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14 Nov 05:20

Update on mystery subsidized grocery store on MLK - yep, it's Trader Joe's.

14 Nov 05:17

Beast of Burden

14 Nov 05:00

Animal Crossing AR Cards ⊟ Oh man, for Japan only. New eShop...

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Animal Crossing AR Cards ⊟

Oh man, for Japan only. New eShop point cards coming to Japan interface with the (again, Japan-only) Photo Together app to allow you to put Animal Crossing characters in your real-life photos. Multiple characters can be displayed from each card!

I did not know how badly I needed to insert happy little Leif into all my photos. There are also Pikmin cards. Cute!

This comes out of a mini Nintendo Direct which – I’ll save you some time – is pretty much all stuff we saw already.

BUY Animal Crossing: New Leaf, AC:NL guide, upcoming games
14 Nov 04:54

Cyberpunk adventure 'Read Only Memories' from GaymerX founders

by Jessica Conditt


Read Only Memories plays out in 2064 Neo-San Francisco, when all forms of personal electronics have been replaced by little robot buddies called ROMs. As a young journalist, the main character must uncover the mystery of a vanished friend while surviving the feral streets of this future city. Read Only Memories takes inspiration from 90s adventure games, and one in particular: Snatcher, the cyberpunk adventure created by Hideo Kojima.

Read Only Memories comes from Midboss Games, a newly established studio from the founders of GaymerX, a convention focused on queer issues in gaming. GaymerX was funded via Kickstarter in September 2012, and Midboss is looking for the same success with Read Only Memories.

The team needs $62,064 by December 13 on Kickstarter, and it's part of Ouya's Free the Games Fund, meaning Ouya will match all pledges up to $62,000 if it all works out. The game is slated for PC, Mac, Ouya, iOS and Android, and Midboss wants to have a playable build ready for GaymerX2 in July.

Read Only Memories has queer characters, but it isn't "a gay game," GaymerX founder Matt Conn says: "A lot of queer characters can be presented on an equal level with their straight counterparts. It's really important that we create more games that have queer characters in them, but the point is also not to shoehorn them in."

JoystiqCyberpunk adventure 'Read Only Memories' from GaymerX founders originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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14 Nov 04:15

From NASA Goddard. Mars. 4 billion years ago. (Maybe).



From NASA Goddard.

Mars. 4 billion years ago.

(Maybe).

14 Nov 04:15

Fifa urged to help French footballer being 'prevented from leaving Qatar'

Fifa urged to help French footballer being 'prevented from leaving Qatar':
Fifa has been asked to intervene in the case of a French footballer who says he is being prevented from leaving Qatar.

His name is Zahir Belounis. This is the country to which FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup. Belounis’ plight isn’t unique, but hopefully its high profile nature will cast some light on the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar.

It’s unlikely, though.

The treatment of immigrant laborers in much of Qatar and the UAE is slavery. Nothing less.

14 Nov 03:31

FLAT FRONT TROUSERS ONLY for ‘Melo now

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14 Nov 01:22

When you split a mailing list to reduce drama

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14 Nov 01:22

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14 Nov 01:21

shibe-doge: majestic wow. such doge. many lion. wow.

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14 Nov 01:21

NSA has no idea when it spies on Americans, top lawyer says

by Cyrus Farivar
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Speaking before a senatorial subcommittee on Wednesday, the intelligence community’s top lawyer told senators that the National Security Agency is incapable of knowing how often Americans’ data is captured inadvertently. Robert Litt, general counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy the problem is it would be “very resource-intensive” to figure out whether foreign targets are communicating with Americans, according to The Hill.


While Americans theoretically have protection from intrusive government searches under the Fourth Amendment, foreigners certainly do not. And Litt noted that determining that "second hop" person’s nationality would “perversely require a greater invasion of that person’s privacy.”

However, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who chairs the committee, suggested that it would be possible “through statistical sampling.”

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14 Nov 01:21

Staking out Twitter and Facebook, new service lets police poke perps

by Sean Gallagher
A LexisNexis survey reveals all the ways police use social media.

Local law enforcement is getting the kind of technological boost that used to be limited to three-letter agencies thanks to Web-based software services that mine social media for intelligence. At last month's International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Philadelphia, LexisNexis showed off a new tool it will bundle with its research service for law enforcement agencies—one that will help them "stake out" social media as part of their criminal investigations.

Called Social Media Monitor, the cloud-based service will watch social networks for comments and activities that might offer clues to crimes in the physical world. With direct connections into a variety of social media services' feeds, it will help police plow through Twitter and Facebook in search of evidence that could lead to arrests.

Social media is already a major tool for police departments. Some city police departments, such as the Boston Police Department, have integrated monitoring of social media into their Real Time Crime Centers (RTCCs)—operations that have been aided by federal funding in a number of large cities. And because criminals often use social media themselves (to their own detriment), social media monitoring is paying off. For example, in 2011 analysts at Cincinnati's RTCC were searching the social network connections of suspects for one crime and found video of an armed robbery posted to a Facebook page by one of the perpetrators.

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14 Nov 01:21

Here's a little-known fact: You know the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the first moonwalk?

by Robert T. Gonzalez

Here's a little-known fact: You know the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the first moonwalk? Turns out that suit was made by a bra manufacturer in Dover, Deleware. As Andrew Chaikin explains at Smithsonian, the seamstresses who hand-stitched NASA's spacesuits were used to devoting their needlework to an entirely different kind of rubber garment.

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14 Nov 01:10

Gone Home plus four in-game albums bundled for $25

by Danny Cowan
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this is great but when are they going to fix the lighting bug on HD 4400 GPUs

The Fullbright Company has released a new Record Collection bundle that includes a copy of the studio's interactive short story Gone Home and four full albums by artists featured throughout the game.

For $25, buyers will receive downloadable tracks from Calculated by Heavens to Betsy, Pottymouth by Bratmobile, and The Youngins are Hardcore by The Youngins. The package also includes Gone Home's original score, composed by Chris Remo.

Fans who already own a copy of Gone Home can purchase the albums separately for $15.

JoystiqGone Home plus four in-game albums bundled for $25 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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14 Nov 01:09

Police Say Death Of Spy Found Locked In A Duffel Bag Was 'Probably An Accident'

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The death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, whose body was found in a padlocked sports bag, was probably an accident, police have said.
14 Nov 01:04

Why Diablo 3 won't get an offline mode

by Dave Tach
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online single-player game beat

Diablo 3 will not receive an offline mode, in part because of lessons Blizzard Entertainment learned from Diablo 2, lead designer Kevin Martens told Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Martens said that he "studied" player reaction to Diablo 2 "for a living" and wanted to prevent situations that stopped people from playing with each other in the sequel. Requiring everyone to be online in Diablo 3 solved that problem and gave players incentive to team up.

"The game is most fun when you can play with other people," he said. "To be ghettoed off to the side and not part of the real game, we didn't want that to happen. This is an online game. We want people to play together. All of that predates the auction house.

"That was the wrong choice to allow people to play offline, and we still stand by that. And we think Internet access is widespread. If someone has no Internet access, then yeah, Diablo 3 is not the game for them."

When asked why Blizzard couldn't just remove the online requirement, perhaps alongside the soon-to-be disbanded auction houses, he said it's because that would fundamentally change the game Blizzard set out to make.

"We didn't make that game. That's the straight-up answer. We did not make that game, and we're not going to turn this game into that game. We have the online mode because we learned a lot over the many, many years that Diablo 2 was in development."

14 Nov 01:03

The Man Responsible For How The 1930s Looked

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Modernism, streamlining, and Futurama (the World's Fair exhibit, not the show, though yeah, the show by extension)

Norman Bel Geddes, the self-taught polymath who virtually invented the profession of industrial design.
14 Nov 01:00

'300 Sandwiches' Blogger Signs Book Deal

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Page Six reporter Stephanie Smith, who is making her boyfriend 300 sandwiches before he will give her an engagement ring, has done the inevitable: Signed a book deal.
14 Nov 00:59

NYC Marathon Vs. YouTube Music Awards

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buried lede: YouTube sent a stripper-pole limo to pick up awards show guests

What happens when you have an overbooked day? Casey Neistat has the answer with this video.
14 Nov 00:56

The Tech Rescue Team That Gets Countries Back Online After Disasters

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Télécoms Sans Frontières

In the Philippines and around the world, these gadget-wielding techies swoop into emergencies to reboot telecom networks.
14 Nov 00:55

Everything We Know So Far About The $2 Million Novel

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"Hallberg watched The Wire as he wrote the novel and thought a lot about Bleak House."

Garth Risk Hallberg has so far responded with judicious silence to the good fortune of having his first novel, the 900-page "City on Fire," sold to Knopf for almost $2 million — virtually unheard of for an author with no connection to vampires or cable news. So here's what we have gathered so far.
14 Nov 00:54

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14 Nov 00:44

Maleficent (2014) // Robert Stromberg

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Maleficent (2014) // Robert Stromberg

14 Nov 00:43

Be the first to get Downton Abbey 4

by OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy
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"you can enjoy the twists and turns of the whole new season before anyone else" outside of the UK that doesn't know how to use the Internet


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Downton Abbey, Season 4 on MASTERPIECE premieres on January 5, 2014 — but as a valued audience member of WGBH, you can enjoy the twists and turns of the whole new season before anyone else! While others are waiting and wondering what might happen next, you'll be able to flash a knowing smile. Here's your chance to enjoy the drama of the Crawley family and their staff again and again!

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14 Nov 00:42

TV: Great Job, Internet!: Larry David took the most Larry David-like photo while sitting courtside at a Knicks game

by Kevin McFarland

The New York Knicks got crushed by the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, but just because the game wasn’t very entertaining doesn’t mean there was nothing going on in the stands. Sitting courtside were Nelly, Justin Bartha (National Treasure), and Larry David, the craziest east coast recreation of those times the Entourage guys were jockeying for Lakers tickets. The photo getting tossed around the Internet liberally is the one above, with David giving his best Curb Your Enthusiasm reaction to the events, from the crossed arms, to the frowning expression, to those socks. But For The Win dug up the other Getty photos from the night, of Larry smiling easily, and at least enduring the company of others in his courtside seat. It just goes to show that when the Knicks are playing terribly, the real story is the celebrities watching the game.

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14 Nov 00:41

New life found on plastic waste gives rise to the 'plastisphere'

by George Dvorsky

New life found on plastic waste gives rise to the 'plastisphere'

Tons of plastic floats in the oceans, and it's covered in microscopic life. But a new study reveals plastic-loving species that have never been seen before, and ecosystems entirely new to science. Say hello to life in the 'plastisphere.'

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14 Nov 00:28

Tina Turner: Why Is She Relinquishing Her U.S. Citizenship?

by gguillotte
Turner told German newspaper Blick that she considers Switzerland home. "I'm very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here … I cannot imagine a better place to live," she said. According to the U.S. embassy in Bern's activity report, Turner said she did not have plans to live in the U.S. in the future and her family was her only strong tie to her native country. Turner is not renouncing her U.S. citizenship, though, the Post clarifies. The "relinquishment" statement means that she received the "Swiss citizenship with the intent to lose her U.S. citizenship."
14 Nov 00:28

We're hiring!

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For those of you that don’t follow us on Twitter, we’d like to pass along the news that our development team at Levee Labs is hiring.  Let us know if you or anybody you know might be interested!

Rails Engineer - https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/30

Web Designer - https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/32

14 Nov 00:20

OrangeOctop.us: Strategy Guide Designer

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Location: Boston, MA
URL: http://www.OrangeOctop.us/

OrangeOctop.us is looking for an expert indesigner for our upcoming strategy guides. We have created the best-selling guide to the soccer videogame FIFA for the past 3 years and now we are looking for someone to take our strategy guides to the next level.

This job will offer consistent design work for at least 20 other strategy guides this year. Please send over relevant indesign work and your experience in the industry. To show that you have read this listing please use the word "octopus" in your response. We will only be reading responses with the word "octopus".

Looking forward to the responses!

To apply: Joey@orangeoctop.us

14 Nov 00:14

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