An argument between Digiday’s editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey and Business Insider founder Henry Blodget. I agree with Morrissey.

Looking to cut back on the calories in your cocktail by mixing, say, diet soda and rum? Well, get ready for the buzz.

According to the results of a new study, this combination will leave you drunker than if you’d mixed the liquor with a sugary, caloric mixer.

That’s assuming you’re some candy-ass lightweight that needs a mixer to begin with. I take my bourbon neat.

Here are 33 tips compiled by Dan Moren and Lex Friedman.

Respect.

I want this guitar.

BlackBerry’s CEO said handsets in the UK were selling out, but retailers say they aren’t sold out at all.

Oopsie.

And then BlackBerry takes a page from Amazon with this statement:

“In Canada, yesterday was the best day ever for the first day of a launch of a new BlackBerry smartphone. In fact, it was more than 50% better than any other launch day in our history in Canada.

No numbers — 50% more than what? Did you sell six BlackBerry’s?

This should be on top of the list of ways to choose where you’re going to live.

Third-place wireless carrier Sprint has just released its financial report for Q4 2012. Compared to Q3’s net loss of $767 million, the carrier slumped further to a $1.32 billion loss. The carrier attributes some of the loss ($400 million) to its Network Vision buildout and the shut down of its legacy Nextel network, as well as $45 million lost to the effects of Hurricane Sandy in the New York Metro area. In relation to AT&T and Verizon, both of which had banner quarters for smartphone, and more specifically, iPhone sales, Sprint sold 2.2 million iPhones — its highest quarterly iPhone sales figure ever — and 6.1 million total smartphones.

Even though Sprint lost quite a bit of money, it’s a slightly smaller loss than Wall Street analysts suspected, so Sprint’s stock rose on the news.

Stuart Freeborn, the British pioneering movie makeup artist behind creatures such as Yoda and Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died. He was 98.

Freeborn’s career also included work with Stanley Kubrick that yielded the memorable ape-men from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and the many different faces of Peter Sellers’ characters in “Doctor Strangelove.”

Mike Isaac and John Paczkowski wrote an article about how Apple forced Vine to have a 17+ rating. The reason for the rating is because it could show the user porn.

In other words, think of yourself as a teenager to Apple’s repressed mother — you hide your porn under your mattress. You don’t leave it out on the coffee table.

I don’t get the reason for the article. Besides taking an unnecessary swipe at Apple — actually several swipes — I don’t understand what their problem is.

Twitter now requires people to certify they are at least 17 years old before running the Apple version of the company’s video app Vine. Twitter says the iOS app is for adults because it contains ”frequent/intense sexual content or nudity,” among other things, signaling that Vine will continue to traffic in risqué content.

Mental Floss:

Every country has place names that make you scratch your head and say, “What were they thinking?” So I looked up what they may have been thinking when these places in Canada got their names.

“What would I do? I’d shut it [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders,”

Asked about Dell’s comments 16 years later in the context of Dell’s privatization effort, a Dell spokesperson gave TPM the following statement:

“That comment has been taken out of context and is not relevant.”

Well now, that’s convenient.

A bit of a follow-up to yesterday’s HTML5 media players.

The box is shaped like an amp. Love it.

The next closest competitor is Amazon at 7.7%.

Om Malik looks at Michael Dell buying back his company.

eWorld was introduced by Apple in June of 1994 as an online service exclusively for Macintoshes.

This article takes me back. The Internet was very different back then.

I spend all day on Facebook, writing blogs, chatting up customers, whatever I need to do to ensure maximum ROI for our company; basically playing around on the internet. It’s pretty much every college kid’s dream job so I—oh god, I can’t do this anymore.

What have I become?

Hilarious, as always, from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

Shawn Blanc outlines how he set up his media server and what he’s using it for. I love that he puts “nerd scores” in too.

John Gruber rounds up some of the Surface Pro reviews and adds some of his smart commentary. Mac Rumors also posted a few links to reviews.

None of them seem to be particularly good.

Wired:

In 1947, Chuck Yeager strapped himself into the experimental Bell X-1 “bullet with wings” and broke the sound barrier 8 miles above the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Paul Larsen sees himself as following squarely in Yeager’s footsteps. To become the fastest sailor in the world, he’s going to have to break through the nautical equivalent of the sound barrier—the so-called 50-knot barrier (about 57 miles per hour).

“(The SailRocket Mark 2) is 50 percent plane, 50 percent boat,” Larsen explains. “If for some reason she lost the keel at speed,” Larsen explains, “than she really would be a plane, wouldn’t she?” The prototype version of SailRocket, Mark 1, actually did take off into the air, and Larsen survived what may be the most spectacular crash in sailing history.

I love sailing and sailboats but I don’t think there’s enough money in the world to get me into this fragile looking thing as it does 60 knots.

Marcus Mendes, who lives in Brazil, posted his thoughts on the “iPhone” situation.

Help grow the list.

Lifehacker:

For the extremely willpower-impaired (or the super-serious about exercise), this hack uses a FitBit activity tracker and a Belkin WeMo internet-controlled power outlet to make sure you exercise every day. If you don’t meet your daily activity goals, the system cuts the power to anything plugged into it, offering some serious incentive to get off the couch.

Charalampos, writing at Building Internet of Things came up with this idea as a way to combine the activity tracking capabilities of the FitBit with an severe punishment for not exercising. He chose his fridge as his “workout hostage,” so if he didn’t exercise, his food might spoil.

This is brilliant. We could hook it up to The Publisher’s Heineken fridge – he’d dropped 50lbs in 6 months.