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Historical Map: Pacific Electric Strip Map

Submitted by Sam Huddy, who says:

This is a strip map of the Santa Monica Air Line that appears on several station platforms along the Expo Line in Los Angeles. As far as I know, this idea is original to the Metro era. As a work of art, the stops are unlabeled, and typical of the PE, it’s unclear what makes some stops “major” or “minor.”

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Transit Maps says:

This is actually a lovely little homage from the LA Metro: acknowledging what came before them (the Expo Line utilises much of the Air Line’s original right of way) and giving it due credit. Love it!

Historical note: the Santa Monica Airline was a Pacific Electric streetcar service that ran from downtown LA to Santa Monica from 1909 to 1953.

(Source: Photographed by Sam)

Don't believe me? Watch this video and you'll be completely convinced that Sam Raimi remade his 1992 classic too (spoilers for Oz, by the way — and Army of Darkness too, I guess, if you were still waiting to see it or something). I tell you, Oz would have been a lot better if James Franco had a chainsaw hand.

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Created as a tribute to Adobe Photoshop filters, “Photoshop Cs5 Filters Animation” by Device shows what every filter in Photoshop Cs5 looks like applied to the software’s logo. For the same project, Device made animated GIFs of all the same filters and placed them in their own Tumblr.

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The creative teams behind Dark Horse Comics' popular line of 'Star Wars' comics gathered at Comic-Con International to preview what's about to arrive from a galaxy far, far away!

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Yeah, you read that correctly. From the Los Angeles Times:

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and the Hip-Hop Archive announced the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship on Tuesday. The goal of the fellowship is to provide chosen scholars and artists with an opportunity to show that "education is real power."

The mission of the Hip-Hop Archive, according to the announcement, is to seek projects from scholars and artists that build on the rich and complex hip-hop tradition; to respect that tradition through historically grounded and contextualized critical insights; and most important, to represent one's creative and/or intellectually rigorous contribution to hip-hop and the discourse through personal and academic projects.  

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FT Welchade Fruit Punch

Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford

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–Two generations of X-Men visit the EW.com Comic-Con studio

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Map of European leaders.

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Despite the siren logo on their property, some Colombian coffee farmers receive no benefit from Starbucks' sustainability program.

"I can play along with Superman using a steel girder to swat someone into outer space, but I just can't get past the idea that The Daily Planet still occupies one of the largest skyscrapers in all of Metropolis and is totally impervious to newsroom layoffs or dwindling home subscriptions," said comics blogger Marc Daigle, adding that it was impossible for him to even look at Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent, without immediately thinking he would have been replaced long ago by a freelancer who gets paid nine cents a word and receives no health benefits. "Every time The Daily Planet shows up, I just get taken out of the story completely. I usually flip ahead to Superman freezing a volcano with his breath or something."

Julian says: "We all have to deal with call centers and they are alas today's dark Satanic mills. A place where you can get low pay, high stress and no recognition. A friend of mine was recently canned at one (a contractor for Microsoft), for hanging up on someone with a pro Nazi nym.

Around 6:15 PM PST on July 17th of this year, I got a call from Dave. Dave had some kind of an accounts issue, which we don’t normally touch. I told him I could transfer him to the Live department and they could take a look at the issue for him. Up to this point Dave seemed perfectly nice. He didn’t even give me shit about being named April and having a male-sounding voice. Then I asked him his gamertag.

“I’ll spell it out for you,” says Dave. “It’s H-E-E-B, and then it’s all together, no spaces, H-U-N-T-E-R, and then an S-S. So it should be HeebHunterSS with no spaces.”

Hanging up on a Nazi

We just saw the first footage from Doctor Who's 50th anniversary here at Comic-Con. We expected hilarious banter between stars Matt Smith and David Tennant, and a haunting look at the forgotten Doctor John Hurt. But we got much, much more.

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You Might As Well Look Good When Walking Your Cat.

Cary Grant.

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I see the doctor who hiatus going well?

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Spring-Loaded Hood Orchids

Some orchids of the genus Pterostylis have adopted rapid plant movement as a method of ensuring pollination.

Male fungus gnats are attracted to pheromones exuded by the flower and try to copulate with the dark, furry structure known as the labellum. The labellum is attached to a sensitive elastic strap that flips upwards in response to disturbance.

If a gnat lands on the labellum, the whole surface springs back and traps the pollinator in the hood. To escape, the insect must crawl through a small opening in the hood, brushing against the orchid’s pollinia in the process. These sticky packets of pollen adhere to the insects back.

The insect, now carrying pollen, visits a new flower and goes through the ordeal again. This time, the pollen on the insect’s back brushes past the new flower’s stigma while the pollinator escapes, which fertilises the flower.

(Pterostylis longifolia shown)

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In an email to developers today, Apple revealed that its Developer Center website was breached by unknown hackers and was taken offline last Thursday as a precaution.

The company notes that sensitive personal information was "encrypted and cannot be accessed" but that Apple's engineers "could not rule out the possibility" that developer names, mailing addresses and email addresses may have been accessed.

Apple says it is overhauling its developer systems, updating software and rebuilding the entire developer database. There is no indication of when the site will be back up, other than the company saying it expects to have it up again soon.

Apple Developer Website Update

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.

Apple told Macworld that the breached server was not associated with any customer information and that all personal information is encrypted -- additionally, the attackers did not get access to any app code or to any servers where app information is stored.

The 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented tonight in San Diego in conjunction with Comic-Con International, with Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples, Hawkeye‘s David Aja and Building Stories by Chris Ware taking home multiple awards. You can find the complete list of nominees, with the winners bolded, below. Best Short [...]

Social media screens for potential hires automatically put employers on the wrong side of the law.

PDX POP NOW!
(SE Salmon & Water) This is the most wonderful time of the year: PDX Pop Now! time! The three-day, all-ages, all-local, all-free festival kicks off today with bunches of terrific bands, and this year's fest also includes the first round of the annual Rigsketball tourney, in which Portland bands compete on a rigged basketball hoop attached to the back of And And And's van. Summer is NOW, yo! NED LANNAMANN Read our feature on PDX Pop Now!

CATHEDRAL PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL: BLUE CRANES, VENTURA TRIO, ERI YAMAMOTO TRIO, JESSIE MARQUES, & MORE
(Cathedral Park, N Edison & Pittsburg) Maximize the fine Portland summer by spending it lounging on the grass while surrounded by the sounds of the West Coast's longest-running free jazz festival. The Cathedral Park Jazz Festival is on its 33rd year, boasting a lineup that includes tonight's performers Blue Cranes and the Eri Yamamoto Trio. MARJORIE SKINNER

DESSA, SIMS
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) The only female member of Minneapolis rap collective Doomtree since their first release, False Hopes, Dessa has always stood out from her peers with her poetic, spoken-word rap style. On her latest solo effort, Parts of Speech, she indulges further in the singing and songwriting abilities she often hinted at in her past solo material and work with supergroup Gayngs, but wisely spares any acoustic cheesiness by sticking to her tried-and-true in-house producers Paper Tiger and Lazerbeak. Even the softer songs still manage to hit hard, Dessa's lyrics taking focus when the beats thin out. There's definitely an art-house element to it all, but it should go over well in a live setting with a crowd that's been down with Doomtree since their backpack glory days. MIKE RAMOS

CENTAURPALOOZA: THE LAST REGIMENT OF SYNCOPATED DRUMMERS, IN TROUBLE, TOY, THE HALOGENS, BUTTERCUP, & MORE
(Centaur Guitar, 2833 NE Sandy) The parking lot of Centaur Guitar is once again undergoing its yearly transformation from ho-hum asphalt wasteland to stomping grounds for rockers of every creed. Featuring a stupefying number of bands, this year's Centaurpalooza spills over into neighboring bar Katie O'Brien's. None of this affects the price of admission: totally free. Genres be damned here; acts as diverse as the Satin Chaps, the Decliners, Big Foot Dick, Bitch School, and the Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers all have a turn at the stage. It's unfortunate that the fest's dates coincide with those of PDX Pop Now! this year, but any port in a storm, right? RYAN J. PRADO

PETER MURPHY, OURS
(Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez) Peter Murphy—the Subaru Forester-driving Godfather of Goth—has pretty much beat his recent methamphetamine possession and DUI charges, stemming from a hit-and-run accident in Glendale, California, and is out on the road with his "Mr. Moonlight Tour." Don't expect any solo songs from the high-cheekboned King of Gloom—Murphy will perform 100 percent from the Bauhaus catalog. No other members of Bauhaus will perform with him, but expect rivers of mascara-soaked goth tears to flow anyway when Murphy croons the infamous 1979 hit "Bela Lugosi's Dead." KELLY O

LECHEROUS GAZE, SONS OF HUNS, ACID WASH
(The Know, 2026 NE Alberta) You know that weathered, grizzled, greasy, long-haired rocker standing outside of the show smoking cigarettes and staring into space like he knows something you don't? If you handed that guy a microphone and a guitar, then scraped some band members out of the gutter for him, Lecherous Gaze would be the result. Equal parts punk and good ol' rock 'n' roll, Lecherous Gaze kicks it out like the Dead Boys and MC5. The guitar solos and bass lines scream Back in the USA, while the vocals sound like someone choking Stiv Bators. Basically, Lecherous Gaze plays old-fashioned rock 'n' roll that has a real bad attitude. ARIS WALES

CANDLEBOX
(Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) Rock historians love to talk about how Nirvana "rescued" us from the music drought of the '80s. Candlebox—and pretty much every other post-Nevermind group that self-identified as grunge—are proof that those people are stupid. The mainstream's acceptance of Nirvana and grunge merely blazed a trail for an abhorrent new species of rock to follow, one that proved far more regrettable and enduring than any offshoot it succeeded (see also: Creed). Nirvana didn't save rock 'n' roll. Their popularity merely persuaded hair metal bands who missed the party to revise their aesthetic. And Candlebox are the most offensive of the bunch; "You" remains one of the worst songs I've ever heard. In my entire life. Courtney didn't kill Kurt—bands like Candlebox did. MORGAN TROPER

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Biden calls him Johnny, considers him a pal. John pulls me aside. "So," he asks, "is this what you expected of the vice president of the United States?" Guys in this unit used to guard Cheney. "Night and day," is all one will say of it. "Night and day."

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	Excellent Indianapolis with the Fire Knee.

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How to name your Pacific Rim Jaeger

Adventure LaGrange w/ a Plasma Knee

Sarcastic Daler (I grew up in Farmingdale but fuck calling it that, people from Farmingdale are Dalers)

Sprint Toe

Gratuitous Baltimore equipped with Blaster Esophagus wat

Greatest Windsor with Pummel Cheek

Blue Windsor with Rocket Toe

My jaeger is the Exclusive Richfield

my super weapon is April Knee

…not that exciting XD

Pretty San Juan

Super weapon would be Laser Ear.

Ok.

Early Vegas, with the super weapon Sprint Knee.

I. Okay, this actually came out pretty well.

Horny Brisbane with the…Laser…Head

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Rampant Dartmouth, armed with the Fire Hand.

Rampant Dartmouth would be a pretty good insult where I’m living now :p

Pretty Charlotte, armed with the Fire Foot.

Bisexual Girardeau with Blaster Leg.