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While hunger may be the best sauce in the world, most prefer something with a bit more taste. And since it's summer and beautiful herbs abound, let's look at many ways of bringing a "green" zip to the plate. (Plus it's Hatch Chile season!) As with all things culinary, this will be woefully incomplete, short sighted, lacking the complete picture and not the way your nana made it and that's great - more green sauces! [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:10 PM PST - 40 comments

The Ideal Viewport Does Not Exist - the results of a little investigation into how fragmented browser sizes are across users, with some fun visualization.
posted by Artw at 7:57 PM PST - 27 comments

This works unreasonably well: a mashup of Anaconda, by Nicki Minaj, and Phantom of the Opera
posted by Pronoiac at 6:54 PM PST - 9 comments

Clone-a Lisa: Can you paint a copy of the Mona Lisa in 60 seconds? "Anything over 80% is good, 85%+ very good, and 90% may be possible if you're extremely fast and accurate." [via mefi projects] [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi at 2:20 PM PST - 67 comments

In 1969, BBC News spoke to Mr Glynne Wood - who had a pigeon living on his head. [SLX]
posted by chavenet at 1:15 PM PST - 28 comments

"Healthy eating education was a trigger for 14 percent of the patients, and ... early adolescents were especially vulnerable." The Washington Post describes how childhood education about "healthy" eating can actually cause eating disorders like anorexia nervosa. (archive.org link)
posted by splitpeasoup at 10:39 AM PST - 36 comments

It’s-a-no-longer me: Charles Martinet steps down as Mario’s voice
posted by May Kasahara at 9:58 AM PST - 15 comments

Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules. A similar fight is coming to the U.S. (archive.today link)
posted by Etrigan at 9:56 AM PST - 22 comments

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule: How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. The meddling of oligarchs and other monied interests in the fate of nations is not new....But Musk’s influence is more brazen and expansive. There is little precedent for a civilian’s becoming the arbiter of a war between nations in such a granular way, or for the degree of dependency that the U.S. now has on Musk in a variety of fields, from the future of energy and transportation to the exploration of space. [more inside]
posted by snuffleupagus at 9:02 AM PST - 63 comments

Vores Øl, in English Free Beer,is a Danish brand of beer that markets itself as being the world's first open-source beer. And this is your free thread! Happy Monday.
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:32 AM PST - 84 comments

elections are bad for democracy [slnyt]

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posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 8:21 AM PST - 87 comments

Kris Nóva has died in a climbing accident. Creator of the Nivenly Foundation, inspiration for Hachyderm, Nóva was a software engineer, author, public speaker, alpinist, and transgender advocate, maybe best known for her work on Kubernetes. [more inside]
posted by box at 6:35 AM PST - 23 comments

This link takes you to today's Guardian story about Bragg's new song. And here's the song itself. [more inside]
posted by Paul Slade at 6:28 AM PST - 67 comments

Listen to 28 Australian animal sounds, from a poll looking for Australia's favourite. [more inside]
posted by freethefeet at 4:59 AM PST - 6 comments

What do magpie calls mean? Australian Magpies [Gymnorhina tibicen, from the family Artamidae; they are not closely related to the European magpie Pica pica, from the family Corvidae] are incredibly musically versatile, with 900-ish known syllables and a four-octave register — a wider range of notes than Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen. [more inside]
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 1:09 AM PST - 11 comments