7/10/25 - Inspirational Movies, AI, and Live Aid Anniversary
- bribriny
- 2 days ago
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Thursday 7/10/25
Celebrate:
Don't Step on a Bee Day
National Kitten Day
National Pina Colada Day
Pick Blueberries Day
Teddy Bear Picnic Day
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Hormel partnered up for a new bacon-flavored cereal. You can get it at Walmart.
It still has that same cinnamon taste. They just added the bacon flavor on top of it, so it's savory and sweet. They say it's a limited-time-only thing.
There's no actual bacon in it, by the way. Bacon bits would have been fun, but they say it's made with "artificial bacon flavor."
A guy who tests out new foods on TikTok got his hands on it early and described the taste as "not terrible." So . . . not a ringing endorsement.
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Entertainment Weekly has a list of the most inspirational movies of all time.
"A League of Their Own" (1992)
"Hidden Figures" (2016)
"Legally Blonde" (2001)
"Rocky" (1976)
"Rudy" (1993)
"Little Miss Sunshine" (2006)
"Selma" (2014)
"Wild" (2014)
"Forrest Gump" (1994)
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" (2022)
"Cool Runnings" (1993)
"CODA" (2021)
"Bend It Like Beckham" (2002)
"Erin Brockovich" (2000)
"The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)
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A new poll looked at the top ways Americans use A.I. A third of us still haven't given it a whirl, while 14% say they use it daily.
Here are the top things we use it for:
1. To look up the answer to a question. 48% have done it . . . 24% said they wouldn't even "consider it." (i'm loving the new AI search results..I don't have to open another page now)
2. To get clarification on complex topics. 31% have asked A.I.
3. To "amuse" yourself, 31%.
4. To get step-by-step instructions, 30%.
5. To translate text into another language, 29%.
The rest of the Top 10: Summarizing articles . . . creating or editing images . . . proofreading . . . brainstorming . . . and using it for work-related tasks.
17% have used A.I. to write an email . . . 13% have used it for coding . . . and 12% have used it to write poetry or lyrics.
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The 40th anniversary of Live Aid is this Sunday. And if you want to relive that moment in music history, the official YouTube channel will be celebrating with over 10 hours of footage.
A four-part documentary called "Live Aid: When Rock 'n' Roll Took on the World" will also premiere on CNN at 9:00 p.m. Sunday night. But don't expect to see Led Zeppelin there.
The three-song set that reunited Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones was such a DISASTER that they've refused to let any footage of it to be included on official releases.
Page previously mentioned in a former interview that Phil Collins, who was one of two drummers filling in for the late John Bonham, couldn't properly play the beginning of "Rock and Roll". Plus, they got less than two hours to rehearse.
Phil isn't too fond of the performance either. He says if he could've walked off, he would've because he didn't feel needed and felt like a "spare part".
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If you need to relax, check out a site called Purrli.com. It only does one thing . . . plays the sound of a cat purring. You can dial it in to change the sound . . . add meows . . . and even adjust the "purrs per minute."
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
It's the pen tops specifically. Thankfully, they are built with air holes now to help if they are swallowed. Best advice. Don't put it in your mouth.
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