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“I used to be,” Alexander replied when asked if she’d be into playing DC Comics’ Wonder Woman, “and then I’ve seen how many failed attempts they’ve tried to make at re-making it and it’s embarrassing for me as a woman, seeing what they did with that TV show.” She was quick to add, ”It had nothing to do with that amazing actress Adrianne Palicki.” “Let’s talk about this for a second,” Alexander told MTV, “you’ve got very few female superheroes that are dominating films these days, unless they’re in a skin tight outfit and their boobs are pushed up to their chin, you know? And it’s not okay. It’s not.”

What time is it? Time for Black Milk to unveil their latest nerdy license acquisition - Adventure Time! Take a look at the huge collection they'll have for sale on November 12 including leggings, dresses, shirts and more!

What is sex like for synaesthetes? Synaesthesia is a fascinatingly strange neurological condition in which two ore more senses are linked so that someone, for example, might "taste" sounds or "hear" colors. Emotional synaestesia is when pleasurable feelings may trigger the individual to see certain colors or have other sensations. Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Hannover Medical School, and University Bremen studied a group of emotional synaesthetes to gain insight into their sexual experiences. Below is a table from the scientific report revealing the subjects' experiences during different phases of the human sexual response cycle, such as: "In the moment of orgasm the wall bursts… ringlike structures… in bluish-violet tones." Far fucking out!

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"Synaesthesia and sexuality: the influence of synaesthetic perceptions on sexual experience" (via Mind Hacks)

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Wasn't I just talking about misguided attempts at marketing The Hunger Games? I suppose this was inevitable when we made an action blockbuster franchise out of a dystopian future setting where the enemy isn't robots or aliens or disease or a natural disaster or dragons... it's just other people.

Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft and all-around high-profile indie game developer, guest starred on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night. The two gents talked about the games Notch plays - apparently he's into everything, but he really enjoys Grand Theft Auto - and the "games" Ferguson plays, such as Mario Kart. According to Notch, that one deserves the air quotes.

Ferguson said he looked up Notch online and discovered one of the industry's darkest secrets - the gaming world is catty.

"It seems like there's quite a lot of bitchiness in your world," he said. "Quite a lot of people are like, 'I hate him, he created Minecraft! How dare he not be me.'" Notch agreed, but said he too was irrationally protective of the games he plays. C'est la vie.

If you missed Notch on The Late Late Show, don't worry - he was easy to miss because he pointedly wasn't wearing a fedora - there's a full clip of the interview here.

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“Don’t talk to yourself in such a way that if you did so to a friend, it would end your friendship.

If you had a friend dealing with the same things, you wouldn’t berate that person, say, ‘You’re not working hard enough,’ ‘You suck,’ or ‘You’re not as good as [whomever].’ You’d offer your friend encouragement, you’d try to point out all the things your friend did right, and how much progress your friend had made.

You should do no less for yourself.

Be very careful how you talk to yourself. Because you are listening.”

- Pat Cadigan, author (via ellenkushner)

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The Return of Ishtar (Namco - arcade - 1986)

sequel to Tower of Druaga

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Saturday afternoon #hateread

I do this sort of on-the-fly editing all the time when reading to my 5-year-old. I call it “pinkwashing” after the scene in “Pinkalicious” in which the poor, discolored child must stomach horrible green vegetables as a cure for her unfortunate pinkness. She chokes down artichokes, gags on grapes and burps up brussels sprouts. The passage serves important narrative and stylistic functions, of course, but Emmett loves artichokes, grapes and brussels sprouts. He never complains about eating them, so rather than hint at a generation-long struggle against the tyranny of green veggies, I replace the negative verbs with positive ones. Pinkwashing.

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ThnkGeek has given new meaning to the term “sleeping like a log” with these log shaped pillows that are available in realistic sycamore, oak and birch designs.

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The Miami Dolphins were considering releasing offensive guard Richie Incognito prior to the 2013 season and before the issues with Jonathan Martin went public, according to a report from Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald.

The Dolphins were reportedly concerned with several off-the-field incidents involving Incognito during the offseason, nearly all involving the apparent abuse of alcohol. The team debated cutting the guard prior to the season and almost certainly weren't bringing Incognito back in 2014, with his contract set to expire after this season.

With the Dolphins thin on the offensive line and no good options in place to take Incognito's spot, Miami stuck with the veteran and now find the organization embroiled in an investigation into alleged hazing and bullying in the locker room.

Incognito's various issues off the field include a run in with a bouncer at a nightclub, a TMZ video that shows an impaired Incognito using a racial slur and a report that he harrassed a female employee at a golf tournament. The guard has been suspended indefinitely for the alleged hazing and abuse of teammate Jonathan Martin.

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emilyyaksitout:

I have been giggling about this twitter exchange for at least an hour now

And now I’m going to giggle about it for the rest of the day.

Tax deductible ghost babies.

An anonymous reader writes "The Stranger reports that Seattle's police department has installed a Wi-Fi mesh network paid for by the Department of Homeland Security. FTA: 'The SPD declined to answer more than a dozen questions from The Stranger, including whether the network is operational, who has access to its data, what it might be used for, and whether the SPD has used it (or intends to use it) to geo-locate people's devices via their MAC addresses or other identifiers.'"

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Batman has experienced cuts to his calling card budget.

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 What Jerry mistook for Kramer’s bold new way of coming and going was revealed before long to be the preamble to a series of increasingly esoteric spells. Jagged, irregular steps and tuneless humming accompanied a breathy, rehearsed muttering that sounded very much like “I’m your apartment Jerry.”

 Prodded to explain, Kramer cited Jerry’s monopoly over the supernatural. “Jerry casts all the spells. I want to cast spells. Conclaviomancy, baby! A correspondence course. Kramer’s going back to school and he’s going to become your apartment.” Jerry laughed a laughter ghost-noted with unease, and Kramer’s face was serene and distant. Weeks passed.

 Kramer’s Kramer-ness having long since metempsychosized into the brick and plaster of Jerry’s walls, his physical body became a disjunction, unrecognizable even to his eighteen wives, all of whom soon died.

 Existing at the scale and pace of mortar and metal, Kramer grew less effusive over the years, but on occasion would reorganize the ambiances of the room and city to communicate. “HEY JERRY IT’S ME YOUR FRIEND KRAMER,” the refrigerator would hum at intervals that had nothing in common with Jerry’s comfort.

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The Polo Collar and DB Suit Crowd.

Dashiell Hammett.

Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote yesterday, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60. 

But you know who poverty is especially common among? Young adults. 

Based on data given to me by Washington University in St. Louis professor Mark Rank, I've pulled together a few more graphs that I think illustrate the difficulty of making ends meet in your twenties and early thirties (particularly if you're not lucky enough to, say, have a college degree). Exhibit a) between the ages of 25 and 34, 41.3 percent percent of Americans will spend at least a year earning less than 150 percent of the poverty line, which is a technical way of saying "being pretty broke." By age 35, a little more than a quarter will have lived under the actual poverty line, which is the technical way of saying, "really truly broke."

Why are young adults so poverty prone? Partly because, by definition, they tend to lack work experience and earn less than later in life. But as a group, we're also prone to getting fired and laid off. Almost half of young adult households face a period of unemployment at some point.

Perhaps surprisingly, they're only slightly more likely than 35 to 44-year-olds to take advantage of the safety net. But that still means almost a third of young adults end up using a program like food stamps or Medicaid to get by for a while. 

Mind you, these numbers aren't just a snapshot of today's economy, which has been notoriously dreadful for Millennials. Rather, they're drawn from an analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data collected between 1968 and 2009. So in a sense, they're a longterm assessment poverty through the American lifecycle. What they tell us, then, is that twenty and early thirty-somethings have lived financially wobbly lives in the U.S. for a very long time. Every generation has its horror stories about being young and poor.

This story originally appeared on The Atlantic.