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Eclipse as Seen from Space

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we could have had it all

Men and women enjoy video games, but some genres tend to attract one gender over the other, SuperData Research finds in a 2014 US study provided to Joystiq. Women compose 57.8 percent of the mobile market, 53.6 percent of the RPG market and 50.2...

Dunkin' Donuts Now Has Its Own Version of the Cronut TIME US-FRANCE-GASTRONOMY-PASTRY-CRONUTS A cronut, a croissant-doughnut hybrid, the brain child of French pastry chef Dominique Ansel, sit on a plate at Ansel's bakery shop in New York on June 14, 2013. Emmanuel Dunand—AFP/Getty Images ... and more »

Historical Map: MAX Light Rail, Portland, Oregon, 2001

Portland’s MAX light rail system as it appeared just after the initial opening of the Red Line. Note that the Red Line doesn’t continue out to Beaverton as it does these days, but turns around just west of downtown. Later, the Yellow Line would turn around here as well, before it was rerouted down the transit mall. 

The map itself does a nice job with a relatively simple system. The gracefully curved Willamette River is actually one of the better representations I’ve seen on a MAX map, and the four zones (1 through 3, plus the old Fareless Square) are shown with a minimum of fuss. The split platforms at PGE Park—as it was then—could have been handled better, as the eastbound platform just ends up looking like it’s missing a label. As well as the usual park-and-rides/transit centers/paid parking garages, the legend for this map also helpfully shows the location of food concessions and “Quick Drop” zones (what a lot of other transit systems call “Kiss-and-Ride”, which is just adorable). However, the legend itself might have been better placed at the top left, rather than the bottom right, just to give it a little more room to breathe.

Our rating: As a first effort after becoming a multi-line system, this isn’t half bad. Workmanlike rather than stunning, but it lays the groundwork for the maps that came after it. Three stars.

Source: The ZehnKatzen Times

During NYCC I was lucky enough to sit down with the hilarious cast and crew of Bob’s Burgers, including Jon Benjamin (Bob), Kristen Schaal (Louise), John Roberts (Linda), Eugene Mirman (Gene), Larry Murphy (Teddy), Bobby Tisdale (Zeke), and Executive Producer Loren Bouchard. The team was gracious enough to answer questions on everything from the recent Bob’s Burgers porn parody to their musical abilities (or lack thereof), and dropped lots of juicy hints about what to expect from this season. Read on, girl.

Reporter: Great premiere last night! You guys started strong this year! Is it going to [...] go more crazy?

Kristen Schaal: It’s gonna go to shit. We shot our whole wad.

Eugene Mirman: We only made one episode…

Schaal: The next episode is just like “errrr,” an emergency alarm for 24 minutes.

Mirman: It’s going to get wild. We have an episode called  “Tina and the Real Ghost” where the basement I believe is haunted and Louise tricks Tina into thinking she’s captured a ghost. [...] There’s an episode where I believe we’re all trapped in an amusement park and its Thanksgiving one called “Dawn of the Peck,” where turkeys take over either the town or the amusement park. It will get wild and be exciting and fulfill all your dreams.

Schaal: I think this season is one of our strongest, which is saying a lot because it’s a pretty good show. I don’t mean to brag.

Mirman: I think as we get to know the writers better and as they get to know us better, we kind of act to the writers and they write to us and it keeps getting better and better. At least, that’s how I feel. And I think that’s how you feel!

Reporter: Will you guys have more musicals this season?

Mirman: I don’t know if there are more musicals, I know that there are more singing and songs. I don’t know what those songs are…

Reporter: Do you guys enjoy that? Enjoy the signing?

Schaal: [singing] Doo weee enjoooooy the singing…

Mirman: Loren will sing like four words and then I’ll repeat it. I cant sing as a normal person, so he’ll go “Blah, Blah Blah,” I’ll go “Blah Blah Blah,” we’ll go through an entire song that way. That’s also I believe how Aerosmith does it.

Reporter: Would you guys ever want to play another gender the way Dan [Tina] does?

Mirman: I don’t care. As long as it’s fun, I’d be happy to do it.

Reporter: I think everyone probably identifies with one of the children.

Mirman: Me, too.

Schaal: That’s great.

Mirman: The more popular we are, the more secure we become in our futures.

The Mary Sue: What do you think it is that makes people identify with the characters so much?

Mirman: Most people are broken and so are we [laughs]. No, I don’t mean that at all, I think it’s being sort of lovable and earnest and goofy, actually.

Schaal: Yeah. Also they’re pretty relatable in that they all have a vulnerability to them and they all are passionate in different ways. Gina’s passionate about music, Tina’s passionate about butts, and Louise is passionate about money and mischief and I feel like everyone has a passion and also a vulnerability to them and I think the show does a really good job showcasing that in each character. And Bob and Linda as well.

Mirman: And I also think the fact that the family is very loving. There’s a lot of goofing around but you also get a sense that however much they tease each other they do genuinely care. I think that a lot of it is also that we get to record together so we get to make it very of the moment. But I think, yeah, sweetness. and also goofiness.

Reporter: Do you guys have a favorite burger of the day?

John Benjamin: “If looks could kale,” is that one? I feel like I wouldnt like a kale burger in real life. It might be good, I just feel like that’s the wrong green. Its a better pun than a culinary experience, maybe.

Loren: No, I mean I just look at them. My filter is I try to imagine if it was real would you believe it, is it possible to make that burger. Like for example, is it just a joke, and in order to make the joke, you say “bunny burger comes with three buns” it’s like…we reject those. That’s the filter. It should sound awesome, it doesn’t have to necessarily taste good. But there is a guy who’s making them all. Making all the Bob’s Burger’s of the day [...] he’s making them for himself and his blog. He publishes the recipe and they sound delicious.

Reporter: Is the raccoon making a comeback?

Loren: Yeah, we wrote the raccoon into the comic book. It’s Trashmouth you’re referring to? Yeah, Linda writes a letter to the dumpster company pitching an idea to make dumpsters more raccoon friendly. She has this idea that there could be a little disco where they could hang out, and a little chill out room, but no, the raccoon hasnt come up in any episodes. We have a chinchilla coming up.

Reporter: Well, the porn, the Bob’s Boners…

Roberts: She [Linda of Bob's Boners] is my new friend now, I feel like we’re going to become really good friends and start to do red carpet stuff together.

Reporter: Have you guys actually seen it?

Roberts: I only saw the trailer because I’m mixed about actually watching it. I don’t really watch straight porn, I don’t really watch porn. I’m not a porn person. It’s all sense memory.

Reporter: Are you going to have your band going again?

Loren: Oh, The TaTas should come back, definitely. I had an idea for an episode where Gayle (Megan Mullally) and Linda revisit their musical past in a competitive spirit.

Roberts: Megan’s voice is so beautiful and it’s so crystal clear, it’s great to sing with her. And I’m like “mwaaaaaaaah…”

Loren: Even doing that silly voice she can somehow make it sound gorgeous.

Reporter: Were you nervous for your two-second crossover with Family Guy?

Benjamin: I didn’t see it but I heard about it, and someone said they insulted Bob’s Burgers. No, I’m trying to stretch my memory to remember what I did, but I think I said “yay!” [...] I had to go in for that. I wish I didnt, I feel like they just could have pulled it.

Reporter: So you [Benjamin] do the voice of two pretty popular characters: Sterling Archer and Bob Belcher. When you’re doing Bob, do you ever slip in a little Archer?

Benjamin: I do sometimes, I feel like whenever Bob has to yell I try and go really falsetto with Bob’s yell because if ever I yell really loud Archer comes out and I feel like I’m screwing up, like I’m losing Bob. So now [falsetto] “Bob always yells like this!” so that’s the one distinction I have to make.

Reporter: As someone whose voice is your living, is your voice insured?

Benjamin: I haven’t thought about it [...] but I’ve been worried about dying.

Reporter: Do you think Loren would do a Bob’s Burgers movie anytime soon?

Larry Murphy: That would certainly be something to aspire to, right?

Benjamin: It would be really hard to do right now, but I think it would be great.

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Data shows that references to Islam in hip-hop lyrics, once pervasive, are at an all-time low — while rappers are talking about Christianity more than ever. Why has rap forsaken one god for another?

The core of Amazon’s business — its original reason for being: selling books and other media — has grown wobbly. The problem: many people no longer want to buy stuff. They’d rather rent.

John Tory will be the next mayor of Canada’s largest city, a victory that marks the end of the often-turbulent reign of the Ford brothers at Toronto city hall.

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RoccamOccam writes A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a "government-related entity" that planted classified documents on her computer. In her new memoir, Sharyl Attkisson says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was "shocked" and "flabbergasted" at what the analysis revealed. "This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America," Attkisson quotes the source saying.

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Super Metroid by Dave Rapoza [website] [tumblr] [deviantart]

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Link from A Link to the Past :). I always preferred the kid version of Link. 

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Cat Town Cafe in Oakland, California opened this past weekend and became the first operational cat cafe in the United States. Founders Ann Dunn of Cat Town Adoptions and Adam Myatt have made it their mission to socialize adoptable cats with humans in the comfortable, relaxed environment of the café. Appointments are available on an hourly basis and can be booked online.

Guarantee your visit to America’s first Cat Cafe & Adoption Center. For a $10 (non-refundable) donation, you can schedule your hour-long visit in our Cat Zone for socialization time with our adoptable cats. Otherwise, we welcome walk-ins at no charge, but can’t guarantee immediate entry, depending on Cat Zone capacity.

photos via Cat Town Cafe

via Fast Company

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(via Time for Death: Skeleton Alarm Clock Goes on Display in London)

Would you like to wake from dreams with a reminder of your inevitable eternal sleep? An alarm clock currently on view at the British Library in London, which is part of the Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition, is a curious continuation of the memento mori tradition.

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she just stood there dong this little dance until we got up

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IN A WORLD

WITH A MILLION JILLION PRIDE AND PREJUDICE JOKES AND REVAMPS

HERE IS ANOTHER ONE


I thought of this a few years ago, and was like nahh there's too much of those parodies and even I made fun of them. haha oh well! How sweet is the comparison between two people ideologically opposed to each other who fall in looooovvveeee


The store has updated with lots of exciting new things! Were you looking at my Wee The People drawings on tumblr? I was trying to come up with something fun to put in the store. And along with a few other items, here we are!

Clicking on the image will take you to the store. Hooray!!

(via Stacking Skulls Band wedding engagement ring by adamfosterjewelry)

July 9, 2015. Judgement Day.

I thought it was a little odd Linkin Park played during San Diego Comic-Con 2014 but at least it was for the MTV Fandom Awards. But according to HitFix, One Direction will be playing in San Diego on July 9 next year, one of the dates already lined up for Comic-Con.

Two massive gatherings of equally obsessive fans in one city? What could go wrong?!

Comic-Con runs from July 8 (preview night) – 12th next year and considering how packed quickly area hotels fill up, we can only hope no one else but locals attends the One Direction show. Though thankfully, the concert will be at the Qualcomm stadium, which is not very close to the SDCC action. Still. Might want to bring survival supplies regardless.

(via USA Today, image via Eva Rinaldi on Flickr)

Previously in Comic-Con

• Watch The Entire Her Universe SDCC Fashion Show Courtesy Of Nerdist!
• Watch Bear McCreary Performing Songs From The Outlander Score Live At SDCC
• Woman Who Reportedly Blamed Cosplayers For Low Convention Sales Says She Actually Blames “New Breed of Attendees”

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Maru, the infamous box-conquerer and his little sister Hana stage an epic feline battle on, around and under the family sofa. Both cats prove to be marvelous gymnasts, but Maru definitely gets bonus points for his ingenious “slide out from under the couch and hug Hana” move.

via reddit

WINDOWS 93 is a surreal online version of a nonexistent operating system by Jankenpopp and Zombectro. Ostensibly based on Windows 95, WINDOWS 93 boots to a desktop that includes such programs as “Zkype” and “Cat Explorer” — the latter of which includes a number of handy bookmarks when opened. The entire simulated desktop is worth exploring.

via Waxy.org

Suspense! Intrigue! Inhalers! (Yay Osgood!) “Dark Water,” the first part of the Doctor Who season 8 finale, has it all!

Look for our recap of the Saturday, October 25 episode, “In the Forest of the Night,” later tonight.

Previously in Doctor Who

• A pair of stupid Americans try the foods of Doctor Who
• Here’s what happened on last week’s episode, “Flatline”
• Are you my mummy?

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Chief of staff for Sen. Ted Cruz immediately deleted the above tweet after half of Twitter called him insane. Some the responses were posted tonight by the Boston Globe.
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Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses: Amnesty report

By Carey Gillam

(Reuters) - Police in Ferguson, Missouri, committed human rights abuses as they sought to quell mostly peaceful protests that erupted after an officer killed an unarmed black teenager, an international human rights organization said in a report released on Friday.

The Amnesty International report said law enforcement officers should be investigated by U.S. authorities for the abuses, which occurred during weeks of racially charged protests that erupted after white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, 18, on Aug. 9.

The use by law enforcement of rubber bullets, tear gas and heavy military equipment and restrictions placed on peaceful protesters all violated international standards, the group said.

Amnesty said it sent a delegation to Ferguson from Aug. 14-22 to monitor the situation.

When asked about the allegations, Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department, which helped oversee law enforcement operations in Ferguson, said police “had one mission, and that was the preservation of life.”

The report also criticizes a Missouri law that the group said may be unconstitutional because it allows police to use deadly force against someone even if there is no imminent threat of harm.

The report calls on state lawmakers to make Missouri law comply with international standards making lethal force by police a last resort, said Rachel Ward, director of research at Amnesty International.

"Lethal force is only to be used to protect life when there is an immediate threat," Ward said. "The Missouri statute goes far beyond that. It is of grave concern."

Amnesty cited a Missouri statute that says a police officer may use deadly force “in effecting an arrest or in preventing an escape from custody” when that officer “reasonably believes that such use of deadly force is immediately necessary to effect the arrest and also reasonably believes that the person to be arrested … has committed or attempted to commit a felony.”

A grand jury in St. Louis County is weighing whether or not Wilson should be charged in Brown’s death. Wilson has not spoken publicly about the incident.

The Justice Department is investigating Brown’s killing and the Ferguson Police Department.

Witnesses and law enforcement officials have said Brown and Wilson got into an altercation after Wilson told Brown to stop walking down the middle of a street. Wilson shot Brown six times. Some witnesses have said Brown had his hands up in surrender when the last shots were fired.

"Michael Brown was unarmed and thus unlikely to have presented a serious threat to the life of the police officer," the report said.

(Reporting by Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Mo.; Editing by Eric Beech)

Full Amnesty Report #staywoke #farfromover

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I’ve actually contacted Google Adsense to see if I can get those banners (they all come from the same company, no matter which “game” they’re for) blacklisted from our ad rotation.  No response, and it’s been over a month, but God damn do I hate those. 

-Mr. Black

Our host in Los Angeles had terrific reviews. He also had bedbugs. Our first morning, we woke up and saw a critter the size of an apple seed crawling on the duvet. A frantic Google image search later, we had booked a hotel, sent the host a series of as-yet unanswered messages, and abandoned the apartment. ... If the place you’ve booked has bedbugs and is therefore uninhabitable, the host is not required by Airbnb to refund your money. If he or she does the right thing and provides reimbursement anyway, the reservation shows up as canceled — meaning the guest no longer has the option to leave a review.

Facebook is going old-school, with a stand-alone app for discussion boards aimed at letting users talk about shared interests without having to use their real names. The company released Rooms on Thursday, its answer to the craze around posting and sharing anonymously. People can use any name they want and do not need a Facebook account. The app contains rooms geared around various topics, all of which require an invite link to enter. Providing an email address is optional, for the purposes of having accessed rooms restored if the user deletes the app.

This week’s Etsy Shop of the Week is Adam Foster Jewelry. His entire collection is beautiful, but we really love the Skull engagement rings and wedding bands.

“I look forward to the next couple or the next bachelor looking to have something created. There is always an interesting person or couple around the corner and I love that. I strive to create jewelry that will not only live in the heart of the wearer for their lifetime, but will knock their socks off AND become a treasured family heirloom.”