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07 May 16:01
An anonymous fear submitted to deep dark fears.
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26 Feb 09:15
Is Rick and Morty The New Futurama?
by Don
Since its premiere on Adult Swim in December 2013, this sci-fi buddy-adventure comedy series created by the executive producer of Community has received both critical acclaims and fair cable ratings, prompting Cartoon Network to pick it up for another season.
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11 Feb 16:16
A River of Whiskey Flows Through Scotland
More than 6000 liters of whisky was let loose into Scotland's River Ayr. Apparently, a road tanker carrying 27, 500 liters of the spirit was ordered via computer to pump into the wrong vat, resulting in an overspill into the roadway by the river.
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11 Feb 16:15
The Fastest-Growing Jobs of This Decade
by Derek Thompson
Hospital rooms, shopping floors, and fast-food counters: This is where the future of U.S. employment lives. We think.
The latest ten-year projection from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that just a handful of occupations—personal care aides, registered nurses, nursing assistants, and home health aides (all in health care), along with retail salespeople and food-prep workers—will account for one-in-six new jobs in the next decade.
But there are two catches. Here's the first. Healthcare spending is growing slower than the economy for the first time since 1997, and "nobody knows why," as Matt O'Brien reported for The Atlantic. And the slowdown in growth is affecting workers, too. Healthcare jobs apparently fell in December for the first time in at least 27 years. Fresh out of the oven, BLS's healthcare employment projections might already be deflating.
Here's the second catch. A new paper by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne calculated the odds of "computerization" for the 600+ jobs that the BLS tracks. They range from 96 percent automatable (office secretaries) to 0.9 percent (registered nurses). Here are the ten fastest-growing jobs and the odds that robots and software eat them:
1) Personal care aides: 74 percent
2) Registered nurses: 0.9 percent
3) Retail salespersons: 92 percent
4) Combined food prep & serving workers: 92 percent
5) Home health aides: 39 percent
6) Physician assistant: 9 percent
7) Secretaries and admin assistants: 96 percent
8) Customer service representatives: 55 percent
9) Janitors and cleaners: 66 percent
10) Construction workers: 71 percent
These ten occupations account for 3.85 million projected jobs in the next ten years, or 25 percent of the decade's projected job haul. And six of them are at least two-thirds automatable, based on researchers' projections of current computing power. For example, secretaries and administrative assistants are already being complemented or replaced by simple office organization software, and Walmart and Amazon pose a mortal threat to many classic retail jobs, even before you account for Kiva robots patrolling warehouse floors around the country.
To be fair, this is an article about the future, which, as a rule, is unknowable. Ten years ago, the BLS whiffed on its ten-year projections by 13 million jobs, since it failed to predict the mining boom, the publishing apocalypse, and the Great Recession. In all likelihood, the BLS will whiff again this decade (such is the nature of huge predictions), but perhaps it will be a Great Automation rather than a Great Recession that causes the miss.
This post originally appeared on The Atlantic.
    
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04 Feb 20:49
Survival RPG ReRoll Wants To Map (Most Of) The World
by Graham Smith
This is almost too ridiculous, but it’s got pedigree. Julien Cuny and Louis-Pierre Pharand, former producers and creative directors at Ubisoft on Assassin’s Creed and FarCry, have formed a new development studio named PIXYUL. Their goal: to map our planet at 1:1 scale using drones, and use the resulting 3D recreation as the setting for a survival RPG called ReRoll.
Video below which shows, at least, that they are not joking.
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04 Feb 18:19
thirp: I don’t know why but this looks to me like I’m on an...
I don’t know why but this looks to me like I’m on an operation table receiving surgery from cats
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04 Feb 18:16
Now you can enjoy Google maps tagged with climate data
by John Timmer
In an interesting bit of geotagging, the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has placed its global temperature data on Google Maps. The data set, called CRUTEM4, tracks how the temperatures at the Earth's surface have changed over the last century or so (ocean data is handled by a different project and is not included here). By adding geographic data, it's possible to get a sense of how different regions are responding to our changing climate and where we still lack solid data.
CRUTEM4 calculates what's called a global mean land surface temperature. To do so, it divides the Earth's land areas into equally sized grid squares. Using temperature data from monitoring equipment in each grid cell, an average temperature for the cell is calculated; these temperatures are then averaged across the globe to give a global mean temperature.
These grid cells are displayed in red and green on Google Earth (the color has nothing to do with the temperature trend in the cell). By clicking any one of them, you can bring up a history of the temperatures within that cell. The map also makes it clear that there are lots of areas in the globe with sparse coverage. Antarctica and Greenland only have some scattered readings along its coast; Siberia, the Amazon, and Sahara all lack readings from some spots in their interiors.
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04 Feb 18:15
Meet the Asus Chromebox, a $179 fanless mini-desktop
by Andrew Cunningham
Asus' new Chromebox is a nice step up from Samsung's model.
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Google's Chrome OS continues to show up on more and more devices, and while the majority of them are laptops, it looks like desktop users are going to have quite a few options as well. Joining LG's upcoming Chromebase all-in-one is the Asus Chromebox, a headless mini-PC that goes on sale in March for $179. At 4.88" by 4.88" by 1.65", it's similar to but slightly larger than Intel's more versatile NUC desktop in every dimension.
Despite its desktop-shaped package, the Chromebox is the same on the inside as many recent Intel Chromebooks, including the Acer C720. The base model includes a 1.4GHz dual-core Celeron 2955U based on Intel's Haswell architecture, integrated Intel graphics, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of solid-state storage, dual-band 802.11n with Bluetooth 4.0, and an SD card reader and Kensington lock slot. AnandTech reports that the Chromebox will also be available in higher-end variants with a 1.7GHz Core i3-4010U and a 2.1GHz (3.3GHz Turbo) Core i7-4600U and up to 4GB of RAM across its two DIMM slots. The Core i7 version apparently won't be available on American shores, though.
The Asus Chromebox includes many of the features of Samsung's $329 Chromebox originally introduced in 2012 but at a substantially lower price. Samsung's model had more display outputs but lacked HDMI, and its Sandy Bridge Celeron CPU also needed a cooling fan that the Asus version doesn't need.
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04 Feb 18:06
Music Video of the Week: Pharrell Williams, Happy
by Eliza Williams
In a wildly controversial move, we are eschewing our usual Ad of the Week feature this week, in favour of a Music Video of the Week. The chosen promo is Pharrell Williams' interactive website for the track Happy, which serves as a kind of 24-hour music video clock...
The website is at 24hoursofhappy.com and is created by French directing team We Are From LA and produced by Iconoclast. On visiting the site, you join the clock at whatever the local time is. You can then check out different times of day and different scenes, all set to the sounds of Happy, which continues playing seamlessly throughout. Shot in different settings around the world, the footage features people dancing to the track: Pharrell pops up on the hour every hour, and there are cameos from other famous folks including Tyler, The Creator, Magic Johnson and Jamie Foxx.
The website allows you to share particular moments with friends via Facebook or Twitter. This is a useful feature as, let's face it, not even the most ardent Pharrell fan is likely to watch the full 24 hours in its entirety. At least not while still liking the song.
With this site, and the new Bob Dylan video for Like A Rolling Stone, it's been a great week for innovation in music videos, hence our decision to favour a promo rather than an ad this week. Fear not though, normal Ad of the Week service will resume next Friday.
04 Feb 18:05
Steam Music Will Soon Be A Thing You Can Have
by John Walker
Steam Music, Valve’s latest addition to the ever-growing suite of tools in the big grey window, will be entering beta soon. Premièring on SteamOS and Big Picture, and then dragging its heels to the desktop version soon after, the idea is to let you listen to music as you play.
“With Steam Music, you can now listen to your music collection while playing games.”
I already listen to music as I play games.
“Once you’ve pointed Steam to your local music directory, your Steam Library will include Album and Artist views of your collection.”
I listen to Spotify as I play games. I don’t think I can point Steam at that.
Clearly this isn’t primarily intended for multi-tasking desktops, but for those using Steam as a console. And in that regard, it makes more sense. Once it’s running, you’ll be able to hit the “guide” button on your controller, bringing up the music player menu. Or click your way to it via the Big Picture options. It is, in effect, mimicking what the consoles already do.
Still though, there’s an ever-increasing number of people who don’t listen to locally stored music collections, but rather via Spotify or one of its rivals. It seems almost a little prosaic to create a system that requires locally stored mp3s. Either teaming up with Spotify, Google Play Music, Rdio, Last.fm, Pandora, Grooveshark, Deezer, etc, or even launching one of their own, would seem to be a far more innovative option. Or just buying one of them with their infinity money and specialising it for their needs. Why am I the one thinking of these things? Someone give me a massive cheque.
Steam go on to say,
With this beta, we’re getting started with what we believe to be the most fundamental set of features to offer a great music listening experience within Steam. As always, our next steps for the feature will be influenced by your beta feedback, so please share your feature requests, thoughts, and experiences in the music discussions. Happy listening!
To be in with a chance of getting in on the first few waves of the beta, you need to join the SteamMu Community Group, which you can do here.
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04 Feb 18:04
Super-Famílias
by noreply@blogger.com (ANDRÉ Montejorge)
O artista francês Andry "Shango" Rajoelina criou uma série de ilustrações exclusivas para a exposição Heroes que aconteceu na Paris Comic Con. Agora suas divertidas criações estão disponíveis para venda na Geek-Art Store sempre em dois tamanhos de prints: 32 x 32 cm (40 euros) e 50 x 50 cm (81 euros). Das várias famílias que aparecem tenho certeza que algumas vão gerar comentários, dúvidas e perguntas. Fico no aguardo! Para ver todas as ilustrações das Super-Famílias, clique no link ao fim do post. "Familiarmente legaus"!
04 Feb 18:03
Histagrams
by noreply@blogger.com (ANDRÉ Montejorge)
Adoro o Instagram (e obviamente mais alguns milhões de pessoas também) e volto e meia posto algo relativo ao aplicativo. Meses atrás eu mostrei uma brincadeira com as prováveis imagens que os super-heróis postariam em suas contas se tivessem Instagram, lembram?! Agora é a vez do Histagrams (History + Instagrams), um tumblr que mostra fatos históricos dos mais variados se pudessem ter sido "Instagramados". Alguns são impagáveis. Selecionei os que achei mais legais, mas você pode ver muito mais clicando no link após as fotos. "Historicamente legaus"!
04 Feb 18:01
jcoleknowsbest: queercruzan: jes-e: theblacksouls: josiephin:...
This is what terrifies me about the ocean.
the few times I’ve gone snorkelling this is the most intensely scary but amazing thing about it, the bit where the reef ends and it suddenly just drops off and you cant see the bottom or what’s down there, and you swim over the edge and suddenly your in open water, and you feel so vulnerable like you’re a fish that lives on the reef, and you finally understand finding nemo
you finally understand finding nemo
finally
dang i never understood finding nemo until now
listed under reasons of why i don’t fuck with the ocean
When I snorkeled in Aruba there was a drop off like this… Maybe 30 feet from the shore.. You’re like… “Aww it’s pretty.. Look at the fishies ….” And then the water temperature drops and then it’s just a deep dark drop off that never ends… Needless to say I was like nope.. and waded back to shore..
I’d mess with whatever the fuck is in outer space first than ever do this.
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04 Feb 17:59
O tempo é um excelente conselheiro. Deixa as ideias amadurecerem. Permite relativizar as coisas. Dá-nos a oportunidade de não agirmos injustamente e de cabeça quente. De pensar em respostas corretas e educadas. De planearmos. De analisar factos.
O tempo passa e também faz com que alguns momentos, situações e razões se vão desvanecendo.
Mas há um tempo para tudo. Quando será que já passou demasiado tempo? Ou que ainda não é tempo? Na nossa vida tudo depende do tempo. As coisas que acontecem no tempo certo, e aquelas que acontecem no tempo errado. Acredito que as que acontecem no tempo errado é porque não estavam ainda no tempo de acontecer.
Ingredientes para 2 pessoas:
300g de carne de vaca picada
Sal e pimenta q.b.
1 colher de chá de ervas finas secas (orégãos, ervas da provença….)
1 tomate grande
8 cogumelos frescos
1 cebola pequena
½ pimento verde
2 dentes de alho
Azeite q.b.
Tabasco q.b.
Molho inglês q.b.
75g de queijo da ilha ralado (ou mozarela)
Preparação:
Coloque a carne picada numa taça e tempere-a de sal, pimenta, um pouco de molho inglês e as ervas finas. Misture bem, forme um hambúrguer grande e coloque-o num pirex ou tabuleiro de forno. Leve ao forno previamente aquecido a 180ºC durante cerca de 15 minutos.
Entretanto pique os dentes de alho e corte a cebola em meias luas.
Leve uma frigideira ao lume com um pouco de azeite e refogue a cebola e os dentes de alho. Tempere de sal e pimenta e com um pouco de tabasco.
Corte o tomate em cubos assim como o pimento. Lamine os cogumelos. Junte estes legumes com a cebola e os dentes de alho refogados e misture bem.
Retire o hambúrguer do forno e cubra-o com esta mistura de legumes. Cubra com o queijo ralado e leve novamente ao forno cerca de 10 minutos até o queijo derreter e dourar ligeiramente.
Sirva o hambúrguer cortado em pedaços, no pão, ou com arroz branco e uma salada.
Bom Apetite!
Hamburgão no Forno
by colher-de-pau
O tempo passa e também faz com que alguns momentos, situações e razões se vão desvanecendo.
Mas há um tempo para tudo. Quando será que já passou demasiado tempo? Ou que ainda não é tempo? Na nossa vida tudo depende do tempo. As coisas que acontecem no tempo certo, e aquelas que acontecem no tempo errado. Acredito que as que acontecem no tempo errado é porque não estavam ainda no tempo de acontecer.
Ingredientes para 2 pessoas:
300g de carne de vaca picada
Sal e pimenta q.b.
1 colher de chá de ervas finas secas (orégãos, ervas da provença….)
1 tomate grande
8 cogumelos frescos
1 cebola pequena
½ pimento verde
2 dentes de alho
Azeite q.b.
Tabasco q.b.
Molho inglês q.b.
75g de queijo da ilha ralado (ou mozarela)
Preparação:
Coloque a carne picada numa taça e tempere-a de sal, pimenta, um pouco de molho inglês e as ervas finas. Misture bem, forme um hambúrguer grande e coloque-o num pirex ou tabuleiro de forno. Leve ao forno previamente aquecido a 180ºC durante cerca de 15 minutos.
Entretanto pique os dentes de alho e corte a cebola em meias luas.
Leve uma frigideira ao lume com um pouco de azeite e refogue a cebola e os dentes de alho. Tempere de sal e pimenta e com um pouco de tabasco.
Corte o tomate em cubos assim como o pimento. Lamine os cogumelos. Junte estes legumes com a cebola e os dentes de alho refogados e misture bem.
Retire o hambúrguer do forno e cubra-o com esta mistura de legumes. Cubra com o queijo ralado e leve novamente ao forno cerca de 10 minutos até o queijo derreter e dourar ligeiramente.
Sirva o hambúrguer cortado em pedaços, no pão, ou com arroz branco e uma salada.
Bom Apetite!
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