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If you find yourself unhappy because:

• Someone isn't what you want them to be,
• Or think they should be,
• Or what they told you they were...

There's a really easy fix for that unhappiness.

They're free to be who they are, and also to change who they are.

It seems you should still love them, if you did before. ;-)

Because if you did not, then there would be no chance for people you love to grow, or for your understanding of them to grow, and that wouldn't be much of a friendship!

And the truth is people change and that isn't something to be afraid of because it's real and it's not about you unless you're the one who's changing. ;-)

So much of the unhappiness between people is because of misunderstandings like this, imho -- and it's so unnecessary.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that an upcoming episode of MythBusters (“MethBusters“) will test myths featured in the series Breaking Bad (including “whether you can really dissolve a body — and your tub and bathroom floor — with hydrofluoric acid”). The trailer for this special episode was first shown at San Diego Comic-Con and the full episode will air on August 12th.

image 1 via MythBusters Facebook page, image 2 via Entertainment Weekly

Teens in a deprived area of east London are sparing no expense when it comes to impressing their friends for a few hours by hiring exotic cars with a price tag that can sometimes rival the cost of the flats where they live.

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Wyatt Earp is one of America’s most famous vigilantes who delivered justice the American way—except it’s all a lie.

What the World Would Look Like If You Could Actually See Wi-Fi Signals via Gizmodo

Artist Nickolay Lamm worked with M. Browning Vogel, who has a Ph.D. in Astrobiology and is a former NASA employee to imagine a world where Wi-Fi signals were visible. It’s a visual mind trip, to say the least.

What it takes to build an Icon via Architizer

Gearbox announced plans at PAX Australia to warp drive HD remakes of Homeworld 1 and 2 to Windows this year, following their recent acquisition of the franchise from THQ for $1.35 million. Direct ports of the original games will also be made available on unspecified digital distribution platforms for Windows.

Gearbox Software CCO Brian Martel expressed his fondness for the series in April after the purchase, stating his intent to make them "accessible on today's leading digital platforms" in a statement released by Gearbox.

Relic Games, creator of the Homeworld franchise, was sold to SEGA during the liquidation of THQ's assets and is currently working on Company of Heroes 2. Part of the Homeworld development team has since left the mother ship to begin work on a more grounded RTS, Hardware: Shipbreakers.

Gearbox remaking Homeworld 1 and 2 for Windows originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TARDIS: Sorry doctor you're stuck with these teachers for the next three years
TARDIS: Also the chameleon circuit broke
TARDIS: A button got stuck so Susan's going to stab you all until you fix it
TARDIS: I've conveniently landed where you'll lose me have a nice time trying to find me again
TARDIS: Hey an alternate dimension filled with nightmares let's go there
TARDIS: You know what's better than Heathrow? Anything.
TARDIS: I was bored so I changed my entire interior layout
TARDIS: Also I deleted all the bedrooms
TARDIS: Hey I let the master in
TARDIS: Fuck you Charley
TARDIS: Oops I possessed your companion
TARDIS: I brought the other one back to life but now he can't die
TARDIS: You know where you could have a great vacation? the planet of carnivorous wasp people.
Doctor:
TARDIS: love you

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I think it's safe to say this news couldn't wait for our "While You Were Sleeping" roundup tomorrow.

My favorite part of the Kinect is when it wakes up for no reason while the kids are watching Netflix and randomly pauses and fast forwards their cartoons. That's the greatest.

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?”

- Shirdi Sai Baba (via akilivumbi)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says Congress "ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal."

PDX POP NOW!
(SE Salmon & Water) Suck it, Christmas. 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!

SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION FESTIVAL: PINK SKULL, DAS FLUFF, WHITE FANG, PULSE EMITTER, PINKS QUIETER
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Sean Hocking started his Metal Postcard Records label in Sydney, Australia, then moved it to New York before finally ending up in Hong Kong. Lately he's taken an interest in Portland, and the label's second Sometimes a Great Notion festival kicks off this weekend. Headlined by Pink Skulls and Das Fluff, Friday's lineup features alternative takes on electronic music, complemented by locals Pinks Quieter, Pulse Emitter, and garage-rock shit-kickers White Fang. Saturday night's wide-ranging lineup includes Ken Stringfellow (the Pogues and sometimes REM member), Seattle heavy-hippie group Rose Windows, alt-country from the Maldives, and local songwriter Matthew Heller. MATT SULLIVAN

HAUSU, SATAN WRIDERS, CELLMATE
(Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth) I didn't have a chance to hear Hausu's beautifully weird debut album, Total, until it was released right in the middle of their recent month-long tour. It grew on me pretty quick after repeated listens, so it's great to have them back home and playing all over town again (you can catch them at tonight's intimate Record Room show and Saturday night at PDX Pop Now!). The gnarled, distorted, cranked-up guitar work and desperate vocals on tracks like "Gardenia" and "Chrysanthemum" are going to work their way into plenty of my summer-fading-to-fall playlists a couple months down the road. Tonight's show should also have a bit of a season's change feeling, as Stockton, California's Satan Wriders' lo-fi and carefree sunny rock songs fade with the day and make way for Hausu's fresh, chilling, and dark blend of post-punk. CHIPP TERWILLIGER

BIG FREEDIA, DJ BEYONDA
(Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) If you're in the mood for a string quartet and mild head bobbing, I'd recommend you NOT see Big Freedia. Freedia is the gender-straddling purveyor of the popular New Orleans booty-thrusting dance music aptly named "bounce," not for the faint of heart or light of rear. A repetitious and fast off-shoot of hiphop, bounce has been captivating the booties of New Orleans with its Mardi Gras-style chants since the '91 hit "Where Dey At" by MC T. Tucker. Now the current standard-bearer of bounce, Big Freedia brings color, class, and style to a genre most associated with ogling bouncing women. I wouldn't recommend listening to Freedia while studying for an exam or reading the Quran, but she and her back-up dancers will undoubtedly wow you, especially if you missed her opening for the Postal Service at the Rose Garden. (I know, WTF?) ROSE FINN

DANAVA, LECHEROUS GAZE, LONG KNIFE, DJ DENNIS DREAD
(Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash) 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

JOYCE MANOR, MERRY CHRISTMAS, LEE COREY OSWALD
(Backspace, 115 NW 5th) When I first wrote about LA heartthrobs Joyce Manor, it was for a relatively inglorious show they played at a bookstore. That was a little over a year ago, and quite a bit has changed since then: In the winter, Joyce Manor embarked on an East Coast tour with Desaparecidos, on which Conor Oberst joined the band onstage for their signature song, "Constant Headache." While a new release from the band would absolutely be welcomed, their self-titled debut is a perennial pop-punk (with a huge emphasis on the "pop") classic that I still bump constantly. Its follow-up, Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired, is less consistent but still wholly enjoyable. So far, Joyce Manor have proven to be a band that can do little wrong. All we can do is hope they keep it up. MORGAN TROPER

CATHEDRAL PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL: NORMAN SYLVESTER, ROSELAND HUNTERS, TRANSCENDENTAL BRASS BAND, & 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, now on its 33rd year. MARJORIE SKINNER

JOHN MAYER, PHILLIP PHILLIPS
(Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel, Ridgefield WA) John Mayer's "Say"—the schlocky ballad the singer/songwriter/skeeveball wrote for that cinematic dud The Bucket List, and which has lived an unnaturally long life in Hallmark ads and dentists' offices since—has got to be the most tepid, worthless piece of musical diarrhea ever committed to tape. Building off the endlessly repeated refrain, "say what you need to say," its trite lyrics are vague to the point of meaninglessness. Its feather-light, adult-contempo arrangement is similarly offensive in its inoffensiveness—it's the equivalent of Mayer squeezing out a silent fart in a crowded elevator, hoping no one will notice—but good lord, it stinks to unholy heights. This is a song unsuitable for weddings, children, or operating heavy machinery. It was designed to deliberately, cruelly chip away at the listener's well-being. The next time you hear it in the grocery aisle, complain to the store manager. There's no reason we need to put up with Mayer's shit for another second. NED LANNAMANN

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Facebook's HipHop VM (HHVM) did a new release last week and now it's even faster! HHVM 2.1 also supports more language functionality...

Parker, the remorseless thief created by Donald E. Westlake under the name Richard Stark, will return to IDW Publishing in December with Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of Slayground. It will be the fifth Parker story the cartoonist has adapted since 2009′s The Hunter. Slayground pits the character against crooked cops and sleazy gangsters when a heist [...]

Even when I play Attack of the Friday Monsters…

I can’t get away from Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Tom Nook. He doesn’t care if you’re just a 10-year-old kid in 1970s Japan; Nook wants his money.

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At the age of eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway who I thought was the catwoman woman but I googled it and they were different people. But Shakespeare was still happy with her.

Smoking and drinking go together like, well, smoking and drinking. A study with rats sheds light on the brain chemistry behind why smokers seem to be more likely to drink, and sometimes to drink to excess.

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Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t | WBUR:

Introduced in 1998, the vaccine sold well at first. But then opponents spoke out: self-described ‘vaccine victims’ — perhaps similar to people today who claim the MMR vaccine causes autism. Back then, they said that the Lyme vaccine gave them arthritis.

“And this sort of got into popular lore,” Poland recalls. “It got on the Internet. There were a number of East Coast lawyers who started putting together class-action lawsuits. There were anti-vaccine advocacy groups that were formed.”

And there were threats against the scientists who had worked to help protect people against the disease. Poland had to hide where he lived. Steere got a security detail.

The clinical data did not back up any of this. The trials had not shown such side effects. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control looked into the claims, and then continued to recommended that people exposed to tick-infested areas get the vaccine.

But it was too late. Sales had plummeted. Four years after offering people immunity against Lyme, SmithKline Beecham stopped making the vaccine. The second vaccine-maker, Pasteur Mérieux Connaught, saw what had happened and never put out its own product.