​Have a bunch of spare change that you've left in your drawer or in a bag under your bed, waiting for that rainy day (or a clear, sunny day, because that would be better for transportation purposes) in which you are so bored that you decide to lug it to a CoinStar machine and get real, spendable dollars for it? Wait no longer. Instead of lugging it to the CoinStar, put it in your pockets and head out for JFK airport. (Wear a belt, coins are heavy.) When you arrive at security, along with taking off your shoes, turning over your snowglobe, uncasing your laptop and putting it in its individual bin, and all of the other things you do, put your spare change in a bin as well. Then, set it and forget it! Or, collect your items except for the change and go on your merry way to West Palm Beach, Florida.

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You're probably busy getting ready for the festivities tonight, but please, take the time to watch the above video. It's a demonstration of Pizza Prints, which are meltable graphic decals you apply directly onto pizza. Pizza Prints are more than just fun, delicious, and gluten-free--they are quite possibly the most important invention in human history.

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​Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro has a new plan to inject some life into the American economy. He's told his staffers to affix the words "Buy American" to all constituent correspondence as part of a new "Buy American" campaign. This should work!

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​A new Gallup/USA Today poll shows that 56 percent of nearly 1000 respondents neither agree nor disagree with Occupy Wall Street. Fifty-nine percent don't know enough about the movement to have an opinion on it. To top it all off, there's been an increase in disapproval from 20 to 31 percent. The poll was conducted over this past weekend.

This doesn't necessarily mean that all those people in the 59 percent group literally have no idea what Occupy Wall Street is, though that's surely a part of it.

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​Good morning! Are you enjoying a delicious donut with this blog post? Do you have full-fat milk in your coffee? Did you get your full intake of pizza-as-vegetable last night? Maybe so! According to two new research from the American Heart Association, Americans are getting fatter and sicker faster than you can say "Extra cheese." (But, really, let's not blame cheese here.) Researchers estimate that by 2020, the "vast majority" of American adults -- 83 percent of men and 72 percent of women -- will be too fat, and 77 percent of men and 53 percent of women will have diabetes or pre-diabetes.

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​For one of the most unsettling collector's items available, look no further than the new "Horrors of War" trading card collection. Cards range from "Atomic Bomb" to "Highway of Death," and cover every war from WWII to our current war on terror. You can also buy the signature of Winston Churchill, Donald Rumsfeld, Benito Mussolini -- you name it. Long forgotten Spanish-American or Korean War heroes? You bet. They're available for purchase today.

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Wikipedia

Nope. Not how it looks.

​What do New Yorkers believe rests beyond its borders? It's like cornfield, cornfield, D.C., cornfield, Chicago, cornfield, cornfield, cornfield, cornfield, and then L.A. topped by San Francisco, right? Now there's (satirical) proof that we are a little confused when it comes to U.S. geography via Funny or Die: Dan Abramson drew "The Map of America As Seen by a New Yorker." Washington state is associated with "Starbucks/Pearl Jam," in the middle two blocks have "One of the States That Has Kansas City" written on them, and there's an empty space under Virginia -- that gray spot is marked as "Empty Space Before Getting to the Real South." Not that this hasn't been kind of done. Still, informative. [h/t]

​In a humbling morning for our country today, President Obama spoke to the press about the dismal June unemployment numbers -- we're now at 9.2% unemployment, with a mere 18,000 jobs added last month -- while Americans stood by to watch the bittersweet launch of the Atlantis, marking the last breaths of the space shuttle program. For those of you chose to watch livestream of astronauts soaring into space over the falling economy, a quick recap, after the jump:

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Fireworks in Five Seconds--NYC from John Huntington on Vimeo.

Already feeling nostalgic for the Fourth of July as you reach the end of your first day back to work? Watch this 20-second time lapse made of the sunset and Macy's fireworks over the Hudson River. It will make you long for a hamburger and a piece of pie. If you are feeling especially patriotic, we also suggest Beyoncé's version of "God Bless the USA." [Pat's Papers]

ColumnFive and InboxQ.com have created the cutest little map of the some of the various ways people on Twitter describe their locations throughout America -- 66 percent of the time we don't pick a city name, but instead go with something clever or extra-special, like "Home of NASCAR" or "Whale's Vagina." In New York, where there are quite a lot of Twitter users, we apparently like "Gotham." But mostly we just like this map. Hanging Basket Capital? (Click to enlarge.)

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