Finally, a laptop pretty enough to entice women into using it! The ”Floral Kiss” laptop ”features a flip latch that can easily open the display — even by users with long fingernails.” It comes daintily adorned with gold and pearl designs, scrapbooking software and daily horoscopes. The whole thing is “insulting,” says Jenna Sauers at Jezebel — just like these 6 equally patronizing products designed for the ladies. 

When it comes to being relatable, President Obama may have one distinct advantage over Mitt Romney: He drinks. 

Drinking isn’t an option for Mitt Romney — a devout Mormon whose religion bars him from boozing.

“The president has played up his regular-guy credentials by regularly turning to public consumption of cool ones,” says David Freedlander at The Daily Beast.

Is beer Obama’s secret campaign weapon? 

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Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Need to drink less? The secret may be in your choice of glassware. Researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom closely monitored the drinking habits of scores of imbibers, and found that people who drank beer from curvy glasses downed their brews almost twice as fast as revelers who took their beer in a straight glass.

How the shape of a beer glass changes your drinking speed

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According to a recent survey, 2 in 3 Americans can’t name a single Supreme Court Justice. Twenty percent of the people who took the poll were able to name Chief Justice John Roberts. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

GOOD DAY FOR:

Getting to know our national treasures
Beer enthusiasts launch a petition on the White House website asking for the recipe for the official White House Honey Ale. [Death & Taxes]

Prurient Anglophiles
Photos leak online of a naked Prince Harry engaging in a not particularly regal game of strip billiards in Las Vegas. [HyperVocal]

Geeks uniting
A comedy site successfully raises hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a New York property that was inventor Nikola Tesla’s last laboratory, with plans to turn it into a museum. [The Daily What]

BAD DAY FOR:

Getting a high-profile “Like”
The “iGrill” app gets so much traffic after winning an endorsement from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that its servers crash for two hours. [Business Insider]

Civics teachers
A poll finds that two-thirds of Americans can’t name a single Supreme Court justice. [Newser]

Arts & crafts
An elderly woman unintentionally destroys a 19th century Spanish fresco when she decides to “restore” the painting herself. [GlobalPost]

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Say goodbye to warm beer: A Japanese brewing giant is topping off beer mugs with frozen beer foam, dispensed like soft-serve ice cream. The manufacturer says the frozen foam can keep a stein of beer cold for 30 minutes. Check it out

Molson Coors is rolling out a new product: Coors Light Iced T. The drink is a standard Coors laced with citrus and iced-tea flavors, all with a relatively meek alcohol level of 4 percent. “We’ve got the world’s most refreshing alcoholic beer sort of meeting up with the most refreshing non-alcoholic drink in the world. Those two things go really well together,” says Peter Swinburn, the chief executive of the company. Plenty of beer purists, of course, are less excited.

Behold, Pong Beer. In case college kids don’t have enough options for cheap swill, a brewing company has designed a beer exclusively for beer pong.

The Hanson brothers — the late 1990s version of Justin Bieber, times three — are all grown up and marketing their onetime pop culture success to their now-adult fans. The youngest brother, Zac, announced that the trio has created an India pale ale, due out early next year: “Mmmhop IPA, anyone?,” he says. Here, 8 other celebrity alcohols.