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Back to the Future Part II (1989) // Robert Zemeckis

It was long suspected, but these outtakes make it painfully clear. So if you're among the many, many people who imitated this "homeless guy," you should feel doubly foolish.

Now that cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has outed members the group that took out the PlayStation and Xbox Live networks over Christmas, the hackers are coming after him.

Maybe they thought the question was, “How much could Apple probably charge devotees for an iPhone?”

Meanwhile, at Apple headquarters, they’re really sad to find out they could’ve price gouged us all even more and everyone would’ve just thought it was normal. To be fair, I wouldn’t be able to guess the exact cost of a year’s worth of a phone plan either, but there’s a large window for error between “exact” and “several times too high.”

For the appropriate reaction to the $7,500 guess and the unwitting trap it springs on the next guy, see the two audience members right next to the first contestant. Their faces are priceless.

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"A cop in Ukraine said he was detaining me because I was black. I appreciated it."

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SHE SAID YES!!!

Congratulations

Meet the new boy king of technology, 22-year-old Palmer Luckey. Visionaries see his 3D virtual reality headset as a real life-changer — the future of education, business, medicine and more.

Good guy Joe.

Thanks Joe Flacco. Didn't know you to look at you but that made my night pic.twitter.com/dDxuF87vcp

— Kristin Crupi (@KriStinCrupi) January 3, 2015

Joe Flacco is doing some nice things in Pittsburgh with less than 24 hours before the team's big playoff game.

Whether or not he's an ELITE quarterback may be up for debate, but never doubt the man's tipping skills.

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Tasha Thomas, the girlfriend of John Crawford, died in a car accident on New Year’s Day.

"They did a great job at trying to save that person, but we were later told that that person did pass away at the hospital," Sgt. Creigee Coleman, from the Dayton Police Department, told the news station.

that person

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Slowpoke 3DS theme is here ⊟

As of yesterday, Nintendo made the Slowpoke home menu theme — based on this amazing reggae music video — available in North America! It’s just $1.99 (€1.99/£1.79 in Europe, $2.60 in Australia). Credit to doinysvs and bkpokemonart for the GIFs and pic.

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Hey!! we had a year of luigi so why not a year of peach!?1? i say we should make this a thing to celebrate 30 years of being graced with the beautiful presence of our beloved peachie!! all we have to do is be creative!!! you make edits? NICE!! you make art? LOVELY!! you can make videos?NEAT!! anything you can think of to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of Princess Peach!!

Nearly a quarter of all National Geographic covers has an animal on it. This infographic shows which of them get featured the most.

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i went into a whole foods and got to hear a woman arguing with a guy at the meat counter because she wanted grass fed organic chicken and he was desperately trying to explain to her that chickens don’t eat grass

Times of India

Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria expecting 2nd child Times of India Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria Baldwin are pregnant with their second baby. The couple made the announcement, which is the first celeb baby news of 2015, in an absolutely adorable way, as Hilaria shared a family beach photo, which showed a beaming ... Baldwin and Hilaria pregnant againIrish Examiner Alec Baldwin to become father againBusiness Standard Hilaria and Alec Baldwin expecting baby number 2hellomagazine.com Zee News all 94 news articles »

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Jason Scott, Each New Boot a Miracle:

This week, we got the emulation of MS-DOS programs (mostly) working on the Internet Archive.

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Now, em-dosbox is not perfect – far from it. It can freeze a browser, and it runs into problems of all sorts when running some of the oddball machinery that the DOS world produced between 1980 and (roughly) 2003.

But when it works, man, it just works. Clear as a bell, right as rain, a DOS window boots into a browser. If you go fullscreen, the mouse even works. (It works in not-fullscreen, but then you see both the desktop and the emulator cursors and your brain is sad.)

It’ll be a little while before the collection is really public, as there’s now the process of throwing thousands of DOS programs into the system, verifying they boot, making screenshots, and all the rest of that delightful curation the world hopes is waiting for them.

But it’s happening. It’s really happening.

As cool as the Internet Arcade has been to play with, this is going to be the real treasure-trove for a lot of people who got into computing in the 80s and 90s.

They’re not advertising it too heavily yet, but if you start clicking around the Software Library: MS-DOS, you’ll find you can fire things up in the emulator. I may have to beat Major Stryker again.

Blakeney is joining his summer running mate Ben Simmons in Baton Rouge.

Antonio Blakeney finally tied up one of college basketball's most fascinating recruitments by committing to LSU on Friday afternoon. Blakeney, a 6'4 shooting guard, chose the Tigers over Kentucky and Missouri. Blakeney is the No. 14 player and No. 2 shooting guard in the class of 2015, according to ESPN.

The story of Blakeney's recruitment took on a life of its own when he de-committed from Louisville 10 days after making a verbal pledge. While the player never shed light on his decision to walk away from the Cardinals, most believe it was a power struggle between shoe companies. Louisville is an adidas school, and Blakeney played for a grassroots team on Nike's EYBL circuit.

LSU is, of course, a Nike school. That's not Blakeney's only connection to the Tigers, though. He played on Each 1 Team 1 this summer with Ben Simmons, the consensus No. 1 recruit in the country who is also headed to LSU. Simmons had been recruiting Blakeney since this summer. If the Tigers are able to return current sophomore big men Jordan Mickey and Jarell Martin, LSU might have its most talented team since reaching the Final Four in 2006.

For more on the impact on Blakeney's recruitment, check out earlier stories here and here. Check out his latest mixtape here:

Queen Elizabeth II, in her annual honor roll of Britons who have made a contribution to the United Kingdom, has bestowed honors on a politician who blamed gay people for Hurricane Katrina, as well as several LGBT rights advocates.

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I meant “go” not “scat”.

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Prince Andrew’s name was cited in court documents over a long-running case in Florida against an American investment banker who was previously convicted of soliciting sex with an under-aged girl.

The small sample of men who filed through the hotel room to talk discreetly to reporters were from Syria’s north, east and south, some of them old friends, like the three from Deir al-Zour, others meeting for the first time. Yet all but one, a hard-line Islamist, had reached the point of wondering whether armed revolt — or even the civil protest movement that preceded it — had been a mistake. “I regret,” said one civilian from Deir al-Zour, a web designer and English literature graduate with a narrow, angular face and an intense gaze. “The best people in my country, they have been killed in this revolution. The worst people have controlled the country. And the goal of our revolution is not accomplished.” “My best friends are dead,” he went on. “We lost things.” His black ski jacket concealed the stump of his left arm. He was hit by shrapnel while filming a battle, and drove to four hospitals in the desert province before finding one with doctors and supplies; by then, his arm was unsalvageable. Later, when the Islamic State took over his town, he said, the extremists gave him a choice: Put his media skills to work for them, or die.

Autostraddle: Read a F*cking Book: Liz Prince's “Tomboy”:

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Liz Prince's new graphic memoir Tomboy is a smart and outright cute exploration of girlhood by a girl who didn’t ‘fit’ but survived to tell the tale. 

The book follows a young Liz from the age of four to her mid-teens. While it ends with her finding her footing in a punk rock zinester feminist world, the follow-up to that is full of gender-related struggles, including:

• Being disgruntled with the frilly, pink, and conventionally feminine
• Getting teased for wearing boys’ clothing
• The revolving door of friendships otherwise known as girlhood
• Crushes
• Having a little brother
• Being too much of a boy to be friends with girls
• Being too much of a girl to be friends with boys

Place a hold on Tomboy at LPL today! 

This is the most on point review of Tomboy that I’ve read so far.

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Kelston Boys’ High School perform a massive haka in honour of the new Maori carving on campus

THIS IS FUCKING SICK

Man, white kids like to pretend that metal is all Vikings and shit when this shit exists. A haka is more metal than you or your Mastadon tattoo will ever be.

god, this is so fucking great

kapa haka is just

kapa haka is really really great

wow..

FUCK YEAH

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