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One of the top qualities I seek in most recipes is versatility. I know I've found a good one when it's something that can easily pull double duty as lunch or dinner. This lineup of vegetarian options leans on pantry staples and whole, protein-rich foods to make a meal that's filling and light enough for lunch, yet substantial enough to serve as supper. From chickpea salad to warm grain bowls, these 20 vegetarian recipes can fit into your meal plan as lunch or dinner.

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New Sam’s Club stores have a useful feature for people who are in a hurry, or who dislike human interaction. Instead of taking your cart to a cashier at the end of your shopping trip, you can scan items with your mobile phone before putting them in your cart, then check out on your phone as well.

This works in a warehouse club because of its ever-present receipt checkers, since an employee will check your work whether you used a cashier or used smartphone self-checkout. The feature is available at the Longmont, CO store that opened at the end of June, and will also be available at the Columbia, SC store that will open on July 21.

All stores also offer in-store pickup of orders placed online, evidently part of a plan to make shopping at Sam’s as convenient as possible. Will that be enough to attract disgruntled Costco members upset about the credit card transition?

What Sam’s Club really wants are the upper-middle-class shoppers who are attached to those smartphones. Sam’s Club parent company Walmart also wants shoppers walking around glued to their phones, offering a variety of services in its store app that customers can use at home and in stores, from prescription refills to payments at the checkout.

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This colorful modern apartment is bold in its use of primary colors. The kitchen with its bright yellow cabinets and orange faucet are not the norm but I like looking at it, I don’t know if I could live with it. The circular lighting that appears to be recessed into the ceiling is something I haven’t seen before. It got me thinking about other patterns and applications. The owner does have some fantastic taste in furnishings and art. This space almost feels like a loft to me just because it is one large open space. It would make for a great bachelor pad. There is an upstairs but nothing to exciting is happening in those spaces. The party is in the main living area.

http://www.themodernhouse.com

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The way most of the world knows about Niue, a 100 square mile island in the south Pacific with a population of about 1,100, is because of its country-code top-level domain (CCTLD), which is the ubiquitous .nu. (more…)

Being likable and charismatic is a learned art form like any other. However, there’s one easy shortcut to a magnetic personality: start having fun.

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If you’re an Apple ID owner, you know that two-step verification is the best way to make sure that only you have access to your personal credit card details along with your app, music, and video purchases. Until a couple of weeks ago, Amazon–another company that probably has private financial information from you–didn’t have a […]

(via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

Hey NYC based designers, listen up: The fine folks of Designers & Books are having another Book Fair on October 2nd-4th and it looks fantastic! Just look at that speaker line-up! YES!

Helium is the second most abundant element in the entire Universe, but we are running out of helium here on Earth. That's a bad thing.

Even if auctioning eventually solves the pricing problem, it will never change the fact that helium is not a renewable resource. The National Reserve is expected to be depleted by 2020, and even if it isn’t, under the current law it will have to shut down operations in 2021. In the meantime, the world is scrambling to find alternative coolants, levitators, and sources of helium.

“By the end of the decade,” USGS writes in its 2015 report on helium, “international helium extraction facilities are likely to become the main source of supply for world helium users. Expansions to facilities have been completed as planned in Algeria and Qatar.” China also plans on mining helium-3, which is currently mostly manufactured, off the moon.

Chinese robot helium miners on the Moon - yes, please!

A tumblog of greatness documenting low-budget and no-budget workarounds on film, television, and web video sets: shittyrigs.com. The site says nobody was injured or killed as a result of these cost-cutting production contraptions, but I am skeptical. Some of them look downright lethal. All of them deserve an 'A' for effort.

[via NoFilmSchool]

All Thumbs has devised a method for molding your own sugar-based hot-glue-gun sticks that you can feed into an unused and uncontaminated gun to produce perfect gingerbread-house-building molten sugar adhesive.

Two important safety tips: use a fresh gun so you don't get glue in your food, and follow All Thumbs's advice and tape the molds to a sink, rather than holding them and risking molten sugar-burns.

Sugar pulls moisture from the surrounding air like crazy. If left to their own devices, your glue sticks will soon end up in a sticky mess. This process can be slowed down considerably if you leave the sticks in their foil wrap moulds, and if you store them together with some rice (or salt?) in a tin can that has been taped shut.

Gluing a gingersnap cottage (like a nerd) [All Thumbs/Instructables]

(via Evil Mad Scientist)

• Leatherman Sidekick Carabiner
• Handmade Paracord lanyard   
• Victorinox Minichamp Alox engraved with girlfriend’s name
• True Utility Keytool
• Blackberry Z10
• Blackberry Battery and Charger
• Fossil Men’s Carson Traveler Wallet
• Fossil JR1354 Nate Chronograph

Student in London

My system is primarily aimed at access around the UK whether that be clubs, pubs and, most importantly as a student, university lecture theatres. All items are discrete and aesthetically pleasing and have a subtle theme of my own style. This system is bare minimum, however what it lacks in items is what makes it a true everyday carry option, where nothing is left at home. All credit to people across the world who bring the kitchen sink with them everyday; but with my own edc, i want it to be as lightweight as possible, keeping with a nice style as i commute to and from university campus. Nothing is left in rotation because for myself that would not make it a true everyday carry option.  

Why do I love The Hold Steady? Because they’ve been making non-stupid ROCK music for ten years. It’s miraculous that a band can deliver so many songs about heartbreak and drinking with the requisite choruses and bridges and still sound smart. Part of it is that the band has a knack for air-guitar-worthy riffs, but it’s really singer/songwriter Craig Finn’s storytelling that sets The Hold Steady apart. Craig’s also possessed of a unique charisma on stage - check out the band on tour in the U.S and Europe from now through October for an undeniably fun and sweaty time.

The new Hold Steady record is called Teeth Dreams and I’ve been dying to share my favorite song “Wait a While” with you for months. It’s a deceptively simple gem that you’ll want on your summer playlist. I personally would slug nearly any man who called me “little girl,” but somehow Craig Finn can get away with it and even get me to sing along. Download it below.

Today I learned: Smilodon fatalis — the best known of the sabertooth cats — overlapped with the arrival of the ancestors of today's Native Americans for two or three thousand years.

You know the only thing wrong with a half-ton chocolate Santa Claus? No, not the 2.5 million calories he’s made of — calories don’t matter during the holidays or whenever a half-ton chocolate figurine is at stake. It’s the fact that the Houston hotel that has him on display has made it so no one can eat Santa. No one.

It’s a darn shame to remark on the existence of such a hefty bit of chocolate knowing the Santa will live out his days un-ingested, but I guess it’s kind of neat that someone made him in the first place.

The half-ton chocolate St. Nick greets guests in the lobby of the Hilton Americas in Houston, and will be at his post until Dec. 30, reports the Houston Chronicle. The Geppetto responsible for Santa is a pastry chef from the hotel’s own kitchen, who also created a chocolate scene with elves and presents.

He used 1,000 pounds of dark chocolate and chocolate dough, according to a hotel spokeswoman, while other helpers made gingerbread bricks for the scene’s fireplace and chimney. And then, after 400 hours of work spread over months… he painted it over with inedible lacquer. SIGH.

That’s because Santa must rise again next Christmas, after spending the off-season in cold storage at the hotel.

“We are going to add on to each it year,” says the spokeswoman. “Next year it will be even larger.”

Larger, and still inedible. What is this world we live in?

Houston hotel displays 2.5 million-calorie chocolate Santa sculpture [Houston Chronicle]

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“If you yell at your child, you either create somebody who yells back at you or somebody who is shamed and retreats. You’re either growing aggression or growing shame. Those are not characteristics that any parents want in their kids.” What exactly is a parent to do? A Washington Post story digs into a University of Pittsburgh study released in September that examined 967 middle school students over a two-year period.

Those whose parents used “harsh verbal discipline” such as yelling, cursing and using insults were more likely to be depressed or have behavior problems. The study found it was also not effective in getting children to stop what they were doing, and that it was damaging even to children in homes that were generally warm and loving.

Architect Alberto Marcos turned a duplex into one continuous home. I really like the open beams and loft like feeling. The home feels really open with furnishings defining areas. There are so many textures to look at and experience, I might be tempted to call it “modern industrial eclectic” maybe that is too much.

Found at ELLE.ES