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I am sorry to announce that Oliver has once again fallen off the wagon

Go home Corgi, you’re drunk.

Riker? I hardly know her. Looking for a goofy afternoon web toy? Play with Scroll Down to Riker, a bit of smile-inducing silliness by Sam Strick and featuring Star Trek: TNG's Number One.

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We made it to Boston. Well, Burlington, MA, to be accurate. Aimee and Dara went to bed and went to the movie theater for the first time in months. Big news for the parent of a toddler in rural #vermont. I saw Gravity. It was phenomenological!

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1. As of today, he's your Heisman winner

Oregon is undefeated and on track to make the BCS Championship Game, despite being third in the initial BCS rankings (the rankings are heavily schedule-influenced, and the Ducks' slate down the stretch is significantly more difficult than No. 2 FSU's). At the center of the Oregon attack is QB Marcus Mariota, who is now 19-1 as a starter and fifth in the nation in both passing efficiency and total offense. The only other player in the top five in both categories? Reigning Heisman winner Johnny Manziel, who just took his second home loss of the year.

2. He still hasn't thrown an interception

Then again, it's pretty easy to be one of the nation's most efficient quarterbacks when you never lose the ball. Mariota's sitting on 19 passing touchdowns and zero picks in his 197 attempts, and he's averaging over 10 yards per passing attempt. Of course, Bryce Petty at Baylor over there is averaging over 14 yards per, but the toughest defense Baylor has faced thus far is a randomly strewn set of garden gnomes, so let's check back in with him in mid-November.

3. He's still only 19 years old

If anything, Marcus Mariota's best days as a quarterback are still ahead of him. This is his second year of college ball and, as a Honolulu native, he spent his high school years playing against competition in Hawaii. That's not to suggest Hawaiians are inherently bad at football or anything prejudiced like that, but we're talking about a state that just doesn't produce many widely recruited athletes. It's not Texas or Ohio. So thanks to NFL rules, Mariota still has another year at least in Oregon, which seems a little unfair to the Ducks' opponents in 2014. Mariota's good enough to go to the NFL now, and barring catastrophe, he's going to be a very high pick when he does. It's just too bad there isn't a synonym for "tank" that rhymes with "Marcus." Or with "Mariota" for that matter. What the heck rhymes with "Mariota"?

4. Nothing rhymes with "Mariota"

OK, so that's four things to know about him. Good talk.

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Bicycle sales outpaced new-car sales last year in all of the 27 member countries of the European Union, except Belgium and Luxembourg, NPR reported on Oct. 24. One reason is that car sales have slumped in the midst of the euro-zone crisis, NPR points out. But there are signs that this slump isn’t temporary. It’s a reflection, perhaps, of a larger change in how people are traveling.

In developed economies, the numbers of cars owned and miles traveled have increased most years since the 1950s. Even before the financial crisis, that started to change. In the US, total miles traveled per person plateaued in 2000 and started falling in 2004. (Measured in miles per vehicle, that rate flattened in 2004 and started declining in 2007.) Today, young Americans are less interested in getting their licenses as early as possible or even at all. Meanwhile, global bicycle production has been growing faster than car production since the late 1970s:

There are a couple of reasons for the shift. The cost of fuel and insurance in many countries has gone up. And perhaps more importantly, cars have become less of a badge of prestige or money—at least in developed markets.

In Europe, predictably, countries hit by the economic slowdown have been the first to jump on their bikes. In Italy, in both 2011 and 2012, more bikes were sold than cars. In Spain, last year marked the first time the two-wheeled vehicles had ever outpaced cars since the country started compiling the related data.

However, not all the countries where bikes outsold cars were in economic dire straits. (See NPR’s chart below.) For instance, Lithuania, where bicycles outsold cars a little over nine times, saw its economy grow a healthy 3.6% last year. (That’s despite a slowdown in trade with the rest of the EU countries.) Even as economies recover in Europe and the US, people might be sticking to their bicycles.

Here’s NPR’s chart on sales of new cars versus bicycles in the larger economies of the EU.

Taco Cowboy writes "Salesforce has announced that it will be shutting down its task management software Do.com on 31 January 2014. 'Salesforce acquired the social productivity company back in February 2011, when it was called Manymoon. At the time, Manymoon served over 50,000 companies.' The announcement was made in an email to customers yesterday. The company did say they are working on an export tool to retrieve data from Do.com. It will be ready on 15 November. Users will no longer be charged after 1 November, and yearly subscribers will get a pro-rated refund."

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The GIF is the pre-eminent art form of our time. The Oregon Duck is our nation's foremost mascot. The two combined are a highpoint of aesthetic perfection that shall not be equalled now, and possibly not for decades to come.

The Oregon Duck was immediately taken to the hospital, and pronounced awesome on the scene.

With a little help from the Internet.

The fact that Daniel Webster received a substantial share of the vote in Georgia and Massachusetts, even though he was dead, shows how disenchanted voters were with the two main-party candidates.

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Adventure Time 3DS’s collector’s edition ⊟

Along with the special BMO packaging that comes with the $40 collector’s edition for Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know! 3DS, you’ll also get a bonus DVD (interviews, concept sketches from Pendleton Ward, and more), and Finn and Jake’s Dungeon Guide.

I remember a lot of people feeling like chumps when they didn’t get the last Adventure Time game’s collector’s set..

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Gulf Coast Slabs | Clay Ketter | Socks Studio

"Some days after hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, I found an image in Time magazine, taken from the air soon after the storm’s passage, of the smouldering remains of some coastal community. This image, like many others taken that day and the days to come, documented the awesome scale of the destruction caused by the hurricane, but in a landscape which differed very much from the worst-flooded wards of New Orleans, so well-covered in the news media. In this picture alone I discovered a wealth of information and understood the need to be there and capture these traces of living which I found hauntingly familiar. My photographer and I went to Gulfport, Mississippi with our cameras, rented a skylift, and shot film. Gulf Coast Slabs is the result of this work." 

- Clay Ketter

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High court test of surveillance law could be ahead Wilkes Barre Times-Leader WASHINGTON — The Justice Department says for the first time that it intends to use information gained from one of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance programs against an accused terrorist, setting the stage for a likely Supreme Court test ... Supreme Court test of surveillance law could be on horizonMorning Sentinel all 71 news articles »

Brannon said the group has worked with Christian nonprofits, such as Habitat for Humanity, in the past. "We can all work together to achieve something positive regardless of religion or lack thereof," she said. "We've raised money for March of Dimes, worked with the Generous Garden Project, done community park clean ups, adopted a highway, and sponsored local foster children for Christmas." She said the group is used to its share of animosity within the community, but the exchange with the Soup Kitchen was unlike anything she had experienced. "They are the only group that denied us the opportunity to volunteer," Brannon said. Landrum said she does not have a problem with the group setting up across the street. "They can set up across the street from the Soup Kitchen. They can have the devil there with them, but they better not come across the street," Landrum said. The Upstate Atheists will be handing out care packages between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. or until all of the packages are gone.

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An anonymous reader writes "Google today released an update to its reCAPTCHA system that creates different classes of CAPTCHAs for different kinds of users. In short, it makes your life easier if you're a human, and your work much harder if you're a bot. Unsurprisingly, Google wouldn't share too much detail as to how the new system works, aside from saying it uses advanced risk analysis techniques, actively considering the user's entire engagement (before, during and after) with the CAPTCHA. In other words, the distorted letters are not the only test."

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