"The Japanese, in their unending quest to make the awesomest stuff on the planet (minus robots), are manufacturing blue beer made from melted icebergs (take that you Titanic sinking bitch!). And, not to toot my own horn or anything, but I have already had colored beer on St. Patty's day before. It made my throw up green!"
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
"It’s no surprise that in this digital age corporations are actively engaging their customer base through social media. I can list hundreds of companies who successfully quote on quote “get it“. I thought I would focus on one, Dairy Queen. — Dairy Queen, for those of you who are not familiar with the brand, is an ice cream company at heart. They have been around since 1940, and have established themselves as the leader in the soft serve and fast food restaurant industry. Fast forward 70 years, 5,600 + domestic store locations, and internationally are in more than 20 countries, the brand is a well recognized icon all over the globe. Dairy Queen by nature is a very social brand. Like many other major corporations they rely on and still use traditional media for advertising. In 2008 that all changed. They embarked in the world of social media and never looked back, thanks to my predecessor, Adam Singer, former Director of Digital Strategy at Pierson Grant PR, where I currently work. Adam...
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- Amani
from Bookmarklet
"Spring is upon us and I am so excited about my new book Sips & Apps that is just out this month! I hope it will become your go-to handbook for creative cocktails, inspired classics, and timeless appetizers. It features more than 100 recipes--69 cocktails and 35 appetizers, along with more than 60 beautiful photos by the talented Angie Norwood Browne. Over the years, I have incorporated much of the kitchen into my creative potions. Everything from vodka infused with honeycomb (garnishing the drink with bee pollen) or beets (serving the martini with a caviar-topped blini on the side), to muddled cucumbers, to tropical fruit (in abundance), to my favorite ingredient category: herbs, which have finally moved into a multitude of upscale bars. It was so fun to finally put all my favorite cocktail recipes into a book, with a tasty selection of apps to accompany them, of course--for every sip needs an app! One of my favorite drinks in the book incorporates one of my favorite herbs. Today’s cocktail stars rosem"
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Lucky for me I have Limoncello I made a year ago. Delicious and makes me long for a hot summer day
- Kathryn Martyn
Carbohydrate foods that break down quickly during digestion have higher glycemic rankings. These foods may help you fall asleep in half the usual time if you eat them within 4 hours of bedtime by speeding up the release of tryptophan and serotonin, brain chemicals that promote sleep.
- Cee Bee
Not clicking through all the images, but was pasta in there? Spaghetti knocks me out. (Normally. It's not really working tonight. Perhaps the yoga I did is counteracting it.) I guess it's closely related to bread.
- Kamilah Gill
Am I the only person who hates the term "surfing" in respect to web browsing?
- Gabe
@Gabe, I don't particularly hate the term surfing, but I do think it's rather dated and Nintiesish.
- Christian (Simply X)
It's true: I used IE to dl first three versions of Firefox, but ditched it due to bloatiness. Now I'm back to IE and Chrome.
- Jemm
you can try to pry ie from my dead cold hands :(
- chaz2b
streaming netflix movies 90% downloading chrome 10%
- David Lynch
So, if were to somehow magically find a copy of Windows without IE, install it on a virgin computer, how do I get "the first" browser in there without a browser? I have to go to Babbage's and buy a Firefox 3.5" ?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, USB stick containing the Firefox installer.
- AJ Batac
AJ: What do you do when you configure a machine remotely?
- Gabe
If you can access the machine remotely, you can open up a folder (share) so you can dump in your Firefox installer.
- AJ Batac
I try and avoid using IE whenever possible If I go to someones house or to another computer, I bring my usb drive and use portable Opera or Firefox. I hate Internet Explorer. I refuse to use it. At least at my school they let you use IE or Firefox
- Patrick
from twhirl
@David Lynch You don't need IE to use Netlfix Watch Instantly. So stop using it! ;o)
- Paul Reynolds
IE8 is a much improved version, although Firefox is still milesahead imo
- Nicholas James
The one place where sadly I have to use IE, is with home grown enterprise apps that my company makes for getting at the databases, HR filings, etc. They mostly work Firefox, but when they don't hours of work can be wiped out :(
- Matthew DeVries
If somehow IE disappeared from your Windows computer, there's always "ftp ftp.mozilla.org" from the command line :)
- Victor Ganata
They forgot "testing code for the people too clueless to switch to something else." That's the only time I use it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
@Matthew but then it wouldn't be FriendFeed :) ...seriously, comment ranking would allow more compact commenting because instead of dedicating a line each for "+1 whoever" (and typing it) you could just click an arrow-up or something and a score would appear next to it. If ya want, mouse-over the score to see who upped it. Let's make the web easier to use.
- Glenn Batuyong
I use it to test for clueless people and, sigh, Quickbooks ONLINE. Yep, I have to keep VMWare Fusion/XP/IE handy so I can use a web app. It's almost criminal.
- Paul Reynolds
Have you seen Hacker News? I love their ranking implementation :)
- AJ Batac
Glenn and thus killing the social website and making it a popularity website. It's just for finding out what your trusted followers think is interesting, not for building popularity through the coolness of your posts.
- Matthew DeVries
I am force fed IE @ work for enterprise apps. We might as well be using command line database software, IE only apps make me sick.
- Pete Delucchi
I don't even use IE to download Firefox, I use Firefox to download Firefox for other computers. Use a flash drive and use a portable version of Firefox.
- Patrick
from twhirl
These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates. Below we compiled a list with over 100 download sites that serve that purpose.
- Tamar Weinberg
from Bookmarklet
"It seems like everyone I know is taking fish oil, including my sister, my father-in-law, and even his aging arthritic miniature-dachshund. It apparently works wonders—even for dogs. I've been told many times that I should think about taking them, but with an elegant dish like this one that takes so little time, why not go straight to the source?"
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
unfortunately the problem is that tuna can have a lot of mercury in it, whereas they make sure there isn't mercury in most fish oil supplements. http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs...
- Laura Norvig
"The 15 add-ons we’ve gathered below for Firefox will help with everything from navigation to uploading, accessing Flickr in countries that block the service, and much more. Take a look and you’re bound to find an extension to enhance your Flickr experience."
- Seth Greenblatt
OK, I realise I won’t have whetted your appetite with this week’s subject. Meatballs are the stuff of revolting school dinners and bad airline food, a creation so scorned they are the subject of rude ditties sung at the back of the coach on geography field trips. But these spheres of seasoned meat, carefully mixed and formed by hand, provide some of the most soothing dishes in the world. And they reach right round the globe, from India and Iran to Scandinavia. Britain must be the only country that doesn’t honour them.
- BeeLing
from Bookmarklet
Is it just me, or do people always start posting really nummy looking food about an hour before I get to go to lunch? I probably just notice it then.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
"Pizza Clippers… Shear genius. It’s hard to improve the pizza eating experience - but this thing does. Cut and serve piping hot pizza slices without the stringy cheesy messy-ness. Sharp serrated stainless steel scissor blades with a built-in wedge-shaped spatula. Prevents damage to pans and serving dishes."
- Admiral Anika
from Bookmarklet
But isn't the stringy-cheesy-messy-ness part of the fun? :) This is actually a really good idea, though. But I think it would feel weird to cut pizza with scissors at first.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Did you know pizza isn't supposed to be cut/sliced? You are supposed to fold your pizza in 4 and eat it like that (but I think USA pizze are too big to be consumed like that) :-)
- Andre
"scientist have been developing amazing variants of vegetables and fruits which are said to taste the same as the normal varieties, but in return make our food more colorful"
- Melissa Maskevich
from Bookmarklet