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• A Brief History of Potato Chips
• A Library Research Guide for <i>The Golden Girls</i>
• The Slowest Lambourgini is Up For Auction
• Primary Targets: Fabrice Mathieu's Sequel to <i>Terminator 2</i>

A Brief History of Potato Chips Posted: 07 Jan 2022 04:56 PM PST Saratoga Springs, New York, is famous as the birthplace of the potato chip. The story goes that in 1853, railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt dined at at Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs and sent back his fried potatoes because they weren't thin enough. Chef George Crum maliciously compiled with Vanderbilt's demand, and fried up super-thin potato slices until they were extra crispy. But Vanderbilt loved them, and the potato chip was born. Crum opened his own restaurant, and became famous for his chips. Since then, earlier recipes for the same dish were found, but Crum's chips caused people to make the pilgrimage to Sarasota Springs to try them. That was just the beginning of the story, as other people made the snack accessible to all, from the Ohio man who got them into grocery stores, to the California woman who bagged them for freshness, to the movie star who dared us to try to eat just one. Read the history of the potato chip -or chips, since you can't eat just one- at Smithsonian.

A Library Research Guide for <i>The Golden Girls</i> Posted: 07 Jan 2022 02:46 PM PST In the olden days, librarians would make printed guides to doing research for various topics. These were called pathfinders or research guides. Then the internet happened, and librarians adopted the practice for online environments. Then the Springshare developed LibGuides, which is basically an online content management system for libraries. This isn't an advertisement for LibGuides. I just love their product. A professor can email me a class research assignment and I can throw a research guide for it online in as little as 15 minutes. Now Rice University's Fondren Library has kicked up the game. Librairan Jeanette Sewell, who identifies as "the Official Golden Girls Librarian" offers her patrons (and us) a LibGuide on The Golden Girls. This is timely, given the recent departure of Betty White from among us. I'm especially impressed with Sewell's scholarly bibliography on The Golden Girls, which would be especially helpful for both pop culture researchers and casual fans. -via Rebecca Baumann

The Slowest Lambourgini is Up For Auction Posted: 07 Jan 2022 03:49 AM PST This is a restored Lamborghini 5C TL tractor that was built in the 1960s. Owning this would make you the envy of all the guys down at the co-op! If you're not a gearhead, you might be surprised to know that Lambourgini built tractors before the company ever built cars. Ferruccio Lamborghini grew up on the family vineyard and was always fascinated by farm machinery. After World War II he designed tractors that would get Italy back in its feet again. He became so wealthy that he could afford nice sports cars, which eventually included Ferraris. But as an engineer, he wasn't happy with his Ferrari, and let the company founder, Enzo Ferrari, know about it. He took his grievances to Enzo Ferrari and the two famously head-strong men had a wild argument over it – the result being that Ferruccio started his own car company to show Enzo how it should be done. The two companies remain each other’s greatest rivals to this day.   While Lamborghini's name became forever associated with luxury sports cars, he continued to build tractors into the 1970s. Read about Lambourgini and his tractors at Silodrome. -via Fark   Get the details of this particular model at the auction listing. Bidding will close on January 10.

Primary Targets: Fabrice Mathieu's Sequel to <i>Terminator 2</i> Posted: 07 Jan 2022 03:45 AM PST Yeah, we know there was a Terminator 3, but even if we consider it canon, there's room for further adventures anywhere in that messed-up timeline, as we've seen from the many other forgettable Terminator sequels, and you can improve upon them as you will. After the events of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sarah Connor and her son John took on new identities. But now there are several terminators (model T-800) sent back to find them. Fabrice Mathieu (previously at Neatorama) edited together more than a dozen movies to create this clever dialogue-free action sequence. -Thanks Fabrice!

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