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Sponsored Heroes is a powerful series of photo manipulated images by Italian artist Roberto Vergati Santos imagining what famous comic book superheroes would look like if they were branded by major corporations. You can view more from Roberto’s superhero collection on Behance.
images via Roberto Vergati Santos
via DesignTAXI, Gizmodo
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“Invisible Bike” by artist Jimmy Kuehnle is a functional bicycle made of clear Lexan panels—with the exception of a few components, the bike is transparent. When he debuted the bike in Austin, Texas back in 2005, Kuehnle sported a matching clear vinyl suit. The effect, particularly from a distance, is uncanny.
via Jimmy Kuehnle, Neatorama
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Artist Birdychu has embarked on a quest to draw all of the basic Pokémon dressed as their evolutions. After beginning with the classics — Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle — the artist has gone on to draw all of Eevee’s evolutions and the second generation starting Pokémon.
illustrations by Birdychu
via Geekologie
Designer Alex Cornell helps you figure out how to choose the best seat, or at least “how not to get stuck next to someone that sucks,” with this helpful infographic.
One of the most complex social situations you will encounter is the 45 seconds that elapse while deciding where to sit for dinner at a restaurant. Your choice should appear natural, unbiased and haphazard if executed properly. Timing is everything.
These 45 seconds determine how enjoyable your next 2 hours will be. Once the pieces start to fall into place and people take their seats, your choices narrow. People sit, seemingly at random, and if you don’t take the appropriate measures, you’re inevitably stuck at the least interesting end of the table.
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* Some people say to classify all child care as "kindergarten", since kindergarten roughly means "day care" in German, regardless of its use in English
* Some people say to lump it all in with child-related social service facilities, like abuse shelters
* Someone says to use creche for SEO purposes
What happens when an overwhelmingly male base of contributors has to define day care as structured data?
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Experimental video musical group cdza explores Epic Key Changes in a video featuring a rapid-fire compilation of songs from the Backstreet Boys, Disney’s Aladdin, The Beatles, The Lonely Island, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, and many more.
firehose' “No unrelated women can be touched unless she is drowning at sea or needs medical treatment,” Hojat al-Islam Hossein Ibrahimi, a cleric at the Society of Militant Clergy, said.'
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comforts the mother of Hugo Chavez. (Miraflores Press Office/AP)
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under fire from the country’s clerics over a photo of him consoling the mother of Hugo Chavez at the late Venezuelan leader’s funeral—physical contact that’s considered a sin under Iran’s strict Islamic codes.
The photo, released by Venezuela’s Miraflores Press Office, shows Elena Frías’ right hand clutching Ahmadinejad’s left, her head against his, as they stand near the flag-draped coffin of her son at a military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday.
The image drew the immediate fury of Tehran’s religious conservatives. “No unrelated women can be touched unless she is drowning at sea or needs medical treatment,” Hojat al-Islam Hossein Ibrahimi, a cleric at the Society of Militant Clergy, said, according to Iran’s Al-Monitor.
Marco Arment:
Looks like we’re establishing a clear pattern: Google clearly (and often willfully) infringes on someone else’s IP, can’t believe that it’ll ever have any repercussions, and claims they’re doing it to be “open” or some bullshit. It betrays a culture at Google’s highest levels of arrogance, entitlement, and dishonesty.
Shocker.
★You meet a man on the Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh and tell him, “That’s a girl’s name!” Terry shoots you. You have died of dissin’ Terry.
Holy shit.
What
Get the fuck outta here
Прекратить милитаризацию космоса! / Stop the militarization of outer space!
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Valve declared it's not working on any current projects with Piston creator Xi3. Speaking to Eurogamer, Valve's Doug Lombardi said his company "began some exploratory work with Xi3 last year, but currently has no involvement in any product of theirs."
Valve disassociates itself from xi3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sign Painters is a documentary about the art of sign painting in America. Filmmakers Faythe Levine and Sam Macon look at the history of the trade, from its pre-1980s dominance to its decline in the face of cheaper digital technologies. They’ve also published a companion book. The documentary will be released later this year—check the site for screenings.
There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade.
firehose"announced a for-profit spinoff of his gun-printing project"
inevitable
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In the last few years, many of my favorite things that were once rare and only available in thrift stores and junk shops have been reissued. First there were the Pint & Half jars that came back last winter. Then Dansk from back their classic Kobenstyle cookware (according to The Kitchn, there’s more to come in that product line this season!). Now Ball has brought back blue glass canning jars. Be still my heart!
These Heritage Collection Pints are a limited edition jar, that has been issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the Perfect Mason, the original jar designed and produced by the Ball brothers. They’re not exact reproductions of those first jars, but do a lovely job at evoking an earlier age of home food preservation.
The shape of these new jars is identical to the regular mouth Ball pint jars currently on the market. They have measure marks along the sides in both cups and milliliters, come in sets of six, and are absolutely safe for home canning. As you can see from the photo above, the color is not an exact match to the jars of yesteryear, but it’s quite close. They also have a little commemorative note embossed on the back.
One thing to note about these jars is that they truly are limited. When they’re gone, they’re gone. If you want to add these to your pantry, make sure to pick some up sooner rather than later. You can currently order them from Fillmore Container. The Fresh Preserving Store and Amazon
Thanks to the nice folks at Ball, I have one box of these pretty jars to give away to a lucky Food in Jars reader (make sure to follow the Ball Facebook page and Pinterest account to be the first to know about future limited edition jars). If you want to enter, here’s what to do:
firehose'In her first comment on the matter, Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, said that she did not know about the searches at the time, but that having been apprised, “I feel very comfortable that great care was taken to safeguard the privacy of all concerned.”
Faculty responses revealed a gap between expectations in academia, where privacy is often seen as integral to academic freedom, and the corporate world, in which employees are often told to assume that workplace e-mails are not private. Some professors wondered aloud whether they had been naïve to think that things would be different at a university, and said they were forced to re-examine assumptions about confidentiality.
“It’s disturbing because I don’t know what it means about whether they could look at my own e-mail,” said Oliver Hart, an economics professor. “We need to have a discussion and a better understanding of the policy.”
He and other professors said the searches would prompt him to conduct more business through private e-mail accounts outside of Harvard’s reach.'
Overbey, should I quit emailing your Harvard account about the Seahawks?
 Sydney Morning Herald |
New York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard and its president on Monday made their first public comments on the university's searching of staff members' e-mail accounts, and offered a qualified apology for keeping the searches secret from most of the employees ... Harvard issues partial apology and explanation of its search of resident deans' e ...Boston.com The Harvard email controversyWashington Post Harvard's Search for E-Mail Leak on Scandal Fuels Campus IreSan Francisco Chronicle Bloomberg -Huffington Post -The Guardian all 83 news articles » |
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By Jenna Pitcher on Mar 12, 2013 at 3:04a
Ultima's spiritual successor, Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, will feature a microtransaction and DRM free offline mode, according to an update on the game's Kickstarter page.
The update went on to say that offline characters can't be imported into online games because of exploitation and hacking risks. However, the team is exploring the feasibility of importing online characters into offline games.
While the offline single player mode purchased via the Kickstarter campaign will not include DRM, the update stated that it is highly likely that offline versions purchased elsewhere will feature DRM.
The team also cleared away any confusion surrounding microtransactions relating to the offline mode and was adamant the mode will be entirely microtransaction free.
Developed by designer Richard Garriott and Portalarium, Inc. Shroud of the Avatar's Kickstarter campaign has reached $782,461 of the $1 million goal since its launch on the crowdfunding site on March 8. For more information about Shroud of the Avatar, read Polygon's interview with Richard Garriott here.
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By Michael McWhertor on Mar 11, 2013 at 11:10p
Game designer Ron Gilbert, best known for his work on the Monkey Island series and Maniac Mansion, announced he's leaving Double Fine Productions now that work on his adventure game The Cave is complete.
In a post on Gilbert's website, Grumpy Gamer, he writes "it's time for me to move on from Double Fine and plot my next move." It would appear that next move is still within the realm of gaming, as Gilbert notes, "So many games left to be designed."
Gilbert writes that he's been "toiling away" on a side project for iOS with animator and designer Clayton Kauzlaric, a title he refers to as Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG.
"I want to thank all the amazing people at Double Fine for all their hard work on The Cave," he writes. "It was a true pleasure to work with every one of them over the past two years. So much fun. I will miss them all. And of course to Tim for creating the opportunity to come there and make The Cave."
Gilbert joined the Tim Schafer-led Double Fine Productions in 2010. The two game designers had previously worked together at LucasArts on titles like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and Day of the Tentacle.
"Good luck, Ron!" Schafer tweeted following the news. "Thanks for The Cave!" Double Fine did not have an official comment on Gilbert's departure.
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Ben Heckendorn is a wizard, one who makes modern electronics into magical creations. The master modder has turned out several varieties of Xbox 360 laptops, another Xbox 360 with Atari 2600 styling and a Bill Paxton pinball machine.
But his new creation might be his most ambitious feat of technomancy yet. This time, he's created a Frankenstein's Monster out of the parts of all three current-generation video game consoles.
Starting this week, new episodes of The Ben Heck Show video series on Element 14 document the process of getting all that hardware into one enclosure. You can see him take apart the super-slim PS3, the Xbox 360 and the Wii U. It's funny how Heckendorn name-checks the hours-long update for the new Nintendo system even though he's never handled one before. Guess that meme really got out there, huh?
I have to say that getting all those guts into one place with ostensibly less cables and power plugs would make many a gamer's life much easier. So, how much would you pay for this beast?
