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You don’t know the struggle until you take a bath in a ghetto shower.

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Move over Outkast. You’ve only given us the second-best news of 2014.

Because the classic 1960s Batman TV show is finally being collected in one mega set. That’s right. Do you know how important this is? I used to watch this show every single day on the Family channel right after Zorro (but I wouldn’t watch Rin Tin Tin K-9 Cop because f*ck that dog). Now, whenever I want, I get to watch the episode where the only way Batman could stop the Penguin from becoming mayor of Gotham was to run against him. Or the episode where Batman and Robin kept getting beat up by bank robbers because the villains were wearing glasses and heroes can’t hit men with glasses. Or Eartha Kitt as Catwoman.

There’s no word on when exactly the series is hitting shelves but you can bet your buttery butt that I’m running (because it’s faster than catching a cab) to the nearest store that has it.

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The aging pipelines that carry natural gas to homes and businesses in Washington, D.C., are the cause of thousands of natural gas leaks detected in the city, some of which were 10 times higher than the threshold needed to cause an explosion.

Bossa Studios, creators of the "100-percent medically inaccurate" simulation game Surgeon Simulator 2013, revealed this past September that they were very interested in bringing their game to the iPad, and even had a quickly thrown together version up and running on a tablet at the time. They also mentioned having new ideas for the game, one of which involved giving a patient a "tooth transplant." Well, today the studio has released a very brief trailer showing just a tiny glimpse of what this sort of dental surgery might be like.

Based on the description in the video, it sounds like the iPad version will be dubbed Surgeon Simulator - Malpractice Makes Perfect and that the dentistry will just be a new addition to the regular Surgeon Simulator 2013 offering, made specifically for the iPad version. No word on if this new content will eventually make its way to other platforms, or what else is in store for the iPad version of the game. But seeing as back in September Bossa Studios was shooting for getting the game out on the iPad before the end of the year, I have a feeling its release is not too far off. We'll let you know once we hear more.

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Ever wonder how your phone bill stacks up against the average? Sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re actually getting a decent deal, or if you’re being suckered into something ridiculous. Thanks to some newly published survey data, now you can see how your own bill compares to everyone else’s.

Ars Technica has a handy chart up showing the average monthly cost of using any of the big four mobile carriers.

Verizon sits right at the top, with the highest average monthly bill. The cheapest of the big four? T-Mobile. The survey had just under 1900 respondents, included both individual and family plans, and is all-inclusive of taxes and fees.

That said, “most expensive” and “cheapest” are highly relative here. Verizon’s $148 is not exactly astronomically above Sprint’s $144, AT&T’s $141, or even T-Mobile’s $120.

So if T-Mobile will, on average, save you $216 a year, why does it still have the smallest subscriber base? Everyone has their reasons, and most of them fit in with the companies’ popular reputations. Verizon and AT&T subscribers both cited network coverage and network quality as their top reasons for staying with their carrier. Consumers’ most-stated reasons for choosing both Sprint and T-Mobile were unlimited data plans and lower prices.

The good news? Those monthly bills may be getting cheaper across the board. The previous installation of the quarterly survey had Verizon’s average bill at $153, AT&T’s at $147, Sprint’s at $143, and T-Mobile’s at $133.

Analysts have surmised that T-Mobile’s new price structures were keeping the market competitive. Two data points, from the third and fourth quarters of 2013, aren’t quite enough to form a definitive pattern yet. But perhaps consumers will indeed be lucky enough to find the pressure for lower wireless prices continuing into 2014.

Verizon leads top wireless carriers in bill size, at $148 a month [Ars Technica]

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One glance at this pie and you might wonder, what green? What chili? The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes from the Celebrated Brooklyn Pie Shop infuses heavy cream with fresh jalapeno and chopped ginger, combining that with cardamom-flavored bittersweet chocolate. The spicy bite of jalapeno is enhanced by the sharp ginger, and the cardamom backgrounds both while providing its own bit of mystery.

Tips: Remove the jalapeno seeds before slicing the pepper to mellow out its spice. This also makes it easier when it comes time to strain the ginger and pepper from the cream, and you don't have a strainer handy (though for this recipe, you really should).

Tweaks: This is a pie baked in a springform pan, which is a departure from the other Four & Twenty recipes we've featured. Don't let that make you nervous, though—the springform does a great job of supporting the wobbly filling. As with other treats baked in such a pan, take it out of the oven before it looks done, as it will continue to cook as it rests.

As always with our Bake the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Book of Pie to give away.

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Breaking Bad is serving as inspiration for crystal meth dealers in New Mexico.

Those who followed AMC’s hit series are probably well-versed in the blue meth concocted by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Since life often imitates art, New Mexico authorities said that batches of the Breaking Bad-inspired drugs are popping up throughout the state.

Although blue meth isn’t anything new — authorities found the Breaking Bad-style drug in both Kansas City and Canada — the Department of Homeland Security said this is the first time the drug has popped up in the state where showrunners shot the television series.

“Its truly bad. We’re concerned that individuals may find it sexy and want to try it and utilize the drug and it’s very addictive,” spokesman Kevin Abar said.

Unlike the blue meth in Breaking Bad, the coloring in its real-life counterpart is potentially hazardous to users. The additive effectively makes the drug much more dangerous than other versions that are currently available to users. Not surprisingly, authorities are hoping to nip this problem in the proverbial bud.

Sales of the Breaking Bad-inspired blue crystal meth have increased significantly over the past year or so. Authorities said second-hand dealers also put together a red-tinted version of the drug. However, the blue meth’s association with the hit television series has turned it into a hot commodity among users.

The impurities associated with this version of meth are making quite a few people ill. Dealers who receive the meth are apparently adding something to the drug to make it blue, thus increasing its toxicity. Before the coloring is thrown into the mix, the New Mexico meth reportedly begins at a purity of 80 to 90 percent.

As strange as all of this may sound, this isn’t the first batch of Breaking Bad-related crime to go down in recent months. Ryan Lee Carroll, the so-called “super fan” who won an opportunity to watch the series finale with series star Aaron Paul, was reportedly busted for possessing a synthetic narcotic with the intent to sell.

Although reports didn’t indicate that Carroll was cooking meth in his home, apparently the guy had some kind of drug-creation system set up in his residence. Either way, the Breaking Bad fan seemingly took his love of the show one step too far.

The Inquisitr previously reported that Walter White, a man who has the same name as Bryan Cranston’s character on Breaking Bad, will spend the next 12 years of his life behind bars for distributing almost 33 pounds of meth.

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You might remember the time the most cold-blooded and badass Bulls fan in history mercilessly snatched away two of Kyle Lowry's shoes from an eager Raptors fan named Alan Vale. Now you don't have to feel a tinge of guilt while laughing at that GIF, because Lowry and the Raptors tracked Vale down and gave him some shoes.

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Starbound is fantastic. Its scope is enormous, and it could easily keep players exploring for years to come. At least, it can once progress is no longer reset every few weeks. Thankfully, that date is soon approaching, with a Starbound development blog post yesterday promising the next patch in "about a week's time."

This patch contains the fix to save files that makes each one forward compatible. In other words, the character wipe that will happen with this patch should be the last one ever. On a slightly unsettling note, Chucklefish has added that there is a possibility for worlds to be wiped in the future, but that those "hopefully" would be safe from deletion as well. So it still may not be wise to start working on a massive futuristic fortress in case the planet chosen for real estate makes like Alderaan and blows the joint.

Also included in the upcoming patch are options for more severe penalties for dying (drop all items and permanent character death), more weapons (revolvers, shivs, and alien weapons), and more decorative hats (hats). Has it been a week yet?

What is "net neutrality?" Here's what you need to know in plain English.

Give me a definition of net neutrality in plain English.

"Net neutrality" prevents Internet providers like Verizon and Comcast from dictating the kinds of content you're able to access online. Instead, Internet providers have to treat all traffic sources equally. Net neutrality is enforced by the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC.

For example, Comcast would probably like to promote NBC's content over ABC's to its Internet subscribers. That's because Comcast and NBC are affiliated.  But net neutrality prevents Comcast from being able to discriminate, and it must display both NBC's and ABC's content evenly as a result. That means no slower load time for ABC, and definitely no blocking of ABC altogether. 

In short, net neutrality creates an even playing field among content providers — both large and small — to the web. And it's great for consumers because they can access everything they want online for no extra charge.

Right now, consumers control what they see online — not Internet access providers — and that's thanks in large part to net neutrality.

Net neutrality sounds nice. Who's against it?

Some big Internet providers like Verizon don't like the idea of net neutrality. They feel they should be able to pick and choose what people see online and charge content providers accordingly. They feel net neutrality chokes their revenue potential.

Imagine if Verizon has tiers of Internet access. The highest paying customers could access everything on the web. The lowest paying customers could access only the information Verizon chooses to promote. Verizon could even charge web publishers like NBC and ABC to display their content over competitors.

Think of it like Google ads. When you type in a search on Google, the top links are all from advertisers who pay Google to put their messages up top. Getting rid of net neutrality means Verizon or Comcast could similarly choose which content to promote based on their own self-interests.

Why did net neutrality largely get shut down yesterday in court?

The court's decision yesterday rests on a decision the FCC made back in 2002. 

In 2002, the FCC decided Internet access providers should be regulated differently than phone companies. Phone companies have been regulated by the FCC for the past 80 years to keep them from favoring certain conversations or "discriminating when selling services," Harvard professor Susan Crawford tells Re/Code. 

Phone companies are telecommunications services, but the FCC viewed Internet providers as information services. Because the FCC deemed the two types of companies to be fundamentally different, the FCC decided to not regulate Internet providers at all.

Recently, however, the FCC became concerned that a few Internet providers have grown too powerful. For example, in 2007, Comcast got in trouble for blocking BitTorrent's access to its network. The FCC didn't want the Verizons and Comcasts of the world to become the gatekeepers of the web.

So in 2010, the FCC created something called Open Internet Rules which enforced three things:

1. Transparency. Internet access providers had to start disclosing how they were managing their networks.
2. No blocking. Internet access providers couldn't block access to legal content or applications.
3. No discrimination. Essentially, net neutrality. Internet access providers couldn't favor one traffic source over another.

Verizon challenged the Open Internet Rules because they contradicted the FCC's 2002 decision not to regulate Internet service providers. It said, by enforcing Open Internet Rules, the FCC was trying to regulate companies like Verizon. The court agreed, saying, "even though the Commission has general authority to regulate in this arena, it may not impose requirements that contravene express statutory mandates."

Will consumers benefit from getting rid of net neutrality?

They could. Getting rid of net neutrality would allow the Verizons and Comcasts to charge content providers who want their stuff promoted. The additional revenue stream might mean free data plans for consumers. Never paying for a data plan again sounds pretty nice.

Could getting rid of net neutrality screw consumers?

It could. Consumers might lose control of the Internet; Verizon and Comcast could be the masters who dictate exactly what we're able to view online. There's also a risk for small businesses. If they can't afford to pay Internet providers to promote their content, they might go under.

So, what does this mean for all of us moving forward? 

In the absolute worst-case scenario, we could be looking at a sponsored Internet in the future, where the only things Verizon or Comcast subscribers see is the information those providers want them to see.

That means small businesses, who can't afford to pay providers like Verizon or Comcast to promote their content, might die, and only larger companies who can afford to pay will have their content spread across the web.

"In all likelihood the Internet will gradually move from being a one-size-fits-all service to one where users or content companies can — or have to — pay more for better service or higher volumes of traffic," The Wall Street Journal writes.

It's unclear what, exactly, Verizon and Comcast plan to do with their newfound freedom.

Keep in mind, the FCC may appeal the court's decision so there's still a chance that net neutrality comes back into play. This ruling is likely just the tip of the iceberg.

But as BuzzFeed's John Hermann says, this could mark the beginning of Internet 3.0.

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Why do women fart after they take a piss?

They can't shake it, so they blow it dry.

Newell wants devs to have more control of their content as Steam hits 75 million active users

This is no longer limited to Chrome Beta: the latest stable Chrome release lets you add supervised users. They're just like regular Chrome users, except that they're attached to your Google account and you can block sites and check their browsing activity from a Google page. This could be used as a parental control feature and it's more useful if you have a Chromebook.

"A supervised user is a special type of Chrome user who can browse the web with guidance. Under the supervision of the manager, a supervised user can browse the web and sign in to websites. Supervised users don't need a Google Account or an email address because the manager creates a profile for the supervised user through the manager's Google Account," informs Google.

When you add an user from the settings page, make sure to enable "this is a supervised user". You need to sign in to Chrome using a Google Account to use this feature. For Chromebooks, you have to sign out, click "add user" on the lower-left corner and "Create a supervised user".


You'll see this dialog and you'll get a confirmation email.



Chrome windows associated with the new profile have a "supervised user" label next to the icon. Supervised users can't enable Chrome Sync and can't install extensions or apps from the Chrome Web Store.


You can managed supervised users from this page: https://www.google.com/settings/chrome/manage (short URL: chrome.com/manage). Manage permissions, block domains, lock or unlock Google SafeSearch, check the browsing activity. SafeSearch is turned on by default and can't be disabled by the supervised user.



If the supervised user wants to visit a site that's blocked, he'll see this message and can click "Request permission". Chrome's dashboard page will show the requests and the manager can approve them.


"Supervised User Profiles" is a beta feature, even if it's now available in the stable Chrome releases.

This is it. It’s time, finally! It feels like we’ve been preparing for this war all our lives. And by preparing we mean eating things that taste of chocolates and hazelnut and wondering what else could possibly exist with those flavors. Hershey’s has its answer, a line of chocolate spreads that seek to usurp the chocolate spread throne currently held by Nutella.

One of these new flavored spreads is direct hazelnut competition for Nutella, while the “chocolate” and “chocolate with almonds” versions are a bit more subtle in their coup attempts.

“The average American snacks more than two times a day and what better way to transform everyday snacks into delicious treats, than with the genuine chocolate flavor that only Hershey can deliver,” said a spokeswoman for Hershey’s in a press release (clearly choosing to ignore other chocolate flavored spreads on the market with that “only Hershey can deliver” bit).

We’re not about to take sides in this war, because it’s not our place to do so. But we will arm ourselves with knives — nay, spoons! — should the occasion arise where we find ourselves in the middle of a crazy brawl. Mmm, a chocolate brawl.

In 2011 programmer and digital mapmaker Eric Fischer published a series of maps that shows where people are tweeting as well as the locations of Flickr pictures. He called the series "See something or say something."

Randy Olson, the moderator of the r/DataIsBeautiful subbreddit, tweeted the set today.

Fischer, drawing from about 61 million tweets and Flickr photos, put together 50 maps that include most major cities around the globe. 

The result: Beautiful and fascinating social media grids that are unique to each place.

 

Orange dots are locations of Flickr pictures, blue dots are locations of tweets, and white dots are both.

Fischer notes that geotagged photos are only a tiny fraction of all photos and geotagged tweets are only a tiny fraction of all tweets (given that some people do not disclose their location).

Given that the data is outdated, it'd be interesting to see how the hotspots have changed between mid-2011 and today.

The United States

The standard pattern Fischer saw in end product is that "most cities have commercial areas that are well represented on both Flickr and Twitter, residential areas where Twitter is used but Flickr rarely is, and scenic places where Flickr is used but Twitter rarely is."

The most fascinating part is to see how the data represents each city. For example, take a look at Central Park: 

New York City

Here's Fischer explaining what he draws from the information:

"Well, at the most fundamental level, a tweet or a photo with a location signifies someone’s presence at a particular place at a particular time, and the presence of people in itself is indicative of the significance and interest of a place. And a picture goes further, saying that not only was someone there, they also saw something interesting enough to bother photographing and sharing."

San Francisco

All of that orange makes sense given the scenery in San Francisco. It's less clear in Chicago, where there are pockets of orange in some surprising places.

Chicago 

The visualizations also provide insight on tourism and city planning. Fischer said that the data provides perspective on what places are attracting people (and picture takers) and which have little luster:

"If you know where people are turning back, it may tell you where you could add a wayfinding sign to let people know about another interesting thing ahead that is just out of sight, or that you could change the characteristics of the unsuccessful place a little bit to make it more like the successful one and therefore make the hospitable area a little larger. And from the transportation perspective, it can tell you where the constituency of a place comes from, often how they are getting there, and perhaps what difficulties they are encountering on the way."

The nation's capital seems to be designed quite well in this respect.

Washington D.C.

Here's how Fischer says he created the maps:

"It's a C program that runs through the photos/tweets in chronological order, plotting the earliest ones the most brightly and stepping the brightness down for points that don't show up for the first time until later on. Points are also allowed to diffuse by a few pixels when there is an additional record for a point that is already plotted, with the brightness falling off exponentially as the point that is actually plotted gets further from its intended location."

EuropeLondonParisStockholm Barcelona

Another cool part about the maps is that they inform highlight  the interesting differences between he layouts of major cities.

Here a few others around the world: 

TokyoMoscowBuenos AiresSydney

Check out the rest on Flickr >  

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A guy posts on Reddit with the username GabeNewellBellevue. People ask him to prove it's the man who runs one of gaming's biggest companies. The result: the picture you see above you.

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London architect Asif Khan's 2,000 square-meter (21,500 sq ft) pavilion has been called the “Mount Rushmore of the digital age,” and its aim is to “make people the face of the Olympics.” The façade of the pavilion, sponsored by MegaFon, contains 10,000 actuators (or giant pins), which will create a changing display of three-dimensional portraits. .. Continue Reading "Mount Rushmore" building morphs into human faces at Sochi Winter Olympics

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