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For those who are fans of Michael Jackson and want his legacy to continue, have no fear, a whole new set of attractions is coming to Las Vegas to commemorate the King of Pop.

The Mandalay Bay Las Vegas in conjunction with the Michael Jackson estate has announced that the hotel will house Michael Jackson themed attractions. The Las Vegas hotel will create a Michael Jackson themed lounge and install a Michael Jackson museum. The museum will be interactive and feature a great deal of Jackson’s memorabilia. Both of these attractions are expected to bring in big business for the Mandalay Bay. The museum and lounge will be open in 2013.
A Cirque du Soleil show is also in the works. The Cirque du Soleil show, “The Immortal”, will be a permanent installment at the Mandalay Bay but the show will also tour. The idea behind the show is to bring Jackson’s “Never Land” to the people, and to celebrate his unique music and dancing. The Jackson estate wanted fans to be able to experience Jackson’s Never Land estate but with its remote location they thought it a better idea to bring Never Land to the people in the form of creative theatre. The tour will hit 47 cities starting in Montreal and is the largest investment the French company has ever taken on, costing around $57 million; with Michael Jackson’s music and the creative abilities of the Cirque du Soleil designers this will be the show of the year.

The show will begin touring this year and finish in 2013.

One of the most popular quotes circulating the internet recently has been from the character Cave Johnson and his lemon rant from the video game Portal 2. The writers of the Portal games should really be commended for the wonderful monologues that they have written. Before Portal 2′s Cave Johnson, no one ever thought to do anything other than make lemonade when life gives you lemons, but Cave has some new ideas for those lemons. So far, each Portal game is guaranteed to be responsible for a few internet memes and the Cave Johnson lemon quote is the biggest hit of all. Watch Ignas Greed’s newest visual interpretations of the Cave Johnson’s famous lemon quote in the video below.

So take Cave Johnson’s advice and when life gives you lemons, get mad!

When you think of cool “how to” guys there is one name that should always be at the top of every list– MacGyver.  Fathom Information Design, recently created a website that details every single impromptu invention that was ever created by Richard Dean Anderson’s character, MacGyver, from the popular 80’s television show of the same name.  That website aptly named MacRecipes shows the general recipe for a MacGyver invention, episode number, and description in which it appeared. However, many of MacGyver’s inventions were just TV magic so there’s no guarantee that they will work but some of the tips are actually pretty useful like using duct tape and a map to patch a hole in a hot air balloon.  It appears as though Fathom, which is a data visualization company, created MacRecipes as sort of a fun joke project, but it’s obvious that a lot of attention and care went into it nonetheless.  So if you ever need to incubate eagle eggs and all you have is cooking oil and furniture stuffing then now you know where to go get it done.

Seriously though, please don’t try to recreate any of the crazy inventions that MacGyver has made over the years on TV; many of his inventions and plans are dangerous and could cause bodily harm.  Especially don’t try to disarm a missile with a paper clip like MacGyver did in episode 1.

We are not responsible for anything that you might choose to do with the information you learn from MacRecipes or MacGyver himself.

Image via Fathom Information Design

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The internet is a great place to conduct a housing search. It is chock full of resources that make every phase of moving that much easier — from choosing a place to live to settling in once the move is complete.

For starters, there are many places online that list vacant apartments, condos for rent, and even rental homes. Online classified ads, real estate listings, and the websites of property management companies are good places to start. Rental units can also be found on twitter, facebook, and other social media communities. Many landlords are using youtube and other video sharing sites to post virtual tours so that prospective tenants can get a feel for a place from their computer or cell phone.

The web is also the motherlode of how to. This means that tenants can find guides on everything associated with moving. First time renters can learn the ins and outs of leases and their responsibilities as tenants. There are articles and videos showing how to organize a move or load a moving truck. There are guides to neighborhoods to help new residents find their way around and there are countless design sites ready to help renters decorate their new home.

Some property management sites will offer a mixture of listings and guides, as transglobe does. This is true of other resources sites that offer a one-stop approach. Or renters can pick and choose from the myriad of helpful sources across the web.

You might want to check your calendar because it’s definitely time to go to Las Vegas. And if you’re wondering why, well, come on, really, do you honestly need to ask? Anytime is a great time to visit and the Las Vegas events calendar is filled with great options all the time. Whether it’s theatre, music concerts, comedy, magic or any other form of entertainment and performance, you will find it in Vegas every day of the year. Oh, that is, except yesterday. If you were there yesterday, well, you know what they say, if it happened there it stays there, so that’s the only day we can’t talk about.

Meanwhile, if you plan to visit Las Vegas soon, you will certainly encounter one of many events of a lifetime. If you visited Vegas today you would have the option of seeing the incredibly imaginative Mystere from Cirque de Soleil, or one of their other hits Human Nature or KA. In addition, The Lion King is still running and word has it that Penn and Teller have just signed on for another three years. Meanwhile, major Broadway hits Jersey Boys and Menopause the Musical continue to perform to full houses. Phantom, The Las Vegas Spectacular seems to be on its way to becoming one of the city’s iconic hits and these are just the main musical performance options. In addition, there are an endless variety of music concerts and great comedy acts. And we haven’t even discussed all the possible genre options. Whatever you’re looking for and whenever you want to find it, it will be waiting for you in Vegas. Unless it was yesterday.