Upcoming "Storm" writer Greg Pak answers your questions about Ororo Munroe's first ongoing series at Marvel. Plus, exclusive art from issue #1!

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The Pirates Official Posters

What is this glorious looking glory.

WHAT IS THIS

Pirates (2014 film)

Set in the early Joseon Dynasty, a group led by a female pirate and another group led by a male bandit are on a mission to hunt down a whale that swallowed the royal seal bestowed on Joseon from China.

itwbennett writes: "Three U.S. tech worker groups have launched a labor boycott of IBM, Infosys and Manpower, saying the companies have engaged in a pattern that discourages U.S. workers from applying for U.S. IT jobs by tailoring employment ads toward overseas workers. For its part, Infosys disputed the charges, saying that 'it is incorrect to allude that we exclude or discourage U.S. workers. Today, we are recruiting for over 440 active openings across 20 states in the U.S.' Representatives from IBM and Manpower didn't respond to requests for comment on the boycott."

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Nexus Unplugged (2495076) writes 'On their security blog today, Google announced a new Chrome extension called "End-To-End" intended to make browser-based encryption of messages easier for users. The extension, which was rumored to be "underway" a couple months ago, is currently in an "alpha" version and is not yet available pre-packaged or in the Chrome Web Store. It utilizes a Javascript implementation of OpenPGP, meaning that your private keys are never sent to Google. However, if you'd like to use the extension on multiple machines, its keyring is saved in localStorage, which can be encrypted with a passphrase before being synced. The extension still qualifies for Google's Vulnerability Reward Program, and joins a host of PGP-related extensions already available for Chrome.' Google also published a report showing how much email is encrypted in transit between Gmail addresses and those from other providers.

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NEW PRODUCT – Universal Qi Wireless Receiver Module

If you have a modern smart phone you may have noticed that it comes with built in wireless charging capability called ‘Qi charging.’ Qi is a trademark name for a thin and smart inductive charging system. Many large gadget companies have standardized on Qi, which means it’s easy to find a charging dish and we thought it might be cool if your Arduino project can recharge itself wirelessly. Thus, we now have a Qi charging receiver module as seen here here.

This is just the inductive charging Qi receiver, it will work with any Qi charger base transmitter. that will work well with any standard inductive charger base. Simply solder two wires to the V+ and Gnd pins on the Qi module and place the item you want charged onto a charging base. The receiver chip manages the coil so that you’ll always get 5V and 500mA. If the coil is too far it will simply not activate at all. In our demo below, we used a classic cell phone charger plate.



To demo it, we wired the module to a MiniLipo charger and a LiPo battery, as shown in the photos. Now we have a wirelessly-rechargeable battery! Note that you don’t get the battery or lipo charger in your order, that’s just how we’re showing it off. You can even upgrade any device that takes classic USB 5V and up to 500mA. The coil comes on a metallic sticker which is used to shield the device from the coil. Make sure the coil is facing out towards the charger when you install it into your project, or it wont work at all!

The driver chip is an integrated receiver called the BQ51053B from TI. Since its a Qi charger it can only be used with Qi transmitters! If you want a simpler inductive charger, check out our 5V charger set – it isn’t Qi compatible but used together it works quite well!

In stock and shipping now!

CinemaSins has released a special new video that discovers “Everything Wrong with Gravity.” To make sure that their science and space facts were straight, CinemaSins called upon astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to help out as guest narrator. We’ve previously written about CinemaSins’ ongoing series of Everyone Wrong With videos.

Gravity had such specific science-related sins, we thought it wise to bring in someone who knows TONS more than we do about science, Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson himself. Yep, that’s really him.

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real footage of me during a job interview

Back in June of last year, we told you about a push for more female minifigs from LEGO, particularly ladies doing science sets. Later in the year we were happy to hear of a single minifig being produced but were still anxious to hear the outcome of the set decision. LEGO's Frederikke Hoff is here to tell us if the scientists beat out Sherlock fandom and Back to the Future's DeLorean plus, she tells us what we can keep our fingers crossed for next time. Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google +?

That's terrible, why would you do that.

Coke legend George Jung, played by Johnny Depp, was released today — six months ahead of schedule.

Yum! Brands, parent company to cutting edge concepts such as Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and newcomer Super Chix, will launch a new stealth Asian concept, called Banh Shop.

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My book of cartoons ‘You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack’ is available now:
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1770461043
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1770461043
Other stockists and info at www.tomgauld.com

Tom Gauld Forever

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Doodle by bored medieval school boy

This 15th-century doodle is found in the lower margin of a manuscript containing Juvenal’s Satires. This classical text was a popular device to teach young students - kids - morals. The medieval teacher Alexander Nequam stated: “Let the student read the satirists […] so that he may learn even in his younger days that vices are to be shunned” (quote here). Spoken like a true optimist, because this page shows what young school boys like to do with rules: disobey them. And so in stead of studying the student who used this book drew a funny doodle in the lower margin: a figure with a flower in one hand and what appears to be a pipe in the other. Could it be his teacher? Doodles are of all ages but those produced by bored school kids are the most entertaining.

Pic: Carpentras, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 368 (here). Here is another example of school kids doodling.

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The University of Michigan is building a mock town to test self-driving cars. The vehicles will confront all the normal obstacles of a bustling city: traffic signs, stoplights, merge lanes, construction work, streetlights, sidewalks and even "mechanical pedestrians" that dart out into the street in front of traffic.

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The World Cup already happened and ewe missed it.

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THIS CROW FUCKING UNDERSTANDS WATER DISPLACEMENT. WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO BE TOLD EVERY YEAR BY A TEACHER HOW WATER DISPLACEMENT WORKS. DO THEY THINK I’M LESS INTELLIGENT THAN A FUCKING CROW? FUCKING DONE.

Crows discovered the principle of displacement in the third century BC, when the philosopher Awkimedes, upon noticing the level of his bird bath rose in proportion with the amount of his body that was submerged, reportedly exclaimed “EURECAW!” and flew through the streets of Athens shouting his discovery.

EURECAW

Tumblr will believe anything smfh. The law that’s being described is Archimedes’ Principle and Archimedes of Syracuse(the guy who discovered this) said Eureka, not Eurecaw.

the best part of this is their tag:
# Y’ALL ARE SO FUCKING DENSE I STG

Like Gandalf the Grey returning as Gandalf the White or Christ arising from the dead, this post has returned to my dash in a form made glorious by the power that governs the heavens.

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In case you haven’t heard, Amazon is engaged in a legal battle with Hachette over the rates that Hachette pays Amazon to sell Hachette books. In order to strongarm Hachette into giving in, Amazon has delayed shipping on many Hachette titles, meaning that they’re telling customers that books won’t be shipped for several weeks, even if they’re actually in stock and readily available. Amazon has also removed BUY buttons from upcoming titles and may be engaging in other tactics, such as raising book prices.

All my novels are published by Hachette — specifically by Little, Brown, an imprint of Hachette. Right now the paperbacks and hardcovers of all my books may be “delayed” by Amazon which may make it seem like you can’t get them. BUT YOU CAN. It’s only Amazon that doesn’t want to sell them to you right now.

This affects all authors who are published by Hachette; many of my friends are in this same situation. In fact, some of my friends have been through this more than once — Amazon delisted all of Macmillan’s books a couple of years ago, and Barnes & Noble stopped carrying Simon & Schuster titles during their negotiations recently. I just wanted to let you know about this latest development because it’s kind of an inside baseball situation that isn’t clear to ordinary readers.

The negotiations seem to have been stalled for at least a couple of weeks now, and it looks like they may not get anywhere for quite a while. If you’d like to read more about it, here’s a New York Times piece about the Hachette CEO, Michael Pietsch, and a Mashable post about how other booksellers are reacting.

The thing is, Amazon dominates 41% of new book purchases both online and off, and 65% of all online new books, both print and ebook (Publishers Weekly). When Amazon decides to not ship my books, it is unquestionably going to have a negative effect on my book sales and thus on my career. The only thing I can do about this personally is to remind you — my readers — that if you’d like to buy my books, Amazon is not the only place to get them. In fact, in reaction to Amazon’s tactics, many booksellers have begun to discount titles published by Hachette, including mine.

If you’d like to buy print versions of my books, here are several places you can order them online at a discount right now:

• Barnes & Noble
• Books A Million
• Walmart

Additionally, if you’d like to support independent bookstores, I recommend trying some of these stores, where you can buy the books in person or online:

• Powells
• Book Passage — Before I moved last month, this was my local bookstore, and they likely have signed copies of my books in stock.
• Books Inc — This is a great local San Francisco Bay Area chain that has hosted me for several events and do a great job with promoting YA books in general.
• Borderlands Books — A great San Francisco-based science fiction and fantasy bookstore that has also hosted me for events and does a lot for the SF/F community.
• Mysterious Galaxy — San Diego’s legendary bookstore, another great source for sci fi and fantasy.
• Book People — Austin’s amazing indie that supported the Austin Teen Book Festival I was at in the fall, which has copies of Adaptation and Inheritance on stock on their shelves right now.
• If you’d like to look for an independent bookstore in your local area where you can order my books (usually they can get them in within a couple of days if they’re not on the shelf), go to IndieBound and search for bookstores near you.

If you normally read ebooks only, this issue with Amazon and Hachette is not affecting you right now; Amazon’s Kindle store is delivering Hachette ebooks without issue (for now). I have no idea what Amazon is going to do in the future, though, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Kindle store might also be affected later on. I understand that Amazon is making business decisions in their best interest, but it’s hard for me to be sympathetic to their tactics when it clearly negatively affects my career.

Meanwhile, I hope this list of places where you can buy my books is useful. Thank you for supporting my books in whatever way you can or have done, whether by buying them or by asking your library to carry them. I really appreciate it.

Great guide.  This impacts a lot of my friends, and everything under the “Mira Grant” byline.

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If you have ever admired Japanese woodblock prints for their amazing imagery, colors and compositions, you will be even more impressed when you learn about how they were made.  Oberlin College Library’s Special Collections department has just made available images of a fascinating illustrated book on the process of Japanese woodblock printmaking. 

The book, titled Nishikie suritate junjo, was part of the renowned Mary A. Ainsworth collection of Japanese prints and artist’s books.  Ainsworth was an Oberlin graduate (OC 1889) who visited Japan in 1906 and spent the next twenty-five years building one of the best collections of Japanese prints of her day, which she bequeathed to Oberlin College in 1950.   During Japan’s Edo Period (1603-1868) polychrome woodblock prints were among the most famous products of the “Floating World” (Ukiyo), or world of entertainment.  Creating these multicolor images required a different woodblock for each color, and the book lays out these complex stages of printing one by one, using as an example a famous print from Andō Hiroshige’s series, The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaidō.  

For more images from the book, click here. 

To see three different impressions of this same print from the AMAM collection, search for “Rain at Shono” in the “Quick Search” box here.

Click here for images of the entire The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaidō series.

Discovered: The Oldest Trousers Known

These are 3000-year-old Central Asian pants, worn by horse-riding nomadic people. A generous seat and narrow legs are like modern riding pants. Personally, I’m most impressed by the beautiful weaving.

(Thanks O-Dub!)

Sure, some video games require lightning-fast fingers, but even the most insane combos in Street Fighter don't quite compare to running up and down a guitar's fretboard lickety-split. To pay tribute to 40-plus years of gaming history, YouTuber FamilyJules7X put together an epic 17-minute performance (embedded after the break) of music from the medium's past and present. If you ever wanted to hear heavy metal versions of classic game-themes like Space Invaders, Phozon and Tetris alongside those of Donkey Kong Country, Earthbound, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Fallout 3, this should be right up your alley. Most impressive? Jules shot the video, mixed the audio, programmed the drums and performed the guitar and bass parts himself in eight days -- all during his last week of college finals. If you want to download an MP3 of the track, hit the YouTube page. Now, if you'll pardon us, we have some head-banging to do.

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There is Maguro (tuna), a tsundere and the most popular of the group; Salmon, Maguro’s rival; Ikura, Salmon’s little brother; Tamago (egg), Ikura’s best friend; as well as Ebi (shrimp) and avocado. At the end of the prologue, you choose between pursuing Maguro, Salmon, Ikura, or Tamago. As you go through the story of your choice, you will occasionally come across multiple choice questions. Based on how you answer, you can gain affection points with the boy you are trying to woo.

A Canadian beer heiress hosts an international song contest to find the saddest music in the world in this otherworldly period film with an old-time cinematic look.

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Someone asked 50 Cent about his Worst. First pitch. Ever. during his Reddit AMA today. He answered.

(1) TIL 50 Cent is left-handed.
(2) Aw, gross.

Death. Taxes. People on the Internet talking about 50 Cent's first pitch.

Why would you do this to us, St. Louis?

Don't do this, Cardinals. Please:

#STLCards' Superhero Night lineup vs. the #Royals: #CardsTheme pic.twitter.com/AdPO0wX4R6

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) June 3, 2014

Jhonny Iron Man Peralta. Jhonny Iron Man Peralta. Jhonny Iron Ma...No matter how many times I say it out loud or read it or type it out, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. The other ones seem name-based, and while they're bad, I at least understand them.

Someone please explain Jhonny Iron Man Peralta to me. Or don't. I'm probably better off not knowing.

Anyway, you would think a lineup full of superheroes would hit for more power than the Cardinals. I'm starting to have my doubts about their credentials.

New photos leaked from the set of director J.J. Abrams’ film show the Millennium Falcon and an X-Wing fighter under construction.