DudeFoods:

What if I were to make a grilled cheese sandwich that used this cheese in place of bread? A grilled cheese sandwich that was 100% cheese!

I like cheese more than any mouse but even I think this “sandwich” is a heart attack starter kit.

Kevin Roose on his using his BlackBerry Z10 review unit:

But then you died. After four days of trying you out, for no reason at all, you simply refused to turn on. I removed and replaced your battery, tried to manually reset you, and even connected you to my laptop to see if I could revive you that way. But you stayed there, motionless and dark, the lifeblood drained from your mini-USB port.

Hey, what’s that noise? BlackBerry circling the drain.

The University of Queensland:

The first Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland, Professor Thomas Parnell, began an experiment in 1927 to illustrate that everyday materials can exhibit quite surprising properties. The experiment demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar once used for waterproofing boats. At room temperature pitch feels solid – even brittle – and can easily be shattered with a blow from a hammer. It’s quite amazing then, to see that pitch at room temperature is actually fluid!

You’ve heard the term “slower than molasses”? Apparently, pitch is even slower. (thanks to @JennS79 for the link)

Rian van der Merwe:

[Dieter] Rams didn’t say that good design disappears completely. “As little design as possible” is not about making things invisible, it’s about “not burdening products with non-essentials”. It’s about making the right choices about what should be there, and what shouldn’t.

Great article.

Ed Bott clearly did a lot of work on this article comparing the disk space of the Surface Pro and the MacBook Air, but I’ll tell you this — I’d put the MacBook Air up against the Surface Pro anytime, anywhere.

Watching people fumble around the Surface Pro running Windows apps on a tablet screen? Yeah, bring that on.

The Fed statement on Thursday was its first explicit acknowledgment that it did not yet know the extent of the security breach. Cyber-security specialists say it takes time to thoroughly investigate a stealthy intrusion by skilled hackers.

I agree with Harry Marks. “Source Links” at the bottom of articles are a way for a site to steal your content, but make themselves feel better about doing it.

Ben Brooks has a big list of things he wants for his ideal platform. I would like many of those items, but I would most like a simple interface that only loads the code needed for what I’m using on a particular page on the site.

I would pay for a platform like that.

Jim and Dan discuss Dell going private and how Apple has defined itself over the years with a brief appearance by Dan’s mom. Later they are joined by Greg Howard of 3 Monkeys Amps to talk about building custom amplifiers.

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Mediacase lets media professionals manage video projects online with friendly tools for delivery, collaboration, and storage. Say goodbye to hard drives and file transfers.

I spoke with the guy that started this last night. Sounds like a great idea.

Find the lowest calorie alcohol.

Apple updating shareholders on its cash plans.

BlackBerry will stop selling smartphones in Japan, partly because the company cannot justify the cost of modifying its operating system to accommodate the Japanese language.

Lucky Japanese.

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.