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Tis no man tis a remorseless eating machine
“It wasn’t the second helping on all-you-can-eat, but the third“ an executive explained. After losing $3.3 million in seven weeks during a 2003 all you can eat crab leg offer, Red Lobster makes the same mistake in 2024. By turning $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp into a permanent menu item, the chain suffers a further $11 million loss. “We have to be more careful,” an executive noted.
Klimt recreated through photography
Golden Klimt In 2015, on the occasion of the 23rd edition of the Life Ball in Vienna, photographer Inge Prader took incredible shots in tribute to the Golden Cycle of the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt using fashion models.
Further Debate Required
Fellow MeFites, a grave injustice to the categorization of sandwiches has been perpetrated by the site Rotating Sandwiches.
You say Potato, I say Tomato
The tomato took a circuitous route to becoming the most popular garden plant in the United States. Originally cultivated in South and Central America 7000 years ago, the tomato quickly spread throughout the world by the 16th century.
Not 100% Sure Ball Is In Rectum
No Claws for Concern
Playing Deadliest Catch: The Game on medical speed. A newly-diagnosed ADHD patient describes writing on a deadline with new meds. Come for the fantastic advertisement of just how great appropriate mental health treatment can be, but stay for the Bon Jovi theme running throughout.
Juke
Southern University’s Human Jukebox is your favorite marching band’s favorite marching band. The sight of the sound of the Human Jukebox [YT Channel] is something else. It is home, something visible even in the dark of a buggy Louisiana night that doesn’t want to let the moon shine.
When the Levee Breaks
National treasure Spencer Hall's annual musings on college football. This year covering Hurricane Harvey, life amid racism, isolation within the crowd, and "an Ivy League bankruptcy case from Queens."
Probably the worst day in history
Computer models date ancient catastrophe Recent analysis of carvings from the Vulture Stone may indicate ancient astronomers in modern Turkey recording a strike by comet fragments. The strikes likely induced a mini-ice age. The symbol of a headless man may symbolize great loss of life.
More information on the Gobekli Tepe archaeological site.
A Sinful Waste of Time
Today is the 75th Anniversary of the NY Times crossword puzzle. To celebrate, the Times have posted a brief history of the puzzle. Also, celebrity solvers are pairing with experienced creators to produce some celebratory puzzles. Today's was by Jesse Eisenberg. Currently the first month of subscription is free on several digital platforms here. So brush up on the difference between eyelets and aglets, memorize your four letter Middle Eastern ports, and waste some time...sinfully.
One note spelled L I T E
In these troubled times, sometimes a ray of joy can enter your life. Here's an unfortunately brief clip of 6500 British children singing Birdhouse in Your Soul. slyt
Poor Willard
The concept is simple: rat birth control The rat’s primary survival skill, as a species, is its unnerving rate of reproduction. Female rats ovulate every four days, copulate dozens of times a day and remain fertile until they die. (Like humans, they have sex for pleasure as well as for procreation.) This is how you go from two to 15,000 in a single year. When poison or traps thin out a population, they mate faster until their numbers regenerate. Conversely, if you can keep them from mating, colonies collapse in weeks and do not rebound.
When darkness falls and pain is all around.
Sail on, Silver Girl: Playa Elvis delivers Bridge Over Troubled Waters. (SLYT)
Spencer Hall's Annual Mulling on College Football
Spencer Hall's Annual Mulling on College Football On the eve of the true first Saturday of NCAA football, Spencer Hall of Every Day Should Be Saturday publishes a slightly deeper essay than the rest of the season's football japery. This year touches on Americanism, violence, race, and bison. Yeah, bison.
Cross that bridge when you come to it
Gephyrophobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by a fear of bridges. No not those bridges. If you suffer from this disorder (as I do) you may not want to read this list of bridge collapses. You may also not want to read that the US Department of Transportation rates 1 out of 9 bridges in the country as deficient. Even worse, here's an awesome interactive map showing your local bridge evaluation scores from the USDOT.
You coulda been getting down to this sick beat
A fan created video combining the far superior and punk-as-fuck Screaming Females cover of Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with the original video. The cover was part of the sometimes amusing, often surprising AV Undercover series.
Water, Water, Everywhere
NASA posits a larger amount of water in the solar system and beyond. With the recent hypothesis (trigger: bad science) that extra terrestrials might be quite large, how long do we have until the Space Whales come for us? Discuss.
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