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photo: LCD Soundsystem's final (?) show (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

It feels like that "final" LCD Soundsystem show was just yesterday (maybe because they keep milking it?) but they might already be set to reunite. There's no official announcement, but Consequence of Sound says:

Multiple sources have confirmed to Consequence of Sound that LCD Soundsystem are planning a comeback in 2016. As we hear it, the band will headline at least three high-profile music festivals in the US and UK, with an official announcement expected soon.

Could this be true? It doesn't really seem like James Murphy's style. We shall see.

UPDATE: Reputable music biz trade mag Billboard are also saying that a "well-placed source" confirms to them that LCD are "definitely reuniting" in 2016. DFA employees are denying it, but we're also hearing that it's true!

In other news, Murphy DJ'd National Sawdust's opening night last week.

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DraftKings wants to be involved in all the sports, even the ones played from your living room.

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The backlit photos of Pluto just posted by NASA are breathtaking. Look at this:

Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto's tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 230 miles (380 kilometers) across.

As they say, best viewed large. Some of those features don't look like mountains at all, but like reptile scales or huge shards of ice pushed up into the sky. Fantastic.

Tags: astronomy   NASA   New Horizons   Pluto   science   solar system   space

David Blaine Freaks Out Bryan Cranston, Kanye West, and Will Smith’s Family With an Amazing Ice Pick Trick

The Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended UFC fighter Nick Diaz for five years after he tested positive for marijuana. Ronda Rousey thinks Diaz’s suspension, and the fact that fighters are tested for marijuana in the first place, is incredibly stupid.

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Kevin Kelly has travelled in every sort of way, from five-star hotels to penniless hitchhiking. And he says that when traveling, more time is better than more money.

When you have abundant time you can get closer to core of a place. You can hang around and see what really happens. You can meet a wider variety of people. You can slow down until the hour that the secret vault is opened. You have enough time to learn some new words, to understand what the real prices are, to wait out the weather, to get to that place that takes a week in a jeep.

Money is an attempt to buy time, but it rarely is able to buy any of the above. When we don't have time we use money to try to get us to the secret door on time, or we use it avoid needing to know the real prices, or we use money to have someone explain to us what is really going on. Money can get us close, but not all the way.

(via @craigmod)

Tags: Kevin Kelly   travel

6-Year-Old Data Entry Prodigy Already Entertaining Offers From Major Temp Agencies

Welcome to the introductory edition of the Injury Report.  The Injury Report will be your chance to get caught up on the latest player injury news every Thursday throughout the NFL season.  (I would say "National Football League season" but I'm not a former National (w/emphasis and pause) Football (w/emphasis and pause) League (w/emphasis and pause) player.  The most basic component of the Injury Report will be a run down of all the newly injured players, a suggestion for their recovery time, quick updates on previously injured players and the NFL practice reports.  (I'll be relying on all released reports via most media outlets for this portion of the post.) Some situations will require a more detailed analysis on what the injury means for the player and for the team.  That will give me a chance to go over who benefits from the injury and who, other than the injured player, loses out.  I'll also be giving my thoughts on whether the injured player should be dropped or held onto through the injury. Another goal of the injury report will be to dig a little deeper, as in, deeper down the depth chart.  That means I'll also be noting when that fourth wide receiver on the depth chart sustains an injury, for example.

Netflix Is Reportedly Developing New Original Episodes of the Dystopian Drama ‘Black Mirror’

We’ve highlighted Bartolo Colón’s immaculate fielding skills before , but this is something special:

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What Famous Brands Would Look Like if Their Color Schemes Were Swapped With Competitors

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Alice! That cat is full of it.

Remember that a tour could be coming your way, sooner rather than later!

We have a lot of interviews and things on the go for Step Aside Pops as it gets near the release date, so expect to see a whole lot of activity! If you're listening to the CBC, I'll be on As It Happens in the next while, and on Q later in the month.

Rain-Bros by Daniel Savage is a fun visualization of the different wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum, from the loping walk of red to blue's energetic bounce.

Tags: color   Daniel Savage   design   infoviz   physics   science

One creative Blue Jays fan edited together every team home run (through Aug. 26) and set it to Johnny Cash’s version of “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” for an oddly captivating compilation. You’ll find something new to watch with every viewing.

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Leaving Everywhere, A Tool to Randomly Generate ‘Why I’m Leaving [City]’ Style Essays Using U.S. Census Data

Amy Schumer and J.K. Simmons Recreate the Classic Painting ‘American Gothic’

Susan Kare, who famously designed the original icons for the Apple Macintosh, has teamed up with Areaware to offer real decks of cards with her artwork from Windows 3.0's version of Solitaire. Nice example of defictionalization. They're currently sold out but I'm hoping they restock so I can order a deck. (via subtraction)

Update: Areaware tells me that the cards aren't out of stock, they are just not in stock yet. So don't worry...they haven't sold out or anything.

Tags: design   Susan Kare   Windows

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Date for our 8th year anniversary via http://ift.tt/1JhhMFp putyouinabettermood.com

The Yankees’ pinstriped hard-on for Troy Tulowitzki was an open secret. Every season was supposed to be the one that the shortstop was finally traded to usurp Derek Jeter in New York. Also as well-known was the strained relationship between Jeter and GM Brian Cashman, though no one would talk about what turned things sour.

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A Literal Interpretation of ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’

A day after I.K. Enemkpali was waived by the Jets for breaking Geno Smith’s jaw , former Jets hostage and current Bills coach Rex Ryan placed a claim on the linebacker. Oh, Rex. You card.

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This beach towel featuring Han Solo frozen in carbonite is the only Star Wars merch I want in my life. (thx, meg)

Update: Ok, I had forgotten about the Han Solo frozen in carbonite ice cube tray, which is slightly more awesome. (via @ajsheets)

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Canadian Parliamentary Candidate Wyatt Scott Kills a Dragon and Shoots Lasers From His Eyes in Campaign Video

A fan campaign to spread footage of Fallout 4's gameplay has found an unusual, if effective host: the free X-rated video site PornHub.

The video, filmed behind closed doors at Gamescom, has been taken down quickly after being uploaded to other video streaming sites. At Pornhub, however the video is still on the site, having gathered 142,000 views in a day.

Its title and tags are meant to disguise the video as any of the garden-variety porn the site offers elsewhere in five- or 10-minute bites. This video appears to have been shot incognito from between two seats at the demonstration. It's about seven minutes long. There are frequent exposure changes and the audio is bad, but committed Fallout fans can make out some features of how the...

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slaughterhouse90210:

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

Sure, football players are supposed to be relentless, tough, and intelligent, but that last part of Vanderbilt football’s motivational tweet seems poorly worded, considering that whole—you know .

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This is just flat-out incredible... NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captured a series of photos of the Moon as it moved between it and the Earth.

The image shows the "dark side" of the Moon, which we can't see from Earth because it's always pointed away from us.

The lunar far side lacks the large, dark, basaltic plains, or maria, that are so prominent on the Earth-facing side. The largest far side features are Mare Moscoviense in the upper left and Tsiolkovskiy crater in the lower left. A thin sliver of shadowed area of moon is visible on its right side.

"It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface."

I don't know why, but this image gives me chills up my spine! Is anyone else freaking out about this?

Tags: Earth   Moon   NASA   space