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Article of the day for August 14, 2016

The Article of the day for August 14, 2016 is The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman . The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is the 22nd album by the American rock group Sparks, released on August 14, 2009. The duo's first work in the radio musical or pop opera genre, the album is built around an imaginary visit to Hollywood by Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman in the mid-1950s. Its storyline focuses on the divides between European and American culture, between art and commerce. Unlike other Sparks albums, the work is conceived as a single piece, to be listened to as a whole, rather than a collection of stand-alone songs. The work was commissioned by Sveriges Radio Radioteatern, the radio drama department of Sweden's national radio broadcaster. First released in the Swedish broadcast version in August 2009, with an English-language version following in November 2009, it features a cast of Swedish and American actors and a variety of musical styles ranging from opera to vaudeville and po

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Buzzfeed's features editors are guest curating Digg this weekend. See what stories they picked.

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Buzzfeed's features editors are guest curating Digg this weekend. See what stories they picked.

Article of the day for August 14, 2016

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Article of the day is The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

jiffy: Word of the day for August 14, 2016

jiffy , n : (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values. (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second). (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon. The men’s 100 metres sprint final of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, takes place today.

Picture of the day for August 14, 2016

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The Mir mine (a former open pit diamond mine) in Sakha (Yakutia), Eastern Siberia, Russia..

jiffy: Word of the day for August 14, 2016

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Word of the day is jiffy : (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values. (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second). (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon. The men’s 100 metres sprint final of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, takes place today.