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The first name attached to Marvel’s Netflix shows has been revealed. It’s Drew Goddard, director and co-writer of The Cabin in the Woods. He’s in negotiations to write the series based on the blind superhero Daredevil.

The Wrap broke the news but Marvel nor Goddard’s reps had any comment.

Goddard has worked on some of the biggest properties of the past few years. He was one of the people called in to rewrite World War Z, penned Robopocalypse for Steven Spielberg, wrote Cloverfield, and worked on Alias, Lost, Buffy and Angel. His friendship with Joss Whedon, writer of both Avengers films, probably didn’t hurt his position. Goddard and Whedon co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods.

In previous interviews, the writer has said he’d love to be part of the Marvel universe. Talking to Shock, he said the following:

What Marvel character would I not love to get on?  That’s an easier question to answer.  I would love any of it and I love Marvel, Joss and what they’re doing.  It’s all about finding the right fit.  Directing…in order to do your job right, you have to find ways to make it personal, and if we can find the right fit, then I would love to do it.

Seems they did find the right fit, and this interview with Collider shows why it was Daredevil:

You’re talking to a guy who had quotes from Daredevil painted on his wall while growing up. Even when I was 18, I still had the blood red door with the, ‘I have shown him that a man without hope is a man without fear.’ That was what I loved and so it’s the sort of thing that if we can find the right project, I would love to do it.

Daredevil will be a Netflix Original Series, released sometime in 2015 along with Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones, building towards The Defenders. Read more about the deal here.

What do you think of Goddard joining Daredevil? Should he direct too

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Last week’s announcement that Blockbuster would shutter all remaining locations marked the end of an era, so it seems only appropriate that the last-ever Blockbuster rental would also be about the end of an era. Albeit a slightly more explosive one.

According to the company’s official Twitter account, the very last rental to ever leave store shelves was This Is the End, the apocalyptic comedy directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Check out a photo from the bittersweet event and see Rogen’s response after the jump.

First, here’s the photo of the renter with two employees. Everyone looks pretty happy, considering the circumstances. The transaction took place at 11 PM on the very last day of rentals, Saturday, November 9, at a store in Hawaii.

The last BLOCKBUSTER rental 11/9 Hawaii 11PM @ThisIsTheEnd #BlockbusterMemories @Sethrogen @JamesFrancoTV @JonahHill http://t.co/RsXABlqfzL

— Blockbuster (@blockbuster) November 11, 2013

At least Blockbuster got to go out strong, with a solid comedy. How much more tragic would it be if, say, Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star had turned out to be the last bit of art the video rental behemoth ever got to share with the world?

Rogen noticed the tweet and offered a response of his own.

“@blockbuster: The last BLOCKBUSTER rental 11/9 Hawaii 11PM @ThisIsTheEnd #BlockbusterMemories http://t.co/ImkXUOo0vg” this is nuts and sad

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) November 11, 2013

The last movie ever rented from a blockbuster was this is the end. In high school I would go hang out at blockbuster every day.

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) November 11, 2013

If you’re wondering, as I did, how this guy is going to return the video if all the Blockbuster stores in the world are closed, The Verge has the answer: “A spokesperson with Dish Network, which owns Blockbuster, informed us that customers who rented movies before the last day for rentals can simply drop their movies off at any Blockbuster drop box location.” No word on whether Blockbuster will bother charging him late fees if he doesn’t get the disc back in time.

Ironically, that statement in itself serves as a reminder of why the once-great retail giant has gone under. Though I spent hours browsing those aisles as a high schooler, these days the very idea of driving to a drop box to return a disc sounds quaint. I can’t remember exactly when the last time was that I had to do that, but I’m betting it was circa 2005 — right around the time I started my first Netflix subscription. Sorry, Blockbuster. We’ll miss you.

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Remember the morphing table that can replicate your body and movements in real time? It's name is inForm. Daniel Leithinger—from the Tangible Group at MIT Medialab—just told Sploid about their first official video. This thing is so damn awesome.

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Way back in 1894, an inventor named Herman Casler started a business making Mutoscopes, a newfangled device that animated still images using a hand-cranked winch. Casler probably never imagined that a version of his device would be used to animate digital files. Behold: The Giphoscope.

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Why waste counter space with separate bottles of both olive oil and balsamic vinegar when the talented folks at XD Design have come up with a better all-in-one solution? Their Orbit features a pair of mouth blown glass globes sitting inside each other, keeping the two liquids separate—while also playing up the fact that oil and vinegar do not mix.

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Holiday season may be highlighted by 4K TVs

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Hisense introduced its aggressively priced 55-inch XT880 4K Ultra High Definition Smart TV for $1,999. That may not exactly fall into the "affordable" category for most shoppers, but it wasn't all that long ago when two-grand was the going rate for a regular TV of the same size. These days that gets you a 65-inch or 70-inch Full HD 1080 LED, or in this case, a 55-inch 4K panel.

It's not such a bad deal if you're willing trade physical screen real estate in exchange for a higher resolution and more densely packed pixels. You're on your own for finding 4K content, though with there starting to be more 4K hardware in the wild, an influx of higher resolution content may not be too far behind.

In addition to native 4K support, the XT880 has built-in Wi-Fi, an Opera web browser, four HDMI/HDCP inputs (one of which is true UHD), USB Digital Media Player, a collection of apps preinstalled (Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, Vimeo, Pandora, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, and AccuWeather), and three 15W speakers.

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Group FAS has released pc game “Meatballphobia”. Enjoy!

Description: Meatballphobia is a 2D physics puzzle game about flesh and meat, about the enslavement of both the consumed and the consumer, about life and the systems built around it. It is also a game about making a meatball hit an unfortunate hysterical head.

Featuring 50 brain-teasing levels of increasing difficulty, Meatballphobia focuses on relaxed problem solving instead of competition — so there are no locked levels, no highscores, no timer. Can’t figure out how to solve a level? No problem! Just go ahead, pick another stage, and go back when you want to give it another try.

Moreover, even though Meatballphobia plays like a modern game, its graphics and music are reminiscent of the 8-bit era: the CGA palette, the pixelated sprites, the engaging chiptune soundtrack — it’s all carefully crafted to take you back in time.

Release Name: Meatballphobia_v1.0-FAS
Size: 6.51 MB
Links: Homepage – NFO – NTi – TPB

Download: Uploaded.net

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A homeless good Samaritan found some money on the street and turned it in, only to get the raw end of the deal when the government got involved. When then homeless man James Brady found $850, he had no idea that the government would penalize him for doing a good deed.

It’s usually considered the right thing to do when you find a large amount of money and turn it in. The formerly homeless James Brady did just that last spring, handing it over to the police. In October, the police gave it back to him, saying that nobody claimed it. He may have won that round, but he soon discovered that no good deed goes unpunished.

When homeless good Samaritan James Brady tried applying for government assistance, he was denied, because the money he found on the street was considered income after the police gave it back to him. He is now without housing assistance and Medicaid.

James Brady went from being a hometown hero to being allegedly treated like a criminal. He adds:

“This is stupid. I had already proven my honesty by turning in the $850. They were treating me like I was a dishonest individual, like I was trying to cheat them out of the money.”

Hackensack homeless man who found money loses benefits http://t.co/XpWQFbB8bb

— Eyewitness News (@eyewitnessnyc) November 10, 2013

James Brady was formerly a news photographer and market data analyst when he fell on hard times. After discovering that he was supposed to be at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the trauma of being so close to death hit him hard. He ended up living off his savings and retirement payout, and he thought things were starting to look up when he happened upon the money in the street.

That’s right; a survivor of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is now allegedly being treated like a criminal by the US government for doing the right thing.

Thankfully, homeless good Samaritan James Brady’s story did not fall on deaf ears, as the United Way of Bergen County is helping him out with donations from people as far away as Chicago. On Saturday, they set up an account to help the man get the break the US government would not give him.

Chicago native Arun Arora, 42, heard about James Brady’s misfortune, and says, “It was a very touching story. He’s a human being. And given his background, I’m happy to write a check to help him.”

Tom Toronto, president of the city’s United Way chapter, says he will work with the homeless good Samaritan and try to get him back on his feet after his run of horrible luck.

Homeless Good Samaritan Turns In Money, Gets It Back, Loses Benefits is a post from: The Inquisitr News

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We have written many times before about the “white privilege” industry, a collection of self-perpetuating activists and academics who, not being able to demonstrate racism to justify their salaries and conferences, invent it.

The lack of ability to prove racism becomes the best proof of racism.  It’s everywhere, unspoken, unseen, lurking behind everything and every person with white skin (whatever that is). It is …. White Privilege.

White privilege is adopted wholesale as Salon.com and elsewhere in the left blogosphere as well because it can’t be disproven.  It is a prime example of Kafkatrapping — the denial is the proof.

Particularly when combined with maleness and Christianity, white privilege becomes the Swiss Army Knife of race cards. Or maybe the Energizer Bunny is a better reference, because it just keeps going, and going, and going.

It’s easy to laugh, except when you consider how deeply these theories have has permeated into society.

So much so that the Pentagon is preaching the evils of “white privilege” and a male club, as part of its training materials for Equal Opportunity officers.

Pentagon training manual: white males have unfair advantages:

A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that “healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian” men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called “White Male Club.”

“Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege,” reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).

The manual, which was obtained by Fox News, also instructs troops to “support the leadership of people of color. Do this consistently, but not uncritically,” the manual states.

The Equal Opportunity Advisor Student Guide is the textbook used during a three month DEOMI course taught at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Individuals who attend the training lead Equal Opportunity briefings on military installations around the nation.

So this is how they train the trainers, the EOA commissars embedded with the troops to ensure political correctness.

You really have to read the full excerpt from the manual, including this part centered around the concept of a White Male Club:

You have to wonder how it got to this.