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Design for a National Memorial, New York City

Mobstr (animation by me)


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Mobstr, London

Laurent de Guzman’s balloon, a monk who raised himself in front of John V, King of Portugal, Wonderful Balloon Ascents, 1870

Jason Latour created a very special variant cover for this next issue of Southern Bastards, featuring the Confederate flag being torn apart by a dog. The cover also reads, “Death to the Flag, Long Live the South.” He and Jason Aaron are also currently working on a way to donate proceeds from the sale of the variant to the families of the victims in the Charleston shooting. (via Comic Book Resources)

• Actress Ariane Labed is now officially signed on for the Assassin’s Creed movie alongside Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. No word yet on whether Cotillard has improved her death scene acting. (via Deadline)
• So, like, this next bit of news has us wiggin’. Apparently there’s a Clueless musical in the works, and here’s hoping it’s going to be totally fetch. Oh, uh… wait, sorry. Wrong movie. (via /Film)

Darren Wallace has got one hell of an imagination, because this mashup of Avengers: Age of Ultron and The Wizard of Oz is absolutely out of this world. List this one under “Things You Didn’t Know You Needed Until You Saw It,” because seriously, there’s something extra… special about a Cowardly Lion Thor. (via The Daily Dot)

• We here at The Mary Sue are pretty gosh darn excited for the American Gods series that’s set to premiere on Starz. What’s even more exciting is that the author himself, Neil freakin’ Gaiman (not actually his middle name) is going to pen a few of the episodes. Aw yiss. (via Deadline)
• And, as if you needed more Gaiman-related news, Joseph Gordon-Levitt alluded to some interesting points about Sandman in his most recent reddit AMA. Specifically, he said, “We are using a whole bunch of specifics straight from the comics, but of course, we’re also having to do a certain amount of invention, and in between that, there’s tons of re-appropriating, re-contextualizing, combining, consolidating, and all manner of things that literalists might not like.” Pay close attention, but be open-minded, folks. Okay? (via Comic Book Resources)

There’s so few things to see, and we have so much time to see them.

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“ISIS Flag Spotted At Gay Pride Parade” reads the lower-third graphic on CNN, which spent almost four minutes today talking up terror as the extremist faction apparently had infiltrated a London Pride march. Except that’s pretty clearly not an ISIS flag, unless the Islamic State is now really into buttplugs instead of beheadings.
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The time I spent playing and watching No Man’s Sky left me feeling like the PS4/PC title will be more meditative than anything else. Yes, there were explosions and dogfights and giant robots bearing down on me during that session. But, as my ship skimmed over the red oceans of one planet and I walked through the mushroom grass and watched overgrown rabbit creatures skip past, I started to think of No Man’s Sky as a giant book that will live inside my PS4. If all goes well, I’ll be able to play through a chapter or two every night, come away with a weird thing to show for my travels, and compare notes with fellow adventurers. That’s all I want right now.

There is no tangible reason this should have been the least bit watchable. On the one hand you have Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler, arguably the best "Weekend Update" hosts ever, on the other there's Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole or FOX Sports 1. The pair took exception to their network being called a "secondary channel" and skewered Meyers' poor ratings.

That doesn't make this great in itself -- what makes this good is how they were willing to joke about themselves and where viewers can find FOX Sports 1.

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NEW PRODUCT – Lockitron Motorized Door Lock Body

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Build your own smart lock with the Lockitron motorized door lock enclosure! Normally, a Lockitron has a built-in WiFi system for locking & unlocking via their App. Since they have redesigned their enclosure, we now have the ‘guts’ of the Lockitron available for hacking. There’s just enough space inside for some tasty Adafruit electronics

You get the housing for the original Lockitron, which contains a geared down DC motor, the mechanical rotation mechanism + detection switches and a 4xAA battery holder. You don’t get a control board, motor driver, or app. So this is best for makers, hackers, and other’s who want to adapt and create their own version of the Lockitron.

For example: wouldn’t it be cool if, instead of having to give your dog-sitter a key to your place, you could just text your home to let her in? We can build it ourselves using the new Lockitron body, Metro Mini (tiny Arduino-compatible) and a FONA 800 cellular module and other components. Check out our tutorial for how we built just such a project – those extra parts aren’t included but the tutorial does show you how to use it.

Comes with just the housing as described above, no electronic components included! You’ll probably want a bi-directional DC motor driver board that can control a 6V motor, and a microcontroller or other ‘brains’ for making the magic happen.

Even though it isn’t supported by Lockitron, the original Lockitron website will be helpful, e.g. to figure out if you can use this with your lock!

In stock and shipping now!

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The limited edition Destiny can will also feature Red Bull athlete, member of professional eSports organization OpTic Gaming, and Destiny super-fan Michael “Flamesword” Chaves. Chaves will offer his expertise and experience as an eSports athlete and coach to help guide players through the quest. His inclusion on the cans will also mark the first time an eSports athlete appears on a limited edition Red Bull® Energy Drink can.

“I’m really excited to be a part of this partnership," said Michael “Flamesword” Chaves, Red Bull eSport athlete. "I love that Red Bull and Destiny have a shared sense of adventure, camaraderie, and pushing boundaries that both brands embody. As a former Coach of OpTic Gaming and Team Captain of my current squad, I'm always looking to help others be at their best. I am very much looking forward to coaching the Destiny community through the quest and help everyone Become Legend!"
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SILE owes an awful lot of its heritage to TeX. It would be terribly immodest to claim that a little project like SILE was a worthy successor to the ancient and venerable creation of the Professor of the Art of Computer Programming, but… really, SILE is basically a modern rewrite of TeX.

TeX was one of the earliest typesetting systems, and had to make a lot of design decisions somewhat in a vacuum. Some of those design decisions have stood the test of time–and TeX is still an extremely well-used typesetting system more than thirty years after its inception, which is a testament to its design and performance–but many others have not. In fact, most of the development of TeX since Knuth’s era has involved removing his early decisions and replacing them with technologies which have become the industry standard: we use TrueType fonts, not METAFONTs (xetex); PDFs, not DVIs (pstex, pdftex); Unicode, not 7-bit ASCII (xetex again); markup languages and embedded programming languages, not macro languages (xmltex, luatex). At this point, the parts of TeX that people actually \em{use} are 1) the box-and-glue model, 2) the hyphenation algorithm, and 3) the line-breaking algorithm.

SILE follows TeX in each of these three areas; it contains a slavish port of the TeX line-breaking algorithm which has been tested to produce exactly the same output as TeX given equivalent input. But as SILE is itself written in an interpreted language, it is very easy to extend or alter the behaviour of the SILE typesetter.

For instance, one of the things that TeX can’t do particularly well is typesetting on a grid. This is something that people typesetting bibles really need to have. There are various hacks to try to make it happen, but they’re all horrible. In SILE, you can alter the behaviour of the typesetter and write a very short add-on package to enable grid typesetting.

Of course, nobody uses plain TeX–they all use LaTeX equivalents plus a huge repository of packages available from the CTAN. SILE does not benefit from the large ecosystem and community that has grown up around TeX; in that sense, TeX will remain streets ahead of SILE for some time to come. But in terms of capabilities, SILE is already certainly equivalent to, if not somewhat more advanced than, TeX.
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Another change is how the installments work. Before, you made 24 monthly payments over two years. With Jump On Demand, you make payments for only 18 months, at which point you owe the remaining six payments at once (unless you turn in the device and cancel service then, or upgrade to a new phone). Few people will get to that point because the program is designed for those who upgrade frequently. The clock resets when you upgrade.

With the new program, the sales tax is also spread out as part of the monthly installments. Before, customers had to pay tax on the full cost of the device up front.
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Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)

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Turbografx-16 games are… on sale… on PSN? ⊟

I don’t know how this happened, or how it got attached to a “fantasy”-themed flash sale, but I’ll take it. This weekend, three Turbografx-16 games are on sale for $1.20 each on PSN, playable on PSP, Vita, and PS3.

Bonk’s Adventure is the definite standout here, but New Adventure Island is a pretty nice Adventure Island 1-style game and Dungeon Explorer is there as well. I admit to having a good time with that one as a kid, especially after discovering the bad ending.

Anyway, if you have even the slightest desire to pick one of these up, do so now. They’re not likely to be this cheap again, and the way things seem to be going at Konami, I don’t expect them to be this available forever.

BUY PS Vita, 1-year PS Plus membership, upcoming games

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Art Nouveau Mascarons 1890s-1910s

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Yesterday, I wrote that a Black president singing “Amazing Grace” at a Black church on national TV was the Blackest thing that has ever happened. I said it passed peak Blackness and entered gravitational time dilation Blackness. Dark matter, event horizon Blackness. Undiscovered dimension Blackness, redefining our understanding of how Black Blackness could be.

And then I woke up this morning. And read about Bree Newsome.

A woman identified as Bree Newsome was arrested Saturday after climbing the flagpole at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., about 6:30 a.m. and removing the Confederate flag, Rashad Robinson, executive director of ColorOfChange.org, said in a statement.

And maybe I spoke too soon. 

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If I wear a shirt inside out, the entire universe would be wearing it except me.

Congratulations, you just explained Gödel’s theorem in a single sentence.

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Sunset on Mars

hell yes hell yes hell fucking yes

We are alive to see a sunset from another planet

This is incredible holy shit

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