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Eventually I’m going to gif every joke Carlos tells on Magic School Bus…

Keisha looks like she is 1000% done with Carlos and his… ANT-ics.

Melissa Chaib

Shibuya

Francois Lang wonders "Will this restaurant offer a Suffix Dinner next week?

And after the exotic Infix Lunch and the justly famous Clitic Breakfast, there are many other possible Morphosyntactic Menus: the the Suppletion Special, the Allomorph Aperitif, the Conjugation Collation,  …

 

ONN International, Russian Bureau: Vladimir Putin officially thanked the United States this week for their “rich history of making gay athletes feel unsafe and unwelcome.”

MILWAUKEE—In an effort to itemize the health benefits available through its current PPO plan, local business CargoFly Logistics provided its staff members Wednesday with a list of doctors who are shitty enough to accept the company’s health in...

CHICAGO—Days before he was set to relocate to Denver for work, four-year Chicago resident Paul Marsden lamented Wednesday that he never really took the time to detest the city he called home for nearly half a decade.

SOCHI, RUSSIA—Traveling from 88 nations around the world, hundreds of athletes reportedly arrived in Sochi this week in order to participate in a two-week-long waking nightmare.

Though standing to lose $2 billion in annual sales, the CVS Caremark company announced today that it would stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products by Oct.

This is the one hotel room @Sochi2014 have given us so far. Shambles. #cnnsochi pic.twitter.com/RTjEkmyan3

— Harry Reekie (@HarryCNN) February 4, 2014

As journalists descend on Sochi for the most corrupt Olympics in history, they're discovering the region's Potemkin hospitality industry. The hotels that were meant to billet them while they reported on the games are half-built, unbuilt, falling to bits: but at least they've had their portraits of Vladimir Putin installed. Slave labor just isn't what it used to be.

Amid continued debate over whether or not Sochi is prepared to host the 2014 Olympics, which begins Thursday, reporters from around the world are starting to check into local hotels — to their apparent grief. Some journalists arriving in Sochi are describing appalling conditions in the housing there, where only six of nine media hotels are ready for guests. Hotels are still under construction. Water, if it’s running, isn’t drinkable. One German photographer told the AP over the weekend that his hotel still had stray dogs and construction workers wandering in and out of rooms.

Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious and gross hotel experiences [Caitlin Dewey/Washington Post]

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Champagne 'n' drums 'n' dancin'

You can find absolutely everything there is to see from the Seahawks Super Bowl parade through Seattle in our stream. Here we'd just like to point out a few GIFs from the Seahawks' arrival at CenturyLink Field:

1. Michael Bennett took the field doing his EXTREMELY SEXUAL celebration dance. The one inspired by angels and chocolate:

2. Marshawn Lynch got himself some champagne, as well as what I initially thought was a PIZZA SHIELD of some sort, but is actually a drum he'd been banging earlier:

Then he sprayed that champagne all over the fans even though it appeared to be pretty cold out there:

3. Richard Sherman led the team in some JUMPing:

Good times. Very, very good times.

theartofanimation:

Ann Marcellino

Joking that a pair of testicles are a leadership requirement is probably funnier in industries where it's not often true #DICE2014

Trove is an iOS news app that features “thousands of news sources” users can then customize to follow only the topics that interest them. This customized list is considered a “trove,” and other users can then follow said trove.

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Well, Amelia, I was born in the sea.

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If it happens, this will be a shitshow: Noted child killer George Zimmerman is reportedly set to fight America's number one wedding rapper DMX in a celebrity boxing match later this year.

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Suspicious Virus Makes Rare Cross-Kingdom Leap from Plants to Honeybees:

Jennifer Frazer, writing in The Artful Amoeba blog at Scientific American:

When HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans sometime in the early 1900′s, it crossed a gulf spanning several million years of evolution. But tobacco ringspot virus, scientists announced last week, has made a jump that defies credulity. It has crossed a yawning chasm ~1.6 billion years wide.

And this is likely bad news for its new host, the honeybee, matchmaker of crops and bringer of honey. These are two services for which humans are both eternally indebted, and, in the case of the former, possibly unable to live without. Bees pollinate the majority of our fruit and nut crops and many vegetables — some 90 all told — without which humanity would be nutritionally impoverished. Yet shortages are a possibility we are confronting, as bee populations in America have declined in recent years for reasons that seem to be both diverse and elusive. Colony collapse disorder, as whatever it is is called, was first reported in 2006 and has spread globally. Many viruses, parasites, and pesticides have been implicated, but no smoking gun has emerged.

As scientists were studying the possible role of pollen in spreading known bee viruses, a team of scientists from the United States and China began screening bees and pollen for viruses of all sorts. To their surprise, as they reported Jan. 21 in the journal mBio, they discovered a common plant virus — tobacco ringspot virus — had seemingly infested honeybees. Was it merely a transient visitor? Or had it made itself at home in a place inconceivably different from its usual digs?

New submitter josh itnc writes "In a move that is sure to put a wedge between HP and their customers, today, HP has issued an email informing all existing Enterprise Server customers that they would no longer be able to access or download service packs, firmware patches and bug-fixes for their server hardware without a valid support agreement in place. They said, 'HP has made significant investments in its intellectual capital to provide the best value and experience for our customers. We continue to offer a differentiated customer experience with our comprehensive support portfolio. ... Only HP customers and authorized channel partners may download and use support materials. In line with this commitment, starting in February 2014, Hewlett-Packard Company will change the way firmware updates and Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) on HP ProLiant server products are accessed. Select server firmware and SPP on these products will only be accessed through the HP Support Center to customers with an active support agreement, HP CarePack, or warranty linked to their HP Support Center User ID and for the specific products being updated.' If a manufacturer ships hardware with exploitable defects and takes more than three years to identify them, should the consumer have to pay for the vendor to fix the these defects?"

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Never gonna give you up!

It’s good to be a king 😎

symbolset writes "On the heels of the smackdown received by cable lobbyists in Kansas, Ars reports out of Utah that the cable companies aren't giving up hopes of preventing competition through legislation. The bill, called Interlocal Entity Service Prohibition, would prevent a regional fiber consortium from building infrastructure outside the boundaries of its member cities and towns — a direct attack on Google's work in Provo and the UTOPIA network. Utah is the third state to be involved in the Google Fiber rollout of gigabit fiber to the home."

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Namco Bandai officially announced plans to change its name to Bandai Namco. The change, which spans the company's many regional subsidiaries, will go into effect on April 1. Yes, that's April Fool's Day. No, we're pretty sure Namco Ban – sorry,...

A Twitter troll called out Richard Sherman for getting injured while winning the Super Bowl. Sherman pointed out that, uh, HE WON THE SUPER BOWL.

I'll never understand the minds of people who go out of their way to tweet mean things at athletes. The best case scenario is the athlete reads it and ignores it, like the thousands of other things people write to them on the Internet on any given day. The worst case scenario is ... well ... I guess this.

Somebody whose Twitter name is an asterisk who appears to spend most of their time tweeting about episodes of General Hospital -- still on the air! In 2014! -- had some not-so-nice things to say to Richard Sherman after the Seahawks won the Super Bowl.

@RSherman_25 Everyone who heard you dissing Manning before knows you don't mean a damn word of this, you pathetic, disingenuous punk.

— * (@SnBEternally) February 5, 2014

A thug if you call out your opponent, a disingenuous punk if you say they're a great competitor. Okay then!

Regardless, * kept going.

@RSherman_25 Take your phony praise and shove it up your drugged out ass, you worthless scumbag.

— * (@SnBEternally) February 5, 2014

And kept going:

@RSherman_25 Seattle beat Denver, but you contributed nothing and got carted off with an injury. Karma's a NASTY bitch, needle Dick! :P

— * (@SnBEternally) February 5, 2014

Despite having 800,000 twitter followers now that he's an Incredibly Famous Football player instead of just a Famous Football Player, Sherman's been taking time to check his mentions:

So he saw this, and responded in the best way possible:

@SnBEternally pic.twitter.com/L2jNs7ocMX

— Richard Sherman (@RSherman_25) February 5, 2014

Karma was such a NASTY bitch to Richard Sherman -- err, needle Dick Sherman -- that he ended up with the Super Bowl title. If only karma would be such a bitch to my preferred football team one of these decades.

@SnBEternally :) feeling good

— Richard Sherman (@RSherman_25) February 5, 2014

USA’s long-running comedy procedural Psych will end after eight seasons. The series finale will air on March 26, followed by a one-hour live show featuring a Q&A with creator Steve Franks and the cast. Psych has been a reliable performer for USA, almost reaching Monk’s episode total, but its ratings have declined in recent seasons to average just under 2 million viewers.

ethiopienne:

Black woman finds noose in office cubicle

What if you came to work and found a noose placed next to your belongings?  That is what Vanessa Savage, a black woman from Washington County, Oregon, found in her cubicle one morning at Washington County’s housing authority. What made the noose even more alarming was that it was from her supervisor. Savage looked at the noose, complete with a note attached that said “termination notice”, as a possible prank or threat.

“This is 2014 and a supervisor brings a noose to work and nothing is done about it,” Savage said.

Shocked and distraught, Savage notified authorities of the incident. Despite these facts, an investigation from the county concluded that there was no racial undertone, but it has been recommended that they order all the employees undergo sensitivity training.

Savage has refused to back down from the county’s conclusion about the noose. “A noose is designed to terrorize people and there’s a historical precedent that that’s what the noose does,” Savage said.  “And when you put a noose on a note that says ‘terminated, fired,’ he wanted it to have a certain impact and it did.”

She has also hired an attorney to help her further into this case. Since then, she has taken a leave of absence from work, saying that she was working in a hostile environment.

It remains to be seen what the outcome of this case will be for Savage, but it is evident that workplace racism still exists.