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16 Mar 07:37
This Jigsaw Puzzle Made of 1,000 Colors Is Easier Than You Think
by Katharine Trendacosta
A thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle which isn't an image, just the color spectrum, sounds like it could be a giant pain. And yet, its designer, Clemens Habicht, swears it's easier than a traditional puzzle.
15 Mar 09:11
Best Dad Ever
by John Scalzi
So this happened tonight:
T-shirt, pajama pants and bathrobe. Ladies and gentlemen, I have gone Full Dad.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) March 15, 2015
@scalzi double bonus points if Athena has friends over.
— Lynne M Thomas (@lynnemthomas) March 15, 2015
In fact she does! RT @lynnemthomas: @scalzi double bonus points if Athena has friends over.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) March 15, 2015
@scalzi congrats on winning tonight's most embarrassing dad contest Up next: ukulele concert!
— Lynne M Thomas (@lynnemthomas) March 15, 2015
And thus:
Oh, yeah. Best dad ever.
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15 Mar 09:09
I Love LV-426
by mhandy@mikehandyart.com(mikehandyart)
"I Love LV-426" by: mikehandyart
14 Mar 22:03
Had the absolute privilege of presenting a brand spanking new...
Had the absolute privilege of presenting a brand spanking new 3D-printed bionic Iron Man arm to Alex, the most dapper 7-year-old I’ve ever met.
Special thanks to Albert Manero, OneNote, and #CollectiveProject for their work making artificial limbs like this more affordable for families with kids who want to show the playground how badass they are. Check out http://www.facebook.com/LimbitlessSolutions to learn more about this incredible project. #goodcause
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14 Mar 21:56
Discworld Cake Is Almost Too Wonderful To Eat
by Cheryl Eddy
Paris bakery Paint Cakes (which bills itself as a "pâtisserie geek") crafted this marvelously detailed pastry tribute to the late Sir Terry Pratchett .
14 Mar 16:39
An oldie but goodie…Pi is infinite and irrational. At some...
An oldie but goodie…
Pi is infinite and irrational. At some point everything in the universe is numerically represented. Including a banana holding me holding a banana.
Happy Pi day.
14 Mar 15:56
Happy Pi Day
by John Scalzi
Consider this our annual holiday card to you.
And of course I scheduled this to post at 9:26am.
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13 Mar 18:59
Get Out of Bed and Keep Your Hands Busy If You Wake Up at Night
by Melanie Pinola
Waking up during the night is a common problem and a type of insomnia . Whether you're a light sleeper or a bad dream wakes you, the video above from psychologist and Night School author Richard Wiseman offers two solutions.
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13 Mar 15:40
casualbutthole:I PUT THREE KITTENS IN MY SWEATER AND POPPED...
I PUT THREE KITTENS IN MY SWEATER AND POPPED THEIR HEADS OUT IN BETWEEN MY BUTTONS SO THEY COULD BREATHE AND I EXPECTED THEM TO GET MAD AND TRY TO GET OUT BUT INSTEAD THEY ALL FELL ASLEEP AND IM JUST IANDKLFODMDNS OMG
13 Mar 06:00
How Many Seasons?
Here we go again.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY is doing a big double-issue about GAME OF THRONES. Four gorgeous variant covers (collect them all, kids!), and pages and pages of material... including a sidebar feature about how long the series will run.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/11/game-thrones-end
This discussion is nothing new, of course. I get asked similar questions every time I make a public appearance, do an interview, or walk a red carpet. My usual answer is a variant on, "I don't know how many seasons the show will run."
I don't know. No one knows.
This is Hollywood, friends. As William Goldman wrote in ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE, in Hollywood "nobody knows anything."
I do know that David & Dan have stated in interviews that they see the show winding up in seven seasons. People send me emails about that every time I say "I don't know" in response to the question, as if I were somehow unaware of what D&D have said. I'm not.
I also know that HBO wants the series to run longer than that. I have known that since the very beginning... well, actually, since the day after the second episode of season one aired, when I had lunch with one of HBO's top execs, who told me, "We want this to run ten years." I allowed that ten years sounded fine to me. I continue to hear similar sentiments from HBO every time I have meeting with them, be it in LA or New York.
And it should be pointed out that neither ten seasons or even seven is locked in. Right now, GAME OF THRONES is guaranteed only six seasons. That's all HBO has officially committed to, by contract. We can speculate about additional seasons beyond that, but that's all it is, speculation. A lot of things can happen between now and season seven, or eight, or nine, things that cannot be anticipated. Believe me, I've been there. I was on staff on an hour-long TV series that was pulled off the air and retooled as a half-hour show. I was on staff on another show that could easily have run five, six seasons... until our lead actress left, and took most of our audience with her. I had a pilot that was so hot that the network ordered six back-up scripts and all but guaranteed us a midseason slot... but without an actual production order, that meant nothing when the network underwent some big personnel changes, and new people came in.
I am not saying that any of these things will happen with GAME OF THRONES. But they could. Weird stuff happens in television, and there are sooooo many factors involved. Budgets. Actors' contracts. New shows in development. Ratings (though HBO does not weigh ratings as heavily as the broadcast networks, that does not mean they are unaware of them). Awards.
HBO usually renews their shows for one season at a time. It was very unusual, last year, when they stepped up soon after the season four debut to order both season five and season six. Bloggers and journalists can speculate as they please, but none of it will mean anything until next year, when season six begins to air. Around the time that the second episode of season six is showing, HBO will order season seven, we hope... or maybe, just maybe, they will order seasons seven AND eight. But even if they just order season seven, that doesn't mean that the show will end in seven; it could just represent a return to the original policy of committing to only one season at a time.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying what I said to begin with: no one knows.
I see that this new crop of stories also raises, once again, the notion of concluding the series with one or more feature films. And in some of these stories, once again, this idea is wrongly attributed to me. Let me state, yet again, that while I love this idea, it did NOT originate with me. It was a notion suggested to me, which I have enthusiastically endorsed... but since I was the first person to raise the possibility in public, somehow I am being seen as its father.
Sure, I love the idea. Why not? What fantasist would not love the idea of going out with an epic hundred million feature film? And the recent success of the IMAX experience shows that the audience is there for such a movie. If we build it, they will come. But will we build it? I have no bloody idea.
As we go forward, I expect I will have a voice in all these decisions. But mine will only be one voice among many, and there are all sorts of other factors that can come into play. I will say, I am incredibly fortunate in having partners like HBO, and David Benioff and Dan Weiss. Seven seasons, ten seasons, with or without one or two feature films... in the end, all that matters is that we tell a great story, with a great end.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY is doing a big double-issue about GAME OF THRONES. Four gorgeous variant covers (collect them all, kids!), and pages and pages of material... including a sidebar feature about how long the series will run.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/11/game-thrones-end
This discussion is nothing new, of course. I get asked similar questions every time I make a public appearance, do an interview, or walk a red carpet. My usual answer is a variant on, "I don't know how many seasons the show will run."
I don't know. No one knows.
This is Hollywood, friends. As William Goldman wrote in ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE, in Hollywood "nobody knows anything."
I do know that David & Dan have stated in interviews that they see the show winding up in seven seasons. People send me emails about that every time I say "I don't know" in response to the question, as if I were somehow unaware of what D&D have said. I'm not.
I also know that HBO wants the series to run longer than that. I have known that since the very beginning... well, actually, since the day after the second episode of season one aired, when I had lunch with one of HBO's top execs, who told me, "We want this to run ten years." I allowed that ten years sounded fine to me. I continue to hear similar sentiments from HBO every time I have meeting with them, be it in LA or New York.
And it should be pointed out that neither ten seasons or even seven is locked in. Right now, GAME OF THRONES is guaranteed only six seasons. That's all HBO has officially committed to, by contract. We can speculate about additional seasons beyond that, but that's all it is, speculation. A lot of things can happen between now and season seven, or eight, or nine, things that cannot be anticipated. Believe me, I've been there. I was on staff on an hour-long TV series that was pulled off the air and retooled as a half-hour show. I was on staff on another show that could easily have run five, six seasons... until our lead actress left, and took most of our audience with her. I had a pilot that was so hot that the network ordered six back-up scripts and all but guaranteed us a midseason slot... but without an actual production order, that meant nothing when the network underwent some big personnel changes, and new people came in.
I am not saying that any of these things will happen with GAME OF THRONES. But they could. Weird stuff happens in television, and there are sooooo many factors involved. Budgets. Actors' contracts. New shows in development. Ratings (though HBO does not weigh ratings as heavily as the broadcast networks, that does not mean they are unaware of them). Awards.
HBO usually renews their shows for one season at a time. It was very unusual, last year, when they stepped up soon after the season four debut to order both season five and season six. Bloggers and journalists can speculate as they please, but none of it will mean anything until next year, when season six begins to air. Around the time that the second episode of season six is showing, HBO will order season seven, we hope... or maybe, just maybe, they will order seasons seven AND eight. But even if they just order season seven, that doesn't mean that the show will end in seven; it could just represent a return to the original policy of committing to only one season at a time.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying what I said to begin with: no one knows.
I see that this new crop of stories also raises, once again, the notion of concluding the series with one or more feature films. And in some of these stories, once again, this idea is wrongly attributed to me. Let me state, yet again, that while I love this idea, it did NOT originate with me. It was a notion suggested to me, which I have enthusiastically endorsed... but since I was the first person to raise the possibility in public, somehow I am being seen as its father.
Sure, I love the idea. Why not? What fantasist would not love the idea of going out with an epic hundred million feature film? And the recent success of the IMAX experience shows that the audience is there for such a movie. If we build it, they will come. But will we build it? I have no bloody idea.
As we go forward, I expect I will have a voice in all these decisions. But mine will only be one voice among many, and there are all sorts of other factors that can come into play. I will say, I am incredibly fortunate in having partners like HBO, and David Benioff and Dan Weiss. Seven seasons, ten seasons, with or without one or two feature films... in the end, all that matters is that we tell a great story, with a great end.
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12 Mar 15:05
Being an Introvert at a Party [Animated COMIC]
by Geeks are Sexy
Things like that happened to me way too often when I was younger, but fortunately, I’m now married to someone who’s as weird as me.
[Source: Adam Ellis Comics on Facebook | Follow Adam Ellis on Twitter | Adam Ellis (Official)]
The post Being an Introvert at a Party [Animated COMIC] appeared first on Geeks are Sexy Technology News.
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11 Mar 15:36
Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk Return To Fandom In New Series Con Man
by Jason Shankel
Firefly stars Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have rejoined forces on Con Man, a new Indigogo-funded project about a struggling actor living in the science fiction convention world. io9 sat down both actors to discuss the show, their careers, and the Mexican restaurant that first brought them together.
11 Mar 10:03
So last night I got drunk and played Skyrim
I’m still torn on whether this is the greatest thing I’ve ever done or the stupidest.
11 Mar 09:48
Young Lady Totally Owns Dragonforce’s “Through the Fire and Flames” on the Electric Guitar [Video]
by Geeks are Sexy
Watch 15-year-old guitarist Tina S. as she covers (and totally owns) “Through the fire and flames” by Dragon Force on her Vigier Excalibur Custom electric guitar.
[Tina S]
The post Young Lady Totally Owns Dragonforce’s “Through the Fire and Flames” on the Electric Guitar [Video] appeared first on Geeks are Sexy Technology News.
11 Mar 09:47
A watched panda never boils.Artwork by Chris Gugliotti [webcomic...
A watched panda never boils.
Artwork by Chris Gugliotti [webcomic | tumblr]
All new Frog Shorts at Runt of the Web! Click here to read it early!
10 Mar 16:44
Visit the Top City or Landmark in Every US State with These Maps
by Melanie Pinola
The perfect road trip across the US would take you to all the must-see landmarks and historical sites and minimize unnecessary driving, but figuring out the ideal path isn't easy. CS graduate research assistant and data tinkerer Randal Olson created an algorithm to solve this problem and come up with the epic road trip.
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