McDonalds Names Their Chicken McNuggets

TIL McDonald’s  Chicken McNuggets are manufactured in 4 distinct shapes that have been named – Ball, Boot, Bell, and Bone (or Bow-tie).

BusinessInsider reports –

The McDonald’s sensory team explained that Chicken McNuggets have four distinct shapes and in order to have a chance to meet the McDonald’s “Gold Standard” for quality, they have to match them as perfectly as possible. And each of those shapes has its own name. Here are the four shapes of Chicken McNuggets, according to Barbara J. Booth, director of sensory science at McDonald’s USA: Ball, Bone, Bell, and Bone.

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Exact Replica Of The Titanic Planned

According to RawStory –

Flamboyant Australian tycoon Clive Palmer unveiled his plan Tuesday for building a perfect replica of the Titanic — plus a lot of extra lifeboats. More than a century after the original, supposedly unsinkable ocean liner hit an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic, Palmer thinks the time has come to complete the unfinished journey to New York. “The Titanic was the ship of dreams. Titanic II is the ship where dreams will come true,” Palmer said in New York at the project’s official launch.

Rebuffing public skepticism about the project, Palmer said a contract could be signed with China’s CSC Jinling Shipyard within days, with construction starting by the end of this year and the launch in 2016. He wouldn’t say what it will all cost.

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Asteroids Can Be Redirected With Spray Paint

Phys.org reports –

There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor is exploring. It’s a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint, and the science behind it is absolutely rock solid, so to speak, so much so that NASA is getting involved and wants to know much more.

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Bananas Used As Artist’s Medium

Artist, Honey, makes fascinating, illustration-type artwork on bananas. It is an unusual choice of medium as the works surely will vanish in a few days or hours. Her site has many examples of her work.

 

Classic Newspapers – The Big Snow of 1982

Most St. Louisans (at least the ones who are 40 or older) remember the snow storm of 1982 as the ‘Big One’ that virtually shut down the city. A week after the storm, the Post-Dispatch published a special section covering the event. All 12 pages of that section have just added to HotMeatloaf.com.

View the Big Snow section HERE

Check out other papers at STLPapers.epizy.com HERE

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Fantastic Animal Photos from TheFabWeb

TheFabWeb has collected another great set of photos – this time the set is of animals. The pics on TheFabWeb can be super-sized by clicking on its description. Below is Jane Goodall with a chimp in 1964.

See all the pics at TheFabWeb

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FreeFile Review – Team Viewer

If you are tech support for friends or family, Team Viewer is a must-have. Team Viewer allows one desktop to be viewed and controlled by another PC over the internet. Gone forever are the days of someone who is “bad with computers” trying to describe their problem and you attempting to explain to them what they need to do to fix the issue.

Team Viewer works with both Windows and Mac. It requires no installation – just run the application. Two different modules are used – the simple customer module, runs immediately without installation and does not require administrative rights. The PC remoting in runs the complete module. The client gives their ID and password, which are entered into your complete module and a connection is established. Team Viewer claims this connection is completely secure. I have never had problems with firewalls or any security software while running Team Viewer. I have used it only with broadband connections on both ends, but it will work with dial-up, albeit rather slowly. A chat client is included, but I find it easier to have the other person on the phone. TeamViewer is free for all non-commercial users.

– – – – The Bottom Line – – – –

I’ve used Team Viewer many times and I find it has saved many hours fixing PC problems for friends and family. It works smoothly – a distant computer can be operated as if you are sitting in front of it. I find Team Viewer to be indispensable.

Team Viewer site

Download Team Viewer HERE

Read more FreeFile Reviews at DanKostecki.com

 

 

World’s Smallest Street Legal Car – Peel P50

Peel, of the UK, hand builds reproduction models of their classic 1960’s P50. They claim that it is street legal in the US and UK. The specs are underwhelming – 1 passenger, 3 wheels, 130 pounds total weight, 30mph top speed, fiberglass body, unspecified engine. And the really bad news is a reported price of $16,000. I think it’s cute, but way, way too small, and $16,000???

Go to Peel’s site

 

 

Help Name The 2 New Moons Of Pluto

Two new moons have recently been found orbiting Pluto and you can give your 2 cents on what to call them at PlutoRocks.com. Pick your two choices from a list or fill out a write-in ballot. Voting ends at noon EST on Monday, February 25th, 2013.

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011 and 2012 revealed two previously unknown moons of Pluto. So far, we have been calling them “P4” and “P5”, but the time has come to give them permanent names. If it were up to you, what would you choose? By tradition, the names of Pluto’s moons come from Greek and Roman mythology, and are related to the ancient tales about Hades and the Underworld. 

Please pick your favorites on the ballot HERE.

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