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Pages 9 - 11, pencils and inks, from Detective Comics 855, all art by JH Williams III. 

I always loved how Jim bled out the borders into the filigree once Alice had poisoned Kate. Very elegant touch of storytelling skill there, I thought.

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In an internal email, Apple said Greg Christie, who led the company's "human interface" team that designs software for its products, is retiring, according to people who have seen the email. His team will now report to Jonathan Ive

A man who was discovered in a snowdrift in the Norwegian capital Oslo has emerged from a coma to reveal he speaks perfect English but has no idea who he is or where he comes from.

leandraholmes:

findchaos:

ChaosLife: Homo Hint

Wait, everyone else met Pete the Peacock, right?

What if your evil uncle keeps destroying your letters though? Does Ellen DeGeneres come by on your birthday and tells you “You’re a lesbian”? 

Hmm, yeah, just consider the franchising opportunities…

According to a new report by the CDC, more than 80 percent of teenagers don’t receive formal sex education by the time they have sex for the first time, leading many young teens to engage in risky birth control methods.

Beginning in August 2014, cable network FXX will air every single episode of The Simpsons made over the show’s 25 year history. The marathon starts on the 21st of the month, running for a total of 12 days. The Simpsonsathon comes thanks to a licensing deal that also makes all 522 episodes of the series available through Fox’s FXNow app.

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New submitter raides (881987) writes "Theo De Raadt has been on a better roll as of late. Since his rant about FreeBSD playing catch up, he has something to say about OpenSSL. It is worth the 5 second read because it is how a few thousand of us feel about the whole thing and the stupidity that caused this panic." Update: 04/10 15:20 GMT by U L : Reader badger.foo pointed out Ted Unangst (the Ted in the mailing list post) wrote two posts on the issue: "heartbleed vs malloc.conf and "analysis of openssl freelist reuse" for those seeking more detail.

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"Please say, 'C is for cookie.'"

This entire interview is worth watching, but the Cookie Monster bit is at 1:50.

Here is Dikembe's face, imagining himself doing the impression.

Here is his face after hearing himself say "C is for Coookie."

Good enough for me.

It’s hard to pick a favorite moment from this morning’s Nintendo Direct for Tomodachi Life ⊟

So I’m just going to make GIFs for a bunch of them and post the scenes. I loved this snippet of Nintendo’s execs and other staff members (haha at Miyamoto dressed as a cowboy in the back) dancing around a Virtual Boy, paying tribute to its creator Gunpei Yokoi, RIP. Knowing hardly anything about the man, I have a feeling Yokoi would have loved this game.

Who knows, maybe he might have also loved Christina Aguilera, who Nintendo of America has enlisted to help promote this game. Here’s the first video the company has posted starring the singer’s Mii – Nintendo intends to bring in other celebrities for its ads. Not a bad idea, since a lot of Tomodachi Life’s fun is in seeing familiar people interact with each other in surprising ways.

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California city declares Sriracha maker a nuisance News Sentinel IRWINDALE, Calif. — A Southern California city has declared the factory that produces the popular Sriracha hot sauce a public nuisance. The Irwindale City Council's action Wednesday night gives the factory 90 days to make changes to stop the spicy odors ... and more »

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Belkin announced today they are starting to ship the WRT1900AC, their WRT54G open-source router successor that now supports 802.11ac and other modern features. Belkin is working on open-source OpenWRT support for this new router...

sql.js:

sql.js is a port of SQLite to JavaScript, by compiling the SQLite C code with Emscripten.

alphadogg (971356) writes "Canada Revenue Agency has halted online filing of tax returns by the country's citizens following the disclosure of the Heartbleed security vulnerability that rocked the Internet this week. The country's Minister of National Revenue wrote in a Twitter message on Wednesday that interest and penalties will not be applied to those filing 2013 tax returns after April 30, the last date for filing the returns, for a period equal to the length of the service disruption. The agency has suspended public access to its online services as a preventive measure to protect the information it holds, while it investigates the potential impact on tax payer information, it said."

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Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Lucy Mangan reports at The Guardian that a new labor agreement in France means that employees must ignore their bosses' work emails once they are out of the office and relaxing at home – even on their smartphones. Under the deal, which affects a million employees in the technology and consultancy sectors (including the French arms of Google, Facebook, and Deloitte), employees will also have to resist the temptation to look at work-related material on their computers or smartphones – or any other kind of malevolent intrusion into the time they have been nationally mandated to spend on whatever the French call la dolce vita. "We must also measure digital working time," says Michel De La Force, chairman of the General Confederation of Managers. "We can admit extra work in exceptional circumstances but we must always come back to what is normal, which is to unplug, to stop being permanently at work." However critics say it will impose further red tape on French businesses, which already face some of the world's tightest labor laws." (Continues)

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Rock crystal 14 sided die

1st-2nd Century AD

Roma Imperial

(Source: The British Museum)

Why 14 sides? What kind of RPG were they playing? :-/

The Social Computing Group at MIT is compiling data for maps that demonstrate the impact that small independent coffee shops can have on life in the big city.

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"Where's Servo?" MST3K Print! from Secktacular:

13 x 19 in. print on 61 lb. matte paper Are you looking for a print that features a character from every single movie riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000 from the KTMA pilot (The Green Slime) through the final episode (Diabolik)? THIS IS TOTALLY THAT PRINT, MAN. Inspired by Martin Handford’s

1910-again:

Attributed to Giuliano Pesello, The Celestial Hemesphere in the Sagrestia Vecchia ca.1442

rpgwizzard:

southern-feminism:

Inclusive children go far.

Smart Kid!

José Val del Omar, Fire in Castilla, 1961

Heartbleed and Certificate Authorities The best place to start, as usual, is with Ars Technica. The take away: the private keys need to be regenerated too. But what really caught my attention was the first two promoted comments on the Yahoo mail story. In particular this comment makes far too much sense.1 All of the old certificates (even after sites put new certs in place) can be used for man-in-the-middle impersonation.2 IMO SSL/TLS is now completely broken. The number of potential certificates that have been exploited and that could now be used for man in the middle attacks could be in the millions..... the list of black listed certificates will be in the millions and/or the number of blacklisted sub certficate authorities is probably going to be 10,000+. Christina Warren has a very nice overview of the common sites impacted by Heartbleed. It's surprising and heartwarming that none of the major banks were compromised by this defect. Either they don't use OpenSSL or they never updated it. I know, I know. Having comments on a site is worse than putting Mein Kampf in the footer. I still like most comments and Ars has some great stuff down there in the gutter. ↩ Funny that Bruce Schneier has the same 1 to 11 scale. The comments on his post are worth reading too. ↩

Gas giant planets like Saturn and Jupiter have rings — and now, we'vediscovered a tiny, distant rock that has its own two rings. Chariklo is a centaur — half-asteroid, half-comet — and the way it got its rings is a fascinating story.

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The Freedom Budget movement has sparked conversations about what constitutes appropriate campus advocacy, with some students from the not-so-silent majority of Dartmouth decrying the protestors as showing a "lack of respect for administrators". Even the Wall Street Journal editorial board suggested over the weekend that our president and trustees "should now tell the students that if they are so unhappy they should transfer".

Since when do the victims have to get up and leave just for getting up and protesting?

This mentality is unhealthy for college communities. This is misplaced criticism of basic activism. This affirms institutionalized harm. All when there is opportunity for the administrators to meaningfully engage the discriminators and the discriminated-upon. All when administrators tell protesters to know their role. All of this in college, where you're supposed to speak your mind.

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Super old game Mach Rider on 3DS VC tomorrow ⊟

Mach Rider was one of the launch games for the NES in 1985, and probably one of the lesser-known ones. And now it’s coming out on 3DS Virtual Console tomorrow in North America!

I can’t remember if I’ve played Mach Rider, actually, which means that either it’s the rare early NES game I missed, or it’s totally forgettable. Either way, it’s neat to see such a vintage NES game show up on 3DS.

Mach Rider is pretty weird among Nintendo games: post-apocalyptic motorcycle gun combat isn’t really, like, Nintendo’s usual mood. Even weirder, it’s based on a toy from 1972 that wasn’t a motorcycle.

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