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The Federal Communications Commission’s website has crashed on the last day to submit comments on the US agency’s controversial proposal to regulate the internet.
Electronic comment database is experiencing heavy load. The site is up and our IT team is examining options to scale the load.—
The FCC (@FCC) July 15, 2014
The proposal at issue would allow internet providers to charge content companies for more direct connections to their customers. These so-called “fast lanes” have sparked a vehement reaction from internet activists, who claim that the new policy could turn the web into a plutocracy where companies that are willing to shell out cash receive premium treatment.
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler said the commission had received about 647,000 comments on the net neutrality proposal as of last week. Here’s a look at the number of comments submitted over time:
That spike at the beginning of June can be attributed to John Oliver, the comedian who went on a rant last month on his HBO show, urging users to submit comments to the FCC. The subsequent traffic crashed the FCC’s site last month.
Over the weekend comedy writer Caissie St. Onge tweeted a joke about Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the Bechdel Test and not surprisingly (because the Internet) someone chimed in to be a jerk about it.
Make joke about sexism in Planet of the Apes, this is how a stranger talks to you. RT @TheSamGrady: @Caissie jesus christ who fucking cares
— Caissie St.Onge (@Caissie) July 12, 2014
Comedian, host, and mustachioed champion Paul F. Tompkins also replied to the commenter and spent days going back and forth with the jerk. Tompkins screencapped the entire exchange and posted it to his personal site. Here is the beginning:
At times it’s unclear if the person he’s arguing with is a sincere monster or just some trolling troll trolling some troll stuff. Regardless, the summary that Tompkins wrote at the end of exchange is wonderful.
Here’s a sample:
HEY YOUNG MEN! I know it seems like women complain a lot about how they are represented in media, including fiction, and how it seems like they want entertainment tailored specifically to them, and how they seem to want ALL of pop culture to be politically correct or feminist-ized or whatever it is you think they want, but really, what’s happening is that women are tired of seeing garbage women characters in most of our entertainment. And they’re wondering, Would it really be so much trouble to make more realized female characters? You could still have all your CGI and action and science fiction and drama and swords and stuff, but the female characters could be a little more fleshed out and interesting. And the entertainment would still be good and would, in fact, be better.
He goes on to tell men, guys, and fellows why they should get on board with better representation for everyone in media. Be sure to check out Tompkins’ full post, particularly if you’re a weird creep who could use a lesson in not being a weird creep anymore from a well dressed comedian.
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firehosetl;dr: Stupid Fucking New Yorkers are assholes with their phones
firehose'Congressman Michael Grimm (R-New York) made a very special visit to a constituent's sweet 16 birthday party last weekend, where one of the girls declared him her "bae."'
'"F***ing Michael Grimm is going," one teen wrote on Twitter. "I'm gonna dance with him all night and make him fall in love with me."
Grimm reportedly promised her that wouldn't be their last encounter.
"He told me he's taking me to prom I was like you fricking better," the teen wrote.
Another teen quoted the excited conversations about Grimm that she overheard among her friends.
"'Michael Grimm is coming.' 'Oh sh** now I have to wear nice underwear,'" she wrote.'
firehose'There are two ways that salmonella can infect eggs. The bacteria can be passed on from an infected hen to the inside of the egg as it's developing, or it can get onto the outside of the shell after the egg is laid by coming into contact with the hen's feces.
In the U.S., large-scale laying houses are preferred over free-range system because farmers can produce more eggs on a smaller amount of land. Even with good sanitary practices, the factory farm environment makes eggs more susceptible to contamination. Eggs are moved directly from the hen house to a conveyer belt that takes them through a washer. The eggs are sprayed afterward.
It's critical that the eggs are washed properly, otherwise this method can actually the increase the chances of bacteria seeping into the shell from feces on the outside of it. "Wetting a dirty shell provides moisture in which bacteria may breed and assists their growth and penetration through the shell," the USDA's Egg Grading manual explains.
To get around the chance of that happening, the washing solution has to be hot enough — a minimum of 90 degrees F — to prevent the inside contents from contracting slightly as it cools and drawing dirty water in through the shell, the USDA said.
Europe takes a different approach to prevent salmonella contamination. "The priority in egg production is to produce clean eggs at the point of collection, rather than trying to clean them afterwards," according to food safety officials in Ireland. "There is also a suggestion that not allowing cleaning eggs in the EU might help maintain good farm husbandry and practices," said Mark Fielder, a professor at London’s Kingston University and medical microbiology expert.
Additionally, scientists have found that the washing process may damage an outside layer of the egg shell known as the cuticle. Without that chemical barrier, it becomes easier for bacteria to penetrate the inside of a clean egg. Cooler temperatures might prevent the eggs from deteriorating as quickly as well as the growth of bacteria.
Fielder believes that refrigeration is related to "whether local advice recommends this practice or not." Once eggs are washed, the USDA stipulates that clean eggs be immediately moved to cooler rooms that maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F or lower. Dirty eggs may be stored in temperatures of up to 60 degrees F.'
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The sons of the owner at Denmark’s Marielyst Gokart & Paintball Center have clearly had plenty of time to practice their go-karting skills…
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firehose'I make all my character sheets with Powerpoint. It's easy to use,'
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firehose'In neighboring New Hampshire, the motto is: "Live Free Or Die." Vermont's should be: "Tie-dye A Shirt."
"Everyone is very laid back until you decide to put some new awning on your house or put up a new mailbox. Then everyone is in your business," Boardman said.
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I am a fifth-generation native Floridian, so I'm used to living in a gorgeous state where people trash the joint and treat it like a rented car.
In Florida, we use sinkholes as God's natural graves for old cars and dead refrigerators. A sand dune always looks better with a high-rise condominium on it. Let's go ahead and frack the aquifer because, you know, you can always go out and buy a new fresh-water aquifer.
The perfect metaphor for Florida is Walt Disney World, which paved over a natural swamp and wetland to build an amusement park and a fake version of an African savanna.
"Don't Save It, Pave It," should be the motto of my beloved, crazy, self-hating state.
That is why it was such a culture shock when my wife and I spent a solid week in Vermont earlier this month. We stayed with our close friends, Steve and Kim, who moved to Burlington two years ago, so we got an insider's tour of the Green Mountain State.
If Florida is a constant fever dream, Vermont is a relaxing, strange nap on the porch.
Which way to Cafe Risque?
The first thing I noticed while driving through the rolling mountains of Vermont's Interstate 89 was there were no billboards hawking SeaWorld, Ron Jon Surf Shops or secession from the Union. There were no billboards at all.
"You don't have any billboards?" I asked Steve a day after I arrived. "How do you know which mega-church to attend or find your way to the next Cafe Risque?"
"Billboards are forbidden by law," he said. "They are eyesores that get in the way of the scenery."
"Dear lord, what kind of unholy pinko paradise have I entered?" I said.
The roadsides were free of fast-food bags, empty beer cans and discarded Big Gulp cups thanks to a stiff $500 fine for littering. The medians and roadways were freshly mowed. The place was as manicured as Switzerland on a Sunday. It was all so postcard pretty that I could almost forgive Vermont for unleashing the mind-numbing jam band Phish on the world.
Burlington is home to University of Vermont, which was founded in 1791 and looks a lot like the set of "Dead Poets Society" (1989).
"I had a friend from out of state who walked on campus and asked a student if the University of Vermont had a football team," Steve said. "The student had to stop and think for a minute before he said, 'I don't think so.' That has never happened on the campus of Florida State."
"I thought the University of Vermont had a football team and was called The Rootin'-Tootin' Raving Socialists," I said.
Unlike Florida, the concept of urban sprawl never caught on in Vermont, which has the second smallest population in the United States. Nearly every carefully preserved town has mom-and-pop shops, farm-to-table restaurants, independent bookstores, local brew pubs and non-chain music shops surrounding the village square. In Florida, we carefully manufacture such cozy towns as Seaside and Celebration to remind us of what we have already destroyed.
If you want to shop at a Walmart in Burlington, you have to drive 29 miles north to St. Albans, near the Canadian border. St. Albans is famous for a raid in 1864 when American Confederate soldiers, who were hiding out in Canada, headed south to rob three banks in St. Albans before shooting up the town. With that kind of hell-raisin' Civil War pedigree, of course, St. Albans has a Walmart.
The state's painfully quaint capital city, Montpelier, looks like a town found inside a snow globe. It is home to a simple, gold-domed capitol building, which is, more important, just a quick walk away from Chill Gelato, a tiny storefront that sells the most delicious gelato found this side of the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy.
Montpelier is sort of the Bizarro World opposite reflection of Tallahassee, where our stately Old Capitol is overshadowed by a 22-story architectural monstrosity that may be a Transformer robot suffering from an overdose of Viagra.
Let's go look for Champ
After we spent nearly a week roaming the tourist-dense Church Street in Burlington and the back roads of the Vermont dairy lands, Steve called his friend, Brian Boardman, who keeps a 30-foot motorboat docked on Lake Champlain near downtown Burlington. Brian offered to take us out on the water for a spin on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Lake Champlain is allegedly home to Champ, a giant water serpent in the tradition of The Loch Ness Monster. In 1609, French explorer Samuel de Champlain spotted the long-necked beast while fighting the local Iroquois tribe over front-row tickets to a Phish concert. Or something like that.
These days, Burlington is home to the minor-league baseball team the Vermont Lake Monsters, which features Tallahassee's John Nogowski as an infielder. I did not get the chance to quiz Nogowski about his team's mascot, but I did talk to Brian about it.
"No, I've never seen Champ," Boardman said as he pointed out the wood cabin where he spent his boyhood summers growing up on Lake Champlain. "And I've spent a lot of time on this water."
That still did not stop me from mistaking every floating log in Lake Champlain for the backbone of a plesiosaur.
Boardman, who is in his late 40s, was one of the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street during the boom days in the late '80s and '90s. About 15 years ago, he burned out on the high-pressure Manhattan lifestyle and headed back to Vermont, where he and his wife bought a house.
"At the closing, I asked the previous owners for the keys to the front door," Boardman said. "The owner said, 'Oh, I don't know where they are, we never lock the door.' In New York, we had about 10 different locks on our door."
That type of laid-back, live-and-let-live Vermont attitude was contagious during our stay. In neighboring New Hampshire, the motto is: "Live Free Or Die." Vermont's should be: "Tie-dye A Shirt."
"Everyone is very laid back until you decide to put some new awning on your house or put up a new mailbox. Then everyone is in your business," Boardman said. "Vermonters do not like change and have plenty to say about it."
Boardman pointed to the top of a nearby mountain where I could barely make out the windmill-like turbines in a wind farm. They looked like some sort of art installation. How much more environmentally friendly could you get?
"You would not believe the fight that went on over those wind turbines," Boardman said. "People raised holy hell over it."
"So I should not bring up my idea for a putting in a fracking farm next door to Ethan Allen's home while I'm up here, huh?" I said.
"Don't even say the word 'frack' while you are here," Boardman said.
"Well, I guess I'd better get the frack back to Florida," I said. "We aren't quite finished killing all the oysters in Apalachicola Bay. There is work to be done."
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The setting is eerily calm. A beautiful girl sits on a bench surrounded by remnants of a party, while wild foxes roam and feast on her baked creations. Her gaze is lowered, and there is a mysterious atmosphere, with dark shadows concealing unknown dangers. If you are unsettled by this scene, this is exactly what the photographer Christine McConnell, pictured above, was trying to achieve. In her images, the Los Angeles-based artist combines the glamor of 1950s pin-ups with Tim Burtone-esque elements of twisted fantasy.
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We’re excited to tell you about our latest feedly Pro feature: Dropbox integration.
The Dropbox integration automatically backs up your tagged and saved articles, and a list of all your feeds (OPML file) to your Dropbox account. We believe that all the valuable data you collect in your feedly belongs to you, and this integration makes it easy for you to export, backup and access that information from wherever you are.
Loving the new @feedly pro feature to automatically backup my feeds to Dropbox.
— vic (@victor_robles) July 10, 2014
#feedly (pro) Awesome feature, automatically save your favourites to your #dropbox account in PDF format
— Javier Juarez (@thejtoken) July 10, 2014
1. What gets backed up to my Dropbox account?
All of your Saved for Later articles, tagged articles and a list of the feeds you subscribe to will be backed up to Dropbox. Any time you save or tag a new article or add a new feed, it will be backed up to Dropbox automatically.
2. What is the format of the back up?
We offer two file format options for saved and tagged articles: PDF or HTML. Which you choose will depend on your needs and personal preference.
Your feed list will be backed up using the OPML file format.
3. How hard is it to set up?
Setting up the Dropbox integration takes only a couple of clicks. Once you turn it on, you can forget all about it and the Dropbox integration will continue to operate in the background and back up your saved and tagged articles, as well as any changes to your list of feeds.
Access all your saved and tagged articles via your Dropbox
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Karyn Parson’s Mission to Share the Untold Stories of Black History Heroes
Hilary Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air may not have been known as a fierce advocate for education. But the actress who played her sure is.
Last year, Karyn Parsons — actress, mother, author and amateur historian — founded Sweet Blackberry, a nonprofit devoted to teaching kids about some of the lesser-known figures of black history. The organization publishes books and videos on people like Henry “Box” Brown and Garrett Morgan, and facilitates school visits and children’s workshops centered around promoting ‘creativity, literacy skills and social responsibility.’
Sweet Blackberry recently launched a Kickstarter for its latest project, a short film that will tell the story of Janet Collins, the first African-American prima ballerina in the Metropolitan Ballet. Collins, who died in 2003 at age 86, rose to fame despite being shut out of dance theaters that refused to let her perform unless it was in whiteface…The Huffington Post spoke with Parsons about Sweet Blackberry’s history and its mission. As the Sweet Blackberry website proclaims: ‘This culture is American culture; this history is American History’…continue reading HuffPost’s interview with Karyn Parson
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firehose'never has a Morrissey solo album seem influenced so completely by nothing except other Morrissey albums'
'Morrissey has morphed over the years from a young man romanticizing death to an older man fixated on decay. World Peace bears that out, in the worst way possible. “Cancer of the prostate,” exclaims the stalwart vegetarian, reveling in the ills of carnivores on “I’m Not A Man” '
“If it’s not love / Then it’s the bomb / That will bring us together,” Morrissey sings on The Smiths’ 1986 single “Ask.” Since then, those words have been the singer’s standing statement on world peace—that is, until the release of his new album, World Peace Is None Of Your Business. The name is more than just another phrase-twisting Morrissey quip. On the album’s bland, plodding title track, he rails against voting, paying taxes, and income inequality. He does so artlessly and humorlessly; near the end of the song, he’s reduced to empty couplets like “Brazil and Bahrain, Egypt, Ukraine / So many people in pain.” Morrissey’s cynicism hasn’t changed in the past 28 years. But it isn’t anywhere near as perceptive or clever as it used to be. Nor anywhere near as fun.
No Morrissey album in history has been rolled out with ...
If finding interesting things to write about on a Sunday afternoon sounds like an exciting adventure, then perhaps you might consider Game Journalism Simulator, currently under development by the writer Jason Evangelho.
Conceived somewhat as a joke (like the opening paragraph to this article), Game Journalism Simulator has a serious purpose: teach players how to understand game design and development.
Evangelho got the idea for the game after seeing Polygon News Editor Brian Crecente livestream the creation of this article about the Wii U, reported from E3. The flurry of recent simulator titles — goats, rocks, etc.— led to the joke idea. Then Evangelho considered the rather serious book by Dan Amrich, "Critical Path: How to Review Video Games for a Living," and figured a game could help deliver the same understanding.
Evangelho noted that Amrich suggests game critics attempt some type of game development, just to understand the process and be better equipped to judge a game's components. He says he has reached out to other writers, registered a trademark for the game and currently is "neck deep in our design document.
"We want it to be a genuinely fun game," he told Siliconera, "which both empowers players and makes them laugh their asses off."
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act have spent an estimated $450 million on political ads attacking the law, outspending supporters of Obamacare 15-to-1. But a state-by-state comparison of negative ads and enrollment figures suggests the attacks ads actually increased public awareness of the healthcare program.
The Juries of Law & Order, Season 2
Previously:
The Street Addresses of Law & Order, Season 2
The Contemplative Juries of Law & Order, Season 1
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