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As the role-playing game's name hints, dragons abound in the many worlds of D&D, but of course they can't all be red, evil, and hungry for heroes. There are dozens of species with different abilities, agendas, and alignments a wandering adventurer may encounter; these just happen to be the weirdest.

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Star Trek Online plans to erect an official, standing in-game memorial next week to Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed Spock for nearly 50 years and who died yesterday at age 83.

The memorial will appear following the sci-fi MMO's regularly scheduled maintenance on March 5, according to executive producer Steve Ricossa. "In this way, we hope to keep his memory as alive in our game as he is in all of our hearts," he wrote. "LLAP."

That's shorthand for "live long and prosper," the valediction Nimoy gave in performing one of pop culture's most iconic roles. Nimoy's death touched off a wave of public mourning, not limited to just fans of Star Trek or science fiction, in social media, comments to news posts, and also video games.

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Although the dress had been reported to be worth $150,000, the thief said the dress was practically worthless and returned the dress to expose "Hollywood's fake bullshit." [ more › ]

On Wednesday, Apple's lead designer, Jony Ive, was promoted to Chief Design Officer. For some good analysis of the corporate politics behind the move and what it signals about Apple going forward, see Ben Thompson and Jon Gruber.

But it reminds me of one of my favorite Ive anecdotes, which comes from the New Yorker's lengthy profile of him. In it, Ive relays an argument he had with his late boss, Steve Jobs:

Jobs's taste for merciless criticism was notorious; Ive recalled that, years ago, after seeing colleagues crushed, he protested. Jobs replied, "Why would you be vague?," arguing that ambiguity was a form of selfishness: "You don't care about how they feel! You're being vain, you want them to like you." Ive was furious, but came to agree. "It's really demeaning to think that, in this deep desire to be liked, you've compromised giving clear, unambiguous feedback," he said.

You can take this insight too far, and if the stories about Jobs are any indication, he almost certainly did. But in trying to separate the tales of Jobs' brutality from his legendary effectiveness as a manager, this is probably a good place to start. Jobs was able to give his employees something many managers can't: clear feedback. And that's because he understood something that many managers don't: it's actually unpleasant to work for a manager who desperately wants to be liked:

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Every fashion week, Becca McCharen's futuristic fashion brand Chromat enlists badass DJs to create a soundtrack for its runway show. Previous seasons have featured artists like Juliana Huxtable, Ana Lola Roman, and Lauren Flax. For Chromat's latest fall/winter 2015 "Mindfiles" collection, they had HD get on the ones and twos.

The haunting, high energy mix includes tracks from artists like Fatima Al Qadiri and (McCharen's personal favorite) Bjork. The sound of robot voices and gears turning creates an industrial vibe that perfectly sets off the collection's theme of techno-immortality. HD ends the mix with K Rizz's "Imagine If," a song that invites listeners to envision a better future where technology gives us the opportunity for a simpler, longer, and more connected life.

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One never needs a reason to reblog Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.

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This is too real and so important. Our veterans deserve better while they’re still alive.

"Pink Fox Blue You" is another awesome new one from Caia Koopman!

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Kicking off our next weekend of live music is Montreal's Stars! As part of their North American tour, Stars will headline a date with opener Leisure Cruise at the Fonda Theatre on Friday, March 6. The tour is in support...

Way back in 2005, Coldplay released its third album, “X&Y,” to great commercial success and nearly unanimous critical acclaim. The album’s biggest single was probably “Speed of Sound,” but far from forgotten is the record’s second single, the immortal ballad “Fix You,” which features Chris Martin crooning in a falsetto over layered church organs. The song, which was written for Martin’s then-wife Gwyneth Paltrow when her father died, has seen quite a few covers and tributes, but evidently one got lost along the way.

UK-based electronic musician Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, remixed the track back when it came out and his version remained inexplicably unreleased in the ten years since. Until now. Hebden spun the track while he was guest-starring on Jon Hopkins’ BBC Radio One set. Hebden said, regarding the track, “The album had been out and they commissioned a remix from me and…it just got shelved for whatever reason.” We never knew what we were missing until now.

The remix takes places Martin’s vocals over what sounds like a xylophone or toy piano of some sort, but the switch from the organ feels neither cheapening nor over-bold. Instead, the delicate arrangement underscores the powerful vocal performance which Hebden couldn’t help but appreciate: “When I heard the vocal on its own…they should’ve just released the vocal on its own.”

Listen to the remix below and check out the Jon Hopkins set while it’s still available. Four Tet speaks about the track around the 24:30 mark.

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this is the best thing in the entire world

she should greet jane as if nothing happened and see how jane reacts

she should avoid school the next day. And the next. Every night, she should put on the exact outfit she had on that day, hose herself down until she’s completely drenched and stand in Jane’s yard. When Jane is home alone, she should approach the window, staring at her. Knock on it if you don’t have her attention. 

That’ll get her back for killing you and trying to hide the evidence.

Ease up there, Satan.

Ease up? SHE TRIED TO KILL HER

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We all know that Adam Savage is probably the coolest and smartest fellow alive, right? Not only is he one of the hosts of the hugely popular and informational MythBusters program over there on the Discovery Channel, he’s a massive fan of movies. Like any good geek, when he loves something, he likes to express that love.

You may remember some years back that Adam made (for fun and just-becausery mind you) an exact replica of Deckard’s gun from Blade Runner, as well as any number of other movie props. He puts these things up on the truly awesome website Tested so you can see exactly how these things are done, as they happen.

His latest build plays into his love and obsession with Stanley Kubrick (to which I can completely relate) and one particular Kubrick film he didn’t want to…OVERLOOK…ha ha ha. I’m speaking, of course, about the maestro’s 1980 horror classic The Shining. As you can hear in the video below, Adam became obsessed with the terrifying and seemingly unsolvable maze in the film after visiting the awesome Kubrick exhibit that was at LACMA in 2012-2013. Savage has since traveled around and discovered that the scale model they had was not even close to correct. That’s all Adam needed to begin to figure out exactly what Jack Torrance was looking at.

Just like the one in the film, Adam built his maze at O Scale, which means 1/48th-1/50th size, and from there it was simply a matter of getting all of the various twists and turns correct.

That attention to detail is worthy of the notorious perfectionist Kubrick himself. For an even more in-depth look at what he did, see the follow-up video below, and enjoy the gallery. (A full gallery is available on the Tested site.)

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Time was when a person who aspired to a career in show business was expected to have several talents. The late Leonard Nimoy was a trouper of the old school, with an old-school actor's survival instinct. We all know the role of Spock both defined and kind of destroyed his life as a castable character actor—though I would point to his post-Star Trek work on Mission Impossible and in Philip Kaufman's 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake as signs of vitality. In order to keep the pipe lit, Nimoy worked as an actor, director, and TV presenter, a writer of books, a photographer (notably of mystical Jewish erotica), and, even more intriguingly, a recording artist. Of his five studio LPs, a few were clearly Star Trek-derived novelties (e.g., "Highly Illogical," from his 1967 debut, The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy). But Nimoy's oeuvre was expansive enough to contain other kinds of fantasy numbers ("The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" from the same album), as well as a host of easy-listening covers of both hits ("Everybody's Talkin'") and deep cuts ("I'd Love Making Love to You") from the period during which the folk craze of the previous decade finally melted all the way down into the MOR idiom. Unlike the hilarious, histrionic recordings of his Enterprising colleague William Shatner, Nimoy is just a very pleasing, semi-conversational singer, the way any actor who expected to find work used to have to be. He just stumbled into a strange career that required him to wear pointy ears on his album covers from time to time. A noble life. Just listen:

Highly Illogical

Everybody’s Talkin’

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Let It Be Me

I Walk the Line

Proud Mary

I’d Love Making Love to You

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

Nature Boy

If I Were a Carpenter

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Skull affected by Bone Cancer (Sarcoma Cranii).

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“The average American woman,” Nimoy writes, “weighs 25 percent more than the models selling the clothes. There is a huge industry built up around selling women ways to get their bodies closer to the fantasy ideal. Pills, diets, surgery, workout programs… . The message is ‘You don’t look right. If you buy our product, you can get there.’”

never forget that leonard nimoy helped create fat art and representation

i didn’t know this about leonard nimoy why didn’t i know this any time before today

in case you didn’t know about grandpa leonard’s fat ladies.

Tijuana is a food lover's paradise, teeming with gut-busting rewards for those willing to explore its grids of unmarked streets. It's a relatively short drive (about an hour and a half south of L.A.) to get to the heart of the tangled metropolis, which is home to haute cuisine such as...

Did Frozen's Elsa move to Massachusetts? Based on the photos, she would like the weather these days.

The snapshots, taken by photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh, capture the rare sight of frozen ocean waves.

The concept of a "frozen wave" may seem paradoxical, but they are the result of specific environmental factors, including the temperature of the air and water and the pattern of movement in the water. While fresh water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, sea water, due to its salt content, freezes at 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sea ice covers 15% of the earth's water at some point in the year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. So when this happens, like when it did recently in Nantucket, loose needle-like ice crystals called frazil begin to form. As that happens, salt, which doesn't freeze, gets left behind. Read More

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When outsiders think of Southern California canine culture, they surely conjure images of glamorous celebrities with Chihuahuas, Shih Tzus and Yorkshire Terriers. In other words, we're known for people who use dogs as fashion accessories, even if the pups are often pampered more than many humans. It might come as a...

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The 'Hollyweed' sign lives on in song-form. Folk, of course. [ more › ]

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