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Sunday is a day that is bittersweet. I mean, you have the day off of work, which is really cool, but it sucks, because you know that tomorrow you’re going to be back at the office. Either way, I think you should enjoy the day and I’m going to help you do that with today’s amazing optical illusion. It’s rare that I come across an optical illusion that is just completely different and out of the norm. Well, today, I have an optical illusion that’s very different and I’m super stoked to share it with all of you. The object of this optical illusion is to stare at the image and shake your head back and forth until you see a picture appear. Sounds really cool, doesn’t it? Are you ready to give it a shot? If so, scroll down right now and give it a shot!
After you looked at the picture and shook your head were you able to see the image revealing itself? If so, what did you see? Leave a comment in the comments section below and let us know what was revealed to you. If you want, you can blows your friend’s mind and share this optical illusion with them. I’m sure they will certainly get a kick out of it. I really hope you liked this optical illusion. If you did, you should rate this post by clicking on one of the star images below and letting me know what you thought about it. I value all of your feedback and it will help me improve the site.
The past couple of weeks, I've been on the hunt for Super Bowl-friendly sauces to try out for Sauced. But after making a green chili queso a couple weeks back, I've been able to think of nothing other than cheese dips. So when Kenji asked if I'd like to do pull together five more quesos, I jumped at the opportunity.
Just keep in mind that while this may be my 2014 queso line-up, there are another 14 easy variations I slapped together last year.
Taco Queso Dip
My very first dip idea also may have also been my best: taco queso! Taco night is a tradition in my house, and I imagined taking that same well-seasoned, spicy ground beef and mixing it with a combo of cheddar and monterey jack, along with some sour cream for good measure. This queso has a robustness from earthy cumin and chili powder, spicy jalapeños and salsa, sautéed onions, garlic, and, of course, beef chuck. It really gives the sensation of eating a taco in dip form, and how can you go wrong with that?
Next up was this French onion cheese dip, which combines the main components of the soup and just subtracts the stock. I mix two large, well-caramelized onions with a combination of Gruyère and Swiss cheeses, a dash of WOrcestershire sauce, and a hefty dose of thyme. The result is a dip that's markedly thicker than the others (it can be thinned with additional evaporated milk if desired) and delivers the deep sweetness of the onions, nicely balanced by the sharp Gruyère—a surprisingly accurate evocation of the classic dish.
My two dips were both on the labor-intensive side, so I decided to go simple for my next recipe. This dip is little more than our standard cheddar cheese dip with mayo, a little sour cream, and pimentos mixed in. I think you get a lot more flavor out of your red peppers if you roast, peel, and chop fresh ones at home like I did here, but you can certainly substitute jarred pimentos to make this sauce even easier to put together. So far, pimento cheese hasn't failed me in mac and cheese, baked potatoes, or grilled cheese, and this dip just adds to the list of successful takes on the Southern spread.
I had a grand vision of a rich Italian dip that would burst with the flavor of fresh herbs against a creamy and slightly nutty cheese base. My dreams were brought down a notch or two when my wife said this dip tasted like it was better suited for a baby shower than a Super Bowl party. So it wasn't the super-intense herbal dip I originally set out to make, but this mixture of mozzarella, fontina, and Parmesan with basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, garlic, and lemon zest still has its charms. It may be more subtle than the rest, but maybe that's your thing (or maybe you're killing two birds with one stone and doing a baby/football party mashup, in which case, I say this dip is for you!).
From the outset, I really wanted to do a chorizo-laden queso, and decided to try out a classic pairing of chorizo and mushrooms. I sautéed a couple links of chorizo—removed from their casings—and then sautéed mushrooms and onion in the bright red rendered fat. I've been on a bit of shiitake kick lately, so I used those in my recipe, but more common and less expensive creminis would work just as well. I took some inspiration from queso fundido and used Oaxacan cheese as the base here, with a little monterey jack mixed in. The result is a queso that's salty, spicy, earthy, and meaty, with a fun stringiness thanks to the Oaxacan cheese (the sauce became more dippable and less stringy the longer it cooked, so it required a little extra time on the stove to get the texture just right).
I was slated to do five dips, but there was one idea that haunted my thoughts and I simply couldn't resist: Philly Cheesesteak dip. I originally wrote it off because it wasn't much of a recipe—just steak, onions, and Cheez Whiz—but once I made it, I knew it deserved some airtime. Ideally, I would have used thinly sliced ribeye for the best beefy flavor, but not finding that on my shopping day and with the butcher closed, I decided to keep the processed food thing going and picked up a box of Steak-umm to at least let me prove the concept. The "steak" was browned, then the onions were cooked in the rendered fat of the beef. Both were then combined with a whole bottle of Cheez Whiz and heated until dippable. What can I say, it was like a cheesesteak with way too much Whiz, and that's not a bad thing.
About the author:Joshua Bousel brings you new, tasty condiment every other Wednesday and a recipe for weekend grilling every other Friday. He also writes about grilling and barbecue on his blog The Meatwave whenever he can be pulled away from his grill.
I hope by now you've all read Kenji's awesome Food Lab on the science of chocolate chip cookies. For anyone remotely interested in baking, it's a fascinating look at how this quintessential cookie is put together. There were a lot of great takeaways, but one technique in particular caught my eye: that weird thing with the brown butter and the ice cube.
Here's how the step in the recipe reads:
Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, gently swirling pan constantly, until particles begin to turn golden brown and butter smells nutty, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and continue swirling the pan until the butter is a rich brown, about 15 seconds longer. Transfer to a medium bowl, whisk in ice cube, transfer to refrigerator, and allow to cool completely, about 20 minutes, whisking occasionally. (Alternatively, whisk over an ice bath to hasten process).
The TL/DL explanation for this step is that he wanted to impart brown butter flavor into the cookies without losing moisture, and also to cool down the butter before mixing it with the eggs.
I've been wanting to make brown butter cookies for a while, and learning this new, improved technique seemed like the right impetus to start. When thinking of what to add to my brown butter cookies, bourbon sprang to mind. It's got a caramel, toffee-like flavor profile that would marry perfectly, especially when offset with some salt and some nutty pecans.
I made these cookies a little oversized, and worried when they were still soft after 18 minutes in the oven. But they set up as they cooled, and the boozy bite of the raw dough mellowed into those nutty notes of brown butter. They're perfect on they're own, but I wouldn't say no to accompanying them with a nip.
If the federal minimum wage were increased to $9.50 per hour:
Only 11.3 percent of workers who would gain from the increase live in households officially defined as poor.
A whopping 63.2 percent of workers who would gain were second or even third earners living in households with incomes equal to twice the poverty line or more.
Some 42.3 percent of workers who would gain were second or even third earners who live in households that have incomes equal to three times the poverty line or more.
"Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating....[I]f matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been random, instead of the pattern observed in the data, then the Gini coefficient would have fallen from the observed 0.43 to 0.34, so that income inequality would be smaller"
Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant Unilever spent more than 20 years trying to beat butter at its own game. But the maker of Flora, Country Crock, and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, appears ready to give up the fight.
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What do you think you get if you add 1+2+3+4+5+... all the way on up to infinity? Probably a massively huge number, right? Nope. You get a small negative number:
This is, by a wide margin, the most noodle-bending counterintuitive thing I have ever seen. Mathematician Leonard Euler actually proved this result in 1735, but the result was only made rigorous later and now physicists have been seeing this result actually show up in nature. Amazing. (thx, chris)
Update: Of course (of course!) the actual truth seems more complicated, hinging on what "sum" means mathematically, etc. (via @cenedella)
Google Now cards are available in the latest Chrome Canary build for Windows and Mac (34.0.1788). You only need to go to chrome://flags/#enable-google-now , then switch from "Default" to "Enabled" and click "Relaunch Now" at the bottom of the page to restart the browser. Chrome Canary and the stable Chrome can run at the same time, but the Canary version is updated daily, has the latest features and it's for developers and early adopters.
If you're signed into Chrome, you should see a Google Now notification and then a list of cards. "Google Now on your desktop! Stay connected to what you need to know, across all devices," informs the first card. Google Now cards are displayed using Chrome's notification interface in the Windows system tray or the Mac menu bar. Just look for the bell icon.
"If you use Google Now on your mobile device, you can see certain Now cards on your desktop computer if you're signed into Chrome, including weather, sports scores, commute traffic, and event reminders cards. Some of these cards may be based on the location of your mobile device. Google Now on Chrome shows a subset of the Now cards you see on your mobile device, which uses your device's location. You can edit your location settings (Location Reporting and Location History) on your Android or iOS device at any time," informs Google.
The subject of Randall Rosenthal’s artwork at times seem inconsequential. Stacks of old newspapers and magazines, a comic book collection in a cardboard box, envelopes stuffed with various stacks of currency. And then you discover that you’re really looking at only two things: a single piece of Vermont white pine and skillfully applied acrylic paint. These are the only materials Rosenthal requires to mimic the look and feel of flimsy newsprint, worn trading cards, translucent pieces of tape and deteriorating cardboard boxes. What’s all the more amazing is that he doesn’t work from a photograph or model, but instead creates each object as he goes, using only an image in his mind as a guide.
After graduating from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in the late 1960s Rosenthal opened his first exhibition of surrealist paintings, a direction he pursued until the late 80s. His focus then shifted to architectural design and next into the realist sculptures he creates today. You can read more about his process and inspiration in this recent interview in rh+artmagazine.
See much more of Rosenthal’s work over at Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, and he’s been updating this message board thread at Sawmill Creek since 2011 to show some of his ongoing progress with different projects.
Is it just me or does old timey stuff like this look like they actually designed it to make sure some of their children would have a terrible accident
Date: 1840–59 Culture: American Medium: leather, wood, metal Dimensions: 113 in. (287 cm) Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1944 Accession Number: 2009.300.3473a, b
Information about hundreds of thousands of works of art is available in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection Database.
Beer drinking appears to have a negative impact on economic growth: A 1 gallon increase in per-capita beer consumption is associated with a 0.48 percentage point decrease in per-capita personal-income growth, according to a study of more than 30 years of data by Resul Cesur of the University of Connecticut and Inas Rashad Kelly of the City University of New York. Taxes on alcohol help pay for the costs that drinking imposes on society, such as lost productivity and increased disability; approximately doubling taxes on beer would potentially increase personal-income growth by 0.43 percentage points, the researchers say.
Using a remote-controlled camera disguised as a sea turtle, marine biologists watched as young dolphins got themselves stoned by ingesting a nerve toxin released by puffer fish. And as if sharing a joint, the dolphins could be seen passing it around.
When Lilly and Leon discovered themselves with a house-full of cardboard boxes (they'd just moved) and a new baby, they did what any parent would do: used the materials to recreate iconic scenes from their favorite movies, only the sets are made of cardboard and feature an adorably posed and costumed baby. Because parenting!
Last night we introduced another new feature called Send To. Like Starred items, this has been a frequently requested addition and something we’ve been itching to get into the application. Send To allows you to share posts from The Old Reader to external services such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Evernote, Google+, or email. By default, email, Facebook, and Twitter are available in your Send To list but you can add others or configure custom options in Settings under the Social tab. We’ve put together a short page with some common services you might want to add to your Share To list here. Email us with any you think would be a good fit for this list.
Also, there’s another small feature that went out last night. We added pubsubhubbub to the user’s profile RSS feed (http://theoldreader.com/profile/[USERNAME].rss), so profile RSS feeds now provide near real time updating. Small, but it might be worthy of mention.
We hope you like these new features as much as we do.
Cards Against Humanity’s “$5 More” Black Friday Sale
A lot of people have been curious about how our “everything costs $5 more" Black Friday sale worked, and if it was successful for us.
The Idea
This is a difficult time of year for us because we spend almost no money on marketing, and it’s easy for us to get lost in the noise and money of the holiday season.
We initially started talking about doing a Black Friday sale over the summer, and came up with the idea of a “$0.01 off” coupon. I liked the idea, but have always maintained a policy of no deals, no discounts, and no sales for Cards Against Humanity, even during our Kickstarter. To me the game is always $25, it’s never another price, and doing any kind of deal or discount undermines the simplicity and honesty of the game.
After some discussion, Ben came up with the idea of raising the price for Black Friday and that was so outrageous that I fell in love with it instantly. Two books I read recently that informed my decision were Malcom Gladwell’s David and Goliathand Marty Neumeier’s Zag, which are both kind of shitty business/science books that make the somewhat-obvious point that being small and nimble can give you advantages that huge lumbering opponents don’t have. Anyone can do a sale for Black Friday, but nobody but us could get away with raising their prices and risking a ton of sales just to make a joke.
The other guys were pretty skeptical, but Ben and I convinced them one by one, 12 Angry Men style, until they agreed to let us try a truly insane pricing experiment. The final piece needed to convince everyone was the mockup of the landing page that I designed, with the glowing “consume!” button. Once everyone saw how funny that looked, they knew we had to go through with it.
Execution
Nothing crazy here. I put together a landing page and we replaced all the “buy” buttons on our site with the new pricing. I edited the FAQ to include:
Why do all of your products cost more today?
We’re participating in the tradition of “Black Friday,” an American holiday celebrating a time when the Wampanoag tribe saved the settlers of Plymouth Colony with incredible deals. All of our products are $5 more today only, so you can enjoy buying them that much more.
I’m mad that you’re making a joke about Black Friday.
You’re probably a bad person.
We called our contact at Amazon and explained the idea for the sale to them. They thought it was funny but were also pretty annoyed - apparently monkeying with pricing on the biggest sales day of the year isn’t as funny to Amazon as it is to us.
I was pretty sure that our fans would be into the “$5 more” sale, but I had no idea that it would turn a day where we’d normally be totally overlooked into a huge press hit for the game.
Sales
So how did we do? A little better than last year. We kept our position as the best-selling toy or game on Amazon. My guess is that peoples’ buying decisions just weren’t that affected by $5.
The interesting thing to note is that we got a nice lift in our sales the day after Black Friday (“Regret Saturday”). That might be from people who were waiting to buy the game until it came back down in price, or, more likely, those are sales from people who heard about the game after our Black Friday press. Not bad for an ad that paid us to run it.
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