Author: If This Then That

Put the internet to work for you.
Posted on

Shared: Rocky Balboa (2006) – Quotes – IMDb

Rocky Balboa (2006) – Quotes – IMDb:

The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you’re hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!

Posted on

Shared: Sticky

Sticky by jilli rose:


Exiled from the tropical paradise where they evolved, a tiny population of remarkable stick insects dodged extinction by hiding under a single windswept bush on the world’s tallest sea stack for 80 years. Thanks to a dedicated team of scientists they’re now living safely in captivity, but when can they go home?

Keep in touch with us over at https://www.facebook.com/StickyShortFilm . We’d love to hear from you.

Awards:
SXSW Films for the Forest 2014 (WINNER: Best Film Under 40 Minutes)
St Kilda Film Festival 2014 (WINNER: Best Documentary, NOMINATED: Best Film)
San Francisco Green Film Festival 2014 (WINNER: Best Short Film)
Canberra Short Film Festival 2014 (WINNER, Best Short Film)
Antenna Documentary Festival 2014 (HONOURABLE MENTION, Best Short Film)

Screenings:
IUCN World Parks Congress, Sydney, November 2014
American Conservation Film Festival, Shepherdstown, October 2014
Port Townsend Film Festival, Port Townsend, September 2014
File Anima+, Sao Paolo, August – September 2014
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival, Vancouver, August 2014
St Kilda Film Festival Regional Tour, Mallacoota, Eaglehawk, Nhill, Camperdown, July 2014
Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series, Big Sur, July 2014
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, June 2014
Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, June 2014
Pineapple Underground Film Festival, Hong Kong, June 2014
Brooklyn Film Festival, New York, May 2014
Mountainfilm, Telluride, May 2014
International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker, Sofia, May 2014
Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, May 2014
Green Film Festival, Seoul, May 2014
St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, May 2014
San Francisco Green Film Festival, San Francisco, May 2014
Australian International Animation Festival, Wagga Wagga, May 2014
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, May 2014
Future Film Festival, Bologna, April 2014
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, April 2014
International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, April 2014
ANIMFEST, Athens, March 2014
SXSW Films for the Forest, Austin, March 2014
Tricky Women, Vienna, March 2014
Cinequest, San Jose, March 2014

Posted on

How to Build a Hopback

Homebrewers love hops—it’s no secret. You will always remember the first time you smelled those powerful pellets drop into the kettle. The little bitter cones give beer life, personality and uncanny edginess. Without them, beer would often times be unbalanced, overly sweet and uninteresting. Hops are so important, some people devote their entire lives to […]

The post How to Build a Hopback appeared first on American Homebrewers Association.

via American Homebrewers Association http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pimp-my-system/build-hopback/

Posted on

Shared: Why Microsoft’s reorganization is a bad idea | stratechery by Ben Thompson

Why Microsoft’s reorganization is a bad idea | stratechery by Ben Thompson:

DuPont, the famous chemical company, was actually built on gunpowder. Founded in the early 1800s, DuPont was a small family concern until the early 1900s, when Pierre DuPont modernized and organized the company around functions: primarily sales and manufacturing. The structure served DuPont well, particularly in World War I, when in response to overwhelming demand DuPont vertically integrated its supply chain, and grew to become one of the largest companies in the world.

After the war, DuPont needed to diversify, and paint, which involved a similar compound to gunpowder, was the area they chose to focus on. Yet, despite the fact DuPont was perhaps the most professionally run corporation in America, losses soared. Eventually, a disconnect between sales and manufacturing was identified as the root cause, and the cure was a new organization around two separate gunpowder and paint divisions.

And thus, the divisional structure was borne. It returned DuPont to profitability, and remains the model for nearly every corporation of significant size, except, notably, for Apple.

And now, Microsoft.

Posted on

Shared: Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food?

Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food? by MinuteEarth:

Sponsored by Tab for a Cause: http://www.tabforacause.org?r=3 

MinuteEarth is also now on Patreon! Please support us at: http://www.patreon.com/minuteearth

And subscribe! – http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth?sub_confirmation=1

Thanks to:
– Subbable supporter Martin Dinov https://www.linkedin.com/in/martindinov
– Patreon patrons:
– @AntoineCoeur
– salar tel
– @TodayIFoundOut1
– @82abhilash

Created by Henry Reich
Production and Writing Team: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert, Ever Salazar, Kate Yoshida, and Henry Reich
Music by Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder

Free iTunes podcasts of MinuteEarth! – http://podcast.minuteearth.com/
Facebook – http://facebook.com/minuteearth
Twitter – http://twitter.com/MinuteEarth

MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth’s environment — in just a few minutes!

References

Braidwood, R.J., et al. (1953) Symposium: Did Man Once Live by Beer Alone? American Anthropologist (55)4: 515-526 http://bit.ly/13CJ0q7

Curtis, V.,  de Barra, M., & Aunger R. (2011) Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366: 389-401. http://bit.ly/1AKLMUi

FAO (2006) Good hygiene practices along the coffee chain. http://bit.ly/1Gv3BdB
Fontana C., et al. (2010) Surface microbiota analysis of Taleggio, Gorgonzola, Casera, Scimudin and Formaggio di Fossa Italian cheeses. International Journal of Food Microbiology 138:205–211. http://bit.ly/1w2lTLs

Hart, B.L. (1990) Behavioral adaptations to pathogens and parasites: five strategies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 14: 273–294. http://bit.ly/1AiKYI9
Katz, Sandor. Interview: August 8, 2014.

Kindstedt, P.S. (2013) Making Great Cheeses, part 2. American Society for Microbiology: Microbe Magazine 8(5): 361–367. http://bit.ly/13g60dK

Mennella, J.A., et al. (2001) Prenatal and post-natal flavor learning by human infants. Pediatrics 107: e88. http://bit.ly/1Aupl5S

Image Credits

  1. Rotten apple – Rafal Olkis / Shutterstock
  2. Apple – Abhijit Tembhekar http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Apple.jpg
  3. Cheese – Dieter Seeger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emmentaler_aoc_block.jpg
  4. Chocolate – Flickr user jules http://www.flickr.com/photos/58367355@N00/3866423477/
  5. Bacteria – US Naval Research Laboratory http://www.nrl.navy.mil/PressReleases/2012/image1_8-12r_1019x671.jpg
  6. Kid eating chocolate – Zurijeta / Shutterstock
  7. Woman with coffee – beginwithaspin / Shutterstock
  8. Bread is torn in half – Laboko / Shutterstock
  9. Rotten Meat – arc15 user The_Camp_Ninja http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1234345
  10. Salami – André Karwath http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salami_aka.jpg
  11. Decomposed Meat – Youtube user agnozja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OMTywqUPvg
  12. Inside cacao – Irene Scott/AusAID http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfataustralianaid/10708819954/
  13. Cocoa Beans – Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfataustralianaid/10687048615/in/photostream/
  14. Cocoa Beans 2 – Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfataustralianaid/10687070725/in/photostream/
  15. Chocolate – Peter Pearson https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterpearson/2359015164
  16. Gorgonzola – Formaggio Kitchen http://www.formaggiokitchen.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1153
  17. Feet – Wikimedia user Kayau http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kayau’s_feet.jpg
  18. Fish Sauce – Wikimedia user Lord Mountbatten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fish_sauce-Vientiane.JPG
  19. Kiviaq – Inga Sørensen https://picasaweb.google.com/107346908723426363590/RejseTilGrNlandAug20093#5417783833033827874
  20. Stinky Tofu – Wikimedia user Richy http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stinky_Tofu_Mala.jpg
  21. Sauerkraut – Wikimedia user Qwerty Binary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sauerkraut_2.jpg
  22. Soy Sauce – Flickr user Creative Tools http://www.flickr.com/photos/creative_tools/4341203106/
  23. Prosciutto – Flickr user Sun Taro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prosciutto_di_Parma_-_affettato2.jpg
  24. Kefir Milk – Wikimedia user Quijote http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kefir_in_a_glass.JPG
  25. Kimchi – Flickr user Nagyman http://www.flickr.com/photos/nagy/23219340/
  26. Kombucha Mature – Wikimedia user Mgarten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kombucha_Mature.jpg
  27. Koumiss bottle – Wikimedia user A.Savin http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kumys-bottle.jpg
  28. Katsuobushi – Sakurai Midori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Katsuobushi.jpg
  29. Wine – André Karwath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Wine_Glass.jpg
  30. Yogurt – Wikimedia user Oxytousc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yogurtland_Yogurt_High_Res.jpg
Posted on

Shared: Stone Delicious IPA

Stone Delicious IPA by Stone Brewing Co.:

Stone has always been obsessed with brewing bold, high-quality craft beer. When we developed this pleasantly bitter, deliciously lemony IPA, we took it as an opportunity to do something we’d spent over a year researching and perfecting: reducing the amount of gluten in the beer* to the degree that nearly everyone could experience our no-holds-barred approach to craft brewing.

An enzyme added during the brewing process called Clarity Ferm did the heavy lifting, cutting the beer’s gluten content to well below the threshold of 20 parts per million required by the Food and Drug Administration to label a product “gluten-free.” What it did not diminish—by any stretch—was this IPA’s flavor.

Posted on

Shared: The Search for General Tso – Official Trailer I HD I Sundance Selects

The Search for General Tso – Official Trailer I HD I Sundance Selects by IFC Films:

Opening in theaters and VOD January 2nd

Directed by: Ian Cheney

This mouthwateringly entertaining film travels the globe to unravel a captivating culinary mystery. General Tso’s chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence on restaurant menus across the country. But just who was General Tso? And how did his chicken become emblematic of an entire national cuisine? Director Ian Cheney (King Corn) journeys from Shanghai to New York to the American Midwest and beyond to uncover the origins of this iconic dish, turning up surprising revelations and a host of humorous characters along the way. Told with the verve of a good detective story,The Search for General Tso is as much about food as it is a tale of the American immigrant experience.

Subscribe to IFC: http://youtube.com/user/IFCFilmsTube

Connect with IFC Online
IFC Films Official Site: http://www.ifcfilms.com
Follow IFC Films on Twitter: http://twitter.com/IFCFilms
Find IFC Films on Facebook: http://facebook.com/IFCFilmsOfficial
Follow IFC Films on Instagram : http://instagram.com/ifcfilms