Emily Kay, writing for SB Nation:

Bubba Watson could probably lobby for commissions after the company that makes the hovercraft golf cart the 2012 Masters champ made famous in a YouTube video gone viral sold two of the otherworldly conveyances to a golf course in Ohio for use by its patrons.

The Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield will become the first in the U.S. to make two Neoteric Golf hovercrafts available for certain events starting on July 27. Course officials, who paid $58,000 for each mechanism, had yet to determine a rental rate, a club spokesperson told SB Nation on Monday.

My wife and I are avid golfers. In fact, I’ve been playing on-and-off since I was eight years old. I hesitated posting this link because my wife especially likes to scare the crap out of me in the golf cart. I’m sure she’ll be signing up for one at some point.

Either way, this thing is cool.

Peter Cohen, writing for iMore:

But when OS X Lion came out in 2011, Apple backslid when they introduced full-screen apps, which would cause one monitor to display a pattern while the other one held the app. And using Spaces since Lion - especially with multiple monitors - was an exercise in teeth-grinding frustration. Apple’s changing that in Mavericks, making multiple displays finally work the way they’re supposed to.

The setup at my day job consists of dual 24" Apple monitors attached to a Mac Pro. Ever since OS X Lion, I have wanted to punch a fist through one of the displays for reasons Cohen mentions. The one feature I find even better than fullscreen apps on each display is the implementation of independent menu bars.

Until now, the experience with multiple displays has been a nightmare. I for one am very happy to see Apple finally get this right.

Christa Mrgan, writes for Macworld about what she sees as mistakes in Apple’s initial beta version of iOS 7:

The final major problem I see is with the general lack of emphasis and differentiation between choices. Action sheets in particular feel too austere to me in their current form; with button borders gone and the only indication of the “preferred” choice being ever-so-slightly bolder text, I worry about user confusion. It’s impossible to tell at a glance what the least destructive option is, and sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s content and what’s UI.

For every nit I pick, though, I have an exuberant exaltation. This is a major overhaul of an established operating system, and it happened in seven months. It’s an incredible step in what I see as a very cool direction.

Sam Byford, writing for The Verge:

A Toronto photography and graphic design studio has acquired a camera and photographic slides that allow the viewer to experience World War I in 3D. The Verascope is a series of handheld stereoscopic cameras designed and built in the 19th century by Jules Richard, and this unit, which was owned by the French army during World War I, remains in pristine condition today.

The photos are equally intriguing as they are haunting.

In 2003, Raffaella Dainese and co-authors set out determine the optimal body position to pass gas. Their study was published in the European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology:

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome and functional bloating frequently report that abdominal symptoms, such as bloating and distension that they attribute to intestinal gas, develop progressively during the day and tend to resolve with bed rest.1 However, the effect of body posture on intestinal gas transit and evacuation has not been investigated.

As gas within the abdominal cavity tends to float and rise to the top, theoretically caudal gas progression would be facilitated in the supine position. Hence we hypothesised that intestinal gas transit and evacuation are enhanced in the supine compared with the upright position. Using a new technique developed in our laboratory,2 we compared the effect of body posture, upright versus supine, on gas transit.

Read the article for the findings.

Two words to take from this: Party Trivia.

Alex Mayyasi, writing for Priceonomics:

A Lafite Rothschild Bordeaux sells for a minimum of around $500 a bottle, while humble brands like Charles Shaw and Franzia sell for as little as $2. But as far as “wine economists” are concerned, the level of correlation between the price of a bottle of wine and its quality is low or nonexistent. In a number of damning studies, they suggest that wine is not just poorly priced, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads.

I previously linked to a study that Mayyasi references in which statistician Robert Hodgson found that wine judges were unable to consistently reproduce their own taste findings. In short, Mayyasi argues that the way in which we taste is so complex that it is easily manipulated.

Either way, I have been known to enjoy - without guilt - a good boxed wine.

Seth Stevenson, writing for Slate, on an alternative to the awkward and time consuming process of saying goodbye at social gatherings:

Just ghost.

Ghosting—aka the Irish goodbye, the French exit, and any number of other vaguely ethnophobic terms—refers to leaving a social gathering without saying your farewells. One moment you’re at the bar, or the house party, or the Sunday morning wedding brunch. The next moment you’re gone. In the manner of a ghost. “Where’d he go?” your friends might wonder. But—and this is key—they probably won’t even notice that you’ve left.

In honor of Independence Day, National Geographic offers several tips to take a great photo of fireworks:

Photographing fireworks can be challenging but it’s not impossible. In this gallery, get tips and tricks for taking the guesswork out of shooting this nighttime event, and get inspired to capture your own unique perspective.

Craig Hockenberry recalls the origin of the term “tweet”:

It still feels strange to hear a word I helped create be mentioned over and over again in the media. It’s a great word to go along with a great service, and in the end, I’m just happy we’re not calling each other twits!

Hockenberry works at Iconfactory and invented Twitterific. You may not know that, in addition to coining the term tweet, Iconfactory was also the first to use a bird logo for Twitter.

Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, shares the origin of Popeye’s spinach obsession:

During my teenage years, given my athleticism, my insatiable appetite for spinach, and my last name, friends were quick to latch onto the stuff of pop-culture legend and nickname me Popeye. But it turns out that besides perpetrating the crime of the too-obvious-for-its-own-good pun, they were also perpetuating one of history’s strangest and most egregious scientific errors.

Now I don’t feel bad for hating spinach.