The Steamship Steaming Lid, a silicone steam lid made in the shape of a steam ship sailing across water, is a novel way to cook food while allowing the right amount of steam to escape so as to prevent boil-overs. The lid is available for purchase at Fred & Friends
Yesterday was RoboCop Day in Detroit, as the city to embrace its slide into post-apocalyptic ruin as a rebranding strategy. As we reported, a plan to unveil that long-gestating RoboCop statue was scrapped at the last minute. But as we’ve seen time and again in RoboCop, something being scrapped is no reason not to keep it alive by whatever means necessary, in order to protect your corporate interest.
With that in mind, RoboCop Day continued under the Prime Directive of marketing synergy, with the cyborg stopping by the city’s Comerica Park to throw out the first pitch at the Tigers vs. Blue Jays game. As this was all a stunt to mark the release of the RoboCop remake on DVD Blu-ray, the RoboCop who turned up was the sleek, black tactical gear-sporting model from this year’s movie, and his pitch was similarly a limp, why-bother shadow of ...
The three-finger salute which Katniss Everdeen does in The Hunger Games has become a real-life symbol of resistance to the military coup in Thailand. To the point where the ruling junta has said it may arrest people for doing it, if they're in a large group and refuse to lower their arms.
An impressive display of percussive choreography…
By Ben Richmond at Motherboard.
Yesterday Elle magazine revealed a new line of Google Glass designed by the haut-couture, one-time princess Diane von Fürstenburg. As I type this, I’ll admit that I’m not the first owner of either of the shirts that I’m wearing and I know next to nothing about DVF as a brand or person. So my opinion that her rainbow-mirror wrap-around sunglasses look like a six-year-old’s idea of cool shouldn’t count for much. But I will say that if this is how Google is trying to overcome the least of the problems with Glass—by adding a fashionable $1,620 designer line—it only exacerbates Glass’s other, much larger problems.
When Sally Ride died in 2012, her obituary noted a new fact that was widely picked up: that she was survived by her partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy. The first woman in space suddenly became a more complicated figure. Now Lynn Sherr, a journalist and friend of Ride, has created a brilliant and eye-opening biography.
The crowdfunding site Kickstarter, a resource for creative-types seeking financing for their endeavors, announced some major changes to the service Tuesday. The new rules could open the floodgates for various new projects—and potentially result in more undelivered promises.
Since its launch in 2009, Kickstarter has funded more than 63,000 projects, with more than six million backers pledging nearly $1.15 billion to date, according to the company's official statistics. Prior to the rule change, Kickstarter had been approving approximately 78 percent of new campaigns, 44 percent of which have been fully funded, reports The Verge.
The changes are aimed at simplifying the terms of service (which have been shortened from about 1,000 words to fewer than 300), allowing certain previously banned products onto the platform and streamlining the campaign approval process by enabling creators to bypass the company’s “Community Manager” facilitation requirement if they wish.
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firehoseCRITICALLY IMPORTANT SCIENCE
ZERO-G COLONIZATION IS NOW POSSIBLE
The Zero Gravity Cocktail Project is an ongoing endeavor to develop a cocktail glass suitable for use in space. The cup relies on capillary action to deliver liquid to the rim of the glass without creating a zero gravity cocktail mess. The Zero Gravity Cocktail Project is by the Cosmic Lifestyle Corporation, a design and branding company that develops products for “off-world use.” Back in 2008, NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrated some of the challenges of space beverages in this video recorded aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour
photos via Cosmic Lifestyle Corporation
firehosehttp://www.enca.com/south-africa/watch-cyclist-films-bike-jacking-3-court
'"Thorough investigation work led investigators to the suspects with the help of footage recorded with a camera which was mounted on the cyclist’s helmet. The first suspect aged 22 was arrested on Sunday at his residence in Sir Lowry’s Pass and a Luger firearm was seized. The same day another 22 year old suspect was arrested, also in Sir Lowry’s pass."
The third suspect was arrested on Monday.
Police recovered Fox’s stolen items and the three men were charged with robbery.'
Criminals robbed this man at gunpoint and left the one piece of equipment that could take them down.
There will not be a Super Bowl L as the NFL will go away from roman numerals for a year and just call it Super Bowl 50.
For nearly 45 years, the Super Bowl has been categorized with a roman numeral. That tradition will change in 2016 with the NFL announcing plans to break the roman numeral streak for Super Bowl 50. The hiatus will only last one season, however, with Super Bowl LI on tap for 2017.
While Super Bowl L doesn't have the best ring to it, the NFL said the reason for the change was to "further elevate and celebrate the historic 50th Super Bowl." The league began using roman numerals for Super Bowls in 1971 with Super Bowl V and will continue the streak this year with Super Bowl XLIX in Arizona. The move away from roman numerals will be the only major change in the logo with the Vince Lombardi trophy still being the focus. There will also be multiple regional logos, featuring notable San Francisco landmarks.
Like cursive handwriting, roman numerals are dying aspect of modern society. Switching to numerals might help bring the Super Bowl into the 21st century, but after a brief reprieve in 2016, people will once again be forced to know a roman numeral above the 12 they might see on a grandfather clock.
GET SWOLE, PREZ.
Barack Obama -- who likes to stay in shape -- is in Poland this week and he stopped by a gym to get TOTALLY SHREDDED, BRO. Check out these pics of him wailing on his bi's. Possibly.
YEAH KID. YEAH KID, OWN IT. YOU GOT THIS, BRO. FIVE MORE.
Haha more like Dwayne "BaROCK" Johnson, am I right? More like Barack Olifto.
HE'S GOT YOUR PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS TEST RIGHT HERE:
For the full video, including the Pres doing the whole "Hmmmm, where are the 45s? Psssshhhh some joker made off with the 45s. Guess I'll just warm up with the 25s. Oh well" that permeates many of our gym-going experiences, click here and thank Gawker.
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firehose'the love story that keeps the movie from disintegration is a pick-up artist fantasy that might as well have been stolen from a Reddit “forever alone” thread'
'A Million Ways to Die in the West is exactly what would happen if you met a random performer at the Hollywood Improv, fed him some coke, and told him to write a western, with all the narcissism, condescension and kneejerk misogyny that entails.'
djempiricalso many good pull quotes in this.
nope.
It’d be easy to say I regret it. I don’t. It was that or the one where Jon Hamm is some sort of rich guy holding a cell phone in front of the Taj Mahal. It was a no-win situation, and I’d rather see Seth MacFarlane ruin westerns forever than see Jon Hamm effortlessly coast through an inspirational sports movie.
The worst thing is I laughed at parts of it. That gave me pause. Just for the catharsis, I almost wanted to approach people in the parking lot and say “hey, if you were in that theater with me tonight, you observed me in a state of weakness.” I wanted to put signs on telephone poles: “I laughed at Seth MacFarlane for inside baseball reasons. It’s cool, I used to live in North Hollywood.”
Laughing at this movie is exactly like enjoying the cinematography in a porno. Even if I’m totally right to have that response, I can’t share the information with anybody. I’d need historically unprecedented interpersonal skills to pull it off without sounding like Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. “Look. I can explain. There’s a square dance scene I laughed at, because there’s this obnoxious Bill Maher cameo.” People cross the street when you say shit like that.
It’s not just that the movie is inept on a script level (it is), or that Seth MacFarlane grossly overestimated his acting chops by starring in it (he did). Depending on how upset I am with where my life ended up, those can even be selling points. The problem is the essential ugliness of the thing: this movie takes place in a moral universe entirely subservient to Seth MacFarlane’s ego.
For all the faux-humility of the “look, a western for college kids” trailer, here we have Seth MacFarlane’s cowboy complex given studio backing. For about 30 minutes, mostly in the third act, the damn thing isn’t even trying to be a comedy: it’s just MacFarlane making a western starring himself, and he shoots himself as lovingly as possible, barring a few instances of unconvincing self-deprecation.
It’s humiliating to witness. It’s humiliating on a primal level, a miscalculation caused by total social insulation. To be as needlessly charitable, it’s like when Johnny Cash thought “Chicken in Black” had chart potential before his kids sat him down and told him he needed to rethink his career. It’s dread and humiliation and despair commingling. It’s such a personal failure, such an intimate failure, that I might as well have watched a Seth MacFarlane sex tape.
It’s the same issue he’s had since he left Cartoon Network. Sure, he can be funny, but unless you’re blind drunk with four other advertising majors, every laugh is immediately followed by six or seven things you have to apologize for, and it’s just not worth it. Every decent Simpsons or Albert Brooks homage is surrounded by a parade of amoral hackery because nobody had the wherewithal to make him tone it down.
This is not to say MacFarlane isn’t skilled. He’s alright at making breezy children’s cartoons, which is what this is, but he continually wrecks it with gross-out gags that would have been unfortunate in a late ’90s Farrelly brothers movie and are beyond indefensible here. It’s not even gross-out humor done out of love for the genre. It’s gross-out humor done out of condescension. “I’m not really doing this joke – didn’t you catch that reference to Stephen Foster earlier?”
And the love story that keeps the movie from disintegration is a pick-up artist fantasy that might as well have been stolen from a Reddit “forever alone” thread. It’s the story of an antisocial “nice guy” who meets the perfect woman out of structural convenience and magic. Which might have skirted junk-comedy acceptability if the “perfect woman” wasn’t a redditor’s idea of a perfect woman – you know, a supermodel who loves whiskey and owns every Hunter S. Thompson book and would rather build her own PC than buy an Xbox. And who is Charlize Theron.
All the while, MacFarlane is so sure of his excellence that he recites lines as though he’s doing a bit about westerns. It’s easy to imagine this movie taking life at 10 p.m. at some open-mic. “Yeah man, it’s tough. I don’t even know. I watch a lot of westerns. You watch westerns? The old west is bullshit, man. Look, alright, it’s, I’m a cowboy, right, I could just die. Everything kills you in the old west. Kinda wish we could go back to that, man. Wouldn’t that be crazy?”
Which is all you need to know, really. A Million Ways to Die in the West is exactly what would happen if you met a random performer at the Hollywood Improv, fed him some coke, and told him to write a western, with all the narcissism, condescension and kneejerk misogyny that entails.
It’s tough to say why it’s bombing though. Sure, it’s horrible, but that’s not a useful metric. If I had to guess, it’s because you can see it’s a vanity project from a mile away: it’s the work of a TV mogul so surrounded by yes-men that he thinks he can star in a western. Could the movie have been fixed? No, because everything is wrong with it at once. But can Seth MacFarlane the person be salvaged from the wreckage? Maybe, if he fires his entourage and finds somebody to kick his ego back down to human levels. He’s simply gotten too famous for his own good.
Eventually the 20th Century History class at Starfleet Academy stops being a fringey elective and becomes a required course, and all the cadets are like “this is so irrelevant, why do we have to learn this” and anyone who’s been around for a while is like “there is an 812% chance that you will time travel to the 20th century during your Starfleet career”
"but the temporal prime directive"
"At the very least you will get trapped a holodeck program based on the 20th century, and you will need to know all these weird idioms"
"But why is it only the 20th - "
"We don’t know why it’s only the 20th century we have a whole corps of scientists trying to figure out what’s happening with that it seriously makes no sense but in the meantime, knowing how to work a combustion engine is pretty much guaranteed to save your life so get the hell on that."
Today is a big day for Adafruit, our community and everyone who celebrates projects & documentation! The Adafruit Learning System has 500 tutorials! Great work everyone and a special shout out to Justin & Tyler who have led the development and experience of learn.adafruit.com – outstanding work! Thank you everyone for making learn.adafruit.com a wonderful place!
What is the 500th tutorial? The Adafruit HTU21D-F Temperature & Humidity Sensor – easy and precise temp and humidity monitoring.
Make a GPS logger to map your dog’s playtime at the park or hike in the woods! This intermediate FLORA microcontroller circuit is a great first GPS project. Use conductive thread to stitch up the sewable GPS and FLORA so there’s no soldering required.
For this project you’ll need:
We’re building the circuit on the Ruffwear Single Track dog backpack.
Head over to the Adafruit Learning System for the full guide!
In the Summer 2014 issue of Whisky Advocate magazine I have two articles.
This is a rye-themed issue and it's pretty great, so you should probably just get a subscription or run out to a retail store that carries it. They don't typically put anything from the print magazine online so that's the only way to read these.
Advanced-Level Barrel Aging - Of Cocktails
Bartenders are doing some amazing things with barrel aging. In the story I cite new/cool/innovated techniques from:
Phew, that was a lot of bars to include in a one-page article.
The Rituals of Rye
Now that rye whiskey is back, what do you do with it? This story has a lot of new cocktails (like, a lot of cocktails), but I think the really interesting part is about which classic cocktails demand rye versus bourbon.
It includes recipes and/or quotes from:
Nathan Burdette of Los Angeles
Jonathan Smolensky of Canada
Vincent Toscano of Rye in San Francisco
Brad Peters of Hock Farm Craft & Provisions in Sacramento
Enzo Errico of Milk & Honey, New York City
Audrey Saunders of Pegu Club, New York City
Brian MacGregor of Wingtip, San Francisco
Chris Neustadt of Jimmy at the James Hotel in Chicago
Brian Means of Fifth Floor Restaurant, San Francisco
Anthony DeSerio of Splash restaurant in Guilford, Connecticut
Ted Kilgore of St. Louis
Andrew Freidman, Liberty, Seattle
Molly Wellmann of Japp's in Cincinnati, Ohio
Michael Callahan, Bartender-At-Large in Singapore
Abigail Gullo of SoBou in New Orleans
Tamir Benshalom, Bull Valley Roadhouse in Port Costa, California
Geof Anderson of Annunciation Restaurant in New Orleans
Ray’s and Starck Bar in Los Angeles
The Passenger in DCAudio Discotech in California
Elixir in San Francisco
Barrel in Washington DC
Pick up a copy!
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I get why a lot of people hate the whole princess culture aimed at little girls. There’s a hell of a lot of toxic bullshit in there.
But when I was a tiny princess, my dad used to be my royal advisor. He would come to me, and over tea we would discuss the problems of the kingdom. He would tell me that new people wanted to move to the kingdom, and ask me what we should do. Or he would tell me that the teddybears and the dolls were fighting over the enchanted forest, and ask me what to do. Basically, he took the trappings of the princess culture, and used it as a tool to teach me about leadership, civic responsibility, and compassion.
So if you have a little princess around, consider helping her figure out how to run her kingdom. There’s no sense in telling a kid they can’t be a leader, or that they can’t wear sparkles while they do it.
THIS IS THE BEST POST. Also A+ Dadding!
This is wonderful.
This is a fantastic idea.
This is what I’ve been trying to say about princess culture omg I love it.
Wut
nobody disillusion me by telling me this is photoshopped. I want to believe.
It’s times like these when you realize just how long Marvel’s been around and how long their main titles have been running.
tldr version: ‘solid dick’ used to be slang for straight-forward advice. So, no, that wasn’t a shop.
Now I want a fic in which Steve occasionally forgets that slang has changed and offers Sam “some solid dick” about a problem he’s having before immediately remembering what that means in 2014.
And then maybe realising some solid dick might also be a modern-day solution to said problem.
"I really pulled a boner there, didn’t I?"
I need this fic in my life.
firehoseburied lede: 'Google says it will serve parts of the city that meet unspecified signup targets, which means that some parts of Portland will likely go without Google Fiber even if the company chooses to build here.'
Sellwood and everything Clackamas appear to be likely dark spots, as there are no public spots for the huts available.
firehosevia Rosalind
epaulettes beat
_ENJOYING DAT TREND_
firehosevia Rosalind
fuck Wayne
firehoseDefining a mass shooting as four or more people murdered during an event, and a spree shooting as someone killing multiple victims in a short time in multiple locations. Guns used include weapons not used at the crime scene but found elsewhere.
22 shotguns, 23 revolvers, 29 rifles, 77 semi-automatic handguns. More than three-quarters were legally purchased.
More than half of the mass killers of the last 30 years possessed assault weapons or high- capacity magazines.
41% of shooters were 40 years old or older, and of those, 81% were 40-49; 65% were white. Two of the 70 shooters were women.
firehosevia Rosalind
clone high~
people who think being respectful and kind is a weakness
