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Devin, an artist who runs the blog According to Devin, drew a comic featuring cats to explain the state of the internet.

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crookedvulture writes "Slashdot has already covered the four main flavors of Cherry MX mechanical key switches: red, black, blue, and brown. Now, there's a green MX variant that emulates the feel of the buckling spring switches in old-school IBM Model M keyboards. The green switches combine tactile feedback, an audible click, and a stiff spring that requires 80g of actuation force. They're a stiffer version of the MX blues that more closely matches the characteristics of IBM's buckling spring design. Previously reserved for use with space bars, the green switches have now taken over an entire Cooler Master keyboard. And, unlike the old Model M and contemporary copycats, the new CM Storm Trigger has modern conveniences like an integrated USB hub, LED backlighting, and programmable macros." I've had my hopes raised and then dashed by some other keyboards whose makers promised Model M feel, so I'll believe it when I feel and hear it.

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DC Entertainment has launched the DC Comics Fan Family blog, a family-friendly online hub designed to deliver content for parents to share with their children. ROBOT 6 has more details.

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making my way downtown

After a rather lackluster response that nevertheless generated hundreds of millions of dollars to the second Hangover, the third (and ostensibly final) film of the series finally does away with what was holding The Hangover back: the hangover. As promised, the now-predictable formula of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis waking from a party-induced blackout to retrace their steps has been done away with, replaced with that trio retracing their steps in a far more lucid, though still somewhat self-referential way. Familiar landmarks abound in this trailer—Las Vegas, Heather Graham—but there are also some newer, crazier forms of craziness involving Galifianakis finally ending up in a mental hospital, an equally psychotic John Goodman, and the insane gamble of a Hangover movie where Ken Jeong keeps his clothes on. Also, the part of Justin Bartha will now be played by a giraffe. 

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Hey, what did you and your friends do the last time you all got together? Have some drinks, play some board games, maybe stage a stuffy Shakespeare adaptation that brought nothing new to a text that hadn’t already been ham-fistedly ladled on by centuries of community theater troupes? Well, Joss Whedon threw himself a little house party with all his TV friends like Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Tom Lenk, Fran Kranz, and Nathan Fillion, and they also drank and possibly played board games, and then they brought a hip, jazzy, gangstered-up sensibility to the Bard’s Much Ado About Nothing. Then Whedon captured it all on film and released it so you can see Fred and Wesley reunited, and wonder why your own parties can’t be this fun or smartly interpretive.  

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With each passing update on CBS’ Beverly Hills Cop series, the absence of Judge Reinhold became more deeply felt. After all, a Beverly Hills Cop TV series without Judge Reinhold is, dare we say, a pointlessly opportunistic exploitation of an established comedy brand in watered-down CBS procedural form that does not have Judge Reinhold. But apparently we need worry nor concoct absurd explanations about a coked-up Judge Reinhold waging a scorched-earth war against co-star John Ashton no more: The Wrap reassures us that Reinhold will be a part of at least the pilot, briefly reprising his role of Detective Billy Rosewood, who has “scored a big promotion from his old job.” So we can all relax. Presumably producers were forced to journey deep into the jungles to find Reinhold, approaching him after one of his daily stick-fights to convince him to come full circle and see the mission through. “Not ...

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Google I/O 2013:

Child care We are excited to announce that this year Google I/O will offer nearby child care to conference attendees at a subsidized cost. When completing your registration form, please indicate if you are interested in child care services and, if so, tell us the number of children you want to have cared for. Once registration closes, we will contact you to gather more information and provide specific details on child care.

Anti-harassment policy Google is dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, age, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. All attendees of Google I/O must abide by our anti-harassment policy.

Damsel in Distress: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games (by feministfrequency)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) held up the confirmation process of President Barack Obama’s CIA nominee by filibustering for nearly 13 hours, protesting the administration’s failure to rule out drone strikes against American citizens on U.S.

ARLINGTON, VA—In a notable relaxation of its existing security protocols, the Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday that it will henceforth allow small terrorists on commercial aircraft.

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Millions of pixels have been used to talk about Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to ban telecommuting and her reasons for doing it. Today's interviewee, Mårten Mickos, built MySQL AB into a billion-dollar company with 70% of its workers, all over the world, telecommuting instead of working in offices. Now he's CEO of another young open source company, Eucalyptus, and is following a similar hiring pattern. Mårten says (toward the end of the video/transcript) that he believes people working out of their homes is entirely natural; that this is how things were done for thousands of years before the industrial revolution.

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A drawing for a friend depicting his character in our Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

Using a ring that prevents fall damage, we destroyed an entire council meeting in a prestigious city by jumping on top of it it from two miles up. We then claimed our covert operation was nothing more than a rope merchant looking to sell his wares.

This is how we D&D.

PALO ALTO, CA—FrendTrend, a new social media startup that branded itself as “a fun, intuitive way to connect and share with friends online,” celebrated its long-awaited launch at 9 a.m.

BALTIMORE—Economists expressed shock this week as the value of the U.S. dollar plunged by more than 98 percent after Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco signed the NFL’s richest contract. Flacco, who was ranked 19th in the NFL for completi...

Boredom pays

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Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that the animation studio responsible for classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and The Lion King is not working on any hand-drawn animated films and currently has no plans to do so in the future, according to The Guardian. ”To my knowledge we’re not developing a 2D or hand-drawn feature animated film right now,” Iger revealed at a shareholders meeting. “We’re not necessarily ruling out the possibility [of] a feature but there isn’t any in development at the company at the moment.” Disney’s last two hand-drawn films were Winnie the Pooh (2011) and The Princess and the Frog (2009).

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Activist millsmost put together this video of several people refusing to comply to questions and demands at border checkpoints. He says, “Don’t forget, you have rights.”

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it’s weird how being a pussy is weak and having balls means you’re tough i mean punch me in the uterus and i will be fine i’m used to that shit once a month come at me but if i kick you in the balls you are down my man you are down hard

(x) Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week Fall 2006

If you’re a Minecraft fan and a Pi owner, you’ve probably already downloaded a copy of Minecraft: Pi Edition. But are you getting the most out of the fact that you can modify the world with code in-game?

If you’re not sure where to start, or if you’re looking for ideas (sometimes being given a blank canvas can be lousy for getting the brain sparking), Martin O’Hanlon at the marvellous <Stuff about=”code” /> has several tutorials on Minecraft: Pi Edition, from installing the game to using the Minecraft API to build wonderful things, like magical bridges that appear where’er you walk, games of hide and seek, and in-game analogue clocks.

The hide and seek hack is easy and rewarding: with a little coding you’ll be able to get the game to hide a diamond somewhere in the world for you to find, and to give you hints of the warmer/colder variety.

You can find code and an explanation of what’s going on over at Stuff About…

And we’re all agreed that the clock is just brilliant (it’s also big enough that you can go and stand on the hands). Again, the project has its own page with code and a spot of discussion.

We’d love to see what you’ve been doing in Minecraft – take some video, or write something about your experiments on your own website, and let us know about it!

Now that the “independent film” fad has finally been killed off and replaced with all cop and robot movies, IFC has increasingly turned to original comedy programming to fill its schedule. Now Portlandia, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and Marc Maron's WTF, et al. will be joined by two new shows—one from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and another from Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk. The first , The Spoils Of Babylon, is a parody soap opera described as a “blowsy century-spanning saga” adapted from the fake best-selling novel by fake author Eric Jonrosh, to be really played by Ferrell, chronicling the lives and loves of a wealthy oil magnate’s family. The latter is the previously reported show Odenkirk was working up with L.A. sketch comedy troupe The Birthday Boys, described as in “the classic vein of absurd/silly/smart/funny variety shows like Monty Python’s Flying Circus ...

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Sean Velasco, director of WayForward games including Double Dragon Neon, A Boy and his Blob, and BloodRayne: Betrayal, has formed a new studio called Yacht Club Games, along with other "top talent" from WayForward.

The studio has yet to announce its first project, but teased it with a silhouetted horned sprite on the background of its Twitter page. "Our serious and solemn goal is to make really awesome original games that fuse modern and retro sensibilities, and we have the pedigree to prove it!" reads a statement on the developer's website.

We'll learn more about their progress toward this "serious and solemn goal" at PAX East.

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This is a good week to have a 3DS and an internet connection, with an overwhelming amount of downloadable stuff to enjoy. For free, there's a demo of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (more of a gate to finity in the demo, we suppose); for relatively cheap, there's the new Kersploosh!, Virtual Console oldie Wrecking Crew, and a week-long discount on the excellent Sakura Samurai.

There are also retail-ish releases, led by Renegade Kid's ATV Wild Ride 3D, a new 3DS update of a game originally released on DS. At $8, it's cheaper than retail. Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D launches on eShop today as well.

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Dear Jim,

Please paint me a picture of Brian Blessed riding a Henry hoover alongside D’n’B DJ Goldie on a Dyson. They are racing on the Mario kart level rainbow road and are both drunk on white ace cider.

Thanks,

Tommy

Dear Jim,

Please paint me Robocop at the checkout in Tesco, trying to decide if its worth 10p for a bag for life. He has bought a shitload of Soreen so he’s going to need something sturdy.

That would be magic.

Nick Connors (age 36)