The Walking Dead Escape: Live the Apocalypse

 

The Walking Dead Escape: Live the Apocalypse

July 12-14 during San Diego’s Comic-Con

 

OVERVIEW

The course has been specifically designed for participants with a wide range of abilities.

The world we know is about to end. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions will sweep the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. The only way to survive is to buy an Evac Pass, track the virus and get out before it is too late.

In a matter of months society will crumble and San Diego will be first of many cities to fall. Only a few will escape. Some won’t even try.

What is a Walker?

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Norway proving the future of hydrogen vehicles

Photo via Engaget

A team of Norwegian drivers recently crossed Europe in a pair of hydrogen-powered cars using only existing hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

The Oslo to Monte Carlo trip hit the record books as the longest a hydrogen-fueled vehicle has ever travelled using only fuel from permanent hydrogen filling stations. Other cars have circumnavigated the globe and crossed North America, but did so with fuel trucks in tow. This team made the 1404 mile journey over the course of five days with a pair of Hyundai iX35 FCEVs, and never once ran out of fuel.

The journey was the brainchild of Zero Emissions Resource Organization (ZERO), a Norwegian advocacy group that promotes fuel cells, EVs and other green technology. It highlighted just how far ahead of the rest of the world Europe’s hydrogen infrastructure is, and also how much more work needs to be done before hydrogen becomes a viable fuel source for vehicles. // via @WIRED

On a side note: I personally know of a businessman who bought real estate and secured approval to build a hydrogen fueling station in Maryland several years ago. He was subsequently offered several million more dollars over the cost of building the station by a prominent gasoline company to NOT build the station. Alas, he took the deal and the station wasn’t built. 

Short films/commercials from Wes Anderson – starring Brad Pitt, Jason Schwartzman

Anderson starred in and directed an American Express “My Life, My Card” commercial, which chronicled the “filming” of an action movie starring Jason Schwartzman. Anderson acts as if he is being interviewed by someone from American Express for the ad, while walking around completing tasks on set, a scene paying homage to the movie “Day for Night” by Francois Truffaut. It was aired on television and in movie theaters in both a short and extended version, during and shortly after the theatrical 2004 release of “The Life Aquatic: with Steve Zissou”.

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Designer temporary tattoo subscription – 56 tattoos in 6 months

The tremendously popular Tattly subscription is back.

Purchase the Tattly subscription and you will receive some of the newest tattoos in your mailbox every month for six months! With every order also comes a special “Oh, Hello” canvas bag to hold all of the tattoos your receive.

This subscription will only be for sale during the month of June, so subscribe now if you want to get on board.

Once you are subscribed, you will receive your canvas bag which will come pre-filled with some of our most awesome current designs.

After that, you will receive a new shipment of 8 new Tattly designs at the beginning of each month for 6 months. You’ll get our favorites of the upcoming months new releases, often before they are even for sale on our site. Each order comes with a total of 56 Tattlys and the brand new “Oh, Hello” canvas bag.

via Tattly

 

Amazing cardboard cutout playhouses for kids

My kids adore our Casa Cabana House (below), which has magically survived 5 years of play. The Kidsonroof Rocket would definitely get my son’s imagination going. Here’s your ticket to being superaunt or superuncle!

via Swiss Miss

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Otter 501 – a documentary about a sea otter pup separated from her mother

When an adventuresome young woman discovers a sea otter pup stranded on the beach and in desperate need of a second chance, an entire species’ survival gets personal.

 

If you liked that trailer, or just love things cute and adorable, see this tiny baby sea otter:

Average annual hours worked per country

“Over the last century, you’ve seen a reduction from very long working hours – nearly 3,000 a year at the beginning of the 1900s – to the turn of the 21st Century when most developing countries were under 1,800 hours,” says Messenger. “And indeed some of the most productive countries were even lower than that.”

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A look at the average annual hours worked per person in selected countries puts South Korea top with a whopping 2,193 hours, followed by Chile on 2,068.

British workers clock up 1,647 hours and Germans 1,408 – putting them at the bottom of the table, above only the Netherlands.

**The United States is at 1,695.

Greek workers have had a bad press recently but, as we reported in February, they work longer hours than any other Europeans. Their average of 2,017 hours a year puts them third in the international ranking, based on figures compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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“…the US is the only developed country that has no legal or contractual or collective requirement to provide any minimum amount of annual leave,” he says.

The UK, in contrast, is subject to the European working time directive, which requires at least four weeks of paid annual leave for every employee.

 

via BBC – Who works the longest hours?

 

Here is a screenshot of all 34 OECD countries. Click to the BBC to see the interactive version that shows each country’s hours worked.

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Every single Harry Potter spell in one video

 

Behold 17 minutes of straight spell-shouting from the cast of the Harry Potter films, courtesy of one very patient YouTuber. The creepy thing? We can name just about every single spell’s intended result.

Wingardium Leviosa!

via io9

Starbucks to improve its baked goods – purchases artisan bakery, La Boulange

Starbucks got the coffee right. Now, it is trying to do the same with the food.

The world’s largest coffee chain announced on Monday plans to acquire for $100 million a small artisan bakery chain, Bay Bread and its 19-unit La Boulange bakery brand.

The move comes just months after Starbucks (SBUX) purchased the tiny Evolution Fresh juice brand and at a time Starbucks is pushing hard to expand beyond coffee and vastly improve its baked goods and other food offerings. Food is one of the chains fastest-growing businesses, now accounting for $1.5 billion in revenues even as its sales have grown by double digits over the past two years.

“After more than 40 years, we will be able to say that we are bakers, too,” says Howard Schultz, CEO at Starbucks.

via USA Today

 

The bakery chain, La Boulange, reminds me a lot of Le Pain Quotidien.

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Oscars Outdoors – summer screening series in Hollywood

Bring a blanket and escape to the movies under the stars this Summer!

Oscars Outdoors is a summer screening series at the Academy’s new open-air theater, located on the Academy Hollywood campus.

Food Trucks provided by Roaming Hunger. Trucks will vary each night and will be tailored to the movie showing whenever possible. Trucks are subject to change.

Please check back regularly for updates.

*Attendees are encouraged to bring low lawn chairs, blankets, warm clothing.*

 

Purchase tickets at Oscar Outdoors.

 

Friday, June 15 – CASABLANCA (1942) SOLD OUT

Food Trucks: Hungry Nomad, Crepe Deville, Crispy Waffle and Frites, Brasil Kiss

 

Saturday, June 16

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) SOLD OUT
Food Trucks: Valentino’s, Fluff Ice, Funnel Cake Frenzy, Brasil Kiss

 

Friday, June 22

RAISING ARIZONA (1987)

Food Trucks: Trailer Park Truck, King Kone, Gravy Train Pouterine, Brasil Kiss

 

Saturday, June 23

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) SOLD OUT
Food Trucks: After School Special, Good Times Classic Ice Cream, Buttermilk Truck, Brasil Kiss

 

Friday, June 29

A STAR IS BORN (1937)
Food Trucks: Chasing Paradise, Del’s LA, Crepe’N Around, Brasil Kiss

 

Saturday, June 30

THE GOONIES (1985) SOLD OUT
Food Trucks: The Lime Truck, S’cream Truck, Jose O Malley’s, Brasil Kiss

 

Friday, July 6

STAGECOACH (1939)

 

Saturday, July 7

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1996)

 

Friday, July 13

GHOST (1990)

 

Saturday, July 14

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)

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