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@@Uma equipa de astrónomos combinou novas observações de Gliese 667C com dados obtidos anteriormente pelo instrumento HARPS, montado no telescópio Observatório Europeu do Sul (ESO), no Chile, e revelou um sistema com pelo menos seis planetas. Três destes são super-Terras orbitando em torno da estrela numa região onde a água pode existir sob forma líquida, o que torna estes planetas bons candidatos à presença de vida. Este é o primeiro sistema que se descobre, onde a zona habitável se encontra repleta de planetas. A Gliese 667C é uma estrela muito estudada. Com cerca de um terço da massa do Sol, faz parte de um sistema estelar triplo conhecido como Gliese 667 (também referido como GJ 667), situado a 22 anos-luz de distância na constelação do Escorpião. Encontra-se muito próximo de nós – na vizinhança solar – muito mais próximo do que os sistemas estelares investigados com o auxílio de telescópios tais como o telescópio espacial caçador de planeta, Kepler.

Chris-Rachael Oseland of Kitchen Overload has made a tutorial on how to make your own Superman logo bread. It doesn't seem too complicated either so it seems like a great kitchen craft to do with your kids. Just be careful and make sure you don't screw it up and accidentally make a 'Z' loaf like that one in the background. "Wow, you really are stupid." You could try to explain it to me but I won't get it. Hit the jump for a super simplified picture tutorial.

This is an animated gif of all 151 original Pokemon as cats. I've been watching it repeat for well over an hour now -- I'm going for a record. Granted not the kind of record you should brag about to a date, but knowing me I will anyways. I'm a pro gif watcher -- wanna come back to my place? Oh, and if we could go Dutch on dinner that would be cool because I don't have enough to cover both of us if you order more than soda. I did pack an overnight bag though in case you'd rather we spend the night at your place. Thanks to Grillonic, who told me animated gifs are the fuel that drives the internet and I believe him.

We’re happy to present another round of institutions that have joined The Commons this week! Browse through each of their photostreams to see photos they’ve gathered in their efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of Estonia, Sweden and the Swedish community in Finland.

The National Archives of Estonia:

 

   

The National Archives of Estonia is the centre of archival administration in Estonia. The main task of the National Archives is to ensure preservation and usability of society’s written memory, documented cultural heritage for today’s and future generations. On the other hand, the National Archives guarantees the protection of citizens basic rights and duties and the transparency of the democratic state through the holding and preservation of authentic documents.

The National Library of Sweden:

   

 

The National Library of Sweden has been collecting virtually everything printed in Sweden or in Swedish since 1661. We also collect TV and radio programs, movies and videos distributed in Sweden, Swedish music and multimedia recordings. The National Library is a humanities research library that purchases scholarly publications in several languages.

The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland:

 

   

The archives of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland strive to preserve the central parts of the Swedish cultural heritage in Finland. Finland was a part of Sweden until 1809 and Swedish has been spoken around the coastal areas of Finland for hundreds of years. Swedish is today used in everyday life by about 6 % of the Finnish citizens. In the SLS archive you will find letters, manuscripts, photographs, folk music, dialects and more for anyone who takes an interest in the language, history and traditions of the Finland-Swedish minority.

Redditor FatGirlsSendMeNudes shares via images some of the stuff his Guinea pig occasionally does.

Sharpening his pencil:


Watering the flowers:


Lifting wights:


More - after the jumpMowing the lawn:


Making stew:


Eating ice cream:


Walking the dog:


Riding a chicken:


Washing the car:



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The Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher finally gets its first trailer.


In theaters, August 16, 2013.

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Over the weekend, many skywatchers caught the moon in its biggest appearance of this year. Arriving at the closest distance from Earth on June 23, or what is also known as perigee, the “supermoon” created impressive views in the company of city skylines, landscape horizons, and famous landmarks.

See, and share, more spectacular scenes in the Supermoon 2013 gallery.

Photos from chengkiang, Jsdeitch, Photomatt28, Wilson Lam, Cthulhus Wolves, my soul, Several seconds, prose729, RBudhu, claustral, cobby31, and robjdickinson.

“Hello! I found this cat napping on a Turkish book shop display in Istanbul. I took the photo. Thank you for your consideration!” – International Cuteporter Alexandra R.

(Aha! Headline, misleading it is! Reeled you in, we did. Geddit? A cat IN Turkey.)

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Animator Adam Plouff wanted to express his love for his wife on their 5-year anniversary in a unique way, so he went about doing so the best way he knew how…with an animated short!

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Jimmy Fallon and Brad Pitt have a conversation via yodeling from two different rooftops in New York City.


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The Anchorman sequel gets its first official trailer.

With the 70′s behind him, San Diego’s top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), returns to the news desk in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Also back for more are Ron’s co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) – All of whom won’t make it easy to stay classy…while taking New York’s first 24-hour news channel by storm.

In theaters, December 20th.

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5 members of musical group cdza perform Daft Punk's Get Lucky on a piano.


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Warner Bros. have released the first trailer to The LEGO Movie, a feature film with only LEGO minifigs, voiced by movie stars such as Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.

An ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from gluing the universe together.

In theaters, February 7th, 2014.

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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld performs jokes about his children, golf and what makes people whisper, on a recent episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.


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A compilation of Youtube dog moments reminds us why our canine best friends are so awesome.


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Youtube "make-up guru" Tamang Phan is an amateur make-up artist from Nepal who posts videos of herself transforming into different celebrities and fictional characters.


Check her out transforming into more characters - on her Youtube channel

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Alllll aboooooard!

Tickeets. Tickeets please.

Chub Chub train’s leaving the station.

Chubba Chubba,

Choo chooo-oo.

Oops, we have a loose caboose.

Eight miniature piglets (5 girls, 3 boys) born this spring at Zoo Basel, Switzerland. Via Zooborns.

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Ever wonder how a cow’s digestive system works? Well, someone did and they made this machine to demonstrate the complicated — and gross — process!

[via Forces of Geek]

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Anyone that wants a little munchie, get in here STAT!

Submitted by Azalea L.

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The Tetris Printer Algorithm created by Michael Birken, allows you to create different shapes in Tetris, using the blocks as pixels. The following video shows it in action, creating classic 8-bit video game characters.


More details about Michael's Tetris algorithm - here

The Makin Bacon® Microwave Rack:

The only way to cook bacon! This microwave bacon cooker cooks the bacon in the air and not in the fat. Simple and easy to use - hang the bacon over the bars, place one sheet of roller towel over the bacon and into the microwave. With the right amount of time you have crispy bacon with 50% less fat.

Feeling they need a "a pick-me-up" after the Red Wedding episode, the comedians of TheWarpZone perform an a capella multi-tracking version of the theme from Game of Thrones.


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From Tumlblr, apparently posted originally by Whatisgoingonpleasehelp:

My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout "Why the f**k would you print this AGAIN?!”" to her son.

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Danny Choo of Culture Japan shows us how the famous Japanese underground bicycle parking system works.


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Now that things have settled down, and the fallout between Microsoft and Sony’s press conferences are sifting to a murky haze – let’s take a look at some other announcements from two of the industries leading developers. Ubisoft and Electronic Arts hosted their events on Monday and treated fans to an array of new titles, much anticipated sequels, and a lot of cars going left. I kid, but the push for racing games from every conference yesterday shows what a strong market there is for the new age of racers.

We’ve already seen what Forza had to offer from the first Xbox One announcement a few weeks past, but EA pushed hard their Need For Speed franchise announcing Rivals. The cars look alright, with a slightly futuristic take, but some of the lighting effects make me feel this will look just as good on the 360 or PS3. You’re spending a lot of time running from the cops (and dodging airstrikes from helicopters) but it had great pacing without feeling like I needed to drive through a crowd of hookers every time I wanted to make a get-a-way. After the demo, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul took the stage to talk about Disney’s upcoming Need For Speed movie. As a fan of over the top car movies like Fast and Furious, and being a huge fan of Paul’s work – this is a no brainer for me to go out and see. It looks fun.

Ubisoft got in on the cops versus cars action with The Crew. The graphics are slick, almost enough to rival Forza. I hope some of the shots in the trailer are actual in-game action, because that would just bring a whole new level to these street racing games in terms of angles and play. I couldn’t tell if I was watching a new Mazda commercial or a video game trailer, which in my world is a good thing. Either way, this is a game to play if you live for speed.

For me, the top three titles announced at the developers’ conferences were the long awaited sequel (or prequel as it may end up being) to Mirrors Edge, Star Wars Battlefront 3, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Mirrors Edge 2 is in the very early development stages, and producer Sara Jansson asked fans to be patient. The game will arrive “when it’s ready.” Footage showed the protagonist, Faith, getting her iconic tattoos interspersed with some game play shots. It looks pretty true to the original title which will keep fans happy.

Star Wars Battlefront was such a tease! Thirty seconds from the first person perspective on an icy planet (Hoth? Gotta be Hoth!) while you dodge debris and the foot of an AT-AT stomping down near you. It was enough to leave me screaming! Hope to see more of this from EA this week.

Now RPG fans, this one is for you. EA and Bioware dropped the trailer for the next installment in their Dragon Age series. In game footage is just beautiful, with the depth of character and scenery we’ve come to expect from this series. The icing on it all? Narrated by what sounds like Claudia Black, Morrigan from the previous games – and a nice shot of her at the very end. While we didn’t get a Mass Effect nugget from this presser, I’m happy to see Bioware going all out for their flagship fantasy game. The downside is we wont see this until 2014.

We saw a lot of sports titles from EA, which is to be expected. As always, they look more and more like watching a live game. EA brought rapper Drake to introduce the next installments of NBA Live 14, Madden 25, and Fifa ’14. With the Ignite engine running these games, they’re going to be fancy and fun.

We had seen some footage of Battlefield 4 earlier in the day, but now EA is touting the multiplayer capabilities of the game. Throughout E3 they will be running a 64-player beatdown, with leaders running 5-person squads. If you’re into real time battlefield action, this is the game for you!

Other titles to look forward to from EA include a TF2-like version of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare which will launch of Xbox One before it hits the PS4. We also saw more footage from Titanfall, the Xbox console exclusive. Still looks like this is one of the top games to come out of Monday.

Ubisoft treated us to a whole different experience. I’ve been saying for years that companies need to hire professionals to run their conferences, and it looks like Ubisoft did just that! They brought comedian and gaming fiend Aisha Taylor to the stage to MC their show. If you’re fans of the FX series Archer, you’ll know her as the constant sweater dress wearing Lana Kane. Taylor was a great fit for Ubisoft, and she really got to show fans (and haters) how much she really gets into these games. The banter between her and Ubisoft execs and developers was worth watching the presser just for that! But anyways, on to the games.

Ubisoft opened with a new book by Tom Clancy. I mean wait, the next in the line of Splinter Cell games. Blacklist is just what you would expect from the series. Side note, I actually got into the Splinter Cell games because my mom is a huge Clancy reader. We talk about the books, and I always update her on my stats in game. I think she secretly wishes I was a mercenary spy on the hunt for terrorists. Seriously though, the game is great looking and a lot of the best features are back including Versus mode.

Next up was some really enchanting games, like the return of Raymen in Legends. Now with some 120 levels to conquer, this is gonna be a game to keep playing for months to come. We should see this one drop on Sept. 3^rd. Ubisoft surprised us with a free-to-play game titled The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot, a charming and fun game that is all about stealing from the people around you. It’s quirky and funny and the voice over reminds me of Brad Pitt’s Metro Man from Megamind.

A new Just Dance, a South Park title and more Watch Dogs footage rounded out the mid-section of the conference. Ubisoft ended with what looks to be their two biggest titles: Assassins Creed 4: I’m On A Boat Black Flag and a new Tom Clancy title. I’ve not played any of the AC titles, but in terms of visuals it looks just about as good (or bad, depending on your take on the series) as the predecessors. It has a very Pirates of the Caribbean feel with the opening sequence, and I secretly hope for a Lonely Island achievement. The difference with this one is I will actually pick it up. I don’t know if it’s because of my undying love of pirates or my progression as a gamer, but this title looks worthwhile.

The new Clancy game is not what you would expect, an open-world, online shooter titled The Division. Powered by the new Snow Drop engine, the game takes place three weeks after a massive pandemic hits New York City, during the Christmas holidays. One of the first things that popped for me was the menu features. It pops up on your wrist controller and really brings you into the game. You have a lot of good places for cover and sniper options, which even running solo will make good for most rogue types. If you want to take a break from your World of Warcraft styled and other fantasy MMOs, and I hesitate to call The Division an MMO, this is a great new experience for shooter game play.

With all the major press conferences out of the way by time of writing (still have to play catchup with Nintendo), it’s a matter of wait and see for game play and what other gems companies will surprise us with during the rest of E3!

After Sony’s mind blowing press conference at E3 and the announcement of the PS4, they released a step-by-step instructional video on how players can share games. Check it out!

Pre-order your PS4 on Amazon.com right here!

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