SNL expertly uses Jason Momoa to mock fragile masculinity

The former Game of Thrones star proves to be a good sport in a pair of SNL sketches that make manly men look ridiculous. Jason Momoa, who is both 10-feet tall and 10-feet wide, has almost impossibly shaped eyebrows and a goatee that looks like a tornado of tarantulas. Hes basically an avatar of overblown masculinity, and sometimes he even acts that wayin real life, too. So it was an unexpected delight to see how game the former Game of Thrones star was to puncture his manly persona while hosting this weeksSaturday Night Live.Read Full Story

4 ways to track the massive Southern snowstorm

A major winter storm is making its way across the Southern U.S. Heres how to track it. More than 200,000 people were without power on Sunday as a major winter storm pummeled parts of the Southern United States. The storm is expected to reach from northeast Georgia to northwest South Carolina and central/southern Virginia, the National Weather Service said. Substantial snowfall accumulations are expectedacross the southern Appalachians and the adjacent Piedmont region of North Carolina and south-central Virginia.Read Full Story

Food for Agile Thought #171

ENTERPRISE MOBILITY: BUSINESS DRIVERS, BENEFITS, RISKS AND CHALLENGES

Meet the Tumblr refugees trying to save its adult content from oblivion

Tumblr posters of porn and kink fear a ban on naughty content will eviscerate not only their blogs, but the communities theyve built on the networks. The internet is for porn, goes the song from musical Avenue Q. Since Tumblr announced this week that it will no longer be part of that internet, many users are mounting an exodus to existing networks like still-freewheeling Twitter, as well as efforts to build a new kind of Tumblror rather, the kind of Tumblr that Tumblr had been until now.Read Full Story

Google’s Pixel Slate: Great Chromebook, not-so-great iPad/Surface rival

With an optional keyboard and pen, this device wants to split the difference between tablet and laptop. But the meshing of Chrome OS and Android needs work. Since their 2011 launch, Chromebooks have been synonymous with low-cost, easily managed laptops that have strong appeal for education. But in 2013, when Google shipped the first Chromebook Pixela premium machine with a touchscreenit became clear that the company was intent on exploring new frontiers for its browser-centric Chrome OS operating system.Read Full Story

This is the effective way to be an optimist if you struggle with thinking positive thoughts

This author struggled to adhere to the advice of just think positive thoughts, until she found a form of optimism. Just think positive thoughts.Read Full Story

The giant Ocean Cleanup device is having some trouble cleaning up the ocean

Its first trial in the open ocean has revealed some problems, but creator Boyan Slat is confident a few simple fixes can get it back on track. In the middle of October, a nearly 2,000-foot-long floating device designed to capture plastic trash in the ocean arrived in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between California and Hawaii. It was the beginning of a first-of-a-kind experiment: Could new technology help remove the 1.8 trillion-plus pieces of plastic that float in the area?Read Full Story