Video by ammysri. Samuel L. Jackson Just Trolled the Internet. Samuel L. Jackson followed through with his promise on Friday, after asking Reddit users to submit a 300-word monologue for him to read out loud. But not without punking the Internet in the process. Here's the beginning of his much-anticipated monologue: Hi, I'm Samuel L. At first watch, this video might come as a shock to fans — but Jackson actually did not break the rules.
The contest was part of a campaign to support the nonprofit Alzheimer's Association. The Reddit thread generated more than 2 million views, with users spending an average of almost three minutes on the page. According to Prizeo cofounder Leo Seigal, many participants in the contest are unhappy with the results — but because they think Jackson broke the rules and quit acting. Image via Frazer Harrison/AFI/Getty Images. Saturday's Best Bet: Crawfish Festival takes over Clinton Square. View full sizeA pot of boiled crawfish is stirred at last year's New York Crawfish Festival.Jim Commentucci / The Post-Standard Crazy for Crawfish You could call it Cajun. You could call it Creole. It’s all Louisiana. The fifth annual Crawfish Festival takes over Clinton Square Saturday with boiled crawfish and other Louisiana classics, from jamablaya and gumbo to red beans and rice.
Cooks helping prepare the feast include Ben Schlater, of Baldwinsville, a New Orleans native; Cisco Gonzales, of St. Bernard Parish, La., who is the master crawfish boiler; Dave Rice, of Lowville, who will handle the jambalaya, gumbo, red beans and pulled pork; and Mike Anthony, of Anthony’s 19 Hole at the state fair, who sells deep fried crawdaddies and Cajun curly fries. This is the fest’s first time in Clinton Square — it started in Hanover Square and has also been held at the inner Harbor and the state fairgrounds. WHAT: Crawfish Festival. "Crepuscule. Cats as fonts - Bombi(llo) Pottermore throws open Hogwarts doors to all. JK Rowling's Harry Potter site, Pottermore, has fully opened its doors, adding social and interactive content around the boy-magician to the existing ebook offerings from last month.
Announced last year, Pottermore is Rowling's attempt to extend the lifespan of the Harry Potter series beyond the original series of books, splitting readers into one of the four Hogwarts houses and then granting them access to specially-produced extra writing and other media. "We're expecting to be really busy to start with and plan to activate new registrations in a steady stream" the Pottermore team warned at the weekend.
"This means that you may not get access to Pottermore immediately after you sign up but we will get you exploring the site as quickly possible ... After you've signed up, you'll get sorted into one of the four Hogwarts houses, have a wand choose you, and discover exclusive new writing from J.K. Rowling. " Very proud of My new captain America @tokidoki x @marvel hoodie! Soon in stock. This is my proto! OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video. Skyrim Valentine’s Day Cards. Grey Remakes Coke's Mean Joe Greene Ad For Downy Unstopables. Procter & Gamble won’t be advertising in the Super Bowl this year, but the event has inspired an homage to a classic big game ad. Grey’s “Stinky” for P&G’s Downy Unstopables remakes the “Mean Joe Greene” Coca-Cola spot that aired during Super Bowl XIV in 1980.
The player remains the same—retired Pittsburgh Steelers star Greene—but the “kid” is now played by comic actress Amy Sedaris. And rather than air during Sunday’s game, the ad will run during NBC’s pregame show, between 5:30 and 6 p.m. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. “Stinky” looks and feels like the old ad—down to the hoodie that Sedaris wears and the Steelers jersey over Greene’s right shoulder—but rather than a Coke, Sedaris hands Greene a bottle of Unstopables, a fabric freshener that P&G introduced last year. “No thanks, Mean Joe,” Sedaris says. “Last time I’m doing this,” Greene quips. Grey needed permission from Coke to remake a memorable part of its advertising history.
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The other day as I was chomping down on some delicious Raisin Bran I found myself doing what everyone does when they eat cereal: looking at the box. This led me to realize that I’ve spent a healthy chunk of my life simply staring at cereal boxes while I eat breakfast (or lunch, or dinner, or a late night snack). When I was a kid, I used to mostly play the games on the back and compare the nutritional information with the cereals my brothers were eating (the higher numbers always win). Tony the Tiger They’rrrre great! Image source As you can see, Tony (or perhaps this shows Tony Jr?) Toucan Sam Buzz. NFL Next 10 | NFL symposium. Give evil the cold shoulder with Batman ice cubes. The evolution of the web. Burger King: An Unlikely Source of Beauty Inspiration. No One Really Knows Who Invented It - Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Labor Day. Song lyrics and song meanings - Lyricful. Infographipedia, the world of infographic.
Daily Infographic | A New Infographic Every Day | Data Visualization and Design. Star Wars. Bleeoo. Taco Bell Throws a Tweet-Off for New 'Doritos Locos' Taco. Lisa Lacy | February 24, 2012 | 0 Comments inShare17 Offers @TacoBellTruck visit to user with the most retweets. A just-ended contest from Taco Bell asked Twitter users to compose a tweet with the hashtags #DoritosLocosTacos and #Contest. The Doritos Locos Tacos Hometown Tweet-Off ran from February 16 to 20. It promoted the Doritos Locos taco, which comes in a shell made from Nacho Cheese Doritos Chips and will debut on March 8. The Twitter user whose aptly hashtagged tweet is retweeted the most times wins a hometown visit from the Taco Bell Truck for an early taste. According to its Twitter profile, the Taco Bell Truck drives around the country handing out free tacos. Taco Bell used Twitter because the majority of social conversations around Taco Bell happen on Twitter.
Hometowns mentioned in #DoritosLocosTacos tweets include: Baton Rouge, La.; Huntington, W. Taco Bell required the use of #Contest to enter so that retweeting users knew that they were supporting a contest, she adds. Infographic Of The Day: How Our Students Stack Up Against The World | Co. Design. If you only judged by the alarmist newspaper headlines, you’d think American education was on the brink of a nuclear holocaust.
But this infographic by Column Five Media offers a more nuanced (if still incomplete) picture. The Pulse of Education Around The World, for the education materials company Course Hero, shows global educational trends, including how the United States measures up against similar countries. The big takeaway: Americans are, well, average. Compared with 15-year-olds in 33 other nations, students in the states rank 14th in reading, 17th in science, and 25th in math, according to 2010 data for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a worldwide scholastic aptitude exam. Not great, but also not a nuclear holocaust. Clouds seem to gather over the U.S., though, when you look at how education has developed around the world over time.
Tompkins County Friends of the Library :: Home. What do you get after working at Nintendo for 20 years? - Shareables. 19 September '11, 10:18pm Follow Ever since we spent afternoons flipping through Nintendo Power and weekends watching and re-watching The Wizard, we’ve imagined that working at Nintendo must be awesome. This statue, awarded to a Nintendo employee after 20 years of work at the company, just proves it in spades.
I mean, who wouldn’t want a bronze Mario statue hanging out on the mantle? Super cool. The man, Jerry Danson, has worked at Nintendo since 1991, making this is 20th year. The plaque reads “Congratulations on 20 great years, from all of your friends at Nintendo.” Yeah, excuse us, we’re going to be searching for one of these on eBay. Ladies and gentlemen, Ron Artest becomes Metta World Peace! Amid labor discord that threatens to delay, if not wipe out, the NBA season, there is suddenly World Peace. He is 6 feet 7, wears No. 15 for the Lakers and once participated in the infamous "Palace Brawl. " Anyone now making his acquaintance will be meeting Metta World Peace.
Those on a first-name basis can call him Metta, while those a little farther removed can buy jerseys with his last name of World Peace stretched across the back. The most ballyhooed name change of the year became official Friday morning when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge commissioner approved Ron Artest's request to be called something else. According to World Peace's publicist, Courtney Barnes, the Lakers forward had been contemplating the switch for years but "it took years of research and soul-searching to find a first name that was both personally meaningful and inspirational.
" Metta is a Buddhist term that means loving kindness and friendliness toward others. And it may be spreading fast. -- Ben Bolch.