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Judge refuses to stay Idaho same-sex marriages Salt Lake Tribune Boise • A federal magistrate judge Wednesday refused to put gay marriages in Idaho on hold pending an appeal from the state's governor. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Candy Dale said in her decision that Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's appeal is unlikely to ... Judge blocks anti-gay group from Oregon marriage caseWashington Blade Judge: Outside group cannot defend Ore. gay marriage banHermiston Herald We're on the brink of a majority of gay Americans being able to marryWashington Post (blog) Investor's Business Daily -Jefferson Public Radio -U.S. News & World Report all 536 news articles »

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Los Angeles police investigating Justin Bieber San Jose Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police detectives are investigating allegations that embattled singer Justin Bieber tried to steal a cellphone at a family entertainment center. Police spokeswoman Rosario Herrera said Wednesday that a person accused ... Justin Bieber Accuser -- Busted ... By Bat GirlFirst Coast News Justin Bieber Accused of Attempted Robbery—a Look at His Recent Brushes ...E! Online Police investigate allegations that Justin Bieber tried to steal mobile phoneIrish Independent all 672 news articles »

Moscow says it will reject US request to prolong life of ISS beyond 2020 in retaliation for Washington's sanctions.

worths:

ok thanks

fulllblownrose:

It’s too hot *opens window* in comes 20 flies, 8 spiders, 17 daddy long legs, 50 moths, 3 dragons and 12 Jehovah’s witnesses.

tentacoolaid:

pope francis is changing everything

In 1991, Kazakhstan became the last Soviet republic to declare independence. Six years later, the government moved from the Almaty to Astana (formerly known as Aqmola). There, with the help of architects like Norman Foster, they built a futuristic city on the remains of old buildings from the Soviet era.

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Nope Chicago. But as a Chicagoan I love making fun of the Boston accent. Hell as a human being I love making fun of the Boston accent.

"If you didn't act grateful enough, or you had the audacity to demand to be treated like a human being, they made you look like a huge jerk on TV. That is the mighty power of the television editor: With enough time and a copy of Adobe Premiere, you can make Mr. Rogers look like a blood-drinking psychopath."

The 1967 Doctor Who story "The Web of Fear" is best remembered as the first appearance of Colonel (later Brigadier) Lethbridge-Stewart, the Doctor's steadfast friend. But now that it's finally on DVD, the thing you'll remember most about it is how skin-crawling the whole thing is.

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For your consideration, Mad Men Emmy campaign

celestedoodles:

Gold Shirt Family Excellence for repfest - Sulu and Darwin with little Demora 

mapsontheweb:

Proposed crossings of the Puget Sound, 1950

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Michael Palin | Monty Python and the Holy Grail

medievalpoc:

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I love that. I know so many people who think the past is always Super Serious All The Time. Nope. Testicles and poop jokes for everyone!

That’s one of the perks of running a generally Medieval Art History blog. Relevant:

The Very First Written Usage of the “F” Word:

Here the word appears (for the first time if not the last) noted down by hand in the margins of a proper text, in this case Cicero’s De Officiis. “It’s a monk expressing his displeasure at an abbot,” writes Katharine Trendacosta at i09. “In the margins of a guide to moral conduct. Because of course.” She quotes Melissa Mohr, author of Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, as declaring it “difficult to know” whether this marginalia-making monk meant the word literally, to accuse this abbott of “questionable monastic morals,” or whether he used it “as an intensifier, to convey his extreme dismay.”

Either way, it holds a great deal of value for scholars of language, given, as the OED puts it, “the absence of the word from most printed text before the mid twentieth century” and the “quotation difficulties” that causes. If you find nothing to like in the F word’s ever-increasing prevalence in the media, think of it this way: at least future lexicographers of swearing will have more to go on.

For those who don’t know, the abbot would have been this scribe’s boss.

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indiestatik:

Design Around Impairments: Accessibility Jam Raises Awareness For Disabled Gamers

nyehridan-artpora:

lalulutres:

worried that squirrels were eating all the birdseed, so we set up a camera

i do not think that is a squirrel

my-frerard-romance:

the kissing islands, Greenland

would you look at that even the fucking ground gets more action than me 

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New television show -- CSI: Cyber. I hope they have some good technical advisers, but I doubt they do.

CSBG spotlights on one of the strangest comics of all-time, the time the Joker began committing "boner" crimes and tried to force Batman to pull a "boner" as well.

The Bat Signal

MetsFood, like the Mets, is contaminated.

How #LOLMets are the Mets? They can ruin Shake Shack!

Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg ignored his fellow coach's advice and ate a hamburger while his team was playing at the Mets. He ended up losing six pounds in two days:

"A couple of coaches took a bite and didn't like what they saw and threw the rest away," Sandberg said. "I was in a rush so I ended up putting it away.

"I had one piece of toast in two days, and I'm feeling fine about that. I don't want anything in my stomach."

Lest you think the food poisoning was an evil ploy to destroy the Mets' opposition, know that the Mets have suffered too. In fact, Lucas Duda's food poisoning was even more serious:

Duda was hospitalized Friday afternoon, and later blamed an undercooked hamburger. He confirmed Tuesday at Yankee Stadium that the burger also came from Shake Shack.

"I think it was undercooked," Duda said Tuesday.

I'm not going to pin this on Shake Shack, because Shake Shack is Shake Shack. I'm going to pin this on MetsFood., which, like the Mets, is presumably contaminated. Avoid the Mets and MetsFood at all costs.

Chamar a geração de impaciente nem é uma crítica nova. Há anos se ouve falar do imediatismo e da instantaneidade dos jovens, e do quanto a nossa capacidade de concentração está cada vez menor.

Esses dados do Spotify, no entanto, são um pouco alarmantes: estamos tão impacientes que não aguentamos ouvir uma música inteira. Segundo o streaming de música, quase 25% de todas as músicas são puladas logo nos 5 primeiros segundos, o que eu gosto de pensar que é a versão musical de zapear por canais de TV. No entanto, mais de 33% das canções são ouvidas por apenas 30 segundos, e quase metade de todas as músicas são puladas em algum momento antes do final.

 

Passar dos 12 segundos ouvidos é um sinal de comprometimento – depois desse período, a tendência é que a música seja ouvida até o final. E, como era de se esperar, os adolescentes são os que menos têm paciência: a grande maioria deles pula canções com frequência. Curiosamente, os mais velhos também estão entre os que mais apertam o botão de ‘forward’.

 

Paul Lamere, diretor da Echo Nest e organizador desses dados, acredita que esse comportamento tem mais a ver com o tempo livre disponível do que com a faixa etária. “Os adolescentes têm mais tempo, enquanto os adultos de 30 e poucos, com seus filhos pequenos e trabalhos, não têm tempo para ficar cuidando do seu player de música”, especula ele. Isso também é uma verdade durante os fins de semana – enquanto os usuários não estão trabalhando, o índice de ‘puladas’ de música aumenta.

No entanto, uma outra teoria sugere que os adolescentes estariam usando a conta do Spotify dos seus pais (espertinhos!), o que gera essa quebra de padrão.

Para Lamere, esses dados evidenciam que quanto maior o engajamento do ouvinte com o tocador de música, maior é a chance de ele pular uma determinada canção. “Quando a música está tocando para preencher o ambiente, como quando estamos trabalhando ou relaxando, ‘pulamos’ menos canções”, argumenta ele. “Quando temos mais tempo livre, como quando somos jovens, ou estamos em casa depois do trabalho, ou durante um fim de semana, queremos selecionar melhor o que vamos ouvir, e pulamos mais músicas”, conclui.

Dá até saudade daquela época em que você apertava o ‘forward’ do Winamp sucessivamente, e tinha tempo livre…

(ps: não me venham com ‘Winamp foi descontinuado’. Winamp ainda vive, graças à Radionomy)

Post originalmente publicado no Brainstorm #9
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