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I’m looking for a “real” job in London. No bartending. No English-speaking tour guiding or sitting at a hostel desk in exchange for room and board. I’d actually like someone to hire me on merit — not just because I look cute behind a bar.

Not only is the London job market cutthroat right now, I’m applying for work in an extremely competitive field. By competitive, I mean a bunch of clueless Oxford and Cambridge graduates with no idea what they want to do with their lives are applying for the same internships as me — a Canadian with a two-year visa that screams “I probably won’t stay here, don’t waste your money training me!” A month later, I haven’t had one interview. I’m still trawling through online ads and attending networking events so I don’t have to use my last $500 to buy myself a one-way ticket back to my mom’s house.

You might be in my situation. You may have just returned home from a RTW trip. If you’re looking for a job, surely you’ll recognize at least a few of these.

You’ve just arrived and see all the places hiring…

…so you send out resumes like this…

But you keep getting HR emails that read like…

Then you realize being capable of speaking English doesn’t make you automatically employable anymore…

…so you call a recruitment agency, and they’re all, “We’re in this together…”

But they don’t call you back for two weeks, so you spend a few days like…

Then the recruiter calls you back for an interview with one of their clients and you’re like…

…so you go from looking like this…

…to looking like…

The interviewer asks what you did during that 2-year gap on your resume, and you’re like…

You tell her “cultural immersion,” but it really means some of this…

…occasionally this…

…but mostly this…

After the interview, she says “We’ll call you” and you know it’s…

Your friend tells you not to worry because his brother looked for work for 6 months before he found something…

Group interviews be like…

…and all you want is someone to…

Once you figure out someone at a networking event is hiring, you’re like…

…but they’re all…

So you start to wonder why you gave up this…

…and this…

…for this…

But don’t worry. When you get down, just remember this:

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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Of the thousands of images that photographer Michael Galinsky took in malls during the summer of 1989, this one really seems to strike a nerve, but not necessarily because of the big bangs and acid-washed leggings, he says. "I get so many comments about Tape World." Memories of lost stores and dubious fashions abound in his new book, the gloriously nostalgia-soaked Malls Across America.

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I'm glad the world is full of insane people so we can see another seemingly-impossible airplane landing and takeoff: Watch this man stop in midair and touching down on top of a moving ship in the English Channel. At one point it seems like the he's just floating there.

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At some point, there will be an HD Zelda game and, for our sake, I hope it does away with the constant hand-holding and extended intros that were present in Skyward Sword, among other games.

Right now, none of us have any idea what Nintendo has planned for the next coming of Zelda on the Wii U, but one thing's for sure -- I hope it looks to A Link Between Worlds for guidance.

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First time accepted submitter sqorbit writes "Netflix and Youtube are gaining ground not only on the competition, such as Amazon, but also over peer-to-peer file sharing. Netflix claims more than 30 million customers and believes it could double that number in the future. Traffic from Netflix and Youtube amounted to over 50% of Internet traffic in September. Meanwhile Bittorrent traffic is down slightly (7.4% from 10%) in Internet traffic compared to last year. Could more people be satisfied with current video offerings or are less people finding useful things to download via file sharing?"

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In the annals of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, there's never been anything as big as this

A five-year-old boy named Miles, who lives in northern California, has leukemia. He loves superheroes, and his fondest wish is to be Batman. So Make-a-Wish put out a call for help from the citizens of San Francisco, where Miles' wish is to be realized in an elaborate set of stunts on Friday, Nov. 15.

They got more than they bargained for — 7,100 RSVPs on the website, and counting

The plan is for Miles to have an action-packed day around the city: rescuing a damsel in distress on a cable car, capturing the Riddler in a downtown vault, chasing the Penguin around Union Square, and finally receiving the thanks of a grateful mayor and police chief on the steps of City Hall Read more...

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Former drugs advisor Prof David Nutt spruiks for alcohol with an ANTIDOTE

Professor David Nutt, a boffin who has advised the UK government on drugs policy and now holds the Edmond J Safra chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College, London, is brewing a new drug that will replicate the sensations produced by alcohol but also be instantly reversible and not produce hangovers.…

The force is strong with this one, it seems. Gezi Parkı on YouTube uploaded a video of a baby being calmed by the Star Wars theme song. The baby boy goes from crying to silence to gleeful within the first few notes of John Williams' Star Wars theme song. This kid is going to be all right.

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Matthew Vaughn‘s Layer Cake was instrumental in helping Daniel Craig land the iconic role of James Bond, but nowadays Craig is so busy 007-ing that he presumably doesn’t have time for the sequel. So he’s being replaced with another glowering British badass. Jason Statham and his manager / producing partner Steve Chasman have picked up the rights to J.J. Connolly‘s book Viva La Madness, the follow-up to his Layer Cake. Hit the jump for plot details on the new story and more.

Deadline reports that although Craig’s gangster character had no name in the first film, Statham is definitely playing the same guy. While Craig was pretty great in the original Layer Cake, Statham seems like a more than acceptable replacement. He got his start on stylish British crime thrillers Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and has continued in that vein with films like The Transporter, The Bank Job, and Parker.

The plot of Connolly’s new book picks back up with the same protagonist, who still has no name. Having recovered from (uh, spoiler alert) the gunshot wound he got at the end of the first film, he decides to retire to a beach. But because in the movies, thinking you’re out is the fastest way to get pulled back in, he gets wrapped up with a high-speed plot involving international drug deals, money laundering, fraud, and all sorts of vicious, dangerous characters.

Statham next stars in Homefront, which has him playing a former DEA agent aching for a quiet life only to find himself battling a local drug kingpin. (See above about what happens whenever a character in a crime pic thinks he’s out.) He’ll appear next year in Fast & Furious 7, The Expendables 3, and the Heat remake. To mix things up, he also recently signed on to star with Melissa McCarthy in Paul Feig’s spy comedy Susan Cooper.

• Jason Statham Goes Back to Comedy With ‘Susan Cooper’
• ‘Homefront’ Red-Band Trailer: Jason Statham and James Franco Are at War
• James Wan Tweets the Villain’s Car From ‘Fast and Furious 7′
• ‘Homefront’ Trailer: Sylvester Stallone Pits Jason Statham Against James Franco
• Sequel Bits: ‘Insidious: Chapter 2′, ‘Riddick’, ‘Bond 24′, ‘Transformers 4′, ‘The World’s End’
• Full Cast And Plot Revealed for ‘The Expendables 3′

rtoz writes "Sweden is taking steps to close many prisons due to lack of prisoners. This year alone, four prisons and a detention center got closed in Sweden. The percentage of the population in Sweden prison is significantly lower than in most other countries. ... Though the Swedish Government is taking steps to close the prisons, the crime rate in Sweden has increased slightly. It seems they are planning to take steps for preventing crime rather than focusing on jailing people involved in criminal activities."

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Out-of-control man headbutts moving cars on freewayby: JENNI RYALL with AAPFrom: news.com.auNovember 12, 2013 11:26AM

A MAN'S dashcam has caught the moment a driver lost control on a Perth freeway and decided to take it out on the moving traffic - using his head.
He can be seen headbutting several moving cars, smashing windows and throwing himself head first through the windscreens of others.
The shocking incident happened after the man crashed his Mazda ute into an unattended Volkswagen which was parked in the emergency lane of Kwinana Freeway in Perth.
Witnesses report the agitated man got out of his vehicle and ran into the oncoming traffic, jumping on the bonnets of some cars before smashing everything in sight.
The dramatic outburst forced traffic to stop and caused a major jam on the city highway.
Eye witnesses took to social media to report the incident, with one posting the dashcam footage of the man on YouTube.
A police spokeswoman said inquiries are continuing into whether alcohol or drugs were involved.
The man is being assessed at Fremantle hospital.
I wonder whether it was drugs?

Today, I learned I was conceived to the sounds of a Spice Girls album. FML

Oh, cruel fate! The PlayStation Camera - previously known as the PlayStation Eye - can't be used to create a PlayStation Network profile picture for the next-gen PlayStation 4. Although having your real name displayed is happening, the only way to pull real-world photos of yourself for the profile pic is through Facebook integration. We speculate it has to do with Facebook's anatomical detecting algorithms.

For those who don't have a Facebook account (or don't want to use it), they'll have a selection of Sony avatars available, like things are now for PlayStation 3 and Vita. Also, if somebody wants to be your PSN friend, searching by your real name (even if you've selected to use your real name) won't be an option. To find you, they'll need your PSN ID. So, please try to keep it simple. You know who you are, xXxZOMGPUPPAYZxXx.

Not every headshot will make it to PlayStation 4 profile pics originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Admit it — when you first saw Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller The Birds, it took you a few weeks to get over your new-found fear of anything feathered. So to wake up from a pleasant nap on the beach to find yourself surrounded by seagulls sounds like a nightmare.

Prankster Roman Atwood teamed up with YouTube stars the Dudesons to terrify a few unlucky beach-goers. In the clip, the Dudesons run around a beach, tossing crumbled popcorn near sleeping sunbathers. Naturally, seagulls quickly descend on the free snacks

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Over the weekend, Bloomberg reported that Apple was working on enhanced sensors capable of detecting different levels of pressure. Now, an Apple patent for pressure-sensitive touchscreens could lend that rumor some credence.

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