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22 Jump Street, the sequel to the 21 Jump Street remake, is in the making, so, while on set, actor Channing Tatum figured why not do what Jean-Claude Van Damme did in his recent viral Volvo truck ad. Sort of...


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Today, I had a seizure in class. Being an epileptic, I had warned my professor of the possibility that I could have one in class. She was understanding and seemed very concerned about my issue at the time. After I had the seizure, however, she asked me if I had ever tried exorcism. FML

cold fjord writes with this report from The Telegraph: "The original members of Monty Python will reunite more than 30 years after the comedy troupe last worked together. John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin will officially announce their reformation at a London press conference on Thursday. The five surviving members have reportedly been in months of secret talks about getting the Flying Circus back on the road. The reunion comes after several failed attempts to reform by the group. However, according to The Sun, the surviving members realised 'it was now or never,' and had decided to embark upon 'a fully-fledged reunion.'" Related stories include this commentary, one take on the best of Python and this negative reaction, too.

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Slate is reporting that, while the Obama administration has long been making noises about trying to support phone unlocking, it's also been busy readying legislation that would actually ban the practice.

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Stick It to the Man is out today, November 19, on PS3. The Vita version is dropping sometime in December and it will be crossbuy, so you'll get both versions regardless of which you buy.

When this got on my radar earlier this year, I dug it. Nice and grimy, like Rocko's Modern Life and cartoons of that ilk. This trailer turns up the weird and crazy factor even higher, somehow, and gives a few glimpses at gameplay.

That geriatric clown was creepy, and then got out-creeped by the cannibalistic cook slowly suckling on a finger. 

We've got a review coming this week, but you can always stick it to us and buy it before we weigh in.

If math brings you out in a cold sweat, then logarithms surely leave you in a sobbing heap. But no longer, thanks to the wonderful Vi Hart.

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I need to teach Gus and Trixie this.

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Either that or there's going to be a lot of squished people needing to be scraped off the tiles at the deep end. Currently under construction at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, the Meg-a-Blaster slide will open in Spring 2014, dropping people from nearly 140 feet up.

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FreedomPop's crazy free voice, text, and data plan is awesome, but the one catch was that you had to buy in with a (sort of meh) $100 phone. Not anymore. If you have an old Sprint phone laying around, you might be able to get on the FreedomPop train without spending one single cent.

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Nokia shareholders have approved a $7.2 billion Microsoft buyout on Tuesday, The Financial Times reports

Some smaller shareholders are protesting the sale, but 99.7% of the investors present at a company meeting in Helsinki voted in favor of the acquisition.

Microsoft announced in September 2013 that it plans to acquire Nokia's devices and services business for $7.2 billion in cash. As part of the agreement, Nokia engineers and CEO Stephen Elop joined Microsoft

The deal follows a partnership between the two companies, announced in 2011, in which Nokia all but gave up on Symbian as its primary smartphone OS, focusing instead on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system Read more...

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It was only the second time through this comic from Lunarbaboon that I saw the eyebrows and the time-shift, which makes it a lot more meaningful. Your outlook on everything is changed when, as someone once told me "your heart is now walking around outside of you." In some instances, it makes you braver than you ever thought you could be.

And don't think this sort of thing doesn't occasionally happen in real life.

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Valve sent out information on their upcoming Steam Dev Days event, and one of the planned panels will cover the future of virtual reality hardware. Just talking about it would be too simple for Valve, so they decided to make a working prototype to show off what they see as an affordable version of virtual reality.

Here's what Valve has to say about the panel, "We’ve figured out what affordable Virtual Reality (VR) hardware will be capable of within a couple of years, and assembled a prototype which demonstrates that such VR hardware is capable of stunning experiences. This type of hardware is almost certainly going to appear in short order, and the time to starting developing for it is now. This talk will discuss what the hardware is like, and the kinds of experiences it makes possible. A few attendees will be randomly selected to try out the prototype following the talk."

Ohio State isn't the only school with a marching band that can pull off awesome themed performances. This weekend, the Clemson marching band turned its halftime show into a tribute to two classic Nintendo games. It's enough to make you want to go looking for that old NES system in your mom's attic.

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I’m thinking whoever approved this is in a different line of work these days.

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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will take off for Mars today from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Liftoff is scheduled for 1:28 p.m. ET, but the two-hour launch window extends through 3:28 p.m. ET, weather pending

The space agency will stream a live broadcast starting at 11 a.m. ET with pre-launch commentary. You can watch the program in full here:

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It will take MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) 10 months to reach the Red Planet, where it will study the puzzling atmosphere to understand why Mars is now a cold, icy desert rather than the lush, blue planet it once was billions of years ago Read more...

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“A massive study of some 11,000 youngsters in Britain has found that playing video games, even as early as five years old, does not lead to later behavior problems”

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