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“Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama’s former press secretary, says that he was once instructed by the White House not to acknowledge the administration’s use of drones. “When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you’re not even to acknowledge the drone program,” Gibbs said on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes” on Sunday. “You’re not even to discuss that it exists.””

- Gibbs: I was told not to acknowledge existence of drone program as Obama press secretary | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

“One of the many things that I didn’t know, and that I learned form Marjolein van Riemsdijk’s book, is that De Insekten Sekte was asked in 1968 by the Wereld Natuur Fonds to think up something that would make children aware of the environmental problems. Grootveld, Kley and Reneman came with the idea to let children make blue flags with a gold/yellow butterfly on it, as a symbol of the imagination and metamorphosis. Those flags could be hang “half stok” whenever there was another environmental disaster. The plan was welcomed with enthousiasm. But when Theo Kley said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper that the flags should also be used when Prins Bernard went out on one of his hunting trips in Africa, the Wereld Natuur Fonds blew off the whole campaign. Max Reneman, Huub Mathijsen and Theo Kley did visit John Lennon and Yoko Ono, when they were in the Amsterdam Hilton, and handed them one of the flags.”

(via Showcase - Magies Sentrum)

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Urban Druid performing spirit sorcery in park, around year 1900. Well that’s just fucking cool.

This March marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of Will Eisner’s influential graphic novel A Contract with God, and to celebrate, the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation is hosting a 10-day series of events in more than a dozen cities. The theme is one that’s worth getting behind — “Read a Graphic Novel.”

“This year, we will be having Will Eisner Week celebrations in more places than ever before,” said Will Eisner Week Organizing Committee Chair Danny Fingeroth in a press release. “The people doing the events are planning some amazing happenings that will spread the word about how cool graphic novels are, and that celebrate Will Eisner’s astonishing body of work done over a career that spanned seven decades.”

Events will take place across America, from Oregon to Arkansas to New York, and will include panels at cons, guest lectures and readings, and screenings of Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist. Check out the event poster and schedule below.

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Will Eisner Week 2013 events include:

March 1-15, SAVANNAH, GA: Savannah College of Art and Design will hold several events run by Professor David Duncan, including a March 2 screening of “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist” and various Eisner-themed art sessions.

March 2, 4:00-4:55 PM, SEATTLE, WA: Emerald City Comic Convention panel: Eisner’s “A Contract With God—Reflections on the 35th Anniversary,” featuring Dennis O’Neil, Batton Lash, Matt Fraction, Jackie Estrada, and Ben Saunders.

March 3-10, PITTSBURGH, PA: Various events at the Toonseum, including a screening of the documentary “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist” by Andrew & Jon Cooke on March 6.

March 4-8, ARKADELPHIA, AR: The Comics Arts Club of Henderson State University, under the direction of Professor Randy Duncan, will study Eisner’s work in the context of Immigrant Experience Focus Week.

March 6: 7:30 PM, PORTLAND, OR: The Art Institute of Portland: Lecture on Eisner by Dark Horse Editor Diana Schutz.

March 7, 6:30-9:30 PM, NEW YORK, NY: The Society of Illustrators hosts a Will Eisner Sketch Night.

March 7, 7:00-9:00 PM, SAN FRANCISCO, CA: The Cartoon Art Museum. An Evening With Mario Hernandez, including a discussion of Eisner’s influence.

March 7, 7:30 PM, PORTLAND, OR: The Jack London Bar. A reading of Eisner’s “Last Day in Vietnam,” with Brian Bendis, Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Michael Oeming, and Dylan Meconis.

March 7, 7:00-9:30 PM, BOSTON, MA: Tufts University. Screening of “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist,” followed by a panel discussion including A. David Lewis, Chuck Henebry, and Stephen Weiner.

March 10, 1:00-4:00 PM, MINNEAPOLIS, MN: Minneapolis College of Art and Design hosts a Graphic Novel Read-In, featuring a screening of “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist.”

March 11, 7:00-9:00 PM, NEW YORK, NY: Parsons/The New School, Comics & Picture-Story Symposium. Jeremy Dauber and Danny Fingeroth discuss Eisner’s work in the context of Jewish-American literature.

March 12, WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT: Center for Cartoon Studies. Lecture on Eisner by Stephen Bissette. (For CCS students only.)

March 14, 7:30 PM, BURBANK, CA: The Animation Guild will hold a special Comic Art Professional Society meeting devoted to Eisner, hosted by Scott! Shaw.

Celebrations are also being planned for Amherst, MA and Washington, DC. Check www.willeisnerweek.com for updates on all events.

Freshly Exhumed writes "An endorsement from Oprah Winfrey; a film deal from Steven Spielberg; a debut at the top of The New York Times bestsellers list. These are the things every author craves most. While the first two require the favor of a benevolent deity, the third can be had by anyone with the ability to write a check — a pretty big one, to ResultSource, a San Diego-based marketing consultancy — in what Forbes says is essentially a laundering operation aimed at deceiving the book-buying public into believing a title is more in-demand than it is. Soren Kaplan, a business consultant and speaker, hired ResultSource to promote his book Leapfrogging. Responding to the WSJ article on his website, Kaplan breaks out the economics of making the list. 'It's no wonder few people in the industry want to talk about bestseller campaigns,' he writes. 'Put bluntly, they allow people with enough money, contacts, and know-how to buy their way onto bestseller lists.'"

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Game Boy carts and boxes were an accessory at Williamsburg Fashion Weekend 2013

The t-shirts, t-skirts, and Game Boy necklaces (they look like print-outs and not the actual carts) are from fashion and graphic pop artist Marco Santaniello. Photos by Jena Cumbo, make up by Dori Hmua.

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“Bush’s tendency to dance in the backfield “frustrated” the Dolphins last season.”

- Reggie Bush unlikely to re-sign with Miami Dolphins - NFL.com

digi-egg:

Digimon Adventure Brazillian Opening.

“You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.”

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Daniell Koepke (via internal-acceptance-movement)

It took me 24 years to figure this out, but once I did I was free.

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let me tell you a little bit about myself:

effington replied to your photo: lame horse must be put out of his misery

noooo the final frame should be him putting glasses with tape on the bridge on the horse and combing its mane into a terrible slicked back middle part

Lame Horse Remix (feat. Anna)

Cephalopods = Awesome

Check out this awesome video of marine biologist Roger Hanlon following an octopus who isn’t the least bit interested in his company and exhibits some amazing camouflage skills in effort to get away from him. 

[via Geekologie]

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Brother of Olympian murder suspect Oscar Pistorius accused of killing motorcyclist Detroit Free Press JOHANNESBURG -- The murder case involving Olympic star Oscar Pistorius took another unexpected turn Sunday with the news that his older brother, Carl, is himself facing charges for the death of a woman in a traffic accident. Carl Pistorius faces a charge ... Oscar to approach High Court?iAfrica.com all 233 news articles »

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Extra batteries?

Badass denim? 

Cyberpunk as fuck! 

Every year, Washington pours tens of billions of dollars into scientific research projects (like the brain activity mapping project). These are projects you help pay for with taxes. These government-funded investigations give rise to roughly 65,000 peer-reviewed papers a year. Weirdly, a bunch of these remain inaccessible to you, unless you hold a subscription to the journal in which they're published, and some of these journals are pretty expensive. More »

Those of us have been dual booting Linux, Windows, and OS X operating systems for a while will be familiar with bootloaders such as GRUB and its ilk. Surprisingly, though, we haven’t seen a bootloader for the most popular computer of the last year – the Raspberry Pi. It makes sense to have a bootloader for the Raspberry Pi; with dozens of different distributions from Raspbian, Occidentalis, and a bunch of  more esoteric distros, we’re surprised we’re only just now seeing a proper bootloader for the Raspi.

Berryboot is extremely simple to install – just copy it onto a FAT formatted SD card and you can install multiple OSes on your Raspberry Pi. On booting, Berryboot shows a dialog box of all the installed operating systems, with new ones able to be installed over the internet from a Berryboot menu.

You can grab Berryboot over on the gits. Berryboot also works with those Allwinner A10 single board computers, but the Hackaday tip line hasn’t seen hide nor hair of those boards.

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By Megan Farokhmanesh on Feb 24, 2013 at 8:32a

Age of Conan: Unchained is now free-to-play for all Windows PC Steam users, Valve announced on its website.

Unchained is a massively multiplayer online game set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, where players explore Hyboria as one of 12 different classes. Those who download the Steam version will receive a special in-game cape.

Steam is also offering Age of Conan: Unchained's downloadable content at a discount. The Tortage Survival Pack is 35 percent off its regular $9.99 price, and buyers can pick it up for $6.49 for a limited time. The pack adds a set of beginner weapons, as well as the Totem of Origins, Bag of Holding, Enruned Kosalan Ring and more.

Age of Conan: Unchained was released in 2008. The game and its DLC can be downloaded here.

Wonder no more (and note the CueCat on the dash). Spotted around Camberville.

Via Boston Reddit.

Bloomberg hat ausgerechnet, dass die Too Big To Fail For Trial-Banken nicht wirklich profitabel sind und ohne Subventionen durch den Steuerzahler grade mal so den Break-Even schaffen. Dazu empfehle ich diese zwei Jahre alte Studie, die Besitzverhältnisse internationaler Konzerne durchleuchtet hat und eine wirtschaftliche „Super-Entity“ in Form genau dieser Banken ausmacht, die Kontrolle über die Konzerne ausübt. Daraus ergibt sich dann ein hübsches, klares Bild einer Quasi-Weltregierung, die globale Wirtschaftspolitik mit Finanzströmen betreibt und die zu einem guten Anteil vom Steuerzahler finanziert wird. Ich bin echt kein Freund von Verschwörungstheorien, aber das klingt schlüssig.

Von Bloomberg: Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year? (via Fefe)

The top five banks — JPMorgan, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. – - account for $64 billion of the total subsidy, an amount roughly equal to their typical annual profits (see tables for data on individual banks). In other words, the banks occupying the commanding heights of the U.S. financial industry — with almost $9 trillion in assets, more than half the size of the U.S. economy — would just about break even in the absence of corporate welfare. In large part, the profits they report are essentially transfers from taxpayers to their shareholders.

Von Plos One: The Network of Global Corporate Control (via New Aesthetics)

We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.

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It may just be another 3D printer, but [Jonas] and [Simon]‘s Kühling & Kühling RepRap Industrial is a cross between a work of art and a beautiful machine tool. It also looks to be a pretty nice 3D printer, to boot.

The Kühling RepRap is built out of 20mm t-slot aluminum with plastic sides that keep the machine’s internals at a toasty 70° C, just about the optimal temperature for making large, complex prints. The machine has two extruders with all the cables tucked away in 3D printed cable carriers. One really interesting bit of innovation is the tool less belt t tensioning system.

On the list of upcoming features, [Jonas] and [Simon] say they want to add a touch screen controller powered by a Raspberry Pi, and a controller that’s even more capable than RAMPS electronics boards. No word on how much a Kühling & Kühling RepRap will cost, but like any quality-looking tool, we don’t expect it to be cheap.

Filed under: 3d Printer hacks

““In short, the record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees,” wrote the judges. “Accordingly, we find that [the Yankees] have a protectable trademark right in the term … as used in connection with baseball.””

- Judge rules that Yankees are baseball’s only ‘Evil Empire’ | Big League Stew - Yahoo! Sports