I haven't printed it myself yet, but several folks have already bought it in 10mm and 15mm. I figure this should bring something a little different to those tabletop minis games!
DC Comics is ending its New 52 imprint this June, the company announced via press release today.
Starting June 3, the publishing line will feature 24 new comics and 25 ongoing comics. Despite the New 52 coming to an end, DC Comics confirms this is not another reboot, and it is not returning to a pre-New 52 universe.
"This heralds in a new era for the DC Universe which will allow us to publish something for everyone, be more expansive and modern in our approach and tell stories that better reflect the society around us," said DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Dan DiDio in a press release. "Whether you've been a DC fan your whole life, or whether you are new to comics - there will be a book for you beginning in June."
The relaunch will begin following the Convergence event this spring, which will see different universes from DC brought together by Brainiac.
In the wake of the Convergence event, DC will also be offering a Free Comic Book Day called DC Comics: Divergence. This is going to be made free at participating stores starting May 2 and feature three eight-page previews for the upcoming June releases of Batman by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, Justice League by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok and Superman by Gene Luen Yang and John Romita, Jr.
The New 52 is a revamp and relaunch of the entire DC Comics line. In September 2011, DC Comics cancelled its then-existing titles and debuted 52 new series.
This has been getting some pretty positive reviews and Werner Herzog has been presenting it and interviewing the directors (the Zellner brothers). I haven't seen or even heard of anything the Zellner brothers have done before but I'm really interested in seeing this.
For those who don't know this is based on an urban myth that someone thought Fargo was a true story and ended up dying trying to find the money, in reality it was suicide and had nothing to do with Fargo.
Gardening improves health and quality of life, connecting us to our local environment. Plus, you can eat organic fruits and veggies at very little cost. Yet for all these fantastic benefits, remembering to water can still take a backseat to our busy lives. Fortunately, home automation is easier than ever with inexpensive and accessible microcontrollers like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
This tutorial details the construction process for a remotely controlled solenoid irrigation valve. In other words, a home computer controls the water flow of an outdoor hose spigot, or bib. The materials cost is about $30-40, excluding the Raspberry Pi (RPi). Cheaper parts can be found with patience and creativity.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
Last May three-year-old Sophia Sandoval was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, for which she underwent surgery to remove the tumor and several months of chemotherapy before returning home recently with her family. To celebrate Sophia’s completion of treatment, her dad uploaded this amazing picture of the brave little girl dressed as her favorite superhero to the Jessie Rees Foundation Facebook page last Tuesday.
Sophia’s mom explains, “When she was taking the medicine, we would tell her she was going to get Super Woman or Wonder Woman powers.”
Sophia even caught the attention of Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, who wrote “A real-life little WW!! Let’s show her some love.”
If you’ve been keeping up with The Mindy Project, you know that cast members come and go with tragic frequency (just when we get to like them!) But to mitigate those losses, an angel is descending from the heavens to bless Mindy with her presence.
Laverne Cox will appear in an “upcoming” episode of the Mindy Kaling sitcom, playing office secretary Tamra’s cousin, who, according to E! Online, helps Mindy “get her confidence back.”
Despite the fact that the plot sounds trite, Kaling and her team have dealt with many difficult issues on the show with a thoughtful humor that doesn’t reduce characters to harmful stereotypes (which is part of why we’ll miss so much). I have nothing but hope that they’ll write Cox’s character with respect.
Meanwhile, where is the petition to get Laverne Cox to guest star on all the things? She would kill on Orphan Black.
Rock Hudson was desperately trying to get treatment for AIDS in France in 1985. Much of that story has been told, but one part hasn’t: After a simple plea came in for White House help to get Hudson…
I often tell you the Reagans were terrible people. They were unbelievably horrible people.
"When Hudson was diagnosed with AIDS in the summer of 1984, he was living in a country where, as Shilts detailed, the president of American Airlines opened a breakfast at the Republican National Convention by joking that “gay” stood for “got AIDS yet.”"
Read the entire article. The Reagans exemplify conservative “fairness” and how it fundamentally differs from progressive justice.
The magazine LA Confidential had planned to honour R&B musician John Legend at a pre-Grammys party at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday night, but it will have to do so without him present. The Oscar- and Grammy-nominated singer and pianist has cancelled his appearance at the annual awards-season party in protest at the misogyny and homophobia of the venue's owner
ThOR hates sports beat 'Greco and the rest of the maternity ward staff ultimately lost their patience with Sherman when he used his superior size and reach to get in front of the attending obstetrician and snatch his newborn child from his girlfriend’s birth canal'
SEATTLE—After successfully delivering the newborn baby of Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman and his girlfriend Ashley Moss Thursday morning, Northwest Hospital and Medical Center nurse Karen Greco expressed her frustration at having to con...
Perpetual Pizza is a single-serving site that features an animated image of a pizza created by production house Sheepfilms (with a logo by Octo Design) that loops infinitely as it zooms out, revealing that each pizza is just a small piece of a much larger pie.
Washington’s score of -12.6% was the worst in the nation. The poorest 20% of families paid nearly 17% of their income in state and local taxes, the highest such rate nationwide. With the wealthiest 1% of state households paying just 2.4% -- nearly the lowest such rate -- Washington’s tax system helped widen the income gap more than any other state. Washington’s poorest residents paid nearly seven times what the wealthiest 1% paid as a share of income, one of the highest such ratios nationwide.
theodp writes On Wednesday, Washington State held a public hearing on House Bill 1445, which proposes a study "to allow two years of computer sciences to count as two years of world languages for the purposes of admission into a four-year institution of higher education." Among the questions posed by the House Higher Education Committee to a UW rep at the hearing was the following: "What's the case for...not just world language is good, world language is well-rounded, but world language is so super-duper-duper good that you should spend two years of your life doing them and specifically better than something else like coding?" The promise of programming jobs, promoted by Microsoft execs and other MS folks like ex-Program Manager Audrey Sniezek (ironically laid off last summer), has prompted Kentucky to ponder a similar measure.
'Thomas Paine and Martin Luther King, Jr. called for something like a basic income, but so too did the seminal libertarian economists F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman (Friedman called it a "negative income tax"). Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan has proposed combining various forms of federal anti-poverty assistance into a single funding stream, acknowledging that the effects of the rich getting richer are getting harder to ignore.'
Between 1974 and 1979, the Canadian government tested the idea of a basic income guarantee (BIG) in Dauphin, Manitoba, giving people enough money to survive in a way that no other place in North America has before or since.
The NFL wants you to forget Aaron Hernandez. There are slip-ups, like when his former teammate, Devin McCourty, says the week before the Super Bowl, "Yeah, I think people think about [Hernandez]." But, by and large, the NFL has done a remarkable job pretending Hernandez was never one of its most promising young stars.
Chris Paul questioned the ability of rookie NBA ref Lauren Holtkamp to call NBA games after she called a technical foul on him.
Chris Paul was called for a technical foul in the third quarter of Cavs-Clippers after an interaction with referee Lauren Holtkamp, and was critical of her moxie after the game:
It's possible that Paul would've said this about any rookie NBA official, but of course, Holtkamp isn't any rookie NBA official: She's only the third full-time female referee in major American sports. And the gist of Paul's statement is that she isn't mentally strong or tough enough to call NBA games. Would Paul, a player who doesn't have a history of criticizing officials to the press, say that about a male ref in a historically entirely male field?
It's likely that Paul will be fined regardless of whether the league views his comments as sexist -- you can't make statements like this about NBA officials to the media regardless of their gender.
In the NBA's eyes, Holtkamp is no more or less ready to ref NBA games than her male counterparts. The former Division II player worked her way to the NBA through the league's referee developmental program, calling D-League games for six years. She called six NBA games last year as a non-staff ref before being called up to the league's full-time crew this year. Holtkamp was the topic of a documentary, "Summer Dreams," following her as well as players and coaches hoping to get noticed at NBA Summer League.
The NBA is the only major American sports league to have employed female referees. Violet Palmer has been refereeing games since 1997, while Dee Kantner was fired by the league in 1997 before becoming the WNBA's head of officiating.
' No More describes itself as a "non-profit project" of Mariska Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation. (Asked to clarify what that means, Witt said, "NO MORE is non-profit project in the sense that it is a project of the Joyful Heart Foundation, a non-profit organization.") Everything that comprises No More, though—their logo's trademark, their webpage, their funding—comes back to corporations. When I asked who is paying for No More, Witt told me it's supported by the corporations listed on their homepage—Viacom, Prudential, Allstate, Verizon, and so on. Their trademark and web domains are owned by Kate Spade, a company known less for charity than for $358 purses that exude a certain WASPy charm. And it was co-founded by Jane Randel, a former senior vice-president with Kate Spade who specializes in "reputation and crisis management," "corporate rebranding," and "cause marketing campaigns."
Jane Randel is now an NFL consultant, brought on during the public relations crisis caused by the league's poor handling of several prominent players accused of domestic violence; she signed the post-Super Bowl email sent out to those who signed the group's online pledge to say, "No more." It's a telling set of of relationships. No More is a brand created as an extension of other brands, and has come to prominence at a time when its co-founder, a specialist in using marketing tactics to change the reputation of brands and make them seem socially conscious, found herself with a client in need of precisely these services. It's all the more telling given that No More doesn't seem to actually do anything, aside from existing as a brand.'
Woods said, in essence, his butt got stiff. "Then they don't activate and then, hence, it goes into my lower back"
A new phrase enters the Tiger lexicon, as "deactivated glutes" force a lower back injury and a withdrawal at the Farmers Insurance Open.
Tiger Woods withdrew from yet another tournament on Thursday with what appeared to be yet another back injury. The issue looked serious, with Woods grimacing after every shot, hobbling up the fairway, and struggling to bend over and get his ball out of the hole. So what was the issue? "Deactivated glutes," according to the 14-time major winner.
"It's just my glutes are shutting off," Woods told a makeshift media scrum in the parking lot as he packed up early at Torrey Pines. The first round was delayed more than two hours due to fog in the area, and after a couple false starts, Woods said, in essence, his butt got stiff. "Then they don't activate and then, hence, it goes into my lower back. So, I tried to activate my glutes as best I could, in between, but they never stayed activated."
Woods said he first started to feel it on the putting green while the players waited around for an official restart of the Farmers Insurance Open. But he could never get it "activated" and that caused what looked like the same old lower back issues throughout another sad, painful round.
"Glute activation" is an entirely new, but not unexpected, term in the Tiger jargon. As you can imagine, the golf press took the term and ran with it on Twitter, making many bad jokes and a few good ones.
Deactivated glutes...Is the dead ass period in golf anything like the dead arm period in baseball?
Would you like to design deathtrap dungeons, run epic adventures, and portray nefarious NPC villains as your actual job? Then this might be the greatest job listing of all time.
The preponderance of those users—about 3 million of them—were lost when Apple’s mobile web browser Safari stopped automatically requesting information from Twitter’s servers, CEO Dick Costolo said on a conference call with analysts. He didn’t explain further, but was undoubtedly referring to the “shared links” feature, a backwater of Safari that displays links shared by people you follow on Twitter.
Apple first integrated Twitter with its mobile operating system, known as iOS, with the fifth version in 2011, a deal that helped boost user growth by exposing the service to more people. Two years later, with iOS 7, Apple made the connection deeper by adding shared links.
To make the feature speedy, Apple would periodically check Twitter for the latest links shared by people you follow. It didn’t matter if you were a Twitter addict or just signed up for an account one day, connected it to your iPhone, and promptly forgot about it. Because Apple kept checking your account for data, you would count as a monthly active user in Twitter’s statistics.
But when Apple released iOS 8 in September, it also changed how Safari’s shared links work. It no longer automatically asks Twitter for information, instead updating only when you actually open up the feature. Do it now, and if you are using iOS 8, you’ll see it takes a few seconds to load. (Oh, and if you do that, congratulations, you are now one of Twitter’s 288 million monthly active users, or MAUs.)
The issue of whether Twitter should count those kinds of users has come up before. In its latest earnings report, the company said “8.5% of users”—that’s 24.5 million people—“used third party applications that may have automatically contacted our servers for regular updates without any discernible additional user-initiated action.”
So those users probably shouldn’t count as MAUs, at least to investors trying to gauge how quickly the company is growing. Twitter, meanwhile, has been trying to convince Wall Street that MAUs are a poor measure of its size and health. It has a strong case, and investors seem to be coming around on the issue: Twitter’s stock was up more than 10% in after-hours trading after it reported anemic MAU growth but very strong revenue figures.
On the conference call, Costolo said that, in addition to the issue described above, another 1 million MAUs were lost last quarter due to “an unforeseen bug” in iOS 8 that Apple has since fixed, stemming those losses. It’s not clear what bug he was referring to.
For parents living in North America and other developed countries, the choice not to have children immunized is a luxury and a privilege. As this map makes painfully clear, there are many parts of the world where it's the inaccessibility of vaccines that's the problem.
Super Opinionated.
