Andrew C (✓)

"A recent study has found that the price of low- and mid-range beers has been climbing at U.S. bars and restaurants. And the guy who oversaw the study for Massachusetts-based research firm Restaurant Sciences said he thinks the popularity of Pabst Blue Ribbon could be the cause. "While all the attention has been on craft beers, the price of mainstay brands in the mid-price tier have risen more dramatically," Research Sciences President Chuck Ellis said." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

This sausage is really great on its own. Pickled daikon and carrots and hoisin sauce are excellent to accompany it with though. - Andrew C (✓)

"For our latest mission, we converted a New York City subway car into a late night talk show set. Host Pat Cassels (CollegeHumor) interviewed random commuters from his desk as bandleader Evan Gregory (The Gregory Brothers) kept the car rocking." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

We did something like that in the early '90s only it was converting a BART car to a Vegas show lounge. - Spidra Webster

[In an April 28, 2011 statement while he was a Senate candidate,] ""Rev. [Charles Wallace] Smith must not have understood the 3/5ths clause was an anti-slavery amendment. Its purpose was to limit the voting power of slave holding states," Jackson, an African-American, [and the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia] said in his statement. This is a deeply misleading telling of American constitutional history." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"The clause was demanded by Southern proponents of slavery as a way of enhancing their congressional representation. They wanted slaves to be counted as full persons but settled on three-fifths. People of African descent would have had no real rights either way. The inclusion of the clause greatly enhanced the South's political power and made it harder to abolish slavery. The clause was effectively eliminated after the Civil War by the Thirteenth Amendment." - Andrew C (✓)

The Harold is widely regarded as the foundation of long form scenic style improv. [...] Despite its vast influence on contemporary performance the Harold has been largely ignored by the scholarly community and thusly pushed to the margins. Therefore, this study will tell the story of the Harold, beginning with the development of improvisational theatre and the tensions and evolutions that led to the Harold's creation at iO, up to its use in contemporary comedic filmmaking. Furthermore, I will be examining the ways in which the Harold has helped transform American comedy by reshaping it to follow the principles and philosophy of the Harold." - Andrew C (✓)

Petraeus is a grade A asshole. - Andrew C (✓) from Android

I like this, "many Washington think tanks effectively serve as unregistered lobbyists". I've been unable to really articulate why I don't give credence to think-tanks. I think they're a shell game. It's a holding place for people wait out scandals, non-competes and other laws before moving on. I don't think all lobbyists are bad, but there should be transparency in how money affecting votes is flowing. - Anika

I call it social anxiety aka Sweat Time. >.< - Anika

this. this is where I live. - t-ra: not givin up

"Xbox Juan" - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Ferrero, SpA, maker of the hazelnut spread Nutella, has sent superfan Sara Rosso a cease-and-decist order to shut down her self-organized "World Nutella Day," a virally-marketed orgy of brand worship and product consumption that one could imagine prancing nymphlike through the nocturnal fantasies of marketing executives around the globe." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Ferrero are dumbasses. - Hieronymous Boosh

I guess they're not dead yet. - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

in picture: "Now first of all I realize my sign is hung with masking tape. IT IS DIFFERENT MASKING TAPE, I am looking for the exact roll pictured above." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Relentless is a sports self-help/inspirational book by famed athletic trainer Tim Grover that reads like it was written by the love child of Gordon Gekko, Ayn Rand, and Sonny Vaccaro. Imagine The Onion doing a parody of an ultra-sociopathic Michael Jordan with the constant roar of the author swinging his dick like a helicopter rotor in the background and you have Relentless." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Fair enough! - Andrew C (✓)

"Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma voted against the Hurricane Sandy relief package, arguing at the time that the bill was a "slush fund." But on MSNBC this morning he suggested that he would support disaster aid for Oklahoma, because that process will be "totally different."" - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"The Sandy bill, he said, was unnecessarily expansive. [...] But "that won't happen in Oklahoma," he said, not specifying why he was so sure." - Andrew C (✓)

"Mr. Inhofe's Oklahoma colleague, Senator Tom Coburn, who also voted against Sandy relief, seemed more sensitive to possible allegations of hypocrisy. He stressed that he would "absolutely" demand budget cuts to offset federal assistance. Of course he also promised that "any and all available aid will be delivered without delay." That's exactly as it should be. Residents of New York and New Jersey, however, certainly did not get that treatment. They had to wait out months of Republican obstruction."" - Andrew C (✓)

"The camera can also capture video at 60 frames per second for two-way services like Skype--but more impressive still are the Kinect's tracking capabilities. It's now so sensitive that it can measure your pulse by monitoring pigmentation change in your face. (It's partially done via infrared light, which means it works regardless of skin tone.)" - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet