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Lunchtime Links:

Today on The Daily What Geek: A Back To The Future Lego set is looking likely

Elsewhere on the Internets:

• Debunked: The myth that cell phones and airplanes don’t mix
• Introduced: A bill in the House that would fine employers for requesting social network passwords
• Winning: Fifty Shades of Grey is America’s number one book
• Infamous: Uggie, the dog from The Artist, gets a book deal
• Sued: BMW, by a man who claims his car gives him a constant erection

Lunchtime Leisure: Cube (via)
Lunchtime List: The Debut Comic Strips of 10 Famous Cartoons

This is for @victoriac1976

(Source: californiacoco)

thedailywhat:

Death To The King Size of the Day: Mars announced yesterday it plans to phase out the King Size versions of its beloved candy bars by 2013 as part of a plan to reduce the number of calories in each of its snacks to 250.

That means the regular-size versions of such candy bars as Snickers and  Mars, which are both currently above 250 calories, will be forced to lose a portion of their girth in order to shave off the extra calories.

A Mars spokesperson said the King Size will likely be replaced with a small bag containing two to four “Fun Size” bars, which will “enable sharing or saving a portion for later.”

Certain candies such as Twix and M&M’s won’t be reduced in size as they already meet the 250-calorie requirement.

[npr.]

And the world mourns

thedailywhat:

Stereotype-Challenging Study of the Day: A British study billed as “the most comprehensive ever conducted on gender driving differences” has concluded that women are better at parking cars than men.

The study, which relied on surveillence camera footage of over 2,500 drivers across 700 parking garages, was devised by professional driving instructor Neil Beeson, and produced by car park firm NCP.

Among its findings: Women are better than men at tracking down spaces, lining up with the parking space, and reversing into spots “by the book.” Meanwhile, men are better at entering spaces while driving forward, and exhibit more confidence than their female counterparts, leading to quicker parking decisions.

“The results also appear to dispel the myth that men have better spatial awareness than women,” said Beeson. “It shows that us men need to give our partners more respect when it comes to parking. The facts don’t lie.”

[telegraph / photo: corbis.]

I don’t know…I’m pretty crap at parking

thedailywhat:

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Upon arrival in Los Angeles, a pair of British buddies were interrogated for hours, placed in separate holding cells for 12 hours, and ultimately sent back to the UK.

Their offense? Jokingly tweeting that they were coming to “destroy America” and “dig up Marilyn Monroe.”

Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting, 24, say they were locked up with drug dealers and “treated like terrorists” all over a tweet Van Bryan sent to his friends prior to Hollywood trip with Bunting, in which he informed them that he was on his way to “destroy America.”

Van Bryan and Bunting tried desperately to explain to airport officials that “destroy” was slang for “partying,” but to no avail.

“The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist,” Van Bryan, a bar manager from Coventry, told The Sun. ” I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me ‘You’ve really f***ed up with that tweet, boy’.”

He was also asked to explain a tweet about “diggin’ Marilyn Monroe up,” which he said was a reference to a Family Guy episode.

The two were eventually put on a flight back home. “We just wanted to have a good time on holiday,” Bunting said. “That was all Leigh meant in his tweets.”

A request for comment from the Department of Homeland Security was not returned.

[thesun / dailymail.]

Twitter warning!

thedailywhat:

Kickass Cover of the Day: Sarah Blackwood and the four members of Walk Off the Earth split one guitar in their striking cover of Gotye and Kimbra’s Sting-ish single “Somebody That I Used to Know.”

[reddit.]

Loved the original but this cover is really good & 5 people playing 1 guitar at the same time? Immense

thingsthatlooklikeotherthings:

Hip Flask That Looks Like A Walkman

Cool

thedailywhat:

Explosions In The Sky of the Day: Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang hosts the world’s largest exhibition ever of “daytime fireworks” at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar.

From the video’s description:

Each set of explosions was calculated to paint a different picture. One series of explosions created black smoke clouds that looked like “drops of ink splattered across the sky.”

In another, 8,300 shells embedded with computer microchips exploded in a pyramid shape over the desert.

Suck it, nighttime. You’re no longer the boss of pretty sky things.

[thehairpin.]

Fireworks for the daytime (pretty darn loud tho)

thedailywhat:

ICWUDT of the Day: Redditor howmanymics says: “I took a picture of my girlfriend next to this sign. She thought I was taking it because of the scenery.”

Nice try, slick, but it looks to me like she’s on to you.

[reddit.]

thingsthatlooklikeotherthings:

Bem Legaus!: Compact/Mirror That Looks Like A Tiny MacBook Air)

Perfect accessories for @collette87