readytopanic:

Ahh look it’s my home

taranamgabata:

did u know, there’s this small rural town in japan called obama.
so there’s this girl in a 2007 drama who moved from the city to obama.
and she hates it at first and blames the town for her misery.
i kid u not. didn’t make this shit up.

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PROS:
- TAGGING!
- GReader/vim-style keyboard shortcuts with pop-up reference
- very readable interface
- interface has four modes, including a GReader-cloning list view. All but magazine view look good; the list view is built for widescreen monitors, even rewarding them with a nice animation as it widens the viewport
- list view lets you save-for-later and share without reading the item, like they had firehose in mind or some shit
- interface is _fast_. Loading items is fast. Scrolling and reading is fast. Embeds are fast. Chrome, Firefox, doesn’t matter. Fastest webapp RSS reader I’ve used.
- you can “Mark As Read” all, older than one day, or older than one week
- tons of third-party sharing options: G+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Buffer
- tons of read-it-later options: Evernote, Instapaper, Pocket, Del.icio.us
- interface is slightly responsive; sidebar collapses on narrow browsers
- you can out-and-out remove an item from a feed. you know, like when it’s a giant photo of a fucking spider and you die inside
- “Feedly can curate and feature articles based on how popular they are on Google+ and Facebook.”
- already localized in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
- handles right-to-left feeds just fine
- newbie friendly subscription does a good job finding feeds. It even does keyword searches and sorts the results by the number of subscribers!

CONS:
- NO FUCKING SEARCH
- REQUIRES GOOGLE ACCOUNT FOR AUTH
- NO OPML IMPORT OR EXPORT. NO IMPORT FROM NON-GREADER, NO ESCAPE.
- NO FEED-BASED SHARING, COMMENTS, OR SOCIAL. FB/TWIT OR GTFO
- that sexy animation in list view that widens the viewport? all flash, no pan; open an item and we’re back to chunks of wasted white space and tiny images
- text inside items gets washed out
- you can filter to show unread only, but if you remove that filter to show all, there is NO CONTRAST between read and unread items. It just shows all items in the feed, and they all look the same regardless of state.
- magazine view runs 646px wide on all screens. Come on, son
- there doesn’t appear to be a way to delete tags from the sidebar. If you delete the tag from all tagged items, it’s still there on the sidebar. I’ll forever have a tag named “TAGGING YAYA”

NIT PICKING:
- neon green-on-white links are hard to read, but you can thankfully change this in preferences
- interface has “themes” but they only change a few colors around, and all of their link color choices are painful (artificially colored popsicle blue! desaturated green! neon green! low-contrast gray! wheat! GFY!)

COULD GO EITHER WAY:
- stars are gone in favor of a generic “Saved For Later”
- Pinterest integration. YUM
- when you select text in an item, a context menu pops up offering to let you tweet the selection, google it, or translate it. Doesn’t interfere with right-click context menus.

I just went down a baby name rabbit hole after reading the Gawker post about how North West really wasn't that terrible of a name. I didn't realize that Madison became a popular name specifically because of Splash but it makes total sense since it didn't really exist as a first name before 1985.

Then I found a blog post proclaiming that there were 146 baby girls named Khaleesi in the United States. One hundred and forty-six children named Khaleesi . For me, Arya or Sansa or even Cersei is one thing. They're names, not honorifics. But Khaleesi. I don't know about that.

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You might think that states with the heaviest drinking rates also have the highest rates of fatal car accidents. But, that’s not the case.

There's just one week and a half and Google Reader will be history. If you're using the service, it's a good idea to export your data and switch to a different service. You can choose from Feedly, The Old Reader, MultiPLX, NewsBlur, Feedspot, Netvibes. I haven't decided which one I'll use, but Feedly is a strong contender.

Feedly is probably the service that will benefit the most from Google Reader's demise. It grew from 4 million users to 12 million users in only 3 months and that's impressive. The service was just a Google Reader client, an alternate interface for Google Reader that gained a foothold on mobile.

Feedly has recently started to migrate users from Google's backend to its own backend, while preserving most of their data. Feedly Cloud was built in record time and it's now a scalable infrastructure for Feedly that can also be used by other apps that were powered by the unofficial Google Reader API. There are 9 apps that use it, including gReader, Newsify and Sprout Social. If you don't like the mobile apps or the browser extensions, there's now a Feedly web app that's optimized for the desktop and replaces extensions. It's hard to morph from a client to a platforms in a few months.



I'll miss Google Reader, like many other power users. Unfortunately for us, Google is not the right company for niche services. Google wants to create products that are used by hundreds of million of users and Google Reader wasn't one of them. Feedly and other similar services will have to find a business model for something that's no longer cool, no longer supported by many browsers, no longer supported by Twitter (other sites to follow). For many people, social sites offer better value than feed readers and not even Google could change that.

"As a culture we have moved into a realm where the consumption of news is a near-constant process. Users with smartphones and tablets are consuming news in bits and bites throughout the course of the day — replacing the old standard behaviors of news consumption over breakfast along with a leisurely read at the end of the day. (...) Google is looking at pervasive means to surface news across products to address each user's interest with the right information at the right time via the most appropriate means," said Richard Gingras, Senior Director, News & Social Products at Google.

So what will you use instead of Google Reader?

Google: "Eh, we're kind of over this Reader thing. Let's go launch some balloons."

AOL: "Why, thanks guys -- don't mind if we do!"

The above mentioned quotes are still unofficial, mind you, but it appears that AOL (disclaimer: that's Engadget's parent company) is joining Feedly and Digg in an effort to capture the audiences who will soon be forced to flee from Google's Reader product. AOL Reader launched today in beta form, promising to collect "all your favorite websites, in one place." It appears that the design language follows that introduced in the entity's Alto mail product, and if you've forgotten your AOL password, fret not -- those who request (and receive) an invite will be able to sign in via Facebook, Google or Twitter. Oh, and judging by the shot above, it's designed to work universally across screen sizes and devices, including your tablets, phones, desktops, laptops and space-age computational creations. Of note, it appears that the sign-up forms aren't entirely active just yet, as we're hearing that the bona fide launch won't occur until next week.

Update: We've confirmed that invites will be accepted starting on Monday, June 24th.

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THIS WEEKEND’S WhiskeyFest Northwest is exactly what Portland’s craft distilling industry needs: an opportunity for local distillers to go up against the standard bearers of the industry. As a community, our purveyors can no longer lean on the crutch that they are a fledgling industry, and therefore deserving of slack. Most of our recognizable names have been at it for almost a decade now, and should be turning out a product that can stand on its own merits. As they move from infancy into adolescence, it’s a great time to check their progress.

No less than eight local products—such as Bull Run Distilling’s Temperance Trader Straight bourbon and Eastside Distilling’s Burnside bourbon—will get a chance to stand side-by-side with such stalwarts as Wild Turkey and Buffalo Trace. With over 60 labels duking it out in every major category of whiskey (straight, bourbon, Scotch, Irish, Canadian), it’s a rarely seen spectrum for comparison.

First, a note about provenance. Leaps and bounds have been made locally (and across the country in general) to be more transparent about where these spirits are actually made. The distinction between someone simply buying unbranded bulk distillate from a major distillery, and someone who is distilling from grain at their distillery, has become a contentious issue, and it’s something to note when examining our various young whiskeys.

From the day you pull the first run off your shiny, brand-new still, it is a dead minimum of two years (most bourbons are four-plus years) before you can pull it out of the barrel and sell it as “straight whiskey.” With that in mind, it’s understandable (and financially critical) that start-ups choose to bottle something made and aged by another distillery in the interim. I highly doubt any drinkers have a problem with this, though I do find it distasteful when someone tries to obfuscate the origins of the juice. This brings me to the good and the bad, with my own tasting notes on each.

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THE GOOD.

Bull Run Distilling laid down their whiskey over a year ago, and then went about finding a bourbon that they loved to bottle as a stopgap (read: how they keep the lights on until 2015 when their whiskey is ready). Their Temperance Trader label also has full disclosure that they did not make the base spirit. Flavor-wise, it’s for the Knob Creek drinker who’s looking for something new. High rye content lends some spice to pair with the caramel and sweet toffee notes. Recommended.

Big Bottom Whiskey out of Hillsboro makes no bones about not being a distiller. They market themselves as a “premier independent bottler of whiskeys,” and as such set themselves up much more truthfully. Their value-add is in taking bourbons and whiskeys and “finishing” (aging) them in various types of casks to impart nuance. In general, their whiskeys have a round mouthfeel and just the right amount of heat (all bottled at 91 proof) to deliver the aromas that the individual cask agings impart. Recommended.

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THE BAD.

Snake River Stampede: A Canadian whisky that has a small amount of sherry added. They never acknowledge whether or not they produce the base whisky and it’s almost impossible to tell if they’re even the ones that add the sherry. The result is—ta-dah—a mellow one-note Canadian whisky with added sweetness. Recommended for Crown Royal drinkers only.

Hood River Distillers: Now, no one is going to come along and purport that Hood River Distillers is remotely a craft distillery, but their Pendleton 1910 Canadian whisky is nice, with sweet caramel and Christmas spice flavors. Recommended. The standard Pendleton itself has very little wood flavor under the low rye mash bill, with toasted corn and burnt toffee notes. Not recommended.

Then there are conundrums, such as Ransom Spirits. Ransom for the most part does an extremely good job with their products, like their fantastic Old Tom gin, Small’s gin, and ethereal Gewürztraminer grappa. Then along comes their WhipperSnapper whiskey and all that previous dedication is seemingly thrown out the window, replaced with a slapdash mix of barrels and aging lengths, and then partially mixed with white dog (unaged whiskey) they buy from somewhere in Kentucky. The result is a young, hot spirit with slight sandalwood and brown sugar notes. Not recommended.

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- Are Local Whiskey Distillers Ready for Prime Time? | Lush LIfe | Portland Mercury (via saucieshares)

Calgary, Canada's third-largest city, has begun evacuating 75,000 residents from two dozen downtown neighborhoods as water levels in the Bow River continue to rise.

Rivers in southern Alberta have been flooding all week, and schools in Calgary, population 1.1 million, were closed on Friday as a precaution. As water crept into the central business district this morning, many buildings were put under mandatory evacuation order.

"I have never seen the river rise that high or that fast," Mayor Naheed Nenshi told Global News. He estimated the Bow was carrying three times as much water as in 2005, when flooding washed away roads and produced the province's most costly natural disaster ever.

Via Global News livestream.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on his way to the city, as are 600 soldiers to assist in flooded areas. The zoo has been completely submerged, with lions and tigers apparently evacuated to holding pens in the courthouse.

Calgary lies at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers. Over 6 inches of rain have fallen in the last 48 hours, and more is forecast for this evening.

Photos by Todd Korol/Reuters.

The other night I found myself spending my only night off all week at The Rookery, the upstairs bar at The Raven and Rose in the old Ladd Carriage House. The Rookery is in what used to be the hayloft, a hundred years and change ago. The space is similar to the R&R downstairs - that is, it looks like somebody just recently sunk a bunch of money into renovating a barn. It's the shape of a barn, but with the decor of a new downtown restaurant. Or like a semi-swanky condo or something. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a bar: the lighting is right, there's leather sofas, a pool table, a beautiful bar built for displaying the ogle-able array of bottles, live music on Wednesdays... It just doesn't exactly feel lived-in yet.

But you can forgive that slightly off-putting newness once you check out the cocktail list. I had a Daddy Issues, because it's both a drink and a reason to drink. Hot Monkey chili vodka, Vin de Peche (not, as I thought, a wine infused with peach leaf, but basically a peach liqueur - the bartender and I looked up what I was thinking of and couldn't figure out the history or where I'd heard of it, but we agreed I was obnoxious), lemon, honey, Bednedictine liqueur, and egg white. Honestly, it was hot and spicy enough on the front that I thought I wouldn't taste anything after it. But that heat gave way to the juicy peach and slight spice of benedictine, with a beautiful color and creamy texture from the egg white. A really good, gorgeous cocktail. (I tried to get a picture, but all I had was my phone and I decided the NSA didn't need to know what an alcoholic I am.)

The star for me, however, was a beer cocktail called Panache. This one's made with St. Germain elderflower liqueur (delicious), Byrrh Quinquina (bitter and dry), and lemon juice, then topped off with ice and whatever farmhouse ale happens to be on the Rookery's not huge, but exceptionally well-thought-out draft list. I lucked out and got my Panache hooked up with Logsdon Farmhouse Ales' Seizoen Bretta, a grassy, rustic farmhouse fermented with two strains of brettanomyces yeast for a dry, slightly fruity and tart finish. It was basically the perfect beer for this cocktail. I recommend you run there, now, and see if it's still on tap.

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Where the world's rich live

LAST year 12m people in the world had $1m or more in investible assets. That is 1m more “high-net-worth individuals” than in 2011. See full article. 

The 2013 Rigsketball tournament is upon us, and 32 local bands will compete for dominance over a basketball hoop bolted to the back of a van.

It's already become a sort of Portland tradition, started a few years ago by And And And's Bim Ditson. And now all the tourney info is available, including the locations of all the games, the details of a compilation tape of competing bands, and the tournament finals, which includes a free show at Holocene.

I'll post all the bands on this year's roster after the jump—there's 32 of them, and all together they make up a kind of oversized class photo of the Portland music scene circa 2013. You can also go over to the comprehensive Rigsketball site, and find a bracket, music from all the bands, videos of prior games, and a lot more. The tournament begins at this year's PDX Pop Now! festival on July 19-21 at SE Water and Taylor. Round two will follow at 4-8 pm on July 22 at Club 21 and 4-8 pm on July 23 at SE MLK and Taylor.

But best of all, the semifinals and finals take place Wednesday, July 24 outside of Holocene, block party style, at 6 pm (finals at 7:30 pm), and at the stroke of 8:20, everyone will go inside for the show. Heres who's performing: The Woolen Men, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Minden (celebrating their EP release), Grandparents, Gaytheist, the We Shared Milk, and Mister Tang. That's a fantastic bill—and it's totally free.

All the info's over at Rigsketball.com.

THE ROSTER!

Fanno Creek
Sorta Ultra
Mister Tang
The Morals
The Ex-Girlfriends Club
Eidolons
Rio Grands
TxE
Charts
And And And
Skip Roxy
Brownish Black
Otis Heat
Animal Eyes
Trick Sensei
Aan
Hustle and Drone
DoublePlusGood
Vultures In The Sky
Con Bro Chill
Ed & The Red Reds
Typhoon
Bevelers
The We Shared Milk
The Hague
wooden indian burial ground
Suicide Notes
Mannequinhead
A Happy Death
Soul Ipsum
Souvenir Driver
Thanks

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EAST LANSING, MI—According to a report published Wednesday by researchers at Michigan State University, staying past the fifth inning of 83 percent of baseball games is usually pretty pointless.

"Templar" creators Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham & Alex Puvilland talk to CBR News about their nearly five hundred-page Medieval adventure-heist and its five year journey to completion.

The Halo series' current Reclaimer Trilogy is now a "saga," a Microsoft representative confirmed with GameSpot during E3.

"While we originally said trilogy, we've actually expanded this to more of a saga, so we don't want to limit the Reclaimer story within a trilogy," the representative explained. The Reclaimer Trilogy was originally set to span from 2012's Halo 4 through the eventual Halo 6.

Xbox head Don Mattrick recently referred to the franchise's E3 showing as "Halo 5." Speaking with GameSpot, Microsoft Game Studios corporate VP Phil Spencer declined to say whether the next Halo game will be a fully fledged sequel or a spinoff in the vein of Halo: Reach.

"It is the next Halo game that we are working on," Spencer told GameSpot. "We will talk more about actually the story arc in the game and how it plays out; we've got more time to talk about that." Whether the next game is Halo 5 or something else, Spencer did note that it will be "a legitimate version of Halo."

Current Halo trilogy is now a 'saga' originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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nevver:

Her name is Rio

Big news on the local film front: Cinema 21 is expanding! The theater has taken over a next-door space (formerly a realty office) and construction is currently underway on two new auditoriums, one a 50 seater, the other 80. Both will have digital screens; the main auditorium will not be altered, noted owner Tom Ranieri in an email, and will continue to screen both digital and 35mm presentations.

"Adding the two new screens will provide us with the programming flexibility we've always desired," writes Ranieri. "We will be able to hold popular movies much longer than we do now, which is something that makes film distributors happy; at the same time, with additional screens we can go after movies that we used to pass on because our only screen was occupied. Because our main auditorium is so large (well over 500 seats) we plan to expand the range of film we play to include the so-called 'crossover' titles that surface typically during the holiday and awards season and will benefit from our large capacity. This project will simply make us more competitive."

Read: They'll be able to make money off of popular movies in the big theater, while still showing cool indie stuff in the smaller ones.

Additionally, Cinema 21 will finally supply the variable they've been missing in the beer/cheep movie equation by adding Escape from New York pizza to their menu. I feel strongly that this is the greatest thing that has ever happened in the history of Portland's cinema culture.

They're also adding new bathrooms (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amirite ladies) and a new concessions counter, promising more food and drink options. The new auditoriums are scheduled to open in late August.

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leupagus:

zooophagous:

interretialia:

Ancient Roman Dogtag,

Inscription Reads: “Hold me if I am lost and return me to my master Viventius on the estate of Callistus”

~~~

TENE ME NE
FVGIA[M] ET REVO
CA ME AD DOM[I]NVM
EV VIVENTIVM IN
AR[E]A CALLISTI

Adorable ancient history

YES.

slavesnake:

Britney Spears blessing a paparazzi and forgiving him of his sins.

We understand the concept [Jean] used to create a 3D scan of his face, but the particulars are a bit beyond our own experience. He is not using a dark room and laser line to capture slices which can be reassembled later. Nope, this approach uses pictures taken with several different focal lengths.

The idea is to process the photos using luminance. It looks at a pixel and it’s neighbors, subtracting the luminance and summing the absolute values to estimate how well that pixel is in focus. Apparently if you do this with the entire image, and a set of other images taken from the same vantage point with different focal lengths, you end up with a depth map of pixels.

What we find most interesting about this is the resulting pixels retain their original color values. So after removing the cruft you get a 3D scan that is still in full color.

If you want to learn more about laser-based 3D scanning check out this project.

[Thanks Luca]

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“AMMO” is a photo series of some 900 pieces of ammunition that have been neatly cut in half to reveal their surprisingly varied and intricate contents. Photographer Sabine Pearlman shot the series last year in a WWII-era bunker in Switzerland.

I was originally intrigued by the ambiguous nature of the subject matter. The cross-sections reveal a hidden complexity and beauty of form, which stands in vast contrast to the destructive purpose of the object. It is a representation of the evil and the beautiful, a reflection of the human condition.

via Lens Culture, Exhibition-ism, Installation Magazine, Junk Culture