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Neo: “I know Kung Fu.”

Morpheus: “Show me.”

Cabin on the Long Trail, Vermont.

Submitted by David Szlasa.

Just a little poem by Google.

Using Walls to Talk Back to Unwelcome ‘Compliments’

Sam Lipsyte writes fiction for The New Yorker, and is the author of acclaimed literary novels The Ask and The Fun Parts. But his writing career started, he says in this video interview with Vol. 1 Brooklyn, with a frustrated urge to be a dungeon master in Dungeons & Dragons. This is a fascinating look at the geeky past of a writer who has never written a genre book — but was nevertheless inspired by fantasy role playing games. More »

In a casting notice that also sounds like a pretty good group who’s welcome to party with us anytime, Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, and Naomi Watts have all joined the upcoming Birdman. Fittingly, the dark comedy will be directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who's known for wrangling big ensemble pieces like 21 Grams and Babel—both already the Cannonball Runs of our era, though this film will reportedly be even lighter. In it, Keaton takes on the self-referential role of a former actor who's famous for playing an iconic superhero, and whose bid for career revival somehow doesn’t include starring in a movie where he clones himself multiple times—even though that would be hilarious—but rather mounting a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.

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In the clever portrait series “Couples,” two models are transformed into a series of very different couples through changes in their hair, clothes & make up. The series is by Madrid-based photographer Nacho Rojo.

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Silver Nemesis: I’m a good girl. I do what I’m told.

Aristotle: We are what we repeatedly do.
Plato: Well then I guess I'm YOUR MOM
Plato: *high fives Socrates*

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So maybe I am watching different shows from the rest of you because I fail to see how Moffat is sexist.
I think he writes brilliant female characters. What exactly has he done to River Song, Amy Pond and Irene Adler to make you all bitch and complain so much? Honestly, I really am curious.

Mostly? Taken away their agency.

Amy spends the first half of series 6 as an incubator for the Doctor’s future wife. She doesn’t have any choice in the matter — she doesn’t even know she’s pregnant until she goes into labour. That’s horrifying, though you’d never know from how cavalier Amy is about it. Then her baby is taken from her, and the story barely even allows her to grieve. She gets evicted from the TARDIS by the Doctor, rather than choosing to leave on her own (which would be MORE than justified at this point).

River’s story in s6 made sure that her life literally revolved around the Doctor from conception until death. From conception, until death. She’s kidnapped as a child because of the Doctor, brainwashed (and let’s face it, probably abused) and trained to kill him, which she does, but then she gives up all her regenerations to save him. She studies archaeology to find him. She’s forced into the suit as an adult again in order to kill him, and then he marries her so that he can “request” she fake his murder and take the blame for it, spending years of her life imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit. Eventually, she gives up her last remaining life for his.

Irene Adler is a smart and capable woman who describes herself as gay and yet falls for Sherlock so hard that she decides to make her all-important “I’d die before relinquishing this” password his name, because of some kind of crush. It’s not that she has a crush — it’s that that crush and her ~emotions get the better of her and nearly lead to her death. Irene, the woman famous in the ACD canon for being “the woman who beat him”, is bested by Sherlock in the end (he cracks the password) and has her life saved by him, while she, the dominatrix, kneels helplessly in the face of her death.

There are lots of other things, including Moffat’s own tendency to say dumb shit during interviews and on Twitter, but since you asked specifically what he’d done to Amy, River and Irene to make people complain, there’s the big one. It’s not usually the characters people dislike, it’s how those characters are treated within the story, and how much agency/control over their life and stories those characters are given, and whether or not those characters have stories unto themselves or they exist solely to do something for the male protagonist. Obviously not everyone is going to agree with the all of the above. But you said you were curious, so that’s where many of the criticisms come from.

Samsung’s presence in the US is expanding on every front, from its huge smartphone sales numbers to its planned 1.1 million square foot campus in Silicon Valley. Now Bloomberg reports that it’s done the same thing in Washington, boosting its lobbying spend from $150,000 in 2011 to $900,000 in 2012.

"A prudent step as part of day-to-day business operations."

So why the increase? The $598 million in damages that Samsung is being ordered to pay Apple in the US no doubt figure into the equation, but so does its growing US presence and a general trend toward more lobbying spending by major tech companies. Samsung says that the increase is "a prudent step as part of day-to-day business operations" and its "commitment to transparency." And while it’s a big increase, $900,000 is still only half of what Apple spent, and small potatoes compared to Google and Microsoft, which paid out $8.1 million and $18.2 million respectively last year.

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Trilobyte has lured The 7th Guest: 3 out of hiding (yes, it was under your bed) and onto PC, Mac, iOS and Android, possibly within the next 18 months. The 7th Guest: 3 is the 3D, puzzle-licious sequel to Trilobyte's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour.

"In the world of The 7th Guest: 3, you will re-enter the mysterious and magical mansion, newly restored with games, puzzles and artifacts," Trilobyte co-founder Charlie McHenry tells Polygon. "But it is still haunted, as players will soon discover. You will learn more about what happened on that terrible night, and discover the real story and previously hidden secrets of the gaming world's most mysterious toymaker."

Trilobyte is talking with potential financiers and plans to launch a Kickstarter in April, should funding fall through via other channels, McHenry says. The game could be done in 12 - 18 months, with some of the original development team working on The 7th Guest: 3 alongside new puzzle designers. If the actual game is as unsettling as having a colon before "3" in the title, Trilobyte is on the right track.

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With Google's annual I/O conference just over a couple of months away, the company has already begun to tease it online. Ahead of event registration, which opens on March 13th at 10AM ET, Google's I/O website features an interactive logo that can be "programmed" to return some amusing results.

It's a little easier than real coding — an indicator at the bottom of the screen flashes red or green to let you know if you're on the right track — but that doesn't mean you won't sink minutes into working out how to show the cat pictures below. We won't spoil anything else, but if you manage to turn up something cool, let us know in the comments.

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Now that he’s retired from filmmaking, George Lucas wants to build a museum in San Francisco’s Presidio region to house his substantial art collection. Last week, the Star Wars creator handed a 20-page proposal for the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum in to the Presidio Trust, which manages the area in partnership with the National Park Service. The news was reported in SFGate.

Lucas already has a major presence in the Presidio

Lucas already has a major presence in the Presidio — Industrial Light and Magic and LucasArts are located in its Letterman Digital Arts Center, which was also developed by the filmmaker. The proposed museum would house Lucas’s extensive collection of works by Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parish, comic art, and, naturally, props and concepts from the Star Wars films. There would also be space dedicated to animation and visual effects. The museum is expected to cost $250 to $300 million to build, which Lucas would pay out of pocket, along with two separate $400 million endowments paid when the museum opens and when he dies.

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After veto override, Arkansas abortion ban toughest in USA Detroit Free Press Arkansas has the nation's most restrictive abortion ban after the Republican-dominated state House voted Wednesday to override the governor's veto. The measure, S.B. 134, bans most abortions after 12 weeks if a fetal heartbeat is detected, but it includes ... Abortion Bill Veto Overridden By Arkansas State SenateHuffington Post EDIT: Arkansas adopts strict abortion lawDaily Free Press (subscription) Arkansas adopts US's most restrictive abortion lawKAALtv.com Log Cabin Democrat all 133 news articles »

Mar 6th 2013 By: Caleb Goellner

Wacom has dominated the professional grade interactive pen display and digital drawing tablet markets for decades, but in a post iOS/Android world, its had more and more competition from increasingly capable tablets like the iPad (which has no built-in pressure-sensitivity) and the Windows Surface Pro (which currently supports pressure-sensitivity akin to Wacom products). Until now the company has merely catered to these devices with the Bamboo and Bamboo Feel stylus lines, which aren't always capable of meeting the needs of most comic artists and cartoonists. According to posts on the company's official Twitter and Facebook pages, though, that's going to change this summer.

From Wacom's official Facebook page:

We've heard you shouting out loud for a Wacom mobile tablet for creative uses. Well... we're listening. We've read your email and spoken to many about an on-the-go dream device. It will come. This summer. We're working 24/7 on it. And yes, it has a real pressure-sensitive professional pen, smooth multi-touch, an HD display, and other valuable features that you haven't seen in other tablets.

Wacom's promise of a device with an HD display and multi-touch would deliver a device more powerful (and potentially, more useful) than Wacom's current entry-level pen display, the Cintiq 12WX, which has no touch screen functions and bears a native resolution of 1280 x 800 vs. the much higher pixel densities found on tablets with proper HD and retina displays. Wacom's larger and more expensive Cintiqs do offer HD, but the only model that currently offers touch capabilities - the Cintiq 24HD Touch - retails for about $3,700 and contains no operating system or software of its own. All Wacom products are, in essence, monitors that rely on interfacing with existing computers rather than independent devices, keeping them all from being "on-the-go" to the extent that modern tablets are.

Would-be users are already responding to Wacom's social media postings with a wish-list of features and capabilities they'd like to see on the "dream device," including a long-lasting battery, a textured screen, PC/Mac connectivity and interface options, pre-installed software and, perhaps most importantly, a competitive price tag.

Considering Wacom has just discounted its Cintiq 12WX by 25 percent "for a limited time," the company may be looking to move a new product into its roughly $1,000 price bracket. If this potential new tablet does wind up in that price range, those used to spending $500-930 for an iPad or $900 to $1000 on the Surface Pro shouldn't have to sneeze at the potentially viable new illustration tool. If not, many comic book artists and cartoonists may stick with their current digital art tools or turn to competitors such as Yiynova for more affordable alternatives.

Mar 6th 2013 By: Ziah Grace

It's been a few months since ComiXology teased its plan to more broadly open its digital distribution doors to independent comics creators, but starting right now, individuals can submit their own creator-owned material straight to the digital distributor via the ComiXology Submit portal.

Submitting to ComiXology requires a user account (the same one users already have set up to buy content) and specified digital files. Creators who submit comics through ComiXology will retain full ownership of their works.

ComiXology notes that its approval process is still a work in progress, but that "First and foremost, we want to maintain a level of professional content that comiXology users have come to expect from our platform. What the definition of professional content is will certainly be something that we refine as we progress into this brave new world."

After being approved, comics are formatted for standard and ComiXology's patent-pending Guided View format, which gives readers the ability to read material panel-by-panel.

Following formatting, comics will appear in the ComiXology store with prices set by the creator (although "free" is not currently an option).

From there, ComiXology splits the profit from all sales 50/50 "after subtracting any standard fees charged by the payment processors," with said fees currently listed as running between 8-30 percent, depending on whether the content is sold directly through ComiXology's site or through Apple's iOS devices, which take an additional cut.

According to Comixology's FAQ, payments will be made by check or Automated Clearing House transfer 45 days from the end of each financial quarter as long as a given release meets a minimum total accrued payment of $100. Minimums that aren't met roll over into subsequent quarters until a book makes at least $100.

While it's still up to creators to promote their work independently to ensure that they can profit from the Submit function in a meaningful way, it seems poised to provide those capable of harnessing its full potential with a revenue stream alongside print and ad supported/freemium/pay-what-you-want webcomic methods. The continuing popularity of Comixology as a reading platform doesn't guarantee creators a large audience on its own, but it does provide a an inherent degree of visibility if fans search for a given work there.

As yet, it's unknown how long the vetting process will take or how exactly approved submissions will be integrated into the main site. In the meantime, ComiXology is spotlighting a select list of independent creators and their comics on the Submit page as an example of what the end-result of the process will look like.

HarmoKnight design document comics by director James Turner

I wanted to play HarmoKnight before reading this Iwata Asks, but now that I’ve read it, and seen the super cute design documents, I’ve developed a case of the frothing demands.

In the interview, Game Freak executive director Junichi Masuda revealed that the eShop rhythm action game was developed under a program where employees put a small percent of their work time into a project of their own choosing. “We have structured things so that if you come up with an idea for a game, you can write a proposal for it;if you can then get two other people to support it, you will be given three months to make it.” After three months, if it’s going well, three more months are granted.

This Google-esque structure seems surprisingly progressive for a company like Game Freak, which I would think of as a very traditional Japanese game company (and one with one important franchise it has to support on the reg). And the result is this neat-looking eShop game!

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Requested sketch for "World's fastest pilot and their ship." Alex de Campi has written the first Symbiosis prose about this pic. http://alexdecampi.tumblr.com/post/44717878796/the-dancer-at-the-gates-


Symbiosis tech-driven food truck, at request of Will Hindmarch. Some kind of roasted sweet root! Fried things! Drink!


The Cer-Fiara cities of Bezrodnym. Each city holding thousands, the Cer-Fiara cities are the floating core of the nomadic Bezrodnym Empire.


The resonance tooth. Growing up through the sinus & into the frontal lobe, a resonance tooth allows control and communication with various bio-engines. Bio-engines have a decentralized nervous system.


Bezrodnym jump packs. Bezrodnym was one of the first cultures to perfect bio-etheric gravity control. The Lovelock Scale was established to measure bio-etheric density levels.


Expedition to industrial complex of the Nestäch Republic.




Gauntlets used in the Nestäch Republic for manipulation of the Prima Mercurius and other direct manipulations of bio-etheric phenomena.


Katherine Aeneas with The Heart of Agrippa.


Expedition to industrial complex of the Nestäch Republic.

Symbiosis halfway mark/75% funded tumblr edition! 

If you’re behind on art, here’s as much as I can cram in, along with more information about the project. 

We are about a week away from where I can start rolling out stretch goals! 

There’s a proper Kickstarter update with a video showing off my elite video skills here.

Thank you all so much, go here to see the Symbiosis project, and please keep sharing! 

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Q: We saw some haters hate when it was announced that you were doing something associated with the war criminals that work at Penny Arcade. Do you think that maybe one of those haters was Tavis?

A: I really, really like Tavis. His artwork is fun and appealing and on a human level, and he is a 100% Good Dude. I really appreciated the conversations I had with him, and respect the hell out of how hard he works.

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Now that you’ve seen a little of what each artist is capable of, let us know which group you think has the most talent in the house: The guys or the girls?

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Bilateral gynandromporphism - half female, half male.. This genetic anomaly is usually restricted to arthropods, but has been known to express itself in birds as well. 

After getting into a bit of a flame war with David Bowie over his upcoming reissue of “The Last Of The International Playboys,” Morrissey has responded with the clever rebuttal of so many an Internet wit: He’s gone for the ol' Rickroll, replacing that disputed, previously unpublished cover photo of Bowie and himself with the above image featuring Rick Astley, taken backstage at a 1989 Top Of The Pops taping. No doubt happy just to be a part of something that isn't expressly intended to annoy, Astley has already signed off on the use of his likeness, while his meaty baritone somehow escaped Morrissey’s withering condemnation and earned him a spot on the single due April 8. And after this it should just be smooooooth sailing for Morrissey, from here on out.  

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Andrew W.K. may occasionally have a bloody face and a sweaty body but, if one of his new corporate partners is to be believed, he absolutely never has a dirty crotch. The king of partying has partnered with Playtex’s new Fresh + Sexy Wipes, which W.K. says are “specially designed to help couples feel confidently clean, before and after they engage in sexual activity!” And who better to promote the hygienic exchange of intimate bodily fluids than Andrew W.K., since Terrence Howard must not have been available?

W.K. is apparently so serious about keeping your genitals clean that he’ll even headline The Fresh + Sexy Black Booth Confessional Party at SXSW where he’ll be doling out free samples and inviting hot, sweaty, drunk patrons into a "confession booth." There they'll get all hot and heavy and dish “stories about those exciting and spontaneous moments ...

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