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Driving past a Chicago cemetery at night, Julia Graham and her husband were "freaked out" when they noticed a clown who climbed the 7-foot gate and "waved slowly" at them as they took photos.

"I mean, this was somebody putting forth a lot of effort — and being really weird,” Graham told CBS Chicago.

TV news report below:

Take a few minutes to let your stress melt away with this gorgeous film about a Japanese ascetic who pursues awakening via Shugendō in a secluded mountain retreat. Read the rest

A zero-day exploit for Jeep Cherokees allows hackers to control everything from the engine to the air-conditioning over the Internet, overriding the driver at the dashboard. Read the rest

Jill Filipovic's review of Ayn Rand's posthumously published novel Ideal in Vice is less about the book than it is about the "socially awkward white men who seem disproportionately drawn to libertarianism" who admire Ayn Rand so much that they like a novel that Ayn Rand herself knew wasn't good enough for publication.

Most geeks know that Vin Diesel was and still is a huge D&D nerd, and that’s why he celebrated his 48th birthday on July 18th with a Dungeons and Dragons cake. Can you believe the man is 48 years old? Incredible, right?

[Source: Vin Diesel on Facebook | Via TN]

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The Kantoor Karavaan is a design from a company in the Netherlands who had the idea to create a mobile workspace that looks like a part of the wilderness. The best part of this creation is that you really can drive it out into the country and work from a quiet spot in the woods if you want to.

Whether you are tech-savvy or just a newbie, you’ll definitely be glad to have a universal theme providing all the essentials in one pack. Well, it appears that such a solution has finally been released for WordPress users. As its name suggests, “Monstroid” is a monstrously powerful WP theme suitable for any type of site, from blogs and news portals to personal & corporate portfolios and e-stores. It is equipped with a rich array of options for the design of your website. They include 145 predefined pages, 120+ PSD files, 50+ licensed images, 500+ fonts, multiple interface elements, styles, skins, child themes – you name it. This is just a modest beginning to the list of features, so read our review to learn about Monstroid in detail.

Get Multiple Child Themes for Free

Monstroid does not only have unlimited design possibilities but also comes with 4 child themes. They embrace the topics enjoying the widest popularity in the web design community, particularly finance & IT for businessmen, art & photography for creative individuals and studios, education for instructors and schools, as well as interior & furniture for decorators and architects. What’s more, the scope of topics will be broadened eventually, and you will receive up to 15 child themes monthly. It means you pay for one theme, but obtain multiple themes for the same amount of money. As you can see, Monstroid allows you to save for a rainy day.

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Create an Optimal Website Layout

First of all, let’s focus on the structure of pages. Monstroid enables you to create multiple layouts without touching the code. All you have to do is to enter the dashboard and manage the layout options right there. Depending on your preferences, you can build a boxed or full-width structure and make it of 1170px or 960px. To draw extra attention to specific info, you can also add sidebars to the right and left sides of the layout. Feel free to experiment with your website structure as you wish.

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Experiment with Arrangement of Interface Elements

Once you have settled on a layout structure, it’s time to proceed to styling it. There are 4 style options for arranging elements on the page, particularly grid, masonry, flat, and masonry flat. With their help, you can display your content in well-defined boxes or Pinterest-style tiles with or without gaps between them. To impart more diversity to the overall design of your site, you can choose different style options for different pages.

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Change the Theme Skin with One Click

Next, Monstroid is pre-built with a skin switcher, which is a tool allowing you to change the look of your site in an instant, i.e. with a single click to be exact. Initially the theme package contains 3 skins that reflect popular web design trends. Read about them below.

• Flat Skin lacks obtrusive styling details like ornaments or drop shadows, which provides a clear presentation of information and faster page loading.
• Minimal Skin utilizes ample, clean space ensuring perfect content readability and easy navigation throughout your site.
• Dark Skin makes effective use of black space adding a creative and sophisticated touch to your website aesthetics.

Don’t overlook the fact that this number will grow later to embrace more options.

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Build Your Website Backend with Ease

Now, let’s dig deeper into the functional potential of Monstroid. Its major value is presented in a number of innovative features meant to facilitate your website building process. Take a closer look at each of them below.

• Shortcode Template Editor. Using this tool, you can build templates for shortcodes and edit them in many possible ways.
• Dynamic CSS. This feature is designed to bring dynamic changes to CSS. On saving the option settings, you generate a new file instead of rebuilding the main CSS file.



• Static Area Builder. With its aid, you can locate header and footer elements (logo, banner, slider, navigation bar etc) wherever you like by dragging and dropping them. For example, you can attach a logo to any part of the footer.
• CSS Minifier. With this option activated, you can compile all the CSS files into a single one. Then, you can minify the size of that file to accelerate the speed of your website loading.
• Installation Wizard. It requires only a few clicks and takes a few minutes to install the theme and all of its components. Due to the wizard, there is no need to bother with FTP.

The team behind Monstroid pursued a goal to deliver maximum ease-of-use to you while dealing with the website backend.

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Add Store Functionality to Your Site

If you are aiming to make profits online, you will find Monstroid useful for your undertaking. This is a fully functional WooCommerce theme equipped with a rich set of ready-made pages for a web store. Thus, the only thing you’ll need to do is replace the default content with your own, and that’s all. You can easily start selling your items from your inventory and monitor various details of your eCommerce activity. Keep in mind that child themes included in the Monstroid package are also WooCommerce-ready.

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Secure Your Website with a Backup Option

Sometimes people are dissatisfied with the changes they make while customizing their website designs. Fortunately, Monstroid has an ideal solution to this problem. You can back up the theme and return to the previously saved or default version any time you need. It’s possible to back up both the content and settings in the admin panel. So, don’t be afraid to experiment with your website design, as you can always take a step back without losing anything important.

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Get Lots of Powerful Plugins for Free

Monstroid is supplied with multiple powerful plugins, which will let you build a functionally rich web resource. Each of those plugins can work as a standalone tool, but still you get all of them for the initial price of the theme only. Check some of Monstroid’s plugins in detail below.

• MotoPress Editor. This tool can help you customize the front end of your site by means of drag-and-drop functionality.
• Moto Slider. It can let you create pixel-perfect slideshows with multiple layers. The slider comes with drag-and-drop interface, cool transition effects, animations, image re-size option, and much more
• Cherry Shortcodes. With this plugin you get 30+ shortcodes and 150+ of their variations. This allows you to add different types of content to your site and manage them with ease.



• Portfolio Page. With its aid, you can embed a separate portfolio section in your site. It features a lot of functions and effects to provide a memorable presentation of your projects.
• Cherry Mega Menu. Improve your website navigation by equipping it with a mega menu. It can accommodate lists of links, buttons, text, banners and other elements on the dropdown panel.
• Cherry Charts. This tool is meant to build eye-catching infographics and diagrams that are ideal for illustrating statistics.
• Cherry Rank. This plugin enables website visitors to rate your product images with stars for greater credibility.
• Cherry Data Manager. It will come in handy for moving your website to a new hosting domain. Using the manager, you can both import and export the data with a single click.

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Provide Your Site with All the Essentials for Its Success

In addition to the rich set of plugins, Monstroid offers many other things that will be of great benefit for your web resource. Learn more about these helpful features that no successful site can do without nowadays.

• Compatibility with Popular Extensions. In this way, you can supply your site with many extra functions besides those built into Monstroid. For example, the theme supports bbPress to create a forum, WPML to localize your site, Yoast to optimize its indexation by search engines, and many more.
• Cherry Framework 4.0. Monstroid is built with the Cherry framework, a Bootstrap-based WordPress theme framework that allows the building of websites with ease and speed. It has an independent modular structure, which means you can use its components independently. Today, the majority of frameworks are overloaded with unnecessary options that often annoy users, but the latest version of the Cherry Framework is different. Using this tool, you can switch off all the options you don’t need while building your site. It’s really easy to master the framework.
• 500+ Google Fonts. With such a diverse number of fonts, you can bring any desirable changes to your website typography and make your content more readable.
• SEO & Mobile Friendly. These qualities are solid prerequisites for extending your website reach. People will be able to use your site on the go via portable devices, and search engines will rank it higher on the results page.
• Social Media Integration. It ensures your business promotion on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other popular networks. To be more accurate, you can let people register on your site and consequently sign in to it using their social accounts. They will also be able to subscribe to your official social profiles as well as comment, rate, and share your content with friends.
• Google Maps. Integration of this service allows customers to find your company’s location on an interactive map.

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Find out What Else You Can Get with Monstroid

Such a rich functional potential of Monstroid can add enormous power and flexibility to your site, but that’s not all. The team behind Monstroid took all the users’ needs into account, and included cool extras to the theme package. Together with Monstroid, you will also get the following things at no charge.

• 50+ Licensed Images. Monstroid comes with a pack of professional images depicting various topics, which means you will definitely find something cool for your site. It will let you save both time and money on the visual presentation of content.
• Documentation for End Users. The theme is packed with detailed instructions to guide you through installation, customization and other procedures.
• Video Tutorials. In case you do not understand something written in the documentation, you can watch video tutorials to see the way it works visually.



• Free Customer Support. If you become a Monstroid user, you will never be on your own with your theme. Just contact the support team to get an immediate response via a live chat 24/7. You can also send an email if you have no time for chatting, and the Support Team will contact you shortly. This free service is granted for as long as you use the theme.
• Lifetime Updates. You will receive a message about the availability of updates on a regular basis and optionally implement them on your site. The updates include new topics, features and bug fixes.

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Conclusion

As you can see, Monstroid is an all-in-one WordPress theme to minimize your efforts in building a site and designing its interface. You can be either a developer or an end user, it doesn’t matter at all. The theme is easy for anyone to use regardless of his or her skills and experience, and the opportunity to build any type of website, e.g. blog, portfolio or e-store, makes it even more attractive. So, give Monstroid a try and enjoy maximum ease-of-use in web development.

About the Author

Nick Campbell, the author of this article, is fond of writing posts on various subjects, particularly web design, e-commerce, social media, marketing, business, and education. He has been involved in the content creation sphere for more than two years. Nick is primarily focused on covering modern trends in a specific industry to help his readers keep abreast of the latest news. If you don’t want to miss any brand new developments in the aforementioned topics, follow Nick Campbell on Google+!

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This baby is bad at sharing. The beagle felt bad about taking its toy, so it apologized by giving it many new ones, including a DualShock 3. It also might be trying to suffocate the baby, I'm not sure. Dogs are great.

True comic. The computer was failing to get an IP address from the network several times a day for no apparent reason. My parent’s computer had The Real Problems™

–CON BRAVO–

I’m gonna be in Hamilton, Ontario in like a week for Con Bravo! Whoa! Are YOU gonna be there? Because I will be!

I’ll be doing a webcomic panel with I AM ARG (who is also a server pal/real pal) along with some other webcomic folks!

Sea slugs aren’t exactly creatures you’d consider to be adorable, but Japan’s Twittersphere has just rediscovered what is probably the cutest sea slug ever – Jorunna parva, a sea slug that looks like a fluffy bunny.

This tiny sea slug’s bunny ears are actually rhinophores, or chemosensory scent/taste organs that help them detect chemicals in the water and make their way across the ocean floor. They can be found from the Indian Ocean to the Philippines to Japan, where photos of them have become popular.

More info: seaslugs.free.fr (h/t: rocketnews)

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Canadian blogger Anne Thériault was minding her own business in a Toronto coffee shop when she heard a date dipped in so much douchebaggery, she actually LIVE-TWEETED the spectacle.

Using her smartphone, Thériault documented the 30-minute date in which the guy showed no apparent interest in the girl he was with. In addition to asking her whether she’d “ever dated a writer” (hint; that was his job), he also confessed to looking “like James Franco”, and told her his Puttanesca pasta sauce was even better than his friend’s… who, incidentally, is a chef. What a surprise, no?

Unsurprisringly, the girl had “a look of mild panic” and came up with one of the best excuses to get out of out of what was possibly the dullest half hour of her life.

Think you’ve had Tinder nightmares? Spare a thought for this girl who had a real one!

More info: Twitter (h/t: notable.ca, aplus, huffpost)

BOOM! Studios, a comic book and graphic novel publisher based in Los Angeles, is home to the popular Lumberjanes comic.

A comic so popular, in fact, that BOOM! has announced the first volume is headed for a fifth reprint.

They also have announced that they will produce the feature film adaptation, along with 20th Century Fox.

The family-friendly, all-ages Lumberjanes, written by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis, focuses on five female best friends who fight supernatural creatures during their stay at summer camp.

[via Nerdist]

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Peaky Blinders
Users: 97%

Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy are just a few of the big stars in this ‘Boardwalk Empire’ like series that makes you wish you were a British gangster in the 20s. Except, the fact that they have razor blades sewn into their hats is kind of weird.

Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t seem to have an official score for this one, but it’s awesome. I actually got the recommendation from a comment on a previous Netflix post, thanks Bill!

Sense8
Critics: 68% Users: 90%

8 people in their 20s located around the world discover they have an intimate connection to one another with emotional, mental and physical implications. Think ‘The Matrix’ mixed with ‘Heroes.’

Happy Valley
Critics: 100% Users:95%

The town may have a cheery name, but but the police sergeant isn’t smiling when she comes face-to-face with the man who destroyed her family, or when she’s dealing with the drug kingpin. This show is edgy, dark, and will keep you on the edge of your seat… or bed, because let’s be honest that’s where you’re watching all of these shows.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Critics: 94% Users: 89%

If you haven’t heard of this show by now, then your life is probably closely related to the main character, Kimmy, who just escaped from a bomb shelter she was trapped in for over 15 years. What could be better than a show written by Tina Fey about a girl stuck in the 90s?

Bloodline
Critics: 74%

Honestly, I think I watched this entire show in about 3 days. The intense storyline follows a family living in the sunny Florida Keys with a dark past and an even darker present. When the black sheep of the family comes home for his parents’ 45th anniversary of their hotel, things get ugly.

Marco Polo
Critics: 30% Users: 93%

Don’t let the critic score fool you, there were only 27 reviews compared to the A+ review given by almost 1,600 user ratings. This adventurous show follows the young explorer (who may or may not have existed) and his time spent with the gnarly Kublai Khan.

The Fall
Critics: 100% Users: 95%

This psychological thriller examines the lives of two hunters: a serial killer and the detective who is searching for him. Jamie Dornan, star of “Fifty Shades of Grey” plays the crazy stalker killer, but you’ll forget all about his horrible sex movie role when you watch him play cat and mouse with Gillian Anderson.

Derek
Critics: 71% Users: 91%

Ricky Gervais plays a quirky yet loyal nursing home care assistant who sees only the good in his co-workers as they struggle with their problems. Because of his childlike nature and diminished intelligence he’s vulnerable to being ridiculed and ostracized, but he’s lovable nonetheless. It’s not the typical entertainment you’d expect from Gervais, but you won’t be disappointed.

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Scores TBD

This one comes out on July 17th, so no consensus yet, but the ENTIRE cast of the original movie, including Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler and Bradley Cooper, is returning for an 8-episode prequel to this awesome classic.

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Squid.ink Solid Icon Pack offers 2000 handcrafted, consistent and pixel-perfect icons ready to use. The icons have been specially built to match the current design trends and to help you expand on your projects. This beautiful icons are perfect to create a unique design experience.

Here you can download 50 of their best icons from Free Solid Icons Pack. It includes PSD files for 32px & 64px Icons, PNG files for 32px & 64px Icons, SVG files for 32px & 64px Icons, AI & EPS vector files.

Free Download: http://thesquid.ink/free-solid-icons/

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Coverr was built as a joint initiative between two startups “Veed.Me” & “CodersClan”. Since they experienced the need of homepage background videos from both sides; Video & Code, they decided to build something that will give these, for free – to the community.

Basically, Coverr lets you download any video that you want (mp4+webm+image) AND it also gives you code snippets to help you implement them (html,css,javascript). It’s copyright free and always will be. They will upload 7 new videos of 12-15 seconds each every Monday.

Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.coverr.co/
License: License Free

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Email wasn't always a source of fear and loathing, writes Stewart Butterfield, but that was inevitable because it is "the distillation of the other stuff that other people want you to do."

For anyone scared that the new Peanuts movie might just be straying a little too far from the simplicity that made the original work so well, you can put those fears to bed. As seen in the pic above posted at ToplessRobot and in the new trailer below, they have figured out a genius way to pay homage to the original strip and its brilliant creator.

Well played. I just hope the film can live up to fan’s expectations.

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Pandamonium is a series of Indian ink drawings I started for Inktober (a drawing a day during October) last year. I never used ink before and I truly enjoyed it, for all the accidents that can happen. In fact, I like to draw by an accident!

You can see the progress between the first drawings of the series and the last ones. I’m about to start a new series of panda and maiden :)

Some pandas are still looking for adoption. Please support me here. There is a giveaway going on my Facebook page with an ink-drawing to win!

More info: Instagram | juneleeloo.bigcartel.com | Tumblr

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