A high school robotics team used a 3D printer to build a functional robotic hand they then gave to a 4-year-old born without fingers. “I’m going to paint the nails pink,” she said.
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Did you fucking say a HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS TEAM HOLY SHIT
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Go to this website, pick a material, send in an audio file. Get back jewelry in shape of the sound wave you gave them. It's simple, and oddly beautiful.
    
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The Victoria and Albert Museum says:
Viols were bowed instruments ranging from treble to bass, but by about 1780 they had been superceded by the violin and cello. However, this bass viol belonged to John Cawse (1779-1862), one of the earliest pioneers in the revival of Early Music. The body may have been made by Joachim Tielke (1641-1719), but the neck, fingerboard and tailpiece date from the mid 1720s. Cawse lent his instrument to be played in the Concert of Ancient Music at Windsor Castle, an event organized by Prince Albert (1819-1861) in 1845 and perhaps the first of its kind. Despite what was then a highly unusual enthusiasm, Prince Albert felt compelled to make economies in the Royal Household and abolish the obsolete post of Royal Lutenist at about this time.
Custom-designed household cat furniture from Germany. The home site, in German, is http://GoldTatze.de .
You people post the most mundane,everyday stupid bullshit that is so uninteresting and above all so self absorbed.Bitching about a pizza slice for your 5 year old so it can act as entitled as you are.Please go back to NY,where you think you are going to get better customer service,You have to be fucking joking.People bitching about bikes on Tri-Met,grow a pair,Tri-Met put those hooks there for a reason.Don't like it,you should have bought a car.Sallie Mae,really?Are you fresh out of college?Brooklyn Doorbell,fuckin'relax,where the fuck do you think you live,lemme guess,you just moved here huh?Sad.
Sexting photos of yourself can be perilous, but sexting photos of somebody else could lead to jail time. A teenage girl in Canada has been convicted of distributing child pornography after she sent around five explicit pictures of a girl she found on her boyfriend's phone, CNN reports. The 16-year old defendant is being tried as a minor, and is out on bail while awaiting sentencing.
"I had trouble understanding text language."
The trouble began back in November 2012 when the defendant found out that her boyfriend was receiving sexts from his ex-girlfriend. After making threats on Facebook, the defendant commandeered her boyfriend's phone and sent out the explicit pictures she found (of his ex) to several friends. It's hardly the stuff of child porn, the defendant's attorney Christopher Mackie told CNN, but Crown Prosecutor Chandra Fisher seems like she intends to set an example. Fisher said the case should serve as a warning to teens about the dangers of texting and posting inappropriate content online.
Now if only she could decipher the 36,000 texts she's been given access to. "I had trouble understanding text language and I had to take a lesson in what some of these symbols meant," she told CTV.
Artist Adam Magyar uses sophisticated software and high-speed camera rigs of his own design to capture beautifully haunting slow-motion footage of commuters, trains and passengers inside NYC's Grand Central Terminal.
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(Guest writer Kunal Choksi of Transcending Obscurity returns to put the spotlight on five sludge bands from around the world.)
Here’s a list of five relatively underrated bands that you should look into, and for good reason. All five are different from each other in their own way and add their own to this style of music. Pyramido with its Swedish Hardcore-infused Sludge, Lurk with its unique mesmeric thick mix, Fleshpress with its mind-warping esoteric Sludge/Doom, Evil Horse with its obscure art and riffy genius, and Grimpen Mire doing it powerfully, in the old school way.
Pyramido (Sweden) – Saga (Heart & Crossbone Records)
This is one of the best acts playing this style of crusty Sludge/Doom. It’s melancholic and hard-hitting at the same time – devastating for any listener. An experienced band by now, Pyramido keeps pushing the envelope, releasing some of the heaviest music in this style, painstakingly.
Lurk (Finland) – Kaldera (Doomentia Records)
Lurk already wowed us with its debut album and Kaldera is more of the same, albeit more straightforward. It’s got thick, throaty vocals roaring over music that’s thick and sludgy, a mixture of riffs from everywhere, seemingly conventional but something that stands out in its own way.
Fleshpress (Finland) – Tearing Skyholes (Kult of Nihilow)
Featuring Mikko of Clandestine Blaze and Deathspell Omega, this veteran band have been releasing groundbreaking music for a while. They mix the sounds of this style with Black Metal influences, presenting it in a bare, atmospheric manner. It’s just brilliant, takes a while to get into, but once hooked, you can’t let go.
Evilhorse (Spain) – Cabeza de Vaca (Le Crepuscule du Soir)
Artistically packaged, the booklet contains numerous pages with just the dark images of the mountain cliff that you see on the album artwork and yet it somehow makes sense as you listen to the music, which is crushing heaviness with amazing build-ups and riffs, borrowing influences from the traditional styles as well as the crustier ones. Sheer class.
Grimpen Mire (UK) – A Plague Upon Your Houses (At War With False Noise)
Grimpen Mire are like the sludgier and more extreme counterpart of Lair of the Minotair, merging Celtic Frost influences into old school Doom, making it somehow extremely warlike and riffedelic at the same time. Here’s another classy band that’s doing it right, but escaped your attention.
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The first ever "Drake Night" happened in Toronto. Really.
Saturday night was the first-ever "Drake Night" for the Toronto Raptors. A night to enjoy and celebrate Raptors "global ambassador" Drake, and basketball. But "Drake Night" isn't about Drake, according to Drake:
Drake, on Drake Night: "Tonight has nothing to do with Drake." OK, then.
— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) January 11, 2014
What is "Drake Night" then? Perhaps his suit jacket, lined with the jersey of one of the franchises' biggest stars turned villain -- Vince Carter -- personifies what "Drake Night" is all about:
Photo credit: Nick Turchiaro, USA TODAY Sports
Or maybe it's about new introductory videos featuring the rumored black and gold re-brand, Drake lyrics, and Drake actually introducing the players with his own twist:
Let's backtrack on that:
1. Amir "Tall Money" Johnson
2. That slam dunk winner that you know as Terrence Ross
3. They used to tell him that he looks like Chris Tucker, but he doesn't, Kyle Lowry
4. DeMar De-De-De-De-DeRooooooozan
5. The dashingly handsome Dwyane Casey
and...
6. Jonas Valanciunas ... a seven-foot center who loves to spend his free time at Scarborough Town Centre? How'd he get stuck with that one? Does he really love malls that much? Was there nothing else they could have said here?
Ah well, moving on.
Does anybody know if Drake was commentating? Oh, he was. He was commentating alright:
And perhaps the best Raptors-Drake photo to surface thus far:
"SET THE SCREEN! SET THE SCREEN!" "Aubrey, we're on defense" "SET IT!" pic.twitter.com/BSllHw3SZx
— devin kharpertian (@uuords) January 12, 2014
Thank you for giving us "Drake Night." A night featuring Drake, named after Drake, but not about Drake.
He gets it, he gets it.
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New England Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount ran for records on Saturday night.
LeGarrette Blount walked onto the field in Foxboro hoping to make a difference, and jogged off in the record books.
Blount set a new team record for touchdowns, and matched the prior mark for yards. He scored four times against the Colts on Saturday night, and finds himself in good company as a result. The previous record holder was Curtis Martin in 1997, who scored on three occasions and ran for 166 yards against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second year of the now Hall of Fame running back's career.
Only one running back has rushed for more touchdowns in a playoff game, and you need to go back to 1994 to find Ricky Watters' dominant performance against the New York Giants.
It became clear early that the Saturday night game wouldn't be an average Patriots game. Tom Brady had time in the pocket, but effective zone coverage took away deep passing lanes. This caused the offense to switch to more crossing routes, which allowed yards after the catch but didn't stretch the field. As a result, Brady finished with less than 200 passing yards and no touchdowns.
Blount picked up the slack. He not only ran effectively, but came through when it counted most. Entering the fourth quarter it appeared a comeback was possible, but the dagger was dropped on a 73-yard touchdown run that ensured it was impossible for Indianapolis to rebound.
If the Patriots can continue to run the ball effectively, it's hard to project a team in the AFC stopping them. Blount's stellar performance causes other players to be overlooked, but Stevan Ridley performed extremely well too -- finishing with 52 yards and two touchdowns of his own on 14 carries.
No team remaining in the AFC has the potential to run the ball like New England, and that could be the difference for a team that has struggled to make the Super Bowl in past years after being so close. Now Blount waits to see where he'll be running next, either in Denver or staying in Foxboro, where he can attempt to add to his legacy.
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otoh maybe we finally get credit card security reform in the ULOLOLOL JUST KIDDING DEREGULATION HAS MADE IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PUNISH BANKS FOR FAILING TO SECURE ANYTHING
Target and Neiman Marcus could be the tip of the iceberg, if a new Reuters report is correct. The organization writes that at least three other US retailers also suffered data breaches "using similar techniques" to the one that penetrated Target last month. Reuters doesn't specify the names of the companies affected, only that they are "well-known US retailers" which do their business in shopping malls, and aren't yet certain whether the people responsible for the Target breach — which exposed up to 70 million names, email address, and phone numbers — perpetrated these cyberattacks as well.
Target's business was notably affected by its breach, with the company announcing that sales might have fallen as much as 2.5 percent compared to the prior year due to the breach, so it's not surprising that other companies might not have come forward to announce that their data had been compromised unless compelled by law. However, Reuters' sources suggest that the other companies experienced smaller breaches than the one at Target, so perhaps the type or amount of data stolen wasn't sufficient to require a major announcement.
What do Austin Powers, Harry Potter, and Charles Xavier have in common? They're all British, to be sure, but they also all star in films where the game of chess plays a role. Now, one enterprising denizen of the internet has figured out the real games of chess that they must have played in those films — along with the game played by Genie and the Magic Carpet in Disney's Aladdin, the game between Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles, and three others.
Of course, those eight scenes barely scratch the surface of the traditional board game's role in film over the years. Check out this "Chess Rhapsody" series of videos, compiled by Lucius Etruscus, for a more thorough glimpse into the game's cinematic appeal. And for an added bonus, take a peek at "11 Movie Chess Scenes Where The Board Is Set Up Wrong" for some infamous movie goofs.
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Working on possibly new favorite Symbiosis character. Went to the Macross military academy. :D
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forgot the surprised-but-totally-into-it kiss from random female character/implied ex-spunky assistant during the duramtic pause
[you know thing that impossible well now IT HAPPEN]
Spunky Assistant: BUT DOCTOR NO THAT IMPOSSIBLE
Doctor: YES SPUNKY ASSISTANT IT IMPOSSIBLE
[duramtic pause]
Doctor: …BUT HAPPEN
[title card doo wee ooo HAPPEN OF THE DOCTOR by STEVEN MOFFAT]
firehoseso many typos
