“Cookin’ With Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price” All you have to know about this cookbook you can tell from the cover: yes, that is a combination burner and turntable. Inside, you’ll find recipes for “Finger-Lickin’, Rib-Stickin’, Fall-Off-the-Bone-and-into-Your-Mouth Chicken,” and “Soul Rolls” and best of all, learn how to be a “kitchen [...]
“In Washington DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about four minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that [...]
Peggy Fitzsimmons invites us to tend to our personal transformation in a poem titled, “Occupy.” “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Michigan’s Lake Superior State University lists the following words and phrases in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. The 2012 list was compiled by the university from nominations submitted from around the world. The list started as a publicity ploy by the school’s public relations [...]
What you see above is a fan-made questionnaire John Lennon filled out in 1976. It’s an interesting glimpse into what John Lennon thought about other famous people via single word association. via
“I’ve had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, ‘No! No! This wasn’t what it was supposed to be about, people!’ Then if there’s a Santa at the [...]
The late great Christopher Hitchens was an author, journalist and atheist whose works were highly intelligent, provocative, and influential. Here are some memorable quotes from a literary giant who left us recently: 1. When asked if serious illness had changed his view of the afterlife, Hitchens replied: “I would say it fractionally increases my contempt [...]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a renowned Colombian novelist, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” being one of the best known works. After being diagnosed with lymphatic cancer and faced with its worsening condition, Garcia Marquez retired from public life. This is his poignant, beautiful farewell letter…. “If for a moment God were to forget that I [...]
1. “We are the 99 percent.” — slogan of Occupy movement. 2. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid [...]
MIT’s Cognitive Machine group director Deb Roy’s TEDTalk.