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Despite not being targeted once, Packers receiver Jarrett Boykin is not overly impressed with Mr. Sherman.

The Seattle Seahawks drubbed the Green Bay Packers 36-16 on Thursday night, with corner Richard Sherman dominating without doing a thing. Sherman was never thrown at while covering Packers receiver Jarrett Boykin the entire game. Still, Boykin walked away relatively unimpressed, according to Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports.

"I mean he's a smart corner but I don't see him any different than any other corner," said Boykin, a 24-year-old out of Virginia Tech. "He's beatable."

Boykin sure could not beat him, with Aaron Rodgers never even attempting a throw in his direction. In Seattle's defense, the corners never swap sides, allowing for an offense to pick its matchups. The Packers decided to put Jordy Nelson across from Byron Maxwell and stash Boykin, the third option behind Randall Cobb, opposite of Sherman. Ultimately, Nelson caught nine passes for 83 yards, but it was far too little for victory.

Seattle was not surprised that Green Bay refused to test Sherman, who led the NFL last season with eight interceptions.

"Why would they?" linebacker Bobby Wagner said. "They throw it to his side, it'll get picked."

Sherman stated after the game that the lack of action was "weird" but that he was able to keep his composure throughout the evening.

"I used to get pissed off when I was younger," Sherman said. "Now I just stay sound and make an impact somewhere … you just have to stay locked in. You can't be selfish. That's the biggest thing. You have a job to do, and you have to do it and let the chips fall where they may. But you can't lag on a play and cost your defense."

The San Diego Chargers are next on Seattle's schedule, and it bears watching if offensive coordinator Frank Reich tries the same strategy. The Chargers have a nice tight end duo in Antonio Gates and Lardarius Green, but only one solid receiver in Keenan Allen. Will Allen stay away from Sherman the entire game, or will Reich move him around?

Regardless, the Seahawks don't plan on changing their defense to keep Sherman more involved any time soon.

"We don't mess with the integrity of our defense," Sherman said. "We do what works for us and make them move around us, and that's what we forced them to do tonight."

The cartoonist talks about the sixth volume of his all-ages fantasy epic, “Escape from Lucien,” detailing the influence of “Final Fantasy” and Polaroid photos.

NEW YORK—Sitting in the multinational corporation’s boardroom, Chase executives reportedly spent most of Friday afternoon nostalgically recalling the financial company’s hip-hop roots, reminiscing about being young bankers who helped cre...

AMC’s recent trend of splitting up the seasons of their shows into two distinct sections has its fair share of detractors (like those of us who would just like to recap all the dumb zombie shenanigans in one go… cough). But surprisingly it’s Apple, who packaged the two halves into separate season passes on iTunes and are now facing lawsuits from customers, who’s feeling the burn this time around. It’s okay, guys, I know a good lawyer for this.

After AMC announced that Breaking Bad‘s fifth season would be its last, Apple immediately began to advertise a $21.99 “season pass,” where users would be able to pre-order the season through iTunes and have each episode ready to download as soon as it became available on the site. But when AMC later announced the decision to split up season five, airing the two halves a year apart and effectively making two seasons out of it, Apple decided to charge all its season pass users an extra $22.99 for the last eight episodes.

Naturally a lot of people were very put out by this, and after some backlash Apple apologized and sent store credit to customers who purchased the second season pass. But that wasn’t good enough for Ohio’s Dr. Noam Lazebnik, who doesn’t want to have to buy the second pass even with store credit, because he thought he was supposed to be getting all 16 episodes to begin with. So he’s filing a class-action lawsuit against Apple’s advertising practices, under California’s Unfair Competition Law. You know, like you do.

It’s not clear whether or not the case will actually go to trial yet, but Apple has already begun to claim that they never explicitly stated the first “Season 5″ pass would be good for all 16 episodes and has partially blamed AMC for the confusion. In the meantime, Dr. Lazebnik, if you’re really that particular with where you choose to spend your income, then might I suggest a more high-earning line of work. I got just the thing for you. Worked real well for this chemistry teacher buddy of mine. Also, you haven’t seen the end of the series yet, have you? Just curious.

(via The Hollywood Report)

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The children who watched this at home need to be told that there's no excuse for what they saw in last night's shameful display of trickery.

PFT Commenter's strong takes are presented as parody. All spelling errors are intentional (we think). Sorry, not sorry. -Ed.

In todays NFL I guess i doesnt matter if you win ugly as long as you just win baby. Id personaly rather win as a adult not a petulant child hellbent on smashing decorum and the rulebook into a thousand pieces but hey I guess I'm just old fashion.

Mike Tomlin crossed alot of lines last year when he stepped on the field and rightfully he got hit by the NFL with a fine and a loss of draft picks if his team played good. The NFL was right to do that.

But Pete Carrol is even worse. He's the Macklemore to Mike Tomlins DMX. Carrol takes the underlying CONCEPT of cheating that Mike Tomlin practiced but does it in a nonthreatning sinister way were parents will be ok with letting there kids listen to it or run his plays. Therefore its MORE dangerous when he does it. The greatest trick Pete Carrols ever done is convincing the world that he wasnt only 3-2 in his last 5 games counting the preseason.

The Seattle Seahawks offense is based on lying. Thats it. You cant make any argument any other way.

If last night taught us anything about the National Football League it was that Carrol lives and breathes by the motto "bend but dont break" whether its the NFL rulebook, or the nature of steel beems when exposed to burning jet fuel. The Packers should of been playing that game under protest after the Cheathawks exposed a technicalty in the rules by throwing a forward pass when they clearly were pretending to run the ball, among other faux pas.

Lets take a look at the worst example of sportsmanship over the course of a night of cloak and dagger playcalling. I call this THCeattle gameplan "the Munchies offense" because its aboslutley loaded with Rice Krispies on this touchdown "pass":

1. Snap- The center hikes the ball to Russ Wilson who immedately takes a menacing stance almost like hes going to cuss at you or tell his intimidating friend Marshawn to run you over and take youre shoes. Note how the center is allready moving while the balls still in the air. Hes not giving the other team a sporting chance to diagnose the play. You dont want your center out there making highlight reels, you want him to be anonmous. Its like when your driving a car. A cop is allways going to pull over a red ferrari like Julio Jones. A interior lineman should be a conversion van- stay in the slow lane pull those creepy blinds shut,and have some fun on the trip son.

2. Crackle- thats the sound after the record scratch when you realise that rascal Wilson didnt hand the ball off afterall. Ok fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice also shame on you- fibbing doesnt get any better if you tell a lie to get yourself out of the first one.

Gimmick

— Pete Prisco (@PriscoCBS) September 5, 2014

NFL FACT: Play actions all well and good if executed sportingly,, but if you do too good  a job faking it its a gimmick.

3. Pop- LOOK HOW FAR DOWNFIELD THAT CENTER IS! Hes literaly closer to the Goal line then he should be. But I guess the replacement refs were the problem right?

Folks this isnt the "Fail Mary" its the "Immaculate Deception"

This is just one of the most flagrant acts of cheating commited by the Cheathawks on a night that was suppose to be about fair play and John Kuhn taking a straight ahead downhill dive that every one in the stadium and across the beautiful country knew was coming and they still couldnt stop it.

That to me shows that your able to beat your opponent with one hand tied behind your back- and your fingers dont have to be crossed to do it.

The Kraken will have to go without his signature look from here on.

The No Fun League is at it again. The signature -- and terrifying -- war paint look of Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy has been outlawed by the NFL, according to David Newton of ESPN.

Newton cites an image on the league's updated uniform code that specifically lists Hardy's face paint as a violation. Other violations listed include unbuckled chin straps, lack of knee pads and untucked jerseys.

Violations this season include Greg Hardy face paint. #Panthers pic.twitter.com/gVyP32jyP7

— David Newton (@DNewtonespn) September 4, 2014

The face paint is a key ingredient in Hardy's bizarre on-field alter ego, which he himself has labeled "the Kraken." Ever eccentric, the Pro Bowl pass rusher typically completes his gameday getup with freaky contacts and a piece of tape with Kraken scrawled on it over his name plate.

"That's just the persona you have to live with," Hardy told ESPN.com in March. "I have fun. I do what I want to do. It's not going to stop now. It's not going to change.

"I don't think I'm a bad guy. I think I'm awesome."

I'd bet that Hardy still finds a way to look terrifying in Week 1.

Oh hey Greg Hardy. Please don't kill us pic.twitter.com/IZ2qxfbQEF

— SB Nation NFL (@SBNationNFL) August 18, 2014

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I've been a fan of Twitter for five years now, and a vocal Twitter advocate. But over the last year, I've become less and less enchanted with Twitter, to the point where I've thought about quitting the service multiple times. My complaint has nothing to do with advertising in the timeline—they've gotta make money somehow—but with the normalization of Twitter discussion. It's become a boring stew of self-promotion, self-righteous finger-wagging over the latest media event, pointless arguments that never change minds, and inane chatter about television shows. I roll my eyes at Twitter a lot these days.

Part of the reason I've not quit Twitter yet is that I still believe in the simplicity of the service: Short bulletins, arranged in strict chronological order, amounting to a real-time view of how thousands of people see and understand the world. I've harbored the suspicion that if I unfollowed a number of people who I now follow—especially the media types, who are the most infuriating—I could remake my timeline into something worth my attention again. There must still be people out there in the world who are intelligently toying with the formal constraints of Twitter, who have something interesting to say, who don't want to bludgeon the world to death with their boring opinions?

Today, though, it occurs to me that maybe it's time to quit Twitter once and for all. Twitter can't stop talking about Twitter—specifically, they're discussing this Wall Street Journal overview of a presentation by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto:

Twitter’s timeline is organized in reverse chronological order, a delivery system that has not changed since the product was created eight years ago and one that some early adopters consider sacred to the core Twitter experience. But this “isn’t the most relevant experience for a user,” Noto said. Timely tweets can get buried at the bottom of the feed if the user doesn’t have the app open, for example. “Putting that content in front of the person at that moment in time is a way to organize that content better.”

Noto does clarify that chronological order isn't going completely away: "Individual users are not going to wake up one day and find their timeline completely ranked by an algorithm.” But that's not enough of a promise for me. If Twitter fucks with the chronological order of the service, I will be done with Twitter. If I couldn't trust Twitter to provide me with real-time updates of protests in Ferguson, or the Occupy protests, or the Boston Marathon bombing, I would have no use for Twitter. I can find some other way to hang out with friends. I already belong to one social network that whitewashes the news and churns out a repetitive slurry of feel-good posts; I don't need another one.

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I often get responses via email to my blog posts. Almost all of those responses would make great blog posts on their own — and, in fact, I wish they were on the web so I could link to them, so you could read them too.

Now, plenty of people do post responses to their blog, and I see those in my RSS feeds, or they mention me on Twitter and include a link. That’s awesome.

But, to the people who send email, to me or to any blogger: please consider publishing what you write instead of emailing it. Not because email sucks, but because more people than just me should be able to read what you wrote. You have something to add to the discussion.

If it makes it easier to compose in your email app, then that’s fine. That’s a good approach to writing blog posts — imagine you’re writing an email to a friend, but then publish it.

And then let me know that you’ve published a response. Send me email or get me the link via Twitter. Easy.

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Slight tangent: I’ll plug MarsEdit.

Ten years ago I wrote about MarsEdit’s design — and the gist of it was that it makes it feel more like you’re writing an email to a friend than Writing an Important Blog Post.

My goal, in other words, wasn’t just to write a good app that people like, but to write an app that makes it more likely people will write for the web. It was designed to take the pressure off.

If you’re not using MarsEdit, and you’re having trouble getting your thoughts on your blog, give the free demo a try. You might find that it helps, that it makes it easier. (And, if not, no sweat.)

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On Thursday Deadmau5 announced over Twitter that he’d received a legal complaint from Disney over his trademark of the mau5-head, his giant-eared sculpture that he wears during live performances which, if you squint hard while on heavy psychedelics, kind of looks like the silhouette of Mickey Mouse—a silhouette which Disney has had trademarked for decades. In their complaint Disney’s argument is that Deadmau5′s head looks sufficiently like Mickey Mouse to confuse people into thinking they’re watching Mickey while witnessing a Deadmau5 performance.

On Thursday night Deadmau5 called out Disney’s flagrant hypocrisy, noting that they’d used his copyrighted song “Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff” in a Mickey Mouse video without his permission. It’s a video Re-Micks. Get it?

Deadmau5 announced on Facebook that he’d issued a cease and desist over their use of the track. “Okay mouse, http://t.co/zT7tTLffFw i never gave disney a liscene to use my track,” he wrote “So. we emailed you a C&D.”

Of course, the difference is that Disney can comply with his request without doing any damage to their brand, whereas abandoning the mau5-head would represent a major image overhaul for Deamau5. Then he’d just be regular old Joel Zimmerman. And that’s not quite as fun, is it?

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Markdown Classic There's a new site for Markdown enthusiasts, and it's really too bad about their implementation. I don't mean their test suite or their documentation. Those look outstanding. The bravado is a little out of whack. Standard Markdown appears to have two major goals: To provide a specification for various aspects of the original Markdown To poke a thumb in the eye of the Markdown creator John Gruber for ignoring the greatness of Jeff Atwood I actually think the first goal is admirable and very well executed. But it's tainted by being chained, purposefully, to the original Markdown name using a word that conveys a very specific meaning. "Standard" has a connotation that I refuse to believe was overlooked by a supremely smart person.1 Unfortunately, I think the hubris of Jeff Atwood has done significant harm to what should have been a benevolent gift to nerds everywhere. By attempting to usurp conical Markdown, I believe some (maybe many) will avoid association with it. It's a shame, really. At the time of this writing, the most active comment thread is purely dedicated to the naming of the project. What a waste. Maybe I'm being simple minded here. I certainly don't know the minds of those involved. Given that the original license for Markdown expressly states that the name Markdown should not be used without consent, it feels like this move by Atwood and Co. was a challenge.2 They could have suggested a "flavor" of Markdown or a test kit or even their own specification with a new name. To attempt to replace some of the Markdown guidelines and call it "Standard" was juvenile.4 It's all just supposition because Atwood is so ambiguous about why he chose the name "Standard Markdown". I'd suggest a new project called "Standard Markdown Pro" if I cared more about curating a project name than collaborating on a specification.3 I only know Jeff Atwood and his collaborators through their various contributions to Internet projects. I'm extrapolating when I assume they are all generally smart. It's an easy assumption. ↩ Jeff's own comment on the matter is rather childish ↩ I actually don't care all that much about whether there is a spec for Markdown. I use various aspects of the language all day every day. I use it on every computer I touch. That's a statement against Jeff Atwood's express motivation. I've never once cared about the project's stewardship. I care that it is not complicated and it's easy to read. ↩ Critic Markup was a specific attempt to not interfere with any interpretations of Markdown or MultiMarkdown or Github flavored Markdown. It was also pretty easy to come up with a name that didn't include the word Markdown. ↩

Big news in the world of 3D printing & MakerBot via 3Dprint.com

Stratasys and MakerBot are excited to announce some management changes at MakerBot that will take effect in the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2014 and into January 2015. Most notably, Bre Pettis will be transitioning from the day-to-day activities of management to a position with Stratasys where he will be able to influence and direct the vision of MakerBot and Stratasys; he will also be a member of the MakerBot Board of Directors.  Jenny Lawton, president of MakerBot, will be promoted to the role of CEO of MakerBot; Frank Alfano is being moved from chief revenue officer to president.  Aric Jennings, chief operations officer for MakerBot, will also transition into the international role of vice president of global manufacturing for Stratasys.  We are excited about these promotions and pleased to continue the positive momentum that Sratasys and MakerBot have experienced and achieved.

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A stubborn husky woefully informs his human that he’s really not ready to leave the dog park. The little guy goes on for a bit, but eventually relents and succumbs to peer pressure when a group of dogs pass by. According to Josh G., who caught the amusing interchange on video, this happens everyday.

We caught this little guy refusing to leave the dog park. His owner claims they visit the dog park every day and he throws a fit each time they leave.

At least this little guy wasn’t being told to get into his kennel.

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“Meanwhile, the presumed stockpile of penis photos taken by Hollywood actors remains curiously untouched”

- A line from an EW article questioning why it’s only women in Hollywood who have their privacy violated x 

Judge suggests that marriage equality could open the door to legalizing incest and polygamy.

London-based artist Martin Tomsky uses a laser cutter to create wonderfully intricate art out of layers of cut wood. His works are available for purchase on his Etsy store.

photos via Martin Tomsky

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Cat Entertains Himself With Head-Mounted Laser Pointer

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Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) has been transferred to a federal prison in Florida.

Dreadnoughtus may be the biggest dinosaur ever CBC.ca The word big does not do justice to a massive, long-necked dinosaur that shook the Earth in Argentina about 77 million years ago. Try colossal, enormous, gargantuan and stupendous — and you might come close to an accurate description of this behemoth, ... and more »

Jenna Bush Hager, the younger of the Bush twins, is registered to New York's Independence Party, according to a Daily News report Wednesday. The third party is much maligned in local politics for allegedly duping voters who meant to actually register as "independent."