Source code from Person of Interest - Season 2.
jgc says: “The code looks genuine (it’s some classic C code parsing command-line parameters), but I am unable to find its source”
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01 Feb 16:06
George the Dog Loves Watching Tennis on Television
by Scott Beale
George, the golden retriever puppy, loves to watch sports on TV, especially tennis. Here’s a video of him enjoying this year’s Australian Open.
video via Bearaids
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01 Feb 15:59
Sonnet Echo 15 Docking Stations Delayed for Thunderbolt 2 Upgrade [Mac Blog]
by Kelly Hodgkins
firehose"the result of a company decision to upgrade the device to support Thunderbolt 2.0"
"starts at $400"
In an email to customers, hardware upgrade company Sonnet has announced yet another shipment delay for its Echo 15 and Echo 15 Pro+ Thunderbolt docking stations. Unveiled in April 2013, the hardware is still in the pre-order stage. The latest delay is the result of a company decision to upgrade the device to support Thunderbolt 2.0. 
The Sonnet Echo 15 dock can be pre-ordered for $400 with a DVD drive and $450 with a Blu-ray drive. Different capacity hard drives are available as an optional add-on. The Echo 15 Pro+ starts at $550 while upgrading to a Blu-ray burner and adding space for a second solid-state drive.
(Thanks, Dan!)
Following our last Echo 15 and Echo 15 Pro+ Thunderbolt Dock status update, we received very positive feedback and valuable input that confirms these products were designed with the right feature sets. However, there has been an increasingly louder chorus of requests for them to be based on Thunderbolt 2 technology. We carefully considered this input, and, combined with recent clarification of requirements for Windows Thunderbolt compatibility, we have decided to upgrade these products to use Thunderbolt 2 chipsets.The Thunderbolt dock features a DVD or Blu-ray reader/burner, a 2.5" or 3.5" SATA drive bay (6 Gb/s) as well as a variety of ports for USB 3.0, SATA, eSATA, FireWire 800, audio input and output, and Gigabit Ethernet connections.
The Sonnet Echo 15 dock can be pre-ordered for $400 with a DVD drive and $450 with a Blu-ray drive. Different capacity hard drives are available as an optional add-on. The Echo 15 Pro+ starts at $550 while upgrading to a Blu-ray burner and adding space for a second solid-state drive.
(Thanks, Dan!)
    
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01 Feb 15:58
Automatic Connected Car System Update Adds iBeacon Functionality [iOS Blog]
by Juli Clover
firehosevia Albener Pessoa
everything is always watching beat
The Automatic connected car system today received an over-the-air update that allows users to turn their Automatic Link hardware devices into iBeacons, reports TechCrunch. As iBeacons, Automatic devices let users transmit to or receive information from other sensors or devices in the vicinity.
First introduced in March of 2013, the Automatic hardware plugs into a car's onboard diagnostics (OBD) port and provides detailed data on driving habits and mileage within the Automatic app.
With the addition of iBeacon technology, Automatic could be a far more functional device in the future. While the iBeacon addition has no use at the present time, Automatic co-founder Thejo Kote says that it could be used to enable car-specific applications with a host of potential partners.
In addition to iBeacon support for the Automatic hardware, the Automatic app was also updated today, adding event recording for external APIs and a number of bug fixes and improvements to the software.
Automatic can be purchased from the Automatic website for $99.95. The accompanying Automatic app is a free download from the App Store. [Direct Link]
First introduced in March of 2013, the Automatic hardware plugs into a car's onboard diagnostics (OBD) port and provides detailed data on driving habits and mileage within the Automatic app.
With the addition of iBeacon technology, Automatic could be a far more functional device in the future. While the iBeacon addition has no use at the present time, Automatic co-founder Thejo Kote says that it could be used to enable car-specific applications with a host of potential partners.
Applying iBeacon technology to a vehicle could make it easier for people to pay for things like parking, or gas fill ups, for instance — making the experience much better than it is today.iBeacons, which have been growing in popularity over the last several months, use Bluetooth 4.0 to transmit data to nearby devices. This technology has been used within Apple Retail Stores to provide additional information on products, among other things.
For right now, those types of applications are still theoretical, but Automatic is interested in seeing where it could go.
In addition to iBeacon support for the Automatic hardware, the Automatic app was also updated today, adding event recording for external APIs and a number of bug fixes and improvements to the software.
Automatic can be purchased from the Automatic website for $99.95. The accompanying Automatic app is a free download from the App Store. [Direct Link]
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01 Feb 03:46
President Obama Gets Asked "How Are You?" in a Google+ Hangout
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01 Feb 03:41
Newswire: Black Flag has a new singer, is sorry it's sucked so much recently
by Marah Eakin
The current Greg Ginn-helmed iteration of Black Flag has a new vocalist, for better or worse. Pro-skateboarder Mike Vallely—who managed Black Flag in 2013, sang for the group in 2003, and fired Ron Reyes on stage in Perth, Australia last year—is now the group’s fifth overall frontman.
In addition to being its singer, Vallely is also apparently the new mouthpiece for the group. In a rather lengthy interview with Rolling Stone, Vallely says that he and Greg Ginn are sorry because they “feel that, generally, the band fell short in 2013 because of a difference in the philosophies of Ron and Greg.” Vallely says Ginn wanted the reformed group to focus on new music, while Reyes was allegedly more interested in cashing in on the band’s history. Vallely also claims that the hideous cover art for comeback record What The… was Reyes’ idea, something that Ginn ...
01 Feb 02:53
Supernatural, Batwoman, Orphan Black Snag GLAAD Award Nominations
firehose'The Supernatural nod comes courtesy of the episode “LARP and the Real Girl,” which featured the return of lesbian/computer hacker/LARP goddess Charlie, played by Day. I stopped watching Supernatural a ways back, but what I’ve heard about Charlie is that she’s refreshingly non-sexualized compared to other shows, which all too often present lesbians as objects of sexual titillation for men.
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And then there’s the outstanding comic category, which features Batwoman among its nominees. If you’ll remember, 2013 saw the character propose to her girlfriend, but then the creative team left on account of DC kiboshing that storyline out of a hate-on for married superheroes. The kerfluffle wasn’t exactly a highlight for LGBT representation in comics, but we’re pretty pleased at Blackman, Williams III, and Andreyko getting singled out for some respect. Other nominees that category were Fearless Defenders, Husbands, Life with Archie, and Young Avengers.'
01 Feb 02:45
River Otter Mother Teaches Her Pup to Swim
by Lori Dorn
firehosemeanwhile, in Portland
Tilly the river otter teaches Ziggy, her second-born pup, to swim at the Cascade Stream and Pond habitat in this video posted by the Oregon Zoo.
video and image via Oregon Zoo
via Oregon Zoo
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01 Feb 02:42
Millions Are Now Realizing They're Too Poor For Obamacare
firehoseUnder the pre-Obamacare rules, eligibility for the program typically was limited to low-income children, pregnant women, parents caring for children at home, and adults with disabilities. Without the law's expansion, an adult without a disability who isn't living with their children -- like Alphonse -- doesn't qualify for Medicaid, no matter how poor he or she is.
For those who don't qualify for Medicaid coverage, Obamacare offers tax credits for private health plans sold through the law's health insurance exchange marketplaces. But those subsidies are available only to those making between the poverty level, or about $11,500 for an individual, and four times that amount. In states not expanding Medicaid, people who earn less than poverty wages get nothing.
In Alphonse's case, his family is trying to survive on his unemployment insurance. It amounts to $4,800 a year -- far below the poverty level, which is $27,570 for a family of five. Even the unemployment benefits will run out in March.
Nearly 5 million uninsured Americans are caught in a cruel gap that renders some Americans "too poor for Obamacare."
01 Feb 02:19
Amazon Realizes It Makes Almost No Profit, Will Raise Shipping Fees
Amazon investors might have finally heard the news they have been waiting for: The retailer is raising shipping fees.
01 Feb 02:13
Newswire: St. Vincent stomps around a minimalist future in the video for "Digital Witness"
by Marah Eakin
St. Vincent’s new video is pale, weird, and futuristic—just like the singer herself. The new clip for “Digital Witness” was directed by Chino Moya and features the singer and her space-age minions stomping around the deserted streets of what looks to be some sort of IKEA town/Prada Marfa-style art installation. It’s all pretty weird—but so is St. Vincent, so it works.
St. Vincent is out Feb. 25. A full list of her upcoming tour dates is below.
St. Vincent tour 2014
Feb. 13—Postbahnhof—Berlin, Germany
Feb. 15—Paradiso—Amsterdam, Netherlands
Feb. 17—Ancienne Belgique—Brussels, Belgium
Feb. 18—La Cigale—Paris, France
Feb. 20—O2 Shepherds Bush Empire—London, England
Feb. 21—Manchester Cathedral—Manchester, England
Feb. 22—Olympia Theatre—Dublin, Ireland
Feb. 26—Terminal 5—New York, New York
Feb. 27—House Of Blues—Boston, Massachusetts
Feb. 28—Union Transfer—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
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01 Feb 02:08
This map of the internet is not just super-detailed, but worth framing
by Ria Misra
firehoseoh god his horrendous typography
cool map but I want to turn the text off and can't
KERN MOT H E RFUCK ER KERN
This ridiculously intricate map charts out the hidden geography and scope of the internet, ranging from assigning proportional landmass to the world's most popular websites, to drawing out the large swaths of free-flowing spam, to creating a color-coded look at the strength of internet surveillance.
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01 Feb 02:06
Breaking Madden Super Bowl Finale Pits Ridiculously Overpowered Seattle Seahawks Against Denver Broncos
by Rollin Bishop
firehoseautoreshare
In Breaking Madden, a multimedia series that includes editorials, videos, and GIFs by Jon Bois at SBNation, Bois — as the name suggests — breaks the Madden NFL 25 video game in ridiculous, and often humorous, ways.
In the Breaking Madden season finale, Bois has the Seattle Seahawks face the Denver Broncos in a simulated version of Super Bowl XLVIII.
Madden NFL 25 allows players to edit stats for customer characters, so Bois released as many characters from both the Seahawks and Broncos as he could, and then brought in 82 characters of his own design. He made the entire Seahawks crew he added 7′ 400 lb. monstrosities that had exceptional stats, and then made the added Broncos 5′ 160 lb. weaklings with terrible stats. The resulting game is horrifyingly brutal.
images via SBNation
video via Jon Bois
via Breaking Madden
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01 Feb 02:01
Luc Lac Closure Update!
by Marjorie Skinner
firehoseyay
We weren't even hungry, but a couple of weeks ago a friend and I were driving by Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen—which took pride of place as my favorite pho joint in town pretty much as soon as it opened (caveat: I only order the vegetarian kind, and yes I know, I know)—and it looked closed (!), and on a Saturday evening, too. "OH shit," I think were our exact words.
Of course if you are among the many fans who've encountered their notice you know not to expect the worst: They are simply closed for remodeling, although 1) they have picked a terrible time of the year, the bottom of winter, to do so and 2) it was pretty evident that they spent a lot of effort customizing the original iteration of the space, which hasn't even been open that long and so I wonder if they might be kind of vain or what. But a recent update from the amazing local maker collective ADX has given me cause to be proud. The ADX fabrication team are the "our boys" that Luc Lac refers to when they say they're putting the "final touches" on the remodel, which includes a copper and steel installation that will run across the entire back wall of the joint:
If you too have been internet-stalking them like a jilted lover, looking for information on when we can go back to their freshest, crispest pho vegetables, amazing happy hour deals, and famous craft cocktails, may this help you gather patience.
01 Feb 02:00
Doctor Mew returns, with War Cat and Capaldi Cat
by Meredith Woerner
firehoseoblig. etc.
Artist Jenny Parks has graced us all with an updated version of Doctor Mew, initiating John Hurt and Peter Capaldi into her kitty take on Doctor Who. It's glorious.
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01 Feb 02:00
Pathfinder Battles Preview: Ice, Ice Baby!
Friday, January 31, 2014
As we here in Seattle gear up for what we hope (and expect) will be a fantastic Super Bowl victory for our heroes on the Seattle Seahawks this weekend, the weather has taken a slight turn for the better. It's a bit difficult to believe, but I can actually see sunlight outside my office. But all it takes is another cold day, and we'll be back into the dreariness of winter in Washington state, where the line between rain-slicked highways and icy death-slides is only a few cold degrees.
To celebrate the cold (and all of the icy driving this week from Southerners in non-Super Bowl states), I thought I'd focus today's preview blog on a substance near and dear to the Reign of Winter Adventure Path: ICE.
Today's miniatures all come from the Reign of Winter set of Pathfinder Battles prepainted plastic gaming figures, which is scheduled for a May release.
This is the somewhat serpentine Small Ice Elemental, whose statistics appear on page 114 of Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2. The figure is cast in clear blue plastic, with some light blue and white highlights to create a sort of "ice armor" affect along the body. The Small Ice Elemental is a Small, common creature.
This Ice Golem is a humanoid automaton created from ice and given life through alchemical science. The creature's statistics appear on page 161 of the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, where he comes in at CR 5, making him one of the more survivable golem encounters in the book. The figure stands about 7 feet tall (relatively speaking), and is cast in clear plastic. This Medium creature is slated at the uncommon rarity.
Ice Trolls are somewhat smaller than normal trolls, but they possess greater intelligence and are just as voraciously hungry. This Male Ice Troll looks like he stepped right off page 271 of Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2. He's a little bit shorter than the Sea Troll from Skull & Shackles set. This Large figure is slated at the uncommon variety.
Every ice troll deserves a mate, so we decided to mix things up a bit in this set and provide just that. This Female Ice Troll is an amazing-looking figure, definitely one of my favorite trolls we've done to date. Interestingly, while compiling art reference for this figure we discovered that the artist had originally given her sort of claw-like toes in the originally published image, whereas the official ice troll from the Bestiary had more-or-less regular toes. So we changed her feet to match his, and I'm thinking it's that certain something special that will make sure the two of them get along famously. They'll probably want to eat your PCs alive, though, so please do be careful around them.
And that's it for this week! Come back in seven days for more exciting Reign of Winter previews! In the meantime, please consider setting up an ongoing Pathfinder Battles Case Subscription to make sure you don't miss a single figure!
Until next week, I remain,
Erik Mona
Publisher
Tags: Miniatures, Pathfinder Battles, Reign of Winter
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Paizo Publishing Pathfinder Battles Preview: Ice, Ice Baby!
by RPGnet News
firehose"Every ice troll deserves a mate, so we decided to mix things up a bit in this set and provide just that. This Female Ice Troll"
when y'all do neat things in the most tone deaf ways you actually make me angrier
Pathfinder Battles Preview: Ice, Ice Baby!
Friday, January 31, 2014
As we here in Seattle gear up for what we hope (and expect) will be a fantastic Super Bowl victory for our heroes on the Seattle Seahawks this weekend, the weather has taken a slight turn for the better. It's a bit difficult to believe, but I can actually see sunlight outside my office. But all it takes is another cold day, and we'll be back into the dreariness of winter in Washington state, where the line between rain-slicked highways and icy death-slides is only a few cold degrees.
To celebrate the cold (and all of the icy driving this week from Southerners in non-Super Bowl states), I thought I'd focus today's preview blog on a substance near and dear to the Reign of Winter Adventure Path: ICE.
Today's miniatures all come from the Reign of Winter set of Pathfinder Battles prepainted plastic gaming figures, which is scheduled for a May release.
This is the somewhat serpentine Small Ice Elemental, whose statistics appear on page 114 of Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2. The figure is cast in clear blue plastic, with some light blue and white highlights to create a sort of "ice armor" affect along the body. The Small Ice Elemental is a Small, common creature.
This Ice Golem is a humanoid automaton created from ice and given life through alchemical science. The creature's statistics appear on page 161 of the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, where he comes in at CR 5, making him one of the more survivable golem encounters in the book. The figure stands about 7 feet tall (relatively speaking), and is cast in clear plastic. This Medium creature is slated at the uncommon rarity.
Ice Trolls are somewhat smaller than normal trolls, but they possess greater intelligence and are just as voraciously hungry. This Male Ice Troll looks like he stepped right off page 271 of Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2. He's a little bit shorter than the Sea Troll from Skull & Shackles set. This Large figure is slated at the uncommon variety.
Every ice troll deserves a mate, so we decided to mix things up a bit in this set and provide just that. This Female Ice Troll is an amazing-looking figure, definitely one of my favorite trolls we've done to date. Interestingly, while compiling art reference for this figure we discovered that the artist had originally given her sort of claw-like toes in the originally published image, whereas the official ice troll from the Bestiary had more-or-less regular toes. So we changed her feet to match his, and I'm thinking it's that certain something special that will make sure the two of them get along famously. They'll probably want to eat your PCs alive, though, so please do be careful around them.
And that's it for this week! Come back in seven days for more exciting Reign of Winter previews! In the meantime, please consider setting up an ongoing Pathfinder Battles Case Subscription to make sure you don't miss a single figure!
Until next week, I remain,
Erik Mona
Publisher
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01 Feb 01:59
Dick Vitale is live-scream-tweeting a Barry Manilow concert
by Seth Rosenthal
#BARRY
The Friday stop on Barry Manilow's current tour is in Tampa, home of Dick Vitale. Dick Vitale is attending said concert, and he's live-tweeting (IN ALL CAPS) the set list, which reads pretty strangely if you don't know what's going on or see an individual tweet out of context. And even in context...
BARRY MANILOW - - Baby I WantYou Now ! #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW - LOOKS LIKE WE MADE IT !#BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW I CAN't SMILE WITHOUT YOU #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOOW American Bandstand #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW EVEN NOW #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW STAY #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW BROOKLYN BLUES #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW I AM YOUR CHILD #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
He squeezed a little basketball stuff in there somehow, too:
BARRY MANILOW THIS ONE IS FOR YOU #BARRY RESPECT = COACH K - JIM B - Can't Wait! CUSE WILL BE THE CAPITAL OF THE BASKETBALL WORLD!
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW NEW YORK CITY RHYTHM. #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
...and again:
BARRY MANILOW Does a little Garth Brooks IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES - wow I would be so down - CUSE & Duke 6:30 ESPN @JL23TV @fittingLee
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
BARRY MANILOW BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY #BARRY
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
#FF
Important update:
Barry MANILOW WHEN WILL I HOLD YOU AGAIN / come on dudes if u can't get lucky with this song GIVE UP BABY @richarddeitsch
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) February 1, 2014
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01 Feb 01:57
Beautiful picture captured by Curiosity
firehosevia rnas
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01 Feb 01:56
3D Print Your Own Museum
by Jillian Steinhauer
firehosevia Elena Bulygina
Screenshot of Oliver Laric’s “Lincoln 3D Scans”
Thanks to online platforms like Google Art Project and institutions releasing more and more images on the web for free, the general public has access to museum collections in ways they never have before. But what if you could do more than just remix images of objects in a collection — what if you could 3D print the objects themselves?
Laric’s 3D scan of John Gibson’s “Nymph Untying her Sandal” (19th century), stone and marble (via lincoln3dscans.co.uk)
For a project called “Lincoln 3D Scans,” artist Oliver Laric worked with the Collection Museum and Usher Gallery in Lincoln, UK, to make some of their pieces available in just that way. Laric sorted through their archives and chose dozens of objects to scan, from busts of Beethoven, Dante, and Einstein to pieces of furniture to a human pelvis bone. He then created 3D models of the objects, which he collected and published online. Each of the 52 pieces on Laric’s site — which is currently being highlighted as a “First Look” online exhibition by the New Museum — is presented in the form of a rotating GIF, stripped of color and looking like a kind of digital styrofoam version of itself. Underneath the GIFs are some basic identifying details and a button to download the scan as an STL file. Using that file, you can print the object yourself.
“The project aims at making the collection available to an audience outside of its geographic proximity and to treat the objects as starting points for new works,” Laric explains on the site’s Info page. “All models can be downloaded and used without copyright restrictions.” In other words, go forth, remix, and copy, with the museum’s blessing.
Laric actually has a note on the Info page asking people to email him when they’ve used the models or re-created them in some fashion, and the site’s Gallery displays the results. They’re a mixed bag, from an uninspiring video that zooms in, out, and around one of the objects cast in silver to a delightfully trippy animated GIF of Einstein’s head. Most people don’t seem to have printed out the objects (I suppose 3D printers are not that ubiquitous just yet) but rather have taken to animating and toying with them in virtual 3D space.
Cyril’s take on Ella Rose Curtois, “Marble boy”
One of the most successful of these is a surrealist take by an artist named Cyril, who’s plopped an oversized version of Ella Rose Curtois’s 19th-century sculpture of a marble player in the middle of an early-20th-century city street. Someone else named Boris Quezada has either printed out the same marble player and photographed it in his home or else Photoshopped it there. The sculpture is starkly white and looks wonderfully incongruous in its bland surroundings, raising a host of questions about the nature and value of copies and originals in our image-saturated culture. Museums will always be special places to visit, but there’s something strange and exciting about the possibility of bringing the museum home to you.
Boris Quezada’s “Marble player”
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01 Feb 01:56
f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Playful Haunted House Art Gallery...
firehosevia KellyGo
Playful Haunted House Art Gallery
Haunted Play House is Torafu Architects’ creative exhibit designed especially for children to touch art while frolicking in and around the space. Featured in one of the galleries at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the architectural installation—a giant, white cube set in the center with paintings hanging on its exterior walls—is built like a gallery space with components that resemble quirky and spooky elements found in a haunted funhouse.
01 Feb 01:56
‘Cosmos’ Trailer Traces the Roots of Life on Earth to Deep Space
by Russ Fischer
firehosevia Christopher Lantz
If the revival of Cosmos turns out well, it will go a long way to offsetting any other perceived sins committed by producer Seth MacFarlane. Given free reign by Fox, the Family Guy creator has overseen an effects-heavy new edition of Carl Sagan’s pioneering science show. This 2014 edition is hosted by the most prominent current bridge between pop culture and science, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and features input from many of the scientists and thinkers who contribute to Sagan’s original series more than 30 years ago. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey appears to span the gulf between the smallest Earthly existence and the far reaches of the universe — simply put, this new trailer makes it look spectacular.
Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey premieres on March 9th.
- ‘Cosmos’ TV Trailer: Seth McFarlane and Neil deGrasse Tyson Reboot Carl Sagan’s Science Show
- ‘24: Live Another Day’ Gets Yvonne Strahovski and a Premiere Date [Updated With New Plot Details]
- ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Red-Band Trailer: Everything Wants to Kill Seth MacFarlane
- Seven Character Posters For Seth MacFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways To Die In The West’
- ‘Veronica Mars’ and Jon Favreau’s ‘Chef’ Premiere at SXSW 2014
- First Look: Neil Patrick Harris, Seth MacFarlane and Amanda Seyfried in ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’
01 Feb 01:56
Because we're not having a hard enough time trying to turn STEM into STEAM
by sophiebegonia
firehosevia KellyGo
Not looking to incite a partisan debate, but today President Obama said some stuff about the value of an art history degree.
Is he wrong about those little paychecks? Nope, we’ve talked about this before. We didn’t get into this for money. And some of what he says is true- not everyone wants to go to college and get a degree. That’s fine, too. A degree doesn’t automatically bestow success, intelligence or a fat paycheck. But it can be the path to personal fulfillment for many people.
So why am I so annoyed? This quote from the article sums it up.
"…when these measures are made by cutting back on, denigrating or eliminating humanities disciplines such as art history, then America’s future generations will be discouraged from taking advantage of the values, critical and decisive thinking and creative problem solving offered by the humanities…”
I won’t say this very often, kids, but LISTEN TO ROBIN WILLIAMS. IGNORE THE PRESIDENT.
You want to get an art history degree? Do it. Go for it.
You don’t want an art history degree? That’s cool. Do your thing, find your bliss, all that good stuff.
Just don’t make anyone else feel like they’ve wasted their life, time, energy and money to pursue their passion. Deal? Cool.
01 Feb 01:55
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by gguillotte
even fucking skype ads are making me cry
01 Feb 01:05
You’re gonna need a pep talk sometimes. That’s okay. For now,...
You’re gonna need a pep talk sometimes. That’s okay. For now, remember this: You’re awake. You’re awesome. Live like it.
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01 Feb 01:04
ho-ho-my-lad: shoomlah: look I have a lot of opinions about...
look I have a lot of opinions about historical underwear and if you’re going to show it off at least put your back into it
THE DAY OF RECKONING HAS COME
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