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Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes Portland, Oregon has taken another step toward finalizing a franchise agreement with Google Fiber. In a unanimous vote, the city council has approved the prospective contract. While existing Internet Service Providers fume, Mary Beth Henry, manager of Portland's Office for Community Technology, pointed out that Google is prepared to make a major investment in the city's infrastructure, while the other firms are not. Ms. Henry also indicated that Google was not receiving any special treatment. Google spokesperson, Jenna Wandres, responded to events in an email, saying, "There's still a lot of work to do beyond this one agreement, but we hope to provide an update about whether we can bring Fiber here later this year."

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Cartographer Kenneth Field decided to see how far The Proclaimers actually could have walked if they’d done what they said they would in their most famous song. In case the lyrics aren’t permanently seared into your brain, the duo’s catchy declaration of love goes like this…

But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

Since the identical twin brothers who formed the band hail from Leith, Field used the Scottish town as his starting point. He first drew circles to show how far they would need to walk through the air. However, since nobody can actually walk on water, Field also calculated how far they literally could have walked, including factoring in ferry rides where available…

HENDERSON, NV—Aghast at the hulking, shapeless being that lurched toward the registers, cashiers at the local Green Valley Parkway’s Walgreens confirmed Thursday that the soulless mass shambling down the aisle was nothing but a lumbering golem...

Rebellious Pixels looked at 40 protaganists from upcoming video games being previewed at E3 this week (all men natch because, as Ubisoft tells us, women are too hard to animate) and came to a conclusion. All those dudes look like each other. Ok, maybe not exactly the same, but pretty damn similar it makes you wonder what's going on in the industry even more than we already are. At least all signs point to a lady-led Zelda game, right? Sigh. Previously in E3

Nick Carr of Scouting New York recently stumbled upon a gold-dispensing machine in front of Stack’s Rare Coins in Manhattan. The machine dispenses gold bars in sizes ranging from five grams to one ounce (at a price range of approximately $250 to $1,300 as of this writing), all with the ease of an ATM-style interface. It also dispenses silver, for the cheapskates out there.

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SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—With only hours to go before Thursday’s opening match between Brazil and Croatia, sources confirmed that FIFA officials managed to hammer out the winner of the World Cup just in time for the tournament.

A near Earth brush — but not close enough for impact — by this giant 1,200 foot asteroid provided the perfect opportunity to get a closer look at the asteroid (and its odd shape, like a slightly jagged peanut) with these pictures, some of the sharpest images of an asteroid ever taken.

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Help me come up with a snappy title for my freshman writing class. Here’s the gist: incoming students take on the role of participant-observer and enter the world of Dartmouth, taking copious fieldnotes and turning them into academic writing. They can write about any cultural practice the wish, as long as they “do fieldwork” and write regularly. The final assignment is a group multimodal project, most likely some sort of documentary film or podcast.

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My 3d printed “Video Skate Dolly” is a handy piece of gear to add to your collection. It has an adjustable arm, rotating base, and tilting head. The wheels can also be adjusted to shoot a 360 degree video. Using recycled roller-blade wheels and PLA plastic it is easy on the environment and your budget.

Sample video shot with the Video Skate Dolly is at http://www.engineeringwithjazz.com/

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

“Its tone, language, and story belong in children’s literature,” wrote critic James Wood, in The New Yorker. He found a book stuffed with relentless, far-fetched plotting; cloying stock characters; and an overwrought message tacked on at the end as a plea for seriousness. “Tartt’s consoling message, blared in the book’s final pages, is that what will survive of us is great art, but this seems an anxious compensation, as if Tartt were unconsciously acknowledging that the 2013 ‘Goldfinch’ might not survive the way the 1654 ‘Goldfinch’ has.” Days after she was awarded the Pulitzer, Wood told Vanity Fair, “I think that the rapture with which this novel has been received is further proof of the infantilization of our literary culture: a world in which adults go around reading Harry Potter.” In The New York Review of Books, novelist and critic Francine Prose wrote that, for all the frequent descriptions of the book as “Dickensian,” Tartt demonstrates little of Dickens’s remarkable powers of description and graceful language. She culled both what she considered lazy clichés (“Theo’s high school friend Tom’s cigarette is ‘only the tip of the iceberg.’ … The bomb site is a ‘madhouse’ ”) and passages that were “bombastic, overwritten, marred by baffling turns of phrase.” “Reading The Goldfinch,” Prose concluded, “I found myself wondering, ‘Doesn’t anyone care how something is written anymore?’ ” Across the pond, the highly regarded London Review of Books likened it to a “children’s book” for adults. London’s Sunday Times concluded that “no amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”

"I signed up today," Andy Williams, an American living near Milan, told the The New York Times. "I don't like the Italian business mentality. They are just about getting your money. There's no customer service."

Amazon has launched Prime Music, a streaming service featuring over a million songs. The new music service is free to Amazon Prime subscribers with unlimited, ad-free streaming, and non-subscribers can participate in a 30-day trial.

Tired of setting your property on fire when you do outdoor frying? Alton Brown's got your back.

"I turn around and it's Bill Murray with his shirt up, belly out, tapping his belly and trying to make them laugh."

PaperLater is a service by the newspaper printing service Newspaper Club that turns writing on the web into printed newspapers that are then mailed to users. All users need to do is hit a “Save to PaperLater” button once they’re part of the service, and when enough articles have been added it can be printed into a physical newspaper. PaperLater is currently in public beta and available only in the United Kingdom, but they plan to launch in other countries eventually.

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To compete with rivals like Dunkin’ Donuts that sell lunch items, Starbucks has announced they will add grilled cheese sandwiches to their menu for $5.25, in addition to a turkey pesto panini on focaccia for $5.95.

Earlier this month, George R. R. Martin took a break from his feverish work on the next A Song Of Ice And Fire book to solicit charitable donations for the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico. He did so through Prizeo, a site that offers Kickstarter-type prizes for those who donate at certain levels. For $20,000, he offered one lucky man and one lucky woman the chance to be fictionalized, then brutally killed, in the next chapter of the saga, most likely as a ploy to silence skepticism that he’s writing another chapter of the saga.

And now we know that the next Game Of Thrones character you’ll develop an emotional attachment to, before seeing him brutally murdered, will have the decidedly non-Westerosi name “Dave Goldblatt”. The female winner chose to remain anonymous, so we may never know which prostitute, lady-in-waiting, prostitute, unlucky bridesmaid, or prostitute ...

In “Wolf and the Bees,” creative agency Juliet Zulu profiles Wolf Carr, a vocal coach living in Portland, Oregon, who spends his free-time as an apiarist, running Wolf Honey.

The honey you’re tasting from different boxes is a moment in time. You’re actually tasting a specific week or two that a certain flower was flowering. Ultimately, that excites me, being able to taste a very specific nectar from a very specific plant from a very specific time that will never happen again.

The short is part of a larger series from Juliet Zulu profiling interesting Portlanders. Previously the agency highlighted arborist Jim Meyers.

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There's a reason I'm showing you the pic of Jurassic World's Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson first, and it's so you'll have time to gird your loins for what lies behind the cut: Chris Pratt, a motorcycle, and Bryce Dallas Howard channelling her inner Emma Frost. I warned you.

Surprisingly, Mario Kart 8, which is selling very well, is still on sale for $49. We don't expect this to last too much longer, so grab the wheel while you can. As we've noted before you can still register your copy of Mario Kart 8 with Club Nintendo to grab a free game. [Mario Kart 8, $49]

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"SALEWA is the leading brand in Europe for the equipment, clothing and footwear from the mountain. A true 'multi-specialist; over seventy years of tradition and experience are a constant source of inspiration and represent the basis for achieving more ambitious goals. The SALEWA group is managed by a highly professional family. In 2010 SALEWA has celebrated 75 years: from 1935 that is in fact the most demanding mountaineers and mountain lovers are in brand solutions and innovative and reliable products, a tradition, that which forms the basis for the next steps in entrepreneurship towards a promising future in motion."

Design by: Pascher+Heinz (Munich, Germany)

Opinion/Notes: The new eagle abstraction is fairly cool; perhaps a little disproportionate with the huge wings but it gets the point across: aggressive soaring of some kind. The typography appears to be cool but it's mostly a mess of diagonal shapes and unfortunate ligatures of characters that were never meant to be ligatured. The new feel is more Army/Navy than outdoor mountaineering but when you see that rendering of the trade show booth, you'll buy into whatever they are selling.

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Select Quote: Based on the intuition of the Eagle and the passion of athletes and alpinists around the world we created a new and iconic brand appearance.

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Storm by John Romita Jr. for Marvel Comics.

A hate-filled protest took place on the streets of Paris on Sunday, with thousands of marchers chanting, “Jew, France is not for you,” the French JSS News reported. JSS News said police counted 17,000 protesters (the protest groups claimed they numbered 120,000). 150 were arrested and 19 policemen suffered injuries, including one who was seriously wounded, according to AFP.

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