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Brodeur to announce retirement
PaulahmartinI AM SHOCKED
Snowrollers
E-Cigarettes Can Churn Out High Levels Of Formaldehyde
PaulahmartinI'm sure that's good.
Unexpectedly high levels of the cancer-causing chemical were found in an analysis of the vapor from e-cigarettes, researchers say.
Think About it, People!
PaulahmartinI don't know why I share these things with you. Probably because I kind of miss hearing things like this on a daily basis at my last job.
Aziz Ansari Piles on the Criticism for Rupert Murdoch
PaulahmartinAzis Ansari is awesome. It's the perfect response.
It seems that Spiderman is happy to see me.
PaulahmartinJust bad design
Great Job, Internet!: Real people are referring to sandwiches as “homemade Subway” now
In a move that’s either astoundingly stupid or one of those “Kanye fans don’t know who Paul McCartney is” pranks, Buzzfeed is reporting that regular people are now referring to plain old sandwiches as “homemade Subway.” The site compiled a bunch of tweets from actual people who post pictures of their sad-looking “homemade Subway” sandwiches, some of which are just on regular sliced bread, not even fancy sub-style rolls. They even come with chips, just like the classic restaurant style combo—albeit chips that are just hasily poured on a plate and not served in their own individual bag. What, are we some sort of animals now?
Thx Luv for my homemade subway sandwich it made me feel a lil better #sickdays #someonelovesyou pic.twitter.com/FFc9wAsmrk
— JDBR* (@Jrobin08) November 23, 2014
Homemade subway.. by chef eiz.. #chickenslice pic.twitter.com/wcnQxjiSNO
— Hariz Hassim (@jawa_nation) October 26, 2014 ...
Cardinal Raymond Burke: ‘Feminized’ church and altar girls caused priest shortage
PaulahmartinYeah, I think that's why.
The plunging price of crude oil is NOT due to fracking
The graph above, from last month, is already outdated; CNBC is reporting this morning that the price of crude is now below $50 per barrel.
Certain special interest groups are attributing this fall to the shale oil production derived from fracking in the United States. It's not that simple:
The cause of the fall, by $40 a barrel, in petroleum prices since last summer is almost completely on the demand side. Asian economies, especially China, are dramatically slowing, and won’t be requiring as much petroleum to fuel trucks, trains and cars to deliver people and goods around the country. Most petroleum is used to fuel transport...
US journalists seem to feel it obligatory to mention US shale oil production as a contributor to the price fall, since prices are a matter of supply and demand, and US supply has increased by a couple million barrels a day. But frankly that is a minor increase in world terms– global production is roughly 90 million barrels a day. Between Iran, Iraq (Kirkuk), Libya and Syria, enough oil has gone out of production to more than offset the additional American oil. It isn’t that there is more oil being pumped, it is that the world doesn’t want it as much because of cooling economies.
Microwave Privileges: Revoked
PaulahmartinI guess it's not just at my work.
CNN Wanted to Start a Roundtable Discussion About Cops and Public Relations. Let's See How Poorly That Went.
Who Wouldn't Want to Eat at a Restaurant Like That?
PaulahmartinThis is one of my favorite restaurant reviews.
Now We Know Where He REALLY Stands
Jose Canseco Has an Impromptu Twitter Garage Sale
PaulahmartinI am going to follow him, or at least check in from time to time.
Newswire: Jon Hamm, Rashida Jones, and Rob Lowe all returning to Parks And Recreation
PaulahmartinI can't wait for this season.
We’ll be seeing more of Jon Hamm’s Ed, the most incompetent person Leslie Knope ever worked with, in the seventh and final season of Parks And Recreation. Hamm appeared in the last minute of season six’s final episode, got fired, and thanked Leslie for “the literally hundreds of opportunities” she gave him. “Goodbye, everyone!” he said cheerfully. “It’s been a great three years.”
According to showrunner Mike Schur, flashbacks to those three years will reveal what Leslie meant when she said Ed is more incompetent than even Terry (Larry Gergich, nee Jerry). “If I have my way, every episode where you see events that take place before that moment will include a shot of him doing something insanely incompetent,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
Meanwhile, TV Line also reports that Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe will be returning to their roles as Ann and Chris, who left ...
Great Job, Internet!: Someone recreated the entirety of Final Fantasy VII in LittleBigPlanet
Two years ago, Jamie Colliver started using LittleBigPlanet 2’s adorable and versatile game creation tools to recreate the widely beloved role-playing game Final Fantasy VII. He wasn’t going to stop at just a few key scenes, like the death of Aeris or that weird snowboarding interlude. No, he set out to remake Square Enix’s seminal RPG from start to finish—dialogue, music, boss battles, that half-hour-long Knights Of The Round summoning animation, and all. Two years later and just in time for the release of LittleBigPlanet 3, Colliver has completed his giant-polygons-to-digital-burlap conversion.
If you have LittleBigPlanet 2 or 3 on hand, you can play through all 30 of Colliver’s Final Fantasy VII levels for yourself. For those without the games or who want a peek at his handiwork, Colliver has created a convenient YouTube playlist walking through his entire recreation. The levels are your typical ...
Toyota to launch hydrogen-powered car
PaulahmartinIt is cool that consumers somewhere can get this.
Jose Canseco Has Some... Interesting Ideas About Space Travel
Block & Tackle: The sweet stupidity of the first-down measurement
Measure for pleasure
The dumbest thing the officials do is measure for a first down. To begin with, the device they use for this routine is laughable, a 10-yard chain with panicky orange pennants on either end. It looks like it ought to be guarding hazards on an aircraft carrier. Instead, it tells grown men how far to run on a lawn. On a close first-down call, the refs trot out this Wallace and Gromit contraption and line it up near the ball. Sometimes they lean down for the exactitude of a closer, squinting look, similar to the process used to detect the Higgs boson.
The funniest part is, the pigskin technicians are assessing a spot determined by a guy who tried to keep track of the ball while a couple dozen other guys careened around the field like a bunch of Higgs bosons. Don’t get me wrong, NFL ...
"Series of Tubes" is No Longer the Dumbest Thing Anyone Has Said About the Internet, Thanks to Ted Cruz
For those of you unfamiliar with the hot button issue of Net Neutrality: Lawmakers, cable companies, and media groups are arguing about whether the internet should be classified by the FCC as a utility (like electricity) or a telecommunications service (like your cable television). If cable companies like Comcast had their way they would prefer the latter, and your internet would look an awful lot like premium cable - complete with certain sites or services that had to be "bought into." Thus why the rest of the internet is saying "NO THANKS PLEASE" to the rest and calling for Net Neutrality.
But really, Ted Cruz gets to the heart of the matter, because clearly an open internet where businesses are on an equal footing to compete with one another is the socialist Obama-geddon of the internet as we know it.
Submitted by: (via Ted Cruz)
Nah, I'd Rather Have the Vaccine for the Disease I'll Never Get
McKendree rec complex proposed for O'Fallon, Ill.
PaulahmartinI hope this gets finished while I'm still here.