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There was a big ol' goalie fight in Philadelphia, instigated by the Flyers as their frustrations boiled over in a blowout defeat. Wheel of Fortune host and hockey fan Pat Sajak wasn't a fan of the fight:

Love hockey, but Flyers are part of reason it remains a niche sport. Shameful tonight (including Philly radio team.)

— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) November 2, 2013

Philadelphia fans, of course, took this totally in stride and responded with measured insight. Sajak retweeted the undisputed best reply:

Any minute now @patsajak will be the most hated man in Philadelphia. #TrebeksBetterThanYou go spin your wheel fucko, you don't know hockey

— chris santori (@mr_santorious) November 2, 2013

HE DOESN'T SPIN THE WHEEL, THE CONTESTANTS DO! WHO'S THE FUCKO NOW? Sorry. Sorry. Goalie fights bring out the worst in everybody.

What began as attempted revenge for marital infidelity has turned into a U.S. Supreme Court showdown over the power of the federal government.

Game Dev Story developer Kairosoft launched its latest creation, Pocket Harvest, on Android recently. The game costs $4.99 (£2.99 in the UK) and is in the same style as Kairosoft's other creations. The farming simulator has players planting and cultivating produce like strawberries and lettuce as well as raising animals like sheep and chickens to create wool and eggs.

The game also challenges players with refining their crops so they win awards, which attracts local grocers that opt to place orders with their farms. Like other city and life simulators, players can develop attractions to bring tourists into town, building on their farm's bottom line. After developing a top-tier racing team, a game development studio, a soccer team and now a farm, we wonder what "story" Kairosoft will place us in next.

Game Dev Story creator launches Pocket Harvest on Android originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 01 Nov 2013 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This li'l guy's name is Chubbs, and he's upgraded his previous costumes (wampug, banthapug) to one that implies a certain level of sentience. I mean, I'm not saying the guards of Jabba's palace are brainboxes exactly, but they're not beasts of burden at least.

See more of Vaneda Vireak's illustrations of DC superheroines as Sailor Scouts on her Tumblr.

The private CBC channel said Mr Youssef had not followed editorial policies and wanted more money. The move comes a week after his al-Bernameg (Programme) show poked fun at the country's powerful military, triggering complaints. The decision will heighten concerns about freedom of speech restrictions.

Germany has become Europe's first country to allow babies with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female.

We don't have the schedule for the 50th anniversary yet but we will be having a full day of Doctor Who which will include food and drink specials, live first showing of the TV special which will be repeating throughout the day, games, trivia questions and prizes, costume contest for the younger Doctor Who fans before 9pm followed by a costume/dance party, live music, sci-fi tattoo contest, etc etc after nine. Outdoor events will be contingent on the weather but we will be using our 9x16 movie screen if possible and if we get it finished we will be unveiling our very own TARDIS and doing tours of time and space if we can fit you all in. If you are interested on being on the planning committee or just have some great ideas for fun things you would like to do or see happen on November 23rd please message me or come talk to me at the restaurant. More details to follow......

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SanDogWeps writes "Periodically viewed as copyright infringement by the media, the Department of Defense's 'Early Bird' has been delivering applicable headlines to the Armed Forces since 1948. It stopped updating on October 1st, along with a number of other government products, but when the lights turned back on, The Early Bird remained dark. A number of reasons have been floated, including applicability in the internet age, cost, and a lack of interest. Others claim The Early Bird was nothing more than a propaganda machine, by culling articles that painted DoD in a favorable light."

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[Hackett's] back at it, this time with some practical advice for the next power outage to hit your city: why not prepare for the worst by building your own bike generator? You’ll no doubt recall that hurricane Sandy devastated New York City’s grid, even flooding substations and causing massive explosions. [Hackett] experienced the Sandy outages first-hand, and knows the value of having this simple build ready to roll.

The project uses a permanent magnet DC motor (around 250 watts), which you can find in electric wheelchairs or other mobility scooters. His setup’s gear reduction spins the motor 50 times for each revolution of the bike wheel. The apparatus [Hackett] built to press-fit the wheel to the motor’s spindle is particularly clever: a threaded rod adjusts the position of the motor, which is bolted onto a hinged platform, with the other part of the hinge welded to a larger frame that supports the bike wheel.

The motor is connected to a home-built charge controller based on Mike Davis’s design, which monitors the deep-cycle batteries and both kills the charge when it’s full as well as turns charging back on after it’s reached a set level of discharge. The rest is gravy: with the deep cycle battery connected to a power inverter, [Hackett] can plug in and keep phones charged, music playing, and even (some of) the lights on. If you’re a fan of [Hackett's] straightforward, practical presentation style, check out his tripod build and his demonstration of stripping pipes of their galvanization.

[Thanks Becky!]

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cagraham writes "The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Amazon will begin charging customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin sales tax today, after fighting against it for years. Amazon now charges sales tax in 16 states, affecting roughly 163 million Americans. Yet despite Amazon's continued fight against sales tax on the state-level, they support a Senate bill that would allow all states to tax online retailers. It seems like a contradiction, but it's actually a calculated move to undercut rivals like eBay (who would have a far harder time dealing with sales tax laws), and even an unequal playing field (many states that tax Amazon don't tax other online retailers)."

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Mark Gibbs writes "If you've recently fired up Skype you may have noticed a dialog box with a warning appear briefly (at least on OS X) then vanish. If you're fast enough to catch it you'll find that it's warning you that some application you're using that works with Skype will stop working in December, 2013. This applies to all sorts of software supporting headsets, cameras, ... you name it."

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Eyewitnesses said the suspect asked people, "Hey, are you TSA?" -- the acronym for the Transportation Security Administration -- according to a federal law enforcement official. If they said "no," he would move on. In the aftermath of the shooting, investigators found information on the suspect expressing not just anti-federal government sentiment but also anger at the TSA specifically, according to the federal law enforcement official.

Look what we found! The unaired SU&SD pilot from 1974! And reviewing such contemporary board games! Crazy.

Watch as the boys take their first halting steps through the gorgeous Legends of Andor, and stick it to the man with a look at two titles from Victory Point Games' catalogue: Darkest Night and Moonbase Alpha. You might remember VPG as the small publisher Quinns talked about earlier in the year, whose games come with a complimentary napkin.

Keep on rocking, guys.

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midnightyen:

THIS JUST BLOWS MY MIND.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano wore a very simple Superman costume in honor of Halloween, but he gets extra points for floating around the International Space Station in a Superman pose.

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Pokemon Opposite Word cards ⊟

Want to teach your kids about opposites, Japanese language and Pokemon simultaneously? J-List has this cool set of cards featuring matched sets of opposites, in simple Japanese hiragana (examples above: front/back, male/female).

I mean, if you think about how many things you’d learn at once from this card game, $14 is pretty cost effective. It’s like if your math textbook was full of examples that also happened to be common auto repair procedures.

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