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I kind of want one of these for my front lawn. Like the store isn’t small enough we now need life size C*ck in the way,

HPN-SSH is a high performance SSH/SCP implementation coming out of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The code to HPN-SSH is released as a patch-set atop OpenSSH...

The Allwinner A10 and A13 video decode support has been reverse-engineered as open-source...

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ninemoons42:

gildatheplant:

I love this man.

*screeching* CAN YOU NOT PLEASE 

Syrian activists took the YouTube videos that dragged America to the brink of war -- and then paid with their lives.

fractusangelus:

mcroosa:

Mommy teaching babby easier water drinking way because drinking water is hard experience u get it in your nose. Jesus how she puts her paw on his head in the second one. Such concern and love.

how can people hate these little balls of fur? *-*

Resistance is futile

The city's come up with a couple of posters for all the kids returning in time for Allston Christmas, including this cheery greeting from St. Bedbug:

Students: Don't get stuck.

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This week, Quartz reported that developing economies now contribute more to global GDP than developed ones. A reader responded with a question: Does this mean that wealth is now spread more evenly across the world’s nations than it is within countries like the US (which have high levels of income inequality)?

It’s a straightforward question without a straightforward answer. We’ve attempted to solve it using the Gini index, and the result is no: The distribution of wealth between countries is still much less equitable than it is inside of most of them.

The Gini index is the most commonly used measure of income inequality. It’s a number between 0 and 100, where 0 means that everybody earns the same amount (“perfectly equal” in the chart above) and 100 means that a single person makes everything. The Gini index for the US was 45 in 2007, and for Sweden, it was 23 in 2005, according to the CIA’s World Factbook.

How did we calculate such a value for the distribution of wealth between the countries of the world? Think of each country as an individual person with an income. We set that income equal to the average income for the country — or technically, the gross national product per capita, adjusted by purchasing power so all of the countries can be compared on equal footing. Then we used those values to calculate the Gini index. The answer was 57 for 2010.

There are surely other ways to approach this—if you have any thoughts, please leave an annotation or two in the margin.

I’ve been a fan of Parliament for a long time, but never owned this album or saw the artwork associated with it. I am pretty sure that all members of Parliament are geniuses, the true value of whose works are beyond my comprehension, but I still enjoy shaking my butt. Mind you, butt-shaking is not on the level with Wampa Chaps Dolphin Skiing, but only a few things are. 

Thanks to my buddy Bender for showing me this in the form of a picture disc!

In this vintage 14-minute how-to during the age of Python, "the arch idler of all time" Terry Gilliam ignores his own advice to keep well away from film animation because "it's dangerous, nasty stuff," and swiftly gets serious about the merits … more »

ESPN

Jerry Remy will not return to Red Sox broadcasts this year Boston.com Jerry Remy, the color analyst for Red Sox games, will not return to NESN broadcasts this year. He will be with his family during a tragic time. His son, Jared Remy, has been charged with killing his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel. “I am full of grief for the Martel family ... Remy to miss rest of season after son's arrest in Waltham murder caseWicked Local Jerry Remy to remain out of BoSox booth for rest of yearNBCSports.com Remy to miss remainder of season's Red Sox broadcastsCharlotte Observer GazetteNET all 42 news articles »

fabledquill:

sandramg:

disneytrivia:

Dick Van Dyke had his heart set on playing Mr. Dawes, Sr. in Mary Poppins, and said they didn’t have to pay him anything extra, he just really wanted to do it for the fun. Although Walt Disney had offered him the part of Bert right out, he made him audition for the part of Mr. Dawes, Sr.   

While viewing a make-up test for Van Dyke in the projection room, Disney saw him entertaining crew members on the test film between takes with some comic routines, among them the “stepping down” routine of an old man trying to step off a curb without hurting himself. The test film not only convinced Disney to cast Dick Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes, Sr., but Walt specifically requested that crew members “build a six-inch riser on the board room set so Dick can do that stepping-down routine” in the film.   

Fun Fact: On the Mary Poppins 40th anniversary DVD commentary, Dick Van Dyke revealed that after they did the makeup test, he went for a walk on the Disney backlot. Spying a tourist tour bus, he tried out his “stepping-down routine” on the curb, and inched his way across the street, causing the tour bus to wait for him until he reached the other side. As the bus drove off, he waited a few seconds before breaking out into a sprint, running along side the bus in full old-man makeup, his cane gripped in his hand.

A++++ WOULD TROLL AGAIN

lagubeko:

Parker Fitzgerald, for Kinfolk.

MarkWhittington writes "Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famous astrophysicist and media personality, offered something of a reality check on the potential of commercial enterprises to open the space frontier without the aid of government. Specifically referencing SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk's boast that he would establish a Mars colony, Tyson said on a recent video podcast, 'It's not possible. Space is dangerous. It's expensive. There are unquantified risks. Combine all of those under one umbrella; you cannot establish a free market capitalization of that enterprise.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

ilovecephalopods:

thesmileoctopus:

So I get to do this every day now, and I’m pretty totally excited about life. Khaleesi the Giant Pacific Octopus decided I was her best friend today, and calmly and curiously held onto both my hands for probably half an hour, even after I handed her a clam to eat. She ate it… but had my fingers wrapped in the tips of her tentacles the whole time. I could feel her squeeze to snap the clam open… pretty crazy. As you can see, my hands got red and stiff from being in the cold tank for a long time… but, when I tried to let her go, she squirted me with her siphon (pretty much like getting a short hard burst from a garden hose!) and then… well, then the beak came out and I got away just before she tore into my palm. Then she threw a temper tantrum because I closed the lid of the aquarium again, which is what the third picture captures. Here’s hoping she isn’t still mad tomorrow! :)

that is such a cute story!

devilduck:

The Kepplinger Holdout card cheating device, late 19th century.

J. D. Kepplinger was a master card cheat and con man in the late 19th century.  In 1888 the brilliant Kepplinger invented his own card holdout device.  The device attached to his arm, which was concealed by his sleeve, which was connected by a cable to a mechanism attached to his thighs.  When he opened and closed his legs a metal claw would popup through his sleeve and snatch away a card for later.  When Kepplinger needed that card later, he simply opened his legs again, and the device would conveniently insert the card back into his hand.

With his special Kepplinger holdout device, also known as the San Francisco holdout, J.D. Kepplinger was able to clean out many cardplayers throughout the Old West.  That was until professional gamblers became suspicious.  

One day during a pleasant game of poker three other gamblers seized him and dragged him to the back of the saloon.  There they stripped off his clothes and discovered the ingenious device.  They offered Kepplinger two options, either he construct devices for them or he face the consequences of being caught cheating at cards (which mean’t being shot or beaten up).  Kepplinger made more devices for his new comrades, who formed a team of card cheats.  For over a year the team grew rich cleaning out the table of the Barbary Coast and San Francisco.  That was until they were caught by the police and sent to prison. 

briennemaidoftarth:

Pride and Prejudice: A Summary

In a nutshell.

chuckramos:

Hellboy animated storytelling guides by Tad Stones.

I know Tad from a long time back, and his advice is always worth paying attention to…

The Xbox Live Marketplace has a new name to go with its brand new console: the Xbox Games Store. As visible on the Xbox homepage, the Xbox 360's online marketplace was rebranded this week ahead of the Xbox One's launch in November.

When approached to confirm the rebranding, a Microsoft spokesperson told Joystiq, "That's right, [Xbox Live Marketplace] is now called the Xbox Games Store, and will sit alongside the Xbox Music Store and Xbox Video Store. This is to make it easier for consumers to find content both on Xbox 360 today and Xbox One when it launches in November."

Given all the pre-Xbox One streamlining going on, including the switch to real-world currency on Xbox Live, a new moniker for the Xbox 360's online marketplace (and soon to be the Xbox One's) is not a big surprise and maybe not the biggest news either. Still, it does mean after nearly eight years we have to say sayonara to Xbox Live Marketplace, a name that sort of rolled off the tongue in an after-eight-years-it-really-should way.

Xbox Live Marketplace rebranded as Xbox Games Store originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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