January 30, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Ahead of Sunday's game, Times Square becomes Super Bowl Boulevard, with of course a 60-foot toboggan ride.
- NFL may abandon Roman numerals for Super Bowls—a poll reveals just 5% of Americans can decipher "XLVIII."
- NFL cheerleading is a scam.
- The NFL has long been supported by ads degrading women—concussions changed all that, and now the league loves mothers.
- German brewers face legal barriers when flavoring—aka Americanizing—their product.
- The word "binge" is acceptable only in the context of television, though it shouldn't be.
- When a rare deep freeze shut down parts of the South this week, some experienced chaos, others had a snow day.
- UK to join 26 American states in banning sale of e-cigarettes to minors.
- Humanistic portraits of childhood stuffed animals.
- See also: Teddy bears ripped open, gutted, and turned inside out.
- It's hard to craft a cohesive and decipherable olfactive narrative. The oPhone solves this problem.
- Letters are in need of better ways to sign off, a word between "Yours" and "Very truly yours."
- How @N was extorted out of his Twitter username.
- Now that I had traversed the line from doctor to patient, I had the same yearning for the numbers all patients ask for.
- Area grandma enjoys flourishing correspondence with Mailer-Daemon.
- Classical music has waned—that's not the same as dead.
- Which BuzzFeed quiz are you?
