Japanese novelty manufacturer Sanrio has put a 1.6-inch-tall Hello Kitty figure into space on board a Hodoyoshi-3 satellite to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the fictional feline’s introduction.
Of course, this isn’t Kitty’s first space trip. Last year Lauren Rojas of Antioch, California launched Hello Kitty 93,625 feet into space as a seventh grade science fair project.
Like cats with your coffee? The Purina One Cat Café just opened in Manhattan. It’s a coffee shop full of kitties, all of them up for adoption. A similar tea shop is planned for San Francisco but, without corporate sponsorship, it hasn’t gotten off the ground.
Cat cafés seem to have started in Japan and spread to Europe, but New York’s is the first in the United States, though it will only be open for four days. Purina One Cat Café is downtown and, as seems natural, is only 8 blocks from Katz’s Delicatessen.
Purina One Cat Café, 168 Bowery, New York, NY 10013
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In 1835 New York dairy farmer Thomas Meacham sent President Andrew Jackson a 1,400-pound wheel of cheese as a gift. It aged in the Entrance Hall of the White House for two years. On January 29, 1837 the President, as was the custom, invited the public to a reception in the East Room and offered a choice refreshment: Cheese. Hungry citizens finished the entire cheese in two hours, but its fragrance lingered in Entrance Hall for some time.
At 9:00 PM on January 29, 2014, the day after he delivers the State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama has invited the public to a virtual Big Block of Cheese Day. There’s no free cheese, but White House officials will respond to questions in real time via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram and Google+ Hangout (hashtag #AsktheWH). Whether this is a good idea or not remains to be seen, but it sure seems like White House staffers learned about Andy Jackson’s big cheese from the West Wing TV show:
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“Here’s how the world’s first synthetic meat tastes,” Lindsay Abrams, Salon
“Test-Tube Burger: Lab-Cultured Meat Passes Taste Test (Sort of),” Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Scientific American
Americans love big burgers. We’re talking BIG burgers here, not your puny Quarter-Pounders™. Would you like the 2-pound Hercules Burger. 2-pound, 4-ounce T-Rex Burger, 3-pound 911 Burger, 7-pound Zeus Burger, 25-pound Beer Barrel Burgenator, 134-pound Absolutely Ridiculous Burger, 19,490- calorie 100 X 100 – In-n-Out Burger, or 2014 pound Black Bear Casino Burger?
Would you like a bale of fries with that?
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“7 Very Big Burgers,” Roma Panganiban, Mental Floss
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From New Zealand’s Elvish TV Network (OneNews.co.nz). Stay tuned for Hobbit Celebrity News.
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“Behind the Scenes of the Middle Earth Weather Forecast” (video)
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The space shuttle Endeavour landed in Florida early this morning. The 20-year-old space heap was cobbled together out of spare parts from the 1984-model Discovery and 1985 Atlantis shuttles. Endeavour’s next trip? It’s going to a museum.
So is another spacecraft. George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic Mothership is headed to the Smithsonian. Not the original 1976 stage prop — it went to a junkyard in Maryland — but a mid-Nineties version. That’s right, Endeavour is about the same age as the Mothership.
Space shuttle Atlantis is even older. First launched in 1985. it will fly again on NASA’s last space shuttle mission in July.
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“Spaceport Opens for Tours,” Monica Drake, New York Times
“Australians create ‘space beer’ for intergalactic tourists,” The Telegraph
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Sarah Palin successfully stole the thunder from the annual Rolling Thunder event honoring America’s war dead. In leathers and heels, she rode pillion on a Harley and crossed Memorial Bridge from Arlington to the National Mall.
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