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Gif your butt (!) over to Animal Gifs for MOAR cyoot and funneh on loop!

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The collective behaviour of moshers at heavy metal concerts is mathematically similar to a disordered 2D gas, say physicists.

“Is this for Fashion Week?”
“Nah, I just got out of jail. I’ve been wearing this shit for two weeks.”

““I am looking forward to commenting on the issues of the day and challenging our elected officials to put our country’s needs first instead of their own partisan interests,” Brown said in a statement regarding his new position at Fox. Since leaving office in early January, Brown has drawn attention from political observers for his frank and pedantic Twitter usage after taking over the Twitter account once controlled by his staff. “Just spent the morning cleaning the garage. Ugh,” he wrote Jan. 11. Brown will make his Fox debut on Wednesday night on “Hannity.””

- Scott Brown joins Fox News | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

“The new blue, red and white-ribboned Distinguished Warfare Medal will be awarded to individuals for “extraordinary achievement” related to a military operation that occurred after Sept. 11, 2001. But unlike other combat medals, it does not require the recipient risk his or her life to get it. Officials said the new medal will be the first combat-related award to be created since the Bronze Star in 1944. A recognition of the evolving 21st Century warfare, the medal will be considered a bit higher in ranking than the Bronze Star, but is lower than the Silver Star, defense officials said.”

- Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars - Yahoo! News

Performers from the Unidos da Tijuca samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome, on February 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

(via Carnival 2013 in Brazil - In Focus - The Atlantic)

The Sid & Nancy Nintendo Lost Levels is an illustrated project by Brazilian designer Butcher Billy that portrays Sid Vicious (bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols) and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen as the classic Nintendo video game characters Mario and Princess Peach. Prints, apparel, iPhone cases, pillows and more are available to purchase online at Society6.

Butcher Billy explains his project in further detail:

When Nintendo World, the official magazine for the japanese videogame giant in Brazil, invited me to bring my personal vision to one of the greatest company’s characters, I couldn’t be happier. Been a retro gamer since the NES times, I take games as a form of art and one of my inspirations in pop culture along with cinema, tv, comics, music and others.

I decided to go with everyone’s favourite italian plumber. Instead of simply trying to make Mario look badass (like loads of pointless fan-arts across the web), I wanted to challenge myself, choosing the most improbable and badass real life characters I could think of, and make them impersonate Mario and his universe, yet keeping both visual sources totally recognizable in their concepts.

images via Butcher Billy on Behance

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Emerald City Comicon is a comic book & pop culture convention that will be taking place from Friday, March 1, 2013 to Sunday, March 3, 2013 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. A wide variety of celebrity, special and gaming guests will be attending. You can view news updates online to see what activities and guests are being added to the event regularly. Tickets are now available to purchase online.

image via Emerald City Comicon

Mimi-Chan the cat quickly & loudly knocks on a door by kicking with either back paw when wanting to go into the other room.

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via Tastefully Offensive

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“Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji. Each of the book’s approximately 10,000 sentences has been translated three times by a Amazon Mechanical Turk worker. These results have been voted upon by another set of workers, and the most popular version of each sentence has been selected for inclusion in this book. In total, over eight hundred people spent approximately 3,795,980 seconds working to create this book. Each worker was paid five cents per translation and two cents per vote per translation. The funds to pay the Amazon Turk workers and print the initial run of this book were raised from eighty three people over the course of thirty days using the funding platform Kickstarter.”

- Emoji Dick

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

The New Yorker

The following opinions…

Grounds for friendship

Jerk

Most of the CriticMarkup processing for the CLI, Sublime Text and BBEdit modules is done with regular expression matching. I'm terrible at regex. My best friend through the whole process was Sublime Text. I could load some example text and pop open the search bar. When in regex mode, the search field highlights the escaped characters and also performs real-time matching on the document ext. Granted, this is some simple regex, but we didn't start simple, we ended simple.¹

There are other great tools for working with regular expressions, but I already do most of my writing in Sublime Text.

This is one of the regular expression I'm using in the CriticMarkup CLI. It's a beast and to be honest, pretty darn hard for me to read. without a notepad and a pen.

(?s)\{\~\~(?P<original>(?:[^\~\>]|(?:\~(?!\>)))+)\~\>(?P<new>(?:[^\~\~]|(?:\~(?!\~\})))+)\~\~\}

My favorite tool for looking at and thinking about how a regex works is Regexper.com. It shows a diagram depicting what's going on with a regex. I also like the motto: "You thought you only had two problems..."

Unfortunately for me, most of the really good regular expression tools are on Windows. I used them when I really had to but I mostly experimented within CodeRunner by writing some Python code.²

Two great Windows-only tools are RegExBuddy and Regex Coach. Regex Coach is particularly useful because you can watch it step through matching a string, complete with all of the forward and backward movements. It's kind of mesmerizing. Unfortunately, when I'm on Windows, I'm working. When I'm not working, I'm on a Mac.

The best site for learning about Regular Expressions is probably regular-expressions.info. There's some good stuff there.

1. There are also some possible future extensions of CriticMarkup in there. I left them in as a reminder. I'm also terrible at version control and software development. I don't let that stop me. ↩

2. I own Patterns, but it doesn't really give me anything I don't already have with Sublime Text. ↩

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: A Good Day To Die Hard has us thinking about less-heralded Bruce Willis movies.

Hudson Hawk (1991)
Some years ago, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars signed on to play the lead role in an adventure that found him running all over Europe seeking various items hidden in the work of Leonardo da Vinci, all while trying not to be murdered by members of a diabolical secret society. That scenario didn’t work out quite as well for Bruce Willis, however, as it later would for Tom Hanks. Hudson Hawk was one of the most notorious flops of the ’90s, still a bad-movie punchline over two decades later. And Willis, frankly, shoulders a lot of the blame—not just because he helped think up the crazy story, but because this movie arguably ...

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Release the Hounds

Opera Software has announced that it will move away from its own Presto rendering engine in favor of WebKit, the software engine that powers the Chrome and Safari browsers. "It makes more sense to have our experts working with the open source communities to further improve WebKit and Chromium, rather than developing our own rendering engine further," says CTO Håkon Wium Lie. The company says there will be a "gradual transition" this year to WebKit and Chromium across desktop and mobile.

Details of a WebKit-powered mobile browser from Opera first leaked last month. Codenamed "Ice", CEO Lars Boilesen was quoted as saying that it was designed to take on Safari and Chrome in the mobile space; the browser will be formally revealed at this month's Mobile World Congress. But the revelation that Opera is planning to adopt WebKit on the desktop, too, marks the end of an era for the Norwegian company, which introduced Presto a decade ago with Opera 7. The announcement was made as the company celebrated reaching the milestone of 300 million monthly users across all its platforms.

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xcakyo:

Beyoncé yo te elijo!!

collegehumor:

Clearance Sale on Poop Pants and Aptly Named Items

Look, just tell me what I’m looking at.

sellingstories:

Newcastle Brown Ale - Who uses the word “chalice”? (Droga5)

Newcastle Brown Ale takes the piss out of Stella Artois’ “It’s a chalice, not a glass” campaign. This is one of the best media buys I have ever seen.

““I just want everyone to know that my decision not to serve a second term as Energy Secretary has absolutely nothing to do with the allegations made in this week’s edition of the Onion. While I’m not going to confirm or deny the charges specifically, I will say that clean, renewable solar power is a growing source of U.S. jobs and is becoming more and more affordable, so it’s no surprise that lots of Americans are falling in love with solar.””

- Energy Secretary Steven Chu is SOTU ‘Designated Survivor’ | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

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sonicboomerang:

Wholock AU The Doctor seeks an old friend’s help to find his new companion.

“What’s her name?”

“Clara.”

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Das W3C-Konsortium arbeitet an einem DRM-Mechanismus für HTML. <Ironie Mode>Oh, yes please!</Ironie Mode>

The W3C’s HTML Working Group recently decided that a proposal to add DRM to HTML media elements — formally known as the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal — is indeed within its purview and the group will be working on it.

That doesn’t mean that the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal will become a standard as is, but it does up the chances that some sort of DRM system will make its way into HTML.

The Encrypted Media Extensions proposal — which is backed by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Netflix and dozens of other media giants — technically does not add DRM to HTML. Instead it defines a framework for bringing a DRM system, or “protected media content” as the current draft puts it, to the web.

DRM for the Web? Say It Ain’t So

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