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Whether you’re feeling nostalgic for the bygone era of Google Reader, or you legitimately need to read through your RSS feeds, Zombie Reader is a tool that lets you do just that.

Zombie Reader works with the previously mentioned Reader is Dead, and gives you a chance to read the archives you downloaded before. It doesn’t function as a working RSS reader, but as an archive of your Google Reader days it works fantastically well. Follow the link below for installation instructions.

Zombie Reader | Persistant.info via Lilputing

via Lifehacker Zombie Reader Browses Your Archived Google Reader Data

Everyone’s got an opinion on the best way to cook a steak. In the great debate over whether to flip or not flip your steaks, though, science proves multi-flippers get better results.

Well, specifically, Kenji at Serious Eats uses his food science mastery to demonstrate why flipping your steaks often (rather than leaving it on the grill or pan undisturbed) is a very good thing:

The idea sort of makes sense at first glance: flipping it only once will give your steak plenty of chance to brown and char properly on each side. But the reality is that flipping a steak repeatedly during cooking—as often as every 30 seconds or so—will produce a crust that is just as good (provided you start with meat with a good, dry surface, as you always should), give you a more evenly cooked interior, and cook in about 30% less time to boot!

The reasons why flipping results in steaks on your plate quicker? With faster flips, both sides of the steak are exposed to the high heat, without giving them time to cool down—almost like cooking both sides at once. Perhaps more importantly, frequently flipped steaks cook more evenly because, Kenji writes:

By allowing each side to cool for a few moments after being heated for a few moments, the intense temperature gradient that can build up near the surface of the steak has time to dissipate. Some of that heat energy is released back into the air, while some of it dissipates into the steak. In either case, it rescues the outer layers from cooking more than they absolutely need to.

This also holds true when cooking burgers.

It takes more work standing by a hot grill or oven, but the time savings and better results may be well worth it. Check out the post on Serious Eats for more steak science.

The Food Lab: Flip Steaks Multiple Times for Better Results | Serious Eats

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via Lifehacker Flip Steaks Multiple Times for Faster, More Even Cooking

Dilbert readers – Please visit Dilbert.com to read this feature. Due to changes with our feeds, we are now making this RSS feed a link to Dilbert.com.

via Dilbert Daily Strip Comic for July 9, 2013

The state of Florida, already the butt of many jokes because of its penchant for news-making citizens, reviled governor and incompetent state government has taken another one on the chin with the news that a poorly-worded law intended to ban Internet cafes and slot machines has overreached and declares any electronic device capable of playing a “game of chance” on the Internet to be illegal. The law is being challenged in court by an Internet cafe owner who was forced to shut down her business following a scandal involving the lieutenant governor….

via MacNN | The Macintosh News Network New Florida law accidentally bans all computers, smartphones

The aircraft known in popular culture as the stealth bomber was built with nearly a decade of work, billions of dollars, and total secrecy from the U.S. government. Even the contractors who worked on it didn’t always know what it was. So how did a Japanese carmaker reveal it before the Air Force?

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via Gizmodo How Honda Revealed The Government’s Top Secret Stealth Bomber First

Watch weapon and prop maker Tony Swatton craft a life-size version of the Sword of Omens from Thundercats. It’s one of his most complicated builds yet, but the result is worth it. MAN AT ARMS HOOOO!!! Hat Tip Link

via The Awesomer Forging the Sword of Omens

Good news, everyone! Wait, no. Not that one. The other one.
Bad news, everyone!
AT&T is considering selling your usage data (location, web browsing history, etc.) to advertisers, having seemingly decided that it’s been too long since everyone was mad at them. Here’s how to opt-out of the program before it begins.

via TechCrunch AT&T Considers Selling Your Browsing History, Location, And More To Advertisers. Here’s How To Opt Out

A modern assembly line can churn out a new vehicle every few minutes, but when carmakers want to build and test a prototype, it takes weeks to produce the dies and moulds needed to stamp out a custom one-off part. So Ford has developed a fantastic new prototyping machine that functions kind of like a 3D printer in that it can produce a custom part in mere hours. Except that instead of plastic, it works its magic on sheet metal.

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via Gizmodo Ford’s New Prototyping Machine Turns Sheet Metal Into Custom Parts