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An anonymous reader writes "When Microsoft terminated official support for Windows XP on April 8th, many organizations had taken the six years of warnings to heart and migrated to another operating system. But not the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Only 52,000 of their 110,000 Windows-powered computers have been upgraded to Windows 7. They'll now be forced to pay Microsoft for Custom Support. How much? Using Microsoft's standard rate of $200 per PC, it'll be $11.6 million for one year. That leaves $18.4 million of their $30 million budget to finish the upgrades themselves, which works out to $317 per computer."

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National Post

Powerful 7.6 quake strikes off Solomon Islands: USGS Zee News Sydney (Australia): A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early today, US officials said, while the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission put out a tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Papua New ... Solomon Islands hit by quakes againSan Jose Mercury News Magnitude-7.5 quake strikes off Solomon Islands after days of large tremorsBDlive all 175 news articles »

NDTV

White House to send Biden to Kiev as conflict with Russia escalates Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Saturday that Vice President Joe Biden would travel to Kiev this month to show support for the Ukrainian government as U.S. officials expressed new concern over "violence and sabotage" by militants it said ... Biden to visit Kiev as tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalatePress TV US vice president to visit UkraineXinhua US vice-president Joe Biden to visit UkraineVancouver Sun all 63 news articles »

chocolate-covered-chaos:

Ikea Monkey
Oil on Canvas

theheartmaid:

gallifreyancouch:

sinfulmachine:

"can i look through your sketchbook"

"hey what are you writing can i see"

"can i hear you sing"

Nendoroid Link: The Wind Waker figure ⊟

It’s even more adorable than I expected! Releasing in Japan this August (priced at ¥3,704, or $36.47), this figure from Good Smile includes the sword, shield, heart container, several facial expressions, and more.

Thanks to Thomas P. for the tip!

BUY Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, upcoming games

I feel like, if you aren’t being a complete royal pain in someone’s ass pretty much every day, you probably aren’t trying hard enough.

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	My youthful admiration of Kate Hepburn makes A LOT MORE SENSE NOW

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Previously in the Femslash Friday series: Frenchy and Rizzo, Grease’s butch-femme pairing for the ages.

I’m in Hollywood this week for the Turner Classic Film Festival, as is my yearly custom, and for reasons of both convenience and thematic what’s-the-word-I-want-it-isn’t-congruence-it’s-something-else, I have decided to honor classic Hollywood with this week’s entry. Let us step back to an era where every Friday was Femslash Friday, when only women were sailors, when every bungalow off of McCadden Place had at least fourteen lesbians per square feet, when having sex with Mercedes de Acosta and Alla Nazimovawere as mandatory for 1930s-era starlets as having sex with Wilmer Valderrama is today.

Also, after the jump there will be a picture of Greta Garbo hiking topless.

Sometimes it can be very frustrating (frustrating being a relative term, of course, this is not a real problem in the same way that “a raven has stolen my dinner” or “I have hepatitis” is a problem) if one wishes to engage in gay gossip, because there is also the possibility that you will be heterosexually stonewalled. How can you tell if you are being heterosexually stonewalled? Listen carefully for any variations of the following sentences:

“She just liked to wear pants.”

“You thinkeverybody‘s gay.”

“No, they weren’t.”

“You can’t prove that.”

“I’ve never heard that.”

“They were just friends! Men did stuff like that back then!”

And the unassailable “Oh, come on.”

You will almost never hear these phrases about straight rumors — no one dismisses the Hepburn/Tracy Spencer/Tracy myth with “Oh, you thinkeverybody‘s waiting for their alcoholic Catholic lover to finally divorce his long-suffering wife.” It’s giving me a serious case of the Prove It On Me Blues.

All of which is to say, of course, that there will be no room for that here. Today we will only discuss glorious lesbian subterfuge that has been lost to time. Your bibles include The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood(which is SUPER FLAWED and has a massive axe to grind but is also delicious and mostly true) and Scotty Bowers’ Bower’s impeccable Full Service, which all of you must purchase immediately so that we can talk about it in greater detail.

Here is a picture Mercedes de Acosta took of Greta Garbo hiking topless when the two of them took a six-week mountain retreat together.

To live in such a world. I give you Hepburn in her truest form — as “Jimmy,” her male alter ego (which she displayed briefly inSylvia Scarlett), a hot dirtbag teen. (Should you care to read more about Hepburn’s complicated gender identity, I recommendthis Advocate articleas a place to start.)

Look me in the eye and tell me that smoldering, lanky, lithe hunk of butch sat on her hands for thirty years waiting for Spencer Tracy to get it up. Go ahead. Tell me. I’ll wait. In the meantime, why don’t we read this nice little excerpt from a review ofFull Service?

Hepburn approached [me] at a party.

“I know your reputation, Scotty. When you get a chance, do you think you can find a nice, young dark-haired girl for me? Someone that’s not too heavily made-up.”

They We were friends for the next 50 years, and he now claims he fixed her up with more than 150 women, including one she saw on and off for 49 years.

Now close your eyes and sink gently and gratefully into the past, into a Hollywood swimming with hats and mink coats and strong-shouldered, steel-jawed dykes roaming the magnificently gay landscape. There was such a land once, and mayhap will be such a land again.

Read more Femslash Friday: Classic Hollywood Edition at The Toast.

It's spring planting season and NASA is getting in on the action with a vegetable garden bound for the International Space Station. The experimental garden will be grown in a sealed, expandable chamber which researchers are calling Veggie. Their first crop will be Outredgeous lettuce, a red romaine variety that we can confirm tastes pretty good within the confines of Earth's atmosphere. But researchers say they Veggie can support all kinds of "salad-type crops." (So far just the lettuce, but who knows? Perhaps a pepper or a cucumber or two will show up there as well.)

wgif:

WGif is a command line tool for creating animated GIFs from YouTube videos.

Original link was broken; https://github.com/ecmendenhall/wgif

C'mon, Josh Zeid. The Houston reliever covered both of his arms with sunscreen during a recent game, which would've been all well and good had the game not been inside the domed Rogers Centre.

Bland, Australia, has joined the exciting communities of Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, in a collaboration designed to boost tourism in areas seemingly named for the insipid.

A U.S.-born man who appeared to confess on Iranian state television last month that he allegedly spied for America—actions that supposedly included doing work for a video game development studio purported to be a CIA front—has been sentenced to death by the Iranian government. Hekmati is a U.S. Marine and supposed former developer at Kuma Reality Games.

The parents of a teen who was sentenced to 10 years probation for driving drunk and causing a wreck that killed four people were ordered by the court Friday to pay $1,170 a month for his rehab treatment — far less than the actual cost of his treatment. Ethan Couch, who turned 17 Friday, is being treated at the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, a state-owned in-patient mental health facility. His treatment began there Feb. 19. The actual cost of his treatment is $715 per day, according to testimony on Friday.

It's a promotion by Cards Against Humanity—each bag of Pwnmeal includes cards: "Whatever Final Fantasy bullshit happened this year.", "A grumpy old Harrison Ford who'd rather be doing anything else.", "(Heavy breathing) Luke, I am ______", "KHAAAAAAAAN!"

elizabeth-hornswoggle:

cockchomp:

a flower for you

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babygoatsandfriends:

OH NO. Eugster’s Farm Market

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Ghostlab synchronizes scrolls, clicks, reloads and form input across all connected clients. This means what you're testing is not the simple page load, but the full user experience.

Marquess says that even though he is managing the money for the OpenSSL project, it's not as though there are a ton of resources to spread around. He says that last year, the OpenSSL Software Foundation brought in less than $1 million. "I refer to it as a low overhead operation," says Marquess, wrly. "The fascinating, mind-boggling fact here is that you have this critical piece of network infrastructure that really runs a large part of the Internet, and there's basically one guy working on it full time."

impactings:

"When you dress like that it’s like putting a steak in front of a dog; what do you expect?"
Peanut butter is basically my dog’s favorite thing in the world.
You know why he’s not even touching it?
I said “no.”
So you’re saying, my dog knows what “no” means, and you don’t?

bogleech:

gameraboy:

"A Sticky Situation" (1960) by Carl Barks

I like how advertising is literally still exactly as sexist as they’re joking about in this comic from 54 years ago.

Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State under George W. Bush, and defender of Bush-era (and onward) policies about surveillance by wiretapping and other means, has landed at an interesting place: she's just become a part of the small board at Dropbox. TechDirt calls the appointment "tone deaf," and writes "At a time when people around the globe are increasingly worried about American tech firms having too close a connection to the intelligence community, a move like this seems like a huge public relations disaster. While Rice may be perfectly qualified to hold the role and to help Dropbox with the issues it needs help with, it's hard not to believe that there would be others with less baggage who could handle the job just as well." Some people are doing more than looking for an alternative for themselves, too, as a result.

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