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The size of the universe in small numbers.

The numbers.

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Astronaut Rick Mastracchio during the Christmas Eve spacewalk

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Please post your scores in the comments. HONOR SYSTEM, kids. Honor system! Only the nerdiest shall prevail. If you have a degree in library science, please assign yourself a two-point penalty.

1. Married people
College teachers
New England

2. Private investigators
Tourette syndrome
Orphans
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

3. Totalitarianism
London (England)

4. Physicians’ spouses
Adultery
Suicide victims
Middle class
France

5. Parents – Death – Psychological aspects
Brothers

6. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Rejection (Psychology)
Rural families
Foundlings
Yorkshire (England)

7. Europeans – Africa
Trading posts
Degeneration
Imperialism
Africa

8. Teenage girls
Country life
Ex-convicts
Sisters
Guilt
England

9. Kings and rulers
Murder victims’ families
Fathers
Revenge
Princes
Denmark

10. Mothers and sons
Young men
New Orleans (La.)

11. Psychotherapist and patient
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Horses
Teenage boys

12. People with mental disabilities
African American women cooks
Aristocracy (Social class)
Illegitimate children
Brothers and sisters
Mississippi

13. Assimilation (Sociology)
Interracial marriage
Genetic engineering
Fate and fatalism
Ethnic relations
Male friendship
Race relations
Immigrants
London (England)

14. Runaway teenagers
Teenage boys
New York (N.Y.)

15. Greek Americans
Gender identity
Intersexuality
Teenagers
Grosse Pointe (Mich.)
Detroit (Mich.)

16. Social classes
Young women
Courtship
Sisters
England

17. Dominican Americans

18. Executions and executioners
Fathers and daughters
Lookalikes
Paris (France)
London (England)
France – History – Revolution

19. Alienation (Social psychology)
City and town life
Male friendship
Married people
Jewish men
Artists
Dublin (Ireland)

20. Americans – Ukraine
World War, 1939-1945
Jewish families
Grandfathers
Novelists
Young men
Ukraine

21. Children of prostitutes
Fathers and sons
Sibling rivalry
Brothers
Salinas River Valley (Calif.)

22. Missing persons
Mexico City (Mexico)

23. Traffic accidents
Married women
First loves
Rich people
Mistresses
Revenge
Long Island (N.Y.)

24. Married people
Women teachers
Sisters
Widows
New Orleans (La.)

25. Middle-aged men
Girls

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Answers: (1) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2) Motherless Brooklyn (3) 1984 (4) Madame Bovary (5) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (6) Wuthering Heights (7) Heart of Darkness (8) Atonement (9) Hamlet (10) A Confederacy of Dunces (11) Equus (12) The Sound and the Fury (13) White Teeth (14) The Catcher in the Rye (15) Middlesex (16) Pride and Prejudice (17) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (18) A Tale of Two Cities (19) Ulysses (20) Everything Is Illuminated (21) East of Eden (22) The Savage Detectives (23) The Great Gatsby (24) A Streetcar Named Desire (25) Lolita

Read more Guess the Book from Its Library of Congress Subject Keywords! at The Toast.

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Next you're gonna tell me...

Last week, the press box at the Little Caesar's Bowl ran out of pizza. Tuesday, the unthinkable happened:

In a bizarre twist the ChickfilA Bowl ran out of chicken. Salad Bowl?

— Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) January 1, 2014

Next you're gonna tell me the Rose Bowl ran out of roses.

Next you're gonna tell me the Orange Bowl ran out of oranges.

Next you're gonna tell me the Sugar Bowl ran out of sugar.

Next you're gonna tell me the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl ran out of all the Tostitos.

Next you're gonna tell me the Sun Bowl ran out of light.

Next you're gonna tell me the Cotton Bowl ran out of cotton.

Next you're gonna tell me the Capital One Bowl ran out of bank loans.

Next you're gonna tell me the Liberty Bowl ran out of liberty.

Next you're gonna tell me the AdvoCare V100 Bowl ran out of I have no idea what that is.

Next you're gonna tell me the Holiday Bowl ran out of Madonna songs.

Next you're gonna tell me the Outback Bowl ran out of Bloomin' Onions.

Next you're gonna tell me the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl ran out of diarrhea.

Next you're gonna tell me the Russell Athletic Bowl ran out of sweatpants.

Next you're gonna tell me the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl ran out of motor lubricants.

Next you're gonna tell me the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl ran out of famous Idaho potatoes

Next you're gonna tell me the Music City Bowl ran out of miracles.

Next you're gonna tell me the Go Daddy Bowl ran out of domain names.

Next you're gonna tell me the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl ran out of freight.

Next you're gonna tell me the  Fight Hunger Bowl ran out of ... uhh ...

Next you're gonna tell me the Belk Bowl ran out of the latest in women's, men's, juniors' and kids' apparel.

Next you're gonna tell me the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl ran out of hotel rooms.

Next you're gonna tell me the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl ran out of helicopters.

Next you're gonna tell me the Poinsettia Bowl ran out of Christmasy plants.

Next you're gonna tell me somebody messed with the Texas Bowl.

Next you're gonna tell me the BBVA Compass Bowl ran out of ... direction?

Next you're gonna tell me the Gildan New Mexico Bowl ran out of CafePress t-shirts.

Next you're gonna tell me the Northrop Grunman Military Bowl ran out of what the hell is that.

Next you're gonna tell me the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl ran out of apostrophes.

Next you're gonna tell me the New Era Pinstripe Bowl ran out of flat-brim hats with the stickers still on them.

Next you're gonna tell me the Heart of Dallas Bowl ran out of Hearts of Dallas.

It is ironic for a bowl game press box to run out of the goods produced by the bowl's chief sponsor.

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Baby’s first tattoo sleeve.

Your Grandpa’s Pocket Reviews of the “Classy” Movies He Saw This Year:

brightwalldarkroom:

Gravity
Ryan is a very strange name for a girl, but I like that Mr. George Clooney was actually really alive the whole time.

Frances Ha/Nebraska
I prefer my movies in color these days, thank you very much.

Upstream Color
I have no idea what this was that I just watched.

Her
Not for me.

Something I wrote for fun the other day, and posted to BW/DR this morning.

Boujemaa Razgui, a flute virtuoso who lives in New York and works with many US ensembles, was returning to base over the holiday when Customs officials at Kennedy Airport asked to see his instruments.

Bourjemaa carries a variety of flutes of varying ethnicity, each made by himself over years for specific types of ancient and modern performance. He is a regular guest with the diverse and enterprising Boston Camerata.

At JFK, the officials removed and smashed each and every one of his instruments. No reason was given.

We have been unable to reach the distressed Boujemaa but a swell of outrage is rising among his musician friends. One ensemble director tells us: ‘I can’t think of an uglier, stupider thing for the U.S. government to do than to deprive this man of the tools of his art and a big piece of his livelihood.’

Boujemaa needs all the support he can get. Messages of sympathy on Slipped Disc will reach him one way or other.

 

UPDATE: We have just managed to reach Boudemaa by phone. His ordeal may have been worse than described above. Report here.

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There's noise—noise-pop, noise-rap, Perfect Pussy, Death Grips, blah blah blah—and then there's NOISE. Harsh, unrelenting noise. The latter fills the bleak, broken world of the Portland artist known as Redneck, whose new cassette Possession dropped today like a just-sharpened hatchet into your party-hatted skull via heavy Portland label Eolian Empire. Happy New Year.

On Friday, January 3, Redneck will contribute his wildly physical set of sonic destruction—noisy field recordings cranked up and distorted into oblivion, guttural screaming and blank, bloodied stares—to what should be an all-around tense evening at Tonic Lounge. Joining him there: Sinister local avant-metal duo the Body, like-minded touring bands Wrekmeister Harmonies and Corrections House (a hellish supergroup that includes members of Neurosis and Eyehategod), and more. Bring your bad vibes and the deepest pool of aural endurance you can muster.

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I believe Rocket Girl #3 will be out early today at most comics stores!  SO GO GET YOUR COPY!!!!  And please spread the word!  Lots of future in this one, and that also means some fun colors.

Read it quick, because I wanna post images without spoiling anything!

Happy New Year!  May your future be full of flying cars and rocket packs.

Any thoughts from those of you who have gotten a chance to read it?

Knicks Twitter is the best Twitter.

Carmelo Anthony, or perhaps his PR team, posted an empty but harmless promotional tweet Tuesday afternoon. A grumpy fan, as grumpy fans are wont to do, replied with broad hostility unrelated to the original tweet:

@carmeloanthony how about you win a ring you fucking kill me man rooting for you all the fucking time annd you always disappoint me

— A.B (@__Kingsleyy5) December 31, 2013

Melo--and definitely not his PR team this time--responded:

@__Kingsleyy5 I didn't ask for your glazed donut face ass to root for me anyway!!!!

— Carmelo Anthony (@carmeloanthony) December 31, 2013

Now considering that the fan's face and any asses therein are obscured in his photo, I have trouble figuring out why Melo picked that particular putdown. I approve, though, and I approve of the four exclamation points, and I approve of this being Melo's only Twitter reply in more than three months. Excellent work all around.

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Fantasy Flight Games has released their Diskwars game. Go pick it up. Source From the release: The war horns blare. Your enemy approaches, and your soldiers roar for blood and battle. It’s time to lead your charge. Warhammer: Diskwars is now available at your local retailer and online through our webstore!

Next fall, Fantagraphics will publish Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, featuring stories by an array of well known Japanese manga creators, many of whom have never been published in English before. Massive was originally slated to be published by PictureBox, but the company closed its doors at the end of [...]

Defining a Symbol


Duplicating a Symbol


Redefining a Symbol to instantly make changes throughout a document!

Tutorial: Harnessing the Power of Illustrator’s “Symbols” Feature in Transit Map Design

Imagine this scenario: you’ve been working for months on a complex transit map – lots of interchanges and routes – for a big-city transit agency and you’re presenting it to their management team for approval. They love it, except they’d like the circular interchange markers you’ve used to be square with rounded edges instead. And they’d like to see the revised version in an hour.

If you’ve used standard Illustrator artwork for each of your interchanges, then you’ve got a frantic afternoon of finding, deleting and replacing every interchange marker on the map ahead of you. However, if you’d used Illustrator’s Symbols feature, then this request would be an absolute breeze.

Symbols were quietly introduced into Illustrator way back when Adobe acquired Macromedia, and are a feature lifted directly from Flash. Put simply, the feature allows you to define Illustrator artwork as a “symbol”: every duplicate of that symbol is linked to that original artwork. Which means that when you edit the symbol’s artwork, it instantly updates all the duplicates (or “instances”, as Adobe likes to call them). Super powerful and not used nearly enough by most.

STEP ONE: Defining a symbol couldn’t be easier, as seem in the first image above. With the Symbols palette open (Window menu > Symbols or Shift-Cmd/Ctrl-F11), simply select your artwork and choose “New Symbol…” or click on the “New Symbol” icon at the bottom of the palette. In the resulting dialog box, give your symbol a descriptive name, and choose a registration point. For an interchange symbol, the centre point is best. If you’re creating a symbol for a “tick” mark, then use a registration point that matches where you’d like the tick to attach to its route line. 

Click “OK” and you’re done!

STEP TWO: Picture 2 shows the Symbols palette with three different station marker symbols set up and ready to use. If you are using “ticks” or other markers that are colour-coded to the route lines, you’ll have to make symbols for each colour and variation needed. To make more instances of a symbol, you can drag one out of the Symbols palette onto your artboard, or you can simply duplicate one that already exists. Symbols are readily distinguishable from normal artwork: they have a little bounding box and a little “+” marker that corresponds to the registration point you defined in Step 1. For a symbol where the registration point doesn’t actually align with anything useful, like the double interchange marker, you can still see and use the centre points from the original artwork to align things properly.

STEP THREE: The third picture shows the solution to our problem and the real benefit of using Symbols. I’ve created new artwork for the interchange marker – a square with rounded edges, just as the client requested. With that artwork selected, click on the “Interchange” symbol in the Symbols palette and choose “Redefine Symbol” from the flyout menu. Instantly, every instance of that symbol takes on the new appearance! You can also double-click on any instance of a symbol to edit it, but I find this “Redefine” method easier when completely changing the look of a symbol.

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In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon.The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29. [Wiki]

Awesome women in history.

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I can’t explain how much I love rulebreaking, society changing, progressive women.

— Olivia

New year, new ways to kill time on your couch.