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Attempts to shoehorn a sexual sub-plot into its ad aside, TwelveSouth’s BookBook looks like a genuinely fantastic product. And I love the idea that wallets are now convergent devices.
Although I’m trying to figure out where I’d put it. My phone goes in my front pocket and my wallet goes in the back. I’d say the BookBook would lead to a few days of occasionally freaking out thinking I’d lost one or the other.
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**Sing-Along of the Day:** The cosplaying cast of _It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia_ do the “Dayman Song” for the Comic-Con crowd at yesterday’s Hall H panel. > >[buzzfeed.]
Che Guevara of Power Eating
In person, Kobayashi is sweet, like a curious kid — unfailingly polite, charming and humble, with no brashness or other signs of rampaging ego. But he is hard on himself. He locks himself away performing dangerous feats because it is all he knows to do. He was the milk-drinking champ in school, the stew-eating champ in college, the winner of the biggest eating contest in Japan, then the Nathan’s champ. Until he wasn’t.
“Are you the Che Guevara of gurgitation or the Kenny Powers of power eating?” I asked him.
He paused, then laughed: “I am both!”
The Lonesome Independence Day Of Kobayashi, Eater In Exile
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Here’s MetaFilter’s Cobalt describing what’s happening
Riccardo Muti was conducting Nabucco at the Opera di Roma, until -to his delight- he was forced to interrupt the performance by pressure from the crowd.
As part of the massive celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy in 2011, the Opera was packed to the rafters to see Giuseppe Verdi’s famous work. A political opera, it deals with the enslavement of Jews in Babylon. Its famous “Va Pensiero” chorus is the song of oppressed slaves, and symbolises the fight for freedom for many Italians, who struggled under the Habsburg empire in the 1860s and has become Italy’s unofficial anthem. Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno, took the stage before the start and spoke passionately against the budget cuts to the arts and culture the central government had done, in essence railing against his own party and political allegiances, and setting the tone for a very special evening.
The intensity was palpable and the audience was rapt. When the Va Pensiero chorus came, “O my country, so lovely and so lost”, the cries of “Encore!” and “Viva Italia!” began to sound. By the time it finished, the roar of the crowd was immense.
Muti had allowed an Encore only once in his career, at La Scala in 1986, and he was not likely to do it again unless the occasion really deserved it, but the crowd had touched him deeply. He turned around and spoke: “Yes, I agree, long live Italy, but…I’m not 30 anymore, I’ve lived my life and travelled the world, and it pains me to see what is happening to our country. So, I will accede to your request for an Encore, not only for the patriotism I feel, but because as the chorus was singing, I thought that if we allow this murdering of the culture on which our history was built, then it truly will be “lovely and lost”…..Let us now give this chorus a special meaning. We are home, at the theatre of Rome, let us all join together and sing.”
And so they did.
I read about this somewhere – probably the Economist – and thought “holy shit, I wish I’d seen that, that sounds like it was really something.”
Now I’ve seen it and, holy shit, it’s really something.
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Half-hour documentary about the Eli vs Envy freestyle battle.
Read that again: a half hour documentary. Amazing. As Andy Baio says, we need this for every internet meme.
Targaryens as a bowling team
# Jul 21, 2011I have no idea who is responsible for this. but good for them
THIS IS SO AMAZING, BUT THAT’S JUST LIKE MY OPINION, MAN.
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A day in the life of John Lasseter. From a technology point of view, it’s fascinating to see Pixar at work. Like how quickly they integrated the iPad into their workflow.
