(from geekologie.com)

This is the floating Mizukami Hotel in Japan. For $300 it will allegedly drift to a desert island during your overnight stay, which the company is turning into a resort. But how does it know where to go — is it being hauled in by a winch or something? I don’t want to leave my destination up to the whims of Poseidon, he hates us enough already. This all sounds like the beginning of an ocean horror movie to me.

The floating Mizukami Hotel was designed by Netherlands-inspired theme park Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki, and includes beds, toilets, and showers. “The room is the same as ordinary hotels, 36 to 38 square meters, about 4 people will be able to stay,” stated Hideo Sawada, president of Huis Ten Bosch. The capsule slowly drifts toward an island which the company recently purchased and is renovating into a resort, and is slated to be open for business next winter. (MORE HERE)

(timeout.com)

We can all go home now—a local bakery has created a pie with Chicago’s favorite bitter liquor, Jeppson’s Malört, in it. Hoosier Mama Pie Company is now offering a crusty take on the Tequila Sunrise (called the Chicago Sunrise, naturally) featuring an all-butter crust topped with a wreath of whipped cream. The pie combines fruit, cream and citrus flavors with a slightly bitter finish—think grapefruit, according to the bakery’s kitchen manager, Ursula Siker. She’s a recent LA to Chicago transplant who embraced Malört after her friend told her it tasted like grapefruit (there’s your new trick for getting all of your friends to try it). (MORE HERE)

(from techcrunch.com)

Tinder has been operating a members-only version of the platform called Tinder Select, which is meant to serve only the elite users on the app, including CEOs, super models, and other hyper-attractive/upwardly affluent types. One source who was using the app said it’s “for celebrities and people who do really well on Tinder.” It appears that Tinder has invited people to the platform, some of whom have the ability to ‘nominate’ others. But those who were nominated can’t nominate anyone else, which prevents the members-only layer of the app from spreading uncontrollably. It’s unclear exactly how Tinder decides who gets invited and who doesn’t, but the common thread among those on the Select app is that they’re generally attractive and relatively high-profile. One factor that might be included in the Tinder Select criteria could be the Tinder Elo score, which is an algorithmic rating system across all Tinder users based on ‘thousands and thousands’ of signals. (MORE HERE)