Miss Cellania
Morning Cup of Links: Misfortune Cookies
by Miss Cellania - March 11, 2010 - 4:20 AM
bloghead_Coffee-Links.gif

The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded. Someone stealing your idea can hurt but also pay off handsomely years down the road. (via Metafilter)
*
The Top Ten Wildest Moments at the Cannes Film Festival. We’ll have to wait until May to see of anything joins the list this year. (Some pics NSFW)
*
How to write a Hollywood romantic comedy in ten easy steps. Although their examples are fairly new, this formula has been used for decades. (via Gorilla Mask)
*
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) were  a thousand volunteers who learned to fly during World War II because the US military was suffering from a shortage of pilots. Sixty-five years later they were finally honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.
*
In the opening sequence of the film The Hurt Locker, a soldier wears an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) suit pretty close to the spot where a bomb goes off. The manufacturer gives us the lowdown on how the suit protects a soldier from both shockwave and shrapnel. (via Unique Daily)
*
Misfortune Cookies. Just enough to make you feel sorry you bought a Chinese dinner.
*
5 Things Your Car Will Finally Do In 2020. Let’s hope that “stop when you step on the brake pedal” is among those things.

« Previous Post   -   Next Post »
Click here to get a Risk-Free issue of mental_floss magazine
Comments (8)

  1. >an explosive ordnance disposal (OED) suit

    Shouldn’t the abbreviation be EOD? OED makes me think he’s carrying an enormous stack of dictionaries to hide behind.

    posted by Steven on 3-11-2010 at 12:23 pm

  2. Ha! I should learn to type. Fixed.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 3-11-2010 at 12:25 pm

  3. I had no idea that the development of facebook was so shady! I feel sorry for the kids who were trying to develop the other site.

    posted by Suz on 3-11-2010 at 12:59 pm

  4. The Misfortune cookies were weird.

    posted by Sara in Al on 3-11-2010 at 1:39 pm

  5. Might want to note the Cannes site is NSFW pics.

    posted by Helenann on 3-11-2010 at 1:58 pm

  6. A friend just got accepted into Army EOD school – I’ll have to send him that info on the suit. EOD school is 44 weeks.

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 3-11-2010 at 4:10 pm

  7. The “other” guys,involved in Facebook, should have put things in writing. They should have gotten no money. They were idiots for not getting it in writing. I bet the “dev” gets things in writing.

    posted by gus on 3-11-2010 at 5:35 pm

  8. Might also wish to note that Uproxx (How to Write a Romantic Comedy) is highly vulgar and probably NSFW.

    posted by Seanette on 3-12-2010 at 3:35 am

Comment

commenting policy