An LA-based DJ named Sleeper has made an audiovisual mashup of La La Land, featuring music by Boyz II Men, Alicia Keys, Adele, and the Beach Boys and visuals from other musicals like Singin’ In The Rain and West Side Story.

I love La La Land. The movie presents the agony and wonder of dreams in spectacular ways. I think it captures a tiny taste of God’s dreams for us. I wanted to create an audio and visual experience that allows you to enjoy the film over and over again. It’s a turntable tribute to La La Land.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who walked into a District of Columbia pizza restaurant with an assault rifle, intent on investigating internet rumors dubbed “pizzagate,” is apologizing and saying he realizes now “just how foolish and reckless” he was.

Edgar Madison Welch made the statements in a letter submitted to a judge Tuesday ahead of his sentencing set for June 22. In a court document, Welch’s attorney asks he be sentenced to 1 year in prison.

In a separate document, prosecutors say he should spend 4 years in prison.

Welch, who is from Salisbury, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in March to two charges in connection with the case.

The post Man arrested in DC ‘pizzagate’ incident apologizes in letter appeared first on WTOP.

Ikea products have long been available on Amazon from 3rd-party resellers, but now Ikea is officially selling hundreds of their products on Amazon. Among the items that caught my eye are the iconic blue Frakta bags, the best kids’ drinking glasses ever made (we have dozens of these…love them), a kids’ foot stool, the Swedish meatball sauce packs, and those ubiquitous Glimma tea lights. Also, lots of rugs, picture frames, candles, bedding materials, and many of the other things that are good to stock up on. (via fast company)

Update: I am an idiot. All this Ikea stuff on Amazon is from resellers…the same stuff that’s been available for years on the site. (Same deal with all the Muji items on Amazon.) I mean, they are still genuine Ikea products and some of it isn’t even available from Ikea’s online store. Anyway, not such a huge deal. I was wondering why Ikea would be adopting such a if-you-can’t-beat-‘em-join-‘em attitude towards Amazon; turns out they’re still just trying to beat ‘em.

Update: Just the other day, Reuters reported that Ikea will test selling items through third-party websites.

“I leave unsaid on which (platforms), but we will test and pilot, to see ‘what does this mean, what does digital shopping look like in future and what do digital shopping centers mean?’,” he said.

IKEA, known for its warehouse-like stores, has recently restructured to give its retail arm more freedom. The Swedish firm has never sold its goods through another company and is also trying new smaller store formats and stepping up integration of stores and online to adapt to new ways of shopping.

(via @checkdisout)

Did you know that you can request an electronic copy of your patriarchal blessing that you can view online or download to your computer or smart phone? You can also get copies of blessings for deceased direct-line ancestors, deceased children, or a deceased spouse.

A new, simplified landing page available in 14 languages is designed for desktop and mobile devices (both Apple iOS and Android).

All 4.3 million known patriarchal blessings have been digitized by the Church and are available for request. Patriarchal blessings are given to worthy members of the Church by ordained patriarchs. Learn more about patriarchal blessings in the Gospel Topics section of LDS.org (topics.lds.org).

New online tools are also available for leaders to create patriarchal blessing recommends and submit the official blessings to the Church.

To request a digital copy of your blessing, log on to LDS.org, click My Account and Ward in the upper right corner, and then select Patriarchal Blessing.

Learn more on the Patriarchal Blessings information page.

NakeFit stick-on shoes - or, to be more precise, NakeFit hypoallergenic adhesive pads - remind me of when I'm walking barefoot and start to feel like something's stuck to my heel, but I'm loath to look down because I just know it's going to be someone's dirty old Band-Aid. Except with NakeFits the thing stuck to my foot would be supposed to be there. It would also be helping to protect me from the dirty old Band-Aids in my path, along with any sharp objects and fungal infections looking to latch on to my feet too.

Designed, like all fine shoes, in Italy, NakeFit adhesive pads look like a cross between an insole and a tray of paint you accidentally stepped in. According to the team that created them, the barefoot enablers stick on and peel off your foot easily (here's a GIF), and stay firmly in place, ready to provide a bevy of services during your wear time in between. Slip into a pair of NakeFits:

• On the street. They are cut- and abrasion-resistant on paving for the barefoot runners and walkers out there.
• On the rocks. The trail and mountain rocks, not the ones in your glass. Though since NakeFits are anti-slip and appropriate for any "soil" if you primal-abiding dudes want to wear them to shovel snow and chip ice next winter, I guess go ahead.
• In the sand. Your feet might freeze wearing NakeFits when it's too cold, but the pads will protect the bottoms from burning when worn on hot sand.
• At the pool. And in the pool. NakeFits are waterproof. For kids who ignore the "No Running" signs, they'll also help cut down on slips, plus help protect feet from warts and verrucas.
• Around the spa. No flip-flopping (or flip-slipping on wet tile) required.
• June 15, 2017 Update: Dude reader Amanda H. also wrote to suggest people in hospital environments or the elderly at home could use NakeFits to help reduce the risk of falling, pointing out, "This innovative idea is not just for the beach."

NakeFits come in men's, women's, and kid's sizes, and a few different color choices. All are available here on Kickstarter through July 7, 2017.

Paint Timing API

CSS font-display

Credential Management API improvements

Other features in this release

• The Payment Request API is now supported on desktop versions of Chrome.
• Sites can now collect payments through native Android payment apps using the Payment Request API.
• Object rest & spread properties are now supported, making it simpler to merge and shallow-clone objects and implement various immutable object patterns.
• The new Web Budget API enables sites with the Push Notification permission to send a limited number of push messages that trigger background work such as syncing data or dismissing notifications the user has handled on another device, without the need to show a user-visible notification.
• The new Web Push Encryption format is now supported and PushManager.supportedContentEncodings can be used to detect where it can be used.
• PushSubscription.expirationTime is now available, notifying sites when and if a subscription will expire.
• To improve performance and predictability,  pointermove and mousemove events are now delivered once per AnimationFrame, matching the current functionality of scroll and TouchEvents.
• The :focus-within CSS pseudo-class is now available, affecting any element the :focus pseudo-class affects, as well as any element with a descendant affected by :focus.
• The CSS frames timing function is now available, making it useful for animation loops where the animation should display all frames for exactly the same length, including its first and last frames.
• To provide an enriched way to capture editing actions, InputEvent now allows user input to be managed by script, enhancing the details provided to editable elements.  
• To increase security, a BeforeUnload dialog triggered when the user leaves a site will now only be shown if the frame attempting to display it has ever received a user gesture or user interaction, though the BeforeUnloadEvent will still be dispatched regardless.
• VP9, an open and royalty-free video coding format, can now be used with the MP4 (ISO BMFF) container and requires the new VP9 string format mentioned below.
• A new VP9 string format is now available and accepted by various media-related APIs, enabling developers to describe the encoding properties that are common in video codecs, but are not yet exposed.

Deprecations and interoperability improvements

• getElementsByTagName() now accepts qualified names in response to an update to the DOM specification.
• /deep/ now behaves like the descendant combinator, which is effectively a no-op.
• To improve user experience, calls to Navigator.vibrate() now immediately return false if the user hasn't explicitly tapped on the frame or any embedded frame, matching existing behavior for cross-origin iframes.
• WEBKIT_KEYFRAME_RULE and WEBKIT_KEYFRAMES_RULE have been removed in favor of the unprefixed standardized APIs, KEYFRAME_RULE and KEYFRAMES_RULE.
• Support for non-standard WebKitAnimationEvent and WebKitTransitionEvent has been removed from document.createEvent().
• To better align with spec, NodeIterator.filter and TreeWalker.filter no longer wrap JavaScript objects, and .prototype has been removed from window.NodeFilter.
• RTCPeerConnection.getStreamById() is being removed, and a polyfill is recommended as a replacement.
• SVGPathElement.getPathSegAtLength() has been deprecated as it has been removed from the SVGPathElement spec.
• Headers.prototype.getAll() has been removed from the Fetch API in line with its removal from the spec.

Except for the top three, I’m not sure I could have come up with most of the top 10 largest US cities by population. I’ll give you minute to guess…

…

…

1. NYC
2. LA
3. Chicago
4. Houston
5. Phoenix
6. Philadelphia
7. San Antonio
8. San Diego
9. Dallas
10. San Jose

I dunno, San Antonio at #7 really threw me for a loop. Bigger than Dallas? Bigger than San Francisco (by more than 600,000 people)? Of course, when metropolitan areas are taken into account, the picture changes. The San Antonio area drops to #30 while the Bay Area hits #5.

When I was a kid, the list looked a little different…LA had not yet passed Chicago for #2 and Texas had only two cities in the top 10 (and no Austin creepin’ in 11th place):

1. New York
2. Chicago
3. Los Angeles
4. Philadelphia
5. Houston
6. Detroit
7. Dallas
8. San Diego
9. Phoenix
10. Baltimore

That list still carries more weight in my brain than the current ranking. The facts you learn in school influence how you view your country. And some of those facts, dubbed mesofacts by Sam Arbesman, change slowly, so slowly that you’re tricked into thinking they haven’t changed at all. The average age of the US Senate right now is 62. The version of the population list that many Senators learned in school was probably from the 1950 census (or perhaps the 1960 one) and our current President, at 70 years of age, was possibly taught the list from the 1940 census. The entries on those older lists look much more like the industrial America celebrated by truck and beer commercials and represented by classic baseball and football teams — the America that is to be made great again: Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh.

Another instructive list to look at in this regard is the list of cities that had populations of at least 100,000 people but have since dropped below that threshold. On the list (with the % drop in parentheses) are:

Canton, Ohio (-39%)
Gary, Indiana (-59%)
Scranton, Penn (-46%)
Flint, Michigan (-50%)
Erie, Penn (-29%)
Utica, NY (-40%)

That the idea embodied by those kinds of cities still holds much sway in American politics shouldn’t be so surprising.

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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit the sites they love without worrying about spam and abuse. Over the years, reCAPTCHA has changed quite a bit. It evolved from the distorted text to street numbers and names, then No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA in 2014 and Invisible reCAPTCHA in March this year.

By now, more than a billion users have benefited from reCAPTCHA and we continue to work to refine our protections.

reCAPTCHA protects users wherever they may be online. As the use of mobile devices has grown rapidly, it’s important to keep the mobile applications and data safe. Today, on reCAPTCHA’s tenth birthday, we’re glad to announce the first reCAPTCHA Android API as part of Google Play Services.

With this API, reCAPTCHA can better tell human and bots apart to provide a streamlined user experience on mobile. It will use our newest Invisible reCAPTCHA technology, which runs risk analysis behind the scene and has enabled millions of human users to pass through with zero click everyday. Now mobile users can enjoy their apps without being interrupted, while still staying away from spam and abuse.

reCAPTCHA Android API is included with Google SafetyNet, which provides services like device attestation and safe browsing to protect mobile apps. Mobile developers can do both the device and user attestations in the same API to mitigate security risks of their apps more efficiently. This adds to the diversity of security protections on Android: Google Play Protect to monitor for potentially harmful applications, device encryption, and regular security updates. Please visit our site to learn more about how to integrate with the reCAPTCHA Android API, and keep an eye out for our iOS library.

The journey of reCAPTCHA continues: we’ll make the Internet safer and easier to use for everyone (except bots).

"Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec."

Either the Baby Shusher shhhhhhh-ing machine is a Nobel Prize-caliber invention, or the baby in that video learned in the womb how to be an Oscar-caliber actor. Arrrgh, that sound, that wailing. I can't think of a noise on earth worse than a baby crying. I'd rather listen to a dial-up modem play the soundtrack to Frozen.

I don't know if the soothing human voice recordings on the Baby Shusher will calm all babies, or even work on the little dude above at all times, but I do know that if I owned a baby, I'd sure as shush want to give it a try. Especially since my betrothed told me I'm not allowed to get a Baby Muzzle.

Baby Shusher creators intend parents to incorporate the device into sleep training efforts. Its concept and rhythmic "shushes" stem from the Five S's to stop a crying baby Dr. Harvey Karp discusses in his book The Happiest Baby on the Block (the other for are swaddle, side / stomach position in bed, swing, and suck.) Karp says shushing, a loose replica of the sound of blood flow they hear in the womb, activates babies' natural calming reflex.

To activate the Baby Shusher, flip it on and adjust its volume to a level slightly louder than your baby's cries. You can then set the device to shush unattended for 15- or 30-minute increments.

Kids can get free books from Half Price Books by reading. Great for kids who love to read.

Hide my ass! Once a command used almost exclusively by people changing clothes or getting ogled by a creep, the prying eyes and restrictive servers of the internet have given it a whole new meaning, and value to those making the request. Web security software company AVG has gone ahead and appropriated the phrase for their high-speed VPN service, HideMyAss!

HideMyAss! describes exactly what many of us want when we're browsing online these days, particularly in places that block access to certain websites based on our location, or those where we're using a public WiFi connection. PC Mag named the HMA! VPN one of the Best VPN Services of 2016 thanks to its ability not only to do what it say it do, but also do it fast.

Unlike other slow and pokey VPNs, HideMyAss! says it will maintain your high-speed browsing experience while in use. You'll also be able to access 930+ VPN servers in over 190 countries, and keep your identity and private information secure from hackers and, ahem, government officials.

The listing here is for 65% off a 2-year subscription to HideMyAss! It includes unlimited bandwidth, and can be used on all internet-enable devices running Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS, including TVs and game consoles. You can also browse with HideMyAss! active on 2 devices at once.