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— NHL Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) November 11, 2014

ESPN used to cover hockey. The year was 1992. The Blue Jackets never forget. #LUMBUS

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Its official, Kobe Bryant is on top of the record books. He passed all the greats on the way up the leaderboard and now, he's the greatest of all time. The greatest at missing shots.

A bold entrepreneur with a radical startup. An African-American. In tech, those two phrases usually don’t go together. Enter Tristan Walker.

In this incredibly vulgar display of cuteness, an adorable baby boy named Wyatt rocks out on the drums (with a little help from his parents) to the hardcore heavy metal Pantera song “5 Minutes Alone.”

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In 2010, artist Kat O’Sullivan (Katwise) began transforming her house in a rural stretch of Upstate New York into an incredibly colorful work of art. The house, now known as Calico, the House That Sweaters Built, is adorned inside and out with a “psychedelic rainbow” of lurid colors and patterns. The house is a work-in-progress, and O’Sullivan promises that “it will only get weirder.” When she’s not further adorning her house, O’Sullivan sells clothes that she makes from recycled sweaters on her Etsy store.

photos via Kat O’Sullivan

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clacl:

taking a selfie thinking it looks good and then seeing it flipped

Comcast says it agrees with President Obama on net neutrality. It doesn't.

While a complex web of factors have contributed to the rise in income inequality in America, a new research paper says most of the blame can be largely placed in the immense growth experienced by the top tenth of the richest 1 percent of Americans in recent years.

David Shing, better known as Shingy, made up his own job title and role, which ranges from spokesperson to branding guru to tech oracle. He's both widely revered and widely ridiculed — but none of that will matter if he manages to make the dial-up-era dinosaur cool again.

Deborah Copaken has an impressive resume. She is a bestselling author, and Emmy Award winning television producer, a former war zone photojournalist and a graduate of Harvard University. Last year however, she found herself in a situation that would unsettle just about anyone. Her marriage was ending, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she lost her job-- along with her health insurance. Her COBRA benefits were terminated and she had to wait until the next enrollment period to apply for Obamacare. She needed an MRI to check the status of her cancer. Her bank account was empty. She needed a job. Copaken recently shared her story in her piece on Cafe.com called, “How I got rejected from a job at the Container Store.” She applied for a three-month position as a holiday greeter at The Container Store (TCS) enticed by the promise of health benefits, only to find out the company had denied her application. "So what if it wasn’t the perfect job in my chosen industry?” she writes. “These days, a job is a job, and a job with benefits is a unicorn."

Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 cometlandingSpaceesarosettacomet67P

In Sacramento, honorary Raider and human demolition derby Guy Fieri has suddenly closed his "popular" Johnny Garlic's location. Employees arriving to work yesterday were told those shifts would be their last, including one unsuspecting employee who was just hired three days ago.

Pips and Bounce, Portland's brand-new, full-bar-equipped, snack-slinging ping pong palace, opened its doors on Saturday, so you can bring your sweet table tennis moves out of your basement and into full public glory.

The site is mobile responsive and connected to the restaurant's tablet menus and point of sale system, "So you'll be able to see up to the minute what's available," says Faith. If a dish runs out or they have to switch from one ingredient to another, they can make those changes to the menu immediately. "Everything will be updated at the same time. Ordering online will be the same as if you were sitting down looking at the menu." But there are other perks to the system, too: "You'll be able to filter the choices if you're vegan or gluten-free. You can rate your experience, which will give us feedback on the menu. You can reorder. And you can pay, so all you need to do is park and walk in." Think of it this way: It's a full-service, family-owned restaurant serving dishes built on seasonal ingredients delivered each day from local farmers -- but it has the take-out convenience of a corporate chain. It offers big portions meant to be shared family-style, but it's not a supermarket hot case where the food has been baking under heat lamps for hours.

BJ Smith, chef-owner of Smokehouse 21, is taking over the Lightbar space (1401 S.E. Morrison St.) and opening Smokehouse Tavern this spring, a bigger, 50-seat version of his popular barbecue place on NW 21st. Smith will have two partners in the project: Andrew Hansen, and Smith's fiancee, fashion designer and Project Runway champ Michelle Lesniak, who will be designing the interior as well as the staff's uniforms. Smith says the tavern will have a similar menu as the original outpost, but will have a larger kitchen that will provide more space for new bar snacks and, most importantly, weekend brunch. Expect with five to six brunch specials in addition to the regular menu, plus brunch-y cocktails.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has suspended telecommuting for employees while it works to remediate a network intrusion that has exposed data on some 800,000 postal workers and an additional 2.9 million customers. The virtual private network (VPN) service for postal employees was taken down this weekend and will not be brought back up until a version with more robust security features can be installed, USPS spokesman David Partenheimer said in an emailed comment to Dark Reading.

Motion-blurred chalkboard letters, Fox? Christ.

New Zealander Marty Todd (previously) shot some video of Rambro the Angry Ram up to his old tricks again, this time taking on the bucket of a six-ton excavator.

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They have been in business for 65 years and have almost 2,000 titles under their belt.

They produce some of the most beautiful and well-made books on the planet.

They work with the leading illustrators in the world.

Yet the Folio Society remains far from a household name.

Why?

Their business model stinks.

They operated exclusively as a membership book club and didn’t spend any energy actively promoting their titles until two years ago! 

Focusing on high-quality production values centered on packaging, typography, and illustration should not automatically negate attention to distribution, marketing and building brand awareness. It is the age old quandary faced by so many publishers of the well-made book.  

During my years at Wessel & Lieberman we tried numerous times to carry their books in our shop but to no avail. One of the illustrators we represented, Charles van Sandwyk, illustrated Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book for them and we were eager to both carry it and promote it. No such luck, Mark Wessel ended up becoming a member so we could acquire copies to provide to our clients who collected van Sandwyk’s books. 

illustration by Charles van Sandwyk for the Blue Fairy Book

Hopefully this is about to change. Their website has finally opened its offerings to anyone, member or not and they have entered the world of social media. They have an advertising campaign underway in The New Yorker and are showing up at and sponsoring various book festivals. I am not sure they have included booksellers into their new mix yet but clearly they are making a concerted effort to emerge from the marketing darkness. 

Ironically, the PR push coincides with the release of their latest book, a new edition of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness beautifully illustrated by Sean McSorley.

Folio Society Tries To Raise Its Profile | Publisher’s Weekly

Illustrating a Heart of Darkness | Creative Review  

judgecorp writes The idea of re-using waste server heat is not new, but German firm Cloud&Heat seems to have developed it further than most. For a flat installation fee, the company will install a rack of servers in your office, with its own power and Internet connection. Cloud&Heat then pays the bills and you get the heat. As well as Heat customers, the firm wants Cloud customers, who can buy a standard OpenStack-based cloud compute and storage service on the web. The company guarantees that data is encrypted and held within Germany — at any one of its Heat customers' premises. In principle, it's a way to build a data center with no real estate, by turning its waste heat into an asset. A similar deal is promised by French firm Qarnot.

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blindbat writes: A new YouTube account is pushing local police agencies to reconsider their use of body-mounted cameras. Poulsbo Police have been wearing body cameras for about a year, and the department says the results have been good. But last month reality hit, in the form of a new YouTube user website, set up by someone under the name, "Police Video Requests." The profile says it posts dash and body cam videos received after public records requests to Washington state police departments. "They're just using it to post on the internet," said Chief Townsend, "and I suspect it's for commercial purposes." In September, "Police Video Requests" anonymously asked Poulsbo PD for every second of body cam video it has ever recorded. The department figures it will take three years to fill that request. And Chief Townsend believes it is a huge privacy concern, as officers often see people on their worst days. "People with mental illness, people in domestic violence situations; do we really want to have to put that video out on YouTube for people? I think that's pushing it a little bit," he said.

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