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Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats makes you more attentive than being stabbed in the face

( bad ideas and misc and science )

I saw a great slogan on a box of cereal that my roommate bought today: “Eating a breakfast of Kellogg’s® Frosted Mini-Wheats® cereal is clinically shown to improve kid’s attentiveness by nearly 20%!1”
The best part was the footer on the bottom of the back of the box:
“1Based upon independent clinical research, kids who ate Kellogg’s® [...]

Textedit saves open files on crash

( Apple and misc )

Uh, so I knew that Word would save copies of my open files, and firefox would reopen my session and tabs on a crash, but when did textedit start doing that?
I have a bad habit of keeping notes in textedit (stickies started losing data on me) and not saving them. I just had a kernel [...]

Best iPhone tips site yet

( Apple and iPhone and multitouch )

This thread’s great.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1400919&page=1&pp=15
So far I’ve learned:
• You can take a screenshot on the iphone by holding down the hold menu button and hitting the sleep button. It gets saved to your photo roll.
• You can insert punctuation by simply clicking on the .?123 button, holding, and dragging to a character, and when you let go [...]

Film scores turned into musicals

( Music and humor and misc )

Oh my god, this guy is hilarious.