridgeteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Steven Ogg, the voice of Trevor Philips from Grand Theft Auto V will be in the next episode of Better Call Saul, “Pimento.”
Bridgetclearly we need to live in a world where super masculine looking dudes dress up as princesses.
Jesse Nagy’s 4-year-old niece Izzy really wanted to dress up as a princess to go see Disney’s new Cinderella live action movie, but she was afraid that no one else would dress up. That’s when the tattooed and muscular 26-year-old actor decided to dress up as a princess to make sure that Izzy would feel fine going to the movie dressed up! Now that’s role-model material.
Nagy borrowed a prom dress from a friend and topped the outfit off with a tiara, a handbag and… flip-flops (give him a break – he’d have broken his ankles!).
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Raspberry Pi project platform PiJuice is currently raising funds for its portable module on Kickstarter. As a demo of its capabilities, the team has created a step-by-step tutorial showing how the product can be used to build a DIY Raspberry Pi compact digital camera.
Unlike the SnapPiCam project, which failed to raise funding on Kickstarter after detailing its build on Instructables, the PiJuice camera has an integrated battery that increases portability.
Here’s a look at the parts you’ll need for the build:
The main components are the PiJuice unit, a Rapsberry Pi Model a+, a camera module, a laser cut camera body, and a Adafruit TFT screen. You’ll be able to download the custom PiCam software from PiJuice’s GitHub repository.
During the build, you can test your camera components to make sure they work together as a camera before stuffing them into the camera body.
Once you put all the parts together, you’ll have a working compact camera. It may not offer the most compactness or image quality, but it’s a camera you made with your own two hands.
You can find the entire detailed step-by-step tutorial over at Instructables.
Raspberry Pi Compact Camera [Instructables]
Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a writer on the first two seasons of the classic ABC sci-fi series Lost and a member of the original brain trust that dreamed up the underpinnings of the series' mythology, has written his own story of what happened behind the scenes in those first two seasons. He paints a picture of an ultra-competitive, ultra-creative environment, where genius happened in sudden, furious bursts of inspiration.
Grillo-Marxuach wrote the post, which is almost 17,000 words long, in order to answer the eternal question of whether the Lost writers knew what was going to happen or were making it up as they went along. The answer he gives is complicated but suggests the writers had most of the series' backstory in mind in those first two seasons, while leaving plenty of room for improvisation. (The character of Jacob, for instance, so important to the final seasons of the show, was not mentioned once while Grillo-Marxuach was on staff.)
The entire post is well worth a read, and not just for Lost superfans. If you have any interest in how the behind-the-scenes TV sausage is made, check it out. When you're done with that, check out our lengthy interview with co-creator and showrunner Damon Lindelof about the series' earliest days. And from there, check out Grillo-Marxuach's recent book, Shoot This One.
Here are five quick revelations from this monumental post.
As a writers' room, and a think tank before that, we kept pitching possibilities, but nothing we threw out ever overrode Damon's concern that if we shat the bed on that reveal, the audience would depart in droves. The hatch was pitched as a gateway to a frozen polar bear habitat, the mouth of a cave full of treasure that would so entrance the castaways with dreams of avarice that Jack would ultimately be forced to seal it shut with dynamite, the door to a bio-dome whose inhabitants could only breathe carbon dioxide, and even a threshold to an Atlantis-style lost civilization.
I believe that my idea was that it led into the conning tower of a nuclear submarine that had run aground and been buried in an epic mudslide (I thought this could be a rich area for stories about salvaging equipment, and loose nukes, and such things).
As we trudged through the first half of season one, Damon rushed into the writers room one day with an uncharacteristic bounce in his step and declared that "inside the hatch there’s a room with a guy in it and if he doesn’t press a button every 108 minutes, the world will end."
During these sessions — which began on February 24th of 2004, exactly one day before Damon and JJ [Abrams, co-creator] finished writing their very first draft of the pilot — a lot of the ideas that became the show’s mythology and format were discussed, pitched, and put into play for what would eventually become the series. Also, to be fair, more often than not, we were paving the way for the good ideas by coming up with a lot of bad ones. Very bad ones.
On the first day alone, Damon downloaded on us the notion that the island was a nexus of conflict between good and evil: an uncharted and unchartable place with a mysterious force at its core that called humanity to it to play out a primal contest between light and dark.
In that meeting — we had an assistant taking the notes I am consulting as I write this — Damon also pitched out the idea of "The Medusa Corporation" a Rand Corporation-like entity that knew the nature of the island and had thus chosen it as a place in which to perform a series of behavior modification experiments in a series of scientific stations... and who had brought the polar bears in for these experiments.
For all doubters, in the post Grillo-Marxuach provides a picture of the notes from that meeting.
Lost was anything but fully-baked in late February of 2004. As has been reported elsewhere, one of the out-of-the-box ideas featured in both the greenlit outline and the first draft of the pilot was that Jack Shephard — the main character of the series that ultimately aired — was to be killed at the end of the first act by the mysterious smoke monster. At the time, the scuttlebutt around the office was that JJ had reached out to Michael Keaton, who had — at least in principle — agreed to appear in the pilot and even do press pretending that he was going to be a series regular, only to be killed fifteen minutes in. ...
On our second day at work, JJ and Damon brought in numbered hard copies of the pilot for the think tank to read and on which to give feedback. My most salient note on the pilot was that murdering the one white male character with a discernible skillset that could serve to generate stories — at the very least Jack was a doctor — would not go over well with the network.
In truth, my response was a lot less politically correct, informed as it was by my decade-plus experience as a Puerto Rican working in Hollywood.
What I really said was "You can't kill the white guy."
Grillo-Marxuach admits he and the others were later amused when the network said the same thing.
Even though we assumed from jump street that the polar bears had been brought to the island as part of the Medusa Corporation's work — there was also a very strong drive from Damon and JJ to advance the story that Walt was a powerful psychic. This explained, for example, the bird hitting the window in the episode "Special." Walt-as-psychic would also help us explain why The Others had such an interest in Walt and would ultimately kidnap him.
Although the genre-averse Powers That Be at network and studio were resolutely opposed to the science-fictional idea of a psychic boy who could manifest polar bears on a tropical island through the strength of will alone, Damon and JJ nevertheless gave themselves a backdoor into this area by putting the bear in a comic book that appeared both in the pilot and thereafter in series.
Frankly, it's hard for me to look at an episode like "Special" and not completely take from it that Walt is a powerful psychic who manifested the polar bear in order to test his father's love once and for all ... but the execution of the episode apparently left plenty of wiggle room to give us plausible deniability — even as Damon would regularly come into the writers' room, throw up his arms and declare "Of course Walt's psychic."
A week later, Damon came back from a retreat to the Palm Desert. No, people, he wasn't out wandering the wastes in sackcloth and confronting the devil, he had been at Two Bunch Palms — which you might remember as that nice spa featured in the Robert Altman film The Player. If he didn't look tanned, rested, and ready, Damon at least appeared willing to climb back into the ring with the now-confirmed-as-pop-culture-defining, massive-audience-gathering, monster hit that was Lost.
If anything seemed to convince Damon of how badly Lost needed him, it was probably hearing the story break developing on the white-board in his absence. Now, there had been times — and, again, I have heard him say as much in interviews — when Damon expressed to us that he felt the show was literally sucking away his soul and that he wished he could jump. Sometimes he would even threaten to do it off a cliff...
However, when Damon Lindelof heard the beats to a story in which Hurley was revealed to be an amateur hypnotist who would use his abilities to pry to the location of the kidnapped Claire from the now-amnesiac Charlie, his pride of ownership came roaring back with bull force.
If ever there was a moment when I knew that there was no way Damon Lindelof would ever leave Lost again it was when he told us what he thought of that idea.
Last week, Carbon3D announced a 3D printing system that's 25 times faster than traditional 3D printers . Now, a company called Gizmo 3D has revealed that it's developing a system that can also achieve incredible speeds.
A major software update coming to PlayStation 4 tomorrow will bring a number of requested features to the system that Sony says will enhance the social aspects of its console.
The update, which is codenamed "Yukimura," includes a new suspend/resume feature that will allow gamers to jump in and out of games quickly and pick up where they left off. The patch will also allow users to search for fellow gaming friends on Facebook and easily view what their friends are playing with the addition of a "Friends Who Play This" section on each game detail page.
In fact, Sony appears to be making more of a push toward social networking site integration overall. A new feature is coming tomorrow that automatically take a screenshot when a Trophy is...
Bridgetalso she smokes like a mofo
There is no shortage of examples of bogus health claims by celebrities and their disastrous influence on public health and science. Over the years, famous folks have suggested that vaccines cause autism (Jenny McCarthy), that "miracle" diet supplements are the holy grail of weight loss (Mehmet Oz), and that steaming your vagina is, well, a good idea (Gwyneth Paltrow).
While their ability to influence our health choices is proven, it's rare that celebrities use that influence for good. A notable exception is actress Angelina Jolie, who came out Tuesday as a model health communicator, writing in a New York Times op-ed about the removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes.
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The latest Jolie op-ed published in the New York Times.
"A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene," she wrote. "It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer." In order to reduce her likelihood of developing cancer, she had a double mastectomy two years ago, followed by an oophorectomy this month.
Instead of exaggerating the benefits of her surgeries, or advising women to follow her lead to the clinic, Jolie was thoughtful and balanced. She should be applauded for describing in very clear terms the benefits, costs, risks of harm, and trade-offs of her decision to undergo the preventive operations.
Actress Jenny McCarthy, a booster of the bogus MMR-vaccine autism link. (Mat Hayward/Getty Images)
Where Jolie won today with her celebrity health column, many others before her have failed.
There are the Jenny McCarthys and Michael Douglases of the world who completely distort health science. There are the Kelsey Grammers and the Paula Deens who wage "disease awareness" campaigns and implicitly hawk pharmaceuticals — without disclosing the fact that they are also being paid by drug companies to do so. There are people like Katie Couric, who go on well-meaning but misguided quests to push cancer screening even when it may not be helpful for most.
Finally, there are the countless stars who have peddled various diets, exercise programs, and supplements — only discussing the potential benefits and not the harms or side effects, simply because they have a book or product to sell.
It’s not surprising that celebrities continually dole out health advice, paid and unpaid, for this single reason: it works on us.
But its side effects aren't always positive.
In a study published in the journal Genetics in Medicine, researchers looked at the impact of Jolie’s first op-ed — about her choice to undergo a mastectomy — on people's understanding of the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. They concluded it didn't actually help. "While three of four Americans were aware of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy," they wrote, "fewer than 10 percent of respondents had the information necessary to accurately interpret Ms. Jolie's risk of developing cancer relative to a woman unaffected by the BRCA gene mutation." In other words, while nuanced, her piece didn't boost people's knowledge of the science.
Perhaps this was because of the failure of journalists to communicate the details of Jolie's argument. In another study, researchers found that reporters took an overwhelmingly positive slant on Jolie's surgeries, instead of discussing the relative rarity of her condition and the fact that most women would have many other options besides invasive procedures.
This worries Dr. Gilbert Welch, the author of Less Medicine, More Health and a professor of medicine at Dartmouth. "The most important context of the [Jolie op-ed] is that it’s not relevant to the vast majority of American women," he said. "The reason is they don’t have the mutation that Jolie does."
Even when celebrities like Jolie get it right, Welch noted that their messages may not always get through to people intact. "I worry the simple storyline that will come through [from Jolie] is that everybody should be tested and more mastectomies and oophorectomies should be done." That's not something a dose of even the best celebrity medicine can fix.
Welcome to Burden of Proof, a regular column in which Julia Belluz (a journalist) and Steven Hoffman (an academic) join forces to tackle the most pressing health issues of our time and uncover the best science behind them. Have suggestions or comments? Email Belluz and Hoffman or Tweet us @juliaoftorontoand @shoffmania. You can see previous columns here.
Bridgeti have no doubt that this headline is clickbait and that the story is hyperbolic but i will take any opportunity to throw internet temper tantrums at monsanto.
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Bridgethow in the fuck is LA in the top ten?
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Bridgetit evolved from frog into frog making it the saddest pokemon ever.
When faced with the threat of being gobbled up by hungry predators, the ability to seamlessly blend in with the environment is crucial for survival. Some animals have evolved appearances strikingly similar to things in the environment, like stick insects or stonefish, whereas others can quickly change color to match the background, such as chameleons and cuttlefish.
