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The Grueling, Jolting Life Of A Coffee Quality Specialist
This Is How Judges Humiliate Pregnant Teens Who Want Abortions
Ebola outbreak: Full scale alert as aircraft passenger jokes 'I have Ebola! You are all screwed' - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent
Former NFL Exec: Teams Hid 'Hundreds' Of Abuse Incidents
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The Girl Problem In 'Gone Girl'
firehose'Taken as a fable about modern gender relations, which isn't a particularly far-fetched reading, Gone Girl confirms what so many woman-haters have long suspected: that women readily use rape accusations as a tool of revenge or escape; that women take some perverse pleasure in weathering rape kits and intrusive interrogations; that when a woman says she was victimized, she deserves suspicion as much as support; that women have some privileged, almost mystical sway over law enforcement; that women take things too far, that we are ungrateful, we are controlling, we are ruthless, we manipulate, we drive men to cheat and then punish them for it, we chew men up and spit them out, on to the next one, the next one, and again, and again.
It's the naif's understanding of "misandry": women are cruel, women are scary, women are trying to destroy you, women must be stopped. If that seems like a goofy overreach, take a look inside of any female writer's Inbox or Twitter mentions. Take a look at the men's rights crowd crowing over Gone Girl's big brave truths. Take a look at the comments underneath this post, I bet. Amy isn't just "a woman," she's the same vicious caricature that I see angry men constructing online, over and over, just so they can burn her down. So they can continue to justify harassing and threatening women. She is as much a specter of male rage as female rage. She is self-perpetuating. She is good entertainment, but she is dangerous. Sure, Fincher's Nick is kind of a bumbling dickhead, but Amy is a gorgon. There is no comparison.'
I think hockey announcers are like the happiest people in the world they get so excited about...
I think hockey announcers are like the happiest people in the world they get so excited about everything
they don’t care which team it is, theres no bias like some hometeam announcers are. great saves, incredible goals, near misses, they don’t give a shit because hockey is happening and isn’t that just fucking awesome?
New Details Emerge Of Sarah Palin Family Brawl - Sky News
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New Details Emerge Of Sarah Palin Family Brawl Sky News A "heavily intoxicated" Bristol Palin repeatedly punched a homeowner in the face and her brother was left shirtless and bloodied. 14:11, UK, Friday 10 October 2014. Sarah Palin and her husband Todd in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 26, 2013. Todd Palin (R) ... New Details Emerge On Sarah Palin's Family Involvement In Bloody, Drunken ...Music Times Sarah Palin's family will not be charged over 'drunken brawl'Irish Independent No charges over Palin family drunken Alaska birthday brawl — policegulfnews.com BuzzFeed all 245 news articles » |
Dairy Queen hacked; 19 Illinois stores affected - Chicago Tribune
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Dairy Queen hacked; 19 Illinois stores affected Chicago Tribune Nearly 400 Dairy Queen shops in the United States had their software systems compromised, including 19 in Illinois and 30 in Indiana, the restaurant chain said, making it the latest retailer to confirm a data breach. International Dairy Queen said its ... Data Breach Bulletin: Dairy Queen, JP Morgan Chase, AT&TForbes Cow-Tipping Cybercriminals Breach Dairy QueenTom's Guide Dairy Queen confirms data security breach; see if your Alabama city was affectedAL.com Omaha World-Herald -WKOW -KGNS.tv all 365 news articles » |
Jughead Ain't Got Time To Bleed: Archie & Dark Horse Announce 'Archie Meets Predator'
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It was just the other day that I was writing about how I never really understood why comics were always crossing over with the Predator, but today, I have officially been convinced that it’s all worth it. Archie Comics and Dark Horse have announced Archie Meets Predator, coming next spring from writer Alex De Campi and artist Fernando Ruiz.
The Predator, an alien from space who comes to Earth in order to hunt the deadliest and most skilled humans alive, will join The Punisher, KISS and the cast of Glee in the illustrious and growing roster of unlikely Archie crossovers, and while Frank Castle took a few shots at our redheaded hero, it seems like the Predator is the one most bent on doing violence to our Riverdale pals.
The creative team is pretty interesting; De Campi is as known for fantasy thrillers like Valentine and horror titles like Creepy as she is for recent work on My Little Pony, so she seems uniquely suited to the task. Ruiz, on the other hand, is a longtime Archie veteran who, at least in the promotional art, seems to have figured out how to draw the Predator in a way that is both accurate and perfectly in keeping with the Archie house style. It seems like a shot from a Saturday morning Predator Adventures cartoon — something that I’m shocked never actually happened.
As for the plot of the crossover, it already sounds amazing just from the bit of information that accompanied the announcement:
Archie and friends hit Costa Rica for spring break, where party and beach games soon get replaced by the most dangerous game! What mysterious attraction does the gang hold for the trophy-collecting Predator, and will the kids even realize they’re in danger before it claims them all?
The idea of the Predator trying to tear off Archie’s head without the gang even knowing what’s happening sounds delightful, and one imagines that if the Predator was able to return to its home planet with Jughead’s crown, it would be the greatest trophy ever recovered. Still, I hope the gang makes it out okay.
Well, except for Reggie. Just between you and me, I wouldn’t mind if that guy got taken out Jesse Ventura style.
questionall: Sorry gang, you can’t scream about ebola, but also...
Sorry gang, you can’t scream about ebola, but also cut funding for the CDC and block the appointment of a surgeon general.
Super Smash Bros. hints that Mario's extra lives are clones
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Descriptions for items within Super Smash Bros. for 3DS have already discussed Metroid protagonist Samus' inability to crawl. Another meme-referencing bit of text surfaced this week, this time providing a theory for Mario's extra lives. According to...
A Funny Old Game: Goofball Goals
By Graham Smith on October 9th, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
Two players are crumpled on top of each other on the ground, struggling to get up. Another has fallen on their back and is alternately folding and stretching their limbs. Most of the rest of the team have crashed through a wall near the side of the pitch, covering the ball in rubble and rounded flesh. It’s just another match day for Manchester United.
Sickburn! It’s actually (or also…) Goofball Goals, a knockabout football game with comically inept, physics-animated players from the maker of tipsy-shoving fighting game Sumotori Dreams. There’s a demo to download and a short video I took below.
This video is the computer playing itself, which most often causes them to send every player running after the ball at once. It’s never not funny. This video from the creator of the game might give a better sense of how you might control the game yourself, however. You can either select individual players and use keyboard controls to steer them, or click and drag from the feet of people on your team to send them tottering in a particular direction. In either situation, they move with the momentum of a toddler, and are easily tipped over should any friend or foe or ball come in contact with them.
The demo limits matches to 60 seconds in length, but buying the full game let’s you twiddle the settings, creating matches of any length, increasing the size of the ball, the size of the field, or even using a full editor to design your own pitches full of physics objects. It’a $6 from the developer if you’re interested.
I can’t account for its long-term appeal, but Tricky Truck and Sumotori Dreams are both lots of fun, and the latter regularly had me and an office full of people crowded round a computer screen laughing ourselves silly at the sight of two handsy, slapstick automotons trying to stand up.
Report: Google among potential buyers of Unity gaming engine
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Unity, the little gaming engine that could, may soon have new owners, according to a Cnet report.
For those unaware, Unity is an increasingly ubiquitous engine on which a diverse cast of developers have built a number of popular, wildly disparate...
Newswire: Fox picks up Firefly-esque sci-fi show from Sleepy Hollow’s Len Wiseman
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Underworld co-creator Len Wiseman has a couple of surprisingly successful TV shows under his belt now—one of them a much-loved genre thing—and that means it’s time to take his career to the next level by selling a Western-inspired sci-fi show to Fox. That’s what Joss Whedon did, and it worked out fine for him, right? This comes from Deadline, which says Wiseman is working with Gang Related showrunner Scott Rosenbuam on a project that they’re describing as “The Dirty Dozen in deep space.”
Apparently, it will take place in “a foreseeable future, where companies have begun to colonize sections of our known galaxy,” and it will focus on a team of mercenaries who are hired to investigate a mysterious distress signal on an equally mysterious planet. The Deadline write-up also uses the phrase “unlikely group of heroes,” just in case it didn’t seem enough ...
National Security Letter Issuance Likely Headed To Supreme Court
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Your Bio-Engineered Penis Is Almost Ready
Using advanced techniques in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, doctors in the U.S. are reporting their first successes with lab-grown penises. They've worked in rabbits, and now scientists say they're ready to begin testing the penises on humans.
Scrambled Eggs and Serifs
Years ago, I asked one of my mentors what he thought was the hardest part of designing a typeface. I was expecting “the cap S” or “the italic lowercase” or something like that. But he answered without hesitation: the name. Finding the name is the hardest part.
Type has a long and rich history, not just in its shapes but also its organization and presentation. Scholars have discussed the marriage of roman and italic, originally independent forms. Others have charted the idea of “bold”, the shift of weight that is a signal all by itself. But the idea of a typeface name has received less attention.
Today, we expect a name to be a unique designation, independent of context, emphasizing personality rather than structure. It wasn’t always this way, so I went digging to find the beginning of this concept. As with most of type history, the answer is complicated.
For centuries, punchcutters would develop their style within a narrow group of genres. There would be only one style of roman or italic, even if that style had been refined and focused over a span of years. The name only needed to pin down the remaining variable, the size.
Less common genres would get a single broad term: Blackletter, Greek, Hebrew, Music, and so on. In this specimen printed by Dirck Voskens’ widow, Duyts (Deutsch) literally means “German”, and Textura or Blackletter by extension.
If there were multiple versions of a roman or italic (or anything else), a number could differentiate them simply. “Roman No. 2” would be distinct from “Roman No. 1”, but the genre would not be reinvented, or major new ingredients introduced. There was no need for more detail, the customer just needed to know which one was a little heavier or lighter, wider or narrower, and so on. Prof. Indra Kupferschmid touches on this point in her post about type classification, here.
In Bodoni’s epic Manuale Tipografico of 1818, over one hundred romans and italics are shown with the name of a city as a kind of nickname, though the real name was still a size and a number. Trieste is really Ascendonica (22 point) No. 9, Palermo is Sopracanoncino (28 point) No. 3, and so on.
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, a new market for advertising drove typefounders to expand their inventories. The established vocabulary soon proved inadequate — a predictable result, given novelty was such a conscious goal. Founders needed to coin new terms, to signal the unique aspect of a new design. But customers would need to understand this new jargon, so it behooved the founders to establish and maintain some equivalence in new terms.
Some of these new genre names found longevity in a stable definition. Latin came to mean something with spiky triangular serifs. Italian or French became a kind of adverb, indicating an inverted distribution of weight. Some accords could never be reached, so Antique means “slab serif” in the United States or Britain, but “sans serif” in France. In Germany, Antiqua would take on another meaning, of modern or oldstyle serif.
Conflicts aside, new terms like Egyptian, Grecian, Tuscan, Ionic, Latin and Grotesque took root. Always striving for curiosity and surprise, founders broke out of genres as soon as they were established. Ever narrower terms appeared, with little endurance in the marketplace: Bretonnes, Athenian, Runic, Arabesque, etc. Some foundries had inventories too large for evocative names, particularly for their decorated designs. Where no modifier could be coined or accepted, founders simply assigned a number and called it done.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, names for the more common designs had settled into a reliable syntax of base words and modifiers, with numbers appended as necessary. The result often seemed more like an ingredient list than a recognizable name. Just as “scrambled eggs and bacon” isn’t really the name of a dish, but a tally of the items involved, “Gothic Condensed No. 7” is a (hopefully unambiguous) report of attributes.
Lawrence Johnson’s 1857 specimen shows a decorated design under the name “National”. Being an adjective like all the other genre names, it’s not clear if this was meant as a unique name, or the start of yet another novelty genre.
Wood’s Typographical Advertiser shows two designs under proper names with no connection to typography: “Albert Edward” and “Lord Mayor”. If Johnson’s “National” was not meant as a modern name, these would be more likely candidates.
George Bruce’s 1869 specimen continues the trend, with “Tendril” and “Victoria”. The shift from adjectives to nouns seems to be an important moment: adjectives suggest a larger group, while a noun stands alone.
A concocted name, the next stage of evolution, appears in the same specimen with the design “Graphotype”.
These new approaches became increasingly popular, and some foundries seemed to use them as a badge of modernity. Still, the old constructs like Ornamented No. 16, Antique Shaded and Gothic Condensed No. 2 persisted well into the twentieth century. In fact, a few old-school names survive to this day, like Linotype’s Old Style No. 7.
To return to our analogy on the diner menu, “The Monte Cristo” or “The Reuben” do not list any ingredients. Similarly, “Cheltenham” and “Futura” offer no preview of the design. The name is now part of the design itself, rather than a retrospective description, or a part number. The name precedes the typeface like a herald, rather than trailing behind like a stenographer. At its best, a typeface’s name is a one-word sales pitch.
So the modern typeface name — evocative and abstract — was not a breakthrough by one individual, but a project that took countless hands and over two hundred years to realize.
And I quickly came to agree: the name is the hardest part.
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Boston police more likely to stop blacks, report says - CBS News
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Skulls and skeletons sculpted in neon glass
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“Embodiment,” a neon glass skeleton by Eric Franklin. His portfolio includes beautiful related works, including human skulls, created with flameworked borosilicate glass, krypton and wood.
You Wish You Were As Happy As This Otter Playing With A Feather
European otters were nearly driven to extinction in the Netherlands, due to water pollution and habitat loss. In 2002, around 30 of them were introduced into the wild, in an effort to regrow their population. If this video is any indication, they've definitely made progress.
The iPhone 6 Holster, designed to be super low...
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The iPhone 6 Holster, designed to be super low profile so you won't even know it's there, no more fishing around in your purse or pocket when you want to access your phone. Bonus: Your new iPhone 6 won't bend in your pocket.
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Cavs unveil new alternate jerseys that quote The Three Musketeers
All for one. LeBron for All.
Here is full look.@cavs will be wearing em' opening night at The Q.They look even better in person versus the graphic pic.twitter.com/WthRWxxznN
— Dan Gilbert (@cavsdan) October 9, 2014
(1) Teams need to get a fresh look when they trade/sign a star, and the Cavs just got LeBron back.
(2) The Cavs buried the lede here, which is LeBron's newest running mate!
We have tremendous expectations for ABCDEFG. RT @D_Wood53 @cavs ABCDEFG should have a big year. Double-double season.
— Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) October 9, 2014
Congrats, ABCDEFG!
▶ Devo - Head Like A Hole - YouTube
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Classic Doctor Who With Modern Doctor Who Music Is Strangely Perfect
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Nick Acosta decided to see what would happen if he added the nu-Who's modern score to the classic Doctor Who serials of yesteryear. The result is both strange and strangely captivating.
MMA Fighter 'Mayhem' Miller Surrenders After Hours-Long Standoff - Chinatopix
firehose'Mixed martial arts fighter Jason "Mayhem" Miller has surrendered after live-tweeting a stand-off with Orange County Sheriff's deputies attempting to serve him with an arrest warrant for domestic violence and stalking, reports CBS Los Angeles.'
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MMA Fighter 'Mayhem' Miller Surrenders After Hours-Long Standoff Chinatopix Mixed martial arts fighter Jason "Mayhem" Miller surrendered to SWAT officers Thursday, after an hours-long standoff, authorities reported. Like Us on Facebook. The MMA fighter and former MTV reality show host barricaded himself in his Mission Viejo home ... MMA Star 'Mayhem' Miller Embroiled in SWAT StandoffViral Global News MMA fighter live tweets police stand-offNEWS.com.au MMA star live-tweets his standoff with the policeWashington Post (blog) all 91 news articles » |
A Houston radio station is now playing Beyoncé songs 24 hours a day
firehose"parent company Radio One has laid off 47 employees from the station"
The radio news business ain't what it used to be. So after three years as a 24-hour news channel, a Houston radio station, News92 FM, announced this week that it will from now on play nothing but Beyoncé songs, Beyoncé songs, and more Beyoncé songs. There won't even be commercials, unless you count when she talks about watermelons and Vogue. Queen Bey has five albums to her credit, totaling 63 songs and a little over four hours — those long Texas drives are going to get a little repetitive. Luckily, if you count Destiny's Child there's really a lot of music to be had. (One has to imagine that "Single Ladies" and "Flawless" are going to be played a lot, and that exactly no one will mind.) There won't be as many people involved, as parent company Radio One has laid off 47 employees from the station — a sad turn of events as the company tries to figure out how to make radio profitable in the country's fourth-largest city.
This is presumably a temporary move, while Radio One figures out what to do with the station long-term — it's called "stunting," and it's done fairly often as a way to promote the station. Still, it's only the latest clear indication that the way people consume the radio has shifted for good. It probably won't be B921 forever, though the numbers may be... convincing. Before the switch, The Houston Chronicle reports, News92 FM was ranked 26th in its market, and captured just 0.9 percent of the audience. It stands to reason that Beyoncé will lift that number considerably higher. She is Beyoncé, after all.
There’s more than one reason why iOS 8’s growth has stalled
firehose"So far, new high-end iPhones typically outsell the phones they replace. This is reflected both in the ever-growing year-over-year sales numbers and the yearly Apple press releases about opening weekend sales. The flipside of this phenomenon is that every time a new version of iOS drops support for an older iPhone, Apple is leaving a larger number of devices behind.
It's difficult to get a feel for what kind of iPhones and iPads are still in active service at any given time, but take this data from Localytics as an example. As of early September, the iPhone 4 and older devices (i.e., those that can't upgrade to iOS 8 at all) account for about 18 percent of all iPhones in active use. The original iPad (dropped way back when iOS 6 was released) represents about 6 percent of all iPads in active use.
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If Localytics' data is to be believed, the iPhone 4S represents around a fifth of all active iPhones. The iPad 2 and first-gen iPad Mini together represent nearly half of all active iPads, even more if you count the A5X in the third-generation iPad.
These devices all support iOS 8, but the problem is that none of them run it particularly well."
If you follow Apple news closely, at some point in the last week you've probably seen the graph above. It's from Apple's Developer Support page, and the company calculates the figure by looking at the iOS versions of devices accessing the App Store. Like Google's analogous developer dashboard for Android, it's meant to give developers a broad look at OS usage so they can use that data to determine which OSes to support with their apps.
The problem with the graph above isn't that it shows iOS 8 and iOS 7 with the same amount of share, but that the number for iOS 8 has climbed just a single percentage point since the last measurement was taken on September 21. Apple's data mirrors what a number of other independent firms have been claiming virtually since launch day—Chitika's data shows that iOS 8 had rolled out to 7.3 percent of the iOS userbase after 24 hours of availability, while iOS 7 had already hit 18.2 percent in the first 24 hours after its launch. More recent data from Fiksu shows an adoption curve closer to iOS 5 (the last version you needed iTunes to upgrade to) than to iOS 6 or iOS 7.
Though the Ars audience is generally more tech-savvy than the general populace, our own data shows that you guys are embracing iOS 8 less enthusiastically than you picked up iOS 7. Here's data from iOS 7's first two full weeks (running from September 22 of 2013 to October 5) compared to data from iOS 8's first two full weeks (September 21 of 2014 to October 4). Around 70 percent of our site visits came from iOS 7 in that time period, compared to about 60 percent from iOS 8.
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