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Hamburger: The Motion Picture
The film is perhaps best known for Charles Tyner’s character, Lyman Vunk, the founder and CEO of Buster Burger, who utters the oft-repeated 1980s phrase, “Put those cookies back, motherfucker,” and for his voluptuous ditz of a wife (Randi Brooks), who enjoys more than the Chow Mein on an outing to a Chinese restaurant.
Link (thanks, Lucky!)
This is you in Far Cry 4
Ubisoft has released a good shot of Ajay Ghale, the protagonist of Far Cry 4. Why bother showing the face behind a first-person shooter? Well, as I wrote earlier this week, Ghale represents an important change from who we were in Far Cry 3.
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Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026
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Imaging an exoplanet with a flower-power star shade
Late in May, at a session of the World Science Festival devoted to the prospects of finding life on other planets, astronomer Sara Seager came with a rather unusual looking stage prop—a thin black slab that tapered at one end. It sat off on the side of the stage for a while before Seager got the chance to explain what it was doing there. When she finally got the chance, she said why it could be the key to imaging small, rocky planets like Earth—and determining if their atmospheres provide hints that there might be life on the surface below.
So far, the only planets outside our solar system that we've imaged directly have been huge gas giants, far from their host star and young enough to still be glowing in the infrared. Even with their relative brightness and distance from the nearest star, the light from the star would completely swamp our sensors. So the telescopes used to contain what's called a coronagraph, or star shade. This blots out the central star, ensuring that the majority of light the telescope receives comes from the planets.
But small planets close enough to be in the habitable zone of a star create two problems. The first is that they don't produce any of their own light; instead, we'd have to capture light that's produced by the host star and then reflected off their surfaces or atmospheres. This makes them very dim, especially relative to their host star.
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that-leftycurse: 2014 Recipe For A Good Marvel Film: Take one...
2014 Recipe For A Good Marvel Film:
Take one hot guy named Chris and add a talking raccoon with a gun.
Is This the Beginning of the End of the Redskins Team Name?
It’s important to be clear on what the ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruling means and doesn’t mean. It does not prohibit Mr. Snyder from using “Redskins” as the team’s name. It merely prevents him from using the court system to prevent others from using the term.
One could now imagine someone opening the “Redskins Bar & Grill” without paying a royalty to Mr. Snyder, though that opens up an awkward Catch-22: It’s legal to use the name because a government commission found it disparages Native Americans, but you would then own a restaurant whose name disparages a minority group.
So There's This
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Representing the 4th District of Iowa
Obama raids Redskins by weaponizing USPTO. Cancels Redskins logo! Free people will not tolerate a Kim Jong POTUS.
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) June 18, 2014
The new CEO of American Apparel is the anti-Dov Charney
firehose'Taking the helm as interim CEO is the company’s chief financial officer, John Luttrell, who could not be more different from Charney, who has an affinity for pornography-inspired advertising and has been accused, more than a few times, for abusing and sexually harassing his employees.
Luttrell, 59, has worked as CFO at retailers with decidedly less controversial reputations: Old Navy, Wet Seal, Cost Plus, and Bugle Boy, according to his LinkedIn profile. He joined American Apparel in 2011, a measure seen as the arrival of adult supervision. His listed specialties range from financial and legal management to “significant contract negotiation expertise.” While Charney dropped out of Tufts University in Massachusetts, Luttrell graduated from the midwestern Purdue University suma cum laude.'
'American Apparel has not posted an annual profit since 2009 and its share price has been below $1 since mid February.'
US clothing retailer American Apparel is dumping its colorful and often controversial founder Dov Charney. According to a statement released today, the company said its board of directors had voted to terminate Charney as president and chief executive officer “for cause” and suspended “immediately.” A spokesman for the company declined to comment.
Taking the helm as interim CEO is the company’s chief financial officer, John Luttrell, who could not be more different from Charney, who has an affinity for pornography-inspired advertising and has been accused, more than a few times, for abusing and sexually harassing his employees.
Luttrell, 59, has worked as CFO at retailers with decidedly less controversial reputations: Old Navy, Wet Seal, Cost Plus, and Bugle Boy, according to his LinkedIn profile. He joined American Apparel in 2011, a measure seen as the arrival of adult supervision. His listed specialties range from financial and legal management to “significant contract negotiation expertise.” While Charney dropped out of Tufts University in Massachusetts, Luttrell graduated from the midwestern Purdue University suma cum laude.
In contrast to Charney, who called the company’s former CFO Ken Cieply “a complete loser” during an interview in 2008, Luttrell’s assessment of staff he’s worked with is polite and complimentary. Speaking of a manager he oversaw at Wet Seal, for example, Luttrell wrote,
“Courtney is the best in terms of administration and organization and in maintaining confidentiality. She is a team player and is truly respected and enjoyed by all she works with. She is dedicated and hard-working. Always on time and always there when you need her. She is a great business partner.”
Two co-chairmen will also replace Charney—Allan Mayer, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who now runs a public relations company, and David Danziger, an accountant and partner at the auditing and accounting firm, MNP LLP, Chartered Accountants.
American Apparel has not posted an annual profit since 2009 and its share price has been below $1 since mid February.
The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free
firehoseNAS4Free
The good:
Coherent, responsive, intuitive Web interface.
Compatible with other ZFS implementations.
The bad:
No extensible architecture—what it does is what it does, and that's all it does.
The ugly:
No built-in ZFS replication—BOO!
(Plus, Senior Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson just plain thinks it's ugly.)
FreeNAS
The good:
Jails! Plugins—Owncloud, plex, sickbeard, transmission, and more! Django! Samba4! Domain controller! Built-in ZFS replication! Shiny!
The bad:
It's a little too shiny: 6+ bugfix releases in five months. Plus, ZFS is not compatible with other implementations.
The ugly:
Its confusing, over-complex interface may make you question your sanity.
If you've been following along with our earlier articles on next-gen filesystems like btrfs and zfs, but wanted an easy way to get started without having to learn anything on the command line (or need an easy way to take advantage even though you're a Windows-only user), you're in luck. Today, we're going to look at two ready-to-rock ZFS-enabled network attached storage distributions: FreeNAS and NAS4Free.
What's in a name?
If FreeNAS and NAS4Free sound suspiciously similar, it's because they share a common root. Both are descended from the original FreeNAS code, founded by Olivier Cochard-Labbé in 2005. In 2009, the development teams began shifting away from ZFS and toward an extensible plugin architecture, which they believed would be easier to implement in Linux. This caused considerable unrest among the existing userbase, prompting the project lead to depart for more penguin-y pastures.
ixSystems—the same folks who maintain the PC-BSD desktop oriented flavor of FreeBSD—acquired the FreeNAS name from Mr. Cochard-Labbé in 2011. They rewrote it with a new architecture based on a newer Web platform (django) and a newer version of FreeBSD. Not all users were happy with the new architecture, however, which led in 2012 to the NAS4Free project abandoning ixSystems' work and, in their own words, continuing directly from the original codebase.
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HUGO Winning Author Daniel Keyes Has Died
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Adobe To Let Third Party Devs Incorporate Photoshop Features
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Fish-Eating Spiders More Common Than Thought
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The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds «
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Why birb shreds a pape r? Taste goode? Beaky eggarsize?
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is hiding a SECRET PAPERS from the LAW! No brib that is aksing a JAIL TIMES
Twelve24 ClockONE tells the time with E-Ink
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New Cart Pod/Nursery Slated for SE Division and 28th
firehosefood carts + gardening = TAL, a few blocks down from Pok Pok
Tidbit Food Farm and Garden, which will debut later this summer at SE Division and 28th Place, will feature carts clustered around a hybrid beer garden and nursery space, the latter by NE Alberta's plant shop and nursery Thicket.
And unsurprisingly, many of Tidbit's carts are moving in from elsewhere: Good Food Here's Scout Beer Garden will provide the beer, while its current neighbors Brazilian House, Namu Korean & Hawaiian Barbecue, Sushi PDX, and Fishbox will also make the move to Division. Aybla Grill, E-San Thai, and Saffron Indian (all from the SW 6th pod) will also make Tidbit their new homes; a representative says that additional carts have been confirmed, while a couple slots for interested parties still remain. Tidbit plans a mid-August opening; more as it becomes available.
papermagazine: Oh. My. God. [Via Mlkshk]
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How A Seemingly Impossible Game Is Possible
firehose'Given the ease with which Hello Games is able to create infinite variants of one rhino—both male and female and baby—I asked Murray if he had heard Ubisoft's recent statements about why they nixed female assassins in the upcoming chapter of the Assassin's Creed series. At the time of this interview, Ubisoft had reasoned that production costs and time were a considerable factor to this decision. (Ubisoft has since modified this explanation.)
"There's been this thing for ages: Content is king. Which is probably true," Murray said. "But, I actually think it's kind of everything that's wrong with...not that I'm not in love with games, but it's part of the problem with the industry at the moment. Assassin's Creed's gotta have like 800 people working on it. So, if you're going to have 800 people because you have to make all this content then everything's going to be built in blueprint. You need to have 800 people go in the same direction.
"And so you have to go with the tried and tested game format. And it's going to be so expensive to make that. You can't take any risks, you've gotta make it exactly the same as all the other games out there. And Ubisoft do take risks and things, but the broad spectrum is pretty risky for some games. And it's all because it's so expensive to try something and the bar is so high to do that that I think, and actually it's kind of an easy solution for developers to think 'we're going to make this big racer, we'll put so much money into content.' And that's what you see at E3, it looks amazing."
"But it's easy for you guys to do it," I wondered out loud to him.
"They leave that open for us, which we're glad of," Murray said. "Not using very many colors and things like that. They leave it all to us. The palette that we're using is, to me, the palette of, like, sci-fi book covers. And that's how the game looks. Like, when you look up at that dinosaur and there's a planet there and there's some birds flying past and stuff. It looks like a book cover and that's what we always set out for. We started out with four of us prototyping it. We actually covered all the walls with book covers and just sat there...it was almost depressive. But it was really good."
"It's really art-directed," Ream chimed in. "Some people think a lot of this procedural stuff is going to be boring and bland because it's not generated by people. And that's the whole difference here. Grant, the art director, he's recreating things that we love. Palette schemes, shapes and forms that he loves. Which means every creature here is interesting."'