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Nine Inch Nails has an EP on the way, and if you know your Llamasoft (TxK, Space Giraffe, countless others), the music video for the new single "Less Than" should look awfully familiar.

It's none other than Polybius, the urban-legend-inspired arcade shooter for PS4 and PlayStation VR.

"[Trent Reznor] mentioned that he'd enjoyed Llamasoft's stuff and he had an idea to discuss," designer Jeff Minter told Ars Technica. "Of course I was super chuffed to hear he'd liked our work, as I've enjoyed his a lot over the years too!" The two corresponded over Twitter and the project went from there.

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When thieves in Tom Mabe’s neighborhood began to snatch deliveries from his doorstep, the YouTube prankster decided to get revenge. In the video below, Tom explains he lives in a pretty nice neighborhood. But when he and his neighbor, Bob, noticed that packages were disappearing from their front porches, Tom decided to do something about it. And Tom knows how to carry out a prank.

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Mondo's skill at curating some of the coolest pop-culture art is unparalleled. Whether it's posters, enamel pins, T-shirts or classic soundtracks on vinyl, even if you don't like one piece, it's hard to deny that it's at least interesting. Well, with...

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The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, April 23, 1924

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, April 7, 1924

1920s shitposting

A family goes on vacation, with their bikes strapped to the back of the van. But the youngest daughter's beloved tricycle falls off and is lost. The girl is upset, but the tricycle has its own weird adventures trying to find its way back to the family.

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A few scenes will make you fall in love with a simple tricycle. This delightful story by Michel Gondry was entirely shot on an iPhone, in French with English subtitles. Pay attention, because you don't want to miss the singing fish. Or the ending. -via Laughing Squid

It was only a matter of time before this happened, wasn't it?

It could have been KFC, or another fast food restaurant, or pretty much brand: at some point, Kristian Nairn was bound to be snapped up for a Hodor-style Game of Thrones parody.

In the clip above, Nairn plays a hassled KFC worker swamped by hordes of lunch-time customers trying to order "chicken with fries" at the same time. 

The whole thing is pretty silly and predictable, but that doesn't seem to matter much — the clip has already wracked up 3.4 million views and around 30,000 shares on Facebook. Read more...

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Blowing from a gun was a method of execution practiced in many parts of the world since the invention of the cannon until the 20th Century, but mostly in India. George Carter Stent, a British official with the Chinese Maritime Customs in the 1870s describes the procedure:

The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen.

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Every computer needs a “cleaning keyboard” mode where the keys would be inactive while you wipe them down

why not just clean it while the computer is shut down?

while the computer is what now

If there's one thing that Super Mario Bros. and Monopoly share, it's their innate ability to engender family arguments in otherwise placid households. Which is why it's such a delight to see the pair reunited in the new Gamer Edition of Monopoly, tha...

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Between Generation X and Millennials exists a tiny micro-generation of people who call themselves the Xennials. Maybe you've seen this group labeled Generation Catalano — a reference to '90s teen drama My So-Called Life — or perhaps as the Oregon Trail Generation, but neither have quite the ring that Xennial does.

Though the term's been written about before, a viral Facebook post from early June brought the term back into the news cycle. 

As associate professor of sociology Dan Woodman from the University of Melbourne tells Australian lifestyle site Mamamia, those born between 1977 and 1983 had the unique experience of pre-internet childhoods that led into tech-centered early adulthood.  Read more...

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Nintendo may be making more anime in the future, which sounds like a great plan to us.

During a shareholder Q&A Thursday, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto expressed interest in making anime for some of Nintendo's most popular series, specifically naming Pikmin, Star Fox, and Yoshi, according to translations from Alex Aniel.

Someone asked a question about releasing the early-2000s anime series Kirby: Right Back At Ya! on Blu-ray, which prompted Miyamoto's response.

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Disney's 50-year old Pirates of the Caribbean ride — the one that inspired a seemingly unstoppable film franchise — is getting a makeover that'll drag at least a tiny portion of the attraction from the past into our more culturally-aware present.

The company announced in its Disney Parks Blog on Thursday that it's overhauling the Pirates of the Caribbean rides in Paris, Florida, and California. The new version of the ride, which features a cruise through an animatronic-pirate-infested Spanish town, will include a heavy dose of Pirates the Caribbean the movie (including Captain Barbossa) and, most notably, get rid of a "Wench Auction" scene where pirates bid for local women. Read more...

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When I die i want to be buried in the middle of nowhere in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, so some future archeologist has one hell of a day at work.

@thebibliosphere

⚰💥🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Poison Ivy as a kindergarten teacher

no, but really: flytraps use up a LOT of energy closing their traps. You know a lot of other plants that move that much? Tricking them into closing when there isn’t food there is indeed mean.

B-but… they’re plants… they’re devoid of sentience, right? They don’t “feel,” they’re more like little wind-up machines. Right? They don’t act on instinct, they’re… well… traps. You can’t actually be mean to a plant. Right??

I’m of the opinion that meanness is about the nature of the action, not awareness on the part of the target of the action. 

Tricking them into closing their traps is actually harmful to them, since the energy expended in closing and then re-opening the trap isn’t replenished by having a tasty insect to digest.

I’m of the opinion that meanness is about the nature of the action, not awareness on the part of the target of the action.

Reblogging for that sentiment…and also because fly traps are one of the funnest things ever.

What could it be? (by Eat My Paint)

 If you need to transfer a couple hundred megs to a coworker or friend across the country, you aren’t short on options. In fact, options are thick on the ground, and all have their own issues. Don’t you wish you could just speak a few magic words and send stuff directly to them, no intermediate upload, no web interface, no login? Magic Wormhole is a clever way to do just that. Read More

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NASA: we used to have 9 planets but we now only have 8
Pluto: Stop telling everyone I’m not a planet!
NASA: Sometimes we can still hear its voice

Look, I’m not saying that demoting a planet named after the Roman god of Death stoked his rage and brought down on us his vengeful fury and retribution but…

*gestures at everything*

Finally, an explanation.

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List of words containing “meow”: meow, meowed, meowing, meows, homeowner

This is literally destroying my life.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: In one of the biggest wins for the right to repair movement yet, the U.S. Copyright Office suggested Thursday that the U.S. government should take actions to make it legal to repair anything you own, forever -- even if it requires hacking into the product's software. Manufacturers -- including John Deere, Ford, various printer companies, and a host of consumer electronics companies -- have argued that it should be illegal to bypass the software locks that they put into their products, claiming that such circumvention violated copyright law. Thursday, the U.S. Copyright Office said it's tired of having to deal with the same issues every three years; it should be legal to repair the things you buy -- everything you buy -- forever. "The growing demand for relief under section 1201 has coincided with a general understanding that bona fide repair and maintenance activities are typically non infringing," the report stated. "Repair activities are often protected from infringement claims by multiple copyright law provisions." "The Office recommends against limiting an exemption to specific technologies or devices, such as motor vehicles, as any statutory language would likely be soon outpaced by technology," it continued.

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 IBM is working with the U.S. Air Force to improve its TrueNorth line of chips designed to optimize the performance of machine learning models at the hardware level. The new 64-chip array will consist of four boards, each with 16 chips. IBM’s chips are still too experimental to be used in mass production,  but they’ve shown promise in running a special type of neural network… Read More

 Super Mario Bros. is iconic, so it’s a natural target for augmented reality development, where everything nostalgic is new again. This demo, created by Abhishek Singh, really is amazing, however. Singh recreated the first level of Super Mario Bros. as an augmented reality game on Microsoft HoloLens, giving himself a first-person perspective into a unique 3D look inside the classic… Read More

Walk down the sidewalk of any major city and it's likely you'll see the same exact scene: Masses of people staring down at their phones instead of interacting with other living, breathing humans. At some point, after the smartphone became an essential part of our lives, push notifications and news feeds have commanded more and more of our attention.

You could just not use a phone, of course, but then you're completely disconnected. Is there a middle ground between giving in to total digital immersion and being off the grid? 

A Swiss technology company called Punkt thinks so. It recently released its retro-inspired "dumbphone," the MP01. The cool-looking feature phone takes us away from apps as it allows nothing more than texting and calling. Read more...

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