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Bubbles, Blossom, Buttercul and Professor Utonium get a gritty and sexy makeover in this Post Apocalyptic Powerpuff Girls cosplay.

Cosplayed by Mad Mel Madigan (Blossom), Jenny Lorenzo (Buttercup), Juliet Audrey Winchester (Bubbles) and Carlos Blanchard (Professor Utonium).

Photography by Provoke Photography.

See more pics after the break.

Send your cosplay pics to tips@fashionablygeek.com.

(via Geek x Girls)

Do everything right the first time, kids.

The last time I got my driver’s license renewed here in the US, they wouldn’t even let me smile. In Japan, they’ll not only let you smile, but they’re fine if you’re dressed in cosplay. These “itai” driver’s licenses are perfectly legal and feature everything from costumes to colored contacts to cross-dressing, but there are limits. You can’t wear a hat, and you can’t have a brightly colored wig.

See more pictures after the break…

(via Kotaku)

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October 14th, 2013: I am still in NYC and so far in NYC I have eaten eight NO WAIT NINE distinct kinds of sausages in a single sitting. New York City! It's pretty great! One year ago today: YOU'RE CALLING ME OUT, THE MAN WHO BROUGHT THEM ARTICLE DECLENSIONS TO ENGLISH?? – Ryan

Fun Fact.  If you flipped Mount Everest over and placed it on top of the Mariana Trench, it’s peak would fall 7,000 feet short of the bottom. It would also be the single largest waste of human effort in history.

Doing an emergency server swap, I'm afraid. We hope there will be a minimum of bugs, but please let us know if anything is funky.

After Microsoft's Hotmail (rebranded as Outlook), it's time for Yahoo Mail to change its interface and look more like Gmail. The all-new Yahoo Mail adds support for conversations, custom themes for all devices and no longer requires you to pay for features like disposable email addresses, enhanced filters and automatic message forwarding.

"And if that wasn't enough, we're giving you a monstrous amount of storage, 1TB (that's 1,000 GBs), so you have ample space for all your emails and attachments." That's a lot more than Gmail's 15GB free storage shared with Google Drive and Google+ Photos. While most people will not even use 1% of Yahoo's 1TB of free storage, it's nice to no longer worry about storage. It's interesting to notice that this is actually a downgrade: Yahoo previously claimed that Yahoo Mail offers unlimited storage and now it "only" offers 1TB. Obviously, 1TB and unlimited are synonymous when it comes to email storage.

"This new desktop experience is available in English in the US, Canada, UK, Philippines, Malaysia, India, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa with more countries and languages coming soon," informs Yahoo.

Marissa Mayer can finally switch from Gmail to Yahoo Mail, even though she still uses a command-line email client called Pine. Here are some screenshots.

{ Thanks, Sushubh. }

Dude, those are fake fingers…

A lot of people wonder what happens when you stop paying for additional Google storage. Google doesn't delete your files, but you're forced to delete some of them because you can't upload new files until you use less than 15GB of storage (your quota may be different).

A downside of Google's shared storage system is that it affects both Gmail and Google+ Photos, not just Google Drive. Gmail used to offer 10GB of free storage, Picasa Web/Google+ Photos only 1GB and Google Drive - 5GB. Small photos (

"If you exceed your quota limit, you'll receive warnings in each product and you'll need to correct the issue as soon as you can. Otherwise, you'll be unable to upload additional items to your Drive or photos to Google+, and, after a period of time, incoming messages to your Gmail account will be returned to the sender and you won't be able to send new messages," explains Google.

Now that Yahoo Mail offers 1TB of free storage and Outlook.com "includes email storage that expands to provide you with as much storage space as you need", Gmail's 15GB limit doesn't look that impressive. Maybe Google wants to encourage people to use Google Drive for uploading files, instead of using Gmail attachments.

Yahoo's Flickr service offers 1TB of free photo storage. "No limited pixels, no cramped formats, no memories that fall flat." Suddenly, Google's photo offering is less impressive: you get unlimited photo storage, but only if you resize the photos.

It looks like Google no longer has the edge when it comes to free storage. Gmail offered 1GB of free storage when its main competitors only included a few megabytes of storage. Now roles are reversed.

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

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October 7th, 2013: Thanks to everyone who came out to IndieCade and to our little event last night at the Time Travel Store! I believe everyone had a good... time?? I hope you enjoyed that pun; I am a professional writer One year ago today: should've wished for more wishes, grahams – Ryan

Wow. What a wonderful night. Thank you to everyone who made BAHFest happen and everyone who showed up Sunday evening for a dorky good time.

Watch as several kayakers rocket down a drainage ditch in BC at speeds approaching 35 mph.

That looks like a lot of fun. See also what fast looks like. (via devour)

Tags: kayaking   sports   video

This person hasn’t arrived yet. Nope. No one is staying with me.

Early update because I'll be at Festiblog all day!

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."

Coinbox Hero and Cookie Clicker both break the idea of the video game down into the bare essentials: perform an action to get points, use points to power up, repeat. They're games that show you how games work. (See also Cow Clicker.)

In Cookie Clicker, you click to make cookies until you have enough cookies to hire a cursor to click for you and eventually you get enough points to buy cookie mines, time machines, and antimatter condensers capable of generating millions of cookies a second. There doesn't seem to be a goal per se...presumably you can keep upgrading until you're generating trillions of cookies a minute. It's like Bitcoin except with cookies.

In Coinbox Hero, you start similarly, jumping into a Super Mario-esque coinbox to get coins to buy workers to collect more coins for you. Unlike Cookie Clicker, there's a clear objective: earn 1,000,000 points to buy a device that will destroy the coinbox.

I found both of these games very satisfying to play, which suggests that a significant amount of my enjoyment of games derives not from the gameplay but from the amassing wealth and power, which, man, I guess I have something to talk to my therapist about this week. (via waxy)

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For most of you iPhone users out there: today there’s a huge update coming which has features inspired by Android, the late Palm OS, Windows Phone 7, and common sense.

The Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) ushered in an early era of web innovation by offering the first standard mechanism to extend the browser. In fact, many modern web platform features—including video and audio support—first saw mainstream deployment through NPAPI-based plug-ins.

But the web has evolved. Today’s browsers are speedier, safer, and more capable than their ancestors. Meanwhile, NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity. Because of this, Chrome will be phasing out NPAPI support over the coming year.

We feel the web is ready for this transition. NPAPI isn’t supported on mobile devices, and Mozilla plans to block NPAPI plug-ins in December 2013. Based on anonymous Chrome usage data, we estimate that only six NPAPI plug-ins were used by more than 5% of users in the last month. Still, we appreciate that it will take time to transition away from NPAPI, so we will be rolling out this change in stages.

Starting in January 2014, Chrome will block webpage-instantiated NPAPI plug-ins by default on the Stable channel. To avoid disruption to users, we will temporarily whitelist the most popular NPAPI plug-ins that are not already blocked for security reasons. These are:

1. Silverlight (launched by 15% of Chrome users last month)
2. Unity (9.1%)
3. Google Earth (9.1%)
4. Java (8.9%) *
5. Google Talk (8.7%)
6. Facebook Video (6.0%)

* Already blocked by default for security reasons. 

In the short term, end users and enterprise administrators will be able to whitelist specific plug-ins. Eventually, however, NPAPI support will be completely removed from Chrome. We expect this to happen before the end of 2014, but the exact timing will depend on usage and user feedback. Note that the built-in Flash plug-in and PDF viewer will be unaffected because they don’t use NPAPI.

The Chrome Web Store will also be phasing out NPAPI support. Starting today, no new Apps or Extensions containing NPAPI-based plug-ins will be allowed in the Web Store. Developers will be able to update their existing NPAPI-based Apps and Extensions until May 2014, when they will be removed from the Web Store home page, search results, and category pages. In September 2014, all existing NPAPI-based Apps and Extensions will be unpublished. Existing installations will continue to work until Chrome fully removes support for NPAPI.

There are several alternatives to NPAPI. In cases where standard web technologies are not yet sufficient, developers and administrators can use NaCl, Apps, Native Messaging API, and Legacy Browser Support to transition from NPAPI. Moving forward, our goal is to evolve the standards-based web platform to cover the use cases once served by NPAPI. 

Justin Schuh, Security Engineer and Plug-in Retirement Planner