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Gezi Park, na Praça Taksim, em Istambul, já tem uma biblioteca pública, improvisada pelos manifestantes que há vários dias ocupam as ruas lutando por direitos e liberdades.

The One In The Bow Tie 1.

John Glenn and the Mercury astronauts.

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Arthur Sarnoff

The ‘D’ in ‘D-Day’ stands for ‘Day’, June 6, 1944

Mojang has released an update for the iOS and Android versions of Minecraft: Pocket Edition, adding preliminary support for the online cooperative Realms mode.

Realms mode supports online play for up to 10 simultaneous players within a single world, allowing friends to collaborate on projects and/or raise havoc together. The alpha version of Realms is currently free, and will be an optional paid service in future updates.

The latest Pocket Edition update also adds features such as buckets, eggs, milk, cake and fire to the game, making it important to keep an eye out for pyromaniacs among your online guests. Maybe they'll play nice if you bake them all cakes beforehand? Just an idea.

Minecraft: Pocket Edition updated with alpha Realms support originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Shaquille O'Neal's licensing company, Mine O' Mine, registered four gaming-centric trademarks for "Shaq Fu" on May 31, following the company's trademark for "Shaqfighter" earlier that month. The Shaq Fu trademarks cover the gamut of electronic software and related goods, including "action skill games," bobble-head dolls, television programs and printed materials.

Shaq Fu already exists as that 2D fighting game from 1994 - but we'd be just fine forgetting that one completely and starting fresh with whatever Mine O' Mine has planned.

'Shaq Fu' trademarks join Shaquille O'Neal's 'Shaqfighter' originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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"Multiple times since being in office he has gotten emails from women (who may not even be real) inviting him to explore, also sending pictures of themselves. NO MORE!!!," McGill wrote. "We have children that look at our face books from time to time! Shame on you!"

yet another unrealistic standard for women

The proper way to handle spiders

The Garry's Mod sandbox physics mod game powered by the Source Engine is now running well natively on Linux...

"Moreover, this wealthiest of all wealthy nations has been steadily falling behind many other nations of the world. Consider just a few wake-up-call facts from a long and dreary list: The United States now ranks lowest or close to lowest among advanced “affluent” nations in connection with inequality (21st out of 21), poverty (21st out of 21), life expectancy (21st out of 21), infant mortality (21st out of 21), mental health (18th out of 20), obesity (18th out of 18), public spending on social programs as a percentage of GDP (19th out of 21), maternity leave (21st out of 21), paid annual leave (20th out of 20), the “material well-being of children” (19th out of 21), and overall environmental performance (21st out of 21)."

I've not read the book and can't vouce for the source or validity of the data*.  But it's food for thought.  Via Reddit.

*"The book itself was probably sparked by Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries which was a joint effort between the Committee on Population in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council and the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice in the Institute of Medicine. The study was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

For the last month or so photographer Yume Cyan has been shooting some magical long exposure photographs of fireflies in a forested area around Nagoya City, Japan. By keeping the camera’s shutter open at a low aperture Cyan captures every bioluminescent flash of each insect resulting in dotted light trails that criss-cross the frame. You may remember a similar series of photographs also shot in Japan from back in 2011. You can see these a bit larger over on 500px.

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~ Perfect Etiquette; or, How to Behave in Society, James T. Kernan, 1877
via internet archive

don’t lacerate me, bro…

Hollywood special effects artist Kazuhiro Tsuji has made “Portrait of Lincoln,” a hyper-realistic bust of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. It was recently part of CoproGallery’s Conjoined III: The Final Chapter group art exhibition and is now on display, until September 30, 2013, as part of the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library in Simi Valley, California.

via David Giraud, Kotaku

 

James R. Hunt ripping up the basket, Daniel Boone style!!!!

David Neptune and Ken Tanaka recently directed a sketch comedy video titled “What Kind of Asian Are You?” which poked fun at racists. The video’s actors, Scott Beehner and Stella Choe, have now put together a great video where they read racist (and other) comments left on the video’s YouTube page.

Original video:

Bonus bloopers video:

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The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

For their Say It With Bacon campaign, Oscar Mayer is selling bacon gift sets for “when words aren’t enough.” There are three different sets in the collection: The Commander (includes a money clip), The Woodsman (includes a rugged multi-tool), and The Matador (includes bacon-y cufflinks). All are available to purchase online.

via swissmiss

An installer has come about to easily install Fedora 19 for ARM on the unlocked Google Nexus 4 smart-phone...

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Brainsiege (by FineLeatherJackets)

FLJ is fuckin wit us

Freakonomics hosted a podcast this week where authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt explore whether tipping should be banned. Dubner says:

Tipping is an idea that economists, traditionally, have a hard time with. Why should I give more of my money to someone else on top of what I’ve already paid for a meal or a ride to the airport? And what is a tip exactly, a fee? A tax? Is it altruism?

But there’s another (fundamentally economic) reason the podcast failed to touch upon: It’s built into the pay of certain professions. So a tip credit for restaurant workers, for example, factors into the way their wage is calculated. Instead of paying the current federal minimum wage, which is $7.25, restaurants can pay a minimum of $2.13 as long as tips make up the difference.

And it’s becoming a more entrenched part of the US economy. In the US, tipping is most prevalent in 31 professions, compared to 15 in the Netherlands, four in Japan and none in Iceland. A study from PayScale finds that tipping rose 2% in 2012 over the previous year. Gaming dealers, waiters, and bartenders rely on tips for more than 50% of their salaries. In a slow economy, these workers suffer when, say, cuts in hotel rates bring in a clientele who tip less. Or when airlines’ bag fees prompt travelers to pack less and forgo the skycap or bellhop. The move away from cash and toward electronic payment options is also cutting into tips. The tipping system means that a whole cohort of worker’s wages are directly dependent on a consumer who’s only guided by his ethical code and his wallet. Many states have raised their minimum wage above the federal limit to make up for this shortfall.

In fact, tipping originated as a form of trickle-down economics in the 1600s, where wealthy classes could pass on their wealth, according to an excerpt from Keep the Change, a 2010 book by waiter and blogger Steve Dublanica. What began as a reward for exceptional service became expected from servants in a system of “vails,” which morphed into tips when industrialization brought lower-class workers to jobs in hospitality and transportation. Dublanica writes:

But we also have to remember that post–Civil War America rapidly became a major industrial and economic world power. And as its citizens began earning higher wages, just like their European counterparts, they suddenly had more discretionary income to spend at hotels, in restaurants, and in the new railroad system crisscrossing the United States. But it was when employers discovered that they could use gratuities to pay their workers lower or even no wages at all that tipping really took off.

According to 2010 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, restaurant workers, cab drivers, casino game dealers, bartenders and maids account for more than 6 million workers, representing a fraction of the countless laborers who rely on tips. Meanwhile, food services and hospitality are industries that continue to add jobs.

While raising minimum wage might not be the answer, perhaps it’s time to rethink this feudal holdover in our labor market.

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gothiccharmschool:

I need to remember this video the next time I’m feeling low. Bouncing otters! 

thesongswish:

no one is allowed to be sad today.

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