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Football players and pro wrestlers are both subject to the same laws of physics. But in recent years, wrestling has made strides to combat concussions, rather than sweep them under the rug.

Clocking in at 22 scenes in just shy of 52 minutes, it’s a lot of surrealist erotica to get through in one sitting. That’s why we’ve assembled a handy guide to the new material, complete with time stamps.

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THAT’S MY LEG

PUT IT DOWN IT IS NOT YOURS

LIKE HELL, I SAW IT FIRST

OH HEY YOU GUYS WHAT ARE WE DOING CHEWING ON A LEG AWESOME I WANT IN ON THAT SHIT

DNAinfo New York reports that a New York City Police Department precinct in Manhattan has contacted bars in Midtown and Hell’s Kitchen to urge them not to serve Santa during this year’s upcoming NYC Santacon. SantaCon has grown from a small 1994 Cacophony Society event in San Francisco to an annual international event that last year occurred in more than 50 cities. The 2012 NYC SantaCon provoked a pre-emptive backlash and, afterwards, angry complaints by residents. The NYC SantaCon is scheduled for December 14—as is common SantaCon practice, no starting location or route has yet been released.

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Rich, developed countries are consuming an average of 10% more antidepressants than about a decade ago, according to a report released on Nov. 21 from the OECD.

The increase has a lot to do with growing awareness about depression, which in turn has made treating the illness with drugs more socially acceptable. Big spikes in a few standout countries, the report says, may also “be linked to the insecurity created by the financial crisis” (pdf p.102). In Spain and Portugal, consumption rose 23% and 20% between 2007 and 2011, respectively. The UK’s rate doubled between 2000 and 2011.

The highest antidepressant-consuming country in the world? Iceland, where all three of the country’s main banks failed early on in the crisis. At almost twice the OECD average, its antidepressant consumption rose almost 50% over the observed period to 106 doses a day for every 1,000 people. (Some academics think Icelanders may consume more antidepressants because alternative treatments like psychotherapy aren’t as popular.)

Ironically, the country is now considered model of recovery in Europe, since its economy is growing faster than others in the region thanks in part to a rebound in fishing and tourism. And yet Icelandic households are still wallowing in debt and shrinking salaries. The country’s current estimated rate of depression—between 15% and 25% of its residents are expected to experience depression at some point—is hardly model behavior.

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Presenting Red Sox Beard Balls to bid on and own. Hope you brought your screaming pants!

See that up there? See that disgusting, horrifying pile of pubes behind glass? That's Shane Victorino's beard hair, lovingly fashioned into a ball and mounted for all time. And you can own it. Yep, a custom-mounted quantity of Red Sox beard hair, auctioned off on eBay, with all proceeds going to Movember.

Bidding for SHANF's chin scruff is already up to $465 at the time I am writing this. Hey, here's David Ortiz's face-growth. It's up to $760. That's American dollars. But we can all admit: a small price to pay for something that will last forever, quietly sitting there and still being a mound of hair long after you're dead and in the ground. Unless you're buying it to crack open and eat and smell and roll around in or whatever. Hey; no judging here. It's for a good cause.

lol beard balls

(h/t to HardballTalk)

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I needed a pose for a Terror Bird eating grapes, but obviously i didn’t have an ostrich or grapes so i used this blonde girl and some cookies. 

Pretty good Tumblr to look through.

This will not end well

Designer Susana Soares has developed a simple diagnostic system that uses honey bees to detect traces of cancer or other diseases in a person’s breath. Developed during a three-year project titled simply, “Bee’s,” the system involves training bees to use their extremely acute sense of smell to detect odors in breath that are associated with certain diseases. The bees can be trained in 10 minutes by exposing them to an odor and then feeding them sugar water—this makes the bees associate the odor with food. The bees are then placed in a two-chambered glass diagnostic device. A person breathes into a diagnostic chamber, and if their breath contains the specific odor, the bees in the second chamber will fly toward the odor. The system could provide a simple low-cost diagnostic tool for healthcare providers.

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We've shown you some strange photos of intelligent animals before, but now it's time to share more vintage oddness. These images — some over a hundred years old — are evidence that humans never tire of dressing their pets up in cute and/or weird ways.

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This year's allocation of Pappy Van Winkle's cult bourbon was recently released. There's never enough supply to meet demand, which means two things: lines rivaling iPhone release day queues and high resale prices.

On Craigslist in NYC, bottles of Pappy are for sale for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. One seller is offering a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year for $1,250...that's right around $80 for each 1.5 oz pour (without any markup).

Luckily, there are some close-but-not-quite alternatives. As this article on the bourbon family tree notes, the W.L. Weller 12 Year contains the same whiskey as Pappy 15 Year, but aged three fewer years. It can be readily found online for around $26 a bottle. To bump it perhaps a little closer to actual, Bourbonr has concocted what they call Poor Man's Pappy:

Pick up a bottle of both W.L. Weller 12 (90 proof) and Old Weller Antique 107 (107 proof). They will cost around $20-$30 each. Start off with a 50:50 mixture of the two Bourbons. The easiest way to do this is with a digital scale. If you don't have a scale just add a tablespoon from both Bourbons to your glass. With a 50:50 ratio you have a 98.5 proof delicious Bourbon.

Next, try a different ratio. Try mixing 60:40 Antique to 12. The Bourbon blend is now 100.2 proof and much closer in taste to the 107 proof Pappy 15.

Anyone else tried this? Thoughts?

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The Saints' defense clamped down on Matt Ryan and the Falcons in the second half, giving New Orleans a 17-13 win in Atlanta.

The New Orleans Saints didn't make it pretty, but they ultimately came out on top against Atlanta Falcons, 17-13, on Thursday night. The offense was unable to capitalize on long drives in the second half, but the defense stepped up and applied constant pressure on Matt Ryan, stifling the Falcons' offense and allowing Drew Brees and Co. to get away with a win despite a relatively quiet performance.

The Saints took a 14-13 lead at halftime. They could have taken a deficit into the locker room, but the Falcons settled for field goals on long drives to the 21- and 6-yard lines, respectively. The Saints were able to finish on their two long drives. Drew Brees had two touchdown passes in the first half, finding Benjamin Watson in the end zone on a one-yard toss and Jimmy Graham for a 44-yard score.

In the second half, neither team had much offensive success. The Saints kicked a field goal at the end of a 55-yard drive in the third quarter, and those three points remained the only scoring in the half. The Saints offense didn't need to do much more than eat clock, however.

The Saints defense turned the heat up on Ryan in the second half, sacking him four times to stall promising drives. A five-yard sack forced the Falcons into a 3rd-and-15 just before the two-minute warning. They failed to convert, then Matt Bryant missed a 52-yard field goal attempt to solidify the Saints' 17-13 lead.

The Saints improved to 9-2 on the season, while the Falcons fell to 2-9. The game was closer than the records suggest, but the Saints stay alive in their quest to earn the No. 1 seed in the NFC.

Fantasy studs and duds

Drew Brees didn't put up astronomical numbers, but he still managed 278 yards and two touchdowns. Jimmy Graham was once again his biggest beneficiary, catching five passes for 100 yards and a touchdown.

Matt Ryan played well, passing for 297 yards, but his lack of scores kept his fantasy day from becoming great.

Injury report

Saints defensive end Glenn Foster had to be carted off the field at the start of the third quarter with an apparent leg injury. There is no word yet on his status.

Did they cover?

The Saints were 9.5-point favorites at kickoff, according to Odds Shark. They won by four, so they did not cover.

What's next?

Atlanta at Buffalo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 4:05 p.m. ET

New Orleans at Seattle, Monday, Dec. 2, 8:40 p.m. ET

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Roddy White is expected to remain with the team that drafted him.

Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White is expected to sign a long-term deal to remain with the organization, according to the NFL Network.

Ian Rapoport reports that he expects the sides to reach a "reasonable extension," but there is no indication on what potential terms would be at this time. Deciding on terms will be complicated by the cash-strapped Falcons, who are expected to have salary cap issues in 2014. White held out the last time they tried to work on an extension, finally settling for a 6-year deal that made him the league's fifth-highest paid wide receiver.

White is on pace for the worst season of his career. Offensive struggles paired with a series of injuries have created a scenario where it's unlikely he'll pass 400 yards receiving this season -- a career first. His best game came in a Week 5 matchup against the New York Jets where he caught four passes for 45 yards, but fumbled the ball.

Discussion of extending White could be influenced by the season-ending injury to Julio Jones. Atlanta is in dire need of offensive consistency entering an offseason where Jones will be recovering and tight end Tony Gonzalez is almost certainly retiring.

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Uprights aren't meant to be dunked on, apparently.

We've all seen clips of basketball players like Shaq breaking backboards with their dunks back before the NBA started making breakaway rims. But we haven't seen the same thing translated to football, until Thursday night at the Georgia Dome when Jimmy Graham's dunking TD celebration got the uprights a bit askew:

And it didn't snap back:

Personally, I think it would've been best if they'd just kinda left it that way and forced kickers to adjust. But apparently there are "rules" and stuff about the uprights being ... you know ... upright.

So they had to get out the bubble level:

Don't hang on the rim, Jimmy. That's a technical foul.

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Amnesty International report yet another reminder that Qatar can be horrible, horrible place:

Among other abuses, 90 percent of Qatar’s 1.35 million foreign workers have their passports withheld by employers.

It’s called slavery.

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Abercrombie & Fitch, the controversial retailer that's known for featuring scantily clad teen models in its advertising, is making a big marketing shift. The company said earlier this month it will offer larger plus sizes for some of its women's clothes online in 2014.

It's a tough year for Falcons fans, even the really famous ones.

Remover of flying reptiles and noted Falcons fan Samuel L. Jackson hasn't had much to cheer about this year, not when it comes to his favorite NFL team anyway. Something set him off on Thursday night during the Falcons game against the Saints.

I like to imagine he's saying "get these mother f--king Saints out of this mother f--king Georgia Dome."

Microsoft pulled its support page that instructed users how to update their Xbox One systems offline using a USB drive. We've included an image of the cached support page above, which is no longer available to view.

The Xbox Support page instructed Xbox One owners with a two gigabyte USB stick to download one of two compressed update files to their computers, then unzip them to the root of the USB drive. The process then had owners holding the bind and eject buttons while turning their consoles on, releasing the two buttons once they hear two start-up tones. According to the now-unavailable support page, that last step told the Xbox One to search for an update from a USB drive, a procedure that isn't part of the system's initial booting process.

We've contacted Microsoft for comment.

Update: A Microsoft spokesperson tells Joystiq that "the site was not an alternative way to take the Day One update and customers still need to connect to Xbox Live for the update. Because of the complexity of this customer support process we've actually removed the page and we will work with customers directly to make sure they have a smooth experience."

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