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Starcraft II is a complicated game filled with deep nuances and intense strategy that can be rather intimidating for newer players to get a hold off. Many hours of dedication are required, and if you really want to learn the game, one of the best things you can do is take advice from other players. Why try to figure it out yourself when you can soak in the knowledge of those who have come before?

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Recycling! It's good for the planet, or something. It's also a very sensible thing to do. But how does the bottle you just drank out of become a new bottle you'll drink out of in the future? No, it's not just refilling the glass. It's a process that involves magnets, soda ash, a 2,700 degree furnace, something called gobs and more.

The awesome NPR blog Planet Money has summarized the glass recycling process into 6 magnificent GIFs. It starts with sorting mountain-sized piles of broken glass with a bunch of crap inside with magnets (to pull out metal) and optical sorting machines (to blow out the valuable clear glass). Then soda ash, sand and limestone are mixed with the clear glass and melted at 2,700 degrees, that burning orange mixture eventually becomes the bottle. See the whole process here. And here's a GIF to whet your appetite:

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Code found in Steam points to possible game sharing with other members.

(727): She flashed them and they let her pay with Monopoly money. I'm married, so it is your obligation as my best man to repeatedly fuck her for me.

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After tomato plants were taken back to Europe from the New World in the early 1500s, people in various places considered the fruit poisonous for the next two centuries. The reasoning behind the fear of tomatoes came from several sources:

1. Rich people ate tomatoes and then died. Their fancy pewter plates were later found to be the reason.

2. Scientists of the time classified the tomato as a deadly nightshade and a mandrake -both scary terms.  

3. Tomato leaves smell awful, so one researcher pronounced the entire plant toxic.

4. Scary-looking worms infested tomato plants.

An article at Smithsonain's Food and Think blog explains each of these concerns, which lingered far into the 1800s, plus a bonus video containing a scene from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Link

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Just a dog walking into a Dollar General store in Bedford, Kentucky, and stealing a dog toy.


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5 members of musical group cdza perform Daft Punk's Get Lucky on a piano.


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Smallest-ever laser dot shines a light on silicon alternatives

Successive generations of optical media generally rely on a new laser and a medium capable of responding to the new laser's qualities.…

Screen Junkies honors the upcoming zombie movie World War Z with this compilation of movies scenes featuring zombies getting shot in the head.


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Acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Ben Lapps dribbles a basketball a little and even scores, while playing his acoustic guitar.


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Adobe's shift to cloud-based software provision for its new Creative Cloud design suite was partly motivated by anti-piracy concerns. Which, of course, means... it's already been pirated.

Just one day after the official roll out of Creative Cloud, a certain Ching Liu has already uploaded a torrent link to The Pirate Bay which provides a cracked version of the software. Named “Adobe Photoshop CC 14.0 Final Multilanguage”, comments left by Pirate Bay users suggest it works just great.

It remains to be seen if it will work long-term—the new desktop apps have to to connect to Adobe’s servers every month to re-validate their subscription status—but clearly Liu has got around the connectivity issues required for install. And clearly Adobe needs to up its anti-piracy game. [FStoppers via Peta Pixel]

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Data authorities have ruled that Google has breached the French Data Protection Act, and the huge advertising firm has been ordered to comply with the law within three months or else face sanctions.…

With Google Reader about to meet its maker, Digg decided to make the ultimate replacement. That was two months ago—and Wired has the inside track of exactly how the project has come together since then.

At the outset, it's fair to say things didn't look pretty. Hopping back in time two months, Matt Honan describes where Digg were when they started:

Right now [Digg Reader is] just a mess of code, Keynote sides, and shit on a whiteboard. They need to turn it into a real product, one to take the place of Google Reader, which shuts down on July 1. They have less than 60 days. Simultaneously, the same team of five engineers is working to integrate another product–Instapaper–that they’ve just purchased. None of this is top secret, the opposite in fact. Digg publicly promised the world to have a replacement ready in time. They had to move fast. And when you move fast, things get fucked up.

When Google announced that Reader was going to die, Digg announced they'd fill the gap that exact same evening. So what made them think they could do it? Honan explains:

The idea of Digg building a Reader replacement just resonated. The revamped Digg.com was already popular, especially in news and developer circles. It had a reputation for scrumptious headlines and kickers, courtesy of editorial director David Weiner, a HuffPo alum. It’s tech team, led by CTO Michael Young had already shown serious backend chops, which meant people didn’t doubt its ability to pull off building a reader. The same minimalist sensibility that design director Justin Van Slembrouck had given the front page of Digg would translate well to the new project, and, hell: Its GM Jake Levine might even be able to figure out a way to monetize it in ways Google never had.

Now, just days ahead of the official roll out, Digg Reader is (kinda) ready. Having seen it in action, Honan explains what he thinks:

Digg Reader meets pretty much all the goals the team set for itself. It’s got a slick minimalist design that, yes, looks very much like Google Reader (and very much like Feedly, for that matter). It has built-in sharing and saving features. The Digg button will help find stories for the site’s front page. The iOS app is fantastic (it even has a car mode for podcasts). It has read counts, and they work, which sounds easy to pull off but requires lots of complex things happening in real time on the back end. (Which is why Google Reader’s unread count maxxed out at 1000+). All that remains to be seen is if it is fast, and if it can scale.

Watch this space, then. And, in the meantime, go check out the Wired feature, because it makes for fascinating reading. [Wired]

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I’ve had a couple of those.

Thanks DGNB

 

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Youtube "make-up guru" Tamang Phan is an amateur make-up artist from Nepal who posts videos of herself transforming into different celebrities and fictional characters.


Check her out transforming into more characters - on her Youtube channel

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How many golf balls can fit into an airplane? How many gas stations are in Manhattan?

For years, Google was known for vetting job applicants with brain-busting questions like these, even as some former employees came forward and stated that such questions had been phased out. Now, one of Google's HR execs has gone on record to explain why the company ditched the brainteasers.

"On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time," said Laszlo Bock, Google's SVP of people operations, in an interview with the New York Times. "They don't predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart." Read more...

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We've seen a lot of awesome cake designs over the years, but this is the first time we've been genuinely envious over what a six-year-old was served at his birthday party. After all, who wouldn't want an R2-D2 birthday cake that actually projects holograms like the one Marc Freilich made for his son Alexander?

Besides layers and layers of chocolate cake, R2-D2's outer fondant layer also hides a pico projector that connects to an external laptop playing Princess Leia's famous message, with a birthday greeting for Alexander tacked onto the end. As birthday cakes go it's about as awesome as they can get, unless someone found a way to blast a Rice Krispies treat edible lightsaber out of its dome. [WedgeStrap via Hackaday]

James Gandolfini, the actor who played Tony Soprano on The Sopranos, died yesterday. The famous final scene of the series was shot at Holsten's in Bloomfield, NJ. The diner honored Gandolfini by keeping his booth clear and ready.

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With the 4^th  of July coming up you’d be wise to take a lesson from this guy and not try this.

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Thanks Mike (from Spain)

 

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