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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea.

SO I HAVE A STAR WARS PINBALL MACHINE FOR FREE EVERYTHING WORKS GREAT THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WHATS SO EVER NOBODY IN MY FAMILY USES IT ANYMORE AND IT IS JUST TAKING UP SPACE. UR GOING TO NEED TWO PEOPLE TO CARY IT OUT I JUST DONT HAVE THE SPACE DO [...]

As it turns out, it would seem that the conservative members of the court, making a calculation that their chances of winning would not improve with time, were behind the decision to take up the volatile subject.

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The girl who just wanted to play football

Ella, a 13-year-old who attends the Sequoyah School in Pasadena, just wants to play football - something easier said than done when the rest of the teams in the area refuse to play against a girl.

As the season began, the league voted against allowing a girl to play. If Ella played, it would mean a forfeit, even though the games could still take place. And Sequoyah would be banned from postseason play.

Ella’s teammates didn’t blink.

As it turns out, the team finished 0-8 after Ella joined them, not because they lost, but because each time she prepared to take the field, they were forced to forfeit.

Read the rest of reporter Chris Erskine’s story here.

Photo: Michael E. Stern

So awesome. If I were them, I’d make 0-8 t-shirts and wear them all the damn time.

Dine on small plates (and bowls!) with grammy-nominated British rapper Slick Rick and chef Wheeler del Torro. Rick the Ruler and del Torro will be competing an Iron Chef style battle. Ramen will be the theme ingredient, in a nod to National Noodle Month. 

Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there. I am the mother of two sons who are both Princetonians. My older son had the good judgment and great fortune to marry a classmate of his, but he could have married anyone. My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless. Men regularly marry women who are younger, less intelligent, less educated. It’s amazing how forgiving men can be about a woman’s lack of erudition, if she is exceptionally pretty. Smart women can’t (shouldn’t) marry men who aren’t at least their intellectual equal. As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are. And I say again — you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you.

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Doctor Who - Regenerate. How did Doctor Who become the longest running sci-fi series? It never stops reinventing itself. Sure, we aren’t all time lords with more lives than cats, but we can breathe fresh life into our work. Retire the stale and try something new and innovative.

ARTstor has been using Java for downloads of individual images, but recently the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began recommending that Java be disabled due to security concerns.

This, from the company that shitcanned Google Reader because they wanted to “focus”.

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A recently passed nuisance control ordinance has spurred a citywide crackdown on house shows—concerts played in private homes, rather than in clubs. The police, it appears, are taking a particularly modern approach to address the issue: They're posing as music fans online to ferret out intel on where these DIY shows are going to take place. While police departments have been using social media to investigate for years, its use in such seemingly trivial crimes would be rather chilling, if these efforts didn’t seem so laughably inept. It's a law enforcement technique seemingly cribbed from MTV’s Catfish—but instead of creating a fake persona to ensnare the marks in a romantic internet scam, it's music fandom that's being feigned.

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A community for video game crafters.

Head over to Dennis' 7 Dees for a brief tutorial on constructing kokedama.  I am really hankering to try this out but - I can't really fathom keeping them out doors and they seem like potential gnat magnets if you keep them indoors.  Have you cared for kokedama and do you have any tips?
From the Fern & Mossery: How to Make and Maintain Terrariums. See more!

 
Super Mario Bros. 3

“A tradition in the cafés of Naples is to order a caffè sospeso – literally, a coffee “in suspense” (aka. caffè pagato, or “paid coffee”) – as a sign of your good fortune. When a sospeso is ordered, the customer pays for two coffees, but only receives one. That way, when a person who is homeless or otherwise down on their luck walks into the café, the person can ask if there are any coffees held in suspense, and can have one as a courtesy of the first customer. Though the custom has been a part of Neapolitan society for many years, it is somewhat less common today.”

- Caffè sospeso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mayor Thomas M. Menino will announce at a Faneuil Hall event Thursday afternoon that he will not seek a sixth term in office, according to officials familiar with his decision.

Bring the smell and warmth of a country kitchen to yours with this hearty loaf.

Does the Pope know he's Pope? Fascinating look at how Pope Francis has thus far refused to take on most of the trappings of the papacy.

Colbert fears Tennessee capitol mop sink may be for Muslim mops.

We have to do something about the math problem…

“Reeder for iPhone will get support for @feedbinapp soon. More to come.
(The Mac and iPad versions will get this with 2.0)”

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Twitter / reederapp: Reeder for iPhone will get …

a wild GReader API replacement appears! (at $2/mo)

Exceltabellenversteher Cary Walkin hat mit Makros ein Rollenspiel in einer Excel-Tabelle programmiert. Ich benutze das Wort Exceltabellenversteher ja normalerweise als Schimpfwort und zwar zurechts, aber das hier: Respekt. Mein ehemaliger Projektmanager war ein Excel-Wizard, aber das hier hätte er nicht hinbekommen.

Key Features:
- Random enemies: Over 2000 possible enemies with different AI abilities.
- Random items: 39 item modifiers result in over 1000 possible item combinations and attributes.
- An interesting story with 4 different endings depending on how the player has played the game.
- 8 boss encounters, each with their own tactics.
- 4 pre-programmed arenas followed by procedurally generated arenas. Each play-through has its own challenges.
- 31 Spells. There are many different strategies for success.
- 15 Unique items. Unique items have special properties and can only drop from specific enemies.
- 36 Achievements.
- This is all in a Microsoft Excel workbook.

Arena.Xlsm Released! (via Boing Boing)

[Updated (3/27/2013, 12:46 p.m.) with reaction from Taylor & Francis Group.]

The editor and the entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration have resigned in response to a conflict with the journal’s publisher over an author agreement that they say is “too restrictive and out of step with the expectations of authors.”

The licensing terms set by the publisher, Taylor & Francis Group, were scaring away potential authors, the editor who resigned, Damon Jaggars, told The Chronicle.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Tracy Roberts, the editorial director of journals at Taylor & Francis, defended the journal’s policies. “The current publishing environment around licensing and author rights is continually evolving. We consider ourselves to be a forward-looking Publisher on author rights,” Ms. Roberts said. “Our License grants significant reuse rights to authors (pre-prints, non-embargoed post-prints, sharing, classroom use, presentation at conferences, republication in existing or new form), whilst we ask only for a sole license over the published version of record.”

Mr. Jaggars, who is associate university librarian for collections and services at Columbia University, began working with the journal around August 2012, he said, and officially became its editor in January of this year. When approaching potential authors, he said, he quickly noticed that many of them had problems with the publisher’s licensing terms.

Some found the terms too confusing, Mr. Jaggars said, while others felt they were too restrictive. Many requested, instead, a form of Creative Commons license, arguing that the journal’s agreement left them little ownership of their own work.

The agreement was particularly troubling to potential authors who are dedicated to the open-access movement, including even a member of the editorial board. Chris Bourg, assistant university librarian for public services at the Stanford University Libraries, wrote in a blog post on Saturday that she had told Mr. Jaggars that she was apprehensive about publishing with the journal, citing a “crisis of conscience” after the death of Aaron Swartz, an open-access advocate.

Mr. Jaggars said he “was continually having” such conversations. “That hit a critical mass of individuals doing that,” he said, “including some very high-profile authors pushing back.”

Over the past six weeks, Mr. Jaggars said, he and the editorial board had been in discussions with Taylor & Francis about changing the terms. In the end, the publisher did offer a less-restrictive license, he said, but the new terms would require authors to pay a fee of nearly $3,000 to have an article appear in the journal. “That really is not an option for librarians and researchers in this field,” Mr. Jaggars said.

The board resigned on Friday, and Mr. Jaggars announced the resignations on Saturday in an e-mail that was sent to the journal’s contributors, including Brian Matthews, associate dean for learning and outreach at Virginia Tech who blogs for The Chronicle and was slated to serve as guest editor of a forthcoming issue.

Mr. Jaggars said resigning was a difficult decision, but the licensing terms had made it impossible for him and the board to put out the journal they envisioned.

“When I became an editor, I did so because I really wanted to create a really forward-looking journal that would have an impact on the profession,” he said.  “A lot of community effort went into the journal because a lot of people believed in what we were trying to create, but it was at the point that we really couldn’t do what we wanted to do.”

The editor and the board members have not heard back from Taylor & Francis since their resignations, Mr. Jaggars said. He said that he and the board did not wish to vilify Taylor & Francis, but that they felt the “math just didn’t add up” for the journal’s authors.

“My feeling,” he said, “is that the board wasn’t trying to make a massive statement other than to say, ‘Hey, this isn’t working.’”

Ms. Roberts, in the statement by Taylor & Francis, said it will continue to listen to the librarians’ concerns and that the publisher has been working on a new version of author documents since last year that would make more clear which rights authors retain.

“There seemed to be a misunderstanding and some sort of conflation of the different licenses that Taylor and Francis is offering,” Ms. Roberts said.

“Simmons College has named Eileen G. Abels , Ph.D., a longtime library and information science practitioner and educator with a specialty in digital reference education and remote reference services, as the new dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS). Her appointment begins July 1.Former Simmons GSLIS Dean Michele Cloonan served 10 years as dean, and will continue her scholarly work at Simmons as a researcher and professor, specializing in the preservation of cultural heritage and book trade history.” (via PRNewswire)

“A cat in Swansea that lives at the town’s public library is causing controversy. It’s front page news in southeastern Massachusetts. A quiet, unassuming cat is causing big problems for at least one person in Swansea. “It’s a continuation of the handicapped accessibility platform I started in 2007,” said Patrick Higgins, a Swansea resident. Patrick Higgins says the library needs to make big changes to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act; changes like adding a ramp to the front entrance and taking down a fence in front of the gazebo in back — but removing a cat?” (via WHDH-TV)

From theChive:

At first I thought that might have been a unique slip-up, but it turns out that "Made in Chian" is common. There has been at least one essay on the subject, and images documenting this spelling are legion.  Here are just a few.

From RCGroups:

From TranslatorsCafé:

The plastic liner of a gift flower basket:

Among the things from various companies I've seen that are labeled as "Made in Chian" are cell phones, computers, furniture, filters, rubber washers, birthday candles, foodstuffs, sports equipment, clothing — just about anything you'd expect to be made in China. "Chian" was not one of the spellings that I covered in my post  "The transcription of the name 'China' in Chinese characters", 6/17/2012.

Wondering what might have triggered this misspelling over and over again, I'm guessing that it may have something to do with the fact that "Chian" has the appearance of a common Chinese syllable: Pinyin "qian", Wade-Giles "ch'ien", Yale "chyan". That's just a guess, but there must some reason why this same spelling mistake is made over and over again.

The red equal sign image is replacing profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest and elsewhere.

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nefertiti:

D Y S T O P I A  | | | a blade runner mixtape {dystopian, industrialization,  atmospheric, man vs. machine} Songs evocative of the themes and sounds of Blade Runner. More related songs, mixes, and information are at the full blog post here.

keys of life klaus nomi | film one john foxx | making of cyborg kenji kawai | manifest destiny damon albarn & michael nyman | prologue vangelis | redhead girl air | orchid club blondie | burning bridges japan | deep honey goldfrapp | the end of europe ryuichi sakamoto | in mcdonald’s burial | wait for me vangelis | dedication to a. tarkovsky edward artemiev | jemsheed ayshay | elegia new order | lavender girl jarboe | into the light siouxsie & the banshees | motorway to damascus the divine comedy | from the air laurie anderson | radioactivity kraftwerk | the thinner the air cocteau twins | sakura joe hisaishi | sphinx in the night syoko | neon gumbo janelle monae | time to die gary numan | epilogue yellow magic orchestra | wow laurel halo

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