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Cheese Sauce for Cheese Fries and Nachos Save Recipe About This Recipe Yield:4-6 (makes about 1 1/2 cups) Active time:15 minutes Total time:15 minutes This recipe appears in:The Burger Lab: Cheese Sauce for Burgers, Fries, and Chips Rated: Ingredients 8 ounces extra sharp cheddar cheese (or a mix of cheddar and pepper Jack—see note), grated on large holes of a box grater 1 tablespoon corn starch 1 (12-ounce) can evaporated milk 2 teaspoons Franks Red Hot or other hot sauce Procedures 1 Add cheese and cornstarch to large bowl. Toss to combine. Transfer to medium saucepan. Add 1 cup evaporated milk and hot sauce. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly with whisk until melted, bubbly, and thickened (about 5 minutes). Mixture will look thin and grainy at first but will thicken and come together after heating. Thin to desired consistency with additional evaporated milk. Serve immediately with fries, tortilla chips, burgers, or hot dogs.

Boston Public Library posted a photo:

File name: 10_03_002295a
Binder label: Thread
Title: Belding Bro's & Co. 50 yds. A. [front]
Created/Published: Five Points, N. Y. : Donaldson Brothers
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 13 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Fairies; Moths; Silk; Thread
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Belding Bros. & Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.

Boston Public Library posted a photo:

File name: 10_03_002297a
Binder label: Thread
Title: Use Brainerd & Armstrong's spool silk. Aw! Aw! Miss I understand all the ladies prefer this silk. [front]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 x 9 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: People; Moths; Silk; Thread; Leaves; Mulberry trees
Notes: Title from item. Retailer: W. F. Coward, Adams Street, Lower Mills, Boston.
Statement of responsibility: Brainerd, Armstrong & Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.

Boston Public Library posted a photo:

File name: 10_03_002303a
Binder label: Thread
Title: Nonotuck Silk Co. Manufacturers of machine twist & sewing silk. [front]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 12 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Moths; Silk; Thread
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Nonotuck Silk Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.

To what era do Americans yearn to return?

IN OUR latest weekly Economist/YouGov poll, we asked Americans which decade of the 20th century they would most like to go back to. Most popular was the 1950s. The decade of economic boom following the second world war is regarded as a time of consumerism, conservatism and cold-war caution. It was an age of stay-at-home wives, novel household appliances and new suburbs—yet was also most popular among women. The haze of Woodstock and Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s rolled up in second place. Republicans in particular preferred the morally uncomplicated 1950s under President Eisenhower and the 1980s of Reagan; Democrats tended to opt for Bill Clinton's 1990s. In general, people yearned for their youth. Over 50% of those over 65 wanted to revisit the 1950s and 1960s, while 45- to 64-year-olds pined for the 1980s. The youngest were torn between the jazz age of the 1920s and the 1990s, their own salad days.

Janelle Monáe has a new single out today, "PrimeTime," a powerful love ballad featuring Miguel. It's the third single from her upcoming album, THE ELECTRIC LADY, due out Sept. 10, which Monáe co-produced. (It's available for pre-order with various bonus goodies here.) Other collaborators include Erykah Badu (on "Q.U.E.E.N." which debuted earlier this year), Solange, Esperanza Spalding, and Prince. 

Monáe also just announced she'll be hitting the road this October and November in support of the new album. THE ELECTRIC LADY Tour kicks off in Philadelphia on Oct. 13. Tickets for most shows go on sale this Friday, Aug. 23. A list of dates is below, with some additional 2014 dates forthcoming.

THE ELECTRIC LADY Tour 2013
Oct. 13—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—Electric Factory
Oct. 14—Washington, DC—Lincoln Theatre
Oct. 16—Boston, Massachusetts—House of Blues
Oct. 18—Montreal, Quebec ...

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Ryan and Kaitlyn Lawless have re-created the 50 of the United States as interlocking porcelain trays for anyone to ‘bake, serve and style with pride’. Basically, they did this by cutting out prototypes on a CNC router for precision, which is then translated into plaster molds to create the cast for liquid ceramic to be poured into to create the porcelain plates.

The plates are then fired in an electric kiln, glazed and high-fired again before the undersides are sanded and smoothed. Wonder if we’d need a get a bigger dining table to hold all the states…

The post United Plates of America: Interlocking porcelain trays of all 50 states appeared first on Lost At E Minor: For creative people.

Just the needle and the numbers, Chevrolet Speedometer Design from 1941 to 2011. Like our main image today, this by way of Christian Annyas.

A general rule of skygazing is that the farther you look, the less things change. Clouds? Different from one minute to the next. Moon? Phases shifting every night. Planets? You can easily see them move over the course of a week. But stars? Nah, they're usually the same your whole lifetime. Usually. Right now is one of the exceptions to that rule. Five days ago, amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki of Yamagata, Japan was the first to report that a previously obscure star in the constellation

Both sets of my grandparents had basement rec-rooms that were clearly grasping after this magnificence. But this is the Ur-room, the thing that casts the shadow upon the wall of Plato's cave. It is the rec-room none of us would ever be allowed to behold, for none of us is pure enough for a rec-room such as this. If you want proof of the lapsarian hypothesis, look no further: the world is in decline. Everything is worse than it was. Oh, rec-room, you were too good for this world of sin.

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SOMERVILLE – Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan, and Somerville public safety officials held a press conference today to provide the community with an update on the ongoing investigation into recent fires that have occurred in Somerville. Over the last three months, nine house fires have occurred, the most recent of which occurred on Sunday, August 18, on Belmont St. The State Fire Marshal’s office has ruled three of these fires to be accidental. Three others remain under investigation. However, three have now been ruled as intentionally set.

Mark Humbert and Karin Evans were walking along the path leading up Claremont Canyon when they spotted this new art form: bark bombing. Some industrious soul had woven strips of bark into a mat and hung it up on a tree. The artist inscribed the name of the piece into one of the strips: “Always Around You.”

Will bark bombing be the new yarn bombing, a practice that took off in Berkeley over the past few years? What lasts longer, yarn or bark?(...)

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To this day, in the fort's dark corridors, the legend lives on of "The Lady in Black," the ghost of a Confederate prisoner's wife who is said to have been sentenced to death for aiding in an escape after disguising herself as a male soldier, and hanged in a black robe which was the best the soldiers could do to accommodate her last request of being executed in female clothing.

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12 amazingly cruel anti-suffregette cartoons from the 19th century

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notice how the anti-feminist rhetoric hasn’t changed? “Oh, you’re a feminist? you must never get laid, haha! that’s why you want equal rights for women!”

Date & Time:  Wednesday September 11, 2013 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM Location:  The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley Dr. Johnson (Professor Emerita, Ithaca College), a leading anthropologist specializing in Kerala, consulted The Magnes staff in the exhibition development. Currently a Visiting Scholar in South Asia Program at Cornell University, Johnson is the author of Oh Lovely Parrot!: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala (2004) and Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers (1995).

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch had a suggestion for the photographers camped outside the BBC Sherlock set Saturday in Cardiff, Wales. As he exited his trailer, Cumberbatch hid his face behind a hooded jacket and glasses and held up a sign reading, “Go photograph Egypt and show the world something important.”

Scott Lively may have just suffered a defeat in Africa, but he has found allies against the “homosexual agenda” in the Putin government.

Pei-Shen Qian, a 73-year-old immigrant, is believed to have produced more than 60 works that were attributed to Modernist masters.

You might assume that the apocalypse will be scored with some Wagnerian black metal, or at least a swelling orchestral arrangement. But we think you’ll meet the end with a catchy earworm torturing you. Here are 12 tunes that will be stuck in your head as the world comes down.

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While excavating an ancient burial mound at Başur Höyük near Siirt in southeast Turkey, archaeologists discovered a set of sculpted stones that may represent the earliest recorded gaming tokens.

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“The Safari Leisure Jacket” – Roger Moore in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

The Suites of James Bond is a blog by Briarcliff Manor, New York-based graphic designer Matt Spaiser cataloging the outfits worn by actors (James Bond and his numerous enemies) from the 007 films. Matt explains in fine detail everything we need to know about each article of featured apparel.

Here is an excerpt from Matt’s post about The Safari Leisure Jacket:

This outfit from ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ may be the one most to blame for Roger Moore’s undeserved reputation for always wearing a leisure suit as James Bond. This safari jacket, made of cream-coloured silk or a linen and silk blend, is really the only one that’s a 100 percent product of the 1970s. Unlike Moore’s traditional safari shirts, this one is a structured jacket. It has natural—but structured—shoulders, set-in sleeves and a tailored waist. (read more)

“A Flamboyant Dinner Suit” – Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

“Navy Linen Suit” – Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006)

images via The Suites of James Bond

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Personally, I’ve never seen anything like this, and photographer and digital artist Michael K. Chung said he couldn’t believe what he saw when he was processing images he took for a timelapse of the Perseid meteor shower. It appears he captured a meteor explosion and the resulting expansion of a shock wave or debris ring.

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Grant Morrison delivered a bit of a mindfuck on Wednesday. Strangely, he didn't do it in one of his own comics, but by revealing the secret end of Alan Moore's seminal Batman graphic novel The Killing Joke — namely, that Batman actually murders the Joker at the end.

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The catalyst for Hepler’s abuse was a six-year-old interview in which she admitted she didn’t enjoy combat in games. This was enough for fans to blame her for unpopular changes in Dragon Age II, describing her as a ‘cancer’ that was destroying BioWare. ‘I was shown a sample of the forum posts by EA security,’ says Hepler ‘And it included graphic threats to kill my children on their way out of school to show them that they should have been aborted at birth rather than have to have me as a mother.’

On Friday, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) denounced a Russian law that criminalize public support for gay rights as "inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Olympic and Paralympic movements” -- but asked that athletes abide by it anyway.

“The athletes are always going into countries with laws different than his or her own country. They’re going to agree with those laws in some ways, they’re going to disagree with those laws in other ways,” USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun told Russia's R-Sport. “It’s our strong desire that our athletes comply with the laws of every nation that we visit. This law is no different.”

Blackmun also refused to comment on American runner Nick Symmonds, who this week dedicated a silver medal he won in Moscow to his gay and lesbian friends.

“I know he feels strongly about this issue as many Americans do, beyond that we really don’t have any comments,” Blackmun said. “We encourage our athletes to work within Russian law, and I know Nick is trying to do that as well.”

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