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Earlier this week, the rapper made his final rant of the year, but said it would be the last time he would do so for a while, saying that fans would have to re-listen to old interviews if they wanted to hear "some realness."

No one

Also its *AN ISSUE* to encourage a bunch of misogynistic privileged white dudes to go galavanting off to get underage girls into computers

I was looking for reference of female Soviet snipers from WWII, and ran across other people that used them for projects. I guess I’m not doing it right. 

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Reporter Luke O'Neil writes that 2013 was journalism's year of bungles: the New Jersey waitress who received a homophobic comment on the receipt from a party she had served; Samsung paying Apple $1 billion in nickels; former NSA chief Michael Hayden's assassination; #CutForBieber; Nelson Mandela's death pic; that eagle snatching a child off the ground on YouTube; Jimmy Kimmel's 'twerk fail' video; and Sarah Palin taking a job with Al-Jazeera America (an obviously satirical story that even suckered in The Washington Post). All these stories had one thing in common: They seemed too tidily packaged, too neat, 'too good to check,' as they used to say, to actually be true. 'Any number of reporters or editors at any of the hundreds of sites that posted these Platonic ideals of shareability could've told you that they smelled, but in the ongoing decimation of the publishing industry, fact-checking has been outsourced to the readers,' writes O'Neil. 'This is not a glitch in the system. It is the system. Readers are gullible, the media is feckless, garbage is circulated around, and everyone goes to bed happy and fed.' O'Neil says that the stories he's written this year that took the least amount of time and effort usually did the most traffic while his more in-depth, reported pieces didn't stand a chance against riffs on things predestined to go viral. That's the secret that Upworthy, BuzzFeed, MailOnline, Viral Nova, and their dozens of knockoffs have figured out: You don't need to write anymore—just write a good headline and point. 'As Big Viral gets bigger, traditional media organizations are scrambling to keep pace,' concludes O'Neil. 'We the media have betrayed your trust, and the general public has taken our self-sanctioned lowering of standards as tacit permission to lower their own.'"

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In the latest episode of Mental Floss, host John Green shares “38 Bizarre Items Dropped on New Year’s Eve.” For example, Mobile, Alabama drops a 350-pound electronic Moon Pie, and a drag queen named Sushi gets dropped in a giant high heel in Key West, Florida.

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Ken Block is the internet's favorite stunt driver. But what would it look like if his videos were made on a slightly smaller scale?

French President Francois Hollande received approval from the country’s constitutional court to proceed with his plan to tax salaries above 1 million euros at 75 percent for this year and next.

At the time, I considered myself a thoughtful person, yet I could hardly claim to be one if you judged me by the company I kept. The young lady knew something I had not yet learned: most of our supporters were totally f*cking nuts.

The junior senator from Texas is still a Canadian. But he’s working on it, eh?

Tasha Lem is another Strong Woman who the Doctor flirts with (like Liz Ten). They have a rich off-screen history together (like Madame Vastra and Strax), which (also like Madame Vastra and Strax) includes her having once been a bad person. (And any idiot can fly the TARDIS, if she likes you and thinks you ought to get wherever it is you want to go.) Time of the Doctor repeats motifs from throughout Matt Smith's seasons, so it makes sense that Tasha Lem seems familiar; she's an amalgam of character traits and tropes Moffat's already used, many of them in River Song. But she's not any particular character we already know.

Did you miss satirical news pundit Stephen Colbert's brief appearance in the new Hobbit movie? Some eagle-eyed viewers have spotted the Tolkien superfan's face in Lake-town.

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Bloomberg: NYC Murder, Shooting Rates Reach Record Low WTMA (NEW YORK) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Friday new all-time lows for homicide and shooting rates in the city's history. The announcement at the New York Police Department graduation ... and more »

McGruber writes "Seven metro Atlanta residents are facing theft, fraud, and racketeering charges for allegedly selling counterfeit MARTA Breeze cards. Breeze cards (http://www.breezecard.com/) are stored value smart cards that passengers use as part of an automated fare collection system which the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority introduced to the general public in October 2006. Breeze cards are supplied by Cubic Transportation Systems (http://cts.cubic.com/), an American company that provides automated fare collection equipment and services to the mass transit industry. At the time of this slashdot submission, the Wikipedia page for the Breeze Card (last modified on 2 August 2013 at 14:52) says: 'The Breeze Card uses the MIFARE smart-card system from Dutch company NXP Semiconductors, a spin-off from Philips. The disposable, single-use, cards are using on the MIFARE Ultralight while the multiple-use plastic cards are the MIFARE Classic cards. There have been many concerns about the security of the system, mainly caused by the poor encryption method used for the cards.'"

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There’s no requirement, except I have to be invited by the con and have time in my schedule…last year, even going to as many cons as I possibly could, I had to turn down over seventy events. There just wasn’t enough time.

HOWEVER, this year, I believe I actually am attending the Boston Comic Con. See you there?

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These shirts narrate my life…

can i seriously get that last one please

Bitches get stuff done. 

#butts

MLS Best of 2013: Timbers Army Take Supporters' Tifo of the Year:

Rain or Shine Supporters.

Best of 2013: World's First Digital Laser Designed and Built in Africa:

From February 2013.

Red Alert C-Wams Project, Planetek Hellas/ESA.

Several of the world’s largest desalination plants sit along the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Every year, they deliver 115 billion gallons of potable water to more than 550,000 people in Dubai alone. But the plants have had to slow or shut down production more frequently over the past decade because of an unexpected disturbance: massive algal blooms in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. The algae, known as red tide, clog pipes and filters at the plants. For warning of an approaching bloom, local authorities now consult data from a European Space Agency project, which began in 2012. When a passing satellite captures an image of an algal bloom (and software scans for the algae’s chlorophyll, represented by the intensity of redness), officials alert plant managers, who then have a few days to decide how to adjust water production.