This shirt has been making the rounds on Internet for a while now and I wish I would have blogged about sooner, but better late than never, right? Anyway, here it is in all its dog-whistle glory: the supremely droll “Fuck N.W.A.” t-shirt. If you don’t get it right...
When you’re writing a book, obviously you need to have some idea of where you’re going to end up when you’re finished. George R.R. Martin may hate writing outlines—which is probably why we’re all in this mess, hungrily waiting for his sixth book— but when he sent his publisher the first thirteen chapters of A Game of Thrones, he had a much, much different idea of how the war between the Starks and the Lannisters would play out. Possible spoilers except…well, let’s hope not.
First off, Martin outright names the five characters who he intended to survive by the series’ end: Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, and Tyrion Lannister. Ned was always intended to die by Joffrey’s hand, more or less, and so were a lot of other sympathetic characters—”I want the reader to feel that no one is ever completely safe,” he writes in the letter. As most hardcore ASOIAF fans probably already know, the series was also supposed to be three books—A Game of Thrones, A Dance With Dragons, and The Winds of Winter. The Dothraki invasion would have hit during the second volume (Lol), and the story of the Night’s Watch versus the Others would have been central to the third book.
But I wouldn’t take that list of names too seriously anymore, because there are some other obvious changes to the story we know and hate that we love so much from what Martin first outlined in these pages. Daenerys was originally supposed to kill Khal Drogo as vengeance for her brother Viserys and then “stumbles on a cache of dragon eggs” while escaping from Dothraki riders. Robb would have died in battle against “Jaime and Tyrion Lannister and their allies,” but not without maiming Joffrey Baratheon in an earlier skirmish. Sansa was always intended to marry Joffrey and bear his child, and ultimately choose them over her family. Arya, meanwhile, would have escaped with Catelyn, fled to Winterfell, and taken Bran with them to the wall after Winterfell burns, where things start to get… uh, weird.
“Jon and Benjen [Stark] will not be able to help, to Jon’s anguish. It will lead to a bitter estrangement between Jon and Bran. Arya will be more forgiving… until she realizes, with terror, that she has fallen in love with Jon, who is not only her half-brother but a man of the Night’s Watch, sworn to celibacy. Their passion will continue to torment Jon and Arya throughout the trilogy, until the secret of Jon’s true parentage is finally revealed in the last book.”
Wait. Wait. IT GETS WEIRDER:
“Tyrion Lannister will continue to travel, to plot, and to play the game of thrones, finally removing his nephew Joffrey in disgust at the boy’s brutality. Jaime Lannister will follow Joffrey on the throne of the Seven Kingdoms, by the simple expedient of killing everyone ahead of him in the line of succession and blaming his brother Tyrion for the murder. Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down, and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he’s at it. Tyrion is, alas, unreciprocated, but no less intense for that, and it will lead to a deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow.”
And then the last paragraph is blacked out. GOD DAMN IT GEORGE
Anthem, the second-largest health insurance company in the U.S., admitted today that it got majorly hacked, exposing the Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, and more of what may be millions of customers.
RJ Mitte‘s IMDB profile credits the young Breaking Bad star as an actor and producer. However, based on recent headlines, the 22-year-old might soon be adding “celebrity DJ” to his resume.
According to MixMag.net, it appears Walter White Jr. will be manning the wheels of steel at an upcoming Breaking Bad-themed bash called… wait for it… “Breaking Beats,” which will be held at B.B. King’s Blues Club in New York City on April 10.
Oddly enough, Mitte isn’t the only cult TV star making headlines in clubland. Last year, Game Of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) toured around the U.S. and Australia under the DJ moniker… wait for it again… Rave Of Thrones.
Check out some of his tunage.
Back to “Breaking Beats,” it’s unfortunate that the event will be almost two months after the premiere of the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul, which debuts this Sunday, February 8 on AMC.
Perhaps the organizers can put together some sort of tandem parties for Season 2. Seems like they’re missing out on an amazing marketing opportunity.
A few years ago, scientists discovered that certain chemical changes to our DNA which accumulate over time can be used to predict our age. Now, taking this one step further, researchers have found that the difference between this estimated age and our actual, chronological age, can be used as a kind of “biological clock” to predict our lifespan.
man i can't wait to see what sort of awesome stuff i don't end up doing after i learn how to taxidermy shit this weekend.
Behold the creepily awesome technological wonder that is the Compubeaver, a taxidermy beaver modified to be a computer case by Florence, Italy-based multimedia artist and creative technologist Kasey McMahon in 2007.
"I am interested in the way we interact with nature. As we become increasingly reliant on technology, we become disconnected from our natural environment. Nature then is a spectacle (ie holy crap, that’s a beaver!), an outing, a thing that is nonexistent in our daily lives.
There is also something intrinsically funny about putting a computer in a beaver. In fact, I find it difficult to think of a more ridiculous case housing for an office machine. All innuendos aside, what better creature to house the busiest of machines – the machine that has sped up our lives and made us captive to a constant flow of information.”
McMahon created a very thorough Instructables tutorial documenting the process of converting a beaver into a functional PC from start to finish so that anyone else can do it themselves. It all begins, of course, by procuring a stuffed beaver or perhaps an entirely different sort of taxidermy animal. McMahon recommends seeking out a high quality mount since most of internal structure will be removed to accommodate the computer, so you don’t want an animal that’s likely to fall apart without its stuffing.
I won't tell you what you should and shouldn't use these fine Breaking Bad cutting boards for, but...you might want to stick to "Let's Cook"-ing actual food. Like, how about cleaving some birds for a nice Los Pollos Hermanos fried chicken dinner? Or crushing up that glistening blue block of rock candy that's finally set?
Nomad Gift's series of Heisenberg-mugged cutting boards are all handmade of solid, ecologically clean maple and ash wood--the cleanest, purest, and best in the business, I'd surmise. Engravings are done on one side only, leaving the other safe to use for, uh, cutting and chopping. Boards are also impregnated with mineral oil and covered with beeswax for conditioning.
The Breaking Bad Heisenberg collection includes 4 different cutting board styles, all measuring approximately 12" x 8" x 0.75".
Remember the 90's? When commercials were actually awesome. Well, this Big Game Liquid Slam commercial might be the best one ever. LIQUID SLAM! Check out the ...
Plants and Animals
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The rich green color of the photosynthesizing sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, helps to camouflage it on the ocean floor / Patrick Krug
The brilliant emerald green sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, spends months living on sunlight just like plants. It’s been called the photosynthesizing sea slug in the past, but how it manages to do this as well as it does is a complete mystery. In a new study appearing in the Biological Bulletin, researchers reveal that the sea slug has incorporated genes from the algae that it eats.
Octopuses have become my favorite animals because it's very clear that they possess super powers from an alien world and even clearer that they use those powers for evil (or exactly how I would use them). Here's an octopus showing off his truly incredible camouflage powers. It goes from a brown mound to a blue water alien real quick.
this picture is essentially how i envision every plane i ever get on looking at some point during the flight.
A commercial plane belonging to Taiwanese carrier TransAsia Airways and carrying 58 people crash-landed in a river in Taipei after clipping a bridge shortly after takeoff, the Associated Press reports.
Officials told the AP that 23 people were killed and 15 injured in the crash. At least 20 passengers remain missing.
Flight GE 235 from Taipei to Kinmen crashed at about 10:45 a.m. local time, Aviation Safety Council spokesman Thomas Wang told Bloomberg. Officials estimate 40 people were injured in the crash.
Local media reports indicated that "dozens" of people on the plane were rescued and sent to a nearby hospital while another 10 remain trapped in the aircraft," per the BBC.
Motorists on a nearby highway captured photos and video of the crash:
Source: YouTubeThe taxi driver who was hit and survived has been called the "luckiest man alive," according to the Mirror. Read More
ok matt this is not a short game, at all. i've been playing on and off for days but i'm like, 12% into it. so whoever said it was short is a goddamn wizard ;)
I was almost ten hours into Dying Light before I got my hands on a gun. It was an assault rifle, and I had to kill a man for it. Doing so wasn't pretty, nor was it easy.
these pics are pretty recent too, that john oliver billboard near the whiskey is new
Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V may be a caricature of Los Angeles, but that doesn't make it complete fiction. Like the best caricatures, it shares its foundations with the real thing, as you'll see in these images which compare certain landmarks in the game with their LA counterparts.
Some of you may be familiar with the creepy-cute paintings of Miso- she spent the majority of last year exhibiting under her real name, Karen Hsiao (featured here). To accomodate her variety of styles, Hsiao created her "Miso" namesake, under which she exhibits surrealistic works inspired by biology and the unkown. Her upcoming solo show at La Luz de Jesus, "Cornucopia", reduces her already tiny paintings to an even smaller scale.
Vaccines are not part of some evil plot to poison our children. But there are plenty of terribly misguided people who believe they are! And their beliefs didn't just materialize out of nowhere. A new video from the New York Times explains how we got to this terrifying point in American history — a seemingly upside down, dystopian world where we're witnessing the resurgence of diseases we thought were long since wiped out.
I'm sure that professional and semi-professional bowlers know that high end bowling balls are not solid but contain weird-looking cores that are supposed to make your game better. I don't know how much science is there, but you can listen to the explanation on this marketing video by ball manufacturer Reign On.
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press circa 1439 A.D., and Homer's The Iliad was likely written around 762 B.C. Here's what Jennifer Lopez's new movie The Boy Next Door says a first edition of The Iliad looks like:
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Just what the neighborhood needed: a Whole Foods is finally opening downtown. [ 
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Some of you may be familiar with the creepy-cute paintings of Miso- she spent the majority of last year exhibiting under her real name, Karen Hsiao (featured here). To accomodate her variety of styles, Hsiao created her "Miso" namesake, under which she exhibits surrealistic works inspired by biology and the unkown. Her upcoming solo show at La Luz de Jesus, "Cornucopia", reduces her already tiny paintings to an even smaller scale.
