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14 Oct 23:31

Android 4.4 KitKat will let you choose your own default texting app

by Jacob Kastrenakes

Android users will be able to choose third-party apps to handle their text messaging by default when the operating system's next big update, version 4.4 KitKat, eventually launches. On its developer blog, Google notes that many third-party SMS and MMS apps have already been made using workarounds to gain access to users' texts — a method that it doesn't quite condone. To remedy that, Google will begin supplying a proper way for them to be accessed in KitKat, alongside the option to choose a default app to handle them.

Hangouts could become an iMessage competitor

The details come amid rumors that Google will also begin bundling SMS and MMS messaging right into its Hangouts app, creating a competitor to Apple's iMessage. Android Police first reported the rumor and also has several screenshots of what it says is the combined app in action. It also reports that Google will do away with Android's traditional Messaging app, leaving Hangouts as the only built-in text messaging option.

Though it's unclear how the rumored Hangouts app would switch between different types of messages, Android Police reports that each message will label what medium it was sent through. For it to be a true iMessage competitor though, Google would need to begin automatically sending SMS and MMS messages over Hangouts' own network, rather than relying on users to pair a contact's phone number with their Google account. But while Google announced KitKat just over a month ago, few details have been properly announced so far — from the looks of things though, it won't be long before we know much more.

14 Oct 23:26

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"  "My sight is failing," she said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?" 


For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: 

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”

- George Orwell, Animal Farm.

"Democracy has been suspended"

holy fucking shit

What a time to be alive. x_x 

WHAT!!! WHAT THE HELL!!! I need to clean my ears or something what did I just—

Now how did they pull off that little trick?

14 Oct 23:13

'The Walking Dead' Beats Everything on TV (Yes, Even Football) | Fall TV - Yahoo TV

by gguillotte
To put the ratings in even more perspective, "The Walking Dead" season premiere: Topped everything all the networks aired on Friday night (Oct. 11), both in total viewers and the 18-49 demographic; Drew more than twice the number of total viewers (7.4 million) of cable reality hit "Duck Dynasty" on Wednesday; Drew more total viewers than hits "Modern Family," "Criminal Minds," "Survivor," Monday and Tuesday's episodes of "The Voice," "NCIS: LA," "Person of Interest," "Dancing With the Stars," "The Blacklist," and ESPN's Monday Night Football game. In the fall TV season so far, no prime-time show has beaten "The Walking Dead" in the 18-49 demographic. Not even football.
14 Oct 22:02

Confirmed: Alan Moore's Work To Be Included In Marvel's 'Miracleman' Reprints

by Joseph Hughes
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Though the response from readers was overwhelmingly positive, last weekend’s announcement that Marvel will republish Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham’s scarcely available work on Miracleman, as well as allow the writer and artist to finally finish their long-incomplete story, led very naturally to one question: what about the Miracleman work of Alan Moore, which is similarly unavailable?

Fortunately, a press release sent out today by Marvel states quite clearly that the publisher will reprint the entire long lost Miracleman run of the 1980s, starting with the work of Moore. The confusion as to whether or not the Moore material would be included stems from the fact that Marvel has not mentioned the writer’s name in any press.

When the republishing project was revealed during last weekend’s New York Comic Con, it was stated that the reprints would begin in January 2014 with Miracleman #1, which contains a story by Moore, Garry Leach and Alan Davis. But the focus of the announcement and press coverage was all but exclusively on the work of Gaiman and Buckingham, whose run began in issue #17 of the original series.  This fueled speculation as to the future availability of the coveted Moore material. but Marvel’s attempted to mitigate confusion to the extent they can without using actual creator names. How? By invoking a comparison to Watchmen, Moore’s most famous work:

“Fans lucky enough to have read these trailblazing stories when they were originally produced have often referred to this legendary run on Miracleman as ‘the lost Watchmen,’ and Marvel is proud to finally bring these incredible comics to an audience that has clamored for them.”

ComicsAlliance has confirmed that the Moore material will be reprinted as part of this Miracleman project, but at present it is not clear exactly why the writer’s name cannot be mentioned in Marvel’s press announcements. It may be a legal concern, the typically vehement insistence by the writer to distance himself from his work with the publisher, or some combination of the two. The royalty situation is also unknown, because in the past Moore has steadfastly refused money contractually owed him regarding reprints, continuations or adaptations to other media of various properties he’s worked on, most famously turning down any money he was due from the 2009 Watchmen film.

Beginning in 1982, Moore wrote 16 issues of Miracleman — the first six of which initially ran in the pages of Warrior Magazine — before Gaiman took over with issue #17. Like the rest of the series, Moore’s stories had been in legal limbo for years, following the closing of Eclipse Comics, the company that published the series after Warrior. Following protracted litigation, Marvel announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009 that it had acquired the rights to the character, including the issues printed by Eclipse.

Miracleman #1 will be republished by Marvel this coming January.

14 Oct 21:55

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NYCC: Sandman: Overture 2 covers by Williams and McKean.

Two beautiful covers…

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14 Oct 21:55

Sing it with Me: The LAST YOOOONICOOOOOORN!

by Bobby Roberts
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"Beagle is personally touring the country with a brand new 2K digital print of The Last Unicorn, and that tour stops at the Hollywood Theatre in November."

November 16th & 18th, times TBD: Seattle Cinerama – Seattle, WA
November 23rd & 24th, times TBD: Hollywood Theatre – Portland, OR

I don't really remember much about The Last Unicorn.

I remember that the guy from TRON was a fair haired prince, and Alan Arkin was a dorky wizard, and Robert Klein was a smartassed butterfly. I remember the orange-hued, wood-paneled soft-rock theme song by the band America; more accurately, I remember the part I put in the title of this post.

But mostly, I remember the movie as being kinda sad. The concept of melancholy wasn't all that well-formed in my 8 year-old brain. I knew this cartoon kinda looked like The Hobbit (both were Rankin-Bass productions), but was kinda confused when no slapstick comedy or goofy showtunes from ugly orcs occurred; I spent most of my cartoon-time pretending to knock alien robot airplanes off the couch into imaginary lava for the glory of the Autobots, so something working on an emotional level slightly deeper than "Yaaaa (fart)" was bound to slide right off me.

I remember my mom crying at it, though. I'd never seen mom pay any attention to my dumb cartoons, much less be affected enough to shed tears. So I knew there was some sort of power at work, just beyond my grasp. As I got older, I learned that both the movie and the book (by Peter S. Beagle) had a fervent fanbase. It might have bounced right off my dumb ass, but it landed like a ton of bricks on a whole bunch of other kids. It's easy to see how, in hindsight; It's a story about loss and transformation, with a cast of actors that was better than most live-action films of its time, with Mia Farrow, Christopher Lee, Keenan Wynn, and Angela Lansbury.

Lucky for those kids, and the kids those kids might have had in the meantime, Beagle is personally touring the country with a brand new 2K digital print of The Last Unicorn, and that tour stops at the Hollywood Theatre in November. Seems like a perfect opportunity for old fans to rediscover the film, and for new viewers to get their best possible first viewing. Details can be found here.

Here's the film's intro featuring that theme song, just in case you need to brush up on the lyrics before November.

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14 Oct 21:48

Music: Newswire: Damon Albarn and The Wire's Idris Elba are making a record together

by Marah Eakin

Blur’s Damon Albarn is playing music in Mali with The Wire and Luther star Idris Elba. The odd British duo is in the middle of a weeklong trip to Bamako, the country’s capital, where they’ll jam out with Brian Eno, Holy Other, Ghostpoet, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, and a number of Malian musicians at a local community center. Reportedly, the massive group is trying to lay down tracks for a record. The whole thing’s part of Albarn’s African Express initiative that, just last year, had celebrities like Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones touring the continent via train.

On Oct. 19, Albarn, Zinner, Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, and members of both Django Django and The Noisettes will play an Africa Express benefit show in Marseilles, France.

Albarn says he chose to go to Mali to record for this year’s project because of the ...

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14 Oct 21:47

Internet Rocked By Blogger With Sarcastic Sensibility

NEW YORK—Hailed by members of the online community as “a groundbreaking and radical new voice,” blogger Charles Edo has taken the internet by storm in recent weeks with a series of posts in which he conveys his opinions using the rhetori...
    






14 Oct 21:47

Suicide Hotline Operator Sick Of Talking Down Jaguars Players

JACKSONVILLE, FL—Complaining that the phone was ringing off the hook, local suicide hotline operator Richard Bloomquist told reporters Monday that he’s sick and tired of fielding calls from depressed members of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
    






14 Oct 21:43

Students suspended for wearing Confederate flags to protest gay rainbow flag

by gguillotte
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At Tahoma High School in the nether suburbs of Seattle, it’s totally okay to display a gay-pride flag, but two juniors were suspended for three days for wearing Confederate flags at school. An unnamed school district spokesman said that a sophomore had been exhibiting a gay-pride flag at Tahoma High for the last two weeks, reports local CBS affiliate KIRO. When the two juniors showed up on Tuesday in a common area wearing the Confederate flags as a political statement in response, they were suspended.
14 Oct 21:43

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14 Oct 21:38

Nintendo 2DS review: Cheaper than ever, but with a price

by Kyle Orland
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tl;dr: Comfortable except in edge cases that were also uncomfortable on the folding 3DS; not pocket friendly; mono speaker is a downgrade

At this point, we're used to Nintendo releasing slightly tweaked cosmetic refinements to its portable systems pretty frequently (the latest example of the trend, the 3DS XL, came just last year). That said, the August announcement of the Nintendo 2DS was still surprising simply due to the sheer scale of Nintendo's proposed redesign. Not only is Nintendo saying goodbye to the 3D gimmick that started out as one of the 3DS' main selling points, but it's also throwing out the folding hinge design that has served its portable line so well ever since the Game Boy Advance SP.

The redesign reportedly brings with it significant cost savings on Nintendo's part, which helps drive the 2DS' price down to a very attractive $129 (compared to $169 for the 3DS and $199 for the 3DS XL). But this handheld also comes with a few annoyances that detract from the gaming experience. All in all, the 2DS is a passable entry-level device for price-conscious consumers, but the standard 3DS or 3DS XL are worth the extra money.

Mostly comfortable

As far as the internal hardware is concerned, the 2DS is identical to the 3DS that came before it, right down to the same size battery pack. Everything from the system menu to the software compatibility, screen size, and 3D camera (yes, the system takes 3D pictures, even though it can't display them natively) is exactly the same as it was in the standard 3DS, so we're not going to rehash that here.

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14 Oct 21:09

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14 Oct 21:08

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14 Oct 21:05

Fukushima Industries just made a very unfortunate branding choice

by Gwynn Guilford

Say “Fukushima,” and most people probably don’t think “refrigerators.” Thanks to the 2011 disaster in Japan’s Fukushima province, things like “radiation” or “nuclear leak” are more likely to spring to mind.

That might make things tough for fridge-maker Fukushima Industries, which had nothing to do with the 2011 nuclear meltdown. But unfortunately, the firm’s new mascot probably isn’t going to do much to change that. Via RocketNews24, here’s… Fukuppy:

​ Fukushima Industries

What’s Fukuppy’s purpose? Ask him! “I fly around on my awesome wings, patrolling supermarket showcases and kitchen refrigerators,” explains Fukuppy on Fukushima Industries’ site (translation from RocketNews24). ”I can talk to vegetables, fruit, meat, and fish and can check on their health!”

Though Fukuppy does claim to be a “bit of a klutz,” his name probably doesn’t have anything to do with what it sounds like pronounced in English. For one, his name is actually pronounced “foo-koo-pee.”

But among English-speakers, Fukuppy probably seems like it would be a fitting name for a Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant mascot. The chief cause of the 2011 meltdown was human error, not the tsunami/earthquake, found a report commissioned by the Japanese government. In July, the head of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority admitted that the plant has been contaminating the ocean for two years since he and his staff have been unable to pinpoint the leak’s origin. As a result, as many as 80,000 people could get cancer, two nuclear experts told the Georgia Straight, a Canadian news weekly.


14 Oct 21:03

Steam weekly sales: Thirty Flights of Loving, Elemental, more

by Earnest Cavalli
Steam weekly sales Thirty Flights of Loving, Elemental, more Another week, another round of hefty Steam discounts: 18 games and applications are on sale this week with prices ranging from 50 to 75 percent off.

Most notable are the indie darlings. Both Elemental and Retro City Rampage can now be purchased for $5 a piece, while Thirty Flights of Loving is a mere $2. If you're in more of a retro, strategic mood, have a look at either Jagged Alliance 2 Gold or Disciples II: Gallean's Return, games that are now priced at $5 and $1.62 respectively.

For more information and a full list of all software on sale this week, have a look at Steam's weekly sales page.


JoystiqSteam weekly sales: Thirty Flights of Loving, Elemental, more originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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14 Oct 21:01

Turtle Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by djempirical

The song's lyrics erroneously suggest that Raphael is leader of the team, a role traditionally held by Leonardo.

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14 Oct 20:59

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14 Oct 20:45

Wartune Is FOR MEN ONLY! NO WOMENS TO READ!

by John Walker

By John Walker on October 14th, 2013 at 7:00 pm.

Free to play browser RTS/RPG Wartune makes something very clear through its advertising: it is FOR MEN ONLY. Well, I’m a man! Doctors have verified this. So I thought, equipped with the right qualifications, I’d better take a look. NO WOMEN HAD BETTER READ THIS POST!

Let’s take a look at some of that advertising, now that all the pesky ladies aren’t reading, eh fellows? Eh? EH?

Woo-hoo! Tits! What’s it going to be like? I’ve not even included the one that tells me I deserve an orgy!

Ah.

Of course this isn’t a new nonsense. It began with Evony, which discovered its success was directly proportional to how nudey its banner ads became. That all anyone found when they got there was an Age Of Empires rip-off didn’t seem to matter. There had been boobs, and there then were players. And Wartune certainly isn’t alone in performing this. An especially unpleasant and disturbing example doing the rounds at the moment belongs to a game called Scarlet Blade. This one:

But what’s bewildering is that anyone would stick around long enough to make these games money. I tried to figure out why they might with Wartune. It didn’t last long.

The game itself is yet another nothingness RPG with an RTS base camp. But it’s especially egregiously empty. To complete the RPG stuff, the wandering through tiny, tiny locations and battling enemies in sort-of turn-based combat, you need only click the left mouse on the quest text a couple of times, and sit back and watch. You can, but don’t need to even move your character. Just clicking on the quest text will do that for you. Battles are so astonishingly uninvolved and perfunctory that the needlessness of your special abilities is entirely irrelevant, since the chances of a fight lasting long enough for you to have a turn are pretty slim. The troops with you get their goes first. Even when you reach tougher baddies, there’s still absolutely no need to interact.

The RTS stuff is slightly more involved. Haha. I mean, you have to click slightly more often. Upgrading buildings lets you upgrade other buildings so you can upgrade other buildings. This lets you, um, I don’t know. It’s around this point that the game starts offering your its VIP programme. You get an hour of it free at one point, to show you what the game is like without having to wait for increasingly long and entirely arbitrary cooldowns on upgrading things. It doesn’t, however, give you any freebies of its real-world pretend currency, which extra advantages gradually start to need. But, in fairness, for the couple of hours I stuck with it, I didn’t need to pay for anything to continue through its bland emptiness.

As for anything salacious, and indeed my promised orgy, no such thing appears. Instead it’s about killing wolves and recruiting more archers. Oh, and fighting Taurens. With absolutely no shame, the game includes the cow race is if they’re just part of generic fantasy lore, rather than something specific to World Of Warcraft. And they’re the first enemy you encounter, making up what I guess counts for the game’s allusion toward a story.

And there’s farming. Yes indeed, this most boobalicious of games is, quite dominantly, a farming simulator. Not one you can actively enjoy without paying real-world money, of course. And even then I think “enjoy” might require a severe dose of the crazies.

The reason I stopped playing wasn’t pay-to-play nagging, however. In fairness, at least as far as I reached that wasn’t too bad. It was instead an Adobe Flash Player Settings popup asking me to give the game unlimited space on my hard drive.

So what have we learned here? Firstly, that this is all a bit pathetic really, isn’t it? And that then I’ve stopped paying attention.

14 Oct 19:59

Two referees arrested after alleged threats in Louisiana | Prep Rally - Yahoo Sports

by gguillotte
As reported by WWLTV, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Associated Press, among other outlets, two referees who were working the St. Paul's School (Covington, La.) against Mandeville High (Mandeville, La.) football game were arrested on intimidation charges related to threats they allegedly made against a Covington police officer during the course of the game. The officer in question then reported the threat and shortly thereafter, both officials were escorted off the field by a group of three other police officers. WWLTV reported the issue actually began as a disagreement between referees and members of the St. Paul's chain gang, which was responsible for down and distance marking in the game. The referees reportedly engaged in a vocal disagreement with members of the chain gang, which then spilled over into an argument with a designated police officer about crowd control.
14 Oct 19:58

Why did Healthcare.gov's source code mysteriously vanish from public view?

by Greg Sandoval

One of the few trouble-free areas on Healthcare.gov is the site's front end — the information pages where visitors can learn about health plans available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In contrast to the glitchy backend systems that have prevented many of the more than 14 million visitors from shopping for health insurance the past two weeks, the pages that provide information about the government's insurance marketplace were built on open-source code. Now, that code doesn't appear to be so open.

Word came over the weekend that the code had disappeared from Github, a popular service that hosts open-source projects. Since the code disappeared without explanation, there was plenty of speculation as to what might have happened. Some guessed it was sabotaged by Obamacare opponents, or maybe another glitch brought it down. Some wondered whether those in command had a change of heart about making the code public. The White House press office, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services — which is overseeing the building of the site — and Aquilent, one of the main contractors, did not respond to interview requests. Eric Gundersen, co-founder of Development Seed, one of the companies that participated in the development process, told The Verge that he didn't know the reason the code was no longer publicly available, but was confident that one possibility could eliminated.

Organizers have seen better code come out of open-source projects "Bryan Sivak, the chief technology officer of the US Department of Health and Human Services, has had incredible support for this being open," Gundersen said. "I can't imagine anything has changed there. Bryan has seen better code coming out of open-source projects, and he has said multiple times that other organizations and agencies can benefit from this code being out in the open."

The New York Times had a good story on Sunday about the setbacks that a malfunctioning Healthcare.gov has meant to the Obama administration. The paper talked to executives involved with the site who blamed a series of "financial, technical, and managerial" missteps for the site's many shortcomings. The Times reported that some in the know about the site have said that 70 percent of the glitches are fixed, while others fear that the flaws "if not quickly fixed, could threaten the fiscal health of the insurance initiative, which depends on throngs of customers to spread the risk and keep prices low."

Fortunately, the Internet Archive has preserved a copy of the code previously found on Github, but there's still no official word on what happened to it or when it might return. We'll update if we get any response to our questions.

14 Oct 19:48

Flipcase turns your iPhone 5c cover into a game of Connect Four

by Megan Farokhmanesh
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By Megan Farokhmanesh on Oct 14, 2013 at 3:00p

A new app for the iPhone 5 allows users to play a game by flipping the iPhone 5c casing over its front.

Flipcase, created by Stuart Hall and Dave McKinney, takes advantage of the case's circular cutouts and the iPhone 5's touch capabilities. Users tap within free circles to stack colored balls in an effort to achieve four in a row. You can watch a short demonstration of the game in the video above.

Flipcase is available through the iTunes App Store as a free download. The game works with all variations of the iPhone 5 and simply requires an iPhone 5c case.

The iPhone 5c was announced last month, alongside the release date of iOS 7.

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14 Oct 19:48

10/11/13 PHD comic: 'Post-Doctor Who, Pt. 3'

Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham
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title: "Post-Doctor Who, Pt. 3" - originally published 10/11/2013

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14 Oct 19:35

Google reportedly planning to reward users that allow deeper tracking of mobile habits

by Chris Welch
Google reportedly planning to reward users that allow deeper tracking of mobile habits | The Verge

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Google may soon offer a new service that rewards users for letting the company more closely monitor their usage of mobile apps. According to Engadget, the new project is internally referred to as "Mobile Meter" and "utilizes iOS and Android apps that intelligently monitor app usage and web browsing habits and send the data back to Google." To combat any potential (and understandable) privacy concerns, Engadget says the tracking will be entirely voluntary and that users will need to opt in rather than requesting to be excluded from the service.

Further, data Google takes in will reportedly be anonymized so it can't be linked to specific users. Engadget's report doesn't specify how Google intends to compensate participants for granting the company a deeper look at their mobile habits. Google already collects a sizable amount of data from Android users — with permission, of course. And the company last year rolled out Account Activity, an in-depth analytics tool that lets you examine nearly everything you've ever done with Google's services.

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14 Oct 19:28

Pizza Cocktail

by Rusty Blazenhoff
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Pizza Cocktail

At Trattoria Neapolis Italian restaurant and bar in Pasadena, California, owner Michele Galifi is currently offering the “Pizza Cocktail” which Erin Lyall of LA Weekly’s Squid Ink blog describes as “a scarily accurate drink that tastes as if your slice jumped into a Vitamix with a bottle of vodka.” She furthers, “Tomato water, basil-infused vodka, ghost pepper–infused vodka, porcini powder and muddled basil are shaken together and topped with a Parmesan and mozzarella foam.”

photo by Chris Jolly via LA Weekly’s Squid Ink

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