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Deep in the bowels of Walt Disney World, inside an underground bunker called the Disney Operational Command Center, technicians know that you are standing in line and that you are most likely annoyed about it. Their clandestine mission: to get you to the fun faster.
To handle over 30 million annual visitors - many of them during this busiest time of year for the megaresort - Disney World long ago turned the art of crowd control into a science. But the putative Happiest Place on Earth has decided it must figure out how to quicken the pace even more. A cultural shift toward impatience - fed by video games and smartphones - is demanding it, park managers say. To stay relevant to the entertain-me-right-this-second generation, Disney must evolve.
- Disney Command Center Aims to Keep Lines Moving - NYTimes.com
Ring-like patterns in the sky could be ghostly imprints of a universe that existed before the big bang, according to a controversial new study. If the theory is correct, the cosmic rings may be the first real-world evidence that our current universe is just the latest in an endless string of recycled universes, the study authors say. (Related: “Universe Reborn Endlessly in New Model of the Cosmos.”) Astronomers found the circular patterns in a new analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the radiation left over from the big bang that now permeates the universe.
- Space Circles Are Proof of a Pre-Big Bang Universe?
Most Hollywood A-listers have taken on a variety of roles to reach the top of the Tinseltown totem pole. Some actors have played the hero and others have made a career out of portraying the despicable villain, but the good guys and bad guys share one common trait: many of them have died multiple times in their movies. ChaCha.com has gifted us with an answer to a question that may be plaguing the most morbid of cinephiles - which actors have died the most during their careers? A nifty little diagram - which you can check out in the gallery below - maps out how many times 15 of Hollywood’s most killed stars have met their maker, along with an interesting fact about each one.
- Which Actors Have Died the Most in Movies? - The Moviefone Blog
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Nerdy Nesting Dolls of the Day: Homemade Christmas presents are all too often a death knell for joy, unless you happen to be Molly Lewis’s boyfriend, in which case you’re in for a treat: A 12-piece Doctor Who nesting doll set, hand-painted with love.
[@molly23 / slashgear / h/t: buzzfeed.]
After a particularly bad 2007, lawyer John Kralik decided to start 2008 with a serious New Year’s resolution: to be thankful for the good things and people in his life. So he spent the next year writing one thank you note for each day - to family, friends, co-workers, even the barista at his local Starbucks. Those notes make up his new book, 365 Thank Yous: The Year A Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life. Why not just say thanks? Kralik tells NPR’s Liane Hansen that it was his grandfather who fostered his interest in written gratitude at an early age.
- Perfect Thank You Notes: Heartfelt And Handwritten : NPR
When ITV’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express arrives in living rooms today, on Christmas Day, there will be a satisfying sense of destiny fulfilled for its lead actor. In 1989, when David Suchet was cast as Agatha Christie’s fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, he and his wife Sheila celebrated with a trip on the Orient Express from Paris to Calais. Twenty-one years and 64 Poirot stories later, Suchet, 64, has at last been able to tackle the murder on that famous train. “I have never seen a man so excited in my life,” says producer Karen Thrussell, recalling the moment Suchet received the script. The rights to film the story again only became available in 2008, following a poorly received 2001 modern-day version starring Alfred Molina.
- David Suchet’s Poirot finally boards the Orient Express - Telegraph
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Giclée Print of the Day: “Cthulhu Santa” by Robin Levy.
Skip the cookies and milk; Cthulhu Santa perfers human souls and Diet Mr Pibb.
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Click to viewA performer was injured in a fall during Monday night’s performance of the stage musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” according to a representative of the show.
Christopher Tierney, 31, is listed in serious condition, said Bellevue Hospital spokesman Steven Bohlen.
Jonathan Dealwis, a tourist from New Zealand who was in the audience, said Tierney fell “about six meters,” or about 20 feet.
Reeve Carney is the actor who plays Spider-Man, but nine people perform Spider-Man’s stunts when the character is masked, according to show spokesman Jaron Caldwell.
Dealwis said the accident happened near the end of the show.
“Spider-Man was on a bridge, and Mary Jane was dangling from it,” Dealwis said. “I think he was meant to sort of swoop over there, but he just fell off. … The harness, you could see it just flick off his back and fly backward.
- ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ performer hospitalized after fall - CNN.com
eople who watch funny videos on the internet at work aren’t necessarily wasting time. They may be taking advantage of the latest psychological science - putting themselves in a good mood so they can think more creatively.
- Positive mood allows human brain to think more creatively
I made tiny gingerbread houses that are meant to be perched on the edge of a mug of hot chocolate. (via not martha - a tiny gingerbread house that perches on the edge of your mug)
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Skullsmas Sweater of the Day: From TopShop: “Grey cardigan by Sister with sequin fairisle skull pattern embellishment and two front pockets.”
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