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We Ask Dane Cook The Secret Of His Success Because That's The Assignment And We Have To Eat

“This isn’t your f!%cking living room.”

To thwart talking or texting during their movies, Austin-based cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse enlisted the help of Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in their profanity-filled PSA “Don’t Talk.”

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A sleepy cat really doesn’t want to leave the comfort of its warm bath in this cute video uploaded by timecook.

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The fascinating short documentary “Poynton Regenerated” by Martin Cassini tells the tale of Poynton, a small English village that removed the traffic lights, signs, and sidewalks from its busiest central intersection last year in an effort to revitalize its town square and alleviate traffic. The project is an example of the shared space street design concept, and while it may sound like chaos, it works remarkably well (see the before and after footage in the documentary). The redesign was the work of road designer Ben Hamilton-Baillie. For more on Poynton’s revitalization, see this article on The Atlantic Cities.

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Snow White Robbery — at Tranebergsbron, Kristineberg, Stockholm.


Sleeping Beauty under the Bridge


Cinderella — at Tvärbanebron, Minneberg, Stockholm.

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Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella by Herr Nilsson in Stockholm, Sweden.

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This week brings the App Store release of Marbly, an iOS puzzle game designed by famed Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov.

Marbly is a match-three puzzler in which the object is to remove all marbles from the game board in as few moves as possible. The game includes over 180 puzzles across three gameplay modes, and offers Game Center achievements and leaderboards.

Marbly is developed by WildSnake Software, itself named after another Pajitnov creation. WildSnake notes that Marbly is the first game in a series of planned mobile app collaborations with Pajitnov.

Tetris creator debuts iOS puzzler Marbly originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 31 May 2013 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“The pose that says, ‘Hey, look at me. I’m featured on the front of my local newspaper.’”

Journalist Jeremy Barr has started Local People With Their Arms Crossed, a Tumblr blog of people (often smugly) posing with their arms crossed on the front page of their hometown newspaper. Barr told Poynter, “I love simple Tumblrs, and I think local newspapers are a national treasure in more ways than people realize. I was looking through front pages with another idea in mind and noticed this pose in a few papers around the country. It’s such a silly pose, and it connotes so much. So, I thought it might be fun to see if I could compile these poses. Fortunately there’s been a steady stream of them since I started this at the beginning of the month. I thought it was funny, and I hoped people would agree.”

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Before you head out for a bike ride across town or around the park, make sure it's safe and functioning properly with this pre-ride checklist.

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Pretty wild, right? It's a map of Pangea — a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago — mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.

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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team’s Japanese boxart

Love this cover — fans of the series will recognize the theme from the RPG series’ first and third boxes. I wonder if the North American packaging will keep the nose bubble since that trope doesn’t really exist outside of Japan.

PREORDER Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, upcoming games

Seeing strange things on Google Street View is nothing new. But we may have hit a new, depressing low.

With the more and more people working in the food service sector, we need to think about its economics more seriously.

Having spent years on a buying-spree, offering cash and digitization services to once-dominant newspapers in exchange for their prints, the Rogers Photo Archive has amassed tens of millions of photographs, pulling in a healthy profit by putting a couple million of those images up for sale via various eBay stores.

The 26-year-old Dutchman and suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance—now serving time for the murder of a Peruvian girl—is set to marry, his lawyer confirms.

Connected Data (makers of the Transporter backup drive) are merging with Drobo. Hopefully this is good news, but I kind of prefer it when companies compete.

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Broquet is a San Francisco-based online store that sells gift packages tailored to the modern manly man (“broquet” as in “bouquet,” get it?) The packages are themed around manly things like shaving, chopping wood, and marshmallows.

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An anonymous reader writes "Asteroid 1998 QE2 has an estimated diameter of 2.7 km. This asteroid will have a close approach with Earth at about 15.2 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.0392 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 2059 UT on 2013 May 31 and it will reach the peak magnitude ~10.8 on May 31 around 2300 UT." Radar images of the asteroid taken Wednesday show that 1998 QE2 has its own tiny moon, about 600 meters wide. Phil Plait explained how the images were taken, and what further information we gleaned from them. 'The very presence of the moon is a good thing. By measuring how long it takes to go around the primary, the mass of the primary can be found using math known for centuries (the more massive the big asteroid, the faster the moon will go around it at a given distance). We also know the size of the primary, so that means we can find its density, and therefore what it’s made of (probably mostly rock).'

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Motivational poster:

Female Armor can look just like male armor. What matters is protection. (And yes, there’s a woman in there.)

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