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Zelda-like indie adventure Ittle Dew out now on PC, coming soon to Steam and Ouya
Ittle Dew, a cartoony, classic adventure game that uses a Zelda-like dungeon formula, is available now for $13.99 through developer Ludosity's official site. The game includes online leaderboards and a number of shortcuts, so it is designed to encourage speedrunning.
Purchases through the site will be redeemable for PC, Mac and Linux, both DRM-free and via Steam, which it will launch on at the end of July. Ittle Dew should have launched on Ouya this week as well, though the developer noted on Twitter that it is still in review before being pushed to the storefront. It will come to iPad, Android tablets and Wii U sometime this fall or winter, according to a recent release schedule blog update by Ludosity.
Zelda-like indie adventure Ittle Dew out now on PC, coming soon to Steam and Ouya originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Jul 2013 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Bush to GOP: Give Immigration a Chance - Yahoo! News
Things We Saw Today: E. coli Dalek is Here to Exterminate Your Stomach
Tropical Storm Chantal forms in Atlantic - USA TODAY
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Tropical Storm Chantal forms in Atlantic
USA TODAY The storm's winds as of midday Monday are near 45 mph. tropical-storm-chantal-map. Tropical Storm Chantal is forecast to continue moving west over the Caribbean for the next several days. (Photo: National Hurricane Center) ... Hurricane season 2013 ... Chantal is on the moveThe Virginian-Pilot Tropical Storm Chantal strengthens slightlyNOLA.com Tropical Storm Chantal swirls toward eastern CaribbeanReuters Brevard Times -Patch.com -Carolinacoastonline all 186 news articles » |
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Goodbye, Google Reader. Here are 5 alternatives | USA TODAY
firehoseUSA TODAY has an opinion about feed readers
tOR: "sharing is limited to the service. So, it's tough to directly share to social networks"
this is listed as a negative
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Play a Battleship-style game on Google Glass while shopping, strolling
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Walking around a pond on a beautiful summer day is just as boring as grocery shopping - but never fear, Google Glass is here. Mobile app developer Brick Simple used the Mirror API to create GlassBattle, a two-player, turn-based, synchronous Battleship-style game on Google Glass.
GlassBattle isn't available to the Google Glass public yet, but once the Mirror API quota limitations are lifted, Brick Simple will launch the game for everyone to enjoy. So buy some extra glasses cleaner and man the torpedoes.
Play a Battleship-style game on Google Glass while shopping, strolling originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Facebook rolling out Graph Search in the US from Monday
Facebook is to begin rolling out its new Graph Search tool to American users this Monday, July 8th, according to reports in The New York Times and ABC News. The feature, which has been in beta since January, allows users to conduct advanced searches with metadata stored on Facebook — an example might be "Friends who like the Beatles," or "Restaurants in Tokyo liked by my friends."
Graph Search will come to people in the US and others who use the Facebook website in American English, though the rollout will take a few weeks to reach everyone, and there is no information about when the feature might come to other languages. It's also unclear when a mobile version might see release.
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Rhythmic Gymnast Shin Soo-ji Throws Out an Impressive First Pitch at a Korean Baseball Game
At the opening baseball game for Doosan Bears at Seoul, Korea’s Jamsil stadium, rhythmic gymnast Shin Soo-ji threw out a very impressive first pitch.
image via Super Punch, video via MyKBO.net
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How we 'other' sexual assault to ignore our own norms of abuse | Sana Saeed
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Is rape used to bully women out of the public forum in Tahrir? Yes. But does Egypt have a monopoly of sexual violence? No
On 30 June, as "the Coup That Must Not Be Mentioned" was being celebrated in Tahrir Square, Cairo, news of over 80 reports of mob sexual violence and harassment emerged as a reminder of an ugly undercurrent behind the two-and-a-half-year-long anti-regime uprising. Sexual harassment and violence in Egypt is a daily occurrence – an epidemic, even – with 99.3% of women (pdf) claiming to have suffered some form of it.
Mob sexual violence, however, carries a certain brand of particularity as a near-explicit political tool used to discourage women, who make up nearly half of the total population, from attending demonstrations. Maria S Muñoz, co-founder and director of the anti-sexual assault initiative Tahrir Bodyguard, traces the advent and use of organized mob sexual assaults to the days of Mubarak, pointing to the 2005 assault of journalist Nawal Ali by hired "thugs" during a demonstration. Despite being aware of the risk of attending political demonstrations, women, Muñoz notes, "have continued to share the public space in protests, becoming an essential part of the opposition's voice and presence."
The culture of sexual violence and harrassment, in Egypt, has received considerable media attention, often highlighting the efforts of groups such as Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, HarassMap and Tahrir Bodyguard as people-powered initiatives tackling sexual violence and harassment head-on. Despite this, it is apparently still difficult to have an honest discussion over why it happens.
On 5 July, US author Joyce Carol Oates (whom I know primarily from her having never written this) decided to join in with the sea of insta-Egypt Twitter experts and opined:
If 99.3% of women reported being treated equitably, fairly, generously--it would be natural to ask: what's the predominant religion?
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) July 5, 2013
Despite the brevity of "Oatesgate", the rhetorical question of a well-respected literary figure highlights popular characterizations of sexual violence and harassment when it takes place elsewhere. Rarely does sexual violence and harassment in our own societies – as it is perpetrated, prosecuted and cultured – allow the sort of cultural reductionism that seems to come with ease when sexual violence is associated with "the other".
When a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern is brutally gang-raped and beaten in Delhi, we speak of "India's woman problem"; when an incapacitated 16-year-old student is raped, photographed and filmed for six hours by peers – who share the images on social media – the incident is treated as an isolated act of unfortunate deviance and not part and parcel of a larger endemic culture that normalizes rape and the appropriation of women's bodies as public property.
Child groomers of Muslim and South Asian backgrounds become cultural ambassadors raised on a steady diet of "savage" notions of sex embedded in anti-white biases and misogyny. Revered coaches and university administrations hiding decades of child sex abuse, on the other hand, become their own victims.
Thus there are no protests, no calls of a "woman problem", no "natural" inquiries into the predominant religion when a country has ranked 13th in the world for rape, 10th for rapes per capita (pdf) and where 26,000 military service members reported sexual assault in 2012 alone. There are no popular anthropological undertakings by stiff-haired anchors of the inner secrets and dark forces of American culture, religion and society. No white American woman asks why the white American male hates "us".
None of this is to provide a level playing field for discussing sexual violence. It is to highlight how understanding of sexual violence is reliant on how it is reported and how this, in turn, is reliant on who is involved. In the case of Egypt, the extent to which there is sexual harassment and violence is abysmal and even unique in how it occurs. Yet, this violence did not emerge overnight, nor does it occur in a political and socio-economic vacuum. It is the result of decades of state, legal and political decay. It is the result of a state that itself has created a culture of acceptability of violence and torture, often sexual, inside its own walls.
In the explicit act of violating bodily sovereignty, there is an active search for the conquest of power and control in a space where these have become vulnerable. This requires no sermon, book or belief to legitimize it; it only needs submission.
    
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Football game continues as Northfield Mount Hermon school burns:...
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Football game continues as Northfield Mount Hermon school burns: 1965 via Retronaut
Too much football love?
Nice guys of AC: New Leaf Dying. Literally dying. Dead. R.I.P....
Nice guys of AC: New Leaf
Dying. Literally dying. Dead. R.I.P. Eric - “He posted funny Animal Crossing pics he found on Tumblr."
More of these, please. Found this via Parfait, who I think got it from Danger Crossing.
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PSN newsletter - When images aren’t loaded the Autobot...
firehosevia Overbey: "Some intern had *way* too much free time in Adobe Fireworks."
PSN newsletter - When images aren’t loaded the Autobot logo shows up in a newsletter about a exclusive Transformers: Fall of Cybertron offer in the PlayStation store.
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29-Year-Old Gets $15-Million to Decipher Song Lyrics | Power Pitch - Yahoo! Finance
firehosetrolling their way through another interview
When asked about generating revenue, Zechory pressed back, "Look, you're asking me to give you answers about stuff that's just in its infancy. It's like ... 'Where are you having your bar mitzvah?’ It's like I'm 1 month old … we're trying not to overinvest in monetization too early in the way MySpace did versus a Facebook ... the product is in its infancy.'"
Another must see moment in the video, when CNBC anchor Mandy Drury asked the Rap Genius co-founder, "How do you make money?" Drury is visibly caught off guard when Zechory offered the deadpan response, "I’m sorry I don't understand the question" punctuated by an enormous grin.
Deals with foreign cable owners, secret court rulings broaden NSA spying potential
New information this weekend gave a glimpse into the efforts made by the US to establish a broad network of surveillance around the world. Some of the efforts involve using a proxy telecommunications company to manage the information gathered by local telecom companies in foreign countries, creating internal corporate cells with access to foreign-owned fiber optic cables, and using unchallenged rulings from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts (FISC) to broaden the NSA's powers.
Brazilian newspaper O Globo and UK paper The Guardian published articles on Saturday alleging that the NSA was collecting and storing the e-mail and telephone records of millions of Brazilians through a program called FAIRVIEW. According to The Guardian, that program allows the US to partner with “a large US telecommunications company, the identity of which is currently unknown, and that US company then partners with telecoms in the foreign countries. Those partnerships allow the US company access to those countries' telecommunications systems, and that access is then exploited to direct traffic to the NSA's repositories.”
The Guardian article referenced an earlier post from Der Spiegel, which reported similarly broad surveillance of Germany's citizens. According to Spiegel, “the NSA systematically monitors and stores a large share of the country's telephone and Internet connection data,” which grabs “up to 20 million telephone calls and 10 million Internet data exchanges” on normal days.
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Metro rips out Phantom Planter’s flowers at Dupont Circle station - The Washington Post
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Brazil allegedly targeted by NSA spying, demands explanation from United States
Earlier today, a report in Brazil's daily Globo newspaper claimed that the National Security Agency has been spying on electronic communications and telephone calls originating from the country for the past decade. The Globo story was co-authored by The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald — the journalist who first broke news of sophisticated (and highly classified) US surveillance programs with the help of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Today's report is allegedly substantiated by further documentation leaked to Greenwald by Snowden, who is currently seeking asylum in a number of countries in hopes of evading espionage charges in the United States.
The report stops short of revealing exactly how much traffic has been monitored, but describes Brazil as a priority for NSA surveillance. The government agency apparently was able to monitor communications with the help of American companies that conduct business with Brazilian telecommunications providers. Like other rumored subjects of spying, Brazil's government hasn't taken kindly to the news. "The Brazilian government is gravely concerned by the news that electronic and telephone communications of Brazilian citizens are the objective of espionage efforts by US intelligence agencies," the country's foreign ministry said in a statement. Brazil has said it will demand an explanation from US officials and seek solutions with the International Telecommunications Union to better ensure privacy for its citizens.
In a televised interview Sunday, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said the growing surveillance controversy has damaged "the importance of trust" with foreign nations.
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Final Shadowrun, Fifth Edition PDF Preview & Reviews
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We just uploaded the sixth and final PDF preview for Shadowrun, Fith Edition. It’s a good swath of the Matrix chapter, as well as the entire Table of Contents.
If you’ve not already downloaded it, grab it off of the downloads page and check it out.
Not yet seen any of the other previews? The downloads‘ page contains all of the PDF previews showing off SR5. Additionally, under Media, don’t forget to check out The Year of Shadowrun PDF that showcases all the fantastic games–from the RPG to card game to board games to computer games–that are releasing over the next year.
Additionally, we’ve had a slew of reviews from a variety of sources covering the book. We’re compiling them here so there’s a single location for the community to check it out…many more reviews coming in the near future and we’ll update the list as they come in.
Throat Punch Games: Ring Side Report-Shadowrun 5th Edition
The Wargaming Addict: REVIEW OF SHADOWRUN FIFTH EDITION RPG
RPG Gamer: The Saving Throw: Shadowrun Fifth Edition
Roleplayer’s Chronicle: A Word in Edgewise… with Jason Hardy of Catalyst Game Labs
Aint It Cool News Tabletop Special! Abstruse Reviews SHADOWRUN 5th Edition!
All Us Geeks Podcast: Episode 27 The Geeks Don’t Plead The 5th On #Shadowrun
Second Left RPG: Review: Shadowrun 5th Edition (Part I)
En World RPG News & Reviews: Shadowrun 5th Edition: Coming Soon to a MegaCorp Near You!
Finally, don’t forget that July 11th is when the PDF & Print Preorder go on sale…just 5 more days!
See ya then, chummers!
A Dramatic Tribute to Moebius
Nicolas Delort's black-and-white airship roars onto the page in this piece inspired by the legendary artist Moebius.
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Cree 9.5 watt LED light bulb
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I have used the Cree LED warm bulbs for a month and they are a excellent replacement for a 60 Watt incandescent bulb. The light is better than CFLs I have used. This new 800 lumen light has a color temperature of 2700K, on 9.5 watts. It has the shape and general look of a incandescent bulb and is a screw-in replacement. Its rated life is 25,000 hours and comes with a 10 year warranty At $13 from Home Depot, I see this as a game changer and a CFL killer. They work with dimmer switches.
-- Louis Nettels
Cree 9.5 watt LED light bulb
$13 from Home Depot
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