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spatscolombo: The more I see of the inner workings of...
The more I see of the inner workings of the Enterprise, the more I’m convinced it runs on rainbows and the spirit of adventure.
I mean, like, are those kidney beans glued to expired library cards? Is that a kazoo coming out of half a pinball machine? Is that a pile of unconnected silly string on top of a broken Fender Super Champ? (Yes, and everything is beautiful.)
laughingsloth: The Final Frontier: script Reaction 1: [Smiles...
The Final Frontier: script
Reaction 1: [Smiles at memory of sassy dialogue]
Reaction 2: [sighs] [shakes head] [crosses out “like”] [inserts “as if”] [twice]
(and turns the page…)
In the distant future… ⊟ “I know not with what weapons...
In the distant future… ⊟
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but the Space Cat War will be fought with a Nintendo DS.”
― Albert Einstein
Credit to Giannis Milonogiannis for the art (via Neo-rama).
BUY Nintendo 2DS and 3DS/XL consoles, upcoming releases
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Unboxing the 10-foot Tall Robocop Statue Maquette in Detroit
Pete Hottelet shares this video that shows the unboxing of the 10-foot tall Robocop statue maquette arriving to Venus Bronze Works in Detroit where it will be completed. Pete, a major investor of the project, reports, “This is the foam sculpt; The bronze statue will be cast from these pieces. The final location for the statue is still to be determined, we are accepting solicitations so it gets the best placement possible.” We have previously featured this project and its ongoing progress several times on Laughing Squid.
video by PishPosh.tv, photo by Pete Hottelet
submitted via Laughing Squid Tips
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Open-Source Linux Driver Support For 4K Monitors
Things We Saw Today: R2-D2′s Star Trek Into Darkness Cameo
The Doubtful Palace
“Poictesme is a mythical French province, appearing in a series of novels by James Branch Cabell” and referenced on a page of terrific imaginary maps.
Games: The Gameological Society: How the British TV series Misfits turns anti-game arguments around on themselves
Got a problem? Chances are you can blame it on video games. While the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry acknowledges that some games are educational, it warns parents that playing games can lead to their kids having poor social skills, getting lower grades, becoming overweight and spending less time with their families. An Iowa State University study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics tied video game addiction in kids to depression and anxiety disorders. In the wake of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting, the National Rifle Associate used a press conference to blame violent video games like Grand Theft Auto for school shootings.
With so much ammo, it’s no surprise that games are typically demonized when they appear in other media. They’re metaphors for addiction and vehicles for an escapism that keeps characters from dealing with their real issues. Games are usually just the subject of ...
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danieldaystreep: To describe even one moment of this movie as a...
To describe even one moment of this movie as a “kick” would be obscene. It evokes the lives of African-American slaves as the nightmare it was, with violence spun into a daily fabric of brutality, one that’s neither heightened nor exaggerated, just scarily real. Forget the earnest and epochal (but, in hindsight, not really raw enough) TV mini-series Roots, forget the baroque exploitation of Mandingo, and — despite the overstated accolades it received — forget Django. As a drama of the slave experience, 12 Years a Slave renders them all irrelevant. It is a new movie landmark of cruelty and transcendence.
12 Years a Slave lets us stare at the primal sin of America with open eyes, and at moments it is hard to watch, yet it’s a movie of such humanity and grace that at every moment, you feel you’re seeing something essential. It is Chiwetel Ejiofor’s extraordinary performance that holds the movie together, and that allows us to watch it without blinking. He plays Solomon with a powerful inner strength, yet he never soft-pedals the silent nightmare that is Solomon’s daily existence. The ultimate cruelty he’s subjected to isn’t the beatings or the humiliation. It is that he is ripped from his family, blockaded away from all that he is. - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly (x)
That is one fabulous review.
Linked: Path vs. Pinterest "P" Fight
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Path has filed a request to delay (and eventually oppose) the filing by Pinterest to acquire the trademark for its stylized "P".
Space Duel (Atari - arcade - 1982) from wikipedia: “It is...
Space Duel (Atari - arcade - 1982)
from wikipedia: “It is a direct descendant of the original Asteroids, with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels. Space Duel is the first and only multi-player interactive vector game by Atari.”
auronei: I still have no one wanting to adopt these two...
I still have no one wanting to adopt these two cuties, and it breaks my heart. These two girls are very affectionate and playful, and love to be cuddled. I really don’t want to have to give them up. I want them to have good homes, but I don’t know anyone near where I live(Monterey Area, CA) ANy advice or help is much appreciated
Opera releases Coast, an iPad browser that turns the web into a home screen
Opera Software wants to make a browser that’s nothing like what came before it. The web has evolved from bland text and blue links to the rich graphics and interactive sites of today, and Opera doesn't think that the browser has properly evolved to keep up. "That’s the internet of now," Opera's Huib Kleinhout tells The Verge. "We wanted to make a browser for that.” The culmination of that desire is a brand new browser for the iPad that does away with the long-time name of Opera in favor of something different: Coast.
Coast looks and acts just like an iPad home screen
Despite the grandiose thinking, Coast isn't actually all that unrecognizable. While it eschews almost all interface chrome, its main screen still resembles the smart new tab pages in modern browsers, which automatically fill in your most visited sites. Perhaps more aptly, it looks and acts just like the home screen of an iPad. Websites appear as app-icon style squares, tapping on an icon opens up a site, pressing and holding on one allows them to be rearranged, and swiping side to side switches between additional screens. And like iOS at large, browsing on Coast is a single pane experience too. One website takes up the entire screen, and you either have to go back to the home screen or navigate to a discrete page switcher in order to jump around to another site.
Opera’s hope is that it'll allow the web to feel a lot more like a series of distinct applications than one application that’s opening up separate pages. "We believe it's very futuristic," says Kleinhout, who headed up the Coast project. "We want to push the web forward." Coast will also run Web of Trust — a browser extension that calculates the trustworthiness and safety of web pages — on every site you visit. Opera says that it won't slow things down while browsing, but because Coast is based on the WebKit and Javascript engines built into iOS, its performance will already be hindered by Apple's speed constraints on third-party browsers.
Other mobile browsers by Opera are still sticking around, but the company seemingly views Coast as its main entrant for mobile browsing dominance. It’s been in the works since at least last winter when it showed up in a leaked video, and while it’s only now been finished, Opera's giving no word on if or when it'll expand to other platforms. Coast will available to download today, only on the iPad. "It really felt like browsers were stuck," Kleinhout says. Whether version one of Coast is the answer or not, Kleinhout seems to see it as problem worth solving: "We want to lead the way."
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Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes
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