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David Stanway / Reuters:
China Says Over 3 Million Hectares of Land Too Polluted to Farm  —  BEIJING — About 3.33 million hectares (8 million acres) of China's farmland is too polluted to grow crops, a government official said on Monday, highlighting the risk facing agriculture after three decades of rapid industrial growth.

Great book.

Ohhhhh, the shaaaame! But only at conferences--he swears. Okay, trade conventions, seminars, team building outings, and office parties, too, but that's it! Nowhere else.
A boxer's appetite? I guess that stuff would make dog food taste a little better.



Can anyone spot the typesetting error?

Netflix has informed TechCrunch that it is indeed testing a $6.99 single-stream plan to new users as part of a test. The option appears to some new users after selecting the streaming option as a free trial.

Unfortunately for those of you excited for a dollar-off discount on a standard definition stream, a Netflix spokesperson also told us that not all users may see the option and that it may never offer it generally.

The plan was first noted by Adweek this morning and we confirmed it as an option when we began signing up for the $7.99 streaming-only plan with a 30-day trial.

Offering a standard-def stream to one device might as well be called ‘the smartphone plan’, as that’s what it seems most suited to. Though many smartphone screens are above HD resolution, the smaller real-estate means that it can be difficult to discern a standard-def stream from a high-definition one.

Netflix analyzes a junk ton of data about user viewing habits including locations, devices and times of day that people view stuff. If that information was telling them that people view Netflix a lot on smartphones while traveling, then a single stream in SD rather than HD might actually make a lot of sense for a certain subset of users. Of course, a buck off is a nice ‘sale price,’ and if people get utility out of it they might feel inclined to expand the plan further down the road.

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How many times do I have to tell you not to knock over the garbage? And stop digging in that nice Mr. Kenobi’s garden! And for Pete’s sake, stop vaporizing the mailman!

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Dammit, Spider-Man. We can't rely on you at all any more, can we?

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The following animals are “Animals of the Day” because they are in some way, majestic as duck.  Which is not an Autocorrect, but a decision on my part to make an animal pun out of the expected word, “fuck”, because it’s more polite and cute in a cheesy way.  And now I’ve gone ahead and used the word fuck, anyway.  Shit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why this doggie look like he pay taxes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get it?  This is a very majestic looking duck.  I GUESS I JUST WON THE INTERNET, FRANK.

 

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The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is preparing to wake up in January from a nearly three-year-long hibernation period as it prepares for a close encounter with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

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Emotions are as much physical as they are mental, and it appears that people from a wide range of cultures feel their emotions in the same places on their bodies. This map shows where those places are — from the blush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love.

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Legendary game designer Chris Crawford uses colored beans as a memento mori. From Kotaku:

Chris Crawford owns 29,216 small plastic beads. Each bead is one of eight colors, and there are 3,652 beads in each color group. One bead represents a single day in Crawford's life. Each color group, therefore, represents one decade. The yellow beads are his childhood. The black beads are his teens. The greens are his inexperienced twenties, the oranges his restless thirties, the navy blues his settling forties and so on, all the way up to bead 29,216, which will represent his eightieth birthday.

Chris Crawford owns two jars. One is filled with the beads that represent his past, and the other is filled with the beads that represent his potential future.

Every morning, Crawford takes a bead from the jar that holds his future days and places it into the jar that holds the past. While he performs the ritual he tells himself not to waste the day.

This is similar to Kevin Kelly's life countdown clock.

30 Years Later, One Man Is Still Trying To Fix Video Games

NASA's jet propulsion lab has been experimenting with interesting ways to control robots. Case in point: marrying Oculus Rift with Kinect to control a robotic arm. By using the Oculus Rift for head-tracking and first-person view, and by using the ...