Month: January 2014
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Kraft Hypes Velveeta Shortage Ahead of Stupor Bowl
from foxnews.com: First the Srirachapocalypse. Now the Velveetapocalypse. Just in time for Super Bowl, fans could be hard pressed to find their favorite gooey dip ingredient. According to Ad Age, Kraft Foods Group is “grappling with a Velveeta shortage just as the dip season kicks into full gear.” They cite reports of a shortage at…
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How #Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
from theatlantic.com: If you use Netflix, you’ve probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it’s absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pieces About Royalty Based on Real Life? Foreign Satanic Stories from the 1980s? If Netflix can show such tiny slices of cinema to…
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When Celebrity Meets Brutality: Rodman Not First to Mix With Repressive Regimes
from cnn.com: Dennis Rodman’s “Big Bang in Pyongyang” may be in a league of its own, but other celebs have performed for audiences associated with repressive governments, too. Unlike Rodman, most have proclaimed ignorance and apologized, with some even donating their profits to charity after public outrage erupted. “I don’t give a rat’s ass what…
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Marissa Mayer reveals Yahoo’s big plans for 2014 at CES
from money.cnn.com: Marissa Mayer took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday not to revisit the last year spent at Yahoo, but to look at the future. Joined by the likes of Katie Couric, David Pogue, David Karp, Nick D’Aloiso and SNL’s Weekend Update team, Mayer and company rolled out Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500)’s…
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Adds Sasheer Zamata, First Black Female Cast Member Since 2007
from tv.yahoo.com: After facing criticism over a lack of color in its female cast, “Saturday Night Live” has added Sasheer Zamata, an African-American from Brooklyn, to its lineup as a featured player, NBC announced today. Zamata is the late night sketch show’s first black female cast member since the biracial Maya Rudolph departed in 2007.
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Group Unveils Satan Statue Design for Oklahoma
from chron.com: A satanic group unveiled designs Monday for a 7-foot-tall statue of Satan it wants to put at the Oklahoma state Capitol, where a Ten Commandments monument was placed in 2012. The New York-based Satanic Temple formally submitted its application to a panel that oversees the Capitol grounds, including an artist’s rendering that depicts…
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#Pentagon puts Hellfire missile, #drone deliveries to #Iraq on fast track
from endthelie.com: Washington has decided to expedite delivery of missiles and reconnaissance drones to Iraq. The move comes after the US said it would not return to assist Baghdad’s forces, despite the country plunging deeper into a fight against Al-Qaeda-linked rebels. The latest promise of sophisticated military hardware to Iraq, which continues to struggle against…
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Japanese Films Thump Hollywood at 2013 #Japan Box Office
from variety.com: Japanese pics again delivered a solid thumping to the Hollywood competition at the local box office in 2013. The 2013 B.O. champion, to the surprise of nobody, was anime auteur Hayao Miyazaki’s final animated feature, the WWII-themed “The Wind Rises.” Debuting atop the B.O. on July 21, the film, based on the prewar…
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Yahoo Malvertising Attack Linked to Larger Malware Scheme
from computerworld.com: A deeper look by Cisco Systems into the cyberattack that infected Yahoo users with malware appears to show a link between the attack and a suspicious affiliate traffic-pushing scheme with roots in Ukraine. Yahoo said on Sunday that European users were served malicious advertisements, or “malvertisements,” between Dec. 31 and last Saturday. If…
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Israel, No Longer a Haven, Sends Africa Migrants to Prison
from csmonitor.com: Some 20,000 African migrants flooded the streets of central Tel Aviv over the last two days, chanting “Freedom!” and “We are refugees!” in their first major pushback against Israeli policy since they began illegally crossing into Israel from Egypt about eight years ago. The unprecedented protests and a three-day labor strike by the…
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‘Traffic light’ food labels changed buying habits, study finds
from latimes.com: Would you fill that 16-ounce cup with sugary soda if it had a red light on the dispenser? Or might you move to the faucet for water and its green light? Researchers tracked food and drink choices in a big Boston hospital and found that those “traffic light” signals influence choices, even for…
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These Desert Domes May Hide Occult Rituals
from fearnet.com: Partially built in the late ’70s as the site for a computer factory (which never materialized), these surreal abandoned domes in the remote desert town of Casa Grande, Arizona have a decidedly spooky aura about them. That supernatural vibe has allegedly drawn the attention of visiting occult practitioners, who are rumored to have…
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USDA moves forward with herbicide-resistant GMO seeds
from RT.com: The commercial use of new herbicide-resistant, genetically modified corn and soybean seeds moved one step closer to reality on Friday when the United States Department of Agriculture announced their introduction in limited quantities. The new seeds have been genetically engineered by Dow AgroSciences to survive the hefty application of 2,4-D, a widely used…
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‘Rise in occult’ spurs church to train exorcists
from independent.ie: Forty years after The Exorcist scared the wits out of cinema audiences around the world, the Catholic Church is training up a new generation of priests to meet a growing demand for exorcism.
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India successfully launches cutting-edge cryogenic rocket
from channelnewsasia.com: India on Sunday successfully launched its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed, taking another step forward in its ambitious space programme. The Indian-made cryogenically-powered rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota as scheduled, as Delhi tries to join an elite club of countries which…