It's the season for Easter candy, and the season for the many ways people have altered Easter candies for either flavor or internet points. I once wrote a list of weird ways to enjoy Cadbury Creme Eggs, but now there's a new one-setting them on fire!
As with any other cloying confection (and eggs in general), the best course of action is to set it on fire. The char and caramelization gives your tongue something to explore besides straight up sugar, which is fun. Thanks to the fondant filling and the melt-prone milk chocolate, a torched creme egg has major s’mores vibes. Put it on a graham cracker and be happy.
So what you end up with is a sort of Easter-themed s'more, which not only sounds delicious, but gets you in the mindset for summer campfires. But there's some tricks involved, so get the complete instructions at Lifehacker.
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In anticipation for the full release of the remake for Final Fantasy VII, a demo version has been released on the Playstation. If you are a big FFVII fan, quench the anticipation with the free demo version on the Playstation store! Fans were stoked to find out that the demo has been released, and some were even more excited for the full version of the game. With its stunning visuals and nostalgic gameplay, Final Fantasy VII Remake is one of the most anticipated games this year
We've just released the free #FinalFantasy VII Remake demo on PlayStation Store.
— FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE (@finalfantasyvii) March 2, 2020
What are you waiting for? Download it now and experience the beginning of the story for yourself! #FF7R
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The World Health Organization has joined Tiktok to stop misinformation about coronavirus. People have shared false information through various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok. WHO decided to join Tiktok to provide reliable and public health advice. USA Today has the details:
“We are joining @tiktok to provide you with reliable and timely public health advice! Our first post: How to protect yourself from #coronavirus,” the public safety organization wrote in its first post on the platform.
Allegranzi tells viewers to wash their hands, cough and sneeze into their elbows and avoid close contact with sick people. WHO previously announced social media efforts to combat what it calls an "infodemic" or "an over-abundance of information ... that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it."
The organization uploaded a second video over the weekend explaining how to properly wear a respiratory mask. The agency doesn't advise most people to go out and buy them.
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Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is one of the longest and biggest (in terms of content) games on the Nintendo Switch. With its massive open-world exploration mechanic, it would take days, weeks, and months to fully complete the game from top to bottom. Limcube however completes the game in 35 minutes only, and shows you how to do so. Take note of that he only finishes the main quest the player needs to do to finish the game.
On the one hand, blaster beams and lasers don't work like they do in Star Wars. You knew that. On the other hand, you can recreate those effects for film without going CGI. Tom Scott explains, or actually, laser artist Seb Lee-Delisle explains.
Russian artist Vyacheslav Pakhomov created the perfect chair that one can sit on to instill fear in people. Kidding, it’s an elegant chair that features a scorpion design. The chair is made from premium oak wood with leather-covered cushions for the seat. Each chair costs around $4,700, as Awesome Inventions detailed:
The scorpion’s claws serve as the armrests, the back as the seat, and its curling tail as the massive headrest. Furthermore, the backrest has segmented cushions to resemble the eight-legged crawler’s narrow, segmented tail. It also features the venomous stinger at the end of its curved tail.
The chair is made from premium oak wood with leather-covered cushions for the seat and the high backrest. It measures 6.5 feet tall, 2.6 feet wide and 3.4 feet deep.
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Students at the Pennsylvania State University are grieving the loss of their beloved local Taco Bell. It was much loved, as it was one of the few eateries open at two o'clock in the morning. Student Prajesh Patel, who organized the vigil and conducted the service while dressed in a giant taco costume, described in the Daily Collegian the sadness that he and his colleagues felt.
“We were all shooketh after hearing about the closing of this beautiful, beautiful State College establishment,” Patel (senior-computer science) said to the crowd. “Taco Bell was our home away from home, and added spice to our life."
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Miller, who was a manager at the location, was the person who closed the doors for the final time.
“My reaction was honestly surprised, and it didn’t really affect me until I, as a manager, closed the doors for the last time,” Miller said. “I think [the vigil] was necessary, because I think it had a place in many people’s hearts, to see the store closing it felt as if somebody that was loved, died.”
-via David Burge
Starting a new restaurant from scratch is hard. Most close within the first five years, and many within one year. One of the biggest drains on a restauranteur's up-front investment is real estate, especially in a city. That's also where the competition is strongest. More restaurant failures in the last couple of years have been in dine-in establishments -even before they become established. But people gotta eat, so landlords have stepped in to fuel a rising trend: ghost kitchens. They are just kitchens, no dining area, and they are often shared spaces.
Similar to food trucks, the appeal of ghost kitchens is simple: They’re a way for people who have dreams of starting a restaurant, but are worried about the overhead costs, to do so without risking losing the entirety of their investment. The idea is that a ghost kitchen, which allows for multiple “restaurants” to produce food using the same physical space while also sharing equipment and ingredients, will cost a fraction of opening up a brick-and-mortar restaurant. “With a ghost kitchen, you rent from a landlord at a facility like Kitchens United or CloudKitchens, usually located in densely populated areas,” reports Roaming Hunger. “From there, you get your brand onto an app like Uber Eats or DoorDash, and (hopefully) start getting customers. Then you send out orders from the rented kitchen space. Ghost kitchens can be used to launch an entirely new business, or to expand the delivery range for an existing brand.”
The question is, how does this affect small eateries that already exist? No one knows yet, but it could be like the way newspapers are going bankrupt now that everyone can get information online. Read about the trend of ghost kitchens at Mel magazine. -via Digg
Hall and Oates had a string of hits in the 1970s and '80s that made them household names. But it took a strange run of unsavory events to make them a duo. Daryl Hall and John Oates attended Temple University at the same time, and both were in doo-wop groups, but somehow they never met until that one night. Hall sang for The Temptones and Oates was in The Masters. Both groups were recording and trying to break out into the mainstream.
In 1967, both bands were invited to perform at a dance event promoted by area disc jockey Jerry Bishop at the Adelphi Ballroom on North 52nd Street in Philadelphia. According to Oates, the concert was a professional obligation: Bishop had the ability to give songs airtime.
“When Jerry Bishop contacted you, you had to go,” Oates told Pennsylvania Heritage magazine in 2016. “If you didn’t, your record wouldn’t get played on the radio.”
That’s how Hall and Oates found themselves backstage at the Adelphi, each preparing to perform with their respective group. (Oates said Hall looked good in a sharkskin suit with the rest of his partners, whereas he felt more self-conscious in a “crappy houndstooth” suit.) While Oates had previously seen The Temptones perform, the two had never met nor spoken. It’s possible they never would have if it weren’t for what happened next.
It happened that some of the singing groups came from high school fraternities with a violent attitude for their competition. The reason Hall and Oates finally met was the gunfire at the ballroom, but in order for them to collaborate, it also took a war and unpaid rent. Altogether the story of Hall and Oates is pretty wild, and you can read about it at Mental Floss.
ついに立体的に動いて見える錯視が完成しました。
— じゃがりきん (@jagarikin) February 14, 2020
キューブが回転して見えますね？
止まっています pic.twitter.com/nyyWdr5O1E
Go ahead, start the playback, focus on one box, or better yet, one part of a box, and watch it "move," yet not go anywhere. This is an example of the the reverse phi illusion. Sora News explains it further.
In very simplified terms, when our eyes see sudden transitions from either light to dark or dark to light, our brains perceive it as motion happening. Take yet another look at @jagarikin’s GIF, and you’ll notice that the edges of the cubes’ blue frames have a sliver of color to them. Sometimes they’re white, sometimes they’re gray, and sometimes they’re black, and as they’re cycling from one to the next, the video’s background is doing the same thing, and the result is the illusionary “rotation” of the cubes.
-via Boing Boing
Chris Hallbeck of Maximumble really maxes out his cartoon today with this story. It diverges along six different paths. I prefer outcome six, which can be arrived at through two different choices.
Known as the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia, and as The Ancient One in Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton decided to direct this music video. The stars in this video are not people, however; the stars here are Swinton’s four springer spaniels.
The dogs are filmed in slow motion and comically sped up as they obediently swim to fetch a ball, jump and play-fight in the video.
The video features the voice of countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo and is produced for Opera Philadelphia's Glass Handel project.
Cute!
Via ClassicFM
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Filled with protein and other nutrients which help in keeping our eyes, muscles, and bones, healthy, are eggs. They also might be perhaps the most versatile food in the world, as we can cook them in various ways. We can fry them, boil them, or use them for baking.
Eggs might also be the most confusing food out there as well. Experts can’t seem to agree if eggs are really good or bad for a person’s health. So are they good or bad?
If you’re generally in good health and don’t have heart disease or high cholesterol, eggs can be part of a healthy diet when eaten in moderation. Eggs are good for us for a lot of different reasons ― they’re unprocessed, rich in protein, low in calories and contain healthy fats and other nutrients.
Here we have it: the answer to this question.
Now that we know that eggs are generally good for us, the next question that we have to ask is, how many eggs should we ideally eat a day?
See the answer over at HuffPost.
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Despite being 142 minutes long, The Rise of Skywalker didn't have time explain how the Emperor of the original trilogy managed to survive falling down a bottomless shaft to return thirty years later (I'm of the opinion that it should have been two movies). But now the novelization of the film is ready to hit bookstores, and at least one secret has been revealed.
Although the novelization isn't officially on sale until March 17, Lucasfilm Publishing decided to sell advance copies at this weekend's C2E2 in Chicago and passages have begun appearing online. The book does indeed confirm that the Emperor's spirit has been transferred into a clone body. When Kylo Ren arrives on Exegol and encounters Palpatine, he looks closely at the machinery the Emperor is physically attached to, and recognizes it from his studies of the Clone Wars. He then deduces Palpatine's dark side spirit is too strong for the clone body, and is causing serious degeneration to it.
There's more of an explanation at Screen Rant, although it's not all that satisfying to anyone who wants Star Wars to make complete narrative sense. -via Uproxx
