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Ladyada and pt confirmed in person, the MakerBot store in NYC is now closed. However, on the same day they visited HomeDepot and there are MakerBots being sold there and in NYC there are at least 2-3 other 3D printing stores. Check out our ongoing coverage of MakerBot here.

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Dear Person who ignored the very polite request to not film the Neko Case concert last night: You are a selfish prick. I hope your 40 seconds of terrible footage was worth pissing Neko off, causing her to skip any encore. Your entitled, she-must-not-mean-me attitude is obnoxious, and I hope it gets you punched in the teeth, soon. You suck. You went to see a musician you LIKE. That musician asked at the beginning of the show, very politely, to not film her because it makes her nervous. You ignored that request and filmed anyway. Go play in traffic. On the flip side, Ms Case - lovely show until it was ruined by entitled pricks. Your voice is, if possible, better live than on record.

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This morning Target launched its collaboration with whimsical print queen, Lilly Pulitzer. And unsurprisingly, it turned into a epic shit show because affordable Lilly Pulitzer is something that a certain kind of Southern woman dreams about a night. Women lined up outside of Targets to grab the perfect pair of pink and green cropped pants and, by 8 a.m., the entire collection was sold out. Lilly buyers also managed to crash Target’s website. Here’s a shot of the Watertown, Massachusetts store after the hoards were allowed through the doors. In the ensuing chaos, monogrammed jewelry was ripped and Vera Bradley handbags were used as weapons (probably).

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“Michelle would point out first ladies get paid nothing. So there’s clearly not equal pay in the White House when it comes to her and me.”

- President Obama. The president gets paid $400,000 a year — and so should the first lady.
(via micdotcom)

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These suits all boil down to a rather simple allegation: these companies pay the people who supply the equipment and manpower that power their businesses like independent contractors, while burdening them with the work expectations of employees.

His menacing fourth quarter in Game 1 proves any assumed limit on his potential is too low.

Pressure is a funny thing. Its presence and power is based completely on expectations, rewards and consequences. There was immense pressure on Pelicans GM Dell Demps and coach Monty Williams this season. Reports suggest that without a playoff berth, they'd be looking for new jobs. The reason: Anthony Davis is in his third year in the league and had not sniffed the postseason despite showing actualized potential.

The specter of losing Davis like Cleveland lost LeBron James or like Minnesota lost Kevin Love had to weigh on the Pelicans' braintrust, leading to the ultimatum for Demps and Williams. Having a transformative star, one who could permanently link the heart of New Orleans to your brand and create new generations of customers while fitting into the city lore? That's pressure. Pressure begets pressure. You trade all of your picks for role players and you do everything you can to win as many games as it takes. And sometimes it works out, as it did for Demps and Williams.

And because it worked out for Demps and Williams, there is now no pressure on the Pelicans. The goal for this season has been met. Everything else is frosting on the cupcake. Facing an impossibly good team, playing in the most hostile arena the NBA can offer, they're slotted in as a sacrificial lamb, a footnote in a more urgent legend being written. That's what the Pelicans are supposed to be right now because their work is done. They have done their job.

Anthony Davis is just so good that just showing up is never going to be enough.

It really did look like the Pelicans would hop on the pyre in deference to Golden State for most of Saturday's Game 1. The Warriors flummoxed Davis by defending him with Andrew Bogut and Draymond Green -- perhaps the best defensive frontcourt in the West -- and doubling off of shooters when he put the rock on the floor.

Golden State was content to let other Pelicans beat them, because, frankly, the other Pelicans cannot beat them. Norris Cole had one nice quarter, but Tyreke Evans suffered a knee injury that seems serious and missed most of the game. Neither Eric Gordon (5-of-14) nor Ryan Anderson (1-of-6) shot particularly well against good Warriors defenders. Jrue Holiday is too rusty to assert himself, and Quincy Pondexter can't carry much of a load. Davis was furthermore saddled with foul trouble, leaving New Orleans without hope.

Until Fourth Quarter Anthony Davis showed up.

During the regular season, Davis averaged 6.4 points in fourth quarters, fifth-highest in the NBA. More impressively, he shot 58 percent from the floor, per NBA.com's stats page. He went a little better on Saturday: Twenty points on 7-of-10 shooting. The rest of the Pelicans went 5-of-15 for 13 points in the quarter. Davis was the sole reason New Orleans fought back into the game. He was the only thing separating the Pels from ignominy.

There is literally no pressure on Davis to prove his chops, not after the season he had and the coup de grace he delivered in the Pelicans' clinching victory Wednesday against the Spurs. Getting to this point was enough to cement Davis' status as the brightest young star in the NBA galaxy. Now he's just whetting our appetite for what is possible. And what is possible is anything and everything.

Consider his accomplishment on Sunday, even in a loss. Few teams have been able to stop the Warriors this season, and only two inside Oracle Arena. Yet he single-handedly made that megalith sweat. He forced Stephen Curry to get off the bench. He shushed the loudest crowd in the nation. He shut up Green. (If only for a moment.) He dared step up to the greatest showmen in the NBA right now, and he had the most thrilling highlight.

Many of us lamented the loss of a maniacal Russell Westbrook raging against the Warriors and the world in a futile first-round flame war. What we got instead is a maniacal Anthony Davis menacing the best team on the planet. There are still no expectations for what the Pelicans might do in this series, and there can be no expectations for what Davis might yet become, for the human brain is incapable of grasping possibilities so vast.

But if all of this is just frosting on the success of New Orleans' season, man is it delicious.

At least two dissidents made it past a first round of voting and are standing as candidates in municipal elections that will be watched on and off the island Sunday as an unprecedented test of Cuba's single-party system. Both men told The Associated Press that they expect to win the second round and become the first officials elected from outside the Communist Party since the first electoral law was established by Fidel Castro's government in 1976. Outside observers said the mere fact that dissidents Hildebrando Chaviano and Yuniel Lopez are on the ballot is the first indication Cuba's leadership may be softening at least the appearance of its monolithic control of politics.

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Californians: we got in n out 

me: we got water

Foul 😂

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

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Really happy to see this at my local library

OOOOH. *happy YA librarian dance*

I want this in every library, everywhere. After all, some kids won’t even google this stuff because they don’t want parents/siblings checking their browser history.

This is really awesome. And if you’re not familiar with how the Dewey Decimal system works - the numbers subject-based, which means these numbers are applicable in EVERY library. So if you see something you want to research on this list - look for those same numbers in any of your local libraries.

Understand Kohl’s way of doing business and you understand my thoughts about governing, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told New Hampshire Republicans Saturday night. He spoke in an awkwardly-shaped set of restaurant rooms at the Nashua hotel where the meeting has been taking place. The main site of the two-day summit was occupied Saturday night by a wedding.

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Old Dude seeing me on my phone: Why don't you read the news instead of tweeting and texting.

Me: I'm actually reading an article from The Economist on my phone about Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan's mock elections. What are your thoughts on the topic?

Old Dude taken aback: I don't know.

Me: Well then why don't you read the news instead of chastising teenagers on their phones?

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Officials: 3 shot, injured at Delaware State cookout SFGate DOVER, Del. (AP) — Three men were shot and injured Saturday night at a cookout on the Delaware State University campus, officials said, and authorities are searching for the shooter. The shooting happened at about 8 p.m. at a university-sanctioned ... Police: 2 shootings at Delaware State University, 3 woundedUPI.com Two Shootings at Delaware State University in Span of Five HoursGawker UPDATE: More shots fired after DSU shootingWMDT Daily Observer -Benchmark Reporter all 179 news articles »

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“I wanted something really heavy, but didn’t take up too much space,” says the visual designer for a Houston genetics company. Eager supporters have poured $487,241 into a Kickstarter campaign that promises to deliver small cubes of polished metal. The Kilo Cube does nothing but simply look a bit mysterious sitting on your desk. That didn’t stop backers from ponying up $199 for a single, 1.5-inch cube.

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We love this Darth Vader super cut from YouTube user DBZGTBGM1991.

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A memo sent today to BuzzFeed’s editorial staff, outlining the preliminary results of Buzzfeed News Deputy Managing Editor Annie-Rose Strasser’s review, details three incidents where BuzzFeed’s business interests influenced the deletion of posts—in one case because a post criticized a brand’s Twitter account at the very moment that Twitter account was being operated by BuzzFeed’s internal marketing department.

As reported by TechCrunch, "Google says it plans to propose HTTP2-over-QUIC to the IETF as a new Internet standard in the future," having disclosed a few days ago that about half of the traffic from Chrome browsers is using QUIC already. From the article: The name "QUIC" stands for Quick UDP Internet Connection. UDP's (and QUIC's) counterpart in the protocol world is basically TCP (which in combination with the Internet Protocol (IP) makes up the core communication language of the Internet). UDP is significantly more lightweight than TCP, but in return, it features far fewer error correction services than TCP. ... That's why UDP is great for gaming services. For these services, you want low overhead to reduce latency and if the server didn't receive your latest mouse movement, there's no need to spend a second or two to fix that because the action has already moved on. You wouldn't want to use it to request a website, though, because you couldn't guarantee that all the data would make it. With QUIC, Google aims to combine some of the best features of UDP and TCP with modern security tools.

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Historic aviation kingpin Kermit Weeks gives us a first-person account of every movement and operation necessary to start up, barnstorm around in, and shut down a magnificent P-51C Mustang. It is amazing to see just how docile the Mustang can be when flown by an experienced hand.

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Cute illustrations by Ms. Cat