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"You know what they say: 50th time is the charm," mocked President Barack Obama.

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jennakay:

I want someone to look at me the way I look at chocolate cake 

Selling prints of Grace Jones at my Big Cartel shop:

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More items to come, but we’ll start with this. Got a request? Let me know.

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Max

Lil B is once again angry at Kevin Durant, a happenstance which has major implications on Oklahoma City's title hopes.

A new leaf has been turned in the epic feud between Kevin Durant and Lil B, the superstar NBA player and the rapper who is convinced he is a superstar.

If you don't remember, first Lil B parked his car Lil B tweeted this in May 2011: (via Complex)

However, ever compassionate, the Based God would relent that June.

The Based God is ever merciful.

Somewhere along the line in August of 2012, Lil B decided he wanted to play Kevin Durant in basketball:

They never played, but Lil B did try out for the D-League. Personally, I think a freestyle battle would be much closer. Velvet Hoop!)

And there were also sometimes random strings of one-sided tweets by Lil B:

There was no real interaction between the two for a while, but in the last few weeks, the hatred had intensified on B's end. During the All-Star Game:

AND FUCK KEVIN DURANT LIL B FOR LIFE - Lil B

— Lil B From The Pack (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) February 17, 2014

And tonight, as Durant posted 42 points on just 20 shots against the Sixers:

FUCK KEVIN DERANT - Lil B

— Lil B From The Pack (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) March 5, 2014

To many, the Thunder are the No. 1 contender to knock off the Heat after two straight titles for LeBron James and crew. However, you'd have to be crazy to continue to believe the team could win a title in spite of a potential "BASEDGODS CURSE." We saw the potency of the "BASEDGODS CURSE" three years ago, when the Thunder fell to the Mavericks in the Western Conference Semifinals.

However, the question is whether Lil B has, in fact, cast the "BASEDGODS CURSE." He's certainly cursing at Kevin Durant -- and somebody named Kevin Derant -- but it's unclear whether this officially counts as levying of the dreaded spell.

New research finds belonging to a Greek organization can lead to a number of positive outcomes, especially for women.

IBM has re-programmed Watson to serve as a sort of sous-chef that can spit out novel ingredient combinations and recipes on command.

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tesla-von-magnus:

WUT

#somewhere spoons are crying

MY FRIEND HAS ONE OF THESE AND I SWEAR IT IS THE BEST THING EVER

MY PHYSICS TEACHER HAS THIS AND WE JUST PLAY WITH IT ALL DAY

$9.99 and it’s Amazon Prime

An anonymous reader writes "Last week Valve made an interesting but seemingly innocuous announcement: they're giving game developers control of their own pricing on Steam. Nicholas Lovell now claims that this has effectively kicked off a race to zero for PC game pricing. He says what's starting to happen now will mirror what's happened to mobile gaming over the past several years. Quoting: 'Free is the dominant price point on mobile platforms. Why? Because the two main players don't care much about making money from the sale of software, or even In-App Purchases. The AppStore is less than 1% of Apple's revenue. Apple has become one of the most valuable companies in the world on the strength of making high-margin, well-designed, highly-desirable hardware. ... Google didn't create Android to sell software. It built Android to create an economic moat. ... In the case of both iOS and Android, keeping prices high for software would have been in direct opposition to the core businesses of Apple (hardware) and Google (search-related advertising). The only reason that ebooks are not yet free is that Amazon's core business is retail, not hardware. ... Which brings me to Steam. The Steambox is a competitor to consoles, created by Valve. It is supposed to provide an out-of-the-box PC gaming experience, although it struggles to compete on either price or on marketing with the consoles. It doesn't seem as if Steam is keen to subsidize the costs of the box, not to the level that Microsoft and Sony are. But what if Steam's [unique selling point] was thousands or tens of thousands of games for free?'"

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ACE Team is one again brewing up a concoction of genres in the newly-unveiled Abyss Odyssey, a 2D fantasy action platformer that's centered around a "deep fighting engine." As well as including roguelike elements such as randomly-generated levels,...

TOTALLY NORMAL HOCKEY STUFF

Here's Red Wings forward Daniel Alfredsson getting bashed in the head and taking a stick to the face.

Here he is, skating away from the play. What's he looking for?

Oh, right. HIS TEETH! SURE!

Totally normal, because hockey. There wasn't even a penalty on the play.

Daniel Alfredsson, with a smile like a kid who just lost his milk teeth, has 9:30 a.m. appt. Wednesday with dentist. #RedWings

— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) March 5, 2014

Here's the full video, too.

(via SportsGrid)

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#twopeople

Rachel Canning, who has a $20,000 scholarship, said the University of Vermont is her first choice.

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#waspafarian

“It’s Arab face,” my friend Nadine once said, pointing at an invitation from a white acquaintance of hers. The invitation was printed on card stock and featured the woman and a dozen of her white friends dressed in Orientalist garb with eye makeup caked on for full kohl effect and glittery accessories. We wanted to call these women up and say, “How is this OK? Would you wear a dashiki and rock waspafarian dreads and take up African dance publicly? Wait,” we’d probably say, “don’t answer that.”

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"I love Apple and the people I have had the privilege to work with and after 18 years here, it is time for me to take time for myself and my family," Oppenheimer, 51, said in a statement. This week, Oppenheimer was named to the board of Goldman Sachs.

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A couple months ago, I was at a Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective watching In a Year with 13 Moons. The bedroom of the main character, a tortured transsexual in West Berlin, is equipped with a full sheepskin bedcover and a nightstand cluttered with cut crystal glasses. Clearly in 1978, Elvira was ahead of the rest of us.

Of late I've been noticing that cut crystal—the very same Waterford knockoffs on display in my grandmother's dining room armoire that have been so uncool for so long—is making a comeback. But it's come out of the china cabinet. The modern context for crystal glass is a minimalist backdrop, where the refracted light bouncing off its edges is the focus. Here, to convince you, we've rounded up nine examples of the cut crystal comeback.

Above:Babel Restaurant at Babylonstoren in Cape Town uses an assortment of vintage crystal vases for its signature vegetable arrangements of everything from sprouted fennel and carrots to halved cabbage heads. Photograph bySam Woulidge.

Above: Italian designer Patricia Urquiola'sJelly Glassware designs are available through Kartell.

Above: Cut crystal wine glasses in the dining room ofArco dei Tolomei in Rome, a family home turned B & B.

Above: French designer Clarisse Demory decorates her pied-a-terre in Sofia, Bulgaria, with found crystal glassware from local charity shops.

Above: Crystal glassware on steel shelves atVilla Chiesuola,just outside of Milan, designed by Marina Sinibaldi Benatti.

Above: Crystal glasses on the table at Kul, a new restaurant in Copenhagen. Stay tuned for a full tour of Kul tomorrow.

Above: Bulgarian designer Marina Dragomirova makes herMixers, shown here, from vintage crystal sourced at charity shops that she then hand cuts and rejoins. For more details, see our post Pioneering Design in Bulgaria: Q & A with Michelle Lane of BREAD Studio.

Above: Another set of vintage crystal vases at Babylonstoren in South Africa, this time filled with dried poppy pods. Photograph byRobyn MacLarty.

Above: Cocktails atJeffrey's in Austin, Texas, are served in a mix of vintage crystal and Zwiesel glassware.

Inclined towards simplicity? On Gardenista, have a look at10 Easy Pieces: Simple Glass Vases for Under $30. For more trend predictions, see our recent posts onChateau-Style Geometric Wood Flooring,Color-Washed Wood, and Ugly Marble.

A judge has granted a temporary protective injunction against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson after his wife filed paperwork accusing the congressman of shoving and injuring her during an incident this past weekend.

Jefferson's Bourbon's Ocean II Jefferson's Bourbon introduces Jefferson's Ocean II: Aged at Sea. Blended in Kentucky, Jefferson's Ocean II is comprised of bourbons aged 7 and 8 years before being loaded on a ship. More than 62 barrels were sent around the world, stopping at over 40 ports at sea and bottled at a 90 proof (45% ABV). This is the second ocean-aged bourbon to be released by Jefferson's and will be available March 1; the first debuted in August 2012 with 250 bottles released nationally. The constant rocking of the ocean, fluctuation in temperature and saline-rich air help mature...

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From Hollis Robbins:

As a matter of economics, why not consider the option of hiring a single professor to teach a first-year curriculum to a small number of students? At the level of the individual student, it may make sense to some families. Rather than spend $50,000 for a year of college at a selective private institution, one could hire a single Ivy League-trained individual with a doctorate and qualifications in multiple fields for, say, two-thirds the price (far more than an adjunct professor would make for teaching five courses at an average of $2,700 per course).

The idea becomes more attractive with multiple students. A half-dozen families (or the students themselves) could pool resources to hire a single professor, who would provide all six students with a tailored first-year liberal-arts education (leaving aside laboratory science) at a cost much lower than six private-college tuitions, and at the level of a real salary for a good sole-proprietor professor.

A low-cost, high-value first-year education would allow students to transfer into a traditional degree-granting institution at a second- or third-year level, saving a year or more of tuition. Home-colleged students would have a year of personal attention to writing skills, research skills, oral-presentation skills, and the relationship of disciplines in the liberal arts.  The attention to oral and written skills may be particularly valuable to non-English-speaking students looking to succeed at an American college or university.

Accreditation is key, but if the problem has been solved at the secondary-school level for home schooling, why not in higher education?

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MATH, I said MATH. And anyway, you cook... never mind. Mathy-lady ViHart got together with mathy friends Andrea Hawksley, and Gwen and Ruth Fisher, and tried to make shortbread cookies without demonstrating any higher geometry concepts. They failed, but it was a delicious failure. Previously in Math

Finnish tire manufacturer Nokian Tyres has created a winter tire concept that features retractable studs. The retractable stud system—Nokian says it is the first of its kind—allows a driver to extend the studs during winter conditions and retract them on clear roads, all by the push of a button.

photo via Nokian Tyres

via BGR, The Awesomer

Everyone's favorite crack-smoking-hard-drinking-body-slamming-reggae-dancing-football-playing mayor, Rob Ford, was a guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Monday night and the host did not let him off easy. Why a man who seems to sweat so easily put himself in the hot seat, we'll probably never know. But here, in four parts, are the brutal consequences of that decision.

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I do not see Neil Gaiman getting chased around and called a plagiarist like I was this summer when I wrote three words which also appear in the Hunger Games! (And before that, as it turns out, in The Emperor’s New Groove. Llamas, sue the Hunger Games!)

I am very tired of seeing women insulted for things every dude in the world is allowed to do. It is not literary critique. It is violent misogyny.

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- Holy shit, Sarah Rees Brennan is on FIRE. The whole glorious indelible mic-drop of an essay is here. (via katrosenfield)

Confirming rumors that started spreading in late February, Autodesk announced today that it will ship the final version of its 3D modeling and animation application Softimage in April. Autodesk said it will support Softimage, including offering hot fixes and service … more »

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? She's currently lurking at The Strong museum in Rochester, New York. Broderbund Software founder Doug Carlston has donated company records, design documents and games for permanent archival at the The Strong's...