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Joe Presser has created “A Bloody Lot of Alternatives,” an animated compendium of international Bloody Mary recipes featuring the Bloody Shame, La Sangre De Maria, and the Bloody Geisha Mariyaki.

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During a broadcast, reporter Siobhan Riley of ABC affiliate WJRT-TV accidentally drew the shape of a penis on a map of Saginaw, Michigan.

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Real life “Rosie the Riveter” - Tennessee, 1943.

From the Library of Congress collection, 1930’s-1940’s in Color. 

GLORIFY THE SHIT OUT OF THIS IMAGE

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Please do not anger the Moffat (x)

What a pathetic, petty, controlling piece of shit he is. Seriously. First the Sherlock bullfuckery, and now this. Every other show-runner/movie director/cast goes to Comic Con flat-out knowing that their panels, and any clips/promos they show, are going to be on YouTube within seconds after they’re finished. Hell; they’re counting on it. That’s the point of going to Comic Con — to get tens of thousands of eyeballs on your work so that people get excited about it.

Christ, what an asshole.

Hey, Moffat — you don’t get to micromanage fandom. We’re not your children and we’re not your lackeys. Stay the fuck home next time. 

well y’all you heard the man. don’t spread his work. don’t even talk about it. in fact, you should probably stop watching it altogether just in case you piss off this his majesty over here.

like what kind of asshole goes around telling his viewers not to share and spread hype?

(the tweet’s are real I checked their feed)

That’s a bit fucky

Ten African-American former American Idol contestants are suing the show, claiming racial discrimination. Each of the contestants is seeking $25 million in damages, alleging they were treated unfairly both onscreen and off because of their race.

Corey Clark, Jaered Andrews, Jacob John Smalley, Donnie Williams, Thomas Daniels, Akron Watson, Ju’Not Joyner, Chris Golightly, and Terrell and Derrell Brittenum say in their suit that Idol goes out of its way to question black contestants about arrest records and background information, a pattern the claimants say paints them as “violent criminals, liars, and sexual deviants.”

It’s probably worth noting here that four of the 12 American Idol winners to date have been either black or mixed race: Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Jordin Sparks, and Candice Glover. Jennifer Hudson has also done pretty well for herself coming off the show. Of the claimants, only Clark, Smalley, and Joyner actually made it ...

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Barely a day after it was announced that James McTeigue plans to remake Bloodsport, sort of, now Deadline reveals that similar plans are in the works to remake Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Kickboxer, as well as basically that entire summer in junior high you spent just hanging out riding bikes and watching HBO at your friend Brent’s house. Director Stephen Fung is behind the redo, having impressed U.S. producers with his Chinese box-office hit Tai Chi Zero, his stylistic take on martial-arts action, and his surprisingly deep understanding of those lazy months you and Brent must have watched Bloodsport and Kickboxer, like, 20 times, just because they were always on, in between trying to light your farts and playing WWF Wrestlemania. (Until Brent got pissed when you body-slammed his Honky Tonk Man, like a big baby. Why'd you even pick Honky Tonk Man then?!)

Deadline promises “a ...

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what is this, it’s the Abigail Adams collage you didn’t know you wanted

Designed by Mattmo | Country: The Netherlands

“Giel is a small-scale producer of Dutch Cider. Cider is a natural form of conservation of apples. Giels apples are unsprayed and handpicked in the Tull en ‘t Waal area. In Spain, UK, France and Germany Cider is food culture. Cider has a growing market in The Netherlands.”

Carol Ott is used to words of concern from Baltimore city bus drivers. They tend to reveal their surprise that a diminutive, middle-age white woman would want to walk through neighborhoods where boarded-up or burned-out vacant properties—and the crime that tends to pop up in such areas where no one’s looking—are a common sight.

Her response never changes. Yes, she tells them, this is my stop.

After all, she needs those boarded-up houses. Ott is the instigator behind Baltimore Slumlord Watch, a blog documenting blighted, vacant properties owned by individual or commercial landlords in Baltimore.

On a good week, Ott takes photos of almost 20 different properties. Then comes the research: combing through city and state property tax records; making crafty queries on Google; the occasional trip to the city courthouse to determine a property’s chain of ownership. Finally, Ott publishes those photos of vacants, their addresses, and any information she’s discovered about them—including who the owner is—on Baltimore Slumlord Watch. Since 2008, when she first started the blog, Ott has published more than 700 posts calling out absentee landlords who do nothing to fix up derelict properties.

“I have a tendency to be rather abrasive,” she says. “I’ve upset quite a few people.”

While Ott does have something of the pugilist in her, Slumlord Watch isn’t intended as a lesson in apoplectic voyeurism. The blog, she says, is her way of showing some tough love toward a city she’s called home for 13 years.

“We know there are thousands of blighted homes across the city,” she says. “How about working to find solutions to the problem?”

According to official city records, there are more than 16,000 vacant properties in Baltimore. Ott puts the number much higher, by at least twice that amount. And so identifying neglected properties, and the slumlords who own them, she says, is the first step toward a long-term fix.

Recently Ott expanded her work with Housing Policy Watch, a second website that launched in late June. With fundraising assistance from nonprofit Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc., which will serve as her fiscal manager, Housing Policy Watch is where Ott will educate renters about what to watch out for and teach property owners how to be good landlords—say, by keeping tenants’ security deposits in escrow, a requirement in Maryland. Ott also wants to work with various community associations in Baltimore that need help dealing with vacant properties and lots, trash removal problems, and other issues specific to their neighborhoods.

It was never Ott’s goal to document vacant properties throughout Baltimore. The project began on a much smaller scale several years after she moved to the Southwest Baltimore neighborhood of Pigtown in 2000. At neighborhood meetings, what to do about a run-down, abandoned shopping center that had become a haven for selling drugs was a recurring topic. Ott took it upon herself to locate the Baltimore County-based doctor listed as the resident agent for the company that owned the shopping center, and outed him in her first blog post. Over time, she expanded her efforts citywide as more and more residents reached out and asked her to investigate vacant properties in their neighborhoods.

Websites inspired by Slumlord Watch have since popped up in cities, including Richmond, Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; and Philadelphia.

Although the job isn’t intrinsically dangerous, Ott did keep her identity largely a secret until Baltimore magazine published a profile of her in 2012. E-mails from irate landlords, however, have been routine since she started.

“I get: Dear sir. Dear Mr. Jerk-off. Mr. Slanderer is a big one,” says Ott. “People have threatened to subpoena me, but they’ve never. You have to find me first.”

It’s a bit of a boast, but one she makes comfortably. Ott still lives in Pigtown, but only a tight-knit circle of close confidants and friends know her exact whereabouts. The work of searching the histories of vacant properties comes easily to Ott, who worked in a real estate brokerage in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in the late 1980s before taking jobs at nonprofits and architecture firms.

Partnering with a nonprofit manager for Housing Watch means Ott can start drawing a small salary for her work, which became something of a full-time job after she lost her previous job in early 2012.

Keeping an eye on AWOL landlords, though, isn’t just about the money.

“When you live in a place, you need to be committed to that place, and be committed to working on something you’re passionate about fixing,” Ott says. “This is my thing. And now I have the ability to do it on maybe a little bit larger scale.”

Pato is a little green bird who Jorge Rancé found, injured, on the street in Barcelona, and rescued. He was in a bad way, with a broken leg and the feathery equivalent of a terrible hair day.

Jorge took Pato to the vet to be patched up, and took him home to recuperate in a large birdcage at his house. But he worried that he wouldn’t be there to oversee Pato’s recovery while he was at work. Fortunately, Jorge has a Raspberry Pi. So, using a Pi-Face to interface between the Pi and some sensors, he set up PATOSS: Pato Surveillance System. Now Jorge (and you) can check out how Pato is doing from anywhere in the world.

PATOSS monitors Pato’s recovery by streaming video of what he’s up to to the web, checks on the ambient temperature and the water levels in his little dish, and tweets once an hour to let Jorge know whether everything’s as it should be, with a live picture from Pato’s webcam. The data is transmitted via a wifi dongle.

(If you’re following the PATOSS feed today, don’t panic; Jorge says that the water level monitor is not currently hooked up, so it’s reporting low levels, but Pato does actually have plenty to drink.)

Jorge has full build instructions on his website, with a hardware list (and prices), code, diagrams and tips on housing. The whole PATOSS system is Creative Commons licensed so you can adapt it for your own needs – it’ll be interesting to see if anyone comes up with a Raspberry Pi camera board variant.

This sort of build is easy to replicate at home. We think it’s a particularly good project for kids with small pets at home who want to apply some computer science to something they really care about. They’ll be able to see real-world results and share them with friends: what could be better than being able to check up on Woffles the hamster’s daily grind via Twitter from school? If you and your children’s pets end up using a PATOSS system at home, please let us know – I’d love to share your results!

 

Drinking several cups of coffee daily appears to reduce the risk of suicide in men and women by about 50 percent, according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study was published online July 2 in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

It's a wicked world of desolate wilderness and decadent cities. Thieves and assassins wait around every corner, and worse things — mind-wrecking things — lurk in the shadows of the lost places. In Primeval Thule, a player survives by skill with a sword and a steely will, or doesn't survive at all.

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The movie Inception is getting closer to reality. By planting false memories into the minds of mice, neuroscientists at MIT have created the first artificially implanted memories. And they've brought us closer to understanding the fallibility of human recollection.

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Archaeologists have uncovered several pieces of elite Viking jewelry on a modest farm in Denmark that date back between the late seventh to the early 11th centuries.

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What does A-Rod have to do with a Prince George county complex that residents allege is ridden with rodents, mold and broken air conditioning units that drive them outside to sleep at night? Well, it's managed by Newport Property Ventures, which the Post says is owned by A-Rod.

This fantastic new video from Climate Desk explores a weird undersea phenomenon: the evolution of cannibal lobsters. In between giggles, you'll actually learn something about how the environment is changing in the oceans.

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NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Harvin has a possible slight tear in the labrum of his hip and will get a second opinion early next week, according to a source who is aware of Harvin's condition. The team will know more about his availability then.

Today we received a fresh shipment of Gaziano & Girlings, and aren’t they gorgeous. G&G creates contemporary designs of traditional English shoes bench-made in their factory in Kettering, UK. G&G shoes are distinctive for their superb craftsmanship, meticulous style, and sharp, modern look.

Their Mayfair is a classic double monk strap shoe in Vintage Oak Calfskin. On the soft square MH71 last, they’re both versatile and elegant, and can be paired with anything from jeans all the way to a suit. The St. James is a captoe oxford in Vintage Cherry Calfskin, made on the TG73 last. Wear them with a navy or grey suit and you’ll be the sharpest one in the room.

Mayfair, MH71 Last, Vintage Oak Calfskin, Oak Bark Soles

St. James, TG73 Last, Vintage Cherry Calfskin, Oak Bark Soles

 

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#UNIT Dating Controversy

Tom Baker on Swap Shop 1976

Sophie Aldred: ‘I beat up a Dalek with a baseball bat’:

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Seventh Doctor companion Ace, better known as actress Sophie Aldred, spoke to us at a recent Big Finish recording about playing her character.

She talks about her tombstone, stunts and gives a top tip to being a companion

The 5-BR, 3.5-BA single-family at 44 Rogers Street in Somerville is that city’s mother of all over-asks. The 2,349-square-foot house with a two-car garage slipped on to the market in May for $961,000 through RE/Max Destiny; and then exited the market barely a month later, closing in early July for $1,051,000. That’s $90,000 over the asking price. Well done, Somerville. (via Somerville’s Very Own Mother of All Over-Asks - Big Deals - Curbed Boston)

The most-requested tutorial from last week's laundry room reveal was by far and away the concrete counters. Many of you asked if this treatment is durable enough for a kitchen. It definitely is! If you have laminate or formica counters and want something to get you by for a couple years until you can splurge on stone, this is a really great option. The best part is it costs about $15 and it's incredibly easy to tackle as a solo project!


Let's jump in...
There are a few of these concrete overlay tutorials floating around the web. I used this search on Pinterest to find the best ones (this one from Kara Paslay Designs was my favorite). You might want to look around yourself and find a tutorial that works with your existing countertops, though the concept is pretty much the same across the board.


The hardest part (which is not all that hard) might be hunting down the concrete. The stuff you need to find is called Ardex Feather Finish. You can look on the Ardex website for local distributors, but it's easiest to just call their toll-free line for the info. There were like six distributors in Phoenix, so I'm sure you'll be able to find some in your area. A 10-pound bag cost me only $15 and I needed about half a bag for my laundry room. So cheap, right!?


I was talking to a contractor friend about this product (which is a concrete-PVC mixture I guess) and he said he uses it all the time and that everyone he know has been raving about this stuff for the past couple years - it layers on top of and easily binds to just about any surface. He said that any time you see a concrete floor in a retail space it's more than likely this product, which made me feel good about it's durability.


Even though the Feather Finish binds to flat surfaces, it's a good idea to really rough up your old counters before layering on the concrete, just to be safe. I used a wallpaper scoring tool and that worked pretty well. I think even just a good sanding with course-grit sandpaper would work.

Men routinely claim to be more tolerant of cold than women. But where does this physiological difference stem from, and are there any studies that have examined its veracity? Of course there are. Some of them even involve rectal thermometers. Yeah, science!

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When I discovered Ziotek’s Power Liberator cords years ago, my first thought was, “This can’t be safe.” My second was, “Oh my god, I need a dozen.” I was wrong on the first count and underestimated the second. All of Ziotek’s clever ways to “liberate” power outlets are UL approved, which is as reassuring as one could want. And I have at least two dozen, maybe three, scattered around my house and home office.

The “liberator” label referred initially to freeing unusable outlets on a power strip. Just a few years ago, most electronic devices (excepting some computers and all monitors) had hurking power bricks meant to plug into a wall outlet. If you plugged a power strip into a wall outlet, you still had the problem of placement: the bricks interfere with each other with most two-jack outlets. How many strips did you have or still have that have two or three awkwardly placed big-headed AC-to-DC adapters plugged in? It’s a waste. At times I had two or three daisy chained power strips (a practice not recommended by UL and others) to keep all my vampires sucking away.

The first Power Liberator alleviated that specific problem. The Power Extension Cable is 14 inches long with a three-prong plug at one end and a three-prong jack at the other. I have one power strip behind my home A/V cabinet that has several of these, each of which sports a brick at the end. (Some power strips have become cleverer, too, with rotating jacks or the ability to move outlets along the strip’s length.)

Since Ziotek’s introduction of this first cord, they’ve added eight more versions by my count. I own one or more of all of them except the monitor/power-supply models that extend a plug used with a display. The Plus model improved on the original by doubling outlets: every Plus plug has an outlet on its back plus the jack at the end of the dongle. Behind couches and beds, I use the Flat model for otherwise unusable outlets. And a Y Splitter gives you some space between two dongles with jacks on the end.

It’s true that manufacturers have gotten savvier about embedding smaller and more efficient power supplies inside devices, reducing wall warts. But the horror movie behind my television cabinet, with bricks of all sizes and shapes, indicates there are still plenty of outlets to liberate.

-- Glenn Fleishman

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Mike Tyson shattered his fair share of jaws in his successful boxing career, but today, news broke that will shatter hundreds of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! fans’ hearts (if Tyson’s decades of sordid and depressing travails didn’t do so already): Tyson stinks at his own game. As captured by TMZ and as seen in the video [...]

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Michael Etzel was among those queuing up outside Clover in Harvard Square today when it re-opened after several days of disinfecting due to that whole salmonella thing.

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