Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Wen. He’s not sure how to interpret his moniker—we aren’t either….

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes courtesy of Lindsay. She observes, “phonetic spelling at its best.” We couldn’t agree more.

Move over, Julia Roberts. Three guys decided the Eat, Pray, Love formula could use an update. So they grabbed two cameras and spent 44 days traveling 38,000 miles through 11 countries. The result? Three videos that describe what it’s like to Move, Learn, and Eat around the world in one minute.

The winners of Pat’s annual Canada Day contest with Gothamist gathered Tuesday night for beer and poutine at Windfall, the midtown bar known for its Saturday “Hockey Night” gatherings.

This is what our society has come to. We are distrustful of friends who aren’t online with us. Very funny fake movie trailer inspired by the 1993 Mel Gibson movie.

It’s a bird…it’s a plane…it’s a mechanical sea gull. A German firm debut it’s latest invention—a robotic seagull—at the TEDGlobal conference in Scotland this year. The company said it’s goal was to “mimic nature” and by that metric, they succeeded. During a test run the robot bird appeared so lifelike a group of flesh-and-blood sea gulls swooped in and joined it in flight. VIDEO

Today’s Alter Ego comes from Katie. She writes:  “In all honesty, I realize ‘Kitty’ is not as bad as a lot of the submissions you get. I was just very excited because I thought I had a name that was impossible for people to mess up.”
Rookie mistake, Katie.

Yesterday, I chewed out the New York Post on-air for burying its Murdoch coverage. Judging by the response I got, a lot viewers felt the same way. Editors at the Daily Beast certainly did. They asked me to weigh in on the fact that we have come to expect that News Corp. media outlets will bury a story about the boss.

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Ellen. She writes: “I can’t lie—usually I do well in the Starbucks name game. But today, for whatever reason, a barista decided that I was a man. On the bright side, I had a good laugh with the guy at the hand-off counter as I nervously waited for a real Eli to come up and claim his Frappuccino.”