“At 3am on 28 May, Alecia Phonesavanh was asleep in the room she was temporarily occupying together with her husband and four children in the small town of Cornelia, Georgia. Her baby, 18-month-old Bou Bou, was sleeping peacefully in his cot.
Suddenly there was a loud bang and several strangers dressed in black burst into the room. A blinding flash burst out with a deafening roar from the direction of the cot. Amid the confusion, Phonesavanh could see her husband pinned down and handcuffed under one of the men in black, and while her son was being held by another. Everyone was yelling, screaming, crying. “I kept asking the officers to let me have my baby, but they said shut up and sit down,” she said.
As the pandemonium died down, it became clear that the strangers in black were a Swat team of police officers from the local Habersham County force – they had raided the house on the incorrect assumption that occupants were involved in drugs. It also became clear to Phonesavanh that something had happened to Bou Bou and that the officers had taken him away.
“They told me that they had taken my baby to the hospital. They said he was fine he had only lost a tooth, but they wanted him in for observation,” Phonesavanh said.
When she got to the hospital she was horrified by what she saw. Bou Bou was in a medically-induced coma in the intensive care unit of Brady Memorial hospital. “His face was blown open. He had a hole in his chest that left his rib-cage visible.”
The Swat team that burst into the Phonesavanh’s room looking for a drug dealer had deployed a tactic commonly used by the US military in warzones, and increasingly by domestic police forces across the US. They threw an explosive device called a flashbang that is designed to distract and temporarily blind suspects to allow officers to overpower and detain them. The device had landed in Bou Bou’s cot and detonated in the baby’s face.”
The Last Ship is exactly what it says on the tin. It's an adventure show set on the high seas, with an apocalyptic virus kicker. There are shows that use this kind of premise to do deep introspection on the human condition. This is not that show. This show is the television equivalent of potato chips: filling and delicious, but not too substantive.
I realize that polite society frowns on plunging your hand right into the middle of a cake and then shoveling that cake into your mouth, but sometimes you can't help the impulse. And I JUST WANT TO DEMOLISH THIS WHOLE CAKE.
The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo’s newest baby may be small, but the tiny Black-breasted Leaf Turtle could play an important role in saving an endangered species.
Why does fast food look so much better in ads than in reality? We returned sad-looking food at McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Jack in the Box to see if they actually could make their food look like it does in their own pictures!
Happy Father’s Day Da! Thanks for being there to support me, being a sturdy rock that I can always count on, keeping me sightly higher off the ground then I would be otherwise.
YouTuber Grant Thompson, aka the "King of Random," is back with another video compilation of household hacks that will make sure you corral that mess of plastic shopping bags you've saved, light your grill without lighter fluid, dial in the right shower temperature, and more.
I våras släppte australiensiske utvecklaren Chris Lacy en innovativ systemapplikation som gör att användare sparar tid när de öppnar webblänkar. Enkelt uttryckt startas Link Bubble när du öppnar länkar via en annan app, som exempelvis Twitter.
Istället för att du behöver vänta på att sidan ska ladda klart visar Link Bubble en liten cirkel ovanpå appen du redan är inne i. På så vis blir ditt arbete inte avbrutet. När cirkeln slutat snurra har hemsidan laddat klart och du kan då öppna sidan utan fördröjning.
Lacy släppte en större uppdatering av appen häromdagen och för att fira har han tillfälligt halverat priset på Pro-versionen, som kostar 16kr just nu. Betalvarianten bjuder på fördelar som obegränsat antal öppna flikar och stöd för röstkommandot ”OK, Google”.
Want to trip out your brain for a few minutes? Watch OK Go's new music video for their song "The Writing's on the Wall" and delight in what you can do with mirrors, paint, and objects in the proper position.
Android/iOS/Windows/Chrome: Whether you're learning English or you've been speaking it your whole life, Ginger Page is a new writing tool that wants to make sure that your spelling and grammar are accurate at home and on the go. The app translates other languages for you, offers contextual corrections, and more.
Tycker väl iofs att vi är rätt bra på det här, men det var ändå intressant...
Sometimes the best solutions are the simple ones that are staring you right in the face. You could scrimp and save, you can reduce your expenses, you can create elaborate budgets and those are all good. But if you really want to save money, one killer trick can do tons of good: want less stuff.
Jag kollade första avsittet. Så INTE min kopp te. *sadface*
Let’s get the important news out of the way first: The Wil Wheaton Project is moving from 10pm to 9pm, starting next week. I don’t know why, but I am told that it’s a good thing, because of reasons. Our ratings have been good, growing with each new episode, which I am also told is what the network expected. I am also trying very hard to just ignore the ratings, because the thing I need to be focused on is being as funny and creative and awesome as I can be. The only reason I care about ratings at all is because I genuinely love the people I work with, and I want to work with them for a very long time.
I was hoping my beloved LA Kings would sweep the Rangers last night, but the hockey gods (and a little snow fort) had different plans. The upshot of this is that I get to go to another hockey game this season.
Here’s what The Pirate Bay has to say about our show as of about noon pacific today:
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I have been advised by people who don’t understand me that I should be “more careful with [my] online image” because I’m hosting a show with my name in the title. One person even said to me, “Listen, instead of [list of pretty much everything I do], here’s what your Twitter followers want to hear about from you …” and it took everything I had to not say, “I’m sorry, are you talking about the 2.5 million people who I keep telling not to follow me because I’m lame, but they do anyway because they seem to enjoy exactly what you told me not to do?” So instead, I said, “Thank you. I’ll think about that.” Which is true, because I did think about it, for about one second. Then, I decided that this is pretty much how I will respond to people who tell me to change who I am because of reasons:
More than one person on Twitter observed that that picture is pretty much my online image already. I have to agree. #Butts.
Today, a security vulnerability in TweetDeck allowed malicious code to be run remotely. It seems the primary symptom is your account retweeting the malicious code. To fix it, sign out and back in now.
Ubisoft has determined that the ladies are not a vital part of its next Assassin’s Creed game, Unity. Female avatars for multiplayer will not be featured because, and this is paraphrased: “I can’t even right now with the women. Animating men is easy but women? Pssh. The boobs are like, millions of dollars to get those things right because I’m pretty sure they don’t work according to physics? They’re like, ghost spheres or demon orbs. And don’t even get me started on vaginas. What even are vaginas? Where are they? Do they have powers? Given that we do not know any women, and we have not been able to capture any of these elusive creatures, we will be striking their mythic presence from our game because honestly, nobody has even proven to me they exist. The game will, however, feature a Bigfoot Robot to replace Napoleon.”
Okay, they didn’t say that, exactly.
From the article:
“It’s double the animations, it’s double the voices, all that stuff and double the visual assets,” Amancio said. “Especially because we have customizable assassins. It was really a lot of extra production work.”
In the game’s co-op mode, players will have custom gear but always view themselves as Arno, Unity‘s star. Friends are displayed as different characters with the faces of other assassins.
“Because of that, the common denominator was Arno,” Amancio said. “It’s not like we could cut our main character, so the only logical option, the only option we had, was to cut the female avatar.”
Speaking with Polygon during a different interview, level designer Bruno St. Andre estimated more than 8,000 animations would have had to be recreated on a different skeleton.
Oh, well, jeez, that is tough.
Creating a diligently, realistically-imagined version of Paris during the French Revolution was easy, apparently, compared to including women as playable avatars. Something that many other games accomplish — Bioware makes an effort to do this, which is what you have to do, isn’t it? Make an effort. Something Ubisoft cannot be bothered to do, it seems.
I mean, The Sims lets you play as a man, woman, boy, girl, or androgynous space Frankenstein.
Oh, but maybe history plays a role, right? Because there surely weren’t women assassins –
Wait, wuzzat?
Charlotte Corday was a female assassin from the French Revolution?
Oh. Huh.
Huh.
But, hey, history is too much work.
Women? Just too much work, too.
Thankfully, me spending money on this game is also — say it with me — too much work. Acknowledging approximately half of your game audience was just too hard for Ubisoft, and so do not be surprised if it’s just too hard for me to spend money on a game that cannot even do the bare minimum in terms of inclusion. C’mon, Ubisoft. Really? Fucking really? You’ve been progressive in the past, so what gives? Why the backpedaling? Why the lazy lean toward the outmoded (and unproven) assertion that women don’t play AAA games? Do better. Make effort. Spend the coin.
Otherwise, why will folks spend their coin with you?
All hail Nedesem for this brilliant, brilliant image. Now we all need to make sure to keep George R.R. Martin far away from mules until he's finished writing the series.
