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The British Perfected the Art of Brewing Tea Inside an Armored Vehicle:

A recounting of the events that led to the in-tank brewing system for a cuppa, and its advances.

Kinda awesome, actually.

Found at Medium, piece written by (I believe) James Simpson.

If anyone would know how to make an adorable hooded traveler out of paper, it's the art director for Journey, Matt Nava. Nava created a step-by-step guide to crafting your own traveler, oragami-style, and developer thatgamecompany shared it with the...

Sunday’s magazine cover in New Hampshire's Nashua Telegraph was supposed to spark interest in a feature story about 25 of the area’s extraordinary women. Instead it stepped right into a sexy, stiletto-clad controversy. “Well the cover shot was an attempt to show a woman climbing the stairway to success,” said Phil Kincade, executive editor of the newspaper. Kincade says it was a team of women who came up with the cover shot and the response to the photo has been mostly negative. “If we look back on it…second thoughts perhaps the shoes were not the most appropriate shoe for that cover,” said Kincade.

You probably know that a lot of iPhone apps log your locations so they can offer directions or geographic-based recommendations. But did you know the iPhone keeps a separate, locally stored history of everywhere you’ve been? Now you do! It’s called Frequent Locations, and as BuzzFeed recently found out, this cache of location info “contains a perfect record of where you’ve been in the last month or so. That includes the exact time you arrived at and left anywhere: your office, a bar, that person’s house.”

Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

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““It’s hard to have original ideas when you are surrounded by people who all have the same experiences as you,””

- Jonathan Harris

Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

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So, yesterday, over at Reddit’s “Red Pill” subreddit, THE MENS were complaining about this thing I wrote, and what a tool I am, when one of them made a bold accusation:

"I can't find it now but several years ago his wife attacked a man in a bar with a baseball bat." — "Red Pill" Reddidiot, re: Krissy (1/2)—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

I suspect the idiot is referring to a time when some drunk dude grabbed Krissy at a bar and she rammed him into a wall for it. No bat. (2/2)—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

"Scalzi thought it was all cool." — Same Reddidiot. He's right about that. Proud of my wife for jamming that asshole into the wall.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

For those wanting a contemporaneus telling of the Krissy backing a guy up in a bar story, it is here: whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/09/don…—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

Also: Here's a picture of Krissy with a bat. This may have confused the poor soul. scalzi.com/whatever/pinat…—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

But, you know: Woman defending herself from assault is TOTALLY MISANDRY. Because reasons. THAT POOR MAN.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

.@Stepto Indeed. HOW DARE I approve of my wife defending herself. I AM A TOOL OF THE MATRIARCHY.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

"Why didn't YOU defend your wife?" "Because among other things I wasn't there." "You… LET your wife leave the house UNACCOMPANIED?"—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

Remember, gentlemen, that if you note violence or harassment against women, you're a WHITE KNIGHT and therefore a TRAITOR TO THE MENS.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

I think I'm going to make a t-shirt that says "TRAITOR TO THE MENS" on it.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

To which Deirdre Saoirse Moen said, hey, I could design that. To which I said, DO EEEET.

And so she did!

Remember how I said there should be t-shirts? Thanks to @deirdresm, NOW THERE ARE. deirdre.net/scalzi-traitor… http://t.co/6wJWXsIkaH—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 30, 2014

And they are awesome. Here’s Deirdre with the details of the design.

I think I’m going to buy two. At least.

Also, as a closing thought:

It's white knighting to assume women can't defend themselves. It's not white knighting to stand with them against the shit thrown their way.—
John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2014

The Urban Designer Cat

Why hasn’t Shepard Smith come out yet? The affable Fox News anchor has a longtime boyfriend, ranks among Fox’s most senior talent, and lives in New York City. It could be, of course, that he’s just a very private person, or that public attitudes have changed and nobody cares if a famous figure is gay. Or it could be that, when Smith tried to come out last year, Fox silenced and punished him

A second video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what has been described as crack-cocaine by a self-professed drug dealer was secretly filmed in his sister’s basement early Saturday morning.

sparkydapenguin:

Can we talk about Flula’s hashtag game?

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MojoKid writes: "Google's open source Android platform has the distinction of being the most popular mobile operating system in the world. That's great in terms of dominating the market and reaping the rewards that come with it, but it's also for that very reason that Android finds itself the target of virtually every new mobile malware threat that emerges. According to data published in F-Secure's latest Mobile Threat Report (PDF), over 99 percent of the new mobile threats it discovered in the first quarter of 2014 targeted Android users. To be fair, we're not taking about hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, or thousands of malware threats — F-Secure detected 277 new threat families, of which 275 honed in on Android."

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First time accepted submitter Valejo (689967) writes "According to a study released today by Course Report, programming bootcamps are expected to grow by 2.8x in 2014, meaning that bootcamps will graduate a student for every 8 CS undergraduates. The survey (PDF) also found that 57% of the schools teach in Ruby and that the average tuition is $9,900. The authors collected responses from 95% of US schools, including General Assembly, Dev Bootcamp, and Flatiron School."

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Whoops.

If you're not following @MyKBO on Twitter, you're missing out on an entirely different league of baseball, which means you're missing out on hundreds of baseball players potentially doing freaky things. In the last 48 hours, Dan's tweeted out a fan attacking an umpire, some bat flips of legend, and people who are far, far too drunk.

But you're here for the runner stealing and the batter swinging.

Oops.

Whoops.

Someone missed a sign. The other person is still mad. Even if you're reading this because of a stray Google search in 2018, the person who missed the sign is still pissed off and thinking about it right now.

Oops.

Edit: So it was a 3-2 count with two outs, and it was the runner who was being the dillweed. Noted.

jamietheignorantamerican:

fabled-foreigntongues:

wtfuckyou:

It’s funny because Americans wont get it

this is killing me. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

theres a chip on the windshield

Shin Taga

Shin Taga is a self taught artist, and one of the very finest draftsman.He was born in 1946 in Hokkaido. 

If there was one thing missing from the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode, it was Christopher Eccleston. As much as I knew he didn't want to return to the show, I was holding out hope they'd convinced him for the tiniest of cameos - a regeneration scene. Steven Moffat has finally explained why, even though the actor wasn't involved, they decided not to use his likeness. We also have some news on new writers coming to work on Doctor Who this season, none of which are women.

A listener called a radio show in the Dominican Republic to request a song, but he didn’t actually know the name of the tune. Instead, he told the DJ the lyrics he knew — “Are those Reebok or Nike?”

The confused DJ quickly realized the man had misheard the lyrics of a popular song and, understandably, couldn’t stop laughing…

(via The Best of YouTube)

hodad

@gamerbros (@tgmoore, especially)

Tell me if GURPS and GURPS Lite would not be a good place to start once Dara is old enough to try role playing games. I also found a BURPS simplified character sheet that looks easy.

GURPS Lite is a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules. It covers the essentials of character creation, combat, success rolls, adventuring, and game mastering for GURPS Fourth Edition.

The purpose of GURPS Lite is to help GMs bring new players into the game, without frightening them with the full GURPS Basic Set and a stack of worldbooks! With GURPS Lite, you can show your players just how simple GURPS really is.

NOTE: This is the latest edition, revised August 2004.

 

GURPS Lite is available in several other languages, too!

Visit the official web page for more info, resources, product support, and links.

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tooyoungforthelivingdead:

biggadjeworld:

I am going to do a break down of the various terminology as it is accepted in most Romani academic circles.

I realize that this can be very confusing, especially to those outside our ethnicity and culture, and even to those who were raised in our culture, but do not have a full grasp of our language.

I must also note that self-identification varies amongst us and many of our own people may not recognize what is considered proper terminology.

“Gypsy” - The pejorative term created by the British in the 1500s. The term was created to identify only those who are Romani, most specifically those who we now call UK Romany & the Romanichal. It was never intended to be used as a descriptor for any other ethnic population. It comes from the Old English term for Egyptian, and not Greek. It is a slur.

Romani - The term that refers to our entire ethnic population, including the Sinti. It refers to the ethnic population that left Northern India & Pakistan shortly after the invasion of the Persian Muslims who have since settled in Trukey, all of Europe, and the Americas. The term is used to refer to our culture & language in relation to the entire ethnic population:
Romani culture, Romani language, Romani people, Romani ethnicity.

Romany - The population of Romani who settled in the British Isles sometime in the late 14th century. They have since become two distinct populations self identifying as either Romany or Romanichal. This spelling is typically used to refer only to the ”native” Romani population of the region. It does not inculde more recent Romani immigrants or refugees from continental Europe. Romany is typically prefixed by British, UK, English, or another identifier of where in the region they have settled & lived.
Ex: Some Romani families have lived in the UK for one hundred years or more and they have even picked up some words from the Rromanes dialect spoken by the UK Romany. 

Sinti - The self-identifier of a sub-ethnic population of the Romani people who live in Germany, Austria, regions of Central Europe, and the United States of America. Many Sinti prefer their identifier over Romani, though they do indeed belong to the Romani ethnic population & their language is a dialect of the Romani language.

Rroma - A sub-ethnic group of the Romani population who live throughout Transylvania, Central Europe and Northern Italy.
(This is why referring to our entire ethnic population as the Rroma & Sinti tends to be problematic. It is inclusive of only these two very specific Romani sub ethnic populations, when in fact, we have likely over 80 self-identified distinct groups that are considered part of the Romani ethnicity.)

Rroma - A Romani woman. The adjective that describes a Romani woman or girl.
Ex: I am a Rroma woman, but I belong to the Romani people.

Rromni - A Romani woman who is married. A wife.
Ex: The Rromni took care of her sick husband.

Rrom - A Romani man. The adjective that describes a Romani man or boy.
Ex: The old Rrom told us stories about our history.

Rromanes - The language of the Romani people. Sometimes referred to as “Romani chib”, which means “Romani tongue”. This includes all dialects of the Romani language spoken in all of Europe, Turkey, South Africa, as well as North, Central & South America.

Dom - A sister population of the Romani ethnicity. They are believed to be descendants of similar North Indian & Pakistani ethnic groups. They likely began their diaspora before the people who are today considered the Romani. The Dom live throughout Northern Africa, the Middle East & Central Asia.

Domari - The language of the Dom people.

Lom - Speculatively related to the Romani in the same way as the Domari: a population of mixed Northern Indian ethnic groups who began their diaspora before the population that is considered the Romani. They settled mostly in the Caucasus Mountains, and largely in Armenia.

Lomavren - The language of the Lom people.


The Romani, Dom & Lom are related to some degree, but the exact relation is still contested by some. The Dom & Lom are sometimes lumped under the pejorative exonym, “gypsy”, though this term was never ascribed to them until rather recently.
When referring to this entire diasporic population from the Indian subcontinent, they should always be termed “The Romani, Dom & Lom”. Of course, order can vary, but the proper terms should be utilized instead of “gypsy”.

Single “R” & double “Rr” spellings - Both manner of spellings are correct. Some dialects use a double “Rr” spelling for phonetics purposes, while other use it to distinguish us from Romanians & inhabitants of Rome, Italy.


Non-Romani Ethnic Populations:

There are several ethnic populations that are wrongly lumped under the slur umbrella that is “gypsy”. Many have no relationship to us & should only be discussed in terms of contact. We are entirely separate ethnic populations.
(For those who still have not grasped this concept yet.)

Pavee - Commonly known as Irish Travellers, they are a sub-ethnic group of Irish who have lived a nomadic existence for several centuries. They reside in Ireland, and the United Kingdom.  Some self identify as “Irish Gypsies”, though the bastardization of that term from the UK Romany is a rather contentious topic.  
Some Pavee have had very close relations with UK Romany, even inter-marrying. However, it is important to note that the Romany & Romani are in no way related to Irish Travellers. We are not only two separate ethnic populations, but we even belong to two separate races.  We each have our own lanaguage & culture. 

Shelta - The language of the Pavee.

Banjara - An ethnic population living in Northern India. Though we have been genetically linked to the Banjara, the group is not the only Indian ethnicity that comprised of the initial Romani diasporic population. In fact, we have been linked to a wide variety of ethnic populations that live throughout Northern India, Pakistan, and even Eastern Afghanistan. The Banjara are just one of those many ethnicities.
The Banjara are not “gypsies” & they are not Romani.
They are Banjara. They are Indian.


There are many nomadic peoples throughout Europe.
The only ones who are Romani are the Romani.
The only ones who are “gypsy” are the Romani, most specifically, the Romany.

The Yeniche, Quinqui, Scottish Travellers, Norwegian Travellers, any generic nomadic people, nomads of India, Asia, or any other place on Earth are not Romani & they are not “gypsies”. Not even the Lom & Dom are “gypsies”, or Romani, even though they are our sister ethnic populations.

The only people who are Romani are the Romani.

Needed this today, so reblogged for everyone else too

get it right, and maybe avoid being a racist at someone!

When you’re a bird living in one of the world’s largest cities, you’re short on natural supplies for building yourself a home. Tokyo’s crows ingeniously solve this problem by pilfering wire coat hangers from open apartments and fashioning them into these curious nests…

(via Amusing Planet, Brian G. Kennedy, Goetz Kluge, PBS, Present Simple)

http://imgur.com/6P8aZxB

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