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I got tired of fighting with Chrome and Safari over whether I'm allowed to read RSS files.

http://smallpicture.com/rssViewer.html

Just enter the URL in the dialog and click OK.

It even remembers the URL you can read the same file over and over.

Nice if you're trying to watch the file change.

PS: Drag it to the browser's chrome for easy access.

PPS: I look forward to the day when the big guys stop screwing with RSS. This item belongs in the trash.

PPPS: I am reminded that Firefox is guilty too.

I have the worse room in a shared house in the SE. Worst house, worst room. Ever. I've been here a few months and I am about to bounce.

Here's why: I got the fuckin attic. It's got nice windows, floors and tall ceilings. But it's about to get crazy hot up there and the rent is a bit much( As I type this, it's fucking 82 degrees up here x 500 a month, good luck replacing me).

Here's mostly why: every time I want to rub one out, it shakes the whole fucking house! The only way is if I lie on my back, with my knees up on a chunk of carpet. Im not against that but I prefer a little variety.

No ones moving out of any of the normal rooms anytime soon so I must move on. Hopefully, I'll find a place where I can snap at it without sweating then dehydrating then diarreah blues....

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A man allowed freedom after the drug evidence against him turned out to have been tested by ex-chemist Annie Dookhan was arrested yesterday on charges he and a pal stole 13 watches from the Downtown Crossing Macy's.

Transit Police report officers' attention was aroused when they spotted two guys acting all suspicious on a platform at the Chinatown Orange Line stop around 10:15 a.m. yesterday:

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I AM SINCIRE Iced hibiscus, rosehip, blueberry, schizandra, orange, mango tea 4

I AM SASSY Virgin strawberry margarita 8.5

I AM MAGICAL I AM MAGICAL House made black bean burger with macadamia nut cheddar, tomato, lettuce, red onion and pickles 12

I AM GRATEFUL Our community supported grain bowl. Shredded kale with local brown rice, black beans and tahini-garlic sauce. We created this bowl to allow for those in financial need to have access to organic vegan food.

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- Cafe Gratitude – Berkeley | SAMPLE MENU

Jim Sterling, a staff writer for Destructoid and weekly video blogger for The Escapist, is a pretty big name in the video game blogosphere, as someone who has been doing it for quite a while and one of the few professional video game bloggers out there. He has gained quite a bit of influence as a reviewer for pushing back against game companies who want nothing more than shills for their games instead of real, honest reviews. Sadly, Jim Sterling also had a pretty unfortunate history of saying really sexist things¹.

To be honest, I’d pretty considered Jim Sterling a bit of a lost cause, so I mostly stopped paying attention to him for the last year or so. That is, until two of his recent Jimquisition videos caught my attention: This video about the creepy cull of female protagonists in video games and this video about the objectification of women being inherently unequal to the treatment of men in games. (They’re both really good, and if you haven’t seen them, then I urge you to go watch them.)

That made me really sit back and take notice. What happened? Had Jim actually acknowledged the problems with sexism in the game industry and game culture? I was dying to know, but more than that – as someone who had voiced some harsh criticism, I felt honor bound to update the record if such a thing was warranted. I was a bit trepidatious about contacting Jim, since one never knows how these things will turn out, but he was kind enough to agree to an interview, which I feel went really well.

Wundergeek: My biggest question for you is why? What happened that caused you to change your views about sexism in the game industry? What was the turning point? Was there a specific event, or was it a gradual evolution? And what did that feel like for you?

Jim Sterling: You can hold a mirror up to a person as many times as you like, but only the person can look. The nature of online interaction is such that one can pick and choose the things they have to confront, and I simply chose not to confront the idea I was supporting sexism in any way.

I’ve taken to calling my prior attitude, as well as the attitude of other members of the gaming community, the “obviously not” syndrome. In my mind, I “obviously” wasn’t a sexist because I didn’t believe in mistreating women, in hurting women, that sort of more extreme activity the cursory glancer associates with sexism. That’s the insidious thing about misogyny and privilege — you never really think of the subtle things, the more sinister harmful things you may be perpetuating. Making jokes about feminist, being “satirical,” calling someone a “feminazi slut,” it was all fine and dandy, because I “obviously” didn’t mean it, and “obviously” didn’t think I was a bad person. The trouble is, when you start telling yourself it’s “obvious,” you give yourself no further cause to actually reflect on yourself or your behavior.

I don’t think it was any one thing that changed my mind, though I would strongly credit the work of writers such as yourself for putting under the microscope that which I was unwilling to. I owe a great deal as well to my wife, who has become a more vocal feminist herself over the years, and who patiently educated me in the ways of becoming a more inclusive, more positive influence on the gaming community. I’ve also been blessed with excellent friends who possess strong feminist views — a writer local to me by the name of Tom Head, as well as Colette Bennett and, more recently, Leigh Alexander. Being in the presence of such people has been of amazing benefit to me and the evolution of my career.

As far as how it’s felt, I’d have to say there’s an energizing element to it. People believe that choosing your words to be more gender-neutral, elimating words that can be uniquely insulting, is “censorship,” that it restricts how you write and speak. Far from it, it’s only encouraged me to be more creative, to seek a fresh presentation and open myself up to a whole new vocabularly. It’s difficult, and even scary, to get deeper into the gender issues that affect the gaming world — you never know who you’re going to upset, and accidentally upsetting people is the worst. However, that’s also a special kind of challenge I’ve largely been grateful to face.

This is to say nothing of how much there is to talk about once you open your eyes and stop denying there are any problems. My, but there’s a ton of it!

Wundergeek: You’ve made your feelings known about feminism in the past. What are your views on feminism (and feminists) now? Would you call yourself a feminist? Why or why not?

Jim Sterling: I’ve always tended to be a centrist, historically, never a fan of extremist thinking. Ironically, that’s led to me having pretty extreme views on movements I’ve simply decided are extremist! As far as feminism goes, I think my biggest issue was personal arrogance in assuming I could sort the “extremist bad ones” from the “normal alright ones.” It’s not exactly my place to make that call, yet make it I did.

My views now? Still forming, always evolving. I’ve leaned more liberal the longer I’ve been an atheist not-straight Brit living in Mississippi (funny how that works). I owe a debt of gratitude to many in the feminist corners of the community, though, for being among those who contribute to my growth as a writer and content producer. I feel feminism ultimately benefits every gender the human race has to offer, concerned as it is with smashing enforced gender roles and expectations. With some of the things I do falling well outside of my gender’s typicality, I can more than appreciate that!

I wouldn’t call myself a feminist, nor would I call myself an ally. Not out of disdain or contempt for the terms — quite the opposite, in fact. It’s one of those things where I feel it’s not my place to apply such terms to myself. If what I’m talking about at the time aligns with a feminist view, then great! I wouldn’t just up and say, “Welp, I’m a feminist now, everybody pat me on the back.” Not earned that distinction.

Wundergeek: What made you decide to speak out? You could have just changed your opinions and stayed quiet, but you decided to speak out in some of your new videos. What was the thought process there?

Jim Sterling: There’s a number of reasons. As a “not straight” person, I’ve always cared deeply about LGBT issues, even when my vulgar turns of phrase and use of ignorant language may have made it appear otherwise. From some of my older videos and articles on the topic of gay issues and homophobia, there was a natural step toward examining sexism too.

Another reason would be the aforementioned looking into the mirror, and being of a frame of mind to finally see how much there is to talk about. This has gone hand in hand with many other games writers highlighting the problems, so many more now than there were a few years ago. It’s reached a point of exposure to where no reasonable person could deny sexism is a problem in game culture.

The third reason is personal. I’ve been a fairly prominent speaker in gamer culture for a fair few years now, and in turn have contributed to the form it’s taken. My earlier work was harmful in ways I never thought about, and in the years since examining that work more closely, it’s something I feel obliged to help make better. I want to be a more inclusive and positive voice for everybody in gamer culture, and that’s one of the biggest driving factors in my work, especially Jimquisition, tackling such topics with greater regularity. I don’t want to be Angel, fighting demons in LA to atone for my wicked ways, but I certainly don’t want to be a poisonous force in our culture.

Wundergeek: Have you experienced any backlash from the gamer community over your recent videos expressing concern about industry sexism? If so, do you think it has been comparable to the backlash Anita Sarkeesian has gotten for her videos tackling industry sexism? And if not, what are your feelings about that?

Jim Sterling: Some, sure. It’s a very odd thing to be called a “misogynist” and a “vagina warrior” in one day, but these things happen. I kind of get it from both sides these days. Through absolutely my own fault, I have many of people in feminist cicles who still feel alienated by me, while those in the camp of the bigots or the gamers who “don’t care about this shit” view me as an annoyance who was “gotten to” by the brainwashing feminists. These are the things I should expect, and more or less deserve.

It is, however, nothing compared to what happens when a woman dares tackle the same issues I do. Nobody threatens to rape me. Nobody says I “must be stopped.” The worst I get is an accusation or two and the obligatory reminder that I’m a fat fuck — not the most thrilling of engagements, but far better than consistent hate campaigns and utterly vile personal attacks and threats. Whenever I do a video on sexism, at least one comment will always be congratulating me on how better than Anita Sarkeesian I was. There’s an obsession with her, and I don’t understand it. Compared to my characteristically combative videos, Anita’s work is downright restrained. Yet I’m told I’m the reasonable one and she’s the radical. It makes no logical sense!

For me, confusion is the most dominant feeling over this stuff. I honestly do not get why Anita has been so especially marked.

Wundergeek: Some people are going to see this and assume that you are changing your tune out of personal interest; namely that you are turning your back on your sexist writing because of career and financial motivation, not out of genuine desire to change on your part. What would you say to those people? Which is the real Jim Sterling?

Jim Sterling: What could I say to that? There is no way to invite one into my brain with a flashlight to have a good old poke around, so there’s really no proof of sincerity. These accusations come up regularly enough, though funnily it’s not usually from feminists, but from angry male gamers who link to old blog posts about me to try and shut me up. That is yet to work.

I’ve been tackling more and more feminist issues, gradually attempting to evolve my work for maybe a year or two now, and I don’t believe it’s been a sudden 180, but a gradual change, which I welcome everybody to go and check out for themselves if they care enough to. However, it’s not something I wish to go out of my way to prove. I’m an unbelievably fortunate person to have the job I have, and the position I have, and I want to use that position to be a good element in the gaming community. It’s an element all are free to embrace or ignore.

I resolved never to say “I’m not sexist.” To echo a phrase I used earlier, it’s not my call to make. It’s up to the individual to decide, and if anybody decides I am, then I can only acknowledge that as a fair assessment and continue to work. It’s not as if I didn’t willfully contribute enough evidence.

Who is the real Jim Sterling? He’s an idiot who tries to be less of an idiot every day.

(An interview with Jim Sterling about sexism in game culture originally posted on Gaming As Women.)

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MarkWhittington writes "Politico reports in a June 18, 2013 story that House Republicans have added a Mars base to its demands for a lunar base in the draft 2013 NASA Authorization bill. Both the Bush-era Constellation program and President Obama space plan envisioned eventual human expeditions to Mars. But if Politico is correct, the new bill will be the first time an official piece of legislation will call for permanent habitation of the Red Planet. The actual legislative language states, 'The [NASA] Administrator shall establish a program to develop a sustained human presence on the Moon and the surface of Mars.'"

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Business Insider's Walter Hickey did the math on Monopoly, calculating the most frequently landed-up squares (taking into account dice probability, Go To Jail events, and Community Chest/Chance cards) and conceived of a supposedly optimal strategy for buying and building upon property. I still hate Monopoly, but I suspect that this would make it less boring (for a while, at least).

How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly Like You've Never Done Before (via MeFi)

PROS:

• Even moreso than The Old Reader, Feedspot recreates GReader in look, feel, interface, shortcuts, features:
• SHARING! WITH NOTES! YOU CAN WRITE NOTES THAT AREN’T PART OF A SHARE! (All it’s missing is a bookmarklet, and honestly that could be a weekend of reverse-engineering how a note post works.)
• Private sharing option! “If selected, only those users you follow will be able to see posts shared by you and other profile details.”
• No third-party auth required (or allowed, for that matter)
• In addition to first-party sharing, some third-party sharing options (FB, Twitter, Buffer; limited, obscured support for LinkedIn, G+) and lots of third-party read-it-later options (Pocket, Readability, Instapaper, Evernote; limited, obscured support for Delicious) — as a bonus, you don’t need IFTTT triggers for those services, as it has its own built-in, opt-in ability to push starred or shared items to any (or all) of those services (except LinkedIn, G+, Delicious)
• Truly edge-to-edge list view option (sidebar can collapse completely)
  
• Many embeds work; MP3 attachments even show up using GReader’s good old embedded Flash player (hosted on S3), or something that looks and acts _exactly_ like it.
• Some responsive elements: images resize on smaller viewports, interface collapses into a mobile app-style top bar in mobile browsers (but not desktop browsers with small viewports)

CONS:

• Far and away the clunkiest, slowest interface of all readers I’ve tried. Makes The Old Reader feel elegant. Every action takes longer than on any other service. Chrome, Firefox, doesn’t matter.
• The whole thing needs an interface designer’s touch. Options and preferences are all over the place, including many places that don’t make any sense (where do you toggle filtering by read status? “Edit”, in the “My Sites” sidebar). White space on edge-to-edge view is wasted; text wraps at 698px. Lots of disruptive, nagging tutorial tips that continue to appear long after you don’t need them anymore
• Janky rendering of items. Spacing between paragraphs and between images is inconsistent. Tiny Cartridge’s posts all show up in an iframe.
• Despite the privacy option, your folders (regardless of whether you’re sharing anything) have public addresses. (The only security is through obscurity, and the folders have eight-character alphanumeric IDs, so they’re guessable.) Potentially nice for syndicating/sharing feeds, like MultiPLX does, but this really should be opt-in.
• Nobody is on it. Barely marketed, even though they were probably one of the first GReader-style social + RSS readers with their feature set (sharing and comments rolled out in December, though comments are powered by Facebook and are mostly broken). Its founders and engineers are in India, and the language and UX barriers show in places.

Screw it. Everyone else is doing it.

PROS:

• BOOKMARKLET!
• Imports and exports OPML.
• Best solution to the use of wide monitors: a three-pane interface of subscriptions, then item titles, then the full items. All panes are collapsible.
• Extensive keyboard shortcuts, with navigation shortcuts using the GReader/vim-style standard.
• Social first-party sharing with threading comments.
• Comments can be made directly on a sharer’s item, or publicly on any item. Public comments appear everywhere.
• Privacy controls let you limit comments on public shares, or allow only people you approve to see your shared stories at all.
• You can train the reader to “focus” on (promote) shares that match your reading preferences (allegedly; never seen it happen and don’t want/use it).
• Flexible mark-as-read tool lets you mark items older than x days.
• Flexible avatar selection (upload unique to NB or use Gravatar, Twitter, FB).
• Public shares are published to a page with an RSS feed; page can be customzied with colors or custom CSS.
• Interactions list shows social activity at a glance.
• You can view other users’ followers and who they follow. Good for discovery.
• Good community of sharers and commenters.
• Dev is active and listens to feedback.
• Self-supported by paid subscriptions.
• Supports subfolders in feed management.
• In-app email sharing. mailto: links are optionally available as well.

CONS:

• NO SEARCH
• No user-definable tags; the author’s tags come through but are only used for training. You can’t sort or filter by tags.
• Interface is still slower than nearly all other reader webapps. As slow as tOR for me in Chrome and Firefox, sometimes slower.
• Interface uses standard concepts in non-standard ways, and the author is vocal that this is intentional.
  
  Biggest, oldest example: mousing over a folder shows an icon with a triangle pointing right, which replaces the folder to the left of the folder name. Mousing over the triangle points it downward. Clicking it DOES NOT collapse/expand the folder: it pops up a drop-down full of options, and none of them are collapse/expand.
  
  So then how do you collapse/expand the folder? A right-justified plus-sign icon that appears on mouseover, which by reflex makes me think it should actually add a feed to that folder.
  
  So then how do you add a feed to a folder? It’s in that drop-down menu under the collapse/expand psychout arrow! DUH!
  
  This sort of wackiness is all over the interface. Let me know when you need help figuring out why stories are (or aren’t) getting marked as read, aka that stupid triangle floating on the left edge of shares, aka why you have to hit j twice to navigate down past the first item in a feed. Or why you can’t mark all as read while viewing the All Shared Stories feed. Or why you can’t add a comment to an item that was shared without comments.
  
  All of the interface problems predate the May 20 redesign, which was mostly shuffling existing elements and colors around but fixed very little in terms of UX.
  
  
• No anti-troll controls on any commenting (block/ban/hide/mute/moderation)
• Site is not mobile friendly; mobile apps required
• Still the only reader that uniquely can’t handle numerous feeds. Paizo feeds constantly fall over. Comic Book Resources shows each post twice.
• Privacy options don’t allow for friend-of-friend GReader-style discovery.
• Even when you crank the privacy options as far as they go, it’s not clear whether others can still see your recent interactions, followers, and who you follow.
• No third-party sharing options (or if there are, they are buried deep in the interface).
• Only third-party read-it-later option is Evernote, and it’s buried like Hoffa (click a tiny drop-down menu icon that only appears on item title mouseover, then click a small icon on the same row as the Email Story option).
• Feed management is clunky—three to five clicks to move a feed to another folder. No drag-and-drop anything. No ability to organize multiple feeds at once.
• Only the first comment on an item (elsewhere known as the “note”) supports line breaks. Replies to that comment don’t. Why? No reason, it’s just how the input field is designed. Totally arbitrary.
• Use the bookmarklet to embed a YouTube video, then open the BlergBlorg. The embed doesn’t show up. Open another RSS feed reader and subscribe to the BlugBlag’s feed. The embed shows up! NewsBlur can’t render embeds generated by its own bookmarklet.

CON, MAINLY TO FIREHOSE:

• Took VC funding via Y Combinator (startup culture influence).
• S is save, Shift-S is share

As far as I can tell, it’s because:

1. It only searches titles, not the contents of the item.
2. It only searches items on feeds you subscribe to—not items shared by others, or even items you’ve reshared. (Workaround: follow your own share feed.)
3. It doesn’t match partial words. For instance, “Eat” doesn’t match “Eating is great”; only “Eating” returns a match.

PROS:

• truly edge-to-edge list view design. Sidebar collapses completely.
• deals with the narrow-column reading problem nicely: the opened item is lightboxed in a card-shaped box, and you can navigate across items with the arrow keys/previous and next links. (Don’t like it? You can full-screen the reader)
• two list view options: titles and first few words, or titles and first paragraph
• lots of third-party sharing options (Twitter, Facebook, G+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Buffer, even tumblr)
• some third-party read-it-later options (Instapaper, Pocket)
• e-mail sharing built into the app; no mailto: links! It just works.
• subscription bookmarklet
• read items are easy to spot (reduced contrast between item background and text when read)
• pretty comprehensive management of feed categorization
• not only can you import and export OPML, but you can also import and export starred, liked, and shared items in GReader-style JSON Activity Stream format
• there’s one sort of sharing: you can’t share individual items, but you can designate a folder as shared, and that folder has its own RSS feed and embeddable display widgets. Basically, you can use MPLX to syndicate bundles of feeds you’ve curated. GReader had a similar idea (bundles) but didn’t generate RSS feeds of those bundles. 

CONS:

• NO SEARCH
• NO SOCIAL, NO COMMENTS, NO NOTES OR NOTE BOOKMARKLET (but all are on the roadmap; the interface even has a “Shared” category, but all it does now is show shared items you imported from JSON)
• no tags
• if the card display isn’t your thing, tough; there’s no option to view feed items inline in the list view
• can’t seem to scroll within an item using the keyboard, have to use mouse
• slow, slow, slow

NIT PICKING:

• keyboard shortcuts aren’t GReader/vim-style, but left/right arrow keys make a little more sense in the card display concept
• feed categorization is a little clunky, just one big web form
• Gravatars
• it’s clearly built on Bootstrap

PROS:
- no Google account required
- “widgets” view provides a bonus replacement for iGoogle (also graveyarded)
- handles multiple feeds from the same site quite nicely. (CNN shows up as a single feed, but can be expanded into component feeds, like Nation/World/etc.). Probably only works on certain feeds, but still nice.
- clear contrast between read and unread items (contrast between row background and text reduces when read)
- lots of third-party sharing options (FB, Twitter, G+, Buffer, Yammer, HootSuite)
- email sharing straight from the app. No mailto: links! It just works.
- lots of read-it-later options (Pocket, Evernote, Flipboard, Readability)
- GReader/vim-style standard keyboard shortcuts
- free browser-state trial: no account necessary to see how it works with a few default feeds. (To be clear, it’s also free for individual use.)
- interface is somewhat skinnable (colors, backgrounds)
- iGoogle-y modular widget functionality lets you switch between RSS feeds and other sorts of content, like a social aggregator or finance tools or maps or widgets, etc.

CONS:
- NO SEARCH
- NO SOCIAL, NO NOTES OR NOTE BOOKMARKLET, NO COMMENTS
- NO OPML EXPORT
- decidedly geared toward business use, not personal. Analytics package is all about managing your brand onlinzzzzzzzzzzz (paid accounts are $499/month. Yes, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS minus one)
- embeds don’t work; just a still image and a link to click
- slow, slow, slow
- interface is clunky and ugly
- the reader view is clearly the little brother to the iGoogle-style view

Privacy board meets with Obama Washington Post President Obama held his first-ever meeting Friday with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) — the group charged with ensuring that the executive branch balances privacy and civil liberties needs with its national security efforts. The board ... and more »

sketchmocha submitted:

I’ve started a series of Disney Princesses in a more historical outfit, including a some sort of armored outfit. Here is the first, Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, around 1430s armor (mix of Milanese and English). I just happened to finish it today when I saw your post about the “Sexy Disney Princess Warriors". The stupidity of that picture actually inspired this in the first place. Enjoy! 

I love the historical feel to this! And I like that you picked the blue as her color - I always liked Aurora more in that color. (Besides, she wore that the most in the film from the little screentime she had.)

In keeping with the total confounding of expectations that is Disney creating another fairy-tale reimagining in the wake of Alice In Wonderland, Helena Bonham Carter has been cast in Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella as the fairy godmother—the ethereal light to the wicked dark that is Cate Blanchett’s evil stepmother. It’s something of a role reversal for the two actresses that shakes up their usual archetypes, much as this new Cinderella will shake up previous Disney adaptations by being much more dimly lit and expensive. Carter’s name is now added to the rest of the confirmed cast of Lily James and Richard Madden, and the chorus of questions asking when Johnny Depp will be added to this movie already.  

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McDonald's is considering franching restaurants after 70 years of being family owned and operated, the financial sector thinks it's about ready to ruin the world again, and a kidnapping is going pretty smoothly.

Starbucks just announced that it will be raising the price of some beverages in the United States by as much as 10 cents.

The company won’t say which drinks are getting more expensive. In most stores, the prices of grande (medium) and venti (large) brewed coffee will remain the same, Starbucks spokeswoman Jaime Riley told Quartz, implying that tall (small) coffees will be going up. Frappuccinos, the company’s signature blends of espresso, milk, and ice, will be spared from the increase, Riley said.

Starbucks is raising prices even though coffee beans are at their cheapest levels in three years:

JM Smucker and Kraft recently cut prices on their Maxwell House and Folgers brands of coffee beans in response to the global market trends. Even Starbucks lowered the price of its pre-packaged coffee last month.

But Starbucks spokeswoman Lisa Passe said coffee bean prices don’t have a major impact on the company’s beverage pricing:

Coffee commodity prices are only part of our value equation, historically comprising less than 10% of our overall store operating and occupancy expenses (which also include rent, labor, marketing, equipment, materials, distribution, and other commodities associated with beverages, foods, materials and operations).

The price increase will take effect on June 25.

After surprising the Doctor Who fandom (and upstaging Dan Harmon) by announcing he would be leaving the show at the end of this year, Matt Smith has released a thank you message for the show’s cast, crew, and fans.

A possibly sleep-deprived Smith (“it’s late and we’ve just finished a night shoot”) filmed the video in Detroit where he is currently working on the Ryan Gosling-directed How To Catch A Monster. Presumably Smith just watched Love Actually, because his video features word cards that give shout-outs to the crew, his castmates (Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, and Jenna Coleman), showrunner Steven “Moff” Moffatt, and the show’s dedicated fans.

Even without his signature floppy hairstyle, Smith delivers a heartfelt thank you to “Doctor Who land,” explaining, “What makes this job truly spectacular is the fans and the support from the fans. It’s truly unique and it’s ...

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A few days ago, we reported details of the upcoming Ministry album, specifically its terrible title (From Beer To Eternity) and its awful-ish cover art (frontman Al Jourgensen's head on some ripped dude's body, dragging a fishing net full of naked women). We failed to report perhaps the dumbest part of the press release—that Jourgensen's dogs, Ozzy and Lemmy, have been Facebooking on behalf of the band. Well, today those very dogs have reported that after the "excruciating pressure" of our piece, Jourgensen has decided to employ his 12-year-old nephew to change the cover art and the title of the album. It'll henceforth be called Whole Lotta Glove, and the new art looks a bit like Ministry's very first album, the band-disowned With Sympathy. (Thing that is true in the above paragraph: Somebody associated with the band is doing Facebook posts as if they ...

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