We reckon you’re a woman between the ages of around 24 and 29. You probably have a job you’re good at and while you might have settled down a little, you still find the time to go out and have fun.
Blue Jays fans partied in the streets after the team beat the Texas Rangers in the final game of their playoff series. A crowd gathered at Yonge-Dundas Square, and it may go down as the most law-abiding and Canadian sports celebration ever.
Tjitske Van Vark is an 18-year-old high school student from Melbourne, Australia. She recently dressed up in costume for her school's "Muck Up Day" — an Australian tradition where seniors dress up on their last day of school and pull pranks.
Van Vark went as "Sexy Gandalf" and posted it to her Tumblr, writing, "Our last day of school involved dressing up and I took it upon myself to be the sexiest one there."
Her photos blew up instantly. "Within three days my follower count had more than tripled, I've received far too many wonderful messages," Van Vark told BuzzFeed.
You've taken French since you were in, like, grade 3 by force of the Canadian government but you don't resent them for it because what a great opportunity.
So you're Jose Bautista and you just hit the home run that caused an entire nation to raise their fists in the air in sweet, sweet victory. How do you get home? You put on your headphones and hop on your scooter like a goddamn champ.
Months after a male Ebola survivor tested negative for the disease, he transmitted the deadly virus to a female partner through unprotected sex, a genetic analysis revealed.
The Liberian woman, who became ill with the disease and died in March, is the first person known to contract the Ebola virus from sex, researchers reported this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Typically, people contract Ebola from direct contact with the blood or other bodily fluids from a sick or recently deceased patient.
But experts knew that the Ebola virus can linger in patients after they’ve recovered. And they speculated that sexual transmission was possible. After the virus is cleared from a patient’s blood, it can turn up in semen and other fluids for weeks or months—as long as nine months, new data suggest.
For years, Valve's been teasing us with the promise of a new kind of gaming device: a PC that lives in your entertainment center, outperforms traditional consoles and has more games available for it than you can count. Now it's finally here: I have...
If you're a Pebble Time owner and would like to respond to emails or texts without pulling out your phone, we've got good news. Starting today, Android users can employ the Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel to reply to those messages using their vo...
Look at that sheep. Just look at it. Adorable, confused and fluffy -- a trifecta of cute cuddliness. Ratchet and Clank each come close, but it's really no contest. Sorry, guys.
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MINNEAPOLIS—According to a study published Thursday in the Journal Of Marriage And Family that assessed factors contributing to lasting and happy relationships, the practice of carving names into public property prolongs the time a couple is together by 30 years or more.
Controlling for race, age, gender, and income, researchers found that partners who had carved their names into park benches, outdoor art installations, city landmarks, and other structures intended for the enjoyment of the general population remained together an average of three decades longer than couples who did not engrave their names into such property.
“While numerous factors play a part in a relationship’s longevity—compatibility of personalities, empathy, and respect, among others—only one criterion all but guaranteed a healthy union that lasted for multiple decades, and that was the use of a knife or other sharp object to carve the pair’s names into wood ...
Lots of robots fell over on Day 1 of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. Read more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/darpa-robotics-cha...
A Faraday Cases travel case, configured to keep communications gear safe in transit from unfriendly electromagnetism.
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WASHINGTON, DC—A small company from Utah has developed a composite material that combines carbon fibers with a nickel coating. The result is an extremely lightweight electric-conducting material with the properties of plastic. And now that material is being used to create cases and computer enclosures that are essentially lightweight Faraday cages—containing electromagnetic radiation from digital devices and shielding them from electronic eavesdropping or electromagnetic pulse attacks. Ars got a brief hands-on with some of the materials at the Association of the United States Army expo this week.
The company, Conductive Composites, is now selling cases built with the Nickel Chemical Vapor Deposition (NiCVD) composite material through its Faraday Cases division. The cases range in size from suitcase-sized units for carrying smaller digital devices to wheeled portable enclosures that can house servers—providing what is essentially an EMP-shielded portable data center. The cases and enclosures are being marketed not just to the military but to consumers, corporations, and first responders as well.
The materials used in Faraday Cases can also be used to create ultra-lightweight antennas, satellite communications reflector dishes, and hundreds of other things that currently need to be made with conductive metal. And they could be a boon to anyone trying to prevent electronic eavesdropping—be it through active wireless bugs, radio retroreflectors used by nation-state intelligence agencies, or passive surveillance through anything from Wi-FI hacking to electromagnetic signals leaking from computer cables and monitors. And in some cases, they could make it possible to create the kind of secure spaces used by government agencies to prevent eavesdropping nearly anywhere.
October 14th, 2015: This weekend (October 17th-18th) I'll be at MICE: the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo! It's totally free, totally great, and if you're anywhere around Cambridge, you should come.
They asked if I'd do some comics themed around mice, comics, or expos, and that's what I did! I wrote out regular Dinosaur Comics scripts (I do actual scripts, now you know!) and instead of me laying them out, some of the terrific artists at MICE drew them instead. And they're super great!
This comic is by Mitra Farmand who I have never met in real life before, but here we are, collaborating, thanks to the internet! Check out her comic Fuffernutter, it is extremely cute and I like it. She also likes Star Trek, so clearly we're going to be fast friends when we meet at MICE!
That was a great game. Everyone at Van Diemen's went absolutely insane when he hit that homerun!
A touch melodramatic, but IT ALSO LED TO A JAYS WIN!!!!!!
The setting: a tense and tied do-or-die Game 5 matchup between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers. Then something historically bizarre happened — which we won't get into right now, but the Jays were down and ish was tense.
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Jose Bautista hit a three-run homer. And he kissed it off with the greatest bat flip of history, we and historians would say.
Many an office Nerf war has dragged on for years, yielding countless casualties, way too many reloads, and multiple projectiles lost under immovable desks. It gets to the point where no one even remembers why the fighting began in the first place. Sometimes, a final solution is necessary to end the cycle of violence. What’s needed is the Nerf Nuke.
This pinnacle of Nerf weaponry may or may not be real (click on ‘Buy Now’ to find out), but that doesn’t matter, does it? What matters is that it’s loaded up with 80 darts that blast off in all directions up to 30 feet when the contraption hits something solid. The Nerf Nuke Launcher is a tripod-mounted, direct-plunger system, and it fires the Nuke up to 40 feet away. That should keep you outside the blast radius and leave you as the last man standing. Victory will be yours, but it shall be a lonely one. You have to watch the video below to see this thing in action. [Purchase]
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TACOMA, WA—Remarking upon the enormous caution she now takes before saying or doing anything in the presence of a loved one, local mother Sharon Powell, 64, told reporters Tuesday she knows any wrong move she makes could be interpreted by her family as a telltale sign of dementia.
Powell claimed that even the simplest memory lapse, such as momentarily forgetting a distant relative’s name or losing track of what day of the week it is, might cause her children to worry that her mental state is in decline, setting into motion an irreversible series of events that would end with her moving into an assisted-care facility.
“I make sure I place my keys in the exact same spot 100 percent of the time. And I always speak at a steady, even pace—too fast and I might trip over a word, too slow and they might think I ...
Today, while looking through my son's browser history, I found a Google search for "stop looking in my history u nosey cunt". I swore last week that I don't invade his privacy, so I can't even punish him for the bad language without looking like a lying bastard. FML
Early last Tuesday morning, a man at a Detroit gas station was startled while pumping gas by a spider that was crawling on his fuel tank. Surprised by the critter, he used a lighter to try to kill it. A fire immediately erupted.
"He didn't have a cigarette, he didn't have anything on him. All of a sudden I look out, and I see flames," employee Susan Adams, who was working that morning, told Fox 2 Detroit.
For years, Valve's been teasing us with the promise of a new kind of gaming device: a PC that lives in your entertainment center, outperforms traditional consoles and has more games available for it than you can count. Now it's finally here: I have...
If you're a Pebble Time owner and would like to respond to emails or texts without pulling out your phone, we've got good news. Starting today, Android users can employ the Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel to reply to those messages using their vo...
Look at that sheep. Just look at it. Adorable, confused and fluffy -- a trifecta of cute cuddliness. Ratchet and Clank each come close, but it's really no contest. Sorry, guys.
Ratchet & Clank is set to invade the silver screen on April 29, 20...
Those '50s-era dreams of taking pills to solve all your problems? They're more realistic than you might think. Researchers have created a blueprint of the molecular-level muscle reactions to exercise that should lead to treatments which mimic wor...
