life:
The Malayan Coral Snake was photographed by Mark Laita.
‘The sensual attractiveness of snakes, which coexists with their threatening, unpredictable and mysterious nature is truly unique. This dichotomy, in which their beauty seems to be heightened by their danger, and vice-versa, is what I find so fascinating. Add to these contradictions the rich symbolism of serpents and you have a wonderfully compelling subject’.
(see more here on Feature Shoot)
Ampersnake!
Videogum Joins The New Yorker In Breaking The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Movie Review Emgargo | Videogum (via lizlet)
That would do it. I’m just saying.
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I eventually decided that all the sex scenes in the books (for which I used library borrowing on my Kindle - nothing was wasted except my time) were being acted out by Xtranormal avatars. “You are very good at sex.” “Yes. I am very good at sex. My numerous sex partners have all said so.”
Cornflake Crunch
Exactly what it sounds like: roasted cornflakes! Seasoned with milk powder, sugar, and salt - and browned with just enough butter to hold it all together.
I made this to use as a component in Cornflake-Chocolate-Chip-Marshmallow Cookies. Thank God that recipe only calls for 3/4 of a recipe of Cornflake Crunch, since I couldn’t stop myself from snacking. This is just SO. DAMN. GOOD. that Christina Tosi’s cookbook intro is worth repeating in full: This recipe was originally created to accompany the Cereal Milk Panna Cotta. It was one of those first-swing, home-run hits. It is incredibly simple to make and equally as versatile in its uses. Put some in a plastic bag and take it on the go as the best snack ever, or use it as an ingredient in the recipes to follow.
Make this for no reason, and eat it because it will make your mouth do a happy dance. Trust me.
Issue 1: I’m famously bad at reading recipes. In fact, the first time I cooked The Husband* a fancy meal, I found myself accidentally cooking a sous vide pork tenderloin in saran wrap tied up with fringe from a blanket. So when I saw that Cornflake-Chocolate-Chip-Marshmallow cookies called for less than a full recipe of Cornflake Crunch, I instinctively proceeded to make a half-recipe. Only after I’d started on the cookies did I realize I needed 3/4 of a batch and threw together a second half-recipe. (Which was good, since I was worried about how cookie proportions would have been affected by my snacking at that point.)
Variation From Recipe: None. Replicated with fidelity.
Verdict: Love it!* The Husband was merely The New Boyfriend at the time.
We need you two to live closer to us. We don’t judge.
The “Ice Cream of the Future” Goes the Way of Solyndra - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine (via tbridge)
Will the ice cream of the future be relegated to history?
I will set up a tumblr where I only follow people with beards, black-framed glasses, and red plaid shirts. That ought to narrow it down.
Stubble (usually), silver-framed glasses with tortoise temples, and I don’t own any red plaid shirts. Are you sure you want to follow me?
Why Don’t Android Phones Get Updated?
It appears to be a widely held viewpoint3 that there’s no incentive for smartphone manufacturers to update the OS: because manufacturers don’t make any money after the hardware sale, they want you to buy another phone as soon as possible. If that’s really the case, the phone manufacturers are spectacularly dumb: ignoring the 2 year contract cycle & abandoning your users isn’t going to engender much loyalty when they do buy a new phone. Further, it’s been fairly well established that Apple also really only makes money from hardware sales, and yet their long term update support is excellent (see chart).In other words, Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one, whereas apparently Android phone makers think they can get you to buy a new phone by making you really unhappy with your current one. Then again, all of this may be ascribing motives and intent where none exist - it’s entirely possible that the root cause of the problem is just flat-out bad management (and/or the aforementioned spectacular dumbness).
This is damning of the entire Android ecosystem. Whether by intent or accident the people in charge of it have made the platform into something whose biggest value is in not being the iPhone (the previous advantage of not being AT&T [at least in the case of the Droid] having been erased by the launch of the Verizon, and now Sprint, iPhone 4 and 4S). Android’s carriers and manufacturers have taken out one perceived drawback which is, in fact, a great advantage on the iPhone platform. Apple’s nature makes the platform stable for users and developers, and aside from periodic griping about App Store policies (a lack of transparency on rules, the 30% cut) the marketplace is larger and healthier than the Android marketplace will ever be, and this distinction will only increase over time. What’s better for users is better for developers, and vice versa, as app store demand increases app supply, and vice versa.
Go read the whole thing. It has an awesome chart.
BBC News - Drunk Swedish elk found in apple tree near Gothenburg
Man, this elk is going to be so embarrassed the next time it looks for a job.
(A) in a radio market with 45 or more commercial radio stations, a party may own, operate, or control up to 8 commercial radio stations, not more than 5 of which are in the same service (AM or FM) [and must play Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” on every single one of them 10-15 times a day.]
Ok, I can’t prove that. I don’t hate the song, just…enough already.
In Oklahoma the joke was that at any hour of the day you could find Led Zeppelin on the radio. I believe this is still true.
But! I worked at a music/video/etc “superstore” for a while and we would get radio playlists. I remember when “Ants Marching” and “You Oughta Know” were driving me mad I looked and they each clocked in at 47 plays a week, or every three and a half hours on average, also known as morning commute, lunch, evening commute, and times I didn’t have the radio on.
(Source: cell-out.org)
Without even going into the ridiculousness of bottle service ($300 for Bacardi?) there’s much to consider here.
My favorite line item is the single bottle of complimentary Champagne. Because the 30L $100,000 Midas bottle, the 27 other bottles of Champagne (two of which appear to have been magnums), and the three splits weren’t quite enough.
I should also note that I’ve had the complimentary champagne at an MGM resort. It wasn’t good.
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