With six states, there are plenty of places you could live in New England. But where should you live?
Where In New England Should You Actually Live?
Slimed Celebrities At The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards
Because the green slime is always the best part.
Mark Wahlberg
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Pharrell Williams and Kaley Cuoco
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21 Cookie Butter Recipes You Must Know About
Biscoff + Butter? Hurry! There’s no time to lose!
Salted Chocolate Cookie Butter Bark
Perfect for a snack on the go, right? Full recipe here.
Chocolate Chip Biscoff Cheesecake Bites
If you want to deviate from the ole plain cheesecake routine. Full recipe.
Cookie Butter Brown Sugar Cookie
For the one who loves the simple things in life. Recipe.
Biscoff Semifreddo
How fancy! This frozen egg white, sugary concoction is perfect for a hot summer day. Recipe.
Obama Predicted End Of Enrollment Health Care Website Problems Weeks Ago
President Obama warned that increased traffic could kill HealthCare.gov on the last day of enrollment at a Telemundo town hall.
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WASHINGTON — The Obamacare website crashed for a second time Monday afternoon, a result of what the Department of Health and Human Services told reporters was "record traffic" on the last official day of enrollment in the Affordable Care Act.
The HealthCare.gov crashes and another glitch on the White House website's enrollment deadline countdown clock were an embarrassing reminder of the snafus the administration had to overcome at the outset of enrollment on Oct. 1.
But for the traffic-related crashes at least, it was a problem President Obama saw coming. At a Telemundo town hall on the Affordable Care Act on March 6, the president warned potential applicants that HeathCare.gov could go down under the weight of traffic on the last weekend of enrollment.
Obama:
[F]or people who, let's say, started to sign up in October, the website was terrible in October. It was-- and it still wasn't very good in November. And so if you got discouraged initially, please go back and take a look and see, in fact, is it working, and can you get the information that you need.
Here's part of the concern that I have, is that if everybody waits until the last minute, everybody waits until March 27 or 28, then in some ways it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because if you have five million people all going on the website at the same time, even if it's a great website that's working well now, then yes, there are gonna be delays because there are only so many people that any website can absorb at a single time.
HHS spokesperson Joanne Peters said Monday's site problems were caused by huge traffic numbers, albeit lower than the 5 million number Obama referred to.
"There are a record number of people trying to access HealthCare.gov right now – more than 100,000 people concurrently in the system as of noon," she said. "The tech team monitoring HealthCare.gov in real time has identified an issue with users creating new accounts."
Peters said HHS is "working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible" and noted that the problems only affect new users. "The Data Services Hub is still fully operational," she said. "Users already in system remain able to complete enrollment."
Though March 31 is the official deadline for enrollment, the administration has extended the availability of online enrollment for users who self-identify as being unable to complete registration by the end of Monday.
On MSNBC's The Daily Rundown Monday, White House Affordable Care Act pointman Phil Schiliro equated the extension to allowing voters already in line to vote even after polls have officially closed.
Do You Actually Love 50 Cent?
Would you love him if he was down and out? Find out in 21 questions.
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Lindsay Lohan's New Hobby Is Pole Dancing
Hey, whatever works.
The controversial star discussed her favorite hobby on her show Lindsay.
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"It's actually a really good workout. It's really empowering for women to get to know your body and yourself."
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"I like doing that kind of workout and I sweat more doing that than I do doing yoga, or getting on a treadmill, or anything else."
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Why does the light bulb have to be red?
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23 Surefire Ways To Piss Off A Server
The job is a lot more difficult than you think.
Splitting the bill 17 ways with 5 mixed matched methods of payment.
Yes, the process is streamlined with a POS system, but it's easier to let them know before hand.
Via economictimes.indiatimes.com
Complaining or wanting a refund after finishing the entire meal.
Via seriouseats.com
Talking on the phone while the server is trying to take your order.
"Just go ahead and text the order when you're ready."
Asking for copious amounts of complementary items.
Seven baskets of bread sticks is enough.
Via dealnews.com
Watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt Awkwardly Defend Cutting His Hair In 1998
From when JGL’s hair was more famous than he was.
In 1998, Joseph Gordon-Levitt went on Conan to promote his latest movie, Halloween H2O. The first thing Conan remarked was that JGL's hair was gone...
Joe didn't really know what to say...
But then he had to explain how complicated it was to get permission to cut off his distinctive locks.
Which was a big deal, because remember this?
21 Hashtags For Everyone In The Midwest
#WhereTheFuckIsSpring
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18 Strange And Possibly Sacrilegious Vatican Souvenirs Featuring Pope Francis
Because who doesn’t want a papal shot glass?
Bobbleheads.
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Spoons.
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Tapestries.
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Magnets.
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Organizing For Action Is Still Asking For Money After Implying They Would Stop
Yes we can….spam your inbox.
From the Times piece:
Responding to these concerns, several Democrats said Friday that Organizing for Action would cut back its fund-raising activities so the group would not be in competition with the candidates for donors. Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for it, said, "We understand and expect that some of our more than 420,000 contributors will shift their focus to their local campaigns during the midterm season."
But OFA definitely has not cut back their email fundraising effort. The past week has seen 14 emails from OFA that included a link to donate to the group.
(Two of the above emails — "Forward this" and "We're giving this sticker away - want one?" — do not include donate links.)
Organizing for Action Emails/Andrew Kaczynski's Inbox
"As OFA has been fighting for the last year we will continue to tell the success stories of ACA and fight on issues that the american people want to see action on like raising the minimum wage. We understand that some of our more than 420,000 contributors that give an average contribution of under $40 will shift their focus to their local campaigns during the midterm season. OFA does not work on electoral politics, and will still be engaged on the issues through our more than 4.4 million action takers across the country."
45 Things About "Harry Potter" You Wouldn't Know Without Reading The Books
Disclaimer: This list is not a substitution for reading this magical series in its entirety. So get crackin’.
Peeves the Poltergeist
There is a Hogwarts poltergeist named Peeves who wreaks havoc wherever he goes and is actually quite hilarious.
Pass the Moldy Cheese
Ghosts hold deathday parties to celebrate the day that they died. Harry, Ron, and Hermione attended Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday party on Halloween in their second year where they were served rotten fish, maggoty haggis, moldy cheese, and a tombstone-shaped gray cake.
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Close One, Snivellus
When they were students at Hogwarts, Sirius Black intentionally lured Severus Snape to the Shrieking Shack when Remus Lupin was going through his transformation from man to werewolf, with the intention of Snape being gravely injured. But James Potter caught wind of the scheme and went after Snape and saved him.
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Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and James Potter were the authors of the Marauder’s Map.
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MSNBC Shows Wrong Photo In Report About The Death Of Former Senator's Husband
Ronan Farrow reported the death Monday of Ray Hutchison, a former state legislator and the husband of the former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. But the broadcast showed a picture of Kay Bailey Hutchison with former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
The Anxieties Of Working At An Office Vs. Being Your Own Boss
More similar than you think!
17 Alarming Confessions Of Revenge
Payback is a…bit of an understatement.
Facebook Used Its Data To Map Every Baseball Team's Fans By County
Or, why everyone seems to be a Yankees fan.
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Today marks baseball's official Opening Day, and to celebrate, Facebook used some of its user data to map MLB fandom across the country. Specifically, Facebook went to MLB team pages and mapped the likes on each page county by county.
Unsurprisingly, the Yankees appear — based purely off data — to be not only America's favorite team, but Louisiana's favorite team, Virginia's favorite team, Hawaii's favorite team, Alaska's favorite team, and New Mexico's favorite team. If you're a Yankees fan, this is probably a point of pride. For everyone else, the wide dispersement of Yankee fandom no doubt looks like the spread of some vile plague, a nasty pinstriped virus moving swiftly across the nation.
A few more interesting results:
"Red Sox Nation" is real.
The Atlanta Braves own the South.
Via Facebook
14 People You Didn't Know Voiced Multiple Disney Characters
What would our favorite characters be without voices?
Sterling Holloway
Characters he voiced:
Mr. Stork (Dumbo 1941)
Adult Flower (Bambi 1942)
Prof Holloway (The Three Caballerros 1944)
Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 1966)
Kaa the snake (The Jungle Book 1967)
Roquefort the mouse (The AristoCats 1970)
He was also the narrator for Mickey and the Beanstalk in case you weren't convinced he is a true Disney treasure.
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Kathryn Beaumont
Characters she voiced:
Alice (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Wendy Darling (Peter Pan 1953).
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Verna Felton
Characters she voiced:
Mrs. Jumbo (Dumbo 1941)
Fairy Godmother (Cinderella 1950)
Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Aunt Sarah (Lady and the Tramp 1955)
Flora (Sleeping Beauty 1959)
Mother Elephant (The Jungle Book 1967)
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J. Pat O'Malley
Characters he voiced:
Walrus (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Jasper (101 Dalmatians 1961)
Col. Hathi the Elephant (The Jungle Book 1967)
Otto (Robin Hood 1973).
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51 Questions We Need Answered In The "How I Met Your Mother" Series Finale
After nine seasons, there are a lot of loose ends that need to be tied up.
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1. What causes Ted to leave Farhampton the night of the wedding?
2. What causes the Mother to leave Farhampton the night of the wedding?
3. Why is Ted still in New York three days after the wedding when he's supposed to move to Chicago the next day?
4. How does Ted ask the Mother out?
5. When do Ted and the Mother get married?
6. Where do Ted and the Mother get married?
7. Where is Penny born?
8. Who, or what, are Ted and the Mother's son Luke named after?
9. Will we see the Mother's doppelganger?
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10. How long do Lily and Marshall actually live in Italy?
11. Who lives in the apartment when they move? (Or ::gasp:: does a stranger move in?)
12. What does Marshall do in Italy?
13. How does Marshall get back on the judge track after turning down the seat to move to Italy?
14. Does Lily return to teaching when they move back to New York?
15. Where do Marshall and Lily raise their kids?
16. Does Marshall's mom marry Lily's dad?
17. Do Robin and Barney ever adopt?
18. Does Barney get a new job after outing his co-workers to the Feds?
19. Will we see Robin Sparkles again?
20. Do Robin and Barney stay together forever?
Sebelius: Insurers Tell Us 80 To 90 Percent Of "Initial" Obamacare Customers Have Already Paid
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is doing a media blitz of local news channels for Obamacare’s sign-up deadline Monday.
"What we know from insurance companies...tell us for their initial customers it's somewhere between 80, 85, some say as high as 90 percent have paid so far," Sebelius told KWTV during an Obamacare media blitz Monday.
This Browser Tool Lets You See Anyone's Email Address Via LinkedIn
A marketing company is hijacking LinkedIn to promote its data services. And it’s scarily easy.
Via sellhack.com
If you use LinkedIn, your email address can easily be exposed to anyone with access to a web browser, thanks to a Chrome extension called Sell Hack.
The tool, first noticed by Yahoo Tech, is easy to install after a quick visit to Sell Hack's site. Once installed, a small "Hack In" button will appear on any LinkedIn profile. Users will then be able to dig up an email address associated with the user's account even if they're not "connected" via LinkedIn. A recent Sell Hack blog post notes that the site was created for marketing professionals "as an internal email finder tool for us to use when prospecting."
It's important to note that Sell Hack isn't mining LinkedIn's private data; rather it takes publicly available data (like name and work information) and then references that other publicly available data across the web to find an email address. In short, Sell Hack using is LinkedIn's brand and visibility to sell its data service.
Here's how Sell Hack describes the process :
The data we process is all publicly available. We just do the heavy lifting and complicated computing to save you time. We aren't doing anything malicious to the LinkedIn website. We think browser extensions are the best way to personalize an individuals web experience. We love LinkedIn and are trying to make it better for the community.