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#llamafeed - Marie

"If the $817 price tag doesn't make you queasy, then maybe you can also stomach the ingredients that go into a Black Diamond, a scoop of ice cream from Dubai's Scoopi Cafe that's being billed as the world's most expensive. Owner Zubin Doshi theoretically took five weeks to select exactly the right exotic ingredients, and here's what he came up with: Madagascar vanilla bean for the ice cream, threads of Iranian saffron, and black truffle from Italy. There's also 23-karat gold leaf on top, because when you put together a super-expensive gimmick menu item, you're legally required to include gold leaf. Also par for the course is a fancy dish customers can take home. In the case of the Black Diamond, it's a bowl from Versace." - rønin

"The company has had two hilarious viral successes in advertising its Period Starter Kit for girls—with "Camp Gyno" (10 million YouTube views) and "First Moon" (30 million YouTube views) setting the bar for pubescent period humor. But Hello Flo has expanded its product line, and now expands its advertising focus, too. Its latest video pushes the "New Mom Kit," but while the target audience may be older, the humor remains just as irreverent. It's a short mockumentary called "Postpartum: The Musical," and it stars a new mom who's so traumatized by the first few months of motherhood that she writes a musical about the experience—warts and all." - rønin

"Lake Eerie reportedly became 100 percent frozen on Monday for the first time since 1996. Frigid temperatures brought a plate of ice estimated to be between 16 and 24 inches thick. More arctic weather is on tap for the week, and total Great Lakes ice coverage could reach record-setting levels. Erie freezes wholly because it is comparatively shallow relative to other Great Lakes; its average depth is 62 feet, whereas Lake Ontario's is 282 feet. Here's the massive ice cube, as shown through viral Twitter photos." - rønin

Way too much production value went into this than it deserves. ;-p "There is no more universal theme for women than the sheer agony of having her period each month and all nasty side effects that come with it. That’s why Korean pop star Lizzy’s video for her song “Good Bye (PMS)” is so relatable and makes you wonder how someone hadn’t already done it." - rønin

"Four years ago cops from the King's County Sheriff's Office and the state Department of Corrections (DOC) in Washington busted into the home of Dustin Theoharis and shot the unarmed man 16 times as he lay in bed. Theoharis had at least a dozen surgeries but survived. He sued the county, settling for $3 million, and has also sued the DOC. Both the county and the department have ruled the shootings justified, despite the lack of a firearm and the fact that the two cops shot a man 16 times as he lay in bed." - rønin

Yeah we are all screwed. Protect the police and corporations.. its what the new US is all about. - CW

"Tomatan is a (somewhat horrifying) humanoid robot designed to perch on a runner's back and deliver delicious tomatoes to provide a nutritious boost during long running sessions. The device weighs 8 kilograms (17.6 lbs) . A 3kg (6.6 lbs) version dubbed 'Petite-Tomatan', which uses a delivery tube system rather than a mechanical arm, was also unveiled. Tomatan was designed by Meiwa Denki, a company known for their eccentric devices. Inventor Nomichi Tosa notes that approximately 100 tomatoes were used in the creation of Tomatan. The gentleman suffering beneath Tomatan's cruel yoke in these photos is Kagome employee Shigenori Suzuki, who will participate in the Tokyo Marathon along with his new robot "friend"." - rønin

Force fed by a robot.. this is what I have to look forward to in my twilight years. - CW

"When Teddy Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon a national monument, in 1908, he famously said: “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” In that sense, the Escalade is a thumb in TR’s eye. Covering hundreds of acres on Navajo Reservation land, it is arguably the most intrusive development ever proposed for the Grand Canyon—a $500 million to $1.1 billion recreation and transport facility featuring a 1.4-mile tramway equipped with eight-passenger gondolas that would carry as many as 10,000 people a day down to the river confluence, with new roads, hotels, gift shops, restaurants and other attractions. The developer—Confluence Partners LLC, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based investment group whose members’ ventures include real estate, resorts and theme parks—says construction of the Escalade could begin as early as this year." - rønin

No one. it will be filled with cliff condo's, trash, and anything else that can be thrown in to a big gash in the earth without anyone really caring. - CW

"Little Caesars is known for its $5 pizza, Cinnamon Crazy Bread and otherwise average menu, but it's about to make a big name for itself with its new Bacon-Wrapped Crust Deep! Deep! Dish Pizza. Smothered in cheese, topped with pepperoni and coated in 3 1/2 feet of bacon, this dish is every kid's dream and every parent's worst nightmare." - rønin

Everything tastes better with bacon. - DB, Lil LB's Dad

"Do you feel anything?" ... "I'm not sure my leg should be twitching like that." "Ha ha, yeah let me turn that down." - rønin

"Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris said he hopes that the broadcast on Sunday will include a "Kanye moment." Unfortunately, a Kanye moment may not be possible, because that would require there to be a black person at the Oscars." - rønin

"Ignaz Semmelweis didn't buy that load of crap, and instead embarked upon a large scale study, discovering that doctors often went to assist births immediately after doing autopsies. Apparently the least stupid scientist in all of Vienna, he concluded that the problem probably had something to do with the practice of handling a rotting corpse and a freshly born baby one after the other. His recommendation was simply that doctors should take 30 seconds to wash their hands somewhere between the morgue and the maternity ward, a habit which was shown to cut mortality down to a comparatively astonishing one percent. Unfortunately, the scientific community violently rejected the idea of hand washing, because it offended their status as gentlemen. One fellow by the name of Charles Meigs went as far as declaring that doctors should never have to wash their hands because doctors are gentlemen and "gentlemen's hands are always clean."" - rønin

"When future historians sift through the kimchi-scented ashes of Brooklyn after the real estate apocalypse, they shall find a few items that stand as obelisks representing our current culture. And amongst the ruins littered with Urban Outfitter hatchets and $24 dirt, they will find The Cool Baby, a booze-filled lifelike doll that stands as the apex of Brooklyn circa 2015." - rønin

That's kind of adorable. *hides* - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

*snort* - rønin

meh, can't touch the screen that way. - Andrew C (✔)

"Although the Angulo siblings grew up in New York, they had no idea what the city was like for almost 14 years. They spent their entire childhood confined to their parents’ four bedroom apartment, learning about the outside world solely through films. Their story is now the subject of The Wolfpack, a documentary made by filmmaker Crystal Moselle. The siblings – Bhagavan, 23, twins Govinda and Narayana, 22, Mukunda, 20, Krisna, 18, Jagadesh, 17, and their sister Visnu – were kept indoors by their father Oscar, a Peruvian immigrant and Hare Krishna devotee. He was apparently convinced that the outside world would corrupt his children and kept the front door locked at all times. But after 14 long years, one of the brothers managed to escape, paving the way for his siblings to break free." - rønin

Holy crap. Must watch! - Jenny H.

"Over the course of more than a hundred illicit nightly trips, this man was committing a crime—against his partner, a man who owned half of what was being heaved into the Thames, and against himself, the force that had spurred its creation. This venerable figure, founder of the legendary Doves Press and the mastermind of its typeface, was a man named T.J. Cobden Sanderson. And he was taking the metal type that he had painstakingly overseen and dumping thousands of pounds of it into the river. As a driving force in the Arts & Crafts movement in England, Cobden Sanderson championed traditional craftsmanship against the rising tides of industrialization. He was brilliant and creative, and in some ways, a luddite—because he was concerned that the typeface he had designed would be sold to a mechanized printing press after his death by his business partner, with whom he was feuding. So, night after night, he was making it his business to "bequeath" it to the river, in his words, screwing his partner out of his half of their work and destroying a legendarily beautiful typeface forever. Or so it seemed." - rønin

I'm reading a novel right now called Gutenberg's Apprentice about the making of the first printed bible, and so I kinda feel like I understand the guy's obsession :-) - Starmama

"Let this be your guide. From palatial banquet halls to noodle-slinging dives, the 60-plus recommendations below should cover most of your Chinese food cravings. Dig right in, or use the table of contents at the top of the page to jump to noodle and dumpling specialists, sweet destinations, dim sum parlors, and then some." - rønin

I really need to get to Xi'an. - Meg VMeg

I work pretty close to their midtown location so I'm there almost all the time. Especially in this weather. It's too bad that the midtown location doesn't have the dumplings though. - rønin

"Ba wan, a snack-food delicacy native to Taiwan, is generally translated to English as “meatball.” Sometimes it’s identified slightly more colorfully as “Taiwanese meatball.” And sure, it’s small and somewhat round, and it’s stuffed with meat. But its most salient feature isn’t meat, but rather a thick, gummy coating of steam-set starch that makes it impossible to see what’s inside." - rønin

Yeah I've never been as big of a fan of ba wan as I have been w/XLB. But a good one is still pretty darn good. - rønin

"Nearly 22,000 offshore clients with addresses in mainland China and Hong Kong appear in the files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Among them are some of China’s most powerful men and women — including at least 15 of China’s richest, members of the National People’s Congress and executives from state-owned companies entangled in corruption scandals. PricewaterhouseCoopers, UBS and other Western banks and accounting firms play a key role as middlemen in helping Chinese clients set up trusts and companies in the British Virgin Islands, Samoa and other offshore centers usually associated with hidden wealth, the records show. For instance, Swiss financial giant Credit Suisse helped Wen Jiabao’s son create his BVI company while his father was leading the country." - rønin

:)) - هانیبال

Man, Jackson is everywhere. =) - rønin

Amber's going to be Roommate, too. She knows everybody. - Anika

They need to do more of these cross group collabs in MVs. - rønin

I don't think I've seen Conan so red before. - rønin

Also reminds me of the manhwa I read a bunch of chapters on about a guy who's goal was to be the best skin scrubber ever. That was a weird one. - rønin

I've seen Steven Yeun almost naked, and giggling, and now my day is made. Thank you. - Starmama

"The PlayStation 4 can stream any of its games live. Streaming a video game is like having someone watch over your shoulder as you play: both streamer and viewer are absorbed by the same rendered, imagined, computerized world. But streaming The Playroom is showing the internet your real world. It's not an invented universe you're displaying in 720p for others to watch: that's your couch and coffee table, and those are your family members. These stars have played with The Playroom's white robots, but they've also done stranger, darker things. They've put shoes on their head at the exhortation of others watching their broadcast live. They've had sex in front of their TV screen. They've stripped their wife naked as she lay seemingly unconscious on a couch. They've had to explain to a local police department that they didn't have a child locked up in their basement after viewers called to tip the cops off to the suspected crime." - rønin

I've seen some strange shit on there. - Rodfather