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This seems like a very uncomfortable way to enjoy a football game.

The Jaguars have pools in their stadium, complete with bikinied barstaff and cheerleaders. Sexy! Cool! Fun way to spend a lot of money at a football game.

It isn't as fun and sexy in practice:

Look: we would never shame someone for not wanting to go shirtless in a public setting.

But, dear Jaguars fan: jeans? Jeans! Jeans! You knew you were going to a pool party at a football game! Denim in a pool must be so uncomfortable! And it's 74 degrees in Jacksonville! Why were you wearing jeans in the first place!

(Also, whoever programmed the sign in the bottom right misspelled "forecast.")

Jonathan XIV turned one today and naturally there needed to be a party. This video confirmed our suspicions: Dog birthday parties are the best birthday parties.

It features such key moments as...

Dog love!

A guest waiting for cake

99 Dog-balloons

And the best part... FIRST PERSON DOG CAKE CAM!

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This is basically what happened.

They’re everywhere! (Etsy seller Tohnik, via Fashionably Geek)

• Newfound Molecule in Space Dust Offers Clues to Life’s Origins (via Space.com)
• Big-Nosed Dino Might Have Attracted Mates With Shnoz (via Discovery)
• Season three of the cancelled-by-the-BBC and resurrected-by-Amazon show Ripper Street will debut on the UK version of Amazing Prime Instant Video in mid-November. It’ll air on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US some time next year. There are currently no plans for a release on the American version of Amazon Prime. (via The Hollywood Reporter)

Put Who on your shoes thanks to Etsy seller Arteclair. (via Boing Boing)

• Gabrielle Union Speaks Out Against “The Fappening,” Vultures and the Victimization of Women. (via Pajiba)
• Meet Disney’s Star Wars Maestro, Kiri Hart (via Wall Street Journal)
• 35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry (via Glamour)

Father/son Guardians of the Galaxy cosplay by sixtrelincoln. (via Fashionably Geek)

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An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Entrepreneur.com: After long remaining mostly mum on Bitcoin, Microsoft's legendary co-founder Bill Gates has spoken. At the Sibos 2014 financial-services industry conference in Boston, America's richest man just threw his weight behind the controversial cryptocash. Well, at least as a low-cost payments solution. ... "Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be," he told Erik Schatzker during a Bloomberg TV's Smart Street show interview yesterday (video). "Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don't have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient." ... While he seems relatively bullish on how inexpensive transacting in Bitcoin can be, Gates isn't singing the praises of its anonymity. The billionaire alluded in an oblique, somewhat rambling fashion to some of the more nefarious anonymous uses associated with Bitcoin.

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Jenkins said the man would receive a mental health evaluation at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. The man will eventually be placed in housing that give allow health workers direct access to him daily. Syed said it was unlikely that the man would be placed in a homeless shelter.

The casual racism towards Mexico was a stitch. At first you're like, ok, fine future Mexico has a space program, and apparently they went to the moon before any other country sent any woman as an astronaut(?), that's cool. And then you get inside the shuttle and there's this brightly colored poncho just sitting on a chair. And a bunch of baby cacti. Because Mexico. How else would you know?

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On our side, a lot of journalists hate the nepotism, and most importantly, they hate the relationship the industry has with journalism. Because a while back ago, “games journalism” was essentially coopted as a marketing arm for certain AAA publishers. At that point, AAA publishers became gatekeepers for success in games journalism. It’s awful, because we want to be talking critically. We want to be looking at games in different lights. We want to approach these works of art as works of art, and not just as the next success or flop. But that can’t happen on any large scale, because of that corruption, because of the commercialism of it all.

The way a lot of the Gamergate stuff looks to us really looks like some strange bizarro world where the games industry works completely different than it really does.

The biggest targets of Gamergate have been people who are frankly powerless in the games industry. People like Zoe Quinn and Phil Fish, they are not gatekeepers. They are not able to enact any real, significant influence on the industry. Most independent game jams, awards, and exhibitions are small groups of people, trying to make names for themselves in their little ponds. That’s how independent artists work in pretty much every creative field. They can’t compete with the game industry, so they’re trying to carve out their own little micro industry, where they do their own things and have a captive audience.

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- David Hill (Onyx Path)

bogleech:

As C.M. Kosemen explains throughout All Yesterdays, we really can’t ever know how much fat and other soft tissues contributed to the overall shape of dinosaurs since that’s the first thing to rot and shrivel tight against their bones and like even a sperm whale has a little skinny skeleton.

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how would we know?

In 2011 and 2012, Russian photographer Andrew Bodrov traveled to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and created a wonderful series of space-themed 360-degree “little planet” panoramas. While at Baikonur he was able to capture several rocket launches, as well as various monuments scattered around the space launch facility. One of his more striking images, a launch of a Proton-M rocket, was featured in the 157th International Print Exhibition of The Royal Photographic Society. Bodrov’s Baikonur panoramas are also available in interactive versions. He has more little planets on his site.

photos by Andrew Bodrov

via Reframe

Abstract portrait


Honoring breast cancer awareness


Trimming the hedges


Peeping Toms


Kids play


Rainy day


Getting ready for a run


Spaghetti dinner


Watching "Rocky Horror Picture Show"

kristenraemiller:

For the month of October ‘til Halloween, my dad changes up the scene of these 2 skeletons on his front porch each day for the neighbors to check out. Very creative!

disneylandguru:

 Apple Pie Funnel Cake from Hungry Bear Restaurant in Critter Country, a tasty twist on an American classic.

meretricula:

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Olaus Magnus, Nocturnal Dance of Fairies, 1555

Olaus Magnus, Combat with Sirens of the Wood, 1555

Olaus Magnus, Secret chamber of a Wizard in the Swedish province of Norrbotten, 1555

solsticeretouch:

Controversial Gun Control Campaign Shots

Moms Demand Action recently released a campaign showcasing the stance America has on gun control and tries to put it in perspective. Do you believe that these photos hit home or miss the point? 

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DEADLINE: True, but the year he made Apocalypto, I didn’t see a better movie and he was ignored and hasn’t directed since. Marvel badly wants Iron Man 4 and you’ve said you aren’t doing it. How about the idea you’ll do that movie if Mel directs it? DOWNEY: Correct.

When in Hotty, do as the Toddies do.

It's nice to see Katy Perry is learning the tried and true ways of Mississippi.

The perfect ending to a big day in Oxford that included...

Producing a corn dog on 'GameDay'

Embracing the Ole Miss Bear

Everyone celebrating like there's no tomorrow

FrnkMit writes: Challenging a previous Code.org story on tech diversity, a Forbes.com writer interviewed 716 women who left the technology field. Her conclusion: corporate culture, and the larger social structure, is the primary cause for these women leaving the industry and never looking back. Specific issues include a lack of maternity policies in small companies, low pay which barely covers day care, "jokes" from male coworkers, and always feeling like the "odd duck." In reality, there are probably many intertwined causes: peer pressure at the high-school and college level, female-unfriendly geek culture, low pay, a lack of accommodations for pregnant/nursing mothers, the myth of "having it all," stereotype threat, and repeated assertions that women aren't biologically suited to writing software and therefore there's no problem at all.

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An anonymous reader writes "In a public letter to both Time Warner and Comcast, the FCC said they are putting a hold on the merger deal between the two companies. Citing inadequate responses by both cable companies to earlier FCC requests for additional information, the agency is stopping the clock on its 180-day review period until late October. Comcast and Time Warner together control most of the Internet services in the country. However, the companies said they are in different regions and are not going to suppress the competition.

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Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

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Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

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