Whoa! This beauty was entirely hand-carved by Vadu Amka, who used resin, sculpey clay, and other materials to create the custom handheld. She even made a Donkey Kong Country 2 box to go with the it! The GBA SP was on display at Namur Expo’s Retro Made in Asia exhibit in Belgium.
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Before Mary Anning and her contemporaries, it was still widely assumed that fossils were just remains from existing animals and not generally useful for science (nor put in the ground by Satan). Thought most of her work wound up being published by men because life in the early 19th century was awful, Anning made a ton of important discoveries—including what bezoar stones actually were, because she needed to see the dinosaurs’ droppings.
Previously in paleontological discoveries
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The celebrated blue potato. (One variety: the Adirondack Blue. A blue-skinned variety: the Edzell Blue.)
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A top appeals court has thrown out a jury ruling that ordered Apple to pay $368 million to VirnetX, a patent-holding company that many consider a “patent troll” because it exists exclusively to enforce patents. On Tuesday, the United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals remanded the decision back to the lower federal court in East Texas.
The four patents (1, 2, 3, and 4), which relate to FaceTime and VPN On Demand functions in Apple's iPhones, iPads, and Macs, were developed by a company called Science Applications International Corporation. Apple reportedly spent tens of millions of dollars to design FaceTime around the VirnetX patents, but it ultimately found itself embroiled in litigation anyway. The company also tweaked its VPN On Demand product to avoid infringement in 2013 after the lawsuit was well underway.
In its ruling (PDF), the appeals court did not rule that any of VirnetX's patents were invalid, and it only reversed the finding of infringement on one claim pertaining to a VPN On Demand patent. The court also said that the Texas District Court had not correctly defined a term that appeared in two of the patents, and it sent the decision back to Tyler, Texas so the court there can reassess the patent claims based on the appeals court's new term construction.
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When Matt and Allison of Take a Hike Photography stayed at the Heydalur Guesthouse in Mjóifjörður, Iceland, they found that the resident border collie had befriended a lively arctic fox who just loves to play.
The owners of the hotel have a dog who has befriended an Arctic fox, and, where you find one, you often find the other. The two like to wrestle and roughhouse with each other, but the dog definitely has a distinct size advantage over the tiny fox. The hound often grabs the fox by the tail, dragging him all over. We felt sorry for the poor fox, but he was a clear glutton for punishment and constantly went back to the dog for more.
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So apparently consuming blood is illegal in Louisiana
How much blood did people have to drink before it was banned?
- Don’t be angry at yourself when anxiety/depression flares up. It isn’t your fault and no one blames you and if they do they’re pieces of shit.
- Don’t orbit around your perceived value so much. You’re not the sum total of what you produce.
- Don’t let yourself wonder why people love you. That’s not how it works. There are not stark, individual reasons that a person can enumerate about why they love you. It’s the entire, unique combination of what and who you are.
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loving the new Sailor Moon dub
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And his head coach isn't happy about it.
In reference to a very forced meme, Jameis Winston -- as college students tend to do -- apparently caused a scene at FSU today.
(h/t Deadspin)
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Update, Sept. 17: Head coach Jimbo Fisher commented Wednesday:
Jimbo Fisher addresses the latest Jameis Winston incident. Asked about punishment, he says "we're talking as things go on right now"
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) September 17, 2014
Jimbo, more on Jameis' alleged on-campus outburst yesterday: "It's not a good decision." Says "it's something that has to be addressed."
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) September 17, 2014
And since Fisher acknowledged the possibility of punishment, which could theoretically include Winston missing time on Saturday against Clemson ...
FSU line now off the board at all major books
— Emory Parker (@EmoryParker) September 17, 2014
That's apparent at 5Dimes and other major books. Here's Bovada, for example: 
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'When you first sign up for the service, you’ll be assigned an “Alfred.” The app shows you this person’s picture and some general information, as well as the verification for the person’s background checks. You’ll then choose a specific day for this person to deliver your goods each week, and you’ll compile a grocery list to get them started.
After that, the app works on its own in the background. You don’t really have to open the app again after you’ve signed up unless you need to make adjustments to your weekly grocery list.
Afterward, your “Alfred” will head over weekly to drop off your clean laundry, put it in the closet, drop off your household supplies, and replace supplies as needed – like putting new paper towels on a towel holder, for example. He or she will also put your groceries away and make sure the house is spotless. The idea is not only to cut into the 30 average hours per week that people spend on household chores and related tasks, but also to make using the variety of apps and services in the shared economy even easier.'
After three days and incredible pitches from our 26 Battlefield companies (plus two Audience Choice winners), it’s now time to name the TechCrunch Disrupt SF..
disruptive: having a butler, except one without job security, a personal relationship with you, their own name, any of the small benefits the serving class could have reaped in the past
Here at Adafruit, we sell all of these amazing components, but we couldn’t find a good way to interact with them over the internet. There are certainly a lot of great services out there for datalogging, or communicating with your microcontroller over the web, but these services are either too complicated to get started, or they aren’t particularly fun to use. So, we decided to experiment with our own system, and that is how Adafruit IO got started.
The same small team that brought you the Adafruit Learning System set out to create a fun, interactive, and easy to use way to play with data. Here is a brief preview of what Adafruit IO is, how it works, and what’s next.
While we are still in the very early stages of Adafruit IO, we are really happy with the way it is turning out. We decided from the beginning that this would be about real time data, and that is what we focused on. You can also drag and drop the block anywhere you want, and resize them to whatever size you want to make your own unique dashboard. Oh, and fullscreen mode on a big screen TV looks pretty awesome as well.
The API is the core of the system, but with only an API, it’s not that fun to use. We’ve built a few basic client libraries to simplify working with the API. We also have a dashboard with a few widgets that allow easy 2-way interaction with your devices.
At launch, we have the following simple widgets:
We plan on adding many more features, such as mapping and location awareness for your devices, triggers based on custom parameters, email alerts and more.
We are very early in the lifecycle of Adafruit IO, and will continue to add features, and build it out with better client libraries, more stability, more features, integrate it with our existing Learning System tutorials, and continue fixing many of the bugs that exist yet.
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image is from Oakland in 2013, but the article is a Portland blog about Alise Munson vs. BackBridge Lofts in NoPo
Anarchist cats squat vacant buildings and fight gentrification. Always and forever feral, a threat to capital and the state.
(From this article: http://rebelmetropolis.org/rebels-resisters-and-the-condominium-revolt/ )
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"Someone saying "I wonder what my friend Dave Winer thinks about this." Oh geez. So I unfollow them and try to remember to enter their name in the search box. And if it persists, I block them. I've set my tolerance level relatively low on this kind of bullshit.
This isn't communication, or sharing. It's growing more and more frenetic every day, it seems. And more pointless. I want a network that sheds light on things, not calls attention to nothing."
Sorry, everybody
Dave Winer, The frenzy of online:
This isn’t communication, or sharing. It’s growing more and more frenetic every day, it seems. And more pointless.
I’ve often had the thought that our social networks are the same thing every day, with just slightly different details. When I skip them for a few days, I find that I have absolutely no feeling of missing anything.
Here are some things that don’t give me that same-thing-every-day feeling: making things, reading books, and talking to people in real life.
(Currently reading The Quiet American.)
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lol @ books = "materials that are already in a stable format"
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A group of boys, aged 9 to 11, plays D&D every other weekend, but their parties never include girls their age. Meredith Jacobson’s DnDnG explores the possibility that their female friends could enjoy the game just as much as they do. By Ethan Gilsdorf."Boys prefer aliens and stuff. Girls prefer princesses."
Or…not.
To be sure, the boys act differently when playing D&D with the girls in the room. Here’s a preview of the responses from the boys, who are interviewed in a post-game postmortem. “Playing with girls was weirder than I expected because they are so good,” says one. Another, pausing for dramatic effect, admits, “Actually, it was … awesome.”
The girls’ worldview also gets rocked a little. “It seems like a boy game, but it’s actually for girls too,” says Evelyn once the D&D session is over.
Adds Olivia, “I would definitely play again.”
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Star Patrick Warburton claims its too early to go into specific on the infinitely anticipated live-action reboot of everyone's favorite insane blue crime-fighting arachnid, but that didn't stop him from revealing a bunch of details about the potential Amazon show in a recent interview.
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happened to me this morning too, haven't even had coffee yet
