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Architectural Sketches by Maja Wrońska

Forest House in the City by Studio Velocity

brindafella writes "When an Australian woman, Vali, was diagnosed with cancer, and treated, she was not looking at a good outcome. Yet, TWO cancer treatments later, she is pregnant with twin girls. Her ovaries were sectioned and frozen before the cancer treatment. She has had her own flesh implanted outside her pelvis. Eggs were gathered, IVF techniques used later with her male partner, and her uterus is now carrying two viable girls due to be born in about 3 months. Melbourne IVF's Associate Professor Kate Stern has explained the process today."

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A perfect Famicom for our Year of Luigi 2013 ⊟

Blue case for his overalls, green controllers for his shirt, black eject button for his mustache, and brown bottom for his shoes. I love you, weegee Famicom. Big ups to Gamelabo for making this, and simplyAwful for linking it.

Quick update on #Week of Tiny — we stopped taking new entries as of yesterday, but we’re still sifting through all your responses! We’ll contact winners soon!

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hackingbear writes "Yang Yuanqing, founder and CEO of Chinese PC maker Lenovo, will share $3.25 million from his bonus with some 10,000 staff in China and 19 other countries. 'Most are hourly manufacturing workers,' Lenovo spokeswoman Angela Lee said. 'As you can imagine, an extra $300 in a manufacturing environment in China does make an impact, especially to employees supporting families.' In its annual review last year, Lenovo raised Yang's base pay to $1.2 million and awarded him a $4.2 million discretionary bonus and a $8.9 million long-term incentive award. Yang owns 7.12% of Lenovo's shares, equivalent to about $720 million in stock."

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sfcrazy writes "Kubuntu is one of those few GNULinux based distributions which brings the two leading technologies together — Ubuntu and KDE. There are quite a lot of businesses which are using this combination in their set-up. Until now there was no professional support available for Kubuntu users. To fill this gap the Kubuntu community has launched commercial support for businesses, organizations and individuals. The Kubuntu team is partnering with Emerge Open to offer this service which is called 'Kubuntu Commercial Support provided by Emerge Open'."

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zohbugg:

the bf and I started playing Skyrim today

goodbye life

Update for those who asked:

I’m playing an orc. Because duh. (but also really wanted to play an argonian tho)

We’re playing separately. He’s on the PS3 and I’m on my laptop.

He’s already on level 5 and I’m still at level 2 because I had NO idea what the fuck I was doing at first or how to control anything, and then I kept getting lost and then also tried to explore everything and then stole a lot of shit. 

And I still have no idea what the fuck I’m doing. But I got a horse. 

So now I can can have no idea what the fuck I’m doing, but faster.

New York City of 1836 to Today

mendax writes "The New York Times reports that the Russian government is warning its citizens to not travel to countries that have an extradition treaty with the United States, noting that 'detentions of Russian citizens in various countries, at the request of American law enforcement, have become more frequent.' The article reports the Russian foreign ministry as saying,'Experience shows that the judicial proceedings against those who were in fact kidnapped and taken to the U.S. are of a biased character, based on shaky evidence, and clearly tilted toward conviction.'"

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thebeatals:

The Beatles’ imitation of fans.

Oleg Shuplyak

Calvin and Hobbes

NPR

'Gator season opens with record-breaking day USA TODAY SHARECONNECT 59 TWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE. JACKSON, Miss. -- In the world of alligator hunting, anything can happen. But not even Nostradamus could have predicted how this opening weekend would unfold. There was excitement from the start ... Hunters catch record 727-pound alligator in MississippiFox News 727-pound alligator one of two massive gators caught in MississippiLos Angeles Times Mississippi's fattest alligator taleCNN New York Daily News -National Geographic -CBS News all 116 news articles »

judgecorp writes "Yahoo has closed its news and community services in China, having already closed its email services there. A farewell message on Yahoo's Chinese site doesn't say much, but it seems Yahoo is ceding the territory to Chinese firm Alibaba, in whom it has a stake."

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Microsoft’s $7.2 billion deal for most of struggling Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia lessens the load of an unlikely burden—a surplus of overseas cash. Microsoft will pay for the acquisition entirely in cash from its $60 billion in offshore holdings.

Microsoft and other US-based multinational giants, particularly technology companies, have been under fire for the huge amount of cash they hold overseas instead of repatriating it, where it would be subject to clutches of the Internal Revenue Service. At the end of 2012, Microsoft held 89% of its over $68 billion in cash overseas, second only to Apple, which had 69% of its $137 billion offshore. The St. Louis Federal Reserve said in a January report that the cash hoarding helps to explain the US’s slow recovery from the recession.

Microsoft shifted some $21 billion overseas between 2009 and 2011 and managed to avoid paying $4.5 billion in taxes on goods sold in the US, according to a US Senate committee report, by the aggressive use of a tax strategy known as “transfer pricing.” The report said Microsoft also transferred royalty income to low-tax countries like Singapore and Ireland, including one unit that was headquartered in Bermuda and had no employees.

For many of the workers in Espoo, Finland, the deal is sure to be a relief, especially after Nokia’s chief executive compared their position to an offshore oil worker standing on a “burning platform” with “multiple points of scorching heat that are fueling a blazing fire around us.” And happily for Microsoft, Finland is planning to cut its corporate tax rate to 20% from 24.5% to attract new business.

(via Ikaria Metallic Silver Sandals ► Ancient Greek Sandals » mytheresa) …Making a note…

schwit1 writes in with a link to a recent interview with Chris Kraft, founder of Mission Control, discussing the impracticality of the SLS, and why the best and brightest are slowing leaving NASA. From the article: "The problem with the SLS is that it's so big that makes it very expensive. It's very expensive to design, it's very expensive to develop. When they actually begin to develop it, the budget is going to go haywire. They're going to have all kinds of technical and development issues crop up, which will drive the development costs up. Then there are the operating costs of that beast, which will eat NASA alive if they get there. ... You go talk to the guys who were doing Constellation (NASA's now-scuttled plan to return to the moon), and the reason they came to NASA was to go back to the moon. They're all leaving now. The leaders are leaving for a lot of other reasons also, but they're leaving because there's no future that they want to be involved in. And that's unfortunate."

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NY case puts N-word use among blacks on trial Charlotte Observer NEW YORK A federal jury has rejected the argument that use of the N-word among blacks can be a culturally acceptable term of love and endearment, deciding its use in the workplace is hostile and discriminatory no matter what. Jurors last week awarded ... and more »

frobishounen:

malpertuis:

A card I got when I was a kid - no idea on the artist.

George Leonnec: Centaur Kiss, for La Vie Parisienne (1924) 

I've got some strong opinions about mermaids (they're gross, and I hate them). But actually it goes deeper than that. I think I'm a one-species-per-body purist. Centaurs, it turns out, are even more disgusting than mermaids.

If you look at the way they're connected, centaurs have an entire human torso. But they also have a full horse digestive system from the neck down. That means they eat human food, digest it, and then poop it into their horse necks like their own human centi-steeds.

And you've been to enough parades to know how horses work. Even if he's wearing a leather vest and looking suspiciously like Pierce Brosnan...

Or is shirtless and sexy and trying to sell you soap...

don't forget he's half horse. He can't control his bowels. So he'll just be walking around your house or demigod camp randomly dropping gigantic horse poops everywhere.

I don't like satyrs either. They seem fun and sexy, but don't forget Mr. Tumnus is hiding a goat penis.

Drider, Harpy, Ketu, all of them are incredibly disturbing. The problem is these species combos aren't goldendoodles: you didn't just breed two dogs and come up with a teddy bear that can play fetch. It's more like you cut a retriever and a poodle in half and glued the parts together. If you've got to do it, at least stop at the head.

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newstatesman:

Cara Ellison reviews Gillen and McKelvie’s Young Avengers 1-9

Young Avengers is a book about some young misfit superheroes who are flung together to clean up a mess one of them created by accident. You’ve got Hawkeye Kate Bishop; Hulkling, ‘shape shifting alien hybrid guy’; Loki, the god of mystery (Gillen just finished writing his Journey Into Mystery comics); Marvel Boy (banished kree music lover and semi-naked dancer); Miss America, mysterious interdimensional kicker of butt; Wiccan, angsty chaos magic user (my crush); and recent recruit, Prodigy, who knows pretty much everything. The whole feeling of the book is of a morning after someone you know has trashed their parents’ house, and they’ve clawed together a sigh of hungover associates to help them clean it all up. Only all those friends are neon-cool and glitter-fantastic, and recover from hangovers irritatingly quickly. One even wears a cape.

[Photo: Young Avengers art by Jamie McKelvie]

vgjunk:

Sonic Wings 3 / Aero Fighters 3, arcade.

Girls are not very promiscuous, contrary to most Hollywood films.

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Years after Metafilter established itself as one of the web’s web's best niche communities, its regulars, at no one’s one's bidding, started calling each other MeFites. (Me fights!) There might have been competing alternatives once, but this name stuck. MeFite became canon.

It’s a pillar of subcultural capital to invest in names, codes, and inside jokes as a means of shoring up identity and contrasting one’s one's chosen peers against the dominant culture. So it has bugged me for a while that we diehards who share and discuss stories directly on RSS readers don’t don't have a name for each other. The standby in the Google Reader days was ‘sharebro’, but where that hot paper bag of noise came from I don’t don't care to find out. Ours is a new era of social RSS. Eclectic, threatened, more diffuse than ever, but wiser for it.

Luckily NewsBlur’s NewsBlur's aslum happened on a solution before anyone else has to. He bases it off a Dinosaur Comics formula for taking the gender out of occupational nouns: as firemen become firefighters, waitresses become waitfighters.

Hence sharefighters. It has a definite certainly has a ring to it. Sharefighters. Dousing the flames of ignorance. Resisting Resising the pull of big social networks. Putting up dukes for independent content creators. Punching above our weight. Roundhousing dudebros out the door.

In the video “En Puntas” by artist Javier Pérez, a ballerina dances atop a grand piano with kitchen knives affixed to her pointe shoes.

via My Amp Goes to 11, Visual News

Troubling new trend alert: In the last few months, there’s been a preponderance of Craigslist ads selling positive pregnancy tests.