Thursday, June 12, 2014

How Not To Use Tinder

The Most Efficient Way To Follow The World Cup, George R.R. Martin Will Kill A Facebook Employee In One Of His Books, Computer Brochures From The '50s, This Is The Bruce Lee Of Flair Bartending, Dude Group Texts His 32 Tinder Matches, Fails Miserably, Weird Etymology
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The Most Efficient Way To Follow The World Cup
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Who's got the time to watch every World Cup match? Get the best World Cup moments, highlights, and articles in your inbox every other day. It's all the good bits without any of the boring stuff.
POKED TO DEATH
George R.R. Martin Will Kill A Facebook Employee In One Of His Books
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George R.R. Martin will introduce a new character in one of his upcoming books thanks to a $20,000 charity auction prize. He'll eventually kill off that character. A 30-year-old Facebook employee won the highest prize level in which Martin will name a character after him in an upcoming book in the series, "A Song of Ice and Fire."
'LOW COST PER ANSWER'
Computer Brochures From The '50s
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Here's a neat collection of brochures advertising computers from the '50s.
WINS EVERY DRINKING TOURNAMENT
This Is The Bruce Lee Of Flair Bartending
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We acknowledge that this is impressive. That said, Bruce Lee was best known for his incredible speed, and this guy took a full three minutes to mix one martini.
EVERYONE SWIPES LEFT
Dude Group Texts His 32 Tinder Matches, Fails Miserably
elitedaily.com
Either this dude has no idea how group messages on iPhones work or he genuinely didn't care that 32 of his Tinder girls were going to see that he sent the same message to each of them. For his sake, I hope it's the first one.
DRAWING THE NEWS
Weird Etymology
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English is notorious for its wholesale "borrowing" of words from other languages. Because of this some words have a particularly colorful etymological history.
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AND SO IT BEGINS
Image: A pet rooster named Paquita Fred stands next to a replica of the World Cup trophy in front of Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. The 11 year old rooster wearing a cape with the colors of the Brazilian national soccer team and a medallion of the local Fluminense soccer club gets his name from Fred, the Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for Fluminense and is now one of the members of the national soccer team. The World Cup soccer tournament starts Thursday.
A pet rooster named Paquita Fred stands next to a replica of the World Cup trophy in front of Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. The 11 year old rooster wearing a cape with the colors of the Brazilian national soccer team and a medallion of the local Fluminense soccer club gets his name from Fred, the Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for Fluminense and is now one of the members of the national soccer team. The World Cup soccer tournament starts Thursday. Credit: AP Photo/Leo Correa
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