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27 Oct 21:14
mildtoast: This perfectly explains how I got this far in life
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27 Oct 20:53
cheshiretiffy: beansproutmomo: glyndarling: Fuck yes it...
Fuck yes it does! That’s why I turn most their heads to all face the door to their room!
ahaahahhaaa omg this ad is hilarious!
Yes.
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27 Oct 20:49
A Dutch Designer Has Created An Underground Fridge That Does Not Use Electricity
by dmitry
Dutch designer Floris Schoonderbeek, has created the Ground Fridge, an underground cool storage solution, for Dutch brand Weltevree.
Modern houses are often built without a basement while a lot of people nowadays feel the need for one: they’re focused on healthy food and, for example, grow their own food or buy in bulk at the local organic farmer.
The Ground Fridge is a basement as a product. An innovative version of the traditional root cellar, for the new cosmopolitan with its own vegetable garden and a modern self-sufficient existence.
The Ground Fridge makes use of the insulating effect of the ground and the cooling effect of the groundwater.
The temperature in the fridge remains stable throughout the year between 10 and 12° C: the ideal temperature for the storage of, for example, fruit, vegetables, wine and cheese.
The spherical Ground Fridge is buried and covered with the excavated earth. This layer of soil is about one meter thick and insulating so the temperature inside the fridge barely varies. There’s no permit required to place the Ground Fridge, and no soil to be disposed.
The Ground Fridge is equipped with wooden shelves for storage.
Via Contemporist
26 Oct 19:28
Maurice Maeterlinck
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."
26 Oct 18:34
Closed-circuit security cameras are supposed to make you safer, but some malware is turning them into weapons. Researchers at Incapsula have discovered code that turned about 900 Linux-based CCTV cameras into a botnet, which promptly bombarded an...
Malware turns hundreds of security cameras into a botnet
by Jon Fingas
Closed-circuit security cameras are supposed to make you safer, but some malware is turning them into weapons. Researchers at Incapsula have discovered code that turned about 900 Linux-based CCTV cameras into a botnet, which promptly bombarded an...
(by Marko Mello)
24 Oct 08:15
Drug with rage-inducing >5,000% price-hike now has $1/pill competitor
by Beth Mole
Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company that last month raised the price of the decades-old drug Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750, now has a competitor.
Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, announced today that it has made an alternative to Daraprim that costs about a buck a pill—or $99 for a 100-pill supply.
“While we respect Turing's right to charge patients and insurance companies whatever it believes is appropriate, there may be more cost-effective compounded options for medications, such as Daraprim,” Mark L. Baum, CEO of Imprimis, said in a news release.
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24 Oct 08:10
blazepress: 40 Amazing Perfectly Looped Ambient GIFs
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24 Oct 08:10
Comic for October 23, 2015
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24 Oct 08:06
Jessica Jones Full Trailer Released
by Erik Amaya
After a number of short teaser trailers, preview images and a motion poster, the full trailer for Netflix‘s upcoming Jessica Jones is finally here:
Based on Marvel’s Alias by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, it follows Krysten Ritter as ex-hero and private investigator Jessica Jones. While trying to help out people and manage her PTSD, she discovers a man from her past has returned to town looking to find her. The series also stars Mike Colter, Rachael Taylor, Carrie-Anne Moss, and David Tennant.
Jessica Jones premieres on November 20th.
23 Oct 19:07
Toronto International Film Festival: Charlie Kaufman returns with a stop-motion triumph
by A.A. Dowd
TadeuAlso created by Starburns
It’s been six long years since Charlie Kaufman unleashed his wild imagination on a movie screen, and the world has been a little less creative, a little less down-the-rabbit-hole exhilarating in his absence. Waiting for the mad screenwriter to resurface, you had to wonder if his brilliantly dispiriting directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York, was the swan song it felt like—a last word from an artist who had taken his worries, fears, and hang-ups about as far as he could take them, dramatically speaking. But the anxiety well hasn’t run dry. Kaufman taps it anew with Anomalisa (Grade: A-), the Being John Malkovich mastermind’s first foray into animation. The film premiered at Telluride a couple of weeks ago, made another pit stop at Venice (where it just won the Grand Jury Prize), and is now wowing audiences in Toronto, including the mostly receptive packed house I nestled ...
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22 Oct 17:32
See Where Your Tax Dollars May Go in 2016 with This Interactive Tool
by Kristin Wong on Two Cents, shared by Whitson Gordon to Lifehacker
TadeuI want one of this for Brazil, with "politicians salaries" and "corruption" explicit in it too.
We all have different opinions on how our tax dollars are spent, and in forming those opinions, it helps to know exactly where they are being spent. This interactive tool from the White House makes it easy to see where your tax dollars are proposed to go in 2016.
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22 Oct 17:31
14 Things You Can Do in Android Marshmallow That You Couldn't Do in Lollipop
by David Nield on Field Guide, shared by Michael Hession to Gizmodo
Whether you’ve put in an order for a Nexus 6P or you’re patiently waiting for Android version 6.0 to reach your Galaxy S6 , you’ll want to know what Marshmallow can do for you. It’s not a dramatic leap forward for Google’s mobile OS, but there are still a number of useful new features you’re going to want to know about.
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22 Oct 17:30
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Importance of Kindness
by admin@smbc-comics.com
22 Oct 17:29
Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove "Spooky" Interactions
by samzenpus
universe520 writes: Albert Einstein was troubled by how two particles can communicate with each other even if they are on opposite sides of the galaxy. Today researchers in the Netherlands have closed the final two loopholes in how quantum entanglement works. The Times reports: "The new experiment, conducted by a group led by Ronald Hanson, a physicist at the Dutch university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, and joined by scientists from Spain and England, is the strongest evidence yet to support the most fundamental claims of the theory of quantum mechanics about the existence of an odd world formed by a fabric of subatomic particles, where matter does not take form until it is observed and time runs backward as well as forward."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
22 Oct 17:28
Humorous Street Signs and Other Contextual Street Art Interventions by Michael Pederson
by Christopher Jobson
Across the urban cityscape of Sydney, in parks, suburban streets, and industrial zones, you’re likely to encounter a plethora of signs and placards while going about your day: warnings, traffic regulations, helpful guides, and city services. But, look closer, and you might find an intervention by artist Michael Pederson who delights in creating humorous and thoughtful signs that blend into the city backdrop. Pederson makes use of pre-existing elements like park benches or abandoned furniture to share messages meant to snap a viewer out of their daily routine and see the world from a more contemplative or even childlike perspective, if only for a moment. You can see more of his installations dating back to 2012 on his Tumblr. (via Lustik, Junk Culture)
22 Oct 17:23
“YouTube Red” offers premium YouTube for $9.99 a month, $12.99 for iOS users
by Ron Amadeo
NEW YORK CITY—Today YouTube announced "YouTube Red," a $9.99-per-month subscription service for YouTube that will launch on October 28. The service lets you watch videos ad-free among other premium features, and it will eventually fund the production of premium, members-only video content.
At an announcement event, YouTube also launched "YouTube Music," another specialized "vertical" app interface along the lines of YouTube Gaming and YouTube Kids.
YouTube Red—Ad-free video, offline play, and premium content
Google describes YouTube Red as "the ultimate YouTube experience." The $9.99 subscription will cover all of YouTube products, meaning YouTube, YouTube Gaming, YouTube Kids, and the newly announced YouTube Music. The new service will let you watch YouTube videos without ads, save videos to watch offline on a mobile device, and play videos in the background on a mobile device.
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22 Oct 17:22
Being Poor Is Too Expensive
by Eric Ravenscraft
Some think that being poor is simple. You don’t have enough money to buy a lot of stuff, so you’re forced to buy less stuff. But that’s not really how it works. When you’re broke, you can’t do all the little things that will improve your budget over the long run. It actually costs more to be poor.
22 Oct 11:55
New comic!
Today's News:
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A Truly Scary Halloween
by admin@smbc-comics.com
Hovertext: And this graph on my back is the estimated value of the degree I'm most likely to get!
New comic!
Today's News:
WOW! AAH! This is the best opening 24 hours we've ever had for a new launch. EASILY the best. WOW. Thank you thank you thank you!
20 Oct 14:55
Share the joy and amazement as a baby experiences rain for the first time.
In a Spiegel Online interview, "whistleblower Peter Wilmshurst discusses how pressure from Big Pharma corrupts research into new medicines and leads companies to cover up fraudulent data. He says he has no regrets about taking on an entire industry."
Listen to a porcupine vocalizing as it enjoys eating a pumpkin.
Paul Krugman counteracts the "fantasies and fictions of the first Republican candidate debate."
Finally, a likely explanation for what happened to the lost colony at Roanoke.
A Bloomberg op-ed piece opines why the Fed should raise interest rates now.
"With Red: A Natural History of the Redhead, Jacky Colliss Harvey sets out to discover everything — what it takes to make a redhead, where in the world they come from and why they exist at all; whether redheads are actually different or just treated differently; how they got their reputation, what that reputation might be and whether they deserve it."
High-school football is undergoing some dramatic changes:
Divertimento
by Minnesotastan
Share the joy and amazement as a baby experiences rain for the first time.
In a Spiegel Online interview, "whistleblower Peter Wilmshurst discusses how pressure from Big Pharma corrupts research into new medicines and leads companies to cover up fraudulent data. He says he has no regrets about taking on an entire industry."
Listen to a porcupine vocalizing as it enjoys eating a pumpkin.
Paul Krugman counteracts the "fantasies and fictions of the first Republican candidate debate."
Finally, a likely explanation for what happened to the lost colony at Roanoke.
A Bloomberg op-ed piece opines why the Fed should raise interest rates now.
"With Red: A Natural History of the Redhead, Jacky Colliss Harvey sets out to discover everything — what it takes to make a redhead, where in the world they come from and why they exist at all; whether redheads are actually different or just treated differently; how they got their reputation, what that reputation might be and whether they deserve it."
High-school football is undergoing some dramatic changes:"...convention is being challenged by a more professional model at the highest levels as top players urgently pursue college scholarships, training becomes more specialized, big business opens its wallet, school choice expands, and schools seek to market themselves through sports, some for financial survival. Increasingly, prep football talent is being consolidated on powerful public, private, parochial, charter and magnet school teams. And recruiting to those schools is widespread in one guise or another."
How lights are changed in an IMAX theater.
An impressive apple peeler-slicer from Pampered Chef.
A report that 4/5 of the cocaine being sold in Britain has been cut with a veterinary deworming medicine (levamisole), giving users ulcerating skin lesions.
Razor scooter fail reminds us that smokers and drinkers aren't the only ones causing higher costs for medical insurance.
"A postgraduate student of counter-terrorism was falsely accused of being a terrorist after an official at Staffordshire University had spotted him reading a textbook entitled Terrorism Studies in the college library."
A compilation of incidents occurring during the Hajj.
Robert Reich: "Meritocracy is a lie."
Watch out! Slow down! Be careful on this corner!
A North Carolina woman says she is happier than ever after she fulfilled her lifelong wish of becoming blind. Drain cleaner to the eyes did the job: "My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin,” she said. “But all I could think was ‘I am going blind, it is going to be okay.”
A discussion thread of "what's considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich."
Arguably the greatest slam dunk in the history of basketball.
A school district has banned elementary students from playing the game of tag:
A Congressman drank the Pope's leftover water. "The congressman also gave some of the papal water to his wife Debra, and two staff members, to drink. He then invited US Senator Bob Casey, also from Pennsylvania, into his office. Senator Casey brought his wife and mother and they all placed their fingers in the glass."
Security camera footage gif of a bored schoolboy. Definitely worth the 15-second watch time.
A review of the battle of Agincourt. I used to include Agincourt in my lectures about death by asphyxiation.
A feel-good story for the day. "I couldn't imagine spending five hours a day traveling back and forth to work, let alone on foot,” Officer Stamper said..."
The world's only menstruation museum.
A list of this year's winners of MacArthur foundation "genius grants."
A Danish travel company's humorous advertisement ("Do it for Mom") encourages young people to have sex and explains how grandmothers can help them.
A cat gif is better when sound is added. Or like this. If you are among those who detest cat gifs, the links are still useful for adding sound to other gifs.
"Few people know that the U.S. government is directly responsible for Popeye's dependence on the canned green vegetable. In the 1930's, America was mired in the Great Depression. The U.S. government was looking for a way to promote iron-rich spinach as a meat substitute. To help spread the word, they decided to hire one of America's favorite celebrities, Popeye the Sailor Man. It was a smart plan. And it worked like a charm."
The impressive caterpillar of the Hickory Horned Devil (becomes a moth, Citheronia regalis).
A delineation of 994 mass shootings in the United States in 1004 days.
Why the American family farm is the deadliest workplace.
"The City of Montreal is going ahead with its controversial plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River."
If you need a quick or cheap engraved ID tag for your keys or luggage, go to a pet store and use their tag machine.
California governor Jerry Brown has signed into law "Right To Die" legislation.
A vicar clearing out a cupboard at his church found a forgotten first edition King James Bible dating back to 1611.
Stoke your schadenfreude with this video of the owner of a Lamborghini revving his engine until it catches fire and destroys the vehicle.
"Inside the Koch Brothers' Industrial Empire."
Impressive performance with one and with two hula hoops.
When the NHL goes into overtime now, the competition is 3-on-3.
After an attack by a swan, a man gives the swan what for.
Tips on eating barbecue.
gif of uranium in a cloud chamber.
The top photo is of a replica of the 1868 locomotive "Leviathan," constructed by David Klocke, and photographed by Fred Boucher at Steamfest 2009. The other images embedded in this divertimento come from a gallery of drawings posted at BibliOdyssey, as a reminder to me that not all early American locomotives were painted black. Identities and information about the locomotives at the link.
Razor scooter fail reminds us that smokers and drinkers aren't the only ones causing higher costs for medical insurance.
"A postgraduate student of counter-terrorism was falsely accused of being a terrorist after an official at Staffordshire University had spotted him reading a textbook entitled Terrorism Studies in the college library."
A compilation of incidents occurring during the Hajj.Robert Reich: "Meritocracy is a lie."
Watch out! Slow down! Be careful on this corner!
A North Carolina woman says she is happier than ever after she fulfilled her lifelong wish of becoming blind. Drain cleaner to the eyes did the job: "My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin,” she said. “But all I could think was ‘I am going blind, it is going to be okay.”
A discussion thread of "what's considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich."
Arguably the greatest slam dunk in the history of basketball.
A school district has banned elementary students from playing the game of tag:
“The Mercer Island School District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student safety. This means while at play, especially during recess and unstructured time, students are expected to keep their hands to themselves. The rationale behind this is to ensure the physical and emotional safety of all students..."
A Congressman drank the Pope's leftover water. "The congressman also gave some of the papal water to his wife Debra, and two staff members, to drink. He then invited US Senator Bob Casey, also from Pennsylvania, into his office. Senator Casey brought his wife and mother and they all placed their fingers in the glass."Security camera footage gif of a bored schoolboy. Definitely worth the 15-second watch time.
A review of the battle of Agincourt. I used to include Agincourt in my lectures about death by asphyxiation.
A feel-good story for the day. "I couldn't imagine spending five hours a day traveling back and forth to work, let alone on foot,” Officer Stamper said..."
The world's only menstruation museum.
A list of this year's winners of MacArthur foundation "genius grants."
A Danish travel company's humorous advertisement ("Do it for Mom") encourages young people to have sex and explains how grandmothers can help them.
A cat gif is better when sound is added. Or like this. If you are among those who detest cat gifs, the links are still useful for adding sound to other gifs.
"Few people know that the U.S. government is directly responsible for Popeye's dependence on the canned green vegetable. In the 1930's, America was mired in the Great Depression. The U.S. government was looking for a way to promote iron-rich spinach as a meat substitute. To help spread the word, they decided to hire one of America's favorite celebrities, Popeye the Sailor Man. It was a smart plan. And it worked like a charm."
The impressive caterpillar of the Hickory Horned Devil (becomes a moth, Citheronia regalis).
A delineation of 994 mass shootings in the United States in 1004 days.
Why the American family farm is the deadliest workplace.
"The City of Montreal is going ahead with its controversial plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River."
If you need a quick or cheap engraved ID tag for your keys or luggage, go to a pet store and use their tag machine.
California governor Jerry Brown has signed into law "Right To Die" legislation.
A vicar clearing out a cupboard at his church found a forgotten first edition King James Bible dating back to 1611.
Stoke your schadenfreude with this video of the owner of a Lamborghini revving his engine until it catches fire and destroys the vehicle.
"Inside the Koch Brothers' Industrial Empire."
Impressive performance with one and with two hula hoops.
When the NHL goes into overtime now, the competition is 3-on-3.
After an attack by a swan, a man gives the swan what for.
Tips on eating barbecue.
gif of uranium in a cloud chamber.
The top photo is of a replica of the 1868 locomotive "Leviathan," constructed by David Klocke, and photographed by Fred Boucher at Steamfest 2009. The other images embedded in this divertimento come from a gallery of drawings posted at BibliOdyssey, as a reminder to me that not all early American locomotives were painted black. Identities and information about the locomotives at the link.
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20 Oct 14:53
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time Travel
by admin@smbc-comics.com
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