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guess who’s rewatching Pushing Daisie (it’s me)

I love these two.  They just like, get stuck together because they’re the only two left.”Hi Emerson!” “Hi Olive……”

“While data shows that overall happiness in your relationship fell 8 more points, there is still a 31 percent chance of makeup sex this Friday, depending on average energy levels after work and how proactive you’re feeling (see chart). However, if you just order $18 of Chinese takeout like you did last weekend, projections show a 16.8 percent drop in possible intercourse and a whopping 74.2 percent upswing in Netflix-streaming, with both of you falling asleep long before the movie is over.”

- Nate Silver offers up a statistical analysis of your failing relationship | McSweeney

I’ve been revisiting the Journey designs, polishing them up. Changed the hood design slightly, so that it’s slightly more winterized, and more evocative of the wayfarers.

I haven’t redrawn the scarf yet, but don’t worry, it will be a part of the final design.

Rejected Mega Man bosses and other sketches by Anthony Clark (Nedroid)

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CWmike writes "Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has ported part of QuickOffice to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser. The popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office that Google acquired last year will run using 'Native Client,' a technology that lets developers turn applications written in C and C++ — originally intended to run in, say, Windows. With that it will execute entirely within a browser, specifically Google's own Chrome. Google claims that Native Client code runs almost as fast inside the browser as the original did outside. QuickOffice viewers come bundles with the $1,300 Chrome OS-based Chromebook Pixel notebook, and Google will add editing functionality in the next two to three months. Does this all make the Pixel make more sense?"

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Yeah, so this is nuts....

Thingiverse denizen Kaipa has created a partially wooden filament for 3D printers. Called LAYWOO-D3, the stuff is 40% recycled wood with the rest of it being a binding polymer. It's flexible but prints without warping and the stuff even smells like wood. It comes out light-colored at 180 Celsius and darker at 245, so you can vary the tone. And after being printed, the resultant object can reportedly be worked with woodworking tools.

MakerBot users, don't get too excited; for now the stuff is only compatible with RepRaps.

LAYWOO-D3 is for sale here, by a company called FormFutura. Despite the exciting nature of this development, they've managed to create the world's dullest video:

Just goes to show the future never turns out like you'd think it would. Imagine someone coming up to you ten years ago and saying "Someday, you'll be able to 3D print a wood-like material. And it will be more boring than watching paint dry."

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“What happens when you can’t find the City Hall’s Bible and you need to promote some firefighters to Battalion Chief and Fire Captain? If you’re the Atlantic City Fire Department of Atlantic City, New Jersey, you grab an iPad and load up your favorite Bible app to complete the swearing in ceremony.”

(iPad app replaces physical Bible in New Jersey swear-in ceremony | The Verge via Irwin)

Skeletons of an Anthropologist & His Favorite Dog at the Smithsonian

Eine italienische Jeansfirma hat sich das Wort Jesus schützen lassen und geht jetzt gegen Modefirmen vor, die ebenfalls Klamotten mit Heiland machen wollen. Holy Shit!

In a branding coup of biblical proportions, an Italian jeans maker persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2007 to register the word “Jesus” as a trademark, giving the company exclusive rights in America to sell clothing bearing the name of Christianity’s central figure.

Since then, the owner of the trademark, Jesus Jeans, has clamped down on Jesus-themed apparel, pitting its litigators against more than a dozen other startup clothing lines it claims appropriated “Jesus” without the company’s blessing. The company doesn’t have a trademark on images of Jesus, just the word.

If You Take These Jeans’ Name in Vain, Prepare to Meet Their Maker

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Today’s top story from the northernmost newspaper in the world:
“It was at 10 o’clock in the morning last Tuesday the two dogs got out of a cage and into an open port in the yard. The dogs began to run after two reindeer and attack one. A person managed for a while to tear both of them away from the deer, but the animal was already badly damaged, according Sysselmannen.no. company that operates the kennels are fined 8000 kroner which they have adopted. According to the Svalbard Environmental Protection Act, the lead of the Arctic dogs all year.”

TableTopDay.com is Saturday, March 30th, 2013:

On March 30th, 2013 , we ask you to go to your friendly local game store, neighborhood coffee shop, school auditorium, community center, or host a game day at your home and play more games. - See more at: http://tabletopday.com/#sthash.7Ve9HCaW.dpuf On March 30th, 2013 , we ask you to go to your friendly local game store, neighborhood coffee shop, school auditorium, community center, or host a game day at your home and play more games. - See more at: http://tabletopday.com/#sthash.7Ve9HCaW.dpuf

Only a day after telling Jamie Bell he’s got exactly the charisma they’re looking for in a cabbage farmer, AMC has cast Lee Pace in the lead of its other previously announced period drama, this one about the early-’80s boom in personal computing. The former Pushing Daisies star will play the iconoclastic, “visionary” computing engineer at the center of Halt & Catch Fire, a former IBM salesman who turns up at a Dallas-area tech company to work with Mackenzie Davis’ “talented but volatile computer programming graduate student” on creating the technological innovations that “directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time.” For example, pursuing their visionary, volatile ideas that every typed command should cause the computer to stop whatever it’s doing immediately and burst into flames, to punish stupid consumers. Or maybe Halt & Catch Fire is a common idiom for something in the tech world—what do ...

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astroengine writes "Helped by the extensive coverage of eyewitness cameras, CCTV footage and a fortuitous observation made by the Meteosat-9 weather satellite, Jorge Zuluaga and Ignacio Ferrin of the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, have been able to reconstruct the most likely orbit of the meteoroid that slammed into the atmosphere over the Russian Urals region on Feb. 15. What's more, they know what type of space rock it was — the Chelyabinsk-bound meteoroid originated from an Apollo-class asteroid (PDF). Apollo asteroids are well-known near-Earth asteroids that cross the orbit of Earth. Around 5,200 Apollo asteroids are currently known, the largest being 1866 Sisyphus — a 10 kilometer-wide monster that was discovered in 1972."

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We haven't seen too many great re-cut trailers lately—perhaps the standard set by turning The Shining into a comedy was just too high. But this new trailer for the 1985 classic Real Genius, which presents it as a thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is pretty, umm, genius. The best moment is Val Kilmer's sarcastic face (at about 1:30) that's reinterpreted as grief-stricken. (Also, there's never enough Lazlo Hollyfeld in the world.) Stick around for the laser-assisted climax. [h/t to BoingBoing]

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Kerry defends liberties, says Americans have "right to be stupid" - Yahoo! News:

“That’s freedom of speech. In America, you have a right to be stupid if you want to be. And you have the right to be disconnected to somebody else if you want to be.”

While you may have “forgotten” to email lately and hidden them from your Facebook feed, One Million Moms still just want to be a part of your lives, because they love you in a way that only One Million Moms can love you—with a mom’s normal paranoid, overbearing attention, times One Million. And yes, fine, you’re all grown up and you’ve got your own lives to lead, but One Million Moms just wants to make sure, as it sits you down for another heart-to-tremblingly-fear-and-hate-filled-heart, is that those lives don’t include any bestiality. After all, it’s One Million Moms’ job to worry when their darling brood leave the nest—particularly when that brood is being lured into other nests, made by animals with the express purpose of getting it on with you.

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This pizza cat is all of my favorite things at once.

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In keeping with the show’s themes of encroaching modernization on an archaic way of life, Downton Abbey is preparing to introduce one black man to its cast, thereby reflecting the historical introduction of one black man to early 20th-century English society. That black man, a 1920s jazz musician named Jack Ross, will join the cast in the show’s fourth season, and is described as “a real man” (not a hallucination) who is also “very attractive” and boasting “a certain wow factor.” (As in, “Wow, there is a black man on Downton Abbey.”)

The search is now on for one of the surely dozens of black men who have joined the United Kingdom since then to play Ross, though in order to hedge those bets, The Huffington Post has also suggested American actors Taye Diggs, Donald Faison, and even Donald Glover (who has previous experience solving issues of diversity ...

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Good parenting is, at least in theory, about presenting children with good models for behavior. Thankfully, the Barnes & Noble website has an entire category devoted to biographies of rappers written specifically for educating kids. The subjects deemed worthy of study by the next generation range from Dr. Dre to Ludacris to noted kid-friendly role model Chris Brown.

For those looking to research exactly which biographies are worth putting in the nursery, many of the books include helpful descriptions, like this one from DMX: “After spending much of his youth in group homes, the chance that DMX would become a star in any field (except perhaps in the field of criminal activity) seemed remote. Against all odds, DMX found his way out of poverty and into success. But, as readers of DMX will learn, he has not always been able to leave behind his problems with the legal community.”

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Parade's End makes its American debut tonight on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Parade’s End moves like a still-life. I don’t just mean the narrative, though somewhere around hour three of whatever was going on with the war, I began to wonder if I’d ever feel again. The more crucial point is that the narrative is realized with sandpaper, so smooth and flat, so heavy and concrete. The HBO/BBC miniseries chronicles the life and times of a watched pot who takes a decade to boil. On the page—and here I mean Ford Maddox Ford’s tetralogy as well as Tom Stoppard’s screenplay—it’s a storm, a cackling whirlwind constantly threatening to tear stiff-lipped, marble-mouthed encyclopedia Christopher Tietjens from his right honourable value system, or at least provoke a grimace. On the screen, it’s more of a drizzle, a nuisance you ...

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jfruh writes "More than a decade ago, the special effects artists working the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report synthesized experimental thinking about GUIs to produce a floating interface that Tom Cruise manipulated with his hands. In 2013, surrounded by iOS and Android and Windows 8 devices, we use stripped down versions of this interface every day — and commercial artist Christian Brown thinks that's a bad thing. Such devices may look cinematic, he argues, but they completely ignore the kinds of haptic and textured feedback that have defined how we interact with devices for centuries." Speaking of Minority Report interfaces — a new armband sensor using a gesture-based control scheme is the latest gadget to invoke references to the movie.

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