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Review: Qualcomm’s Toq smartwatch lasts an extra, extra, extra long time
firehose"Seriously, you have to cut the non-replaceable watch band to size it? That's terrible."
Look at that cute little guy up there. That's me, age five-ish, standing in front of KITT at the Houston Auto Show in November 1983.
I'm kicking off with this picture because like so many geeks in their 30s, Knight Rider is what I instantly think of when I hear "smartwatch." The concept of a smaller computer on my wrist linked to a larger, much cooler computer has been with me since I was a wee lad. Back when Knight Rider was actually airing, I wanted a watch exactly like Michael Knight's—I badgered my parents into buying me a big Timex Ironman and spent my time on the playground yelling "KITT, I need you, buddy!" into it, pretending like I was summoning an invulnerable vehicular sidekick to take me away from recess and possibly run over the kids I didn't particularly like.
The good news is that three decades after Knight Rider started airing, smartwatches are happening. The bad news is that they're just not very good yet, and the Toq doesn't buck that trend. It hooks up via Bluetooth to Android devices—and only Android devices, so iOS and Windows Phone users will have to sit this out. Once connected it can show notifications. It can also be used to answer phone calls, play music, or read and reply to text messages—though the replies must come from a "quick reply" list. It does not, unfortunately, connect to a hydrogen turbine-powered black 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am. If it did, you would be reading a very different, much more awesome review that would include benchmarks like "Number of walls I turbo-boosted through" and "Time from 0 to 300 miles per hour."
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SB Nation endorses Chris McComas for North Dakota head coach
firehose"I was tired of dominating NCAA Football on my PS3 and knew they wouldn't be making a new version next year, so I decided it was time to take the next step in my coaching career. UND is a great job, it's cold as hell, but they play inside."
The right man to lead the team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux calls a lot of Hail Mary's, a lot of onside kicks, and is concerned about where he can get tacos.
After a 3-8 season, the North Dakota _________ (they don't have a mascot after they were forced to change their name from the Fighting Sioux) fired head coach Chris Mussman. We don't know who the _________ will pick, but we have a favorite candidate: Christopher McComas.
McComas is not a football coach. He works as an IT guy at Marshall University and his most hands-on experience with a college football team came as a student manager for the Thundering Herd. But despite his lack of credentials, he decided to go through the proper channels and officially file an application for the open _________ position
It started with an email to the school's athletic director:
Mr. Faison,
I would like to express to you my interest in your now open position for head coach of football at the University of North Dakota
Currently, I work in IT at a college in West Virginia, but I have many years of experience with football, starting with attending my first Marshall University football game when I was 3 years old. In the past 30 years I've only missed a handful of Marshall's home games, attended many road games, and all of their bowl games.
All the while I played various football games including Madden on Sega Genesis where I completely dominated with the Bills and Thurman Thomas. Seriously, was he a beast on the game or was he a beast because I was a football genius controlling him? I then moved on to a Playstation gaming system and purchased NCAA Football every year and put together several programs that completely dominated the recruiting scene and college football winning several national titles with Marshall University. I took them from a decent Mid-American Conference School on the game to a perennial national power that makes Nick Saban look like a chump. One year my third string quarterback left school early to enter the NFL Draft, he was a first round pick. Boom.
My football philosophy is basically an attacking one. We're going to give AIR RAID a whole new definition. Theoretically how many times do you think a team can pass in a game? Challenge accepted. We're going 5 wide, chucking the pigskin all over the place. Never punt. Onside every time. Chip Kelly will be calling me to learn my offense. We will put on an exciting brand of football, we will pack them into the Alerus Center night in and night out, go ahead and blow the roof off the place and add about 35,000 seats to that place.
I would love to speak with you further regarding this opening and what I can bring to UND, putting the UND back on the national map and making NDSU our bitch.
Attached to this email you will find a PowerPoint with more information.
Thanks,
Christopher McComas
PS - I prefer Coke to Pepsi, so go ahead and fill the fridge up in the head coach's office with Coke.
Here is that powerpoint, wherein McComas shows why he's the guy for the job:
A UND staffer sent a form letter back to McComas:
Brian Faison forwarded me your email and asked that I respond to you. Thank you for your interest in our head football coach position. We are confident that our program has a bright future and we are excited to begin the process of selecting a new coach.
The position has posted on the UND website as well as other appropriate websites. Please be sure that you apply in the formal designated manner through our Human Resources Office (online process) before the December 10th deadline. Failure to do so will result in our inability to consider you as a candidate. It is possible that you will receive an email from HR duplicating this information but I would encourage you to read that email carefully.
This is the link to the announcement on the UND website:
Directions for how to apply are at the following UND site:
http://und.edu/finance-
operations/human-resources- payroll/careers/how-to-apply. cfm
Again, thank you for your interest.
To which McComas replied:
Thank you very much for the email. I'll do this today for you all. Can I attach my sweet PowerPoint with the online application?
Also, some more very important questions:
1) How do you feel about me wearing a Steve Spurrier visor on the sideline for UND? 2) Will you guys go ahead and install an air raid siren in the Alerus Center for my offense?3) Are there any good taco stands in Grand Forks?
Thanks and GO UND ATHLETICS!
Christopher McComas
We got in touch with Chris to gauge how serious he was about his application.
So, why fill out a resume for the North Dakota head coaching job?
I noticed on Twitter from either @coachingsearch or @footballscoop that UND was looking for a new head coach, I was tired of dominating NCAA Football on my PS3 and knew they wouldn't be making a new version next year, so I decided it was time to take the next step in my coaching career. UND is a great job, it's cold as hell, but they play inside.
What (if any) affiliation do you have with North Dakota? It looks like you are a Marshall fan?
I have no affiliation with UND, I am a Marshall graduate, former football student Manager at Marshall and season ticket holder. I'm just the boss at college football.
At one point in your resume, you claim that you will make Nick Saban mediocre. At another, you say that you could be "the next Nick Saban?" Which is it? Are you better than Nick Saban, or just as good as him?
Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach possibly ever, there's no one above him. So, by saying I'd be the next Saban I just meant I'd be the greatest football coach ever. Saban has won a couple AP National Coach of the Year Awards, when I'm done I'll be winning multiple Christopher McComas Coach of the Year Awards.
Which Hail Mary play is your favorite Hail Mary play?
I like the Hail Mary Trio the best, but lets be honest, they're all touchdown makers.
How do you think your resume will be received/have you applied to any other jobs if UND does not work out?
I bet when their search committee first got the candidates' names and current positions, they wrote me off, but once they looked at the resume they couldn't stop thinking of me. It's probably been nothing but discussions in Grand Forks about if they can afford me or not. They're probably trying to move quickly before Mack Brown hangs it up, so Texas doesn't snatch me up before UND can get my signature on a contract.
You Don't Own Your Content (And That's Okay) #GreatDebate
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Your Traditional Marketing Tactics Don't Work on Millennials: Here's How to Adjust
firehosea linkedin job search glance turned into a horrowshow hate-reading black hole into my former employer's blog
The Novelist review: compromise
By Danielle Riendeau
on December 11, 2013 at 8:30p
| Game Info |
| Platform Win, Mac |
| Publisher Kent Hudson |
| Developer Kent Hudson |
| Release Date 2013-12-10 |
The Novelist is a quiet, contemplative game that got under my skin.
While it arrives on the heels of other notable non-combat, story-based games, it still manages to feel fresh and emotionally resonant. This is thanks to sincere, realistic writing and an inspired approach to player choice, which has you picking sides and making difficult compromises in the context of family conflicts.
The Novelist puts you in the ghostly shoes of a disembodied spirit, following the actions of a family of three during one 1970s-era summer in a coastal vacation home. By day, you explore the house and avoid the attention of the living inhabitants, possessing light fixtures and generally trying to remain unseen. By night, you are free to look around without fear of spooking anyone, and ghostly journal entries appear, detailing the lives of previous inhabitants.
Gameplay is simple, and reflects other non-combat games — you piece together bits of story from environmental cues, written notes, drawings and other clues. But The Novelist goes one better, requiring you to continually "possess" the members of the Kaplan family one at a time in order to discover memories and read their thoughts in order to make crucial story decisions. Mechanically, this adds some variety and strategy to the gameplay, and required me to approach the characters differently. It also allowed for a "living" environment, with interactions that felt interesting and intimate, beyond simply reading words on a page.
The Novelist allows interactions that are interesting and intimate, beyond simply reading words on a page.
In keeping with the theme, the game is organized into chapters, each with a central conflict. An unexpected life event will pop up, or questions about work/life balance, passion and creativity will put characters at odds with one another.
The members of the family — Dan, a struggling novelist, his wife Linda, an accomplished painter and Tommy, their young son — each have a preferred resolution. You have to decide which person gets their way in each segment. If you're diligent and discover all of the memories and clues, you can choose a compromise between two resolutions. For example, Linda might be interested in showing her art at a local gallery, while Dan wants to spend more time on his book, and Tommy wants more attention from his father. You can make one person very happy — or two people somewhat happy — but no matter what you do, someone will always be disappointed.
This mechanic is simple, but used brilliantly. The Novelist creates gameplay out of the often mundane — but difficult — decisions that are familiar to anyone with a partner or family. Dan and Linda both have competing creative ambitions, differing ideas about what's best for their family and worries about Tommy, who is struggling with a possible learning disability. Tommy, for his part, is a likable little kid who just wants to have fun, be accepted at school and enjoy his summer.
This is supported by earnest writing. Each character comes across as sympathetic and believable — if a little stereotypical. I felt for Dan and Linda equally, and often wrestled with who to side with in any given situation. And I cared about Tommy, whose clues were crayon drawings as often as not.
Stealth Life
You can play The Novelist as a stealthy ghost, or you can opt for story mode, which renders you invisible and allows you to run amok in the house with no need to worry about scaring anyone. I tried the game both ways — while stealth play offers more tension, the game is faster and better-paced when played in the story mode. As the controls are a hair touchy, and each Kaplan has a knack for turning around when I least expected it, this also led to a frustration-free experience.The writing and characters may be consistent, but they’re not exactly subtle — Dan’s and Linda’s letters and journal entries basically spell out exactly what they are missing or wishing for, and Tommy’s illustrations are typically pretty on-the-nose. When he wanted to have a sleepover with his friend Davey, I found a cute picture of him and the friend playing in a pillow fort. This tendency towards the obvious contributes to the game’s only major flaw — the framing of Dan as the sole Kaplan decision maker.
In order to register your choices as the player, you have to "whisper" to Dan — and only Dan — at night, and whatever you tell him goes for the family. This felt false to me — and more than a little condescending towards Linda, who is presented as an equal partner in the relationship.
This was also inconsistent with my playthrough. More often than not, I would compromise between the adults, or choose Linda’s option primarily. The Dan in my version of The Novelist was no overbearing patriarch — so his defaulting to "senior partner" for every choice was weird and ill-fitting.
Wrap Up:
The Novelist captures the quiet heartbreaks of family life.
While it didn't affect me personally as much as other games in its fledgling genre this year, The Novelist still caught me up in its quiet, achingly real world. I felt for all of the people in this house — alive or otherwise — and got genuinely wrapped up in each chapter of family drama. It expertly captures the compromises of family life and the impossible decisions everyone has to face at some point — between personal happiness and family stability.
The Novelist was reviewed using downloadable code provided by Kent Hudson. You can read more about Polygon's ethics policy here.
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Pee-wee’s (remastered) Christmas Adventure: An interview with Paul Reubens | Little Village
firehose“The show was never seen on film,” he says. “The show was shot on film and transferred to tape and edited on tape, and all the effects were done on tape. Then the entire show was put on another tape to broadcast, so there are three or four generations of quality that are lost on every episode. So we went back to the original film elements, and the company I’m working with has recreated every edit in every single show, and recreated all the effects from all the original elements—which we were lucky to have kept.”
“It looks unbelievable. It’s so extreme, people are going to freak out when they see it,” Reubens adds. “The detail and clarity and color is amazing.” This means that Gary Panter’s set design, the stop motion animation and other details will come alive in psychedelic high definition. It’s the kids show equivalent of being upgraded from cough syrup to mescaline.
hodadKembrew’s son Alasdair is obsessed with performance art.
Pee-Wee is back with a newly remastered version of the famed Playhouse Christmas special. — illustration by Ben Mackey
Christmas! AAAAAHHHHH!
This year marks the quarter century anniversary of Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, perhaps the most mind-bending holiday special ever aired by network television. “I really wanted to do something around the holidays,” Paul Reubens tells me, “so it seemed like doing a Christmas special would be a lot of fun.”
Reubens was inspired by the many holiday shows he grew up with, which he filtered through his singular aesthetic. “I loved Charlie Brown,” he says, “the Rudolf ones—the stop motion ones with Burle Ives—and the King family.”
Reubens’s Christmas Special may share its DNA with those programs, but it certainly is not your typical holiday special. A dinosaur family celebrates Hanukkah, Randy the puppet rants about how “Christmas is just a commercial exploitation for big business trying to capitalize on consumer guilt,” and let’s not forget the running joke involving Pee-wee Herman being given multiple fruitcakes. At the end of the special, two buff construction workers use those brick-like desserts to build an annex to the playhouse—what Reubens jokingly calls “the fruitcake room” in the DVD commentary track.
In addition to regular Pee-wee’s Playhouse cast members like Lawrence Fishburne, who played Cowboy Curtis, Reubens’s Christmas Special features an oddly eclectic group of guest stars: Cher, Magic Johnson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, k.d. lang, Oprah Winfrey, Charo, Joan Rivers, Grace Jones, Whoopie Goldberg, Little Richard, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello—among others.
The hour-long special is an eye-popping gumbo of stop motion animation, cartoons, puppets, guest star turns and live action antics. The opening sequence itself is a work of art: Clocking in at just over three minutes, it begins with a prelude theme written by composer Van Dyke Parks. (It replaced the show’s regular opening music, a cover of Martin Denny’s “Quiet Village,” which arguably helped kick off the “exotica” music revival of the 1990s).
“Today’s secret word is, ‘year!’ Now, you all know what to do when anyone says the secret word, right Cher?”
The tranquil animated prelude—which features a snow-covered Playhouse and its surrounding landscape—is followed by a madcap dance number featuring the UCLA Men’s Choir dressed as U.S. Marines. It is Reubens’s favorite part of the special. “I just liked that it goes on for so long,” he says. “I like that when you list all the stars and all the inhabitants of the Playhouse, it just goes on and on and on and on. It’s so fast and energetic, and I just think it’s so funny that there are so many people in it.”
The guest star turns by Cher, Grace Jones, Charo, Little Richard and others are certainly colorful, but Reubens bristles at the suggestion that the guest stars were selected for their camp value. “Because we still know them now,” he says, referring to the fact that many of the guest stars continue to be recognizable icons, “it would indicate that they are more legendary and classic, than just campy.”
“It was an unbelievable roster of talent,” Reubens adds. “We had a big list of who to choose from and who was available, and we just went down the list and picked out the people we most wanted—and got every single one of them.”
The small screen can barely contain the guest stars’ exuberant charm. Grace Jones, who is delivered to the Playhouse in a crate by Reba the Mail Lady, sings a goth-disco version of “The Little Drummer Boy.” Her shiny chest plate and headpiece are out of this world, as is the song’s backing track, which was reportedly arranged and recorded by David Bowie. Oprah Winfrey beams in via videophone, Little Richard attempts ice skating and Cher drops by for the day’s secret word—“year”—provided by a robot named Conky 2000.
I previously invoked the term “eye-popping” to describe Pee-wee’s Playhouse, but starting next year, viewers will run the risk of having their eyeballs permanently dislodged from their sockets. “The Christmas Special is going to come out, along with the entire Playhouse series, on Blu-ray,” Reubens tells me. “It’s being remastered now.”
“The show was never seen on film,” he says. “The show was shot on film and transferred to tape and edited on tape, and all the effects were done on tape. Then the entire show was put on another tape to broadcast, so there are three or four generations of quality that are lost on every episode. So we went back to the original film elements, and the company I’m working with has recreated every edit in every single show, and recreated all the effects from all the original elements—which we were lucky to have kept.”
“It looks unbelievable. It’s so extreme, people are going to freak out when they see it,” Reubens adds. “The detail and clarity and color is amazing.” This means that Gary Panter’s set design, the stop motion animation and other details will come alive in psychedelic high definition. It’s the kids show equivalent of being upgraded from cough syrup to mescaline.
When Pee-wee’s Playhouse debuted in 1986, it looked like little else on Saturday morning television—which is why the show appealed to kids of all ages, from preschoolers to grad students. “There weren’t a lot of live action shows for kids when my show came on,” he says. “Most other shows were animated, so just having a live person host the show was a little bit unusual at the time. Although my show was a throwback to the shows I grew up on.”
The retrofuturistic look of Pee-wee’s Playhouse had a lot to do with its mixed-media format. The segments featuring Pee-wee and the cast are interspersed with cartoons, puppets, stop-motion animation and the occasional musical number. “It was a blend of different elements that I liked from different shows.” Reubens recalls, “It seems like Captain Kangaroo and The Mickey Mouse Club—they had different segments they would cut to. Lots of different mediums and elements were used in other shows, and they were all things I liked so I just tried to blend them all together.”
Another thing that made Pee-wee’s Playhouse so forward looking was the diversity of the cast—in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and even body type. “That was something I went out of my way to do,” he says. “I would argue that it’s as diverse as anything on television right now, if not more.” Take for example the recurring El Hombre! segment, which stars a Latino superhero. What made the cartoon so unique—especially for a network television show in the 1980s—was that it was aired entirely in Spanish, with no subtitles.
“I thought that if you spoke Spanish and you were watching my show,” he explains, “here was something only you understood. You had a disadvantage for most of the show if you didn’t speak English, but then it was sort of reversed. And if you were English-speaking and you saw a cartoon that was only in Spanish, it would open your eyes and ears to the concept of another language.”
From Jewish dinosaurs to black cowboys, a joyful inclusive spirit permeates Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special. Twenty-five years after CBS unleashed Paul Reubens’s technicolor winter wonder dreamscape on the world, viewers are still picking up pieces from their blown minds.
Kembrew McLeod would like to thank his son Alasdair, Pee-wee’s biggest fan, for choosing to obsessively watch Pee-wee’s Playhouse instead of Barney. And thanks to Paul Reubens for recording a personalized Pee-wee birthday message for Alasdair’s third birthday.
An interactive map that lets you hear New York in 1933
It's basically an audio time machine. Tech historian Emily Thompson, out of Princeton, has put together an interactive map of New York circa 1933, embedded with the old sounds of the city.
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Structures of Iceland | Fred Horton | Tumblr Structures of...
Structures of Iceland | Fred Horton | Tumblr
Structures of Iceland shows the different types of man made buildings in the shadow of the icelandic landscape.
Report: Fallout 4 in development, set in Boston
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Fallout 4 is in development and "appears to be set in Boston", Kotaku reports based on documents obtained by the publication.
The documents in question pertain to a casting call for a project codenamed Institute. Though they do not reference the Fallout series directly, several references to the series' "setting and locations" appear throughout, including the codename itself. According to Kotaku, Institute's casting director is also linked to previous projects at developer Bethesda Game Studio.
The post-apocalyptic series already includes a version of Massachusetts. Known as The Commonwealth, the former state houses the Institute, a secretive version of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This is not the first time rumors of Fallout 4 have centered on Boston. An anonymous poster on Reddit who "may or may not be an MIT employee" claimed in August 2012 that Bethesda had visited Boston locations. In January 2013, Fallout 3 voice actor Erik Dellums, who portrayed DJ Three Dog, teased on Twitter that there "may be more of the Dog coming."
Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It
firehose"the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
MLB instituting ban on home-plate collisions
firehosehey wait baseball was too much fun to watch sometimes! people might get excited
better take care of that
The final draft of the rule change will be submitted to the MLB Players Association for approval next month.
Major League Baseball's rules committee has decided to implement a ban on home-plate collisions that could go into effect as early as 2014, reports Mark Feinsand of the NY Daily News.
The specifics of the rule change have yet to be laid out, but it's generally expected that: 1) runners will no longer be allowed to target the catcher as they cross home plate, and 2) catchers won't be allowed to block the plate.
"We want to change the culture of acceptance that these plays are ordinary and routine," said Mets GM Sandy Alderson, via Jesse Spector of Sporting News.
The enforcement of the rule is "subject to final determination," according to Alderson, which means that umpires could potentially use their new expanded privilege of replay review to decide if the rule was violated. If it's determined that a player violated the rule, he could be subject to a fine or suspension, reports Bob Nightengale of USA Today.
A final draft of the rule will be written up and sent to the MLB Players Association for approval sometime next month. The plan is to institute the rule change immediately, but if the union rejects it, the league can unilaterally implement it for the 2015 season.
A rule change regarding collisions at home has been bandied about for a while -- particularly in the wake of Buster Posey's gruesome 2011 injury -- but on Wednesday the committee finally decided to put it to a vote. It's unclear who are members of that committee, but all managers present for the vote -- including former catcher Mike Scioscia -- decided in favor of changing the rule, reports Andrew Baggarly of CSN Bay Area.
More from SB Nation MLB:
• Jeb Lund: The Winter Meetings, where nothing is necessary
• Tigers could trade for Matt Kemp, according to reports
• Trumbo, Eaton highlight 3-team trade between Angels, D-Backs, White Sox
• Goldman: Arizona might be only loser in deal
• Death of a Ballplayer: Wrongly convicted prospect spends 27 years in prison
Simon Pegg will star in the brand new film from the Monty Python crew
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"The film will also star Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and John Cleese.
Pegg will play Neil Clarke, who is "a disillusioned school teacher who suddenly finds he has magical powers, bestowed upon him by aliens." And the Monty Python crew will voice the aliens! Reports say that the movie is both live action and CG. Oh and Robin Williams is going to voice Pegg's dog."
Looks like Simon Pegg has crossed one more genre staple off his movie bucket list: zombies, aliens, Star Trek, Doctor Who, and now Monty Python.
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lavaporeon: wangs-of-freedom: nowyoukno: More Facts. Of...
Of course it is.
ALL BITCHES THIS IS MY HOME TOWN TAKE A FUCKING SEAT WHILE I TELL YOU THIS STORY. GET A BOWL OF POPCORN BECAUSE THIS SHIT IS DOPE
IN THE 1940’S PORTLAND WAS PUTTING IN LAMPPOSTS AND FOR WHATEVER GOD DAMN REASON THIS ONE NEVER GOT FILLED.IN 1946, DICK FAGAN, AN AMERICAN IRISHMAN WHO WROTE FOR THE OREGON JOURNAL, GOT BLOODY FUCKING BORED AT HIS JOB AND WOULD LOOK OUT HIS WINDOW ONTO THIS SAD EXCUSE FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION HOLE. ONE DAY HE SAID “FUCK THIS” AND PLANTED SOME FLOWERS.
HE WROTE ABOUT THIS NEW FUCKING PARK AND SPOKE ABOUT HOW LEPRECHAUNS LIVED THERE AND SHIT. MOTHERFUCKING LEPRECHAUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF DOWNTOWN, WHAT THE SHIT.
HOLD ONTO TO THE EDGE OF YOUR SEATS BECAUSE THIS RIDE GETS EVEN BETTER. THIS PARK HOLDS A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR BEING THE SMALLEST PARK WITH WITH INFORMATION SAYING “It was designated as a city park on 17 March 1948 at the behest of the city journalist Dick Fagan (USA) for snail races and as a colony for leprechauns”. MOTHER. FUCKING. SNAIL RACES. BITCHES.
IT’S EVEN BEEN PIMPED OUT OVER THE YEARSHO HO HO MOTHERFUCKS WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS HERE
WE CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
THE BEST PART IS THAT IT EVEN HAD OCCUPY PORTLAND PROTESTERS
SO I HOPE YOU FUCKING LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY ABOUT TINY ASS PARKS.
latenightjimmy: Yo Gabba Gabba took some pretty amazing photos...
firehose[Top: with John Goodman, Bottom: with Michelle Dockery and Biz Markie]
Yo Gabba Gabba took some pretty amazing photos backstage yesterday.
[Top: with John Goodman, Bottom: with Michelle Dockery and Biz Markie]
Infographic: Gun Laws Passed This Year
firehoseVirginia: Those purchasing guns must present valid form of ID or plausible-sounding explanation for why they cannot
Alabama: Allows gun owners to carry concealed racial biases
New Mexico: Requires mandatory safety program to train gun owners in the precise method of dancing around bullets being fired at their feet
Mississippi: Residents allowed to own any weapon they can securely tuck into the waist of their pants
Massachusetts: Requires all bullets be hand-thrown
Indiana: Strengthens requirements for state officials to look the other goddamn way
South Dakota: New law allows for one good, clean shot at Mount Rushmore
Texas: Empowers gun owners to preemptively kill any politician attempting to pass a law infringing on their rights
Florida: Gun owners permitted to do anything as long as they have good enough lawyer
Pennsylvania: Officially recognizes how sad all of this is
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AT&T accused of violating privacy law with sale of phone records to CIA
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Consumer advocates have asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to declare that AT&T violated a privacy rule in the Communications Act by selling phone records to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
A report last month said that "AT&T has turned over international calling records to the CIA. The telecom charges the CIA more than $10 million per year in exchange for access to metadata about calls by suspected terrorists overseas."
In response, a group of consumer advocacy groups led by Public Knowledge filed a petition today with the FCC.
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Gameplay videos getting flagged on YouTube again
firehose"Some publishers, such as Capcom, Deep Silver, Ubisoft and Blizzard, are asking users to contest the claims so they can quickly dismiss the dispute from their end"
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YouTube has confirmed it's taking a fresher, steely approach to videos flagged by its "Content ID Match" system, which will have an impact on monetization of Let's Play content. Prominent accounts such as TheRadBrad, TetraNinja and GhostRobo have received claims, which seem to be targeting music specifically. A YouTube representative told Game Informer that these claims are part of some policy updates to better help content networks be more transparent.
"Nothing illustrates the incredible growth and evolution of YouTube better than the enterprise class of businesses being built on the platform today," the statement reads. "As these networks grow, we're making product and policy updates that will help them operate at scale. We are also rolling out tools that will provide more transparency for creators and networks alike. This is part of our commitment to ensure that all enterprise partners can continue to thrive and be successful on YouTube."Some publishers, such as Capcom, Deep Silver, Ubisoft and Blizzard, are asking users to contest the claims so they can quickly dismiss the dispute from their end, while others report a third-party account called 4GamerMovie is specifically targeting all Metro: Last Light footage. Another company called IDOL, which has been known to issue claims on a much smaller scale in the past, is also contesting YouTube videos.
Earlier this year, Nintendo issued mass claims for a wide number of Let's Play videos. While anyone is free to upload footage of a game to YouTube, those videos technically do not fall under Fair Use.
Gameplay videos getting flagged on YouTube again originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Missouri Executes Allen Nicklasson, Who Was Convicted in Killing of Good ... - ABC News
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