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Reblogging because of how proud Josie is of remembering the quote in the first gif.

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"Applebee’s & Me" part nine in a series

In the internet meme war between cats and dogs, the dogs are currently winning. The "doge" meme features an image (often of an adorable shiba dog), annotated with distinctive phrases representing the thoughts of the dog — or the dragon, or whatever is being depicted. What has the internet gained in its move from LOLcats to doges?

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After a year of racking up accolades for serious-minded dramas and closely watched cult revivals, Netflix—like so many of us—is ready to just kick back and laugh at a drunk horse for a while. Today it announced its next original series, BoJack Horseman, a cartoon about a whiskey-swilling equine (voiced by ideal talking horse guy Will Arnett) who used to star in a popular ’90s sitcom called Horsin’ Around. Aided by his former human sidekick (played by ideal sidekick guy Aaron Paul) and his cat agent who also happens to be his ex-lover (played by ideal anything Amy Sedaris), he tries to break back into showbiz, all while dealing with the usual washed-up celebrity and drunk horse problems. BoJack is set to debut sometime next year in one 12-episode glob, so you can binge-watch a whiskeyed-up Will Arnett horse, the way you were meant to.  

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- here’s my ‘life of christ’ in 10 gifs - 

i left out the other two i made, so that i could make this little, tumblr-friendly packet. enjoy. 

Going gluten-free is all the rage these days. It's the diet of choice for Hollywood starlets and health nuts alike; supermarket aisles are packed full of products touting their lack of the stretchy protein. But for a lot of people, the gluten-free lifestyle may do more harm than good.

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School drops sexual harassment claim against 6-year-old who kissed girl FOX43.com (CNN) — Amid a tidal wave of negative publicity, a Colorado school system has let a 6-year-old boy return to school and said it won't classify his kissing a girl on the hand as sexual harassment. The story of first-grader Hunter Yelton made national news and ... Girl's mother praises boy's kissing suspensionCorvallis Gazette Times all 435 news articles »

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the elusive chimichanga beast strikes again

Oh cripes, somebody do an illustration of the terrifying woodland chimichanga…

The price of a single bitcoin, now sitting at $899, is derived from many mysterious sources: supply and demand, potential future business value, animal spirits. One factor is less widely understood: The price of bitcoin depends on the price of electricity.

Bitcoin are produced by “mining,” having computers solve code-breaking problems that, when completed, yield a unique bitcoin. The more bitcoin that are mined, the harder those problems become, a wrinkle designed to control inflation in the crytpocurrency and one some economists suspect will lead to future deflation. But the cost of solving those problems is basically a function of processor power and electricity. And according to Blockchain, an organization that monitors the peer-to-peer currency, today bitcoin miners spend approximately $17 million on this task daily—and, at current valuations, only make bitcoin worth $4.4 million

That calculation is based on a few assumptions, which makes it worth taking with a grain of salt. One is that the network solves 7.5 million billion “hashes” (the problems solved in the mining process) each second, and that each of these gigahashes requires 650 watts of electricity to solve, which in turn costs 15 centers per kilowatt hour. That’s slightly higher than the US average of 12.52 cents per kilowatt hour, and also doesn’t take into account the efforts of bitcoin miners to develop specialized high-speed computers that mine the coins more efficiently, effectively driving your average personal computer out of the business. Still, it’s safe to say that more money is spent attempting to generate bitcoins each day than those bitcoins are worth.

This processor-speed arms race has rapidly ramped up the difficulty of bitcoin mining, eliminating the average miner’s profits or sending them into cooperative pools. Mining operating margins are now measured at -329.04% by Blockchain.

For most people to actually profit off their bitcoin-mining efforts, the asset needs to continue to dramatically increase in value. That in turn has spurred on bitcoin competitors like Litecoin that promise a more level playing field. It also sets up potentially troublesome dynamics within the crypto-currency. For one thing it stokes volatility. And if mining is only profitable for people making the largest investments, fears of a miners cartel could come to life.

Rather than the 21 million coins that Bitcoin will level out on, Dogecoin is programmed to tap out at 100 billion. The block time is also estimated to five times faster than Bitcoin. Plus, it’s a doge. You know, like the meme.

Kurt Stallaert, a Belgian photographer, has imagined what the world would look like if everyone was a bodybuilder. For his photo series Bodybuilders World, Kurt digitally altered existing photographs to give average sized people the oversized muscular bodies of the eponymous athletes.

images by Kurt Stallaert

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Brooklyn is the East Coast epicenter of the “artisanal” food store trend, a movement that takes regular, dull food and spices it up with delicious elitism. The latest establishment to advance the forefront of snooty eating, according to a report from Eater, is an artisanal porridge shop in Brooklyn. New Yorkers can now enjoy the upscale gruel they never knew they craved. Perhaps they fancy the “Fruit & Cream” number with local Brooklyn Culture low-fat Greek yogurt, or the gluten-free, dairy-free, non-GMO savory “Truffled Heart” with artichoke hearts and white truffle oil. Add an agave drizzle for an extra quarter!

These are all actual menu items at Brooklyn Porridge Co., even if they seem like jokes. Unwitting self-parody is an essential part of the Brooklyn artisanal experience. If you’re unfamiliar with the artisanal food business, I’ve outlined a few simple steps to show you how it works. So start ...

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Frozen Lighthouses on Lake Michigan

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ananyo writes "A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection. In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity. Maldacena's idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to put the popular but still unproven theory of strings on solid footing — and because it solved apparent inconsistencies between quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity. It provided physicists with a mathematical Rosetta stone, a 'duality', that allowed them to translate back and forth between the two languages, and solve problems in one model that seemed intractable in the other and vice versa. But although the validity of Maldacena's ideas has pretty much been taken for granted ever since, a rigorous proof has been elusive. In two papers posted on the arXiv repository, Yoshifumi Hyakutake of Ibaraki University in Japan and his colleagues now provide, if not an actual proof, at least compelling evidence that Maldacena's conjecture is true."

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Filmmakers Freddie Wong and Clinton Jones of RocketJump battle it out in “Every Fighting Game Ever,” a comedy short about Freddie’s recurring luck in fighting games. Sometimes players who don’t know what they’re doing in video games get amazingly lucky. Other times, they get trolled by their opponent and die. Visual effects for the short were created by Playfight with sound by Kevin Senzaki.

This is exactly what happens every time I play a fighting game.

video via FreddieW

via Freddie Wong

One of the beautiful things about jewelry is that it can be plain and simple or insanely detailed. These rings by designer Sevan Bicakci fall into the latter category. The large faceted domes on the rings conceal miniature cities. Seriously. It’s like something right out of a fantasy novel. The tiny buildings are the icing on a breath-taking bejeweled band cake. I’d just pretend that it was like the bottle city of Kandor but on my finger.

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So my best friend went into labor…

In case you missed yesterday’s release of the new Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks video “Cinnamon and Lesbians,” it’s worth a gander.

Directed by Jay Winebrenner, the latest video from Wig Out at Jagbags, opens with drummer Jake Morris being shanghaied by a modern-day pirate (Dan Kim), and it’s pretty much lo-fi madcap adventure from there on out. Winebrenner is eccentrically literal in his interpretation of the lyrics, beat for beat, from the “glassblowing funky neighbors” to Joe Kelly’s Meisner-esque performance of a “smooth talking jack-off jailer.” This will remind some viewers of dorkier days, when “alternative” music-videos got a little goofy. If you hemorrhaged the middle '90s watching 120 Minutes, prepare to be pleased.

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Tsar Alexander II Presentation Sword

• Dated: 18th-19th century
• Measurements: 96 cm overall length in scabbard

The gilt bronze hilt features a Gothic style involving intertwining tendrils, dragons and a demon’s head. It has a 18th century Ottoman kilic blade of pattern-welded steel with arabesques while the wooden scabbard is covered in gold-stamped leather and mounted in gilt bronze en suite with the hilt.

This blade was given to Alfred, Count von Bassenheim by Count Alexander von Hugle, and originally presented to the Count’s ancestor, the Duke of Wurttemburg, by Tsar Alexander II of Russia. Together with its detailed handwritten provenance dated 1885 and signed by Alfred, Count von Bassenheim, Imperial Major.

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The prospect of Bad Boys 3 has primarily existed as an opportunity for interviewers to talk with Martin Lawrence about anything other than Big Momma’s House, despite Lawrence’s avowal in 2010 that it was “really real” and “real realistic”—the realest of all possible realities. But now it seems it’s really really real and realistic: Sony has reportedly hired Safe House writer David Guggenheim to draft a sequel to the series in which Lawrence and Will Smith play sassy cop/sassier cop with the criminals of Miami, hoping to entice both stars—or, let’s be really real, Will Smith—into returning.

So far neither has officially signed on or even entered talks, and while the studio doesn’t seem overly concerned with also getting Michael Bay involved at this point, Deadline notes that any new Bad Boys would definitely be a sequel with that original cast—unlike Sony’s plans/threats to possibly reboot ...

Sharp rise in wardrobe damage as desperate Brits try to get to Narnia:

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There has been a sharp rise in wardrobe damage across the country as desperate Britons try to get to Narnia in order to seek asylum from the coalition government. A political regime that many are d…

Narnian immigration spokesanimal Mrs Beaver said that she was baffled by the sudden enthusiasm for her country.

“You do know that we’re in the grip of a civil war, don’t you?” she said. “We’re ruled by a Turkish delight obsessed absolute dictator who can turn people into stone and oppressed by a secret police force headed by a psychopathic wolf.”

“Yeah I’ve heard that Narnia’s cold and violent,” Andy, curate at St Paul’s told us as he pushed back a rail of cassocks and pounded on the back of  the vestry wardrobe which already has several fist sized dents in it. “But their government is honest. The White Witch is completely upfront about ruining lives and taking all the best stuff for herself and her cronies. At least she doesn’t bray in people’s faces that it’s happening because they didn’t work hard enough.”

“I’m going for the food,” said Heather Stuart, who is currently one of over sixty thousand Britons relying on food banks and frequently has to chose between eating meals or heating her home. “According to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Narnia they eat every five minutes. No one seems to be able to do anything without at least buttering a crumpet. That’s my kind of place.”

Newly released documents reveal that members of the National Security Agency spied on multiplayer online games, believing that terrorists might be using the games to communicate, coordinate real-world attacks, and pass money to one another.