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The town of Bomont outlawed dancing in the movie Footloose, but the kids in Green Bank, West Virginia live with much worse: no electronics.

Research from the U.K. suggests that those who post vast numbers of pictures to Facebook might have trouble enjoying relationships in real life.

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Grand Theft Auto IV Piano Car - A Thousand Miles (by Matthew Jackson)

Starbucks says a Newtown, Conn., store closed early Friday before advocates on both sides of the gun issue planned to gather there. Starbucks vice president Chris Carr said on the company website that the decision was made out of respect to the community, where 20 school children and six educators were slain in December. Organizers of a “Starbucks Appreciation Day” said in a Facebook ad that they wanted to thank Starbucks for standing up for their rights to bear arms and would meet at the store.

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Soon there will be people on the internet that won’t understand this picture. 

I read somewhere he still uses this picture on other social media platforms and he says it gets him hella laid. 

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1 University of California—San Diego (CA)
2 University of California—Los Angeles (CA)
3 University of California—Berkeley (CA)
4 Stanford University (CA)
5 University of California—Riverside (CA)
6 Harvard University (MA)
7 Case Western Reserve University (OH)
8 University of California—Davis (CA)
9 Jackson State University (MS)
10 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (MI)*

• Indicates a public school.

Conventional rankings like those published by U.S. News & World Report are designed to show what colleges can do for you. Since 2005, our rankings have posed a different question: What are colleges doing for the country? Higher education, after all, isn’t just important for undergraduates. We all benefit when colleges produce groundbreaking research that drives economic growth, when they offer students from low-income families the path to a better life, and when they shape the character of future leaders. And we all pay for it, through hundreds of billions of dollars in public subsidies. Everyone has a stake in how that money is spent.

That’s why one-third of each college’s score on our rankings is based on social mobility: How committed are they to enrolling low-income students and helping them earn degrees? Our second category looks at research production and success at sending undergraduates on to PhDs. Finally, we give great weight to service. It’s not enough to help students look out for themselves. The best colleges encourage students to give something back.

Our full rankings for national universities are here, liberal art colleges are here are here. Master’s universities are here and baccalaureate colleges are here. It turns out that ranking colleges by social mobility, research, and service produces some surprising results. Well-known colleges that are routinely lauded by U.S. News fare much worse when ranked according to what they do for the country. On the other hand, colleges that are routinely lost in the bottom tiers of the U.S. News rankings are top performers on our list.

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#NPRisONIT!

"What you do is you play some of the music to your friends, to an audience," Sulzer says. "We did this once to a professional music critic from The New York Times, who got pretty upset with me afterwards. And you say, 'Who's playing? Is this music?' And they'll say, 'Of course it's music.' So far, everyone has. You ask them to guess which group it is; that particular music critic eventually said, 'I bet it's a new music group from Asia.' I said, 'You got it.'"

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Map design involves a great deal of technique and precision. Though nowadays programs largely automate this century-old craft, keeping a well-organized workspace will increase your efficiency. Jump past the break to see the three tricks you can use to streamline your workflow. 

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A great set of transit map-related Adobe Illustrator tips. I’m absolutely kicking myself that I didn’t know that graphic styles can be applied globally to a layer – a huge time-saver!

See also my own tips for designing transit maps.

Recycling bins in London are monitoring the phones of passers-by, so advertisers can target messages at people whom the bins recognize.

Harrison Ford, your movie star dad who’s just trying to get a minute alone, for crissakes, has been forced to put on a collared shirt and be dragged to interviews all this week, in promotion of his new movie Paranoia. But, much as Harrison Ford was asked by a Comic-Con audience—and the waking world—only stuff about Han Solo, this New York Times Magazine interview spends approximately two obligatory questions on Paranoia, before getting to the gristly meat of Ford’s opinions on fanboy culture. And as you might expect, Harrison Ford is not that into it.

After Ford laments, “Now people see a movie on their iPad, alone, with interruptions for snacks,” interviewer Adam Sternbergh points out that, well yeah, but surely events like Comic-Con prove that “the level of engagement is just as high, if not higher”? Also, who doesn’t like snacks? Harrison Ford, probably ...

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Portland artist Stephan Alexandr’s exhibition “Table For Ten” will be held at HD Loft Studios on August 10th at 8 pm. The show, like so much of his work, will be a resurrection of the dead and discarded, featuring exquisite skull mounts and skeletal chandeliers. Alexandr is known for his skull art as well as his wooden jewelry seen on only the hippest folks in PDX, Sticks & Stones.

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HIs website.

The Table, illuminated by the elk pelvis chandelier entitled “Light me a way to your heart”, showcases Alexandr’s first foray into lighting. Stephan Alexandr’s work is showcased in homes and spaces in twelve countries. He has been featured in publications such as Esquire Russia, Coolhunting, Complex Magazine, Thrillist, Enthralled and more.

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A month ago, Riot Games said it had gotten the U.S. government to include eSports contestants under the visa policy that allows professional athletes from other countries to visit for purposes of competition. The first such visa has been awarded, to a Canadian League of Legends star.

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1911 Plan for Seattle Civic Center

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Phoenix Jones and company just put a dude in an ambulance.

First Syfy puts a post-apocalyptic The Wizard of Oz in the pipeline, and now CBS is doing their own version as a medical drama. If someone doesn't get around to doing an outer space-set Wizard sci-fi comedy I will be sorely disappointed.

OK, Shawn Thorsson didn't actually freeze his friend Jenny in carbonite. He just used some impressive (…most impressive) DIY wizardry to make it look like Jenny'd been caught by Boba Fett and was about to be taken to Jabba the Hutt. We've included a few of our favorite pics from the process behind the jump. The second-best thing about this Star Wars sculpture, aside from its general awesomeitude, is that it has shelves inside, so with a bit of know-how one could have it pull double-duty as a door into a hidden lair full of nerd memorabilia. The first best thing? Thorsson wrote a detailed how-to over on Instructables, so you can make one yourself. Star Wars nerds with access to a workshop, a carpentry-capable friend, and money/baked goods for bribery: You know what to do. (via: Nerd Approved)

How many times must I tell you, "this is my fucking house, I can lite up when I want!" Are you fucking dense or what? Your not going to get a contact high and your not going to feel the effects unless YOU actually smoke. Seriously, I think you need to mellow out and take a puff, or two, you know it might just do the trick. Man, your way too uptight. Next time you bitch about it I'm going to exhale a hefty plume in your face.

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Thanks to this creative graphic, the essentials to creating a Cronut can be broken down to five (fairly-easy) steps.

John Boorman is the director behind Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, and Excalibur, but his CV nearly included a Lord of the Rings movie. It would have been a pretty bonkers interpretation, with Aragorn wielding double blades and Frodo and Galadriel getting it on.

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When doing something stupid is actually a good idea.

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When we were Kings

I would prefer not to.