BEST. NEWSPAPER. HEADLINE. EVER. (via Local papers are brilliant - The Media Blog)
THE GETAWAY CAR WAS A HARE.
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My Mother’s Nectarine Chutney
Nectarine Chutney
4 to 5 fresh nectarines
1 packed cup of light brown sugar
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/2 half cup each of golden and dark (regular) raisins
1/2 cup unpeeled lemon, very thinly sliced
1 clove of minced garlic
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp cayenne pwd.
2 1/2 TLBS chopped crystallized ginger
Pit and dice nectarines
Bring sugar and vinegar to a boil and dissolve sugar, add all other ingredients. Reduce to simmer and cook until fruit is soft (just a few minutes).
Cover and let cool, keep in jar in refrigerator.
npr:
The recent photographs of the Northern Lights have been wonderful, but this video of the Northern Lights in motion is extraordinary. -Savy
Northern Lights over Norwegian Laplands
JETTY BLUE Adelie penguins leap into the water from a blue iceberg on Paulet Island, Antarctica. (Photo: Steve Bloom Images / Barcroft Media via the Telegraph)
npr:
I came across this incredible virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel today. It’s from 2010 and presents an amazing (and tourist free) look inside the building.
To create the 365-degree view, a team from Villanova University was given unprecedented access to the chapel over five nights to compile the necessary images. According to the university’s press release, “several thousand photographs were taken with an advances motorize camera right and then digitally stitched together”. The result is a stunning high-resolution tour of one of the world’s most famous buildings.
The building was consecrated on August 15, 1483 and named after Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere. It wasn’t until 1508, however, that Michelangoelo was tasked with painting the now famous ceiling. According to the Vatican’s website, he finished it in 1512.
Take some time and discover this amazing piece of history.
—Savy
Oh no! Sad to hear I love Etta and loved to dance to her music.
I remember seeing her at Yoshi’s with friends and she was trying to get the crowd up to dance and no one would. I tried too but everyone sat there like blobs.
npr:
NPR’s All Tech Considered blog examines the strategy behind winning Words With Friends.
As the point spread exceeded 100 points, it made me think: Is there more to Words With Friends than the ability to string words together with letter tiles? Turns out, there definitely is. After browsing YouTube, I came across several strategy videos by William Spaniel, a political science doctoral student at the University of Rochester who studies game theory. He also authored Game Theory 101: The Basics.
One of his big tips: Think about trying to limit how many points your opponent scores on you.
“When you play random games against players, you see a huge separation between bad players and average players,” he says.
The bad players, he says, aim to make the longest words and score a lot of points. But better players try to restrict their opponent’s access to big-money bonus spaces, particularly triple letter and triple word score spots.
“If you make a bad mistake about that, that can be the end of the game right there,” he says. In one of his YouTube videos, he says that 80 percent of the game revolves around the triple letter and triple word spots — and the spaces connecting them. —Whitney Blair Wyckoff
The Russ & Daughters Classic bagel and lox: hand-sliced Gaspe Nova smoked salmon, with all-natural cream cheese, on a traditional hand-rolled water-boiled bagel.
(It’s okay to eat it in the shop, while you wait for the rest of your order at the counter, just like this customer is doing right now!)
Want right now!
