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“Superman Cereal”

Ottawa, Ontario-based artist Phil Postma has created a series of fictional cereal box art featuring Superman and a gang of his villainous enemies. You can view all 6 cereal boxes on Phil’s Minion Factory art blog.

“Lex Luthor Cereal”

“Bizarro Cereal”

“Mr. Mxyzptlk Cereal”

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Quarantine, an adorable little game of running a hospital, has launched! Seems like only yesterday that Quinns was squeaking about its design diaries over in the games news, and now it's on shelves worldwide. They grow up so fast!

This one's a game that Quinns really wants to like. But he's also the owner of a degree in Tough Love from Newcastle University. Will it meet his ever-soaring standards? Or will he toss it aside like so much medical waste?

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Gail SImone's hotly anticipated all-new "Red Sonja" series is almost here, and Dynamite has provided CBR with an exclusive extended preview of her and artist Walter Geovani's take on the She-Devil with a sword!

Arnold Schwarzenegger won the hearts of Redditors with his Ask Me Anything session back in January, and seems to have taken a liking to the "front page of the Internet." GovSchwarzenegger has since maintained an active presence on the site, namely in /r/Fitness. He even did a second AMA just about working out. Fitness advice isn’t the only thing he has contributed, however.

Yesterday on the subreddit, somebody posted a link from the former governor/current Terminator’s website about the best cardio workout ever (which one can only assume is to stand up during commercials or something). And, because it's the Internet, an argument commenced that only Arnold could terminate. His comment was quite insightful, and could probably be applied to many an argument that takes place on the Internet. Also, kudos to LumberingOaf for his double gold response: “Come with me if you want to ...

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	Courtney shared this story from Tom & Lorenzo:
	you're going to look at this and be going "uh huh, uh huh, this is all perfectly fine" and then YOU GET TO THE SHOES AND YOU ALMOST THROW UP A RAINBOW OUT OF RESPECT AND ADMIRATION.

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The Senior Class rocked the SHIT out of this red carpet [...]

US secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced today that she’s stepping down to become president of the University of California. The former governor of Arizona will be the first woman to run the large UC system.

But what we really want to know is how Napolitano, who CNN reported last year doesn’t use email “at all,” manages to get anything done without it.

It’s not clear whether Napolitano just minimized her use of e-mail for professional and personal purposes while working for Homeland Security, or if she actually lived without it. And it is perhaps surprising that someone whose brief includes overseeing US cybersecurity efforts could do that job without access to email.

But Napolitano is not the only person in power who’s eschewed basic online communication. Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov reportedly avoids computers because “we have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.” Forbes several years ago compiled a list of celebrities who were off email at the time. 

How do they all do it? When most of us are checking our email constantly on an increasing number of devices, can you really live without it entirely? Napolitano seems to have cheated, as her answer was frequent briefings by her staff (who we can probably assume were using email.)

But it’s actually getting increasingly easy to avoid email, with alternatives like Twitter for brief messages and instant messaging or Skype chats for longer ones. Long-term projects can be completed without messy back-and-forth communication with the use of shared documents online such as a Google Doc. And more personal chats can still take place on the phone or by text (or even in person.)

Some techies are now shunning email because of concerns about government surveillance of communications. And others see it as an inefficient use of time, citing studies to that effect. IBM has a wave of employees joining the anti-email trend, increasingly relying on social media for chats both professional and personal. And in 2011 Atos, a European technology services company, announced plans to eliminate email in its ranks by 2014.

Are email’s days numbered? Maybe. But it’s only going to get harder to avoid all online communication, especially if you’ve got a company—or, you know, a country—to run.

Read this next: How to get better at email: What science tells us

I'm making it rain tickets to TrancePDX's David Lynch night, which is going down tomorrow night! I have two pairs of tickets for this giveaway. Email me by 3:30 pm today with the subject line "Fuck that Shit" and I'll pick a couple of rando winners. Free stuff!

The TrancePDX series is showing some cool films like The Warriors tonight, and The Crow and Enter the Dragon on Sunday night at the Mission. But it's tomorrow's screening of Blue Velvet and a new documentary about David Lynch's love of transcendental mediation that sounds like the pick of the series. Meditation, Creativity, Peace follows the director on a 16-country tour of speaking engagements as he talks about his films and meditation. Dude is really into trans med. But really, even if you have zero interest in woo-woo matters, It kinda doesn't matter what Lynch is talking about because the goofball is a delight to listen to even if he's just talking about the weather. So, yeah, this should be aces!

TrancePDX's screening of Meditation, Creativity, Peace (7 pm, FREE), and
Blue Velvet (9:15 pm, $7)
Saturday, July 13
Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan

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BERNETTA MILLER
Early Flight (107)

Bernetta Miller was born in Canton, Ohio on January 11, 1886. After becoming interested in flying, she enrolled for instruction at the Moisant Flying School at Hempstead Plains, Long Island, New York. On September 25, 1912, she received her license and then joined the Moisant International Aviators. In October 1912 she was sent to Washington, D.C. with the Moisant aviator Harold Kantner to assist in demonstration tests. There she became the first person to demonstrate a monoplane before U.S. government officials. On January 20, 1913, she attempted to establish a women’s altitude record at Garden City but the oil flow indicator in her plane broke, causing an emergency landing. Miller also took an active part in WWI, joining the Women’s Overseas Service League Infantry Division in France. She served first as an accountant and then went to the front as a canteen worker. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and many American citations for her work. After WWI, she engaged in educational work on the staffs of Dickinson and Colby Colleges and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

(information compiled by D. Cochrane and P. Ramirez)

Chris-Rachael Oseland of Kitchen Overlord has created delicious pizza rolls that look like 1-Up mushrooms from Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. video game franchise. The full recipe and instructions on how to make your own can be found at the Kitchen Overlord website. Previously, we wrote about Oseland’s Superman bread recipe and mouthwatering Settlers of Catan breakfast trays.

Don’t feel guilty for eating them. Thanks to magic, it’s not technically cannibalism. They can’t help that their new form is delicious. The kindest thing you can do for them now is put them out of their misery in three or four quick bites.

images via Kitchen Overlord

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Chances are most of us have seen the 1989 Batman movie at least once. But what if you'd only ever heard the soundtrack album by Prince? What would you think the plot of the movie was? Basically, it's the story of Batman's nemesis Partyman, and his ultimate weapon: the Lemon Crush.

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Apple and Google have both fallen off the list of the 10 best-perceived brands in the U.S.

Similar to Digital Detox’s Camp Grounded, the recent unplugged summer camp event for grownups, Who’s Excited!? is a device-free event described as “one epic night of pure unadulterated fun.” Digital Detox is hosting the event along with Treehouse, [ freespace ], and Reboot. It happens July 26th, 2013 from 7 PM on at [ freespace ] in San Francisco, California and while it’s a free event, space is limited (RSVP).

Join Digital Detox and our friends from for our largest Device-Free celebration to date. Leave your phone at home or check it at the door for a night of Digital Detox and Camp Grounded goodness. Live music with Con Brio and Cello Joe, campfire sing-a-long with Seltzy, analog zone with arts and crafts, board games, typewriters, delicious treats, face-painting, and so so much more.

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An anonymous reader writes "It turns out Amazon has its own sketchy method of snooping on all your browser traffic — even SSL traffic — through their one-click extension for Chrome. As designed, the extension reports every URL you visit, including HTTPS ones, to Amazon. It uses XSS to provide some of its functionality. It also reports contents of some website visits to Alexa. The Amazon extension has also been exploited to allow an attacker to gain access to SSL traffic on browsers that have it installed."

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The other Independence Day, commonly known as Bastille Day, or the anniversary of the beginnings of a bloodbath that made France miserable for about 10 years, provides an excellent afterparty as our red-white-and-blue hangovers slowly fade. Check out these fun events in commemoration of that July 14:

Pix Patisserie's bash on July 13 will feature a mini-Medoc run, live music all day from the likes of Tope, Gulls, and Sun Angle, a grape stomp, Champagne-sabering tutorial, and a bicycle scavenger hunt. Great food will include offerings from a whole-roasted pig as well as a champagne and oyster bar, and of course, save room for dessert. This celebration benefits the Oregon Food Bank, so bring non-perishable food items for chances to win prizes. The party starts at 2 pm and goes late.
Pix Patisserie/Bar Vivant is located at 2225 E Burnside.

Also a day early, Director Park will host the largest Bastille Day celebration on the West Coast, replete with a Portland Waiter's Race, an "avenue de la cuisine" featuring the likes of St. Honore Boulangerie and Brasserie Montmartre, and an art exhibit featuring work by students of Portland's French language immersion schools. Entry to this July 13 event is free and the festival runs from noon to 6 pm.
Director Park is located at 815 SW Park.

Apparently it's tradition to celebrate firemen on the day before Bastille Day. In such fashion, Vie de Boheme will be throwing a Bal des Pompiers on July 13, with French tunes by Eric John Kaiser and WC Beck. French food, wine, and cocktails will be offered. Firemen get free entry, but everyone who merely wants to dance with firemen pays an $8 cover. Festivities kick off at 8:30 pm and go late.
Vie de Boheme is located at 1530 SE 7th.

Joyeux July 14!

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puddingebola writes "A number of different websites are commenting on NPD's consumer research numbers that claim Chromebooks are getting 20-25% of the sub-$300 PC market. From the article: 'The NPD says that Google's Chromebook has now gained 20 to 25 percent of the sub-$300 laptop market in the U.S. That's a huge gain for a computer that's only been on the market for two years. It's even more impressive when you consider that Chromebooks were seen as nothing but a self-serving experiment on the part of Google for the first year of their existence.' Stephen Vaughan-Nichols is also blogging about this over at ZDnet. While the PC market shrank again in the second quarter of 2013, Chromebooks seem to have grown."

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It's anybody's guess what'll happen on Mount Tabor this weekend.

Organizers protesting the city's decision to drain the landmark's open-air reservoirs aren't ruling out serious confrontation. The city's parks department sent out a release this morning saying it anticipates a "peaceful, unpermitted demonstration."

For now, all that's certain is Mount Tabor Park's sort of locked down and that an untold number of demonstrators—calling themselves Camp Cascadia—are planning to ascend the old volcano in hopes of forcing the city to reverse its position. The park's closure at midnight tonight will be the true test of the movement's strength.

It's got some momentum. Many of these same (expected) demonstrators, remember, are coming in to this issue fresh from a decisive victory in Portland's fluoride vote a couple months back. These are people who've championed the purity of Portland's water, and see underground reservoirs planned for Powell and Kelly buttes as potentially harmful. Kim Kaminski, a leader in the fight against fluoride, is expected to participate in this evening's protest.

Park rangers for weeks have been fretting over how to handle the demonstration, and the city's release this morning called on protestors to respect the various activities—including weddings—the park hosts on summer weekends. Meanwhile, police have said they're not planning any heavy-handed tactics.

The city since 2006 had fought a federal mandate to cover or drain the city's open-air reservoirs—both on Tabor and across the city in Washington Park. City council—notably without the support of Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who's in charge of parks—announced last month it was "faced with no other legal options," and would stop fighting the feds. There's a now a late 2015 deadline to have the Tabor reservoirs drained.

Anyway, I'll be out there this evening, tweeting at @dirquez, if you're interested in the scene but don't feel like climbing a big hill.

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“The Coffinmaker” by Dan McComb is a thought-provoking short film about Marcus Daly, a Vashon Island, Washington-based carpenter who handcrafts environmentally friendly wooden caskets. According to the Green Burial Council nearly 1 million tons of steel in the form of caskets are buried each year in America—that’s enough steel to build the Golden Gate Bridge.

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These $80, videogame-themed door stickers feature battered, CGI-like artwork for your bedroom door, to give it the look of something that's been assaulted by zombies and/or space marines. Designs include armory, freight elevator, lab door and airlock.

Metal Core Door Sticker Decals (via Red Ferret)

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Guest contributor LSN Global retail editor ALISON BISHOP reports on how Nike’s ‘Making’ app puts sustainable design front of mind for fashion and sportswear creatives…

Ever the innovator, Nike is building on its sustainable product design credentials by sharing its in-house Materials Sustainability Index for anyone to learn from and use – in the form of its new Making app. After collaborating with students at London College of Fashion’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion, the new app helps designers and product creators make more informed decisions about the environmental impacts of the materials they choose. It works by ranking textiles and other materials used for product design based on four environmental concern areas: water, chemistry, energy and waste. For example who knew that the manufacture of silk uses 50% less water than cotton?

“It’s the start of a conversation,” Lee Holman, Nike’s vice-president of global apparel design told me. “Innovation is in Nike’s DNA, and sustainability is an integral part of Nike’s design process. We’ve created the Making app to empower any designer around the world to make better materials choices in the early stages of the design process. Ultimately everyone wants to create products that are better for the planet, and we want to be able to facilitate that idea.”

It’s quite a statement from the sports giant, especially considering it’s not a selling tool and it’s not connected directly to any Nike product. It’s just for the good of the planet. We call it ‘Brandstanding’ at LS:N Global. Sustainability is the new battleground for brands that want to resonate with disillusioned Millennial consumers (25-35 years old) and brands with cast iron credentials will win the vote. Now I might even design myself a version of Nike’s Flyknit trainers…

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Close up view of water droplets on leaves on the Russian BIO-5 Rasteniya-2/Lada-2 (Plants-2) plant growth experiment, which is located in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS).

Credit: NASA

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