Wednesday 7/13/21]
Celebrate National Gran Marnier, Tape Measure, Nude, and Mac and Cheese Day!
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The year's best meteor shower, Perseids, is fast approaching, promising to bring spectacular shooting stars to the summer sky.
The Perseids are active every year from around July 14 to August 24, according to NASA. The meteor shower peaks in mid-August, peaking this year on August 11, 12 and 13. Read on for more.
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Having known Britney Spears for more than 20 years, and witnessed an at-times worrying team grow around her, 98 Degrees member Jeff Timmons is showing support for his friend amid her conservatorship battle by hosting ‘Free Britney Radio,’ a pop-up radio station which will take over stations in more than 50 markets — including San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta — on July 14.
Timmons teamed up with audio production company Benztown for the “day of solidarity,” as the program is billed to potential syndicators. Driven by his friendship with Spears, as well as his own experience battling what he describes as the “f'd up” California court system, Timmons hopes the initiative will create a “groundswell of support” for the pop star as she fights for freedom — something he believes was never justifiably taken from her.
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Rihanna's giving folks a once in a lifetime opportunity, because you can live in her posh mansion in Beverly Hills ... if you've got a boatload of cash.
The singer and Fenty Beauty founder is renting out her 5-bedroom, 7,628-square-foot pad for a cool $80,000 per month ... and the pics might be enough to make ya splurge.
Rihanna's Bev Hills mansion is decked out with a pool, spa, fire pit and an open-air courtyard, plus a home gym and a gourmet chef's kitchen with two islands.
The master bedroom features sweeping views of Coldwater Canyon, plus a walk-in closet, marble bath and a private terrace.
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The Emmy nominations were announced yesterday, HBO and HBO Max combined to take in a leading 130 total nominations, followed closely behind by Netflix with 129. Disney Plus had a significant jump from last year with 71 nominations in its second year of eligibility.
Netflix’s “The Crown” and Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian” tied for a leading 24 nominations each, followed by Marvel and Disney Plus’ “WandaVision” with 23 and Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” with 21.
The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, will take place Sept. 19 on CBS
See the full list of nominations here.
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/2021-emmy-nominations-list-1235016194/
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation yesterday to get rid of an "archaic" law that banned barbers from working on Sundays.
Cuomo announced Tuesday that the new law, which takes effect immediately, does away with a state law that made it a misdemeanor for a barber to cut hair or provide a shave to a customer on a Sunday.
"An archaic law that made it a misdemeanor to cut hair on Sundays has been shaved from the books," Cuomo tweeted. Though rarely enforced, the law was shear madness -- and we're not feeling blue to see it go. It's not splitting hairs to say that barbers should be able to work any day they want."
(i literally think he did it so he could write this tweet)
Multiple barbers working in the state said they had no idea that such a law ever was on the books.
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A university in South Korea is testing a new type of commode that turns your waste into digital currency. Or more simply, it pays you for your poop.
It's called the BeeVi toilet, and an engineering professor came up with it. It basically collects everyone's waste and turns it into methane and manure. Then the methane powers things in the building, and the manure is used in a nearby garden.
Each time a student uses the toilet, they get paid in a digital currency the professor created called "Ggool," which means "Honey" in Korean. Then they can use that Honey to buy stuff on campus, like coffee and snacks. He says the point is to show how valuable our waste can be if we just think outside the box.
Kind of reminds me of this entry in the Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy.
Bethselamin - A fabulously beautiful planet, Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt. (Good Advice)
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