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Well, if you're going to cut a trailer for "the goriest shooter of 1996," this is how you do it. Enjoying the ironic aggressive marketing of the campaign, complete with stylized title (STRAFE®) popping up everywhere. 

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The Woods Within

Artist Rob Gonsalves was born in Toronto, Canada. In his early years after college, he worked as an architect and painter of murals and theater sets. He eventually began painting full time. Influenced by Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, René Magritte and M.C. Escher, Gonsalves' surrealist painting style features perspective illusions that are carefully pre-planned. The artist refers to his style as "Magical Realism," and describes it via his website as "an attempt to represent human beings’ desire to believe in the impossible."

Gonsalves' work has been used as the basis of three children's books, Imagine a Night,Imagine a Day,andImagine a Place. 

See 25 of Gonzalves' amazing works in this article, visit the Huckleberry Fine Arts website to see his full collection and to purchase prints, and follow him on social media at his Facebook page. 


 Wilderness Gothic

Autumn Cycling

A Change of Scenery

Tree House in Autumn

Nocturnal Skating

Carved in Stone

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The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.

It’s trapped on a floppy tho this is some dark shit it has been denied its purpose forever bound to this obsolete storage

am i glad it’s in there and we’re out here

people reading fantasy novels ask “why did the ancient ones seal the evil away for ten thousand years instead of just killing it” but then we go ahead and do this shit

Of all the things you'd expect to find at the bottom of the ocean, a small village of old New York subway cars may not cross your mind. But for over a decade, subway cars have been discarded into the Atlantic in an environmental effort to create artificial reef habitats for fostering sea life. Photographer Stephen Mallon was lucky enough to witness and document the spectacle over a three year period.

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We recently stopped by SurveyMonkey, a Palo Alto startup that lets people create free, customizable surveys.

SurveyMonkey celebrated the official opening of its new office on Friday by letting employees autograph the sign that will hang outside its building.

SurveyMonkey may be turning 15 this year, but the bar, games, and group activities show its employees know how to have fun.

 

SurveyMonkey's HQ is hard to recognize from the street because the large signs aren't up yet.

SurveyMonkey's logo will be hung outside soon. Monkeys, as employees are called, posed with it while it was still in the lobby.

The first thing you'll see upstairs is a game room. Pool, ping pong, and foosball are some of the games monkeys play at work.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

Civilization and XCOM studio Firaxis Games is sticking with space for its next game, Sid Meier's Starships. The studio and publisher 2K describe it as a "new turn-based, adventure-driven interstellar strategy game" (PC, Mac, iPad) based on the existing Beyond Earth universe.

The video, if you haven't already rushed to click play, is the game's intro sequence. No gameplay!

"My goal was to create an experience that focuses on starship design and combat within a universe filled with interstellar adventure, diplomacy, and exploration," said Sid Meier.

Players will grow their fleet, research technologies, and blow other ships to pieces. As for the part of the game that makes weekends instantly vanish, "Each new campaign will feature its own distinctive galactic strategy map of worlds with dynamically generated tactical combat missions."

Firaxis also hinted at cross-game functionality between Beyond Earth and Starships. Owning both titles "will enhance and expand the depth of both game experiences" in some way.

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What is a passenger vehicle? Is an extended-cab pickup truck a commercial vehicle, or a passenger vehicle? A man and his homeowners association in upstate New York disagree on this point, with the HOA suing the truck owner in county court, seeking an injunction to force him to stop parking his truck in his own driveway.

The truck in question is a Ford F-150 with an extended cab. That model of truck is the most popular vehicle in the United States, but it is apparently not as popular in Manlius, one of the more wealthy suburbs of Syracuse, NY.

The Syracuse Post-Standard reports that the homeowners association claims to own the driveways of all homes in the development. Garages belong to homeowners, and they are allowed to park any vehicle in the garage, but only “private, passenger-type, pleasure automobiles” can be parked in driveways.

The problem with this is that the pickup truck is registered as a regular passenger vehicle with the state DMV, not a commercial vehicle.

The homeowner counters that other homes in the neighborhood have pickup trucks parked in their driveways, which the Post-Standard’s reporter also saw reports seeing on her visits to the neighborhood.

Each of the development’s single-family homes is allowed two parking spaces: one in their own garage, and one in the driveway that is considered the property of the homeowners association.

This is all very baffling to people who own pickup trucks. Back in the ’80s and ’90s, my father drove an extended-cab pickup truck to commute to his job as an accountant, and used the bed of his truck mostly for personal tasks like hauling his all-terrain vehicle to hunting camp, hauling deer back from camp to the butcher, and bringing my mini-fridge to me at college. That’s a family vehicle, not a commercial vehicle.

CNY homeowners sued, told they can’t park pickup truck in driveway [Syracuse Post-Standard]

Below is a chronological progression of the famous Credit Suisse global wealth pyramid showing a disturbing trend. Try to spot it.

2010:

 

2011:

 

2012:

 

2013:

 

2014:

 

Still not clear? The following two charts should help:

 

In short: the rich get richer; the poor get poorer, and the middle class is going extinct.

What happens next?  The NYT explains in "Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016"

The richest 1 percent are likely to control more than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening global inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

 

The 80 wealthiest people in the world altogether own $1.9 trillion, the report found, nearly the same amount shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s income scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 percent of the population, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is also increasing.

 

The type of inequality that currently characterizes the world’s economies is unlike anything seen in recent years, the report explained. “Between 2002 and 2010 the total wealth of the poorest half of the world in current U.S. dollars had been increasing more or less at the same rate as that of billionaires,” it said. “However since 2010, it has been decreasing over that time.”

 

“Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined?” Ms. Byanyima said. “The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.”

What happens after that, once the world's 99% realize that the "recovery" was nothing but the era of the most brazen middle-class destruction around the globe, one which also saw the greatest wealth transfer period from everyone else to the uber-rich in the history of mankind, covered by endless daily talk of "imminent recovery"? Think French revolution, only on a global scale, and on steroids.

Thank you Fed, and your tenured economist groupies.

Source: Credit Suisse

Remember being insanely jealous of that little kid with the custom-made Groot swing ? Well prepare to be envious of yet another toddler because the same web series responsible for that Guardians of the Galaxy swing—Super-Fan Builds—is back with a stroller designed and engineered to look exactly like the Tumbler Batmobile from the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy.

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Grocery Store. Bakery | Baltimore, MD, USA

(It is a typical day at the ‘upscale’ grocery store I work at, in the bakery section. An older gentleman walks up.)

Customer: “I’ll have one brownie, please.”

(Right as he orders, the ground begins to shake. Glass bottles are clinking on the shelves, signs are swinging. It is pretty obvious we are having an earthquake which is not a normal occurrence in my state. It only lasts about 20 seconds but I stand there in shock for a few more before looking back at the customer.)

Me: “Woah, that was crazy. Never felt anything like that before. Do you think that was an earthquake or what?”

Customer: *looks at me with a completely straight face and says in a very loud voice, enunciating each syllable very clearly* “I. Said. One. Brownie. Please.”

(I gave him his brownie and he walked away like nothing ever happened with the signs above his head still swinging…)

It’s been a little more than three years since AT&T dumped T-Mobile at the altar when it became clear that the FCC and Justice Dept. wouldn’t sign off on the marriage. And while the little magenta wireless company has done okay for itself since — building out a decent LTE network, shaking up the subsidized device/contract model, and helping to preserve what little competition remains in the market — its parent company still wants to see T-Mobile USA married off to a wealthy American suitor.

Tim Hoettges, CEO of T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom, tells Re/code that he believes the only way the “un-carrier” can survive is if it partners up with someone else.

Under the leadership of brash CEO John Legere, T-Mobile USA has tried to chisel away at the larger competitors with price cuts and offers of paying to get users out of their contracts early.

“We have done what we had to do,” explains Hoettges about the moves made by Legere and his team. “We had built an infrastructure and this infrastructure had to get utilized and we did that with very aggressive promotions.”

But at some point, those promotions have to pay off.

“The question is always the economics in the long term… and earning appropriate money,” says Hoettges. “You have to earn your money back at one point in time.”

He says he was “intrigued” at the notion of creating a “super-maverick” wireless competitor with fellow second-tier carrier Sprint, though previous discussions of a merger stalled because of the message sent by the regulatory response to the AT&T/T-Mobile mash-up.

“I hope that the political environment will change at one point in time,” admits Hoettges.

Even a combined Sprint and T-Mobile would still likely be in third place behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

Because of this overwhelming market control by those two companies, Hoettges contends that AT&T and Verizon have a huge advantage when it comes to buying other resources, like the current spectrum auction. He tells Re/code he’s “worried” that T-Mobile and Sprint are being outbid and will fall farther behind the two market leaders.

While Hoettges might dream of seeing his little T-Mobile starting a family with a Sprint or an AT&T, the most likely way to get a mega-merger through the regulatory gauntlet is to combine two companies that complement each other but don’t compete head-to-head in the same industry. This is why AT&T’s pending merger with DirecTV is getting significantly less heat than the failed AT&T/T-Mobile deal or the year’s other big wedding between Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

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Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine gang scrambled into our toon lovin’ lives back in 1969, and though they’ve long since retired from the ghoul chasing game they’re still the most popular meddling kids ever.

It has been forty six years since the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! show hit the airwaves, and although the characters on the screen never seem to age the *cough* real life cast have grown grayer and longer of tooth.

Thanks to artist Dan Meth we're able to see how those cartoon crime solvers look nowadays, and it appears time hasn't been kind to Shaggy's mind...or Fred's hair.

But what about that strange talking dog star of the show Scooby Doo? Alas, even he couldn't outrun death, and his gravestone has become a popular tourist destination for stoners and fans of Scooby Snax brand snack food. Rest In Reace, Rooby!

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See the rest of the Scooby Doo gang here