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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Amazon's strange new Dash Button for impulse-ordering: 'Indeed, it is real'

For a few minutes on Tuesday, it seemed like Amazon might actually have a sense of humor.

The online shopping giant announced a new hardware product called the Dash Button. It's a little hook, decorated with the name of a household brand, which customers can place on the wall and tap to automatically order (or more likely re-order) a specific product.

This may seem, to some, to be an excess of convenience. Few people have complained, as of yet, about the laborious walk to a laptop where they have to sweat and agonize over Amazon's "one-click" shopping button. But for those weary souls who are tired of having to pull out a smartphone and go through the motions to order more Tide detergent, the cavalry has come Read more...

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Show us your favorite get-together food for this week's photo challenge

For many, board game night is a fun time to get together with friends for food and a bit of friendly competition. For others, it's an opportunity to create a groundbreaking board game.

The latter is certainly true for the creation of Monopoly, as outlined in this month's MashableReads book selection, The Monopolists by investigative journalist Mary Pilon

As Pilon dives into the history of Monopoly's creation, The Monopolists reveals that board game nights were pivotal in perfecting Monopoly's iconic rules, spreading the word about the board game, and getting to the bottom of the game's obscured past. Read more...

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Who cares if Jack White or Nicki Minaj gets more money for music?

A row of obscenely rich musicians stood awkwardly on stage together on Monday as Alicia Keys quoted German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to reveal Tidal, the streaming music service bought by Jay Z.

"Without music, life would be a mistake," she said quoting Nietzsche. (The philosopher, who wrote frequently about asceticism and who might have been surprised to find his words associated with the world's wealthiest musicians, also said "the mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.")

It was a surreal scene that only got weirder. After Keys had finished a rollicking speech about a better service for artists and fans, each of the musicians signed a "declaration of independence" and then... stood there. Nobody seemed to know what to do next. Jay Z poked his head backstage as if to ask "What next? The group stood there for a few more moments before the lights came down, and it was time for all of them to file off the stage Read more...

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Panama City Hotel Wakes Up Spring Breakers in Most Amazing Way Possible

Best. Tradition. Ever.

No, we are not referring to the Kim Kardashian nude spread that comes out each year because the reality star is just so very proud of her body.

Instead, we're talking about the Panama City Holiday Inn, which wakes up its guests every morning at 11 a.m. during spring break with the following famous words:

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba. Sithi uhm ingonyama.

That's right: It's the Circle of Life!!!

Circle of Life Wakes Up Panama City Spring Breakers

As you can see in the amazing video above, nearly every balcony is filled with (hung over) guests by the time the beloved song stops playing, and for good reason, Jessica Young tells Fox affiliate KTTV.

"Every morning when we wake up we look forward to it," said Young, who has stayed there at least once. "It's like an entire Panama City Beach Holiday Inn family just singing together."

And speaking of Lion King-inspired group sing togethers...

Lion King Cast Sings "Circle of Life" on Flight

Lion King Cast Serenades NYC Subway Riders

And speaking of Disney...

19 Honest Disney Posters

1. 101 Dalmatians

Imagining having 101 children to keep up with pretty much gives us hives. This wouldn't have happened if people listened to Bob Barker.

2. Aladdin

This is totally how all the guys are supposed to get the girl, right? (See also: RIP Robin Williams.)

3. Bambi

What is it with Disney making all their main characters orphans?! Why so many dead parents, Disney!?!?

4. Beauty and the Beast

So many things that just do not make sense about Beauty and the Beast, you guys. So many things.

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5. Brave

THAT'S RIGHT no prince required! Girl power!

6. Cinderella

See Extreme Makeover for proof that this is real life.

7. Alice in Wonderland

To be fair, the author was probably on drugs, too. And he was a pedophile.

8. Cars

Okay, so, I mean, what else can we name this movie? Yeah, Cars pretty much sums it up.

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9. The Little Mermaid

Alternate alternate title: Why educating our daughters is important. Because then she could've just written Eric a note.

10. Snow White

Let's also not forget "Don't take food from strangers." Snow White is really the reason your parents checked your Halloween candy, you know.

11. Fantasia

Being high is probably the only way to make it through this movie.

12. Aladdin (Take Two)

Disney's various forays into showing other cultures almost always ends poorly. For example...

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13. The Princess and the Frog

Tiana was Disney's first African-American princess. Cool, right? Every character in the movie is a stereotype. #Fail

14. Up

We thought these were kids movies!!

15. Hunchback of Notre Dame

Maybe Aladdin should take some notes from Quasimodo about that whole lying and stealing thing.

16. Pocahontas

Personally we'd name this "everything wrong with teaching your kids about history via cartoon" since Disney got everything, well, wrong.

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17. Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty's kind of a horror story if you're on the brink of your 16th birthday.

18. The Sword in the Stone

This probably isn't the kind of tale King Arthur's going to swap while they're all sitting at the Round Table, you know?

19. The Lion King

Ahhh, Hamlet. Where the evil uncle usurps the throne by killing people only to end up dead himself. At least Simba survived in this one.

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Twitter launches Curator, its free Storyful competitor

Twitter just launched Curator, its new free tool for media outlets.

First unveiled in February, Curator is now available to any media outlet that applies on Twitter's website for access to the tool. It allows organizations to collect tweets and Vines based around specific topics, perform more advanced searches and get access to better analytics.

Think of Curator as an even more advanced version of Twitter's advanced search. Users can fine tune their searches to find tweets based on very narrow criteria — such as exact location, word count or what type of smartphone was used. Read more...

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XE Market Analysis: Asia - Mar 31, 2015

The dollar was mixed overall in light FX trade in N.Y. on Tuesday. Month and quarter end positioning had largely run its course, leaving the market rather listless. EUR-USD peaked at 1.0776 before easing back under 1.0730, where it spend most of the session. USD-JPY moved inside a narrow range on either side of 120.00, while USD-CAD faded toward 1.2650 following better Canadian GDP data. On the data calendar, home prices were steady, as consumer confidence and Chicago PMI rose.

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7 big names in tech that were almost wildly different

It's second nature to Google something from your Mac computer, but consider this strange alternative universe: Back Rubbing a topic from your Bicycle.

Long before certain tech companies and products became household names, its monikers were in flux. That's right, a Google search was almost called a Backrub and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs really wanted the Mac to be a Bicycle

Whether companies or products were almost named something else (or even launched with a different name), these anecdotes remind us that before empires were built, it was all a work in progress. Read more...

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