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Doctors Nine, Ten, and Eleven, as punks! 

areyoutryingtodeduceme:

All three of the Punk Doctors, in one convenient Photoset I guess. Also with Eleven re-worked a tiny bit.

“State residents who have high medical bills but would not normally qualify for Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor, can call a state phone line and request an application. But the window is tight — the line shuts down after 2,500 calls, typically within an hour — and the demand is so high that it is difficult to get through.”

- In Tennessee, a Telephone Race for Medicaid - NYTimes.com

What happens when Mystery Inc. meets B.P.R.D? A concept that we're sad isn't a real comic. Cynthia Rodgers (with coloring help from her daughter Amanda) created this mash-up piece for CBR's latest The Line it is Drawn challenge.

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Armand Larive Middle School had what is perhaps the greatest junior high social studies class ever: Zombie Survival Skills. But the killjoy parents and administrators put the kibosh on the post-apocalyptic class, feeling that undead studies were not appropriate for growing minds.

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In M.K. Reed and Jonathan Hill's short webcomic The Titular Hero, an adventuring party steps into the local sundry shop, where the owner introduces the female adventurers to Lady Bosoms, his shop's most popular reading material. But these professional dungeon delvers have a thing or two to say about the barbarian Lady, her fighting stance, and her revealing choice of armor.

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“The Duke of York receives the 3D printed Corgi” on a visit to Tech City in East London.

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Many works of amazing literary art have been printed on typewriters in times past, but this re-purposing takes an old machine beyond words and into the realm of colorful painting.

Tyree Callahan has recycled (or upcycled, perhaps) a classic 1937 Underwood typewriter by replacing letters with sponges soaked across the spectrum with bright yellows, reds, blues and combinations thereof.

Based in the Seattle area of Washington, the artist writes of his environs: “I’m constantly amazed at the play of light through our moist air and over the varied landscape of the Pacific Northwest. I especially enjoy early morning light–that short interval of time just before the last of the fog burns off–and evening light, especially on humid evenings, when the atmosphere itself is aglow with evening’s hues. We live in an environment that can produce both vivid and somber landscapes, often both within an hour’s time.”

There is something so satisfying about the click-clack sounds of a traditional typewriter, translating the mechanical motions of your fingers into physical results on the page in front of you – but imagine making those impressions in vivid colors instead of black on white. Sounds relaxing, hopefully literally.

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WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — Researchers are a step closer to developing a vaginal gel to prevent the spread of HIV.

A team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis used nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom to destroy HIV without harming nearby cells.

Personality trait and predictive Likes, according to the study

High IQ

The Godfather

Lord of the Rings

The Daily Show

Low IQ

Harley Davidson

I Love Being A Mom

Tyler Perry

Emotional stability – neurotic

Emo

Dot Dot Curve

So So Happy

Emotional stability – calm and relaxed

Business administration

Climbing

Getting Money

Homosexual males

Wicked the Musical

No H8 Campaign

Human Rights Campaign

Homosexual Females

Not Being Pregnant

The L Word

Sometimes I Just Lay In Bed and Think About Life

Parents separated at 21

I’m Sorry I Love You

Never Apologize For What You Feel

It’s Like Saying Sorry For Being Real

When Ur Single, All U See Is Happy Couples N Wen Ur In A Relationship All U See Is Happy Singles

Parents did not separate at 21

Apples To Apples: The Helen Keller Card

Gene Wilder

Making Dirty Innuendos Out Of Perfectly Innocent Things

“Facebook users are unwittingly revealing intimate secrets – including their sexual orientation, drug use and political beliefs – using only public “like” updates, according to a study of online privacy. The research into 58,000 Facebook users in the US found that sensitive personal characteristics about people can be accurately inferred from information in the public domain.”

Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets, study finds | Technology | The Guardian via Jo M.

I direct a women’s health advocacy organization, so I’m used to people asking me questions about all kinds of issues–Pap tests, mammograms, home birth, hot flashes.  But lately, when people find out I that I advocate for better health care for women, they ask about one thing:  health reform.

“Will my co-pay for birth control go away?” “How soon?” “Will Obamacare cover midwives?” “If I don’t have insurance now, how will health reform help me get it?”

I have lot of fun answering these questions and more, because almost always I can give the person not just a specific answer: I can usually tell her an exact date when health reform will help her. For example, when the pharmacy tech at CVS asked me how much longer she would have a co-payment for her birth control pills, we figured out that it was going to go away on July 1, when her new health plan year begins. And when a bicycle messenger asked me when he would be able to apply for help paying for an individual policy, I could tell him October 1, when the state health exchanges open for enrollment. When do all plans have to include coverage for maternity care? January 1. When do plans have to stop charging women more than men?  January 1.

It’s fun celebrating the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act today, March 23. But it’s even more fun looking forward to the dates when health reform really starts to kick in. The protections and new benefits it’s already given us are great: Many young adults are covered right now because health reform made it possible for them to stay on their parents’ plans; many small children are getting the cancer treatment they need because health reform stopped insurance companies from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions; and many women are getting their breast pumps and contraceptives covered with no extra fees, also thanks to health reform.

But later this year, millions of uninsured women will be able to check out the coverage options available to them in their state health exchange and sign up for the plan that’s right for them.  Enrollment starts October 1 in every state, and coverage begins January 1.  That’s a lot to look forward to. I’m counting down to coverage!

P.S.: And the answer is yes, health reform will cover midwives and birth centers.

Cindy Pearson is executive director of the National Women’s Health Network and a co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need

Photo from Flickr user edenpictures under license from Creative Commons 2.0

Ed never expected to get such a personal response to his Premier Inn complaint 

thecalmwasdeceptive:

survivor-trek:

geekboots:

to meekly go where other people have already been

shy trek

into darkness (but with a night light)

candyeyed:

0ver-doze:

omg they are so offended if you lick them back. 

devildoll:

never gets old

This article is about the secular members of the British House of Lords. For the fictional lords of time, see Time Lords.

ladyyatexel:

Jamie possibly is auditioning for a body wash commercial.

hulu:

We know we’re going to lose friends over this list.  We’ve lost some already.

We’re big Star Trek fans here at Hulu, so much so that we’ve made every episode from every show free through the end of the month.  So when we started talking about our favorite characters, the discussion naturally got pretty heated.  We started making lists and then realized that we weren’t going to settle this without resorting to breaking out our bat’leths.  (And yes, some of us have bat’leths.  Don’t judge.) 

Here’s where you come in.  We need your help to settle once and for all the most important question you will be asked all day: Who is the greatest Star Trek character of all time?  Starting tomorrow, and running every day through March 31^st, check Hulu’s Tumblr for your opportunity to vote for your favorite Star Trek characters.         

We know some of your favorites didn’t make this list.  We love Beverly, Deanna, Sulu, Bones, Kira, and Odo just as much as you do.  And yes, Khan is totally badass, but he was only in 1 episode of the original series, so he didn’t make it.  Tell us how wrong we are to exclude them.  But more importantly, vote.

And for those of you wondering where Enterprise’s Captain Archer is, well, let’s just say he traded his jumpsuit for a red shirt.

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Texas Monthly Hires Full-Time Barbecue Editor - NYTimes.com:

journalofajournalist:

Daniel Vaughn, the on-staff (and, we presume, salaried and health insurance’d) barbecue editor at the Texas Monthly, might have the best job in journalism.

The captions on this piece tell great stories in and of themselves:

“Mr. Vaughn has eaten at more than 600 barbecue places since 2007.”

“He has custom boots with a butcher’s chart.”

Here’s to hoping he has a bib to wipe off his keyboard.

In the largest false memory study to date, 5,269 participants were asked about their memories for three true and one of five fabricated political events. Each fabricated event was accompanied by a photographic image purportedly depicting that event. Approximately half the participants falsely remembered that the false event happened, with 27% remembering that they saw the events happen on the news.

Political orientation appeared to influence the formation of false memories, with conservatives more likely to falsely remember seeing Barack Obama shaking hands with the president of Iran, and liberals more likely to remember George W. Bush vacationing with a baseball celebrity during the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

A new paper.

 

Lokvarka Cave near Lokve, Croatia deichgnu

With more than seven million people squeezed in to around 1,100sq km of land space—and property prices regularly ranking among the highest in the world—Hong Kong realizes it needs to get inventive if the city wants to attract more big IT business. The answer: cavernous underground data centers that remain naturally cool.

Plans are already in motion to start digging deep according to Cordells property law firm partner Hilary Cordells, reports The Register.

"Rock cavern development can be done, and datacentre use is a particularly good one," she said at the Datacentre Space Asia Conference this week. "It's on the government's radar screen and it's taking active steps but it's not easy and some sites will be more suitable than others."

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Linebacker Scott Fujita views his platform as a way to highlight causes like marriage equality and hopes to pass compassion on to his children.

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Inspired by ‘plantimals’, photosynthetic organisms like lichen, sea slugs and salamanders that welcome algae into their bodies in order to thrive, the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit aims to enhance humans with new, partially artificial bodily organs. The suit designs a new symbiotic relationship between us and algae, letting us become more plant-like by gaining food from light.

Exploring alternative ways in which we could sustain ourselves in the future, designers Michiko Nitta and Michael Burton propose suits made of plastic tubes that wrap and wind around the body, looking a bit like an artificial exoskeleton.

Essentially, the algae inside the tubes is fed both by sunlight and by the carbon dioxide in the wearer’s breath, and is then consumed by the human wearing the suit. In this way, our own breath is helping to produce the nutrients that we take in. “As such, we will be symbionts (meaning that both entities entirely depend on each other for survival), entering into a mutually beneficial relationship with the algae,” say the designers.

One of the suits was used in The Algae Opera, another project by Nitta and Burton that used the extraordinarily large lung capacity of a professional opera singer to produce the highest quality algae-product possible, enriching its taste. “So in the age of biotechnology not only can the audience listen to her talent but they can also savor her unique blend of algae that are enriched by her song.”

Via CollabCubed

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Annabel de Vetten of Conjurer's Kitchen really puts the death in "Til death do us part" with this morbid wedding confection. Instead of flowers and flourishes, her latest wedding cakes are decorated with chocolate animal skulls.

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"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" actor Alan Ritchson has been cast as Raphael in the upcoming "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" live-action film directed by Jonathan Liebsman and produced by Michael Bay.

“Tory MP calls out Labour for having salacious ads on its webpage, doesn’t know ads are based on his own web history.”, via @azizonomics, @ntlk, @iamdanw

Hugh Pickens writes writes "Gosia Wonzniacka reports that farmers in Fresno County, California, supported by university experts and a $5 million state grant, are set to start construction of the nation's first commercial-scale bio-refinery to turn beets into biofuel with farmers saying the so-called 'energy beets' can deliver ethanol yields more than twice those of corn per acre because beets have a higher sugar content per ton than corn. 'We're trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to shift our transportation fuels to a lower carbon content,' says Robert Weisenmiller. 'The beets have the potential to provide that.' Europe already has more than a dozen such plants, so the bio-refinery would resurrect a crop that has nearly vanished. The birthplace of the sugar beet industry, California once grew over 330,000 acres of the gnarly root vegetable (PDF), with 11 sugar mills processing the beets but as sugar prices collapsed, the mills shut down. So what's the difference between sugar beets and energy beets? To produce table sugar, producers are looking for sucrose, sucrose and more sucrose. Energy beets, on the other hand, contain multiple sugars, meaning sucrose as well as glucose, fructose and other minor sugars, called invert sugars. To create energy beet hybrids, plant breeders select for traits such as high sugar yield, not just sucrose production. America's first commercial energy beet bio-refinery will be capable of producing 40 million gallons of ethanol annually but the bio-refinery will also bring jobs and investment, putting about 80 beet growers and 35,000 acres back into production."

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A pentesting dropbox is used to allow a pentester to remotely access and audit a network. The device is dropped onto a network, and then sets up a connection which allows remote access. As a final project, [Kalen] built the Rogue Pi, a pentesting dropbox based on the Raspberry Pi.

The Rogue Pi has a few features that make it helpful for pentesting. First off, it has a power on test that verifies that the installation onto the target network was successful. Since the install of a dropbox needs to be inconspicuous, this helps with getting the device setup without being detected. A LCD allows the user to see if the installation was successful without an additional computer or external display.

Once powered on, the device creates a reverse SSH tunnel, which provides remote access to the device. Using a reverse tunnel allows the device to get around the network’s firewall. Aircrack-ng has been included on the device to allow for wireless attacks, and a hidden SSID allows for wireless access if the wired network has issues. There is a long list of pentesting tools that have been built to run on the Pi.

Check out a video demonstration of the dropbox after the break.

Filed under: Raspberry Pi, security hacks

Carewolf writes "Jeff Mitchell writes on his blog about what almost became 'The Great KDE Disaster Of 2013.' It all started as simple update of the root git server and ended up with a corrupt git repository automatically mirrored to every mirror and deleting every copy of most KDE repositories. It ends by discussing what the problem is with git --mirror and how you can avoid similar problems in the future."

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The first episode of BBC Radio 4's audio production of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere is up and available for free download. Listen to James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Johnny Vegas, and Bernard Cribbins inhabit the latest incarnation of Gaiman's magical London Below.

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