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DavidGilbert99 (2607235) writes "According to the customer contract those signing up for a $240,000 flight on Virgin Galactic's spaceship the company will bring you 'at least 50 miles' above sea level. The problem is that the internationally accepted boundary for outer space is 62 miles above sea level — known as the Karman Line. Virgin is trying to get around the issue by claiming it is using a definition of space used by NASA — in the 1960s."

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Microsoft announced .NET vNext and ASP.NET vNext at their TechEd North America conference today. ASP.NET vNext is the next-generation version of their server-side Web application framework and it's now cloud-oriented. Microsoft is supporting ASP.NET vNext under Linux via Mono...

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"BABYBOT" - Spin Jam (Empire Interactive - PSX - 2000) 

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a complete rip-off of Baby Head from Captain Commando

JHW3’s black and white pages from Detective Comics 859, part of the “Go” origin story.

rosesinthepond:

_{30 days of Doctor Who: 25. Favorite companion’s family member → Jackie Tyler}

_{Well, I reckon you’re mad, the pair of you. It’s like you go looking for trouble.}

Our national nutrition experts are in bed with Big Food. And we wonder why we're fat.

jrne:

fuck all of your lives

Overheard conversation between two guys in their twenties on my bus:

Bro 1: “Are you an undergrad?"
Bro 2: "No, I’m a graduate student."
[later]
Bro 2: "Zonk Donk. [something something] doctors [something] insurance companies. They have an app."
Bro 1: "I’m back in town for an interview with the Valley News."
Bro 2: "Do you live in New York?"
Bro 1: "Yes, I go to Columbia Journalism School."
Bro 2: "Where is that?"
Bro 1: "Upper West Side. It’s part of Columbia University."
Bro 2: "Oh, part of the actual university. I thought it was someplace else. I visit friends at Columbia University all the time. Where exactly is it?"
Bro 1: "Upper West Side near Harlem. Morningside Heights.”

Original Source

tastefullyoffensive:

Breaking Cat News [georgiadunn]

iridescentoracle:

johannesviii:

Jack Harkness is probably the reason why bilateral symmetry is the template for all intelligent lifeforms in this series’ universe.

_{Please tell me I wasn’t the only one making this theory while watching Utopia in Season 3.}

#…that makes way too much sense

Not Photoshopped: I called the Anchorage Daily News and they confirmed that this post-it ad appeared in Sunday’s paper. “Someone wasn’t thinking,” TBF Services owner Carl Bramante told me. “I booked that ad a year ago.” He learned of its placement next to the photo of an amputee when he started getting text messages from friends on Sunday morning. Bramante hasn’t heard from the paper about it. (h/t Tom Hewitt)

* Triathlete lost her leg as the result of a 2006 bike-car collision (adn.com)

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seekingwillow:

reverseracism:

reverseracism:

reverseracism:

"If you have to have someone who looks like you in the media in order for you to relate then maybe you’re the one who’s racist"

"children don’t see/care about race"

"Color doesn’t matter! It’s about the actor/story!"

"there are bigger issues to talk about than representation"

"they whitewashed because they need to make a profit and attract their target audience"

"historical accuracy"

"It’s a European fairytale/story so of course the characters will be white!"

"whitewashing isn’t real"

"they considered and picked the best actor for the job"

(The best actor? More like the best we can do at this time.)

(It’s not the best actor when you exclude a racially ambiguous role to one race.)

"why do we need minorities in European stories!? they wouldn’t do a story about Africa with white actors!”

(x)

___

#white washing is white people’s way of making things diverse enough for white supremacists#segregation era hiring practices

Location: New York, NY or Remote
URL: http://www.fogcreek.com/

• You have strong visual design skills with an impressive portfolio that shows it.
• You care about interaction design, typography and layout.
• You’re intimately familiar with the nuances and challenges of designing across platforms and devices.
• You have a track record of great communication and teamwork—although you also have the ability to work independently and drive projects to completion.
• You already know and love Trello and are excited about the platform’s future.
• Big plus: You can help build what you design. You may not be a full-fledged developer but you know how to translate your designs into layouts or prototypes.

• You have access to broadband, stable, low-latency Internet, suitable for videoconferencing
• You have a dedicated, quiet place to work
• Your workday overlaps New York afternoons (1700 - 2200 GMT)
• We have a way to pay you legally wherever you live

• Competitive salary
• Free gym membership
• Free MetroCard
• Free lunch
• Free soft drinks and snacks
• Comprehensive health insurance plan
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching
• Profit-sharing plan
• Generous parental leave policy
• Flextime
• Four weeks paid vacation
• All-expense-paid technical conferences

To apply: Send an email to jobs@fogcreek.com explaining why you would be a good fit for this job, a current resume with a link to your portfolio, and anything that will make your application stand out.

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As of May 12, 2014 we are shipping Rev C. We have discontinued selling Rev B. There are no exchanges or “upgrades” for Rev B to Rev C.

Limit 1 (one) per customer, orders cannot be combined. Limited supply available.

If you liked the BeagleBone Black Rev B, you will love the Rev C! The Rev C still has a blistering 1GHz processor and 512MB onboard DDR3 RAM and like the old one it has two microcontrollers, two 46-pin headers, micro HDMI for audio/video output, USB ports, 10/100 Ethernet and other I/O features. The Rev C is an ultra-powered embedded computer that can fit in a mint tin.

The new model includes 4GB of eMMC built-in storage instead of the Rev B’s 2GB. With the doubled storage and faster eMMC, the developers were able to make the Rev C’s most significant change: shipping the BeagleBone Black with Debian Linux pre-loaded on the board’s flash instead of Angstrom Linux. Debian Linux is a more user-friendly operating system than Angstrom and the switch to Debian is partly the result of consumer demand (especially from Adafruit users, thanks!)

Of course the BeagleBone Black Rev C is an open board so if you want to load it back up with Angstrom or other Linux-based distributions like Ubuntu or Android, you can.

The rev C comes with a mini-B cable for powering it up ASAP. No microSD card is included as the BBB has onboard flash storage – and no SD card loading is required to get started. For this revision, CircuitCo has also partnered with Element14 to try and offset some of the demand.

We’ll be filling in with more information on supported accessories as we test them for compatibility. For now we suggest picking up a 5V 2A power supply and a micro-HDMI cable. If you want to use it ‘head-less’, a USB console cable is suggested as the ‘Black does not have an onboard USB-to-Serial converter like the original BeagleBone

If you need a nice display to go along with your ‘Bone, Check out our fine selection of HDMI displays, we’ve tested all of them with the Beagle Bone Black Rev C.

The BBB manual has lots of starting information and pointers for getting the most of your BeagleBone Black.

In stock and shipping now!

riddlemetom:

Overheard in the Halls of Hogwarts - 21st century edition

Twitter has officially added a new mute function to their iPhone and Android apps in addition to the social network’s website. Muting is different from blocking users on Twitter in that muted users may still tweet, reply, and “fave” tweets from users that have them muted but none of that activity will show up in those users’ respective timelines.

In the same way you can turn on device notifications so you never miss a Tweet from your favorite users, you can now mute users you’d like to hear from less. Muting a user on Twitter means their Tweets and Retweets will no longer be visible in your home timeline, and you will no longer receive push or SMS notifications from that user. The muted user will still be able to fave, reply to, and retweet your Tweets; you just won’t see any of that activity in your timeline. The muted user will not know that you’ve muted them, and of course you can unmute at any time.

MINNETONKA, MN—Saying he was clearly one of the top choices and definitely should not have been one of the last players selected, local mother Annalise Callahan told reporters Monday that she thought Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay pla...

The first rule of visiting any museum is "Do Not Touch." But, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is trying to ease that restriction, at least a little bit, by launching an interactive site where visitors can view virtual 3D objects as if they were holding them.

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Art of the day: old doodle of Lady Dedlock from Bleak House. Didn’t know that she was played by Gillian Anderson!

magconsmut:

theecamerondallas:

i have been waiting for this to show up in my dash forever

This makes me worry about people

beldaran:

IN FACT, FORGET THE HEAVEN!

Conchita Wurst's winning Eurovision entry is #1 today on Russia's iTunes chart. The track is from the official Eurovision album released yesterday after the contest. At #4 on Russia's chart is the original version of Rise Like A Phoenix, which was released last month. Russia's own Eurovision entry is at #8.

How’s that for a headline? It ran in the New York Times Sunday magazine on Aug. 27, 1911:

Canals a thousand miles long and twenty miles wide are simply beyond our comprehension. Even though we are aware of the fact that … a rock which here weighs one hundred pounds would there only weigh thirty-eight pounds, engineering operations being in consequence less arduous than here, yet we can scarcely imagine the inhabitants of Mars capable of accomplishing this Herculean task within the short interval of two years.

The Times was relying on Percival Lowell, who was convinced that a dying Martian civilization was struggling to reach the planet’s ice caps. “The whole thing is wonderfully clear-cut,” he’d told the newspaper — but he was already largely ostracized by skeptical colleagues who couldn’t duplicate his findings. The “spokes” he later saw on Venus may have been blood vessels in his own eye.

Whatever his shortcomings, Lowell’s passions led to some significant accomplishments, including Lowell Observatory and the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. “Science,” wrote Emerson, “does not know its debt to imagination.”

What will happen to Community now that NBC has finally canceled the show following its fifth season? There was talk not long ago that made a sixth season sound, if not inevitable, then at least like something that could happen on Hulu or a similar digital service. But over the weekend, a new report painted that possibility as something much less likely than we’d previously thought. Capping everything off, Community creator Dan Harmon weighed in with words about his thoughts on the chances of a continuation. So will there be a Community sixth season after all? Well.. maybe?

Let’s go in order. First, Dan Harmon talked about the show’s cancelation on his Harmontown podcast. During the edition taped at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival the day after the show was axed, he said, “We all know what happened yesterday, we all got drunk. I was in a place of grief. It’ll take weeks to sink in.”

Then Deadline weighed in today, saying, that while at least one company is interested in reviving the show for a sixth season away from NBC, it is Harmon who doesn’t really want to carry on. Specifically, the site said it had heard Harmon “is ready to move on to other things, prepping Season 2 of his Adult Swim animated comedy Rick & Morty and figuring out his next project.”

And that’s easy to understand. After everything Harmon has gone through with Community, this might be a nice place to stop.

But Harmon has a lot more to say in a piece published after Deadline’s, and in which he specifically avoids name-checking the site and its report. You should read all of his piece, because frankly it hits a few topics, and not in entirely linear fashion. But he does offer this, right in the middle:

I will confess, however, that when Sony called me on Friday with the news, there was brief discussion at the end of the call about the concept of the show living elsewhere, and I was definitely in the “eh” column. For a million reasons, some selfish, some creative, one logistic, five sexual, three racist (in a good way) and, oddly, nine isometric. I won’t bore you with them. I mean, of course I will bore you with them. Boring you is my job, my hobby and my passion. But it doesn’t matter right now WHY I’d be lukewarm or if my reasons would be valid, what matters is, I won’t be lukewarm. I’ll heat up. I said “eh” on a Friday afternoon, I will change it to a “sure, let’s talk” on Monday morning and Sony can do their thing. I’m not going to be the guy that recancels cancelled Community.

One of his major points is that fans should relax and not let themselves be put in a position where they do the marketing for a sixth season. He also says “Anyway, I will not be standing in the way.”

So where does that leave a sixth season? Difficult to say. It would be tough to pull off, as Harmon acknowledges in his post. But it isn’t over yet — hopefully that will come as a relief, rather than providing more anxiety for the show’s creators and cast.

• It’s the Darkest Timeline: ‘Community’ Canceled
• ‘Community’ Movie Talk Raises Hopes of “Six Seasons and a Movie” Fulfillment
• ‘Harmontown’ Trailer: Dan Harmon After ‘Community’
• ‘Community’ Season Five Trailer: Beyond the Darkest Timeline
• ‘Community’ Season Five Teaser: The Return of Mr. Winger
• ‘Community’ Will Return in January

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