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Cthulhu Ski Mask – It won’t give you the power to consume human souls, but it will keep your face warm, and make a great Halloween costume!

extrafabulouscomics:

scary halloween comic

From photographer Freddy Fabris, The Renaissance Series, photographs of auto mechanics posed in the style of Renaissance paintings. (via colossal)

The Kickstarter-funded, Matthew Mercer-created fanciful musical “Muzzled the Musical” is finally here, and it stars a bunch of your favorite Pemberley actors: Ashley Clements, Mary Kate Wiles, Maxwell Glick, Brendan Bradley and more familiar faces from YouTube! Check out the first episode above (and then watch episodes 2 and 3).

What’s Muzzled about, you ask?

To the Royal Kingdom of Serenadia, where singing is power. With the right song, you can bring peace to the downtrodden, bake a delicious birthday cake… even KILL! 

Hence, the Golden King has decreed all Blackhearts must bear the Muzzle: a magic tattoo that punishes those who try to sing.

See, the Kingdom was once ravaged by years of bloody musical warfare waged between the Golden King and the Black Matron. Now, twenty years after the King’s dulcet baritone restored peace to the land, the Matron’s teen daughter Malfalia is determined to shed her Muzzle and sing. So Malf sneaks off to meet her idol, Princess Ambrosia… only for Ambrosia to cruelly trick her into triggering her Muzzle and, quite satisfied, leave her screaming on the cold Kingdom asphalt.

But Malfalia – even writhing, heartbroken and humiliated – is still her mother’s daughter. She sings through the pain, shatters her Muzzle and vows revenge: to masquerade as a princess, infiltrate and destroy royal society… then free her fellow Blackhearts from the tyranny of the Muzzles!

ohcaptainmycaptain1918:

theinturnetexplorer:

well that neighbor feud took an amusing turn.

Imagine your OTP

necrophlint:

tinytmas:

Dr. Temperance Brennan has seen some disgusting and horrifying shit over the years, but I think her daughter and her husband singing this horribly innacurate song might just top the list for her.

The betrayal on her face jfc

Hooray for teamwork! :D

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Codenamed “Wily Werewolf”, 15.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
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CSSgram is a CSS library by Una Kravets recreating Instagram filters. The filters are pseudo elements on the <figure>, sitting on to of the <img>, using different gradients, opacities, and mix-blend-modes.

This continues her excellent work in experimenting with blend modes and filters, from vintage washouts to 3d image effects.

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Clear Food, a food-analysis company, recently examined 345 hot dogs and sausages. According to the report, the company found human DNA in 2 percent of the products tested. “Two-thirds of the human DNA samples were vegetarian samples,” the study adds.

Clear Food gave a shout-out to the brands that fared best in their test, including Butterball, McCormick, Eckrich, Hebrew National and Gardein. Meanwhile, Oscar Mayer’s Premium Jumbo Beef Franks took the title of top dog, described as “high quality and good value in a high-visibility national brand.”

It doesn’t say how much human DNA was found in the hot dogs that contained them. If it’s less than 0.1%, e.g., that’s probably less than you would find in most home-cooked meals.

doodleforfood:

So my printer broke today.

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tastefullyoffensive:

“If I fits, I sits.” (photo by Oaklawn Farm Zoo)

pokemonpika77:

Guys, this is season ONE of the Simpsons.

gifak-net:

video:  Dog Gets Really Excited While Watching Disney’s ‘Bolt’

As part of its new auction of rare two-character license plate numbers, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles had—among expected stalwarts like “OK,” “EZ,” “XL,” “QT,” or “SA”—opted to include the option “AF.”

The Dark Side never looked so good.

Alison Flood reports in the Guardian about an exciting discovery (for those of us who find punctuation exciting):

Dr Anne Toner believes she has identified the earliest use of the ellipsis in English drama, pinning it down to a 1588 edition of the Roman dramatist Terence’s play, Andria, which had been translated into English by Maurice Kyffin and printed by Thomas East, and in which hyphens, rather than dots, mark incomplete utterances by the play’s characters.

Although there are instances of ellipses occurring in letters around the same time, this is the earliest printed version found by Toner following her chronological research into the earliest dramas in print.

“This was a brilliant innovation,” she writes in Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission, a history of the use of dots, dashes and asterisks to mark a silence of some kind, which has just been published by Cambridge University Press. [...]

“It’s interesting to think about whose idea it was to use what turned out to be a very useful resource … was it the translator of the Terence play, or the printer? Who the agent was behind the mark is very unclear,” Toner said. “But you then start to see it being used relatively quickly in dramatic works … in Ben Jonson plays, for example.”

It also appears in Shakespeare. Toner writes of Henry IV, Part I, that “Hotspur dies on a dash”, with his last words cut short: “no, Percy, thou art dust / And food for–”

By the 18th century, said Toner, it “becomes very common in print, and blanking starts to be used as a means of avoiding libel laws”, with series of dots starting to be seen in English works, as well as hyphens and dashes, to mark an ellipsis.

There are some nice images of the books in question at the link.

Also, congratulations to Arika Okrent, winner of the LSA Linguistics Journalism Award!

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Perhaps attempting to capitalize on the popularity of Minecraft with young boys, Random Penguin¹ has released the Puffin Pixels Series of books. The covers of The Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, and four more titles are done in the style of 8-bit video games. The cover illustrations were done by Michael Myers. (via @gavinpurcell)

1. I know it's Penguin Random House, but Random Penguin would have been more fun.↩

I received an interesting call just right before I was to leave on vacation, from a client with a website we’d recently completed. The client’s site, which promoted a popular restaurant, had even just recently won an award for its design and generated a lot of traffic. 

Client: Hey! How’s it going? I just wanted to tell you that while I realize was time to renew our year at the hosting company - I called and cancelled it instead.

Me:   …What?

Client: Yeah! Since you told us Wordpress is free - I saw no point in paying that yearly fee to them anymore.

Me: How long ago did you DO this?

Client: Oh, about two weeks ago. But now I can’t find my website online.

I started searching for the site frantically. It was gone. 

Client: Can you make sure it’s up and running correctly? We have a big brunch event coming up we need to take reservations for. 

Thankfully, the hosting company found this story to be SO hilarious, they went back and restored the database and account free of charge, even though it had been closed down two weeks prior. I couldn’t have been more grateful for them not immediately cleaning up the server.