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staceythinx:

Beautifully designed and scientifically accurate wares from Cognitive Surplus. Check out their online store or look for them at various events around New York.

About Cognitive Surplus:

We’re the type of people who will proudly nerd out about the properties of water and how they make it kinda magical-and want products that do the same. When we brought home our periodic table shower curtain, we were pretty shocked to see carbon listed as a noble gas (though we did get a chuckle imagining all the carbon-based life and materials suddenly being non-cohesive gases floating away in the breeze). It was with that inspiration that we set out to be a source of beautifully designed home goods that didn’t sacrifice quality of information or material.

Acknowledging that perhaps an audience will expect more from its new Peanuts movie besides just the most advanced animation technology has to offer, Fox has brought in a producer who maybe also understands the strip's sensibilities, which computers are still years away from replicating. It’s Paul Feig, whose first-look deal with Fox was ostensibly signed so he could make some more R-rated female comedy cash, but who also has a deep personal affection for Charles Schulz's beloved creation that makes him well suited for the role.

“Growing up, Peanuts was my Star Wars,” Feig tells Deadline. “Charles Schulz’s characters influenced everything in my career, especially Freaks And Geeks.” It's a not-at-all surprising revelation, considering Charlie Brown and the gang similarly existed in their own self-contained world, the massive swelling of fluid accumulating in their brains—which caused them to have frequent hallucinations involving animals and ...

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Stik in the East Village and in ARTWALK NY 2013


Stik in the East Village and in ARTWALK NY 2013


Stik in the East Village and in ARTWALK NY 2013

Stik

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The New America by Nando Costa

Two years in the making, Nando Costa’s innovative animation is constructed out of 800+ laser cut pieces of wood. 

After being sued in June by two former interns who were paid well below minimum wage, Condé Nast opted to end its longtime internship program altogether. As WWD reports, the current crop of interns will be Condé Nast's last; the program is ending in 2014.

No one at Condé, which owns WWD, would comment for the story, so it's not known whether (or if) they will replace their internship program with something else. Several media companies, including the Wire's parent Atlantic Media, have established paid fellowships for recent college graduates instead of offering unpaid internships.

Earlier this summer, Condé seemed to be making the claim that unpaid internships have educational value by stopping paying the $550 per semester stipend it had been offering to its interns. Activists who have criticized unpaid internships were not impressed by Condé's latest move:

SHAME on Condé Nast for ending their internship program, instead of paying a living wage. #payyourinterns

— Fair Pay Campaign (@FairPayCampaign) October 23, 2013

Of course, those who never had a problem with the internships in the first place aren't happy, either. Aliza Licht, a senior vice president of communications at Donna Karan, reacted to the news by tweeting, "I hope everyone who sued knows they ruined it for EVERYONE." 

That lawsuit, meanwhile, is still pending. Matthew Leib and Lauren Ballinger, who interned for The New Yorker and W Magazine respectively, hired the same lawyers who helped secure a potentially precedent-setting ruling for two former Black Swan interns who filed a class action suit against Fox Searchlight.  

As the number of lawsuits against companies that have unpaid interns has multiplied, other media companies have begun changing their practices. The Nation agreed to pay its interns minimum wage after its interns wrote a letter to the editor. Harper's, however, brushed aside criticisms of its own program, claiming the program is "a learning experience that is the equal of J-school."

Top photo of Condé Nast building by Doc Searls via Wikimedia Commons.

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i love u pixar never change

Yes, more Super Mario 3D World GIFs ⊟

Since I’m late to posting this new and fantastic Super Mario 3D World trailer, here are some GIFs from said vid. Even when they’re super small and grainy, you can tell this thing is going to be so much fun.

They’re riding a dinosaur! Bullet Bill with cat ears! Mario turning into a red shell! Giant Peach and Weegee! Sneaking around as a Goomba! Watch the full six-minute trailer here.

PREORDER Super Mario 3D World, upcoming releases

ANIMATED: Mouthbreather, or he just saw a g-g-g-g-GHOOOOST

As the Sox push for their eighth championship, here’s another change to make. Please, Ye Olde Towne Team, ship “Sweet Caroline” out of Boston.

Bank of America Corp was found liable for fraud on claims related to defective mortgages sold by its Countrywide unit, a major win for the U.S. government in one of the few big trials stemming from the financial crisis.

coelasquid:

jwallsjoystick:

It’s almost doneeee. Just some final touches before the con this weekend. Battle punk #SailorMoon

I dub thee Sailor Commander Badass.

Give this man a TV series.

hobbitdragon:

sam-ptarmigan:

anunexpectedhotdwarf:

Because I love Lindir and Elronds’ faces so much.

Hour by hour, my day just keeps getting better.

omfg is this even real

Devil’s Crush (Naxat Soft - TG16 - 1990)

ultrace:

To celebrate the upcoming non-holiday that is Halloween, have a gander at the best video pinball game ever created, Devil’s Crush. This is the main table layout, with all targets lit up and ready for action. I was going to make some sort of poster print image of this, except that the full table image would require an awkward 11” x 30.25” to print, and how could I choose more than half the table to cut off for an 11” x 14” image?

Not pictured here, of course, are the half-dozen single-screen bonus stages your ball can be sucked into, which pit you against skeletons, wizards, alien worms and all sorts of other foes.

Wildly popular Rainbow Loom bracelet-making kits are creating such a distraction at a Park Slope school that the principal has banned them.

Onetime National Security Council staffer Jofi Joseph is under investigation by the Justice Department for his alleged social media activities -- both as @NatSecWonk and also possibly as @DCHobbyist, a Twitter account devoted largely to the exploits of North American escorts.

alexsegura:

Good morning!

quejero:

misspaperlilies:

this is making me feel really really anxious

I didn’t find this episode quite as entertaining as last week’s “Commander’s Palace,” but I have to admit that the challenge was almost as brutal. I don’t think of Vietnamese food as being that fringe, so maybe it wasn’t that hard, but I will agree with the judges that Vietnamese food is deceptively simple—it’s hard to get right.

Still, “Captain Vietnam” would have been more entertaining if one team hadn’t been a total train wreck right from the start. The only challenge this week is the elimination, which is to produce authentic-seeming Vietnamese food for the judges and the patrons of a restaurant in New Orleans. There’s a strong Vietnamese influence in New Orleans, probably because Vietnam used to be under French rule, so there’s still a distinctively New Orleans theme to this episode. I really liked that the producers ...

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