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The Steam version of 3D Realms' classic first-person shooter Duke Nukem 3D has been updated with competitive and cooperative multiplayer gameplay modes, letting up to eight players kick ass and/or chew bubblegum in online Dukematch battles. The new ...

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New Booze: Tincup American Whiskey Proximo announces the launch of Tincup American Whiskey. Created by Jess Graber, founder of Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey, Tincup is made from a blend of corn, rye and malt. Aged in new charred American white oak barrels, it is bottled at 84 proof in Colorado using Rocky Mountain water. Tincup is rolling out in select markets at a suggested retail price of $27.99 (750 ml). Tincup is named for Tincup, an old mining town in Gunnison County, Colo., which itself was named for the tin cups used by miners. Its closure is an actual tin cup that can be used for sipping and sharing. It is owned and distributed by Proximo and is rolling out in Colorado, Arizona, California, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington. For more information, please visit www.Tincupwhiskey.com. New Booze: Two New GlenDronach Expressions The GlenDronach Distillery, located in Scotland’s East Highland hills in Aberdeenshire, and imported to the U.S. by Anchor Distilling Company, now launches two new expressions: The GlenDronach 15 Year Old Tawny Port Wood Finish (part of its wood finish program) and The GlenDronach Cask Strength Batch 2. Founded in 1826, The GlenDronach is one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, passing...

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larime:

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Larime Taylor, and I make a comic book with my mouth.

I was born with Arthrogryposis, a congenital defect that leaves me with little use of my arms and legs. Writing and art are all I have as far as job skills, so making comic books is about my only…

I admit I haven’t read the book, but this description definitely makes me want to pick it up.

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Dozens of Rebels Killed After Philippine Peace Deal Is Struck New York Times MANILA — More than 40 people have been killed and a school district supervisor kidnapped in separate incidents around the island of Mindanao, days after a landmark peace deal was struck with the largest Muslim insurgency group in the Philippines, ... Close to 40 rebels killed as troops pursue BIFF in MaguindanaoGMA News Philippines Military Offensive Kills 37 RebelsVoice of America 37 killed in BIFF-military clash in MaguindanaoPhilippine Star Inquirer.net -Shanghai Daily (subscription) all 94 news articles »

“Little Girls Are Better At Designing Superheroes Than You” is a small project where superheroes are drawn based on the costumes of girls.

This hero is Rainbow Heart! According to Rainbow Heart, “the heart on her sword makes ‘the bad guys’ have a change of heart and want to be good guys who do good things.”

How sweet. :>

I gave her a super ★~*かわいい*~★ magical girl theme. Having grown up on Magic Knight Rayearth and Card Captor Sakura, I think if you have a daughter who likes both action and cute sparkly stuff, magical girl comics can be very entertaining!

A 23-year old woman in Beijing has won what’s believed to be China’s first gender discrimination lawsuit. Earlier this month, Cao Ju, a recent graduate who was refused a job on the basis of her gender, received a settlement of 30,000 yuan (about $4,955) from the company.

It’s a small triumph. Lawsuits related to women’s rights in China are rare. The first successful sexual harassment lawsuit was only in 2009, when an office worker in Guangzhou had video evidence of her boss harassing her. Chinese law forbids employers from discriminating against women in hiring or pay, but gender preferences are so widespread that job adverts often call for only male applicants. In interviews, women face questions about whether they have a boyfriend or plan to get married. Some factories operate by their own guidelines such as not hiring women with children under the age of one.

In reality, there’s little to celebrate when it comes to women’s rights in the workplace in China. In the World Economic Forum’s gender gap rankings, China ranks 69 out of 136 (pdf) countries, just below Mexico, Senegal and Tanzania. Despite China’s shrinking workforce, the female employment rate has been falling. In 1992, male and female participation in the Chinese workforce stood at 87% and 86% (pdf, p. 32). While employment for both sexes fell as large-scale reforms of state owned enterprises in the 1990s that laid off millions of workers, male participation improved while women’s only fell lower.

The employment rate is a stark contrast to the days of China’s centrally planned economy when as much as 90% of women were working—part of Mao Zedong’s “women holding up half the sky” philosophy. Now, not only are there fewer women working, but the gap between men and women’s earnings has widened (pdf). Another study on urban employees found that between 1995 and 2007, women’s earnings, as a proportion of men’s, had fallen from 84% to 74%.

The fall in employment and wages can’t just be blamed on the country’s transition from a centrally planned economy into a more market-oriented one. Wei and Bo point out that many other countries that shifted from planned economies—like Poland, Hungary, Russia or Estonia—saw women’s wages improve or stay the same. Wei and Bo attribute the gender pay gap—which especially affects low-end job holders—to the labor surplus China enjoyed for years. As China’s work force shrinks, in large part because of China’s one-child policy, women may have a few more options.

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Greenville's professional ice hockey team are Road Warriors in name alone.

Our offices are closed today due to icy roads. Yes we recognize the irony that the Road Warriors Hockey team doesn't want to brave icy roads

— Gville Road Warriors (@GvlRoadWarriors) January 29, 2014

A+ tweet.

In general, you are the only person who cares about your weather tweets. But this ... this is perfect.

Then there’s the emphasis on Nyong’o's beauty. Words like ‘stunning’, ‘beautiful’, ‘gorgeous’ are used over and over in introductions and descriptions of Lupita. And her PR team is playing along well with promoting the new star in these terms. And while it must be exciting to be nominated for the big awards after your first big Hollywood role and in something as path breaking as this film, the media has so fixated us on her image and her skin in particular, that it is hard to now imagine Lupita not being Epps’ perfect cotton picker.

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Almost one child or teen an hour is injured by a firearm seriously enough to require hospitalization, a new analysis finds.

gergelytakacs:

Hey, that’s doge!

lionstatus:

For those of you that do a lot of programming (and get frustrated with it as often as I do) I’d just like to point out the fantastically entertaining hidden functions MATLAB has.

1) when you input “why”, random statements are output. 

2) a magnificent picture of a dog is output when you input “spy”.

not quite sure why they are there but I’m assuming its because “The programmer suggested it.”

Well, yeah, my old version had different default for that nullary spy easter egg so I fixed it.

c = ['IIKKEObe_/BR@aK@jTiYQRIgCdh;_99M_PU=SXCBYQFG7I9DT9JVVFV>C'
     'KK''"FPcfa0MuBbOB7^jZRTJhIgi?`HGN`Q?ATYDC8RGK9K:EV@OX?HWVN'
     'II(/GWdhb1NvJcRL8_k[SXQiQho@ePHOa_UBU;ED;SML;R;HWAP>@=XWO'
     'JK)0KXlic2P5KdTO@`B`TYSjRjpBnQIPba>CVQALe_RBfKeXZVkVksCq^J_Cb?DTT'
     'KIK!P:oqhBULRge_L;Pn^cXmXoVMFYVQ77[F9CW>JUIF=MWV'
     'KI&1RZBABoBd;DZHfPlK_WXOY>*+S6^al56_?[KBJ;Cg;V=GP?D'
     'IK,EUBB>,WBubm@7fB\PJQL:BP;Q?HQ@E'
     'KIIFVPMB-XM5onB@iC`RQSBQmAJe]n`oQc?FuN@poCB9DfVTTCRoBQo^oa:_B@GFCC>7DG>W@QZTR4uR4COO@QBnZoT[IQ^;hPp>E_HK@SQN>OXH9HZEL9E?KI>AT'
     'IKI"9B[US5vT5DRPBRKo[iQq?F@ILATTO?P[I;I[GM:FD>=OQE'
     'JIK3:M\VW65^@ETRKTP@\=XfRXe?m^9@GAQMBUUQ@S6KYgXZoHna:AHSRNFYYSBX7L?Q:IU=KJHJQVG'
     'IK#5MKI=RWH'
     'KI.BBYa\t?LtTHe`P^VJo@`9Z]r[qdECM_TPK>;UE:;WAW=NXFNQJJSXI'
     'IK/CMZc]-@O4_IjfQ`WKAAa:[^s\riFPN@WQL?XO?F[H7BRZISU>LZBK'];
i = double(c(:)-32);
j = cumsum(diff([0; i])% http://fav.me/d5hpn5d

andthatsterrible:

No, Super Dictionary. Batgirl is not, in fact, looking at the airplane. The airplane is behind her. You are confusing the shit out of kids everywhere, Super Dictionary.

Marvel usually waits to see how a movie does on opening weekend before making sequel decisions, but according to Variety the early test screenings for Captain America: The Winter Soldier are so good that the studio has already started negotiations to lock down its directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, for Captain America 3. It hasn't been officially greenlit yet, but with many of the actors under contract for a third movie it probably will be unless Winter Soldier completely tanks. Meanwhile Warner Bros. still hasn't gotten around to officially confirming that they'll make one Wonder Woman movie. Previously in Wonder Woman Still Not Getting a Damn Movie

The AbleGamers Foundation announced the winners of its 2013 Accessibility Awards, highlighting industry achievements and notable progress toward the group's goal of ensuring gameplay accessibility for players with disabilities. AbleGamers named ...

i’ll never apologize for this

aznmaddy:

white people who literally just don’t get it: a memoir

drunkenkeith:

basically

princey-art:

when you accidentally turn on the front camera and u just look like this

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) // Jim Jarmusch

angry tapir writes "Oracle is continuing its legal battle against third-party software support providers it alleges are performing such services in a manner that violates its intellectual property. Last week, Oracle sued StratisCom, a Georgia company that offers customers support for Oracle's Solaris OS, claiming it had 'misappropriated and distributed copyright, proprietary software code, along with the login credentials necessary to download this code from Oracle's password-protected websites.'"

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WASHINGTON—Ahead of Tuesday night’s highly anticipated State of the Union address, top White House aides reportedly sat down with President Barack Obama and advised him to maintain a positive and optimistic tone throughout the speech by avoidi...

Biden Clenches Plastic Beer Cup In Teeth To Free Hands For Clapping

PHILADELPHIA—Reiterating numerous themes from last year’s rebuttal while offering several searing critiques of tonight’s speech, area dad Bill Shaw delivered his official response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tonight directly into the television screen, household sources reported.

Arianna Simpson:

I walk in and a group of people are already sitting at a long table. I say hi and hover for a second, determining where to sit. Entirely uninvited, and before I even have a chance to react, one guy proceeds to grab me by the waist and pull me into an awkward, grope-y side hug next to him on the bench. To reiterate, I’ve never met this man in my life. I try giving him the benefit of the doubt and make some quip about his being a friendly sort, but it gets uncomfortable pretty quickly when he puts his hand on my leg and leaves it there until I squirm uncomfortably.

It’s official: As we speculated last week — and as they’ve been aggressively teasing via every available social channel — Slowdive are indeed reuniting. They’re playing Primavera, and in a forthcoming interview with The Quietus, hint at new material. As far as I’m concerned, this is huge, exciting news. Slowdive were one of the very best bands of the ’90s, one of the seminal shoegaze bands, and the three-LP/multiple-EP catalog they produced between 1990 and 1995 is both unimpeachable and essential. There are some notable reasons to be extremely optimistic about this reunion:

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