Backup your gmail account in Linux/Unix or Mac OS X using getmail | Super Nerdy Cool - My (technical) adventures through the professional world…:

covers installing and configuring getmail on OS X and Debian/Ubuntu; getmail is also available for Cygwin and I’ll bet config and usage is the same

Boxing fans: Don't you just hate it when your local bar shows the big fight? Don't you wish you could help shut them down? If so, there's a job opening for you.

You know the sound. The booming duuhhnnn from 2010’s Inception has found its way into practically every action movie trailer of the past two years, but what is its place in the broader continuum of trailer tropes? Writing for The New Yorker, Ian Crouch traces back the droning note’s origins, pinning it to musician Mike Zarin, before exploring its role in modern cinema. Crouch writes that today's popcorn movies, with their "pretensions to deep-thinking" and "geopolitical conflicts that attempt to mirror the fragmented realities of the War on Terror world" require a more sombre trailer treatment than the "slick, soulless marketing and high-frequency synthesizers" of the 80s and 90s.

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Gothamist discovered that Rocky McBride’s, a bar in New York City’s Astoria neighborhood, is offering an Easter-themed ‘Peeptini’ martini all this weekend. They report, “The Peeptinis were invented by head bartender/manager Jenna Mascetti, and they’re made with whipped vodka, Godiva white chocolate liqueur, a splash of cream and a dash of grenadine to give them that vibrant red color; Mascetti rims the glasses with red sugar, and adds a little Peep for garnish. These little goblets of glucose are only available this weekend…”

photo by Jenna Mascetti via Gothamist

MarkWhittington writes "Included in President Obama's 2014 budget request will be a $100 million line item for NASA for a mission to capture and bring an asteroid to a high orbit around the moon where it will be explored by astronauts. Whether the $2.6 billion mission is a replacement or a supplement to the president's planned human mission to an asteroid is unclear. The proposal was first developed by the Keck Institite in April, 2012 and has achieved new impetus due to the meteor incident over Russia and new fears of killer asteroids."

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By Craig Pearson on March 29th, 2013 at 9:00 pm.

Jim and Adam have written words about Planet Explorers, a sort of MMO voxel-based construction game that’s free to download right now. The reason I am returning to the game is the developer of this oddball mix of Spore, WoW, and Minecraft has just released a video showing their commitment to user-created content. It’s a sci-fi fantasy world with giant, stalking deathbeasts, shiny spaceships, and laser blasters, so naturally you’d expect to see Arrested Development’s Stair Car roaming the lands.

Ah, modders. Give someone an SDK and you can be sure that they’ll take your lore, open up a rift to another universe, and make things touch that were never, ever meant to touch. Planet Explorer’s tools allow you to make a wide-range of things: you can build your own weapons, design your own bases, and as this video shows, the vehicles.

Want to know how they did it? Look here.

I actually played this way before the other two got excited about it, but it was so early there was nothing to do or see. Now it’s full of things and I feel like a fool.

Sunrise Photos Taken From Same Spot For a Year by Robert Weingarten via MMM

Over the course of one year, photographer Robert Weingarten took a picture of the sky, sea, and city from the same position overlooking Santa Monica Bay at 6:30 AM. The aptly titled 6:30 AM Series strictly uses only one aperture size (f/22), image size (2 1/4 in.2), and lens (350mm) in addition to the fixed position and time of day. However, the diligent photographer has allowanced himself two variables in the year-long project: the shutter speed of the lens and the unpredictability of the weather.

From January 1st to December 31st of 2003, Weingarten vowed to snap the scenic shots on any days he was home, in accordance with renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s proclamation that a photographer need not travel anywhere to capture an image. Feeling inspired by this notion that one can stay close to home and still churn out stunning images, Weingarten began his project which has produced some truly artistic results.

One of the nicer features of Apple's iMessage messaging platform is the fact that it can work on the desktop — but it appears that also opens it up to abuse. As The Next Web reports, several prominent iOS developers have had their iMessage accounts flooded with messages from at least one person claiming to be part of Anonymous. The "hack," such as it is, appears to simply be using Applescript to automate sending multiple messages very quickly from a desktop client. In Grant Paul's case, the attackers began sending long strings of Unicode characters, completely locking up his iMessage app.

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Since iMessage can be tied to an email address, it's fairly trivial for somebody to guess it and begin spamming messages. Although users can be blocked, it's also trivial for them to jump to a new address. The best solution is for Apple to act quickly to recognize and then block people who are abusing the iMessage service, and then perhaps later on add a whitelist feature that consumers could turn on. Hopefully it will do both, as right now the company's track record in responding quickly and efficiently to security issues isn't exactly stellar.

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Soul Hackers’ demons and meat convos and stuff (with some fanart I found on Pixiv)

Demons are kind of weirdos.

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Last year, a psychology researcher named Stephan Lewandowsky published an article based on an internet survey of climate change deniers. In it, he argued that his evidence strongly suggested that people who don't believe in climate change also believe NASA faked the Moon landing, and that the US government created AIDS. Yeah. So that made people a little mad on the internet. But wait -- it gets better. Because then he published a psychological study of the people who criticized his first psychological study.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea.

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The average American cashier makes $20,230 a year, a salary that in a single-earner household would leave a family of four living under the poverty line. But if he works the cash registers at QuikTrip, it's an entirely different story. The convenience-store and gas-station chain offers entry-level employees an annual salary of around $40,000, plus benefits. Those high wages didn't stop QuikTrip from prospering in a hostile economic climate. While other low-cost retailers spent the recession laying off staff and shuttering stores, QuikTrip expanded to its current 645 locations across 11 states.

Many employers believe that one of the best ways to raise their profit margin is to cut labor costs. But companies like QuikTrip, the grocery-store chain Trader Joe's, and Costco Wholesale are proving that the decision to offer low wages is a choice, not an economic necessity. All three are low-cost retailers, a sector that is traditionally known for relying on part-time, low-paid employees. Yet these companies have all found that the act of valuing workers can pay off in the form of increased sales and productivity.

"Retailers start with this philosophy of seeing employees as a cost to be minimized," says Zeynep Ton of MIT's Sloan School of Management. That can lead businesses into a vicious cycle. Underinvestment in workers can result in operational problems in stores, which decrease sales. And low sales often lead companies to slash labor costs even further. Middle-income jobs have declined recently as a share of total employment, as many employers have turned full-time jobs into part-time positions with no benefits and unpredictable schedules. 

QuikTrip, Trader Joe's, and Costco operate on a different model, Ton says. "They start with the mentality of seeing employees as assets to be maximized," she says. As a result, their stores boast better operational efficiency and customer service, and those result in better sales. QuikTrip sales per labor hour are two-thirds higher than the average convenience-store chain, Ton found, and sales per square foot are over 50 percent higher. 

Entry-level hires at QuikTrip are trained for two full weeks before they start work, and they learn everything from how to order merchandise to how to clean the bathroom. Most store managers are promoted from within, giving employees a reason to do well. "They can see that if you work hard, if you're smart, the opportunity to grow within the company is very, very good," says company spokesman Mike Thornbrugh.

The approach seems like common sense. Keeping shelves stocked and helping customers find merchandise are key to maximizing sales, and it takes human judgment and people skills to execute those tasks effectively. To see what happens when workers are devalued, look no further than Borders or Circuit City. Both big-box retailers saw sales plummet after staff cutbacks, and both ultimately went bankrupt.

As global competition increases and cheap, convenient commerce finds a natural home online, the most successful companies may be those that focus on delivering a better customer experience. Ton's research on QuikTrip and other low-cost retailers--now a Harvard Business School case--is applicable across a variety of industries, she says. Toyota's production system, for example, gives all employees--including workers on the assembly lines--a voice in improving products.

But for a publicly traded company under pressure to show quarterly earnings, it's tempting to show quick profits by cutting labor costs. The bad economy has also made workers willing to take lower-paid positions rather than join the ranks of the unemployed. New employer-sponsored health insurance requirements under the Affordable Care Act are only going to give employers an additional incentive to shift workers to a part-time schedule. 

There are also trade-offs to investing in employees. Businesses that spend more on their workers have to cut costs elsewhere. Trader Joe's streamlines operations by offering a limited number of products and very few sale promotions. Costco stocks products on pallets, as a warehouse would. And the QuikTrip model requires investors to have the fortitude to accept possible short-term drops in profits. "You have to take a loss for a little bit," says Maureen Conway, executive director of the Economic Opportunities Program at the Aspen Institute. "You have to pay above market. You have to change how you do business."

At the upper echelons of the American workforce, salaries have soared. Companies are accustomed to thinking of their highest-level employees as "talent," and fighting to hire and reward people who will help grow the company. Now Trader Joe's and QuikTrip are proving that lower-level employees can be assets whose skills improve the bottom-line as well.

Though our house tours span the country, as well as the globe, today we're focusing on Portland, Oregon, where the homes are as diverse as the people who live there. Here are ten inspirational homes from renters in a place known for its rain, coffee, and book stores (among other things).

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March Madness has destroyed everyone’s bracket and another #1 seed (Indiana) going down last night. The Sweet 16 games continue tonight as the Oregon Ducks (winner of first ever NCAA championship!) takes on #1 seed Louisville today at 4:15 PST. There are several great places to watch this weekend’s games in Portland including Blitz, The [...]

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Brian Duffy photograph of David Bowie for the Aladdin Sane album cover, 1973. “Bowie’s sixth studio album marked the birth of the ‘schizophrenic’ character Aladdin Sane who was a development of the space-age Japanese-influenced Ziggy Stardust. To create the compelling album cover image, Bowie collaborated with photographer Brian Duffy and make-up artist Pierre Laroche. The result was one of the most recognizable images in popular culture– a ‘lightning flash’ design which has been reproduced in multiple forms world-wide.” via

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Unless you’re living under a rock (which may be the case if you depend on TSY for current affairs), there’s no way you could not feel the intense media blitz that’s happening around all things David Bowie. The release of the new single and album “The Next Day”…the 40th anniversary of Ziggy Stardust…the “David Bowie is” exhibit at London’s V&A…even the whole androgyny thing that’s sweeping the fashion scene bears his mark. Bowie is everywhere you turn, for chrissakes.

Look, there are those that revere Bowie as an ahead-of-his-time visionary who revolutionized Rock ‘n’ Roll. And there are those who see him very black & white, as a plodding opportunist who coldly studied what was happening around him (heavily borrowing from  true innovators at the time like Marc Bolan), and then expertly went about merchandising himself for mass commercial consumption. Both are fucking true. Bowie is an epic genius who learned through years of toil, trial, and error how to create a magical out-of-this-world persona and artistically sell it to us on a silver platter. No one has done it better in recent memory, and it’s unlikely that anyone in our lifetime will top him. Period. End of story.

There’s an incredible account by Glenn O’Brien in the recent issue of Out Magazine. Gay or straight, get over it, go buy it, and devour the entire spread on David Bowie. It is brilliant. You can read a chunk of it here after the jump. Now go– oh, you pretty things.

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“David Bowie (AKA Ziggy Stardust) wearing a sensational creation by Kansai Yamamoto. Born in Yokohama in 1944, the Japanese fashion designer was only 27 when he held his first international fashion show in London in 1971. The Japanese division of RCA records made MainMan aware of Yamamoto’s work and Bowie purchased the “woodlands animal costume” from Kansai’s London boutique– which he wore at the Rainbow Concert in August 1972 and which was later remade by Natasha Korniloff. Bowie subsequently viewed a video of a rock/fashion show that Kansai had staged in Japan the previous year and reportedly loved the costumes which were a combination of modern sci-fi and classical Kabuki theatre. Kansai and Bowie met in New York where he gifted Bowie two costumes during the 2nd US Tour. Kansai was then commissioned to create nine more costumes based on traditional Japanese Noh dramas for Bowie to pick up in Tokyo in April 1973. These were the flamboyant androgynous Ziggy Stardust costumes Bowie wore on the 3rd UK tour in 1973.” via The Ziggy Stardust Companion –photo by Masayoshi Sukita, the David Bowie archive

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David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust for the Pin Ups album and promo material, 1973. –Photo by Mick Rock via

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David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust wearing an eye patch) performs “Rebel Rebel” on the TV show TopPop in Hilversum, Netherlands, 1974. This was Bowie at the end of his Ziggy era. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images) via

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David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust rocking the famous platform boots from his Aladdin Sane tour.

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David Bowie and Mick Ronson on stage during the Ziggy Stardust tour, December 1972 / January 1973. Bowie is wearing a pair of platform shoes decorated with palm trees by Pelican Footwear, New York. –Photo by Mick Rock via

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David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust –Photo by Mick Rock via

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David Bowie on stage in Scotland during the Aladdin Sane tour, 1973. –Photo by Mick Rock via

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Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie, Café Royale, 4th of July. 1973. “After the very last Ziggy gig at Hammersmith Odeon on 4 July 1973, came the Ziggy Farewell Party in Piccadilly. All kinds of characters showed up, including Ringo Starr, Jeff Beck, Bianca Jagger and Lulu, but David spent much of his time chatting and laughing with Lou Reed and Mick Jagger. From all the photos I took, you can see how focused they were on each other. Later Mick and Lou even danced together (I have the photo). The most famous photos are the ones with all three of them in a kind of cuddle and the shot of Lou and David about to kiss. This shot has only been published once previously.” –Photo by Mick Rock via

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David Bowie with Cyrinda Foxe, 1972. “Cyrinda travelled with us for part of the first Ziggy Stardust US tour. She’s the blonde in the now classic Jean Genie video that I directed. She was spawned by Warhol’s Factory and was a light-hearted fun person to be around. This shot is from a series of photos I took in some old bar in the Hollywood Hills. David liked it because it looked like something from an Edward Hopper painting. One of the shots was copied as an illustration for the original US Jean Genie single release ad. Recently it has been used on the picture disc limited edition re-release of the single, but in a colourised version.” –Photo by Mick Rock via

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David Bowie prays at the window, 1973. “Backstage, Scotland, May 1973. I’m not sure that he’s necessarily praying, but he’s certainly in deep contemplation, thinking no doubt about the continued vertical trajectory of his career! It’s one of my favourite shots of Bowie, although it took some 30 years for it to be published in my book collaboration with David, Moonage Daydream in 2002. It’s taken before the show, and from the light streaming through the window you can see that it’s still daylight. Quite often on that tour the gigs were in the early evening starting around 6pm.” –Photo by Mick Rock via

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David Bowie in make-up, 1973. “David was very adept at applying his make-up and did it himself mostly in those days. Lindsay Kemp had taught him the rudiments in the days when David had studied the art of mime with him in the late 60s. On his trip to Japan earlier in 1973 he had had met with Tamasaburo, the Japanese Kabuki star, who had given him a lot of tips on how to apply Kabuki-style makeup. David brought back with him a whole array of exotic make-up. In Moonage Daydream he writes, ‘I used to enjoy doing the make-up. It felt relaxing and put me in a kind of serene state before the show.’ The slew of photos I have of him applying make-up bear witness to his focused demeanour.”  –Photo by Mick Rock via

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David Bowie lunch on the train, 1973. “Taken on the train up to Aberdeen for the first gig of David’s final Ziggy tour, 15th of May, 1973. Another image that got lost in the archive until it finally surfaced in Moonage Daydream. I have a slew of photos on the train and in the stations of David in that amazing jacket. But the favourite one for fans is this one. Of all my limited edition fine art prints, this may be the one that has sold the most. Maybe it’s got something to do with the ridiculously ‘glam’ look of the magic duo and the obviously mundane nature of their British Rail lunch – lamb chops, boiled potatoes, peas with the bread rolls and pats of butter. But also perhaps something to do with the warm conspiratorial way they are looking at each other. They had the rock scene by the horns and they were savouring it!”  –Photo by Mick Rock via

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Who wouldn’t want to be there when Bowie met Warhol for the first time?

For OUT magazine by Glenn O’Brien

In 1971, David Bowie was having his Greta Garbo moment. On the cover of Hunky Dory, he looked a bit like her and sang a song called “Oh! You Pretty Things.” That was his vibe when he came to visit Andy Warhol at the Factory, on September 14, 1971. He was with his manager, Tony DeFries. They were in town to sign with a new record company, RCA, and Bowie wanted to pay homage to Warhol. Andy had been a hit in London in ’71 with his play, Pork, and Bowie had recorded a single, “Andy Warhol,” and he wanted to sing the song to Andy in person.

I don’t know if they had an appointment, but I remember someone saying, “There’s somebody here named David Bowie to see Andy.” I had been reading about Bowie and had heard The Man Who Sold the World. It had Bowie with long curly locks reclining odalisque-style in a vintage dress on the cover, and it only reached 105 on the Billboard charts. The Factory was the world’s HQ for drag queens at the time, and I thought that Bowie was jumping on the bandwagon. But something was in the air; hippies were wearing feather boas, and, unbeknownst to us, the New York Dolls were rehearsing somewhere. I said that Bowie was pretty famous and that we should, of course, let him in.

David had long hair and was wearing huge Oxford bags-style trousers, a floppy hat, and Mary Janes with one red sock and one blue — he was clearly aiming for a sort of eccentric androgynous look. I was immediately struck by his eyes, with their electric pupils. I was also struck by David’s wife, Angie, who looked more boyish than David and had quite a presence, and by the contrast of Tony DeFries, who looked like a Sicilian Elvis impersonator. Not very glam.

Bowie had studied with the famed mime Lindsay Kemp and had toured with Kemp’s company, so he certainly had the best mime credentials, but none of us knew quite what to make of the mime he performed for Andy. Then he sang “Andy Warhol.” I don’t think Andy could tell whether it was an homage or a send-up, with its rather ambiguous lyrics, but everyone was very nice and polite. I’ve recently seen the silent black-and-white video [of the visit]. The Factory’s video technique was even worse than its film technique, and I’m curious about the conversation I can be seen having with Bowie, my hair almost as long as his. I recall David asking me where he could get a copy of the Index Book and I recall that I had no idea what that was.

I don’t know what Andy thought of that day — probably not much, but he had that sense of judging a person’s self-esteem, and I think Bowie passed on that count. The next time I saw him was in London. RCA Records had gotten behind him big time, and, in 1972, they shipped a bunch of editors and writers over to see his new incarnation, Ziggy Stardust. It was a total transformation, with Bowie gone futurist with radical red hair, makeup, and Japanese designer clothes. It was fantastic. He was a new dandy prototype, a Beau Brummell for the publicity millennium. I saw the band play a great concert in a medium-sized hall in Aylesbury, and I hung out with David and his very friendly wife, Angie. We went dancing at Yours and Mine, a hip disco under a Mexican restaurant and, yeah, I danced with David Bowie. Fabulous!

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British Vogue, May 2003 — Kate Moss, in the style of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane. Hair: Sam McKnight, Make-up: Val Garland, Fashion editor: Kate Phelan, Photography: Nick Knight via

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Arsalan Kazemi might never have transferred to Oregon where he has been instrumental in the Ducks’ Sweet 16 run this season if not for alleged racial discrimination he said he endured for three years from the athletic director at Rice University.

SI.com reported Kazemi, the first Iranian-born player in NCAA Division I history, was allowed to transfer to Oregon without sitting out the customary season because of a hardship waiver he obtained from the NCAA. In applying for the waiver, SI.com reported that Kazemi told the NCAA Rice athletic director Rick Greenspan regularly made derogatory comments of a racial and religious nature to him, two former teammates and a former assistant coach. Kazemi is Muslim.Kazemi told the NCAA that when talking with a teammate in Arabic, Greenspan asked if they were having an “Al-Qaeda meeting.” It was one of numerous incidents of similar comments Kazemi alleged were made by Greenspan during his time at the school.

The former assistant, Marco Morcos, an Egyptian native, was not retained last year and all three players left the program. Omar Oraby, an Egyptian, also was granted a hardship waiver and transferred to USC, according to the report. The third player, Ahmad Ibrahim, turned pro to play in his native Lebanon.

Kazemi said in his waiver request that Greenspan told Morcos to “recruit more terrorists” on multiple occasions.

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- Report: Arsalan Kazemi alleged racial discrimination from Rice AD in transfer to Oregon | The Dagger: College Basketball Blog - Yahoo! Sports

“One of the folks we’re talking about just asked me on Twitter, in so many words, What happened to free speech? Now if you don’t agree with gay marriage you’re in trouble? Obviously we all have free speech. But what people usually want with free speech is the ability to speak their mind and not have people think worse of them for it. And on gay rights if not quite yet on full marriage equality, these folks sense they may be losing that right.”

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The Des Moines Register is in a bit of hot water after they published an interactive Google Map revealing the level of security in most Iowa's school districts.

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“[T]here are a couple people in the community that are trying to get Mr. McDaniel fired for teaching the reproductive system, climate change, and several other science subjects,” students wrote. “All these subjects were taught from the book and in good taste. He cares for each of his students and goes the extra mile to help them all. Now is the time for us to help by supporting him!”

McDaniel acknowledged that he may have angered some parents by showing the film “An Inconvenient Truth” during a lesson about climate change.

He explained to the Times-News that students were asked to write a paper on their thoughts about climate change after seeing the film.

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- Idaho teacher investigated for saying ‘vagina’ during biology lesson | The Raw Story

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NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez will make more this year than all the Houston Astros combined – a lot more.

And he won’t even play the first half of the season, if at all.

A-Rod’s $29 million salary tops the major leagues for the 13th straight season, according to a study of major league contracts by The Associated Press.

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- A-Rod Salary: Astros Will Make Less Combined Than Yankees Pay Injured Star In 2013

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Cassetteboy - David Cameron’s School Days // Bad Teeth (by badteeth)

And so it all comes down to this: the original Star Trek vs. the British time travel epic Doctor Who in our March TV Madness championship. And really, was there any other way this could end? Voting is now open for our final, deciding poll, so make your choice as to which of these iconic behemoths deserves the title of greatest sci-fi show of them all!

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“May The Frost Be With You.”

Now here is a product that would be cool: Star Wars Pop-Tarts: Frosted Han Solo in Carbonite. Unfortunately they are just a fun concept design created by Brian Altano of IGN last year who states, “we have completely stupid IGN water cooler conversations about terrible marketing opportunities and popular franchise cash-ins we wish existed. Like Star Wars Pop-Tarts: Frosted Han Solo in Carbonites.”

via Star Wars Daily, Foodiggity

“Apple’s iBunny Pro is the industry’s best…”

“If tech companies made Easter candy!” is a delicious Easter-themed illustration by Nitrozac and Snaggy of Tapastic.

“Greek Style Batman”

Portland, Oregon-based artist Nicholas Hyde created a series of art prints that depict Marvel and DC comic book characters in the style of Greek art. They are available to purchase online at Society6 and Etsy.

“Greek Style Spider-Man”

“Greek Style Thor”

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The girl who just wanted to play football

Ella, a 13-year-old who attends the Sequoyah School in Pasadena, just wants to play football - something easier said than done when the rest of the teams in the area refuse to play against a girl.

As the season began, the league voted against allowing a girl to play. If Ella played, it would mean a forfeit, even though the games could still take place. And Sequoyah would be banned from postseason play.

Ella’s teammates didn’t blink.

As it turns out, the team finished 0-8 after Ella joined them, not because they lost, but because each time she prepared to take the field, they were forced to forfeit.

Read the rest of reporter Chris Erskine’s story here.

Photo: Michael E. Stern

So awesome. If I were them, I’d make 0-8 t-shirts and wear them all the damn time.

They know how to party, dolphins do, and one of their hot spots lies in the Pacific Ocean, 50 miles off the coast of Costa Rica. Our intrepid correspondent got his hand stamped and made his way inside.