When you and your sloppy superstar pals go your “Separate Ways,” a new campaign for Bar Aurora & Boteco Ferraz might save your life.
KARAOKE BREATHALYZER STOPS DRUNK DRIVING WHILE ENABLING YOUR JOURNEY
“The origins of the taco are really unknown. My theory is that it dates from the 18th century and the silver mines in Mexico, because in those mines the word “taco” referred to the little charges they would use to excavate the ore. These were pieces of paper that they would wrap around gunpowder and insert into the holes they carved in the rock face. When you think about it, a chicken taquito with a good hot sauce is really a lot like a stick of dynamite. The first references [to the taco] in any sort of archive or dictionary come from the end of the 19th century. And one of the first types of tacos described is called tacos de minero—miner’s tacos. So the taco is not necessarily this age-old cultural expression; it’s not a food that goes back to time immemorial.”
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, professor of history at the University of Minnesota
Where Did The Taco Come From? Full story | Smithsonian Magazine(via)
Amy Poehler does this sketch with Scott Aukerman on the Comedy Bang Bang TV adaptation (premieres June 8th on IFC), and it’s a sign of a lot of funny things to come from the show.
Criminally Dumb Criminal of the Day: A Disney Cruise employee named Nelson has become internet infamous after allegedly stealing a passenger’s iPhone and using it to take several photos. Thanks to Apple’s Photo Stream feature, the owner of the phone was able to grab Nelson’s snaps of himself, his friends and his girlfriend and upload them to her Facebook account.
“This is Nelson,” she wrote next to one photo. “Nelson stole my iPhone.”
While it hasn’t been proven that this man actually took the phone and then foolishly failed to delete the owner’s account before using it as his own, things certainly don’t look good.
“I have alerted the officials of the Disney Cruiseline and forwarded them the photos. Hopefully I’ll get my phone back and maybe some free passes to Disneyland,” wrote the alleged theft victim.
Disney has yet to comment on the incident.
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Faye Dunaway
Marilyn Monroe
Rita Hayworth
Beverly Hills Hotel marks 100 years: Still billed as a discreet retreat for stars, the hotel is at the center of Hollywood’s concept of itself. And like the celebrities it serves, it has a public face and a private one.
Photos, clockwise from top: (1) Faye Dunaway. Credit: Terry O’Neill / Getty Images. (2) Rita Hayworth. Credit: Hulton Archive / Getty Images. (3) Marilyn Monroe. Credit: Beverly Hills Collection
Russell Westbrook owns the best play of the 2012 playoffs. This steal and ridiculous “and 1” against the Lakers in game 5 rocked the home crowd in OKC and, judging from their faces, completely deflated the Lakers.
For the next 4 minutes the Thunder go on a 13-7 run to end the 3rd quarter setting up more of the same in the 4th.
Does Bigfoot really exist? Scientists turn to DNA for the answer
Scientists ask collectors and enthusiasts to send their alleged Bigfoot genetic samples for testing.
David Beckham plays Beethoven for Samsung Galaxy -
Samsung’s Olympic Games Ambassador David Beckham displays precise footwork with a 15-foot wall of drums, the GALAXY Note
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Gottschall’s encouraging thesis is that human beings are natural storytellers—that they can’t help telling stories, and that they turn things that aren’t really stories into stories because they like narratives so much. Everything—faith, science, love—needs a story for people to find it plausible. No story, no sale.
Do entertaining stories make us more ethical? “The only way to find out is to do the science,” Gottschall says, reasonably enough, and then announces that “the constant firing of our neurons in response to fictional stimuli strengthens and refines the neural pathways that lead to skillful navigation of life’s problems” and that the studies show that therefore people who read a lot of novels have better social and empathetic abilities, are more skillful navigators, than those who don’t.
Good scientific theories are always startling, too. The narrative excitement of the great scientific theories, far from residing in their reassuring simplicity, lies in their similarly radical exclusions, their shocks: Everything in the whole universe is instantly attracting everything else! Everything! The big earth is dully pulling the apple and the apple is pluckily pulling on the earth.
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– Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker (via myserendipities)
Trailer: The Great Gatsby – Dec 25th
Directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Amitabh Bachchan, and Isla Fisher.
This might not be the Gatsby you remember from high school english class, but it’s surely the Baz Luhrmann you’ll remember from Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet. This spot is equally as stylized as those and relies just as much on modern, popular music, but there’s some undeniable je ne sais quoi that sells it. Though I expect the stylization to be turn off to many.
(via Cinema Blend)
