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One of the bad kids, don’t know wrong from right
99 Food Holidays To Celebrate This Summer | BuzzFeed
May 30: National Mint Julep Day (Recipe)
America’s Joan of Arc (pictured) and other unsung heroes in the United States’ history feature in the upcoming book “Secret Heroes: Everyday Americans Who Shaped Our World.”

Fan-Made Harry Potter Web Series Hopes to Bring Aurors To NYC | BuzzFeed
This is like that fake-FX Auror TV show, except these fans are using Kickstarter to make it into web series. As BuzzFeed points out, let’s hope they don’t get shut down by Warner Bros. for copyright infringement. Regardless, this trailer is pretty kick ass.
Like its precursor, tweets from @nytimes_ebooks are surprisingly compelling and accidentally hilarious. Harris describes in a blog post how he did it: A script crawls the New York Times RSS feed for recent stories, extracts quotes from the text (“better for ebookification,” he writes), and converts the text into a Markov chain. Harris has no control over the text produced by his bot, which he finds “both comforting and alarming.”
The source material includes the darkest moments of the human experience. He said the project is not unlike the artwork in the Times’ 8th Avenue building, a series of mounted screens that pluck phrases from stories and flash them without context.
Obvious Fix of the Day: No matter the ailment/imposition/narwhal attack, Rhett and Link remind us: Rub some bacon on it.
(Don’t forget to look for the annotations hidden throughout the video.)
This was an awkward meet and greet
The Wizard of Oz