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The NBA has a long and famous tradition of being a bit extremely lax about enforcing basketball's traveling rule. But this takes it to unprecedented new heights

Watch the video, above, as Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade takes a full-on stroll between catching a pass and dribbling the basketball. In the immortal words of Ron Burgundy, "I'm not even mad; that's amazing."

The clip comes from a game against Portland last month, but has just now been making the Internet rounds after popping on Reddit Wednesday. NBA fans have even mashed the clip up with other soundtracks and augmentations; here's another version, below: Read more...

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The suspenseful vignettes that comprise Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction would make for one criminally entertaining video-game spin-off.

YouTube channel CineFix reimagined the cult classic as an old-school Nintendo game for a new video in its "8-Bit Cinema" series.

Follow Vince, Jules, Butch and Mia as they fight, steal and twist their way through this 8-bit revamp

CineFix previously created 8-bit versions of thrillers such as The Shining and The Dark Knight.

Image: YouTube, CineFix Read more...

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The new Oculus Rift has some major improvements.

Today, a patient at my hospital again offered me raisins, which I accepted. This time, his wife had filled the bowl with chocolate-covered ones, and I asked her why the switch. It turns out there wasn't any change after all; he just sucks the chocolate off and puts them back in the bowl. FML

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Behold the very first of Lego Simpsons sets! Uncovered by Eurobricks user Carlos S, there are no details about it except what we can see on the box: 2523 pieces, six minifigs including the full Family plus Flanders. It looks really fantastic and detailed and—apparently—it even opens.

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Haha, made me laugh harder than it should of

antigovernmentextremist:

Your Constitutional Rights During a Police Encounter

If you don’t remember any of this just remember these two phrases:

• I don’t consent to any searches.
• Am I being detained or am I free to go?

And the Supreme Court’s iffy ruling in Salinas v. Texas means that if you want to invoke your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent you have to actually say it out loud to an officer.

Eleven-year-old Trinity Rhoades of South Jordan, Utah, played a game of hide and seek with her sister and cousins Tuesday. Trinity decided to hide in the washing machine, but once in, she couldn't get out.

Her sister and cousins tried remedies they recalled from cartoons. First they used butter to lubricate her legs. Then they tried using peanut butter. Then they resorted to ice, which only left the girl cold, so they then poured warm water over her. The children finally called Trinity's mom, who called emergency services. They found the girl not only stuck in a washing machine, but "wet, cold, and covered with condiments."

They eventually had to cut the dryer from the top of the combo unit, and Trinity was freed. She has some bruising on her legs, but is otherwise uninjured. -via Arbroath 

An anonymous reader writes "Over the past several years, we've had a spate of new input methods for playing video games. Instead of just pushing buttons, now we can wave body parts around, yell at the screen, or even (weakly) control things with our thoughts. Now, we're adding an eye-tracking sensor bar. It's being created by SteelSeries, but it's based on tech from a Swedish company called Tobii, who built similar tech for cars. 'Inside the device there are two cameras and an infrared light source. The infrared light reflects off your pupil and cornea, which is then captured by the two camera sensors. Throw in a healthy serving of Tobii's proprietary image processing algorithms, and a physiological 3D model of the eye, and you can work out the position of the eye and the direction of the gaze with high accuracy. Tobii doesn't seem to put an exact figure on the resolution/accuracy, merely saying that "within less than a centimeter" is possible.' Of course, the biggest question will be how well it works, but it seems like it could be a useful supplement to normal control schemes. I can see how it would be nice to simply flick your eyes to an icon to do something, or to make it easier to dig through your in-game inventory."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The White House issued two executive actions on Friday that aim to beef up background checks for would-be gun buyers and keep the weapons away from those at risk of harming themselves or others.

The first order, proposed by the Department of Justice, more clearly defines who cannot possess a handgun under federal law due to mental health issues. It is designed to clarify the language of the current law by providing better definitions for phrases like what it means to be "committed to a mental institution." This, in turn, will provide a more well-rounded picture of a potential buyer's mental health for the background check to determine whether a purchase should be allowed Read more...

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sfcrazy writes "YouTube will demonstrate 4K videos at the upcoming CES. That's not the best news, the best part of this story is that Google will do it using it's own open sourced VP9 technology. Google acquired the technology from O2 and open sourced it. Google started offering the codec on royalty free basis to vendors to boost adoption. Google has also learned the hardware partnership game and has already roped in hardware partners to use and showcase VP9 at CES. According to reports LG (the latest Nexus maker), Panasonic and Sony will be demonstrating 4K YouTube using VP9 at the event. Google today announced that all leading hardware vendors will start supporting the royalty-free VP9 codecs. These hardware vendors include major names like ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba."

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For what seemed like ages, DayZ existed only as a mod for ArmA II. Then, finally last month, DayZ saw a standalone release in alpha form via Early Access. It made more than $5 million in its first day. Clearly, people want massively multiplayer zombie survival games.

DayZ continued its sales dominance, holding the top spot during most of the recent Steam Winter Sale, despite not being discounted throughout the event. In a development blog post, it was revealed that the title has sold more than 400,000 copies to date, and there were more than 40,000 players on servers at one time. That makes for a lot of opportunities to be a dick or just plain creepy to random strangers.

It'll be "The Science Guy" versus "The Religion Guy" in a debate on the origin of humanity.

Science popularizer and TV personality Bill Nye is headed to Kentucky to advocate for the theory of evolution in a debate against Ken Ham, a Christian proponent of creationism and founder of the Creation Museum. The debate is scheduled for Feb. 4 at the museum in Petersburg, KY., according to an announcement Ham posted on Facebook Thursday and a subsequent press release on the event.

While Ham has declined debate requests from "mocking, strident evolutionists," the statement from Ham's creationism group Answers in Genesis describes Nye as "a serious advocate for his beliefs, [whose] opinions carry weight in society." Read more...

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Gunman Clive is Now Available on Steam!
In the year of 18XX, the west is overrun by thugs and outlaws. A group of bandits have kidnapped Mayor Johnsons daughter and are spreading havok across the land. Only Gunman Clive can bring order to the west and save the girl!

Jump and shoot your way across 16 diverse and challenging levels and fight massive bosses. Gunman Clive is an old-school sidescrolling platform game set in the old west with full 3D graphics and a unique artstyle.

Features:

• Old school sidescrolling action
  
• Full 3D graphics
  
• Unique sketch shaded artstyle
  
• 3 different playable characters
  
• Dozens of different enemies
  
• Epic boss battles

The Japanese retailler Bellemaison is offering Disney Princess lingerie. No, it's not for children, but for grown up Disney Princess fans. So far, only four versions are offered: Bell (sic), Cinderella, Aurora, and Rapunzel. It's not clear whether these are officially-licensed Disney products, but an article at Jezebel casts doubt in its list of 9 Things Wrong with this underwear. My biggest reaction is that they do not look comfortable, but let's be honest, they are not marketing to me. Adult Disney Princess fans in the U.S. would demand more variety in the styles, more accurate Disney colors, and the expanded lineup of Princesses. Each set costs around $38.

-via Daily of the Day

I cannot say qapla' (success), but neither can I say jey (defeat). Sometimes the best victory is to walk away from a bad situation. That may be how David Waddell is looking at it. Until four days ago, he was a town councilman in Indian Trail, North Carolina.

He got fed up with how politics was conducted, so he resigned. His letter was short, to the point and written in Klingon--a language spoken in the Star Trek universe.

General Martok (left), who is currently an elected official in Ulysses, New York, could not be reached for comment.

-via 22 Words

Liveleak Al Nusra is basically just Al Qaeda but in Syria [wikipedia]