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More platforms coming soon. For those making the ports, don’t forget to include the extra translations with your release. There’s also a Source Tarball available with it all included.

For those upgrading, it’s recommended you uninstall any old versions first. 0.9 saves should still work fine though.

Special thanks to every single one of you that has helped make this happen. Yes, even you. And you. Not you though. Oh what the hell, it’s a special day, you’re all thanked.

Shout out to Xenonauts for also releasing 1.0 recently. It’s been a good time for X-COM fans.

Edit: For those that are having trouble downloading, we have added some mirrors, so try again if the current mirror is not working.

chicken head - Keio Flying Squadron 

(Victor Entertainment - Sega CD - 1993) 

esarjeant (100503) writes "I guess it shouldn't come as a total surprise, but Netflix has gone from not issuing new developer keys to announcing the entire [public API] program will be shut down. It's a real shame they are going to be taking this offline; it spurred quite a bit of innovation for the Netflix service. For major sites that have already gone live it sounds like Netflix will let them keep going, but if you're looking to build the next FeedFliks, then you better look elsewhere."

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You know, when you're a specially engineered super-soldier, you have to expect a certain amount of hassle. Like supervillian attacks, secret evil organizations plotting against you, that kind of thing. You probably shouldn't have to worry about a Beetle trying to run you over in your apartment. But Captain America did.

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Everyone knows the Anime “Serial Experiments Lain” has a famous scene with Conway’s Game of Life, the next code snippet shown is less famous for some reason and uses parts of http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/lisp/code/codewalk/walk/new_walk.cl, a portable code walker for Common Lisp programs, written in Common Lisp. Since being meta is part of the series, I’d say it’s at least semi-relevant.

On Tuesday morning, at Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History, Harvard Professor and CEO of Vapor Communications, David Edwards, will hit the ‘send’ button on his iPhone, and an email photograph tagged with the quintessential smell of New York — Pizza? The halal food trucks on 6th Avenue? The stench of horse piss on Central Park South? — will be delivered to a colleague in Paris, completing the first ever TransAtlantic transmission of a scent message.

This (gigantic) Iguana's name is Buddy. Buddy has more charisma than 80% of cats I've interacted with.

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"I wish I was dead already," 27-year-old Del Rey told the writer Tim Jonze, who in response told Del Rey not to say that. "But I do," she countered, adding: "I don't want to have to keep doing this. But I am." Del Rey (real name Elizabeth Woolridge Grant) had a privileged upbringing in Lake Placid, New York, as the daughter of an entrepreneur and former Grey account exec. "Family members will come on the road with me and say: 'Wow, your life is just like a movie!'" she told The Guardian. "And I'm like: 'Yeah, a really f---ed-up movie.'"

Raw Story:

“Whenever my parents fight, my dad threatens my mom with his gun,” a viewer told [Televangelist Pat Robertson] in an email. “Fortunately, this now means nothing to my mom, and she never goes nuts about it; she is very calm.”

“But as a child, I get nervous and worried when this happens,” the viewer’s note continued. “Even my younger brother saw this incident. What should we do about it and him?”

Televangelist's response? “[Y]ou don’t want to get your father busted.."

As you can see, America has really entered the twilight world of gun madness. And the further it is from the one and only rational course of action (enforcing a ban on these dangerous weapons), the weirder become its efforts to make sense of this terribly irrational situation.

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Toothpaste for dinner

NEW PRODUCT – HDMI 4 Pi: 7″ Display 1280×800 IPS – HDMI/VGA/NTSC/PAL

Make a lovely video setup with a 7″ IPS screen at 1280×800. Here we have a beautiful bright 7″ TFT display with incredibly high resolution and great angle-visibility! We tried to get the thinnest, brightest, highest resolution display that would be good for embedded computing usage. The visible display measures 7″ diagonal and is a ‘raw LVDS’ display as is used in a tablet which makes it ultra thin and very bright. We include a driver board with HDMI, VGA and Composite inputs. The setup is very easy to use – simply connect a 5-12VDC adapter to the 2.1mm center-positive DC jack, then connect a digital video source to one of the ports . Voilà, a display!



This version does not come with audio output. Click here if you’re looking for a display with audio and speaker drivers

There’s a little wired PCB with little buttons that let you enter a menu system for adjusting brightness, color and contrast. It tries to auto-detect which input you have and switches to that one or you can ‘select’ from the menu which to display.

To demonstrate it, we took some photos with the display connected to a Raspberry Pi, but it will also work connected to any device with HDMI, VGA or NTSC/PAL output. It will not work with a device that only outputs DVI (without a DVI to HDMI converter) or SECAM.

For use with a Raspberry Pi we suggest editing config.txt to set the HDMI to native 1280×800 in case it doesn’t detect the resolution properly. You can see our suggested config.txt in the Technical details tab. The easiest way to edit the config.txt is to put the Pi SD card into an every day computer and edit config.txt with any text editor and save.

For use with a BeagleBone Black running Ubuntu/Debian, we found it works when plugged in, no configuration required.



A power adapter is NOT included. You will need to either purchase a 5-12VDC adapter or you can use one you’ve already got around the house. We show the display on a bent wire stand which is not included, but you can pick one up here.

In stock and shipping now!

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themochagoddess:

rocknrollercoaster:

Rappers with puppies.

This is a movement

themanicpixiedreamgrrrl:

mustardwketchup:

These Fabulous Swimsuits Are Designed Specifically for Breast Cancer Survivors

And they’re modelled by some seriously glam women.

This is amazing.

seekingwillow:

iamof-theuniverse:

gardenofedens:

3loco:

bourbonandclove:

That is not a record - that is a cross-section of a fucking tree. And it sounds like this.

I feel like crying

this is magical 

NO FUCKING WAY DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND HOW FUCKING HAPPY THIS MAKES ME

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Am I  the only one thinking; “This is the silenced life-work of a dryad?” and “It’s missing the musical accompaniment of leaves in wind?”

As the New York Times recently reported, the Supreme Court has a habit of silently altering its rulings on its websites. Now, the @SCOTUS_servo feed will alert you when this happens, with links to the diffs and interpretation by David Zvenyach, general counsel to the Council of the District of Columbia. Read the rest

ryannorth:

error888:

Boba Fett unmasked on the set of the additional Jabba’s Palace scenes filmed for the Star Wars special editions - Imgur

1000% supercanon

oh my god

A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. The finding could help explain where Earth's seas came from. The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite that lies 700 kilometres underground in the mantle, the layer of hot rock between Earth's surface and its core.

prom-knight:

Dear Ubisoft

kil-la-kil:

so people were (rightly) annoyed at Ubisoft for the whole “woulda been too hard to make a female character for our game rather than copy pasting a white man 4 times” bullshit, but it seems everyone missed this little bit from 2 years ago. 

deonte-s:

actually

actually

wait actually

For residents living in the north, where sunlight can be a rare commodity during the winter, a psychological condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder is a very real problem. Light therapy is one way to shake off the winter blues, and although artificial lighting solutions do exist, they are generally available as simple variations on traditional desk lamps. An Italian designer has developed CoeLux, a unique system that delivers artificial light through an intelligent false skylight... Continue Reading CoeLux skylight brings "sunlight" to windowless spaces

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OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy

Louisiana @horesshit ; rest of these are pretty obvious/kind of lame, though Michigan was informative and lol Utah

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