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Practically every car in this parking lot decided the lines just didn't matter.

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By all accounts, this was a bad summer at the movies. Actually, “bad” isn’t strong enough; by all accounts this was one of the worst summers at the movies in history.

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Oliver got through the broadcast after being hit with the wayward pass by Colts quarterback Chandler Harnish, telling the Daily News, "You don’t want to be wimpy, you just have to push through it." Sounds like the players she covers. Oliver said she had trouble recreating the events, and friends had to tell her she got hit with a football. She had nausea and sensitivity to light, and her whole body ached, she told the Daily News. A CT scan came back clean, but she was diagnosed with a concussion. For most of the next week she stayed in a dark room.

More than two decades after they vanished from Cuban TV with the fall of the eastern communist bloc, quirky Soviet-era cartoons are fueling a wave of nostalgia for middle-aged Cubans. The "Russian cartoons" as Cubans tend to call them -- though they were from several different allied countries -- have inspired T-shirts honoring old shows like the Soviet "Mashinka and the bear", Poland's "Lolek and Bolek", and the Hungarian hit "Gustavo."

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judgecorp writes "The Syrian Electronic Army has denied media reports that two of its members have been 'outed'. The men were named after people affiliated to Anonynous accessed a large dump of material from a pro-Assad source, but SEA spokespeople say they are merely contacts, not members of the group."

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Ethan Schlussler recently built a bicycle-powered elevator to access a 30-foot-high tree house he is building in Northern Idaho. To ascend, Schlussler sits on the bicycle and simply pedals himself aloft—ropes, pulleys, and a counterweight do most of the heavy lifting. Descent involves letting the pedals spin freely and using the bike brakes and the counterweight to control speed.

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“Between 1947 and 1949 an odd group of idealists and hard realists in the American government set out to intervene in Syria…”

BRISTOL, CT—Claiming that the interviews during the NFL Face To Face series were very enlightening, SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm revealed Monday that the in-depth conversations with NFL superstars taught her that professional footb...

Do you get all hot and bothered when you're sitting inside a temple? Because, if so, you might want to connect with the group that allegedly had a "drug fuelled sex party" inside a Masonic temple in Michigan recently. They might be your spirit guides.

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We’ve got what I feel obliged to call a “multi-strand denim story” going on with one of our more audacious bespoke clients this season, starting with this beautiful 100% cotton jacquard pin dot suit with patch pockets and white mother of pearl buttons, and buggy-lining with bound internal seams; the ultimate in dot dash.

I’ll post the next installment tomorrow…

Jah-Wren Ryel writes "Forget the NSA — the DEA has been working hand-in-hand with AT&T on a database of records of every call that passes through AT&T's phone switches going back as far as 1987. The government pays AT&T for contractors who sit side-by-side with DEA agents and do phone records searches for them. From the article: 'For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counter narcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs.'"

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You’re sure to find a story you can’t stop reading on Elizabeth Kerri Mahon’s blog Scandalous Women.  Well researched and written!  

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Winter is coming. :-)

Mmmm. So it is.

Keiji Inafune's Kickstarter for The Mighty No. 9 is a "take my money!" situation if there ever was one, with the project accomplishing its $900,000 goal within three days. The game, which features many alumni from the Mega Man series, is a side-scroller shooter about a robot named Beck who defeats a series of robots and gains their powers. We can sense Capcom's lawyers frothing from across the Pacific.

The Mighty No. 9 is scheduled to launch for PC sometime in the spring of 2015 via "Steam and DRM-free digital distribution methods." Stretch goals include Mac/Linux versions at $1.35 million and the highest stretch at this time is current-gen console ports at $2.5 million. If the momentum keeps up, Inafune's going to be scrambling to come up with further goals by week's end.

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“You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their colour,” said Gary Oldman, which proves that he knows just as much, if not more, about hosiery than he does about acting. And this season’s TE socks are perfectly primed to add characterful colour to that all-important junction between foot and calf (if it’s a given that people in general, and men in particular, check out each other’s shoes on first meeting, then the accompanying sock will follow hot on their heels) – we’ve got stripes and zigzags in an array of turquoises and reds, with contrast panels at their various extremities; not so much colour-blocking as colour sock-it-to-me-ing.

But possibly my pick of the bunch this season is this comparatively subdued pair in an empyrean shade of turquoise blue, with hot pink heels and toes and dark grey tips. They’ll add lightening lustre to navy suits and indigo denims, while giving your brogues a boost or your monkstraps some motivation. Like all our season’s socks, they’re a sumptuous and durable wool/cotton mix, and they’re made in West Wales by Corgi, a family-owned business with a royal warrant from Prince Charles, who’ve been producing the finest hosiery since 1892. And if all that isn’t characterful enough to make these socks your NBFs, I don’t know what is.

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Dad: Why do you think they do that?
Girl: Because the companies who make these try to trick the girls into buying the pink stuff instead of stuff boys want to buy. [x]

that awkward moment when a child understands the harm of forcing gender roles better than most grown male politicians.

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I’m surprised that I haven’t reblogged this, to be honest.

I love that last gif.  She looks so frustrated.  Like “Um, hello, obviously girls and boys can like anything why doesn’t anybody get that???”

Nobody is sure how life emerged from the primordial chemistry of Earth. But now we have more evidence that Earthlike life could have evolved on Mars.

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