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Called Qcut, the project comes from a former Mozilla designer who’s partnered with a veteran of the fashion industry. Qcut is hoping to make jeans that’ll come in around 400 different sizes, one of which it should be able to automatically determine as the proper fit for any woman who buys a pair. Qcut says it can do that using just five numbers, which you likely already know: your normal pants size, your height, your weight, your shoe size, and your bra size.

"Women’s bodies change in all sorts of very predictable ways based on height," Qcut CEO Crystal Beasley says. For instance, "If you have two women that are 5’10", the one that has the bigger shoe will have a longer leg."

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- Qcut wants to make you the perfect pair of jeans using data and algorithms | The Verge

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Vice has a show where brilliant chef-turned-rapper Action Bronson goes around the world and eats delicious foods called "Fuck, That's Delicious." It is great, because Action Bronson is great and delicious foods are great.

Today an episode was released where Bronsolino eats hot dogs across the globe, and part of that involves a visit to Chicago, to go to recently closed sausage emporium/heaven Hot Doug's -- "each dog is specifically hand-crafted, like a snowflake, or like p---y" -- and to The Wiener's Circle, famous for having extremely rude interactions between staff and customers. He also takes a detour to eat at Mike Ditka's Steakhouse, where he meets Ditka, and we learn that Mike Ditka and Action Bronson have literally nothing to talk about.

The two sit together, with Ditka's wife, for about two minutes, and say enough words that I feel comfortable transcribing them all here, along with pictures of Ditka being incredibly tattooed that he has to spend time with an overweight, tattooed, heavily bearded rapper.

Ditka: "Now, what is this for? You have a food show?"

Bronson: Yeah. We have a food show on Vice... you know... Vice is a big media network... I'm sure they already told you the name...

(Note: It is clear Ditka has never heard of Vice, does not know the name of the show, and hates Action Bronson.)

Bronson: Me, I'm... I used to be a chef. I hurt myself in the kitchen. I broke my leg, and I just somehow became a rapper.

(This line of conversation actually causes Ditka to drop a napkin.)

Ditka: I got a singer here, but he doesn't do rap. He does Sinatra.

Bronson: I love Sinatra too. That's my grandfather's music.

(Silence. Food comes. A hot dog arrives.)

Ditka: If you can pick it up, you're a good man!

Bronson: (picks it up) Yup!

Ditka: Go!

(More food comes. Everybody eats in silence.)

Bronson: This is great stuff! Do you eat like this every night?

Ditka: No.

(A slew of people say hello to Mike Ditka.)

Bronson: You're nobody in Chicago when you're sitting next to Coach. When you come to New York, I'll take you out.

Ditka: (A look of silence, disgust, and dispair so profound that I literally have to show you a photo to describe it, because no amount of words can capture how disinterested and offended Mike Ditka is by the idea that if he were to go to New York, he would have to spend a night hanging out with Action Bronson:)

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Adrian Peterson's plea deal has been accepted, resolving his legal trouble but clouding his immediate NFL future.

Adrian Peterson has signed a plea of no contest to misdemeanor charges of reckless assault, paving the way for his return to the NFL. The plea was accepted by Montgomery County judge Kelly Case. Peterson was indicted in September on a felony charge of reckless or negligent injury to a child. The indictment stemmed from an incident this past spring when he allegedly beat his four-year-old son with a switch.

Pro Football Talk reported the details of Peterson's plea bargain Tuesday. By accepting the deal, Peterson will have to go on probation, pay a $4,000 fine and perform 80 hours of community service. The plea reportedly includes no reference to family violence or violence against a minor. The deal also defers a ruling on Peterson's innocence for two years. Peterson forfeits the right to appeal.

Peterson was placed on the exempt/commissioner's permission list in September under the pretense that his status with the NFL and Minnesota Vikings would be revisited once his case had been resolved. The list allowed the Vikings to sit Peterson indefinitely with pay, but only after making a special request to commissioner Roger Goodell. Peterson can only be removed at Goodell's discretion.

It's unclear how Goodell will interpret Peterson's plea deal. The running back could be activated from his long leave only to sit under a suspension without pay. He could also theoretically suit up to play Nov. 16 when the Vikings visit the Chicago Bears after their Week 10 bye. Complicating matters is Peterson's reported admission to a court staffer that he "smoked a little weed," which could subject him to further punishment under the league's substance abuse policy.

Whatever action the league takes will likely be heavily critiqued after an offseason of off-field drama. Peterson's indictment was revealed after the league had absorbed criticism for how it handled the highly publicized domestic violence cases of Ray Rice and Greg Hardy.

Say #CowboysUK out loud.

Dallas is using the hashtag "#CowboysUK" for their trip to London to play the Jaguars.

Next tweet will be from London ✌️#CowboysUK pic.twitter.com/katJYXLA86

— Dallas Cowboys (@dallascowboys) November 4, 2014

The Internet, like SB Nation's Eagles blog Bleeding Green Nation pounced on it.

The Cowboys couldn’t have picked a more accurate hashtag #cowboysuk http://t.co/BKiBMydK9Q | pic.twitter.com/yNAODX69Hm

— BleedingGreenNation (@BleedingGreen) November 4, 2014

And more people started to notice ...

Above is a list of articles that embedded that #CowboysUK tweet.

This great moment in hashtag history is now out of the bag.

@dallascowboys y'all suck

— jer〽️aine (@Jefrancis1235) November 4, 2014

Hahaha! Yes, they do. #CowboySUK

— AzulesFundamento (@Josefino72) November 4, 2014

DIY: destroy your organization w/ a hashtag... RT @dallascowboys: Next tweet will be from London ✌️#CowboysUK pic.twitter.com/dsMNWmJAHy

— Brian J. Gill (@bgill09) November 4, 2014

.@dallascowboys social media had time to think it over and still went with #CowboysUK hashtag for this week. Tally ho.

— Bob Ley (@BobLeyESPN) November 4, 2014

Adrian Peterson could soon make his return to the Vikings, and his teammates would welcome him back as they look to contend for a spot in the NFL playoffs.

The Minnesota Vikings could be making one of the biggest midseason acquisitions in recent memory if Adrian Peterson is reinstated to the team. The All-Pro running back has missed the past eight games after his Sept. 12 arrest for child abuse charges.

While dealing with legal issues involving the case, Peterson was placed on the NFL's exempt/commissioner's permission list, but after accepting a plea deal Tuesday, his court battle is over. Still, there's been no decision on if NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will remove him from the exempt list this season, allowing him to be reinstated to the Vikings.

Several of his teammates in Minnesota weighed in Tuesday on Peterson's potential return, voicing their support for the running back to rejoin the Vikings, according to ESPN. One of those players, tight end Kyle Rudolph, spoke up about what it would mean to have Peterson back in the locker room:

"We all know the kind of person he is," tight end Kyle Rudolph said. "We've stood behind him this whole time. You'd be crazy not to welcome him back into that locker room. It would be a big pickup for this locker room being we have so many young guys. Any time you can have a veteran back in that locker room, the leader that he is in the locker room, out on the practice field, would be huge for us.

"Guys have chatted amongst each others, and I don't think there's anyone in that locker room that would need to hear from him. We all know the kind of person Adrian is, and I feel like he's proven that over his time here."

It helps that Peterson has been in contact with the team during his absence. Before the Vikings beat the Falcons in Week 4, Peterson passed along a pregame motivational speech for head coach Mike Zimmer to give to the team. He's also given advice to rookie Jerick McKinnon, who has taken over the No. 1 running back spot while Peterson has been out.

McKinnon has had a fine debut season, rushing for 445 yards and 5.0 yards per carry, but he's been held out of the end zone so far, with Matt Asiata taking over in goal-line situations. Although the Vikings' running game is currently 12th in the NFL in rushing yards per game (119.3), the offense is ranked near the bottom, at No. 29.

At 4-5 and winners of two straight, the Vikings aren't out of the playoff picture. The return of Peterson could be the boost they're looking for to continue that momentum after their Week 10 bye week.

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been charged with attempting to arrange a murder in New Zealand, along with threatening to kill and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis. According to the New Zealand news site SunLive, the 60 year-old drummer allegedly attempted to procure the murder of two men, and was arrested Thursday. His Taraunga home was raided Thursday morning and he later appeared in Tauranga District Court. He is expected to reappear in court in three weeks. AC/DC will release their new album, “Rock or Bust,” later this year.

Sweet assist for the butt goal.

There have been many butt goals chronicled here at SB Nation, and this butt goal is up there with the best. Good job, New York Rangers:

That's team work.

Thank you, NHL, for continuing to give us butt goal magic. It began in Dec. 2013, and the collection of butt goals has grown exponentially since. Still, it's hard to match one of the greatest butt plays of all-time, the butt fumble.

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More U.S. measles cases have been reported in 2014 than any year in the past two decades. Indigenous circulation of the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, but travelers abroad can bring it into the U.S. A false sense that there is little or no threat is one key reason for declining U.S. vaccination rates.

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thespiritfox:

We lost Earl Ragnar, our favorite Beta fish. 

& we were sure to give him a viking’s funeral as such a magnificent fish as he deserves. 

See you in Valhalla my friend. 

Sail, Ragnar. Sail. 

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seriouslyamerica:

The woman who was kidnapped on Sunday off a desolate Philadelphia street -- a harrowing crime that was caught on surveillance camera -- was found alive today in Maryland, while her abductor was arrested, authorities said. Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, was found by FBI agents inside a parked car in Jessup, Maryland. Her alleged abductor, Delvin Barnes, 37, was arrested at the scene, according to the FBI.

New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen won re-election, defeating former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. For Brown, it's the second time he's lost to a woman.

With rents growing faster than household income in the Boston metro area, 33 percent of adults between 23 and 65 had roommates in 2012 — the highest rate Boston has seen, according to real estate database Zillow. That’s just a hair above the national average, where 32 percent of working-age adults were doubled up in 2012. In 2000, only 25 percent of adults lived with others. In Boston, those earning the median income are currently spending 32 percent of their monthly income on rent, also the highest rate ever. According to Zumper, a listings and research site, Boston is fourth on a list of most expensive cities to rent in. The Hub’s median rent is $2,250 per month. Los Angeles, Miami, and New York are among cities with the highest pairing-up rate. Forty eight percent of adults in Los Angeles live with one or more roommate, 42 percent in New York, and 45 percent in Miami.

Interstellar has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness. A lot of things happen that make no sense unless you believe that love is the missing variable in all our calculations of how cosmology works. ... Interstellar seems torn between hard science fiction realism and new age spiritual beliefs about quantum. And that makes for a bad mix. Watching Interstellar is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other. One is a masterpiece of space opera, whose vistas will fill you with wonder and give you hope for the future of humanity in space (and time). The other is a predictable, stale melodrama about how absent fathers are actually super great and women exist to channel love.

"Some days, you don't want to move, you can't move in the darkness. You're like, 'You know what, I'm just gonna sit here, and I'm gonna wallow in this. And as much as it hurts, I'm just gonna sit right here, because this is what I deserve. Because I am that horrible of a person." Brady says he hit his low point when he had a complete breakdown on his 42nd birthday earlier this year. "I was there, by myself, in my bedroom, and I had a complete breakdown. And when I say breakdown, just go ahead and imagine for yourself a brother in his underwear, in his room, crying." He's turning his life around, though, and says his ex-wife Mandie Taketa and the suicide of fellow comedian and idol Robin Williams helped him make a decision to improve his situation.

“Transformers” and “Pacific Rim” proved that people love watching movies about fighting robots. Now a Somerville startup has launched a Kickstarter hoping to make those big-screen battles a reality. And all it will take is $1.8 million.

Update: new development; see end of post. Elections never run flawlessly, and it’s not unusual — and no, not an indication of wholesale fraud — to hear of voting machine glitches and snags. We’re quite willing to accept that there’s nothing nefarious going on when one or two touch screen machines screw up, though that’s also a good argument for good old optical-scan ballots, too. And then there’s more unfortunate applications of Murphy’s Law on Election Day, like how the Georgia secretary of state’s “find your polling place” website crashed this morning. Again, that seems like a glitch, not frauding, although that one looks a lot hinkier in the context of the state maybe losing tens of thousands of new registration applications.

Now we can add to the list of great election planners the city of Hartford, Connecticut, where several polling places were not ready to go when polls were supposed to open at 6 AM They didn’t yet have the official voter registration books. In testimony at a hearing today to determine whether polls should remain open late to make up for the late start, witnesses said that as many as 10 or 11 polling places opened late by anywhere from a few minutes to an hour and a half at the latest. Depending on the sites, some allowed people to enter provisional ballots, with their names and addresses to be matched against the lists later, while at others, some voters just gave up and left:

The moderator who was a voting site observer testified the moderator at the site was trying to determine what to do without having the lists and then determined that voting would not be allowed without the lists.

He said 20-30 people left without voting. The moderator kept lists of the people who were turned away. Some did however come back and vote later.

John Gale testified that he was at the polling place shortly after 6 a.m. and said there were angry voters at the United Methodist Church on Farmington Avenue in Hartford who were not able to vote. He observed voters leaving without having voted.

Gov. Dannell Malloy filed a complaint to extend voting hours so that those who might have missed voting early in the morning could come back later. Normally, polls close at 8 PM; the complaint asks for them to stay open an additional hour. Bill Bloss, attorney for Gov. Malloy, said that over half of the city’s 24 polling places opened late or were not able to start voting at 6 AM; state law requires registrar books to be at polling places by 8 PM the night before the election.

The hearing was still going on as we wrapped up here; process addicts can catch the action online. Again, no allegations of dirty tricks, just a fine example of the many things that can go wrong in trying to get an election to work.

In a radio interview, President Obama urged Hartford residents to make sure to go back and vote, frustrating though the process might be:

Obviously, the man is trying to steal the election! It’s not known whether any New Black Panthers are available to hold doors open for voters in Hartford.

Update: There’s been a decision on Gov. Malloy’s request for extended voting hours, and it seems pretty darn paltry: Two polling places in Hartford will stay open an extra half hour, to 8:30 p.m., and anyone in line by 8:30 at those locations will be able to vote.

Ballots cast after 8 p.m. must be held on the side in accordance with federal law. The judge is also ordering that the Secretary of the State’s Office investigate why such a well-publicized election had the issues to begin with.

Someone please tell us what “held on the side” amounts to, in terms of whether the votes will actually be counted? The judge appears to be excessively concerned that somebody might try to sneak some Black Panther votes in:

The judge said the reason that voting was only extended for 30 minutes was so that those who could not vote this morning would have enough time to return and vote, but not enough time for additional persons who couldn’t vote earlier to go to the polls.

Sharpest legal mind of the 21st Century, we think. Couldn’t he just request post-8 p.m. voters to pinkie swear that they were really there in the morning?

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"I would pay $1,000 for a fiber-to-the-home installation that promised cutting edge speeds without batting an eye—OK, maybe a small flinch," he said. But not $20,000. “I didn’t think it would be that difficult, because the cable was on my road. I have phone. I have electricity. It’s not completely green acres. I don’t have to go up to the pole to make a call. I didn’t think it would be a problem.” Walser, his wife, and their two kids thus use a $90-per-month cellular hotspot plan with a 20GB data cap. Walser originally bought home cellular service from Verizon Wireless, but he switched to Millenicom because “I kept getting over-billed every month and having to call [Verizon] and have them credit me.” Millenicom simply resells Verizon data, but it hasn’t overcharged Walser, he said. Naturally, Millenicom’s customer accounts are now being taken over by Verizon Wireless. AT&T serves Walser's area with wireless, but Walser said the AT&T service is poor where he lives.

mingdoyle:

Hey locals! THE KITCHEN #1 is coming out on November 12th, and I’ll be signing it at New England Comics in Harvard Square! 

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