Put 1 dozen peeled, cored, and quartered tart apples into a kettle with enough water to cover them and simmer them until they are soft and nearly all the water is evaporated. Rub the mixture through a sieve and measure the pulp. To each quart of pulp add 2 cups vinegar, 2 medium-sized onions, grated, 1 cup sugar, 3 teaspoons salt, 2 teaspoons powdered cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon each dry mustard and ground cloves. Bring the ketchup to a boil, simmer for 1 hour, and pour it into jars. Seal and store in a dry, cool place.

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It’s fitting that a song featured in a comic book about jumping between dimensions has now leapt from the pages and into real life. “Spider-Verse” is an event in Marvel’s Spider-Man comics that involves Spider-Men (Spider-Mans?) from alternate realities banding together to stop a villain the friendly neighborhood wall crawler couldn’t defeat on his own. In one of the tie-ins, Edge Of Spider-Verse no. 2, readers were introduced to a dimension where Gwen Stacy had been bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes Spider-Woman (bullied Peter Parker instead becomes the Lizard). Apparently with great power also comes great rhythm and the need to rock, as this dimension’s Gwen is the drummer of a band called The Mary Janes with other female Spider-Man supporting characters Mary Jane Watson, Betty Brant, and Glory Grant. That issue depicts the punk group rocking out to their song, “Face It Tiger ...

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Grace Murray Hopper – GHN: IEEE Global History Network via Retro computing.

A 1962 Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Fellow “for contributions in the field of automatic programming,” Grace Hopper was one of the most important computer programmers in the pioneering era of computing.

Born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City, she received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from Vassar College in 1928 (Phi Beta Kappa). Hopper earned a master’s and doctorate in mathematics from Yale in 1930 and 1934. After returning to Vassar as an instructor from 1933 to 1943, Hopper decided to join the America military’s World War II efforts. She joined the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Service) program in December 1943 and was commissioned a lieutenant early the next year, taking an assignment at the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University.

After the war, Hopper stayed on as a research fellow at the Harvard Computation Laboratory. In 1949, she went to work for the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation, and in 1952, became Director of Automatic Programming for the UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand (which had acquired the Eckert-Mauchly company). Hopper was one of the originators of high-level programming languages, completing one of the first compilers in 1952.

Tarlov, who lives in Fairfield, Conn., was traversing the the traffic-light enforced crosswalk on West Dr. in the park near W. 63 St. around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when she was struck. Witnesses told police that Marshall yelled at the woman to get out of the way, but she evidently did not hear him. “He was in the far left bike lane,” a police official said. “When he approached the crosswalk, he swerved out of the bike lane to avoid other pedestrians and he crossed over, went into the traffic lane, and hit her.”

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Manual is an iPhone app designed by William Wilkinson that gives users manual control over their phones onboard camera. The app gives full manual control over the camera’s shutter, ISO, white balance, focus, and exposure settings in addition to other camera features like a histogram and rule-of-thirds grid. Manual is currently available on iOS.

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Every scrap of footage from Studio Ghibli's The Tale of Princess Kaguya makes me want a US release yesterday. Now we've got the full English-language trailer, and it is another beauty.

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The Little League World Series hero will now live on forever in Cooperstown.

She became the first female pitcher to win a Little League World Series game, she captured the attention of the entire country and she made the cover of Sports Illustrated. Now Mo'ne Davis' is headed to Cooperstown, to play in an exhibition game on Thursday and to donate the jersey she wore in the LLWS to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

A great ending to Davis' 2014 LLWS story and hopefully the start of more great things in her future.

Check out the full story at NJ.com.

In science fiction movies and TV shows, intelligent aliens are usually the same basic shape as humans: two arms, two legs and a head. But why would creatures that evolved on a completely different planet look so similar to us? We asked some experts, and they told us the most likely explanations for humanoid aliens.

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We told you yesterday that Bryan Singer will be directing X-Men: Apocalypse, but that’s not the only X-news that’s broken. There’s a new plot description out, and it has some pleasing nuggets.

Via Deadline:

“The altering of time has unleashed a new and uniquely powerful enemy. Charles (James McAvoy), Erik/Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Hank/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) are joined by young Cyclops, Storm, Jean and others as the X-Men must fight their most formidable foe yet: an ancient unrelenting force determined to cause an apocalypse unlike any in human history.”

So… Charles and Erik are working together again? That should make Tumblr happy. The big news here, though, is that Storm, Cyclops, and Jean Grey—the latter two brought back from death after Days of Future Past decided fuck it, we’re just going to retcon The Last Stand out of existence—will be coming back into the fray, but as younger versions of themselves. That makes sense, given we already knew Apocalypse would be a got-dang ’80s period film.

You know what was big in the ’80s?

Punk.

You know what punks like to wear?

Mohawks.

Fox. You know what to do.

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HOUSTON—Saying he deeply regretted his “thoughtless and insensitive” comments, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced his resignation as head of the nation’s space agency Tuesday following the disclosure of an email in which h...

Note to #iPhone users: That microwave charging thing is a hoax http://t.co/EOmip6SGv9 pic.twitter.com/WhXpLrWv13

— CTV Vancouver (@CTVVancouver) September 23, 2014

As advertised, using the new “Wave” technology in iOS 8 will quickly fill your phone’s battery—with fire, smoke, and explosions, that is. Who knew that putting metal objects into the microwave wouldn’t end well? These people need more Jennifer Lawrence in their lives.

The hoax follows a similar one from last year, when 4Chan users tried to convince iPhone owners that iOS 7 could sense when a phone was submerged in water and automatically protect itself by shutting off the phone’s power. When the iPhone 6 was announced, 4Chan users began brainstorming a new hoax as shown in screenshots on a Reddit thread. From there, the idea of “wave” charging caught on and was passed around Twitter with an Apple-inspired ad for the feature under the hashtag #AppleWave.

Damn, making me want an iPhone so i can use #AppleWave !!!!! pic.twitter.com/kODmNQ6UP4 — Skinny (@ben_bruzz) September 22, 2014

Just like the waterproofing, they make it sound like the feature can be enabled through software alone and will work on any iOS 8 device, and, well, it looks like people have believed them (which I know is what you’re really here for).

“@BOSSman____: just charged my iPhone in my microwave. all it took was 30 seconds and it was fully charged. “wtf bro pic.twitter.com/g0olFrDoYw

— Juanye. (@jwill254) August 13, 2014

Don’t put your iPod or iPhone in the microwave to charge. It doesn’t work…. pic.twitter.com/tQXw0c3mcF

— kitty (@kassy_shinee) June 20, 2013

I put my iPhone in a microwave because someone said it would fully charge … bad idea pic.twitter.com/mv5QrZxHzL — Alexis Buzie (@A_Buzzers) June 7, 2013

Of course, there’s no way to know whether or not these people actually microwaved their phones or are just playing into the joke, which there’s also no shortage of.

@SwagdaddySlansk I’m totally kidding hahaha my phone is completely fine, I didn’t do it… I got that pic from google

— lorena terroba (@lore1306) September 19, 2014

ITS WORKING #AppleWave pic.twitter.com/e4SGBHRler

— Benny baggadonuts (@suppyben) September 19, 2014

WARNING: You must enable bluetooth before using Apple’s new iOS 8 Wave feature! #AppleWave @tim_cook, retweet this! pic.twitter.com/QEEGu4dRWz — Leon Smith (@Aztec_Killer) September 19, 2014

While my initial reaction to this was definitely a laugh at how gullible people would have to be to try microwaving their iPhones, you’d also have to be a fairly large jerk to deliberately spread a hoax that you know is costing people expensive technology. Being a jerk is not better than being gullible. Please remember the power of the masses, which you can also learn about through movie GIFs.

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Previously in real Apple things

• Apple gave iTunes users a way to permanently delete that U2 album
• Apple’s phones do have plenty of actual new features… if this were 2012
• Samsung’s “It Doesn’t Take a Genius” pokes fun at Apple

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Kansas City Krakens by Kenneth “Wheels03″ Wheeler

Fantasy Football is a collection of 32 T-shirt designs by talented artists that feature legendary fantasy-themed creatures as sports mascots. They are available to purchase online until September 25th, 2014 at Shirt.Woot.

Arizona Jackalopes by Kevin “kdubbs29″ Werther

Seattle Sasquatches by Blair Sayer

Denver Unicorns by Stephen “Radscoolian” Dye

Buffalo Beholders by Adam “ApeLad” Koford

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Imagine me screaming “#villeashell! #villeashell!” over and over again like in that Austin Powers “MOLE! MOLE! MOLEY MOLEY MOLEY” scene.

We're inspired this year by the creativity of Steampunk.  Steampunk takes the mind of nineteenth century science fiction authors like Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth) and H.G. Wells (The Time Machine, War of the Worlds) and brings it into today. It takes the technology of their time -- steam power, the start of the industrial revolution -- and their fashion aesthetic -- Victorian England and America's Wild West -- and re-imagines it.  

Steampunk tropes are top hats, corsets, and pocket watches. Because the heroes of this world are scientists and tinkerers, steampunk features complex machines made of repurposed everyday objects with visible working gears.  And because this is a science fiction that reaches across the centuries, the concept of time, travel and time travel are prominent so expect lots of googles, protective jackets, watches, and lens to look through. 

Archiald Query, the inventor of Fluff we celebrate in this festival, was born in the nineteenth century and shares the steampunk desire to make something new.  An immigrant to Somerville, he knew a thing about perilous journeys.  Marshmallow Fluff itself, made the same way today as when Archie first whipped it up, is a magical substance that allows everyone who eats it to return to the time of their own childhoods.  We therefore declare SteamFluff as our vehicle for this year's state of play.

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Marvel has canceled two Milo Manara variant covers that were in works following the great Spider-Woman's Ass Controversy of 2014 . EiC Axel Alonso says they do plan to have Manara draw more variant covers in the future, but promises they'll be more "aware of the growing sensitivity to covers like this."

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	"I cannot describe the peace of mind that comes when you stop subjecting yourself to a constant ambient awareness and interaction with someone who annoys the shit out of you."

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Hello Captain!

I’m writing to you about a lady in my friend group who seems to dislike me very much, and makes social gatherings very uncomfortable. Some back story: I started dating my boyfriend Brad about 4 years ago, and hung out with his friend group consisting of his friend from childhood Jake, Jake’s wife Pam, Jake’s brother John, and John’s girlfriend, the lady who now won’t talk to me unless forced, Kayla. (names changed!)

For the first year Brad and I dated, everyone got along! Kayla was warm and friendly, and once when drunk told me that I was “the sister she never had.” Her, Pam, and I would go shopping, talk about comics or feminism, the whole group played cards and went out – things were fine! But then around the same time Kayla and I both moved in to the 3 bedroom apartment Jake, Pam, John, and Brad were sharing, each couple in a room sharing 2 bathrooms and a kitchen, and things deteriorated rapidly.

Simple roommate requests, like “Brad and I have done the dishes twice this week, do you mind taking care of them soon?” became big THINGS for John and Kayla. After any typical roommate issue, they would withdraw to their room, and Kayla would stop speaking to us. We ignored it, chalking it up to social awkwardness, but things got worse. Suddenly Kayla didn’t want us playing with John’s cat. (who, up until this point, was all over the apartment and playing with everyone freely) No reason was given, nothing was said, but suddenly Brad, and mostly me, got nasty looks from Kayla if we picked up the feather toy, and the cat would then be locked up in their room. Soon John and Kayla weren’t even acknowledging us when everyone was in the main room together, or if we bumped into them during the day.

Pam and Jake noticed this change and spoke to John and Kayla privately, and they really made an effort to be more sociable to us for the next few months. Kayla still wasn’t talking to us a lot, but she at least said hello and acknowledged our presence. Then, about a year after everyone moved in together, Brad and I had a small, typical-couple-stuff spat and Kayla was the only other person home. Brad went out to cool down and I was washing my face in the shared bathroom. Kayla walked by and I made a small mention of the spat, and we talked for a bit about long-term relationships; she even seemed warm towards me. Brad and I figured everything out, and everything went on as normal.

But after that day Kayla point blank refused to speak to me or even make eye contact. She was perfectly fine to everyone else in the apartment, including Brad, but now all the antisocial weirdness from before was directed solely at me. If I ran into her and John in the parking lot and said hi, she would look away and walk straight past me, even if John and I were still chatting. At one point we were all at a restaurant and when I sat down, she literally scooted into John’s lap to not sit next to me, and only came off when I moved seats. She blocked me on all social media when prior to this we had all been fairly interactive on Facebook and Twitter, but denied doing so when confronted by Jake and Pam. Jake and Pam eventually stopped inviting her to outings unless she acted nicely, and even then she would sit as far away from me as possible and responded to any attempts at conversation with one-word answers. At this point I had sent a text and also spoken with her face to face, saying that if I had done anything to make her uncomfortable or upset, that I was sorry and would like to reconcile. Over text she said “Sure!” and in person she just smiled and nodded, but nothing changed. I gave up trying to figure things out and let her be, and Brad and I tried to hand out with Pam and Jake alone more often.

Now, another two years later, all of the couples have moved into apartments of our own, but things are still distinctly weird when everyone gets together. I have tried to speak to Pam, who is close with Kayla, and she has said that Kayla tells her she likes me and everything is fine. She still has me blocked on all social media and when questioned by Pam, said she forgot to undo the blocking. However when we all hang out Kayla will ignore me in the conversation but exuberantly engage with the others. Even if I am included in the conversation, she will address them as if I am not there, even in conversations about things Brad and I now share like our apartment, car, cats, etc. I feel like I’m intruding on conversations about my own life, and it’s frustrating and hurtful. Ultimately Kayla has the right to dislike me whatever the reason, and I don’t want her do anything she doesn’t want to do. However I’d like to be able to engage with my friends about mine and Brad’s life without someone essentially denying my involvement in it.

I feel like I’ve done everything I can to address this, and to do more would just be unnecessary drama. Do you and the awkward army have any advice on how I should proceed?

It sounds like the time of “We are three close-knit couples who socialize all together” is at an end. It’s long past being at an end. In fact, it only works if everyone pretends that Kayla doesn’t hate you, and if you pretend that Kayla doesn’t hate youwhile she is actively hating you to your face. At a bigger event, it would be less noticeable and more bearable – it’s very possible to go to parties where you don’t like every single person and say a perfunctory heyhowyadoin to some people and focus your attention on others. But when there are only 6 people in the room, it’s impossibly awkward. Decide today: No more nightmare brunches! No more silent-treatment to your face! brunches.

What I suggest is that you and your boyfriend keep inviting invite Pam & Jake to do stuff, just the two of them, and maybe mix it up with some other friends you have, too. And if Pam & Jake invite you to do stuff with Kayla and John, you say “No thanks!” until they get the hint or Pam straight up asks you why and you can say “I’ve decided to stop subjecting myself to Kayla’s bullshit, thanks. I know you’re friends with her, keep enjoying that! But she is never invited to anything I plan, and I’ve decided to stop pretending for all our sakes. I don’t like how she treats me, and I don’t want to subject myself to it.”

I also suggest that you block the living shit out of Kayla on all modes of social media. It will be good for you. Unfriend her boyfriend, too while you’re at it. There’s nothing there for you. I cannot describe the peace of mind that comes when you stop subjecting yourself to a constant ambient awareness and interaction with someone who annoys the shit out of you. Be free!

You have done everything you could to make it better. You tried. You are a nice person. You don’t have anything to apologize for. She doesn’t like you. Stop engaging, and stop putting yourself in situations where you have to hang out with her. Put your energy into making other friends and seeing other friends. This isn’t fixable.

Friend Groups can be nice things to have, but they stop functioning if they stop functioning for you. You can maintain friendships with Pam and Jake and preserve the connection to that part of your life, but preserving “the group” at the expense of yourself is no fun. Disengage, disengage, disengage. And ask your boyfriend to back you up here.

Unfriend someone you dislike today!