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New submitter SoVi3t points out comments from Microsoft Studios Creative Director Adam Orth about the debate over always-online DRM, brought to the fore recently by the disastrous launch of SimCity and rumors that the next-gen Xbox console will require it. "Don't want a gaming console that requires a persistent internet connection? 'Deal with it,' says Microsoft Studio's creative director. In what he later termed a 'fun lunch break,' Orth took to Twitter to express his shock at people who take umbrage with the idea of an always-on console. When quizzed by other Twitter users about people with no internet connection, he suggested that they should get one, as it is 'awesome.' He then likened people who worry about intermittent internet connectivity being an issue as the same as someone not buying a vacuum cleaner because the electricity sometimes goes out. While Orth later apologized, saying it had being a bit of banter with friends, it did raise awareness that there are more than a few people who are very unhappy with the possibility of an always-on future version of the Xbox. Orth has also now switched his Twitter account settings to private."

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Dreamcast bags and 16-bit gear

The 16-bit and Dreamcast tops, along with the oversized Dreamcast backpack (omg at that amazing mural), are headed to Japan from Segakawaii later this month. They’re priced at ¥4,725 ($49) each and ¥13,860 ($144) respectively.

The belt and luggage are both available at the Japanese Sega Store for ¥8,400 ($87) and ¥22,050 ($229) — hat tip to La Repisa Nintendo for posting those. As much as I love all of this, these prices are crazybutts.

BUY: Sega Dreamcast games and hardware, Dreamcast Collection

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Business | Marvel parent Disney is expected to begin layoffs in the coming weeks as part of a planned reorganization that follows a company-wide review of operations. The film studio is believed to undergo the deepest cuts, specifically in marketing, home entertainment and production.

The news arrives a little more than five months after Disney announced its $4.05 billion purchase of Lucasfilm; earlier this week, word spread the media giant has closed LucasArts, the video-game subsidiary of Lucasfilm, and axed 150 employees. According to Variety, Disney executives told each division to ensure “that staff levels are in line with the company’s needs in a changing marketplace, particularly in divisions affected by shifts in new media and technologies.” The film division will bear the brunt of the layoffs in large part because of Disney’s increasing reliance on Pixar (purchased in 2006 for $7.4 billion), Marvel (purchased in 2009 for $4 billion) and, soon, Lucasfilm. [Variety]

Comic Con South Africa

Conventions | Comic Con South Africa sounded good from the press releases, but when reporter Gavin Mannion asked some questions, it all started to unravel: They aren’t affiliated with Comic-Con International, there is no Marvel South Africa (listed as an exhibitor) and it’s taking place in a venue that holds 150 people. [lazygamer.net]

Auctions | One of Canada’s largest comic-book collections, featuring tens of thousands of titles from the 1960s and ’70s, is expected to bring between $200,000 and $300,000 at auction this weekend. [Global News]

Creators | The fund-raiser for a bronze statue of the late Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane in Paradise Valley, Arizona, has met its goal, thanks in part to a single donation of $20,000. [AZ Central]

Retailing | The local newspaper profiles Long Island’s Grashoppers Comics and its owner, John Riley, who has a degree in English as well as an MBA. [The Island Now]

Competitions | Aspiring sci-comics creators alert! The Euro Stem Cells Foundation is running a competition for writers and graphic novel creators on the topic of stem cells and associated research. They are looking for prose, poetry, and comics that can explain the science of stem cells to non-scientists. [Forbidden Planet]

NASA engineer Mark Rober conducted an interesting social experiment evaluating unibrow discrimination. By asking strangers questions in Wal-Mart and various other public places, he determined that unibrow discrimination is a very real thing. Bert, a yellow muppet character from Sesame Street, joined in on the fun and had his iconic unibrow waxed.

This one was pretty fun to film actually. It hit pretty close to home… but it was worth it for the sake of science.

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another random user sends this excerpt from the BBC: "Two film studios have asked Google to take down links to messages sent by them requesting the removal of links connected to film piracy. Google receives 20 million 'takedown' requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, every month. They are all published online. Recent submissions by Fox and Universal Studios include requests for the removal of previous takedown notices. ... By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts. 'It would only take one skilled coder to index the URLs from the DMCA notices in order to create one of the largest pirate search engines available,' wrote Torrent Freak editor Ernesto Van Der Sar on the site."

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In lieu of a list of coffee drinks, this place in in East London opted for ingredient breakdowns.

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BREAKING NEWS: A judge has ordered the FDA to make the morning-after pill available over-the-counter nationwide—no matter how old you are.:

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Previously, the pill required a prescription for girls aged 16 or under. In 2011, Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius made a controversial move, blocking an FDA recommendation that the pill be available over-the-counter to anyone.

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E-Mails per Gitarre schreddern, die Noten werden in Keyboard-Signale umgesetzt. Mir fehlt da ja ein bisschen die Leoparden-Spandex zur Flying-V, aber der Schnurri gleicht das ja auch wieder aus.

WK recently allowed me some time to tackle a problem that plagues workers everywhere whether they are working in advertising or some other job that involves a lot of email typing. I’m talking about the problem of not being able to devote enough time practicing shredding the guitar.

The solution of hooking a guitar up so that you could use it like a computer keyboard had been in my head for a few years and it was a real joy to get to follow through on it.

W+K OPEN SOURCE: BRIDGING THE EMAIL-TYPING/GUITAR-SHREDDING GAP USING TECHNOLOGY (via Waxy)

An anonymous reader writes "Linux developers are now working on open-source 3D support for NVIDIA's Tegra in cooperation with NVIDIA and months after the company published open-source 2D driver code. There are early patches for the Linux kernel along with a Gallium3D driver. The Tegra Gallium3D driver isn't too far along yet but is enough to run Wayland with Weston."

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Space Oddity, 1972

With the recent release of his new album “The Next Day,” legendary musician David Bowie also released a bunch of vintage videos online on Vimeo. They include greatest hits music videos like 1980s “Fashion” and “John I’m Only Dancing” from 1972, as well as a 1973 interview with Bowie by Russell Harty, and lots more. It’s really quite a fun trip down the memory lane of Bowie’s illustrious career.

Fashion, 1980

John I’m Only Dancing, 1972

1973 interview with Bowie by Russell Harty

Heroes, 1977

Let’s Dance, 1983

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Google is fighting back against a National Security Letter, the secretive, controversial data requests from the US government that bypass the court process and come with a gag order. The company has filed papers in a case called In Re Google Inc. Petition to set aside Legal Process; while the documents are sealed, Bloomberg reported on the nature of the filing. No details are currently available on the request itself, but the move is significant — Google would be the most prominent company yet to challenge an NSL.

Google is likely to find a sympathetic ear; the judge assigned to the case is Susan Illston, who last month ruled National Security Letters unconstitutional and ordered the FBI to stop issuing them after a 90-day appeal period. Google recently began volunteering information on the thousands of NSL requests it has received, though the government prevented the company from going into too much detail. NSLs are still technically enforceable until Judge Illston's order comes into effect, but it's unclear to what extent the government is likely to do so.

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Eric Chahi's Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition is available now on Steam for $9.99, with Steam Play functionality across Windows and Mac.

Another World, considered to be one of the medium's best breakouts, is available on iOS, Android and Blackberry 10 in the mobile space. If you'd rather be sitting in front of the computer, you'll also find Eric Chahi's memorable work on the Mac App store and GOG.

Another World opens dimensional rift to Steam originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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More great illustrations from Die Cephalopoden.  You can read the whole thing on archive.org (and if you don’t read German, you have our permission to skip to the pictures).

Illustration by Leanna

When I was 18, I was released from the confines of homeschool into the wide, exciting world of college. I quickly discovered that I was woefully unprepared—not for the academic part, which I knew would be rigorous, but for dealing with all those people. At that point I had never dated anyone. I had never had a beer. I had neither kissed nor been kissed. I had not, for the prior two or three years, even spoken to anyone except when it was absolutely necessary. I’m not blaming home education for my dismal lack of socialization—I know that the normal homeschool experience includes a lot of interaction with the outside world via churches, field trips, volunteering, community theater, and the like—but such was not the case for me. I had used homeschool as an excuse not to interact with anyone outside of my immediate family. I entered college with a nervous desire to make friends, but zero understanding of how that process actually worked.

When you are severely socially stunted, other people can sense it. Not that I made it very hard—I provided lots of clues. There was the wild, deer-in-headlights look on my face when I found myself in a room with more than three other people, and the fact that I didn’t get 98% of people’s pop culture references, and my habit of, after someone told a joke, asking for clarification. At one point someone said they wanted to “take me out,” and I said, “You mean, like, with a gun?” You know: fun, sexy, cool stuff like that.

But despite all this scared, awkward, frankly off-putting behavior, dudes seemed to LOVE me. No, wait—let me be more precise: the worst dudes loved me. Everywhere I turned, there was a 28-year-old pot dealer who lived on his brother’s couch, or a senior who made it his business to nail as many freshman as possible, or, once, during my summer internship, an older man who taught my friend math at community college. They were just popping up, like awful succubi, every 30 seconds, all of them ready to yank the glasses off my face so they could remark on how “pretty” I was underneath them, or to gently brush my horrified face with their creepy pot hands, or just lean in and purr, in “sexy” voices that made them sound like Midwestern Draculas, “You’re great. You’re so innocent.”

First of all: EW. Second: I was not “innocent.” I was a shut-in. Being attracted to me was like wanting to date E.T. And yet, somehow, the precise lack of social skills that made me…challenging, let’s say, to hang out with also apparently made me downright irresistible to a certain type of guy: that kind that is easily intimidated by women who can do scary, threatening things like make eye contact and converse with others out loud. One look at me and these guys may have thought that this E.T.-like creature (So unaccustomed to this modern world! So childlike in her ignorance of our earthly ways!) would be more open to their fumbling, grabby modes of seduction than a reasonably experienced and assertive young woman might be. Other girls would surely tell them to get lost. Me, you probably could have trapped by putting a line of Reese’s Pieces on the floor.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with being innocent. With innocence comes the kind of trust and safety that keeps you open to the world around you. Once you’ve been scuffed up a bit by life it’s hard not to close parts of yourself off as protection; as Danielle argued here, to remain playful and curious is an asset, as well as an act of bravery. There’s also nothing wrong with being called “innocent”—it can be a genuinely appreciative, respectful compliment, meaning someone likes your fresh perspective, and that you don’t have a lot of cynicism and aren’t too quick to insult or dismiss new things. In Zen, this admirable innocence is called “beginner’s mind”: coming at something with complete curiosity and a lack of assumption about what it is or how it should work. Beginner’s mind is supposed to be the quickest route to wisdom.

But it’s amazing how, in a patriarchy, anything—even a genuinely noble virtue—can be used to belittle women. Because when those guys in college leered at me and told me I was “so innocent,” they didn’t mean it as a compliment (I didn’t ask them, but you know it when you hear it). They weren’t attracted to my purity of spirit. My inexperience made me vulnerable, and that can be a siren’s song for anyone (not just guys) who needs to feel stronger than the person they are pursuing. They seemed to sense that they could get away with all sorts of BS with me because I wouldn’t know that I could (and SHOULD) call them out on any of it. For example: TOUCHING MY FACE. WITHOUT MY CONSENT. I must stress: This happened MORE THAN ONCE. Over a decade later, I am NOT DONE being creeped out by this.

There are other words like this: sweet, for example, and pretty. None of those are bad things to be, but somewhere along the line someone decided that these were girly qualities, and if they were associated with girls, they must somehow signify inferiority and weakness. Add to this mix the simultaneous but contradictory fear of women and girls that comes with sexism and you get a culture that fetishizes helplessness in women (because if we think we’re supposed to be weak and helpless, maybe we won’t figure out that we’re not). So “sweet, pretty, and innocent” isn’t just a description; it’s become an order. That’s what girls are supposed to be like.

Starting from the day we’re born, we’re trained to be a certain gender. Right there in the hospital, boy infants are dressed in blue, girls in pink. It’s how we’re identified before we even have an identity. And it only gets more intense from there, as Riley here explains:

Girls get dolls, which you dress up and look at and cuddle and tend to, boys get trucks and guns and other things that act upon the world around them.

The image of girlhood that we’re taught and sold is pink, it’s happy, and it’s nonthreatening. It involves canopy beds and no discernible desires excepting the endless one to please and appease others (especially men), and perhaps occasionally to roll around in a field of flowers, giggling. Now: If someone were to offer me a pink canopy bed I would take it, no questions asked. But actual girlhood (as any girl knows) isn’t really like that. There are sharp angles, corners, and shadows, and to erase those from the picture creates an unrealistic ideal that no real person can ever live up to—plus, it leaves a lot of the interesting stuff out.

So here’s what I propose. Let’s counter that verbal hocus-pocus that turned these strengths into weaknesses with some word-fu of our own. I’m not saying we should leave innocent behind. Or pretty, or sweet. I’m saying let’s add some of those shadows back in, and make those virtues powerful again. Here are some other ways to think of those words—feel free to replace sweet, pretty, and innocent with these alternatives in your head whenever you hear them, or just know that when someone says you seem “so innocent,” they mean you’re learning stuff and that means you’re awesome. Here we go:

Sweet → Compassionate

Again, there’s nothing wrong with being sweet. Like innocence, sweetness can be an admirable quality. When Jane Austen describes someone as having a “sweet disposition,” you like that girl—you get the sense that she’s generally open to life, that she has as generous spirit that isn’t likely to sour under adversity. She’s game. She’s brave. But then you have the diluted-by-patriarchy meaning, which is “nice all the time to everyone ever and everyone likes her the most because she’s never been angry or sad or stressed out or had even a mild headache.” From babyhood, girls are praised for being “sweet” and “pretty,” while boys are more likely to be called “big” or “smart.” (Do people still teach toddlers this nursery rhyme? Let’s get Riley on the case.) And so girls become women who haven’t learned how to do a lot of stuff that’s pretty important in life, because that stuff isn’t “sweet.” It’s not “sweet,” for instance, to tell somebody to back off, or to demand better treatment for yourself. It’s not “sweet” to tell a misinformed blowhard who’s dominating the conversation that he’s wrong. It’s not “sweet” to tell somebody you’re not interested in dating them, or to cut a toxic person out of your life. Later on, it won’t be “sweet” when you ask for a raise at work. It’s not “sweet” to campaign for political office, protest an injustice, or report a sexual assault.

By Jenna Pitcher on Apr 04, 2013 at 11:30p

The MIT Game Lab is hosting a LBGT game jam called Quiltbag Jam on Saturday, April 6, in Boston, according to its official website.

The organization invites people of all persuasions and identities to participate; interested parties don't have to identify as queer to join in. The theme for the Quiltbag Jam is "Gay Planet" and Game Lab offer up Anna Anthropy's Twine game Hunt for the Gay Planet as an example for the theme.

Independent game designer and visual novelist Christine Love will be the event's special guest Jammer. Love's works include Digital: A Love Story, Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story and Analogue: A Hate Story.

Quiltbag Jam Participant tickets for design, programming and art — which includes visual, audio and music — close in under 20 hours, at the time of writing. Those who wish to register for a general Quiltbag Jam Participation ticket have a day to do so.

It is free to register for the event and those who can't make it to Boston are asked to contact the organizers in order to participate remotely. The event's details can be located here.

The MIT Game Lab held its first LGBT game jam last April called Gayme Jam, which produced games such as the card-based title Lesbian Cat Wars.

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400 NYC Fast Food Workers Demand Higher Wages, Stage Largest Walkout in ... Patch.com A group of around 400 New York City fast food workers will hold a one-day strike today at more than 60 McDonald's, Domino's, Taco Bell's and other fast food restaurants, demanding higher wages and the right to form a union, reported The New York Times. Fast-food workers strike, citing low wages: 'It's not enough'NBCNews.com (blog) Fast-Food Workers Plan Second Strike for More PayNew York Times NYC fast-food workers turn up heat in bid for better payToronto Sun The Guardian -UPI.com -The Atlantic Wire all 18 news articles »

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An anonymous reader writes "Scribd has revealed it was hacked earlier this week, in what it says appears to have been 'a deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users.' The good news is that the company believes less than 1 percent of its users were potentially compromised in the attack, and it has emailed each and every one of them asking them to reset their password. The company has set up a Web form for users to check if they are amongst those affected. We recommend that regardless of what the Web form says, and even if you don't use your Scribd account regularly, you should probably change your password."

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Google is announcing some new features to its Drive SDK that take a page out of the iCloud playbook, helping developers use it as a dependable place to store application data, by locking the user out. The first addition, called app data folders, can be used to store files that you would want to hide from the user — things like configuration files or app state data. The user never sees the contents of the folders, only how much data apps are using, and is able to clear it out from The Manage Apps dialog.

Right now, iCloud doesn't provide an equivalent

The second addition is custom properties, which let developers use key-value pairs to store simple data. These keys and values can either be set to private or made publicly visible to other apps on the device. Google gives the example of keeping track of the current status of a document going through a review process — maybe you want to make the word count or last revised date of that document directly available to other apps on the device. Right now, iCloud doesn't provide an equivalent — apps can store key-value pairs, but there’s no way to mark that information public so that it’s visible to other apps on a device.

It’s interesting to see that Google is giving Drive more iCloud-like features, rather than simply keep it a Dropbox-like repository for documents. The company is also stopping short of offering the kind of database syncing that has proved so problematic for Apple, which is interesting to see from Google, since one of the company's great strengths is the robustness of its cloud services. And the Drive SDK differs from iCloud in another important way — they can be used by Android and iOS apps alike.

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Apr 4th 2013 By: Matt D. Wilson

Rather than mess around with selling books individually, independent comics and art-magazine publisher PictureBox is offering an interesting deal for its 2013 offerings: Pay them $300 and get everything they publish. (Link is NSFW.)

Among those offerings? Walrus, a collection of drawings and sketchbook comics from Brandon Graham; an edition of Osamu Tezuka's 1947 graphic novel The Mysterious Underground Men; Seiichi Hayashi's Gold Pollen and Other Stories, a collection of comics from the 1960s; Yuichi Yokoyama's graphic novel World Map Room; a sketchbook collection from Ben Jones; and a considerable amount of nudity. See the full list of what PictureBox is including in its huge package deal so far -- more titles are to come, the publisher promises -- after the jump.

Spring/Summer:

• Ben Jones, Men's Group
• Blutch, So Long, Silver Screen
• The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame
• C.F., MERE
• Sun Ra and Aye Aton, Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972
• Shigeru Sugiura, Last of the Mohicans
• Brandon Graham, Walrus
• Jesse Pearson, ed., Nudity Today
• Chris Martin, Drawings
• Julia Chiang, Coming Together, Coming Apart
• Joe Bradley, Drawings

Fall:

• Diplo and Shane McCauley, Blow Your Head 2: NYC
• Anya Davidson, School Spirits
• Richard Kern, Contact High
• Frank Santor, Pompeii
• Seiichi Hayashi, Gold Pollen and Other Stories
• Yuichi Yokoyama, World Map Room
• Eddie Martinez, Paintings
• Matthew Thurber, INFOMANIACS
• Osamu Tezuka, The Mysterious Underground Men
• Wes Lang monograph

If you can't tell from the titles, publisher Dan Nadel describes this year's PictureBox output thusly:

"When I think of this year of publishing I think of the following words: sex; contemplation; beauty; bite; weed, hilarity; terror; intimidation; inspiration; canon; history; cartography; stupefied; bonafide."

Apr 4th 2013 By: Bethany Fong

Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble) has collaborated with WeLoveFine to guest curate a collection of t-shirts the Marvel Comics superheroes featuring Captain Marvel and Spider-Woman. The showcase includes bright pop art designs and straight-from-the-pages artwork of two of Marvel's favorite heroines. DeConnick will be donating her curation commission to Girls' Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization that seeks "to help foster and give voice to the heroines of tomorrow." Over on her blog, DeConnick said the "Captain Marvel Rising Star" design seen at the bottom of this page is her favorite of the three shirts currently on offer, but that another two designs yet to be revealed are also in her top three choices. Whether those designs will be made available depends on the success of these initial products.

Known in the comics community for her great style, DeConnick has also been posting examples of how women can modify the larger sized mens shirts by cutting them up or otherwise altering them at home to make a more feminine and, if you like, fiercer look. You can see some examples she posted by visiting this page of her Tumblr and clicking forward for more recent posts.

Captain Marvel Pop Art, $25 (also available in men's sizes)

Spider-Woman Sandwich, $25 (also available in men's sizes)

Captain Marvel Rising Star, $25 (also available in men's sizes)

Raven, the studio behind beloved PC games Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, has released the source code for both games - partly in tribute to yesterday's closure of LucasArts and partly to thank fans for playing.

"We loved and appreciated the experience of getting to make Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy for LucasArts," Raven told Kotaku Australia. "As a gift to the persistently loyal fanbase for our Jedi games and in memory of LucasArts, we are releasing the source code for both games for people to enjoy and play with." The source code for each game can be found on Source Forge through the source links below, opening the game up to anxious modders across the galaxy.

Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast launched on the PC in 2002, with ports to Mac OSX, the original Xbox and Nintendo GameCube coming the following year. It's the sequel to 1998's Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, developed by LucasArts for the PC, and revolves around the New Republic that forms after the collapse of the Empire. (Spoiler?)

Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy source code released originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“X-Men Origins: Cyclops Cat” is a short video by California-based filmmaker and artist Kaipo Jones about an out of control cat with powerful laser beam eyes who blasts apart the house that it lives in.

So, the X-Men decided to introduce a new character…

via Minds Delight, Nerdcore

Rdio has announced Vdio, a new video streaming service that allows users to buy and rent movies and television shows. For example, Vdio currently offers recent films like Skyfall, Lincoln, and The Hobbit, and makes television show episodes available the day after they air. Vdio is currently only available on the web and iPad for Rdio Unlimited subscribers in the US and UK, though Rdio has announced plans to expand the service.

image via Vdio

3D Artist Athey Moravetz created a custom series of 3D printed Game of Thrones themed cookie cutters depicting sigils of various houses and character Tyrion Lannister. They are available to purchase at Etsy store, WarpZone.

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Planes is an upcoming animated comedy adventure by Disney that features a plane named Dusty (voice of Dane Cook) who has “dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer.” It arrives in theaters on August 9, 2013 (trailer).

…But Dusty’s not exactly built for racing—and he happens to be afraid of heights. So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator who helps Dusty qualify to take the defending champ of the race circuit. Dusty’s courage is put to the ultimate test as he aims to reach heights he never dreamed possible, giving a spellbound world the inspiration to soar.

image via Disney Planes Facebook page

German designer Karl Lagerfeld has created a line of high heels that sport a sparkly ice cream cone on the back for Brazilian plastic footwear brand Melissa as part of their Fall/Winter 2013 collection. Vogue Italia has more details on Lagerfeld’s design process for the shoes.

image 1 via The Gloss, image 2 via Karl Lagerfeld, image 3 via Vogue Italia

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New Test for Computers - Grading Essays at College Level - NYTimes.com:

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“People are allowed to be obnoxious, and they’re allowed to say crazy things, and that’s fine,” Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told CNN on Tuesday. “But they can’t under Ohio law threaten to kill someone, and we had to take action.”

In one of the tweets, the writer appears to threaten to kill the girl at the center of the rape case. Another warns that she will be beaten.

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- More social media trouble in Steubenville - CNN.com

We are beyond excited for Kimberly Peirce's Carrie remake, which promises to be much truer to the original book by Stephen King. This trailer contains the first actual footage we've been able to see, and we can already tell this is going to be a much larger scale production.

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