Dan JonesYeah, I know what's important.
In Back to the Future II, Marty McFly travels to the future in an attempt to help out his future children. That future is soon upon us.
So, I wanted to make sure I knew when Marty McFly arrives. Using IFTTT, I created a recipe to send me an SMS on the day that Marty McFly arrives. IFTTT’s Date and Time channel doesn’t let me create one-time events, so I created an annual event (so I’ll get an SMS on the pre-anniversary as well).
So, here you have it. Don’t let this historic event pass you by.
I’m lookin’ at you S.Y. (Happy, early Mother’s Day). For the rest of you, feel free to tell us what else you think should make the list, on our Facebook page.
Eat, Read, Sleep These Olde Book Pillow Classics look great in your reading nook, plus they give you something to prop your neck on while you're nose-deep in a book or a soft place to faceplant if your reading's been a bit too much. $17.99 - $49.99
This has to be one of the best Coraline cosplays that I’ve seen. Alice has it all down: the hair, the clothes and even that spunky attitude. It’s all there!
Photographer KellyIsNice did an excellent job with the pics too.
Check out another picture after the break…
You can see more pics at KellyIsNice’s Tumblr.
Send your cosplay pics to tips@fashionablygeek.com.
Your princess isn’t in another castle, she’s in another palace! In this clever mash-up, Princess Peach takes the place of Leia in Jabba’s palace. Bowser is transformed into a Hutt, and Salacious Crumb has been replaced by a Koopa. I pretty much adore everything about this Star Wars meets Super Mario Bros. t-shirt design, but I especially like the details like the spikes on Bowser’s collar.
Order quickly! The shirt’s only available for one more day.
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Dan JonesReally, why aren't we all Batman?
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May 8th, 2014: TCAF is this weekend in Toronto! It's my favourite show of the year AND it's free AND it's in a gorgeous building (the Toronto Reference Library!). So if you're in Toronto, you should come and say hi to me and hundreds of other amazing cartoonists, and pick up some rad comics you won't find anywhere else! TCAF is seriously the best, you guys! – Ryan | |||
Salvador Dali drawing a penis on the forehead of a woman and signing it with Picasso’s signature
like you do
Dan JonesSo much truth
My father served in the military although he never saw war upfront as he was in the reserves I respect him for his willingness to do so if he had been called up to do so.
I have friend who have served their country proud. Although there is political tension, as far as what should or should not be done with the wars going on; and we know there will be many, I still find it somewhat comforting that many who are out serving our country are also praying for this country. I would ask that in your Christmas prayers this year take time to pray for our soldiers and ask for their safe return home. click here for more information about a Soldier’s Prayer.
Soldier’s Prayer by Tim Bird
So when I was on my mission, the sister missionaries were tough, the reason that they only serve for 18 months is because they do twice if not three times as much as most elders do in two years. I am so excited that the missionary age was changed to 19 instead of 21 for sisters. We need more sisters to bring the gospel to others. This painting called “Witness for His Name” reminds us of the sacred role that our sisters do for the missionary program and the church.
Witness For His Name – Doc Christensen
A fake Paris was partially constructed near the real Paris at the end of World War I in the hopes of confusing German planes who were looking to bomb the City of Lights.
Tags: architecture Paris war World War IThe story of Sham Paris may have been "broken" in The Illustrated London News of 6 November 1920 in a remarkably titled photo essay, "A False Paris Outside Paris -- a 'City' Created to be Bombed". There were to be sham streets lined with electric lights, sham rail stations, sham industry, open to a sham population waiting to be bombed by real Germans. It is a perverse city, filled with the waiting-to-be-murdered in a civilian target.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints know how and when to take life seriously. Dress us
Dan JonesGreat analogy
Dan JonesAwesome
Too many great quotes in this essay by Peter Welch . I'll just pick this one:
Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses. There's a team at a Google office that hasn't slept in three days. Somewhere there's a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she's dead. And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.
Over-the-top hilariously negative, but you can feel the love through it.
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Programming Sucks is a post from CSS-Tricks
Linguist Lynne Murphy, an American living in Britain, explains the math/maths situation in this video by Brady Haran. I was getting a little tense for the first couple of minutes as she went on about the rationalizations people gave for thinking maths was somehow better, but then she made the essential point that it was just a matter of habit, and from then on it’s a brilliant exposition of how the forms developed, starting with Ancient Greek. I highly recommend watching it; it’s less than seven minutes long, and you can have the added entertainment of noticing the ways in which her native US English has been affected by the UK environment she’s been in since the year 2000. (I’m pleased to see from her faculty page, linked above, that she got her B.A. in Linguistics and Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, just down the road from my house!)
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May 1st, 2014: If you want to create the 20th Century History Song List based off of these songs, I think you'd find that a lot of them are actually PRETTY GREAT?? – Ryan | |||
DC Comics is going to let us all pretend we’re Batman as a part of his 75th Anniversary celebration. On July 23rd they’ll be giving out masks and capes along with releasing an updated version of Detective Comics #27. It features Batman’s first appearance and has been redone by Batman historian Chip Kidd, with a script by former Justice League writer Brad Meltzer. It will be available free online or you can pick it up in your local comic shop along with the 75th Anniversary cape and one of four masks designed by Ryan Sook.
See the cape after the break…
(Comic Book Resources via Nerdist)
Dan JonesPretty good plan, I think.
In my opinion, making Google Drive the hub for all of your online content wasn’t the best idea on mobile. Google Drive is a solid online storage service, but adding document editing to the mix never made much sense on mobile. Mobile apps should be focused to be more efficient, and adding document editing to an app that’s supposed to manage your online files (of which there are many kinds) never seemed intuitive to me.
It looks like Google may see it the same way. The company has just announced three new apps, two of which are now available. Google Docs and Google Sheets are document and spreadsheet editors, standalone apps made to manage those documents that are in your Google Drive. The third app that is yet to be released is Google Slides, a slideshow editor.
These apps show all your recently edited documents, allow you to create new ones and feature offline support for creating documents when you don’t have an internet connection. In my opinion, this makes for a much more efficient and intuitive service, even if it means having a few more apps installed.
You can install these apps now by hitting the widgets below, or Google Drive will prompt you to install them when trying to edit documents in the Google Drive app. However, the Drive app will still allow you to view and organize documents. I think this is a great move on Google’s part, despite there being redundancies with Google’s recently acquired QuickOffice app, but what do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments!
Dan JonesCool tip. Every day I use git, I find more cool tricks like this.
$ git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)
You'll probably want to pass in the -rf options if you have to delete a directory or something.
by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
Danger stranger than normal The theory behind the Zombie Run card game is that zombies have taken over the town. You have to be the first to escape. The game combines memory with luck and is great for kids ages 7 and up. $7.99
Forget trying to catch ‘em all, it’s time to avenge ‘em all! What would happen in a world where the Avengers meet Pokémon? Mostly, there would be a lot of squealing over the adorable factor. Because seriously – just look how sweet Pikachu is as Thor (the hair!). I want to play the Marvel version of Pokémon immediately.
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