August 2009
BREAKING: Disney to Buy Marvel for $4 Billion →
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WHO warns of severe form of swine flu →
Red Lobster - Endless Shrimp →
Endless Shrimp® Select two of your favorite shrimp preparations. When you’re ready for more, just let us know. 15.99 per person. Choose from: This special offer is available to dine-in guests only.
Teriyaki Grilled Shrimp Served over wild rice pilaf. Cajun Shrimp Tossed with spicy Cajun butter sauce and served over wild rice pilaf. Garlic Shrimp Scampi Hand-Breaded Shrimp Coconut Shrimp...
'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter →
frecklesmakemestrong:
(via squashed)
The show’s run is ending, Grant explains, because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show’s broadcast rights.
Grant says the funding crunch is partially to blame, but the decision to end Reading Rainbow can also be traced to a shift in the...
State of the Art - A Leap Forward With Snow... →
shaneguiter:
Apple’s release strategy is highly unorthodox: “Leopard, a k a Mac OS X 10.5, was already a great OS-virus-free, nag-free and not copy-protected. So instead of adding features for their own sake, let’s just make what we’ve got smaller, faster and more refined.”
What? No new features? That’s not how the industry works! Doesn’t Apple know anything?
And then there’s the price of Snow...
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david:
I’m absolutely addicted to a new Tumblr feature. It should be ready next week!
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Jesus is allergic to cats.
(via makethecall)
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“Chris Broughton, the man who brought an assault rifle and a handgun to the Obama...”
– Pastor Of Gun-Toter At Obama Event Prayed For Obama To Die | TPMMuckraker
This took place at Faithful World Baptist Church. Can you imagine the urproar this would have caused had it happened at a non-Christian church?
(via ericmortensen)
So many people I know are in denial about how much hate is...
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“There’s no room in the evangelical right wing for the arts, I mean these people...”
– Frank Schaeffer (via azspot)
Is the Loch Ness monster on Google Earth? →
(via jbishop)
Health care industry contributes heavily to Blue... →
Obama To Deliver Eulogy At Kennedy's Funeral →
Batman 3 to be filmed entirely in IMAX? →
thegreg:
This is something that I’m sure a lot of you will feel is a no-brainer. Nolan blew us away with the IMAX sequences in that film - but it was a very tough process to work in. Mainly due to the limitations of how many available real IMAX rigs there are. Not only that, but lenses had to be created, adapted and god forbid one broke down. Part of the reason that Nolan went forward with...
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the... →
azspot:
On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.
“Fox News host Glenn Beck has lost over 30 sponsors since he called President...”
– CONAN O’BRIEN, The Tonight Show
(via the NY Times, inothernews, enjoli, robot-heart-politics, fuddmain, peterwknox)
(via lizlemon)
Tweets Will Soon Come with a Dateline →
shaneguiter:
Tweets, those short messages that pack information into 140 characters, will soon include another piece of information: location.
Twitter is getting ready to unveil a new feature that will add longitude and latitude to any tweet. Individual Twitter users will have the choice to activate this feature and Twitter promises it won’t store exact location data for a long period of time.
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