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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) complained Monday she was subject to a very uncomfortable screening by TSA. 

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The past two years have seen the Jack Rudy Cocktail Co.’s flagship tonic syrup blow onto bar menus from New York City to New Orleans. It has become the secret ingredient in many a quality G&T, raising demand to the point that founder Brooks Reitz has finally been forced to move packing and shipping operations out of his dining room.

And now, the Charleston, South Carolina-based Reitz is making a move for all-around cocktail dominance with the release of his new Jack Rudy Grenadine.

“When the tonic took off,” he says, “I thought, ‘Okay, I should probably think of something to supplement that.’ Grenadine was the obvious choice.” But developing a quality grenadine was easier said than done. Reitz struggled to source the pomegranate juice that forms the base of the sweet-and-tart syrup.

After months of searching, he found a pomegranate grower in California who uses a specially-designed press to juice the fruits whole. “When you’re juicing the whole pomegranate, you get more of the character, more of the tannin, more of the bitterness,” Reitz says. “You get a fuller expression of the flavor.” To make his grenadine, Reitz seasons the juice with touches of cane sugar, citric acid, and orange flower water.

Popular as Jack Rudy Tonic has been, the grenadine opens new doors for bartenders with its many applications in drinks both boozy and not. (Small-batch Shirley Temples, anyone?). Reitz likes it in a simple gin-based Maiden’s Blush.

Maiden’s Blush

2 oz. gin
¾ oz. Cointreau
¾ oz. lemon juice
¼ oz. grenadine

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake, strain, and enjoy.

 

Captain Canuck is already making his way toward the big screen, but he isn’t stopping there: The Canadian superhero will also star in a five-part animated web series, produced by by Toronto’s Smiley Guy Studios. An Indiegogo campaign will launch March 28 to help fund the project.

Introduced in 1975, Richard Comely and George Freeman’s hero was  Tom Evans, a secret agent who developed super-strength after coming into contact with extraterrestrials. Revivals of the title in 1993 and 2004 featured new incarnations of the hero. For the web series, Captain Canuck Inc. turned to artist Kalman Andrasofszky (NYX: No Way Home, X-Treme X-Men) to update the character.

“This is a ground-up revamp,” Kalman said in a statement. “We’re trying to take all the best elements of the classic and also layer in new elements that speak to the way hero mythology has evolved since Canuck was created in 1975.”

Kris Holden-Reid (Lost Girl) will voice Captain Canuck, while Paul Amos (Warehouse 13) will play his arch-nemesis Mr. Gold.

Despite recent setbacks with a pacemaker implant and a bout of flu, 90-year-old Stan Lee appears as spry, and sly, as ever. For proof, you need look no further than his most recent “Stan’s Rant,” recorded following the news that wrestling is being dropped from the Olympics. In response, Lee demands that pole dancing be added to the Games.

“They have everything else, all sorts of gymnastics,” he says. “Dancing around that pole and hugging it and swinging on it and doing all of those things — that’s like the sexiest gymnastics of all. We love it, everybody loves it! Get with it, Olympics Committee!” He doesn’t specify, so we’ll presume this Olympics discipline would be for women and men; it’s only fair.

(Aside #1: If Lee saying “pole dancing” doesn’t make its way into at least one remix, somebody isn’t doing his job. Aside #2: While Googling to figure out whether “pole dancing” is hyphenated — I swear! — I discovered there’s a U.S. Pole Dance Federation. Really. Aside #3: Robot 6 now has a pole dancing tag.)

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In celebration of Douglas Adams‘ 61st birthday, Google has made a special Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy doodle explaining the Babel fish, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, and Vogon poetry, as well as how to fly, the importance of a towel and, of course, the meaning of life.

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When Matthew Hartman surprised his girlfriend Elisabeth with a wedding proposal at a beach in Southern California last November, he was hoping the Pacific would provide a scenic backdrop—instead, he got something a bit more epic. As he got on one knee, the ocean surprised the couple with a giant wave, which washed them ashore. The whole event was photographed by Jon Hwang, and captured on video by a friend. And in the end she said yes.

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Suda 51's most recent Famitsu column was written shortly after the Killer is Dead producer watched the PlayStation 4 reveal event, revealing the fresh excitement he still felt about the news.

"I think that in the future, cloud delivery will become totally commonplace," Suda said, translated by Edge. "Social networking has certainly done that. To be able to play anywhere, on any device, with shared data - this will be an alluring new feature for games." Cloud saving as a standard is also "an evolution in itself," he said.

"Thinking about the future of this stuff and then constructing and outputting something appealing is our job as game designers, and from that challenge we can take new strength," Suda said. And then, because he's Suda and edginess is part of his personal brand, he added "And that makes me horny." Grasshopper Manufacture, and parent company Gungho Online Entertainment, have signed on to make games for PS4.

That attitude - the enthusiasm, not specifically the arousal - suggests that Sony's dev-focused approach to designing the PS4 is paying off.

Suda 51 'horny' for PS4 possibilities originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Again, this is a Nintendo-published game? I wonder if any American ever gave this DS language trainer (Tabi no Yubisashi Kaiwachou DS: America) a pass before Nintendo published it in Japan.

And did the people developing this at TOSE realize just how inappropriate some of the phrases they’re teaching Japanese tourists are?

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They’re pouring latex on him to make a false chest. So that they can place the arc reactor prop in him and make it legitimately look like it’s embedded in is flesh and with tears and scar tissue. The latex is colored so they can see where they are applying and how thick the layers are. It will then be airbrushed to his skintone and details like nipples scar tissue discoloration will be added.

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Then the reactor prop is added to the dimple. Basically the latex becomes fake skin and they tear part of the center open to embed it.

Now you can see how realistic it looks. 

SimCity developer Maxis says it has reduced game crashes by 92 percent since day one and players have connected and clocked more than 8 million hours in-game.

"I'm happy to report that the core problem with getting in and having a great SimCity experience is almost behind us," Maxis General Manager Lucy Bradshaw writes. Bradshaw says the improvements stem from adding new servers, tinkering with their network and issuing client updates, such as Thursday's removal of "non-critical" gameplay features.

"I had hoped to issue an 'All-Clear' tonight, but there are still some elements coming together," Bradshaw says. "Tonight and tomorrow we'll be monitoring each server and gameplay metrics to ensure that the service remains strong and game is playing great. We need a few more days of data before we can assure you that the problem is completely solved and the game is running at 100 percent."

Bradshaw reports "tens of thousands of new players" join SimCity every day. We hope to be one of these players some day soon.

EA: Core problem preventing SimCity playtime 'is almost behind us' originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This time of year is filled with jubilant hipsters and 40 year old cool-guys tweeting about their favorite conferences.¹ I really appreciate the mute filters in Tweetbot ² but wish that I had the same in my RSS feed reader.

Sam Mellor on Twitter mentioned he had that problem taken care of. Sure enough, he has a clever little Python script called RSS-filter.py that scans Google feeds for a specified regular expression and marks those articles as read.

So it's as easy as setting up a basic config file:

And running the command³:

It has a few dependencies that need to be installed. One that I never thought about is the libgreader library for Google Reader. It's a nice little library for interacting with your feeds.

Setting up RSS-filter.py is pretty easy but not mindless. First, there are several dependencies that I needed to install. No big deal. Second, I needed a Google OAuth token and secret, which required me to register a new application with Google. It's easy but not something I had done before. I created new application keys and secrets just for this purpose.

The script does a pretty good job of walking through the setup. It asks for all the Google OAuth keys and secrets and then stores them in a settings file in ~/Library/Application Support/RSS-filter/.

There are a couple of shortcomings to the script. For example, each feed must be configured with its own set of regular expression exclusions. Additionally, the script only looks at the article title and not the content of the article. So RSS-Filter.py is more of an initial filter for stupid.

EDIT: Sam already updated the script to work with a global filter. This is pretty nice.

For more complete filtering, I've used Reeder on the Mac.⁴ I select all feeds and search for the offending term. It's then just a single click to mark them all as read. The benefit here is that Reeder searches through the content as well as the title.

1. Really, I don't begrudge anyone their excitement. I just don't want to read about it everywhere I look. I get it. SXSW is "amaze-balls" and you totally did the best shooters ever. Ok, now I'm just being mean. I do like the stuff the film guys share after the Burning Man SXSW show. ↩

2. Just like Dr. Drang ↩

3. I haven't decided if I want to set this up as a cron job yet. ↩

4. This also works with several other feed readers, including several on iOS. Credit to Jason Clarke for suggesting Mr. Reader. ↩

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Parliamentary Chambers by Ana Filipovic via Deconcrete

Parliamentary Chambers, by Ana Filipovic, 2012, within Cultures of Assembly, Architecture + Critical Spatial Practice, Städelschule Frankfurt:

‘The word parliament derives from the French “parlement”—the act of speaking, the discussion. The chamber in which parliamentary assemblies meet is therefore a spatial setting for that very discussion. The comprehension of the nature of this discussion should hence inform the architectural design.

The spatial organization of formal assemblies has not substantially changed much from Athenian assembly to the modern concept of prime ministerial government that goes back to the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) and The Parliamentary System in Sweden (1721–1772) that coincided with each other. Classical democracy not only influenced the formation of later constitutions, it also created an architectural legacy which has dominated both the form and style of parliament buildings to the present day. [Sudjic, Deyan, “Architecture And Democracy”, Laurence King Publishing, 1992]

The most appropriate form remained to be hemicycle—semicircular, or horseshoe shaped, debating chamber (plenary chamber), where members sit to discuss and pass legislation.

The circular shape is one, which was primarily designed to encourage the politics of consensus among political parties rather than confrontation. The design is used in most European countries (and hence was adopted by the European Parliament) and the United States. The equality in its shape—the equal distance from the speaker, for example—is being used whenever democratic dialogue is anticipated. In contrast, the Westminster system, in which the government and opposition parties face each other on opposing sets of benches, points at an interesting potential: the exploration and exacerbation of spatial confrontation and conflict as a form of agonistic ground condition. This research questions the seemingly causal relationship between the spaces of parliamentary chambers and the system they represent.’

New submitter ceview writes "NASA has released its latest green data showing a creeping of green towards the northern hemisphere. From the article: 'Results show temperature and vegetation growth at northern latitudes now resemble those found 4 degrees to 6 degrees of latitude farther south as recently as 1982.'"

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