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My dad’s deployment to Korea ends in 3 weeks… : AdviceAnimals
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And we could really use some extra income for my student loans – Imgur
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Sometimes you gotta tell ’em what do. – Meme on Imgur
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Nohoval Cove, Cork co., Ireland [OC] 4000×3000 : EarthPorn
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Thug Life Man vs Bulls : AnimalsBeingBros
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I don’t have the heart to tell him he’s not a dog. : aww
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U.S. Inflation and Housing Costs Are Up – The Atlantic
Consumer prices rose modestly in July, and according to the U.S. Labor Department those gains were largely due to a 0.4 percent increase in the cost of shelter—the government’s measure of housing costs. This was the largest increase in the shelter i…
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The Constitution and the War on ISIS – The Atlantic
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell wrote in 1946. Here’s a corollary: The real scandal in any given system is usually the thing there’s no argument about. We hear a lot of discussion about executive powe…
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France Revises a French Revolution-Era Law, Baguette Shortage Results – The Atlantic
PARIS—It’s a ubiquitous French icon, often spotted on picnic blankets and in the arms of commuting Parisians, cradled gingerly to avoid jabbing those who pass by. But this August, the beloved baguette—that slender loaf with a crackling crust and che…
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Hillary Clinton’s Blunt View of Social Progress – The Atlantic
In the push for social progress, which comes first: changed hearts or changed laws? Hillary Clinton answered this question in the course of her quasi-private meeting with activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, and she came down firmly on th…
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Starz’s ‘Blunt Talk’ Banks on the Thrill of Seeing Patrick Stewart Behave Badly – The Atlantic
In television, there is a sub-genre so overdone, so endlessly imitated, that every new entry feels burnt to a crisp on arrival: the show about a powerful man behaving very badly.
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Dismaland: First come-first served queue at Banksy show – BBC News
Hundreds of people have begun queuing for “on the door” tickets to a new Banksy show in Weston-super-Mare. Thousands struggled to get online tickets to Dismaland, a dark theme park, open for five weeks at the seaside resort.
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US court orders release of imprisoned migrant children – Al Jazeera English
A court in the United States has ordered the government to swiftly release immigrant children held at detention centres, affirming a July ruling that said some minors who crossed the border illegally were being detained in violation of a long-standi…
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In New York politics, as in Newtonian physics, there is action and reaction and, too often, overreaction. Take Times Square, and the handful of women there who expose their painted breasts and pose for photos with tourists among the Elmos and Spider…
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Loved Or Hate Just That Bulldog Only Know : AnimalsBeingBros
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Rio Olympics 2016: Can Brazilian athletics catch up? – BBC News
With less than a year to go until Rio hosts the 2016 Olympics, Brazil’s athletes are speaking out about a lack of investment in the sport.
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New theater season once again shows lack of diversity on Broadway and Off | Stage | The Guardian
The new Broadway season includes no new plays by women or writers of color. No old ones either. The picture for musicals is a little rosier. But not a lot.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week Wildfires in the US, unrest in Thailand, Palestine and Turkey and a long-suffering deer in London – the best photography in news and culture from around t…
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Half court shot to win free tuition : gif
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MRW my wife tells me I’m getting lucky tonight. : reactiongifs
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Sunrise via /r/gifs http://t.co/g3QbCreyUG http://t.co/crdtpPZyM5
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The gunman who was overpowered by three US citizens onboard a high-speed train to Paris had previously travelled to Syria and was known to both French and Spanish intelligence, it has been reported.
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Here’s why Donald Trump won’t win the Republican presidential nomination | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump’s authoritative lead in early polling in the 2016 Republican race for the presidential nomination has left Americans excited, confused and afraid.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Campaign Zero, Trump, and Obama’s legacy
Now AIPAC, the most prominent pro-Israel lobby in the U.S., is rapidly losing ground in its biggest test as it mounts an all-out campaign to kill President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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Taj Mahal chandelier crash investigation ordered – BBC News
The Indian authorities have ordered an inquiry into why a chandelier hanging at the entrance of the country’s most famous monument, the Taj Mahal, crashed to the ground earlier this week. Eye-witnesses say an employee was cleaning the two-metre high…
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How Barack Obama betrayed the Syrian people – Al Jazeera English
Bashar al-Assad is in trouble. In late July, the Syrian president gave his first public speech in a year and acknowledged that his regime was depleted and had ceded territory to “the terrorists” – referring to anyone who has joined the insurgency.
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Muzzling the media: Egypt’s new ‘anti-terror’ laws – Al Jazeera English
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has signed a controversial and wide-ranging anti-terrorism bill that has far-reaching implications for journalists and the media.
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France train shooting: Arrested man ‘had radical Islamist links’ – BBC News
A man arrested following an attack on a train in northern France is believed to have in been involved with radical Islamist movements, the French interior minister has revealed.
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Physicists Open a Tabletop Magnetic ‘Wormhole’ | Motherboard
A team of Spanish researchers has successfully constructed a magnetic “wormhole,” according to an open-access paper published this week in Scientific Reports.
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France train shooting: Americans overpower gunman on Paris express | World news | The Guardian
A heavily armed gunman opened fire on a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, injuring two people before being overpowered by two American soldiers who were on board.
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Drug smuggling has gone this far : mildlyinteresting
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Me trying to make plans with anyone these days. : AdviceAnimals
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Thors Helmet Nebula js – Just Space
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MRW I read that Kanye West’s baby boy will be named “Easton” : reactiongifs
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While You Were Offline: The Teen Behind Deez Nuts’ Presidential Run | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Amidst the clamor and glamor of the real world, the Internet this week has been a busy one (especially if you signed up for Ashley Madison and had to explain that away to a loved one).
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Former cheerleader Molly Shattuck receives a sentence of two years probation and every other weekend in custody on Friday after pleading guilty to the rape of the 15-year-old boy in Delaware.
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An SF Hacker Hostel Faces the Real World and Loses | WIRED
Chez JJ is no more. The chain of hacker hostels located in San Francisco and Silicon Valley closed last weekend. If you don’t live here, you could be forgiven for not knowing what a hacker hostel is.
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Space Photos of the Week: Curiosity’s Got a Selfie Stick | WIRED
Caption: Hubble 47 Tucanae – UV. Caption: The giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) and its strange globular clusters.
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Screenwriters Who Want Control Should Be Writing Novels | WIRED
Gary Whitta has worked in Hollywood for 15 years, and if the experience has taught him anything, it’s that screenwriters don’t have much control over the final product. Fresh ideas face an uphill battle in Hollywood. At first Warner Bros.
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Meet the Guy Who Sorts All the World’s Numbers in His Attic | WIRED
Caption: Neil Sloane curates the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) from his attic home office in Highland Park, N.J. John Smock for Quanta Magazine Neil Sloane is considered by some to be one of the most influential mathematicians of o…
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Security News This Week: Police Use Mobile Cell Phone Trackers to Avoid Court Orders | WIRED
The ongoing Ashley Madison saga is at the forefront of everyone’s mind this week, after WIRED’s Kim Zetter broke the news that Impact Team finally made good on its promise to release a batch of data they stole. Then they released an even bigger batc…
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Two Worlds by George Theodorakis / 500px
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (4608 x 2883) [OC] : CityPorn
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North and South Korea hold talks amid tension – BBC News
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Peacock Spider [1600 x 1261] : AnimalPorn
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A woman on a sewing machine at the Iowa State Fair [OC][1600 x 1067] : HumanPorn
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Our dog just had 9 puppies and she is ecstatic! : pics
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My kitties. Trixie (8), Jess (12 wks), Redd (1.5), Pip (5) : cats
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No comfy surface is safe from Dallas’s lazy ass! : cats
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Watch Leela the cat playing fetch : cats
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A pond at the end of Platani canyon, Evrytania, Greece [3264×1836] [OC] : EarthPorn
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I don’t know what to do. – Meme on Imgur
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A pond at the end of Platani canyon, Evrytania, Greece [3264×1836] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Chat network used by VA staff was a major security risk, investigation says | US news | The Guardian
A chat network used by staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was a major security risk and open to anyone who had ever been a contractor or an employee at the VA, an internal investigation found.
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Jeb “I’m my own man” Bush sounds more and more like his know-nothing ex-president brother every day.
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Jeff Koons: High art or plain extravagance? – Al Jazeera English
She escaped death by firing squad with minutes to spare; now the fight is on to bring Filipina Mary Jane Veloso home. We explore how US foreign policy in the Middle East is driving the media’s negative portrayals of Arabs and Muslims.
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Jimmy Carter is trying a brand-new drug to fight his cancer. “It’s really a whole new class of therapy… it allows our own immune system to fight a cancer” (nbcnews.com)
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Thousands stuck in limbo at Macedonia border bottleneck – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of rain-soaked refugees remain trapped in a no man’s land between Greece and Macedonia as Macedonian police continue to block the frontier, preventing them from heading north to other nations within the European Union.
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Will 5G Kill Free WiFi? | Motherboard
At the Intel Developer Forum 2015 last week, the hardware overlord took the opportunity to clarify its vision of the 5G future. It’s not about speed, it’s about integration.
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BBC Sport – Lewis Hamilton fastest in final Belgium practice
Lewis Hamilton bounced back from a difficult Friday to set the fastest time in final practice at the Belgian Grand Prix by nearly half a second.
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Watching the Waves Go By by Robert Rath / 500px
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What are the mystics for in time of terror? – Al Jazeera English
Early in August this year, I was invited to deliver a mini seminar on “Social Justice and Poverty” at Selcuk University in Konya, Turkey.
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Macedonia migrants: Groups board train at border – BBC News
Macedonian authorities have allowed some migrants to board a train north overnight, as many more remain trapped on the country’s border with Greece. Crowds of people – many refugees from the war in Syria – are continuing to build up after Macedonian…
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August 22, 1996: Bill Clinton Ends Welfare As We Know It | The Nation
On this day in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, the euphemistically-labeled “welfare reform,” which significantly reduced federal aid for the poorest Americans.
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Ronald Lewis finds it hard to believe it is 10 years since the water came, even though the newspaper clippings he hoarded in a scrapbook and pinned to a wall are yellowed now by age.
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In the deep… by Karol Drozd / 500px
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Spectacle Lake, WA Cascades [OC] [1500×2000] : EarthPorn
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World Athletics Championships: Beijing 2015 – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Hello. Seven years after we were blown away by the Bird’s Nest Stadium we are back at this wondrous feat of Chinese craftsmanship for the World Championships.
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Khmer Rouge’s ‘first lady’ Ieng Thirith dies – Al Jazeera English
Ieng Thirith – the sister-in-law of Pol Pot – has died in her home in Pailin province, one of the last strongholds of the Khmer Rouge. She was 83. She died at 10:30am local time on Saturday, her lawyer Phat Pouv Seang told Al Jazeera.
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Just What The Heck Is Going On With North Korea? – Digg
After an exchange of artillery fire on Thursday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his troops to prepare for war. Here’s what you need to know to sound like an informed citizen.
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Bruarfoss Waterfall, Iceland | by angie_1964. [1024×683] : EarthPorn
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Pentagon unsure whether China has stopped Spratlys work – Al Jazeera English
China has reclaimed more land in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea than previously known, according to a new Pentagon report, and a senior US defence official said it was unclear whether Beijing had stopped island-building in the r…
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Sword-billed Hummingbird [2048 x 1280] : AnimalPorn
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The Current Pacific-Northwest Wildfire Map is Fucking Terrifying | Motherboard
The wildfire situation in Washington state was already bad enough with a still-burning rash of fires triggered en masse last weekend or even earlier, but the total acreage of burning land has doubled just over the past 24 hours, to nearly 120,000 ac…
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WASHINGTON — As Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign struggles with sliding poll numbers, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s exploration of a presidential candidacy is taking on a new seriousness. Mr.
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I put my baby bunnies in their new bed, and then this happened : aww
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Geography of Guam – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article describes the geography of the United States territory of Guam. This is a list of the extreme points of Guam, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.
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France train shooting: Passengers recall drama – BBC News
Three passengers who helped to overpower a heavily-armed man who opened fire on a train in northern France have been explaining what they did.
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We’re still waiting for that Washington Nationals championship | Sport | The Guardian
In the days leading up to the trade deadline, the New York Mets, blessed with once-in-a-generation starting pitching, continued to contend despite an abysmal offense held together with Curtis Granderson, bubble gum and duct tape.
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The gifs that keep on giving: dribbling, dancing, diving, ducking and dodging | Sport | The Guardian
Stumped One for the future Foot fault Is there a doctor in the house? You’re it Not-a-goal celebration Wait for it Eyes on the back of his head Can’t touch this
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Coalition air strikes ‘kill dozens of Yemeni civilians’ – Al Jazeera English
At least 65 civilians have been killed by air strikes in Yemen’s Taiz, including 17 people from one family, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported. The deaths occurred when Saudi-led Arab coalition air strikes hit civilian homes, MSF said in a state…
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25 Great Movies That.. – GIF on Imgur
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Google could ‘rig the 2016 election,’ researcher says : technology
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Disgraced Subway Ad Guys : funny
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The milkyway with little light pollution [2048×1365] : EarthPorn
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France train shooting: Father of US man ‘stunned and relieved’ – BBC News
The father of one of the US passengers to overpower a heavily-armed man who opened fire on a train in northern France has said he is “stunned and relieved”. Anthony Sadler’s father Tony revealed he is “still wrapping his head” around events of the p…
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So what time is that here in America? 1:30 am PST. Here is a countdown timer I made.
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Fat ass just sits and stares waiting for more food. : cats
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Ferocious cat eating the owner’s hand. : cats
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Had to move to France without my cat Tina. She didn’t want me to leave. : cats
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British doctors treat injured in resource-strapped Gaza – Al Jazeera English
Gaza City – In July 2014, 30-year-old Mahmoud Abu Shaqfa was playing with his children in al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, celebrating the first day of Eid when an Israeli missile hit. The blast killed his eight-year-old son, Mohammad, his uncle and 1…
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France train shooting: Gun ‘not operating properly’ – BBC News
The stepmother of one of the US passengers to overpower a heavily-armed man who opened fire on a train in northern France says they were able to because the gunman had difficulty with the ammunition.
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Q&A: What really happened to Algeria’s Harkis – Al Jazeera English
An investigation into Algeria’s Harki community has shed new light on what really happened to the indigenous allies of France, following the French population’s retreat from the country in 1962.
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Let’s get this weekend off on the right track… : food
Let’s get this weekend off on the right track… (imgur.com) I ate boxed mac and cheese out of the pot with a spatula in my underwear. Good for you, bud. Looks delicious.
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Coral Reef in Fiji by Haiwei Hu / 500px
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Abandoned chicken house in Arkansas [1704×960] : AbandonedPorn
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Overgrown farmhouse in Arkansas. [OC] [ 4272 x 2848 ] : AbandonedPorn
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John Wayne 1930 : OldSchoolCool
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Does not sound like much, but… : AdviceAnimals
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The rush past St Paul’s (1600 x 1200) : ExposurePorn
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Macedonia migrants: Truncheons and riot shields used – BBC News
Macedonia has defended its handling of security at the country’s border with Greece, where migrants were beaten back with truncheons and riot shields.
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An Amazonian girl and her pet sloth : pics
TIL there are giant Sloths. This would work as a new Disney princess!
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Soviet ghosts: Trotsky’s old Turkish mansion for sale – Al Jazeera English
It has been 75 years since one of communism’s most famous revolutionaries was assassinated in Mexico. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929, and took refuge in several countries.
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My friend got a vasectomy today and sent me this picture of his fear sweat and ball hair – Imgur
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Tiger roars into share of lead at Wyndham – Al Jazeera English
Tiger Woods roared back after over a year in the wilderness to tie for the Wyndham Championship lead and then said he didn’t expect it would take so long to return to a position that used to be second nature.
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Bid for Nuclear Waste Site on Lake Huron | Al Jazeera America
KINCARDINE, Ontario — In nearly every way, this 2-acre clearing dotted with wild purple asters is the ideal place, relatively speaking, to dig a third of a mile into the earth, blast a space the size of a Walmart, load it with radioactive nuclear wa…
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Murray sets up Federer semi-final in Cincinnati – Al Jazeera English
Roger Federer and Andy Murray advanced to the semi-finals of the Western & Southern Open in contrasting fashion to set up a rematch of their Wimbledon clash. Federer made quick work of Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in a 6-3 6-4 quarter-final romp that la…
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Shahzad Akbar Fights for Pakistan’s Drone Victims | Al Jazeera America
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At 6 feet tall, human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar is a big man who cuts an imposing figure in the courtroom. Slightly balding with a thin goatee and black-framed glasses, his face curls into a canny grin when he dispenses wisec…
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Katrina Scars Run Deep in New Orleans, 10 Years on | Al Jazeera America
Pointing toward a dilapidated house faintly visible in the distance, just beyond a stretch of levees that broke 10 years ago, New Orleans environmental activist Sandy Rosenthal’s voice trembled. Rosenthal, the executive director of Levees.
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This is how huge an Mi-26 Halo is : interestingasfuck
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Time-lapse in Western Newfoundland : Breathless
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Piper has started a late night monorail route : cats
Piper has started a late night monorail route via /r/cats http://t.co/bAuxqrgZib http://t.co/o3BuInCWaK
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In Memory of Chance [Mourning/Loss] : cats
In Memory of Chance [Mourning/Loss] via /r/cats http://t.co/Ib3As9Iauh http://t.co/uFUmw8xukE
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My baby sleeping! via /r/cats http://t.co/Ux6i2OFnX1 http://t.co/pHvuiQQAZX
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/R4OLfKGbI6 http://t.co/ggAYjW1djP
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Working on the exterior of the ISS : space
Working on the exterior of the ISS via /r/space http://t.co/fJ3MwmdTwU http://t.co/pfWBTYJnME
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Little Lady of Versailles : woahdude
Little Lady of Versailles via /r/woahdude http://t.co/T19nSkEO01 http://t.co/y0Xl5llSin
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Hogwarts pregnancy (via Facebook) : TrollXChromosomes
Hogwarts pregnancy (via Facebook) via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/wcTESQz28Y http://t.co/pqJ2xHJT4U
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The Luxury Brooklyn Apartment Complex at the Site of a Former Prison | VICE | United Kingdom
On the corner of Rogers Avenue and Crown Street in Brooklyn sits the hulking skeleton of what will soon be a five-story, 165-unit hive of fancy apartments. The decadent development is among the first of its kind to be built in the part of Crown Heig…
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Indigenous tribe opposes hydropower projects in Tawang | Janaki Lenin | Environment | The Guardian
On 24 and 25 August, the Expert Appraisal Committee on River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects of the Ministry of Environment and Forests is scheduled to discuss the impact of 15 hydroelectric projects planned for the Tawang river basin in western A…
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Us Soldier Helps Overpower Gunman in France | Al Jazeera America
A machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France on Friday before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier.
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Koreas to hold talks amid tension – BBC News
Three people are hurt as a heavily armed man opens fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by American passengers.
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TIFU, and wasted 10 years, by eating Chinese food 25 years ago. : tifu
MTIFU, and wasted 10 years, by eating Chinese food 25 years ago. (self.tifu) This is an unusual kind of fuckup.
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Fast Precise Cutting Skills Using One of The World’s Sharpest Knife : oddlysatisfying
Fast Precise Cutting Skills Using One of The World’s Sharpest Knife via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/E6eOFfi8jH http://t.co/tYHY6Pzf2i
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Nintendo Files Patent For Console With No Optical Drive : technology
Nintendo Files Patent For Console With No Optical Drive via /r/technology http://t.co/MYvqBS45zF http://t.co/GWbom0LTPi
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The arcade has pepperoni shaped like PacMan : mildlyinteresting
The arcade has pepperoni shaped like PacMan via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/OEHbzvEv58 http://t.co/mrYIFTWvHr
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“Waiter… there’s a hare in my pancakes!” – Imgur
“Waiter… there’s a hare in my pancakes!” http://t.co/fFJBW2prtl http://t.co/vJS3syYnXp
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Accidentally burnt a hole on my Hard Hat. Decided to put it to good use. : funny
Accidentally burnt a hole on my Hard Hat. Decided to put it to good use. via /r/funny http://t.co/Q4Hjo5NB08 http://t.co/n7Ij6fSHxn
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View from Robbers Roost in Sedona, Arizona [3136×6864] : EarthPorn
View from Robbers Roost in Sedona, Arizona [3136×6864] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/rF7VgHnYpH http://t.co/UflB7HbraN
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Cutting wood paper thin : oddlysatisfying
Cutting wood paper thin via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/unj8Wg2EA8 http://t.co/QwGvbDcUJ8
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Mmmm so oddly refreshing : AdviceAnimals
Mmmm so oddly refreshing via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/dUXotnG6yM http://t.co/N90i66aj0u
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Hotel cat catloaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/Eo7qBzraEF http://t.co/YY2RV7Pes0
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Chicago Riverwalk in Full Summer Swing [2880×1920] : CityPorn
Chicago Riverwalk in Full Summer Swing [2880×1920] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/xHKq0gMC9B http://t.co/8dK12Fr1uH
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‘We make £75,000 a year from our toll bridge’ | Money | The Guardian
In 2012 husband and wife Grahame Penny and Maggie Taylor paid £500,000 for one of Britain’s few private toll bridges, crossing the River Wye in Herefordshire. At the time it was making around £65,000 a year, but after costs there was little left for…
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Ex-Thai PM Thaksin’s son ups reward for bomb suspects – Al Jazeera English
The son of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has more than doubled the reward offered by police for the capture of those behind this week’s deadly Bangkok bomb blast, putting up nearly $200,000.
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Blazes Force New Evacuation Orders in Washington | Al Jazeera America
Emergency officials extended evacuation orders on Friday to additional towns threatened by a deadly array of wildfires in north-central Washington State as dozens of blazes swirled across the drought-parched Pacific Northwest and surrounding regions.
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Venezuela state under martial law against smugglers – BBC News
The Venezuelan president has declared a state of emergency in a border region near Colombia following an attack by smugglers in which three soldiers and a civilian were injured. Nicolas Maduro said there would be 60 days of martial law in five munic…
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When Rocky wants to play you get his full attention : cats
When Rocky wants to play you get his full attention via /r/cats http://t.co/xZYuQ2FhVX http://t.co/CbRfibQL5K
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So I watched “the notebook” for the first time today : gif
So I watched “the notebook” for the first time today via /r/gif http://t.co/bK0GyNCd7V http://t.co/TUsgRSqEt7
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My mosquito bite looks like a dinosaur. : mildlyinteresting
My mosquito bite looks like a dinosaur. (imgur.com) Did you experience any powers?
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The river had us under its spell. We paddled the canoe at the perfect pootling pace, snug to the bank. Song of sedge warbler among the reeds, insects crowded together on the inside of the bends where the water – always gentle on the Waveney – runs s…
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Sting Ray by Rahul Gandhi / 500px
Sting Ray by rahgandhi77 http://t.co/iufoMEOjWx http://t.co/ziMZVPNPRv
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China stocks crash 11% in a week : worldnews
China stocks crash 11% in a week via /r/worldnews http://t.co/hBh3oLSDtQ http://t.co/jcmwT4riTE http://t.co/zlWXMHjXFj
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China stocks crash 11% in a week – Aug. 21, 2015
China stocks crash 11% in a week via /r/worldnews http://t.co/hBh3oLSDtQ http://t.co/jcmwT4riTE http://t.co/zlWXMHjXFj
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Guy I was fishing with pulled this shit today. : AdviceAnimals
Guy I was fishing with pulled this shit today. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/wNjgfVfAjj http://t.co/bIaGZZwPNf
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would it please imgur to see my stack of 60 dollars of nickels? – Imgur
would it please imgur to see my stack of 60 dollars of nickels? http://t.co/DjTQUjrt9h http://t.co/Y3SB2bK46M
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Two Americans stopped a mass killing on a french train – Imgur
Two Americans stopped a mass killing on a french train http://t.co/ehiC5YPyKK http://t.co/PmCBHci1az
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Study Finds Surprising Byproduct of Middle Eastern Conflicts: Cleaner Air http://t.co/WYiqbjlMos
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Ennis-Hill & Johnson-Thompson lead heptathlon
Britain’s Jessica Ennis-Hill leads the heptathlon after the first two events with compatriot Katarina Johnson-Thompson 30 points back in second after a dramatic morning in the Bird’s Nest. Ennis-Hill matched her season’s best with 1.86m in the high …
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Eyewitness describes France Train Attack Foiled by 2 US Service Members | VICE News
2 US service members traveling onboard a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday subdued an armed man shortly after he began to open fire on passengers.
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Haunt that shit, we must : funny
Haunt that shit, we must via /r/funny http://t.co/d8HRhSLP1j http://t.co/UPtcbmUYX2
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The apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree : mildlyinteresting
The apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/leIgehe0aL http://t.co/WHWCxqqTEf
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On Patrol with the Copwatchers Who Film the NYPD | VICE | United Kingdom
“This is the first place I was ever beaten by the cops,” Dennis Flores, 40, points out, as we pass 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. “They were filming a Steven Seagal movie, and I was like 13 years old.
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BBC Sport – Arthur Morris: Australia’s ‘Invincibles’ opener dies at 93
Australian Test great Arthur Morris, a key member of Don Bradman’s 1948 ‘Invincibles’ side, has died aged 93. The left-handed opener scored 3,533 runs in 46 Tests at an average of 46.48 and was named in Australia’s team of the century in 2000.
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As a fix it myself kinda guy…. : funny
As a fix it myself kinda guy…. (i.imgur.com)
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Us Stocks Tumble on Global Slowdown Fears | Al Jazeera America
Growing concerns about a slowdown in China shook markets around the world on Friday, driving the U.S. stock market to its biggest drop in nearly four years.
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Three excellent books, including one about Showgirls · Staff Picks · The A.V. Club
Summer in Portland this year has been almost unbearably hot, the kind of weather that makes heavy thinking almost as taxing as heavy labor.
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ZARRINABAD, Iran — When Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps took over the nation’s telecommunications monopoly in 2009, the move was denounced as another dark step in the hard-line military group’s seizure of the levers of power.
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Southern Ice Fields of Patagonia : Breathless
Southern Ice Fields of Patagonia via /r/Breathless http://t.co/nGIjmLHiiF http://t.co/ctshdIj8nC
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a case of olde. : ledootgeneration
a case of olde. via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/82hpAaW7f5 http://t.co/gebAwGZ19P
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Calgary Peace Bridge [OC] [5472×3157] : ExposurePorn
Calgary Peace Bridge [OC] [5472×3157] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/QQtAkVcSBL http://t.co/u4eV5MUpCT
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US panda Mei Xiang ‘to give birth within weeks’ – BBC News
Officials at Washington’s National Zoo believe the resident panda Mei Xiang is pregnant again. Veterinarians detected a 1.6in foetus during a recent ultrasound, and the panda could give birth within the next few weeks.
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2 US Service Members Foil France Train Attack | VICE News
2 US service members traveling onboard a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday subdued an armed man shortly after he began to open fire on passengers.
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Innovative gift wrap : mildlyinteresting
Innovative gift wrap via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/ZAFbPccEcK http://t.co/ipsyMZy9lz
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: NASA’s space Hubble(1920 x 1200)
NASA’s space Hubble(1920 x 1200) http://t.co/E2prgVrk8q http://t.co/KJinfA55Du
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Sprites from Space via NASA http://t.co/XHHuWjSTNs http://t.co/XwAha2SIhO http://t.co/NKd9l4YIvV
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Compare Salaries by Job and City : InternetIsBeautiful
Compare Salaries by Job and City via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/p8bbabwNk2 http://t.co/5ENfzCXwIM
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Eye to hypnotic eye with a one-horned nanny | Environment | The Guardian
The remnants of the old Caledonian Pine Forest and the river Farrar rushing through the bottom of the glen were attractive and impressive. Yet what drew my attention were the snow patches on the surrounding hills.
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APOD: 2015 August 21 – Sprites from Space
Explanation: An old Moon and the stars of Orion rose above the eastern horizon on August 10. The Moon’s waning crescent was still bright enough to be overexposed in this snapshot taken from another large satellite of planet Earth, the International …
Sprites from Space via NASA http://t.co/XHHuWjSTNs http://t.co/XwAha2SIhO http://t.co/NKd9l4YIvV -
Google Says More People Are Interested in Deez Nuts Than Hillary Clinton : nottheonion
Is there a difference?
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North Korea Goes on ‘war’ Footing Against South | Al Jazeera America
North Korea put its troops on a war footing Friday as South Korea rejected an ultimatum to stop anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action.
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My wife found my email in the Ashley Madison database
Like many thousands of couples and ex-couples across America, one evening this week my wife and I found ourselves discussing the Ashley Madison hack.
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Bangkok, Thailand [960×960] : CityPorn
Bangkok, Thailand [960×960] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/fhwocQhKqW http://t.co/Bxr57W9VHo
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Plaza del Callao, Madrid, Spain [2048 x 1286] : CityPorn
Plaza del Callao, Madrid, Spain [2048 x 1286] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/wNMptYfIJP http://t.co/ot81jwswXe
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Wood drips everywhere [864×786] : BotanicalPorn
Wood drips everywhere [864×786] via /r/BotanicalPorn http://t.co/OoL4JGlGdF http://t.co/gAiuL2Sbrl
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How the price of oil has affected my life. : AdviceAnimals
How the price of oil has affected my life. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/kYE0MvzuAv http://t.co/n7dJ8YsU5q
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Nicolae Romanescu Park Image, Romania – National Geographic Photo of the Day
A family takes a sunset walk in Nicolae Romanescu Park in Craiova, a university town in southern Romania. A rich example of the country’s landscape architecture, the Emile Rendont–designed park opened in 1903. It’s named for the man who was then Cra…
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Hexagonal Cake Knife : oddlysatisfying
Hexagonal Cake Knife via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/9N8YxMpoSV http://t.co/pL4dkjaXtg
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Bath time! via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/Mp4nxLdo2A http://t.co/rqh0jb3MQ7
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The amount of comments on “Weird Satanist Guy” : oddlysatisfying
The amount of comments on “Weird Satanist Guy” via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/b2Hm63UbvX http://t.co/VQN7zn7MhS
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This cat looks like Deathstroke : cats
This cat looks like Deathstroke via /r/cats http://t.co/R6tiR3d19l http://t.co/jboCLcfCjj
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Mariveles, Bataan, Philippines. Taken from my iPhone5c [OC] [4550×1482] : EarthPorn
Mariveles, Bataan, Philippines. Taken from my iPhone5c [OC] [4550×1482] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/aPExAQFAYd http://t.co/MjuvAr1qhQ
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Edmonton Northern Lights August 17 [720p] : auroraporn
Edmonton Northern Lights August 17 [720p] via /r/auroraporn http://t.co/PGsq48kxwq http://t.co/tVjJEOilY2
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Taking the piss: a brief history of athletes drinking their own urine | Sport | The Guardian
Ben Jones, an offensive lineman with the Houston Texans, made headlines this week when he confessed to drinking a cup of his own urine to win a bet against his team-mates. “We were having a good time, and whatever makes the team better,” the fourth-…
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Korean Peninsula tensions prompt UN calls for restraint – Al Jazeera English
South Korean troops are standing at maximum alert with North Korea threatening to go to war unless the South meets a deadline to halt loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across the border.
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This picture will never happen again : aww
This picture will never happen again via /r/aww http://t.co/TGOEzsQP0j http://t.co/FlFIjmf1vF
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He knows his priorities. : funny
He knows his priorities. via /r/funny http://t.co/34nUgBSaZn http://t.co/WS7pIk9R11
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LightBlue Bean+ Is An Arduino Board With Bluetooth Built-In | TechCrunch
If you’re anything like me you understand the power of Arduino but are stymied by limitations of education, imagination, or wireless connectivity to implement it into your own life. Thanks to the LightBlue Bean+, however, one of those roadblocks has…
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Joe Strummer, c.1989 : OldSchoolCool
Joe Strummer, c.1989 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/Jto1ArG1Ou http://t.co/cNWp4WHhy0
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Semuc Champey, Guatemala [OC] [4608 x 3456] : EarthPorn
Semuc Champey, Guatemala [OC] [4608 x 3456] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/0wUpJ2EHxM http://t.co/JMjauuvYYA
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First picture of the moon with my new telescope. Blows my mind. : space
First picture of the moon with my new telescope. Blows my mind. via /r/space http://t.co/LSCSyQnZMq http://t.co/mB69aoWX7W
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The central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy rises… – Just Space
The central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy rises above a sea of… http://t.co/4GRRYaNAd3 http://t.co/X2URvKBN4U
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Muslims join the Pope and Evangelicals in calling for climate action : environment
Muslims join the Pope and Evangelicals in calling for climate action via /r/environment http://t.co/RJqxt1FMSY http://t.co/M21cks3iBS
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Former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck was sentenced on Friday to two years of probation, with every other weekend in custody, after pleading guilty to raping a 15-year-old boy at a vacation rental home in Delaware.
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Open thread for night owls—Curry: As pundits vomit same bad info, we’re missing crucial stories
It is progressives, or rather progressivism, that suffers most from how the game is played. A poll identifies an existing consensus. Progressive must build a new one. Media cuts “message” to the bone. New ideas require longer formed analysis and exp…
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Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell Original Version 1983 – YouTube
por lo visto esta obra de arte no está subida en esta versión en limpio, asi que aqui la teneisLetra traducida:Vieron la flecha en la puertaDiciendo : “esta tierra está condenadaTodo el camino desde Nueva OrleansHasta Jerusalén.”He viajado a través …
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Boston- More than A Feeling – YouTube
Boston – More Than A Feeling http://t.co/OcSzKwyFmx
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Reddits official beer via /r/funny http://t.co/xuBgetA6Dg http://t.co/SNBGEvrqrn
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Apple Offers Free Fix For ‘Small Percentage’ Of iPhone 6+s With Faulty Camera | TechCrunch
Apple is offering iPhone 6+ owners the opportunity to replace the iSight camera on their device for free, after the U.S. company found that “a small percentage” of models produce blurry images.
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Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time – YouTube
Cyndi Lauper’s official music video for ‘Time After Time’. Click to listen to Cyndi Lauper on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CyndiLauperSpotify…As featured on The Essential Cyndi Lauper. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes:… http://smarturl.it/
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Macedonia migrants: Border security measures defended – BBC News
Macedonia has defended its handling of security at the country’s border with Greece, where migrants were beaten back with truncheons and riot shields. The government had to act because up to 3,500 were entering each day, but migrants had not been mi…
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Queen – Now I’m Here (Official Video) – YouTube
The official ‘Now I’m Here’ music video. Taken from Queen – ‘Greatest Video Hits 1’.
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Lago Pirola, Italy [2048×1044] : lakeporn
Lago Pirola, Italy [2048×1044] via /r/lakeporn http://t.co/Hrww0I0DPM http://t.co/HHBbqHlD6M
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“Come on, baby, give me a smile!” : TrollXChromosomes
“Come on, baby, give me a smile!” via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/Dw6jz48Aox http://t.co/5KHLdrZe66
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I would feel bad, but he deserves it and blames everyone but himself : AdviceAnimals
I would feel bad, but he deserves it and blames everyone but himself via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/R201rL7Y0l http://t.co/JWTZyBZKJX
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A little bit of a Kentucky sunrise : FoggyPics
A little bit of a Kentucky sunrise via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/cPbLJyOZhU http://t.co/XV6WvIQv2j
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Queen – Now I’m Here (Official Video) – YouTube
QUEEN: STUDIO COLLECTION – ALL 15 STUDIO ALBUMS ON 180 GRAM COLOURED VINYL – OUT SEPTEMBER 25PRE-ORDER NOW: http://QUEEN.LNK.TO/STUDIOCOLLECTIONSubscribe to the Official Queen Channel Here http://bit.ly/Subscribe2QueenQueen – ‘Now I’m Here’Click her…
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Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now (Live, 1970) – YouTube
Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now (Live, 1970)
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French Police Arrest A Kalashnikov-Wielding Gunman on a High-Speed Train | VICE News
Officers from France’s special Anti-Crime Brigade police unit have arrested a man who fired a Kalashnikov rifle on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. The gunman, identified as a 26-year-old Moroccan, was known to French intelligen…
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This is Heiner, 74 years old and he has over 8000 hrs of Battlefield : gaming
He was probably on the frontlines in 1942. Game ooorr….?
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Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon Live 1976 Stevie Nicks – YouTube
AMAZING RARE! Fleetwood Mac LIVE! “RHIANNON.” 1976. From the self titled 1975 album, Fleetwood Mac. Released as a single in 1976, peaked #11 on Billboard’s top 100 singles chart, #5 on Cashbox’s singles chart, and top ten on the Rock Oriented album …
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My Grandmother (1962) : OldSchoolCool
My Grandmother (1962) via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/ije43qRwag http://t.co/GBzU4gFPvB
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Beautiful Star Trails js – Just Space
Beautiful Star Trails js http://t.co/0VUMAKxT4F http://t.co/B3V3FSWigK
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My cat Melissa is the queen of packages : aww
My cat Melissa is the queen of packages via /r/aww http://t.co/bIX91hdMW3 http://t.co/Jc1BT7wqGf
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What are you gonna do about it?! : firstworldanarchists
What are you gonna do about it?! via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/hvFlQYVRQy http://t.co/hzKaD5gT3U
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Holy shit. It’s the weird E3 interview guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egV9yWMFuCE
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I want the election to be held tomorrow, Donald Trump tells Alabama rally | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump held the largest campaign event of his 2016 presidential bid to date at a “pep rally” in Alabama, where he called for the election take place tomorrow and received a tacit endorsement from one of the state’s US Senators.
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WASHINGTON — When Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1987, a few months ahead of his first and ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign, he told aides his goal was to enact legislation that would take a…
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The Passenger – Iggy Pop and The Stooges 70’s – YouTube
october 1977, manchester apollo.
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Roxy Music The Bogus Man (HQ) – YouTube
From their 1973 album For Your Pleasure.
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Serious Seinfeld via /r/television http://t.co/2ab0DbySut http://t.co/AUrFyaWbkz
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Dead Spring by NanoMortis : ImaginaryMindscapes
Dead Spring by NanoMortis via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/r4sfshJKTO http://t.co/4Ld6hFZQqa
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The ultimate in sophistication [1115×743] : RoomPorn
The ultimate in sophistication [1115×743] via /r/RoomPorn http://t.co/vRADxbl5OO http://t.co/sVxlAqYVwa
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Grand Prismatic Spring – Yellowstone National Park [3000×2000] [OC] : EarthPorn
Grand Prismatic Spring – Yellowstone National Park [3000×2000] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/RLXozVqOH9 http://t.co/nibY3QnCaU
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Everyone meet pikachu. via /r/cats http://t.co/qbPBNq4rmX http://t.co/mKv2TgZq3y
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How Coursera Cracked The Chinese Market | TechCrunch
Coursera announced in July that they crossed 1 million registrations as China became their second largest market, overtaking India. Most U.S. consumer Internet companies have a hard time breaking into China. Cultural differences and the Internet fir…
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Berlin – Take My Breath Away – YouTube
Berlin’s official music video for ‘Take My Breath Away’. Click to listen to Berlin on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/BerlinSpotify?IQid…As featured on Metro: Greatest Hits. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes: … http://smarturl.it/BTMBAGPlay?I
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Half Dome, Yosemite [OC][5472×3648] : EarthPorn
Half Dome, Yosemite [OC][5472×3648] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/rxRpC3ftjZ http://t.co/c9InitUeo6
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Meant to text my gf but texted the wrong person.. : AdviceAnimals
Meant to text my gf but texted the wrong person.. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/yEr35h5THD http://t.co/kGFtypurVv
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Boston- More than A Feeling – YouTube
I looked out this morning and the sun was goneTurned on some music to start my dayI lost myself in a familiar songI closed my eyes and I slipped awayIt’s more than a feeling (more than a feeling)When I hear that old song they used to play (more than…
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North Korea warned it was prepared to risk “all-out war” as leader Kim Jong-un put his frontline troops on combat readiness to back up an ultimatum for South Korea to halt propaganda broadcasts across the border by Saturday afternoon.
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Cutting wood “paper” thin. : interestingasfuck
Cutting wood “paper” thin. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/R4prkxDix9 http://t.co/Q3ugI6rLIp
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/Jd2lgLHrI7 http://t.co/daRyudIgCf
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My Cat via /r/cats http://t.co/vtV9rODrjd http://t.co/Wanxeqkpxv
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Trade Union Bill: TUC fears over social media restrictions – BBC News
Striking unions could face restrictions on their use of social media, the TUC’s general secretary has told the BBC. Frances O’Grady said an attack on trade unions was “unfinished business” for “some elements within governments”.
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The Absolute Insanity Of Donald Trump’s Big Alabama Pep Rally, In 17 Tweets | ThinkProgress
Trump-mania reached new heights in Alabama today as The Donald held a pep rally in a 40,000 seat football stadium in Mobile, Alabama. The stadium was not, in fact, full — but about 20,000 people attended — and it was a wild scene.
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Boston- More than A Feeling – YouTube
I looked out this morning and the sun was goneTurned on some music to start my dayI lost myself in a familiar songI closed my eyes and I slipped awayIt’s more than a feeling (more than a feeling)When I hear that old song they used to play (more than…
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Dropbox – You’re invited to join Dropbox!
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! http://t.co/8itswOyZOy
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My First Loading Animation : perfectloops
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Friends dad taking a selfie with a tripod and timer in 1973. : OldSchoolCool
Friends dad taking a selfie with a tripod and timer in 1973. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/oPapSiLPuO http://t.co/VS6YrOeRKv
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Chicago Med lost its showrunner, too · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Chicago Med, the second planned spinoff to NBC’s Chicago Fire, appears to have been hit with an epidemic of wandering feet. Earlier this month, Walking Dead star Laurie Holden dropped out of the project, citing “family reasons” for her sudden depart…
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In the summer of 2014, Wilf Dinnick, a former news correspondent, accepted a job running Al Jazeera’s website in Doha, Qatar. He and his wife, Sonia Verma, a newspaper reporter, had settled in Toronto in 2009.
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This week, the Cassini spacecraft made its fifth and final flyby of Dione, Saturn’s fourth-largest moon. This image, in which Saturn and its rings can be seen looming behind the moon, was captured in the leadup to the mission’s last close approach, …
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Sasha Petraske, the founder of the influential New York cocktail bar Milk & Honey and many other polished drinking spots across the world, was found dead on Friday in Hudson, N.Y.
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The yellow sprinkles aren’t affected by static cling… : mildlyinteresting
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Hope by huhaiwei http://t.co/sFQ2pr0zoV http://t.co/eMHo4wVEWw
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HMB while I try and tackle George North : holdmybeer
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Here comes a problem via /r/funny http://t.co/O6x2NLMFRJ http://t.co/uMH4JCVYDc
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Deaths reported in Israeli air strike inside Syria – Al Jazeera English
Five people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a car in Syria, according to Syrian state media and activists, following the heaviest Israeli bombardment on Syria since the start of the country’s war.
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France gun attack on train injures three – BBC News
Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by two American passengers. The interior minister praised the Americans, one of whom was seriously injured, as was another pass…
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The Best Techno-thriller of the Weekend is American Ultra
If you love action and futuristic conspiracies, you can skip the blockbuster sequels this weekend and head straight for the funny, fiendish flick American Ultra. It’s billed as a stoner comedy, but this weird secret agent, mind control ninja story i…
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Get Rich Now So You Can Buy These Amazing Original Film Props
The screen-used film prop is the holy grail of movie collecting. It doesn’t get any better than owning something that was actually used in making your favorite movie. The only way to do that, however, is usually via auction—and there’s a big one com…
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I’m mainly lazy, but there’s also something primal about it : AdviceAnimals
I’m mainly lazy, but there’s also something primal about it via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/d5dNt6Ta5o http://t.co/d34Q1DeRYU
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Granite Lake, Kings Canyon CA [OC] [1008×1008] : EarthPorn
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Doubtful Lake from the Sahale Arm, Wa [OC] [3264×1836] : EarthPorn
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Pianos are startling : StartledCats
Pianos are startling via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/ogVxsytiti http://t.co/fxRbxrVYDo
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You were watching a show? Let me help you with that. : cats
You were watching a show? Let me help you with that. via /r/cats http://t.co/v5qekGHlTE http://t.co/ziubpT2NN6
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The progression of my kitty’s eyes : cats
The progression of my kitty’s eyes via /r/cats http://t.co/WS7hw1xZHr http://t.co/ixQeH3TH0i
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Clapping cat : AnimalsBeingBros
Clapping cat via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/Zcflbqc0uK http://t.co/4VowKw9OK3
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My husband takes our cat on “tours” of our house so he can smell everything – Imgur
My husband takes our cat on “tours” of our house so he can smell everything http://t.co/QtWXVh2o92 http://t.co/EoooauoB4i
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Matching via /r/aww http://t.co/4oyb2EDOrw http://t.co/mo37SuLLym
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Damon Lindelof has spent the years since he escaped ABC’s endlessly polarizing Lost engaged in the healing process, writing screenplays and serving as showrunner for the relatively placid The Leftovers.
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Ashley Madison Hack Exposes (Wait for It) a Lousy Business | WIRED
Ashley Madison may very well be screwed. The notorious site where married people seek extramarital liaisons was the target of a major hack, and this week the hackers dumped some of the data supposedly stolen from the site. For users, the fallout doe…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Sprites from Space [4928X3280]
Sprites from Space [4928X3280] http://t.co/bd8iiJIklD http://t.co/nCeJjgiBvc
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The Milky Way Over Sparks Lake, Oregon js – Just Space
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Labour leadership contest awash with excitement and despair – BBC News
Twenty-one years have gone by. To listen to some of the Labour debate today you might think that Tony Blair’s election as leader in 1994 was the beginning of the end.
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Week in pictures: 15-21 August 2015 – BBC News
Three people are hurt as a heavily armed man opens fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by American passengers.
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Jeb Bush has been lagging in the polls, trailing Donald Trump by a wide margin nationally and in early states. Nevertheless, he’s still considered one of the most likely eventual nominees by pundits and political experts.
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Took this a few years ago at my university and reposting it for you guys : FoggyPics
Took this a few years ago at my university and reposting it for you guys via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/KDZmBUKAdf http://t.co/vOI1XUFDlF
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/vNZWeRiuEP http://t.co/RTBtQjtZvx
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angleworm : (Northern US) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish. http://t.co/9VOmWGRcrg
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Grizzly peak, Berkeley, California via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/3kcJvDNWpW http://t.co/waIEAlgXsf
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Maus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia article of the day for August 22, 2015 http://t.co/c1P9ZNcxKI
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MRW the bartender announces last call : shittyreactiongifs
MRW the bartender announces last call via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/rvsyfGFwHv http://t.co/MB7eJaVa7L
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Your top comments about… online comments – BBC News
Are comments on news websites dead? Well, judging by reaction to a recent post about their possible demise – no way. Earlier this week, BBC Trending looked at the debate about online comments in depth after news site The Daily Dot decided to close t…
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Man opens fire on Amsterdam-Paris train – Al Jazeera English
Three people have been injured, two of them criticially, after a heavily armed man opened fire in a “terrorist attack” on a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris, before he was overpowered by two American passengers.
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Meet Immortan Joanna. This gender-swapped Mad Max: Fury Road cosplay is another one of our favorite things we’ve seen at Worldcon so far!
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This Author Sold a Kale Joke to Asimov’s (and You Can Too)
Since he vowed to become a professional SF author two years ago, Sunil Patel has published nine stories. In a two-part essay (Part One here, Part Two here), Patel explains how he wrote each of those stories and made each of those sales.
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This Experiment Suggests a Small Amount of Radiation Could Be Good For You
What happens when you trap 2000 fruit flies and expose them to a dose of 0.05 to 0.4 grays of radiation? You add another week to their lives—an,d considering they only live for two months, that’s saying something.
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‘Food Hardship’ Reached Post-Recession Low | Al Jazeera America
The percentage of Americans struggling with “food hardship” is at its lowest point since before the beginning of the Great Recession, a Gallup-Healthways survey released Thursday suggests.
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China’s economy is in trouble, but its climate efforts are not | Grist
China has given environmentalists a lot of encouraging signs in recent years. Its highly polluting heavy industries have been slowing down, as has its coal consumption.
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Petition · We want Jon Stewart to moderate a 2016 presidential debate. · Change.org
Over the last 16 years, Jon Stewart has played an influential and iconic role in covering US politics and media. We believe he should continue that tradition as a moderator at one of the 2016 Presidential Debates. Jon Stewart is more than qualified …
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A Tour Of Banksy’s Dismaland – Digg
The ultimate joke will be when Banksy reveals himself to be the head of the NSA.
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An intellectually challenging game of loop – BBC News
Maths writer Alex Bellos recently spent a lot of money on a pool table – an unusual one with only one hole, and no straight sides. It is, in fact, in the shape of an ellipse. Why would anyone do such a thing? Geometry and maths is at the heart of an…
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Why does coffee shoot out of the lid of your cup? – BBC News
Scientists have worked out why coffee spits out of the lid of a disposable cup. Why does it happen so often, asks Harry Low You’re running late for work and you’ve purchased your coffee in a hurry.
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
“[In California] we are begging El Nino to hit us. That is what it has come to. We are praying for one weather disaster to save us from the other weather disaster.”—Bill Maher “Josh Duggar was outed for signing up on Ashley Madison using the scree…
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Koneko and her Q-Tip blep….. : Blep
Koneko and her Q-Tip blep….. via /r/Blep http://t.co/ptkxLgGKQL http://t.co/ZoHks51qgW
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Complete Anarchy : firstworldanarchists
Complete Anarchy via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/4H02qih2kb http://t.co/cul9NVoiDK
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Good ol’ Costco via /r/funny http://t.co/wcvUJmIbaD http://t.co/1UHD7xFffU
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Baby German Shepherd for the win! : aww
Baby German Shepherd for the win! via /r/aww http://t.co/4CIQzgiYZE http://t.co/qflPsNVk8m
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Here’s What Microsoft Thinks About the Poop Emoji | WIRED
This needs very little explanation, but here you go: This is an internal email wherein Microsoft employees discussed how to design its poop emoji. Enjoy! Few things inspire so much ire in the smartphone generation as the vertically-shot video.
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Mozilla sets plan to dump Firefox add-ons, move to Chrome-like extensions | Ars Technica
Back in July, Mozilla disclosed plans to modernize its Firefox browser.
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Android phones will now come with fewer pre-installed apps | The Verge
Android users will soon be getting a little less bloatware on their phones.
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Viewpoint: Are Amazon’s feedback tactics unusual? – BBC News
Allegations about Amazon’s workplace culture have generated a furore this week. But many of the things Amazon has been accused of have been tried before, writes Peter Fleming. One of the more interesting excursions that reality TV has made into the …
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Milky Way Arcs Across California’s Majestic Coast | Time-Lapse Video
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Marvel’s Secret Love Is The Strangest—And Sweetest—Secret Wars Spinoff
Marvel have put out a ridiculous number of tie-ins for their ongoing, universe-rebooting mega event Secret Wars. But one of their latest spinoffs, Secret Wars: Secret Love, is surprisingly unique.
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Scientists Measure Spooky Drops in Air Pollution Over the Middle East
Air pollution is decreasing over parts of the Middle East. But researchers say that for most Middle Eastern cities, the clearer air is actually a symptom of conflict, not a sign of progress.
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Texas-born Children Denied Birth Certificates | Al Jazeera America
Lawyers are asking a federal judge to intervene on the behalf of immigrant families who were denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children because Texas health officials refused to recognize as valid certain forms of identification.
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Sasha Petraske, Founder of Milk & Honey, Is Dead at 42 | Observer
When Milk & Honey opened in January 2000 on Eldridge Street, the Lower East Side was still rough around the edges, there were no hipsters (anywhere) and there were no “mixologists.
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The Dearly Departed Return to Russia – The New Yorker
Russia’s minister of culture, Vladimir Medinsky, wants to exhume the remains of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, which have rested for over seventy years at Kensico cemetery, in Valhalla, New York, and re-inter them in Russia.
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Everything is made from something
In A Children’s Picture-book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Brian Skinner explains quantum field theory — “the deepest and most intimidating set of ideas in graduate-level theoretical physics” — as if you and I are five-year-old children.
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Installing marker balls on transmission lines : gifs
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All you need is.. [960×640] : ExposurePorn
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French Police Arrest Gunman Who Fired a Kalashnikov on a High-Speed Train | VICE News
Officers from France’s special Anti-Crime Brigade police unit have arrested a man who fired a Kalashnikov rifle on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. The gunman, identified as a 26-year-old Moroccan, was known to French intelligen…
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London’s West End may not seem the ideal habitat for wildlife, but wrens, thrushes and bats are making it their home.
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Tiger Woods shares lead at Wyndham Championship after day two | Sport | The Guardian
A resurgent Tiger Woods followed up his best round in two years with a five-under 65 to take a share of the halfway lead at the Wyndham Championship.
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BBC Sport – Tiger Woods: Ex-world number one shares Wyndham lead
Tiger Woods continued his quest for a first title in two years with a 65 to share the halfway lead at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. The 39-year-old has slipped to 286 in the world rankings but carded five birdies and an eagle to reach …
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NP Krka, Croatia [OC] [2560×1920] : EarthPorn
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Octo-puss via /r/cats http://t.co/Rwrs3TGw4U http://t.co/1hFAAYoVM7
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Andy Murray warms up for US Open by reaching Cincinnati Masters semi-finals | Sport | The Guardian
After a week playing in the dark, with thunder and lightning for occasional companions, Andy Murray burst into the warm midwest sunlight on Friday afternoon and heads for New York this week with renewed vigour and a smile on his face.
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Stephen Colbert’s Lesson on Failure: You Have to Learn to Love the Bomb
Life is filled with moments of success and triumph, but it’s also riddled with failures that feel like they couldn’t be any worse. Take it from funnyman Stephen Colbert, and learn to revel in those moments.
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Dr. Dre, Apple both say he’s sorry for his abusive past · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Dr. Dre has directly apologized for numerous incidents of assault that he committed against women during his time with his influential rap group N.W.A.
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In This Week’s Star Wars Comic, Princess Leia Gets To Kick Butt—Literally
After taking a break from its ongoing story last month to give us a badass Ben Kenobi side story, this week’s issue of Marvel’s Star Wars series gets ready to deal with the fallout from that insane twist that sent ripples through the new Star Wars c…
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BBC Sport – Cincinnati Open: Andy Murray beats Richard Gasquet in last eight.
Britain’s Andy Murray is through to the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Open after fighting back to beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet. Top seed Novak Djokovic beat his French Open final conqueror Stan Wawrinka.
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Earth From Above and Rover Selfies
Ancient Hebrew texts and Egyptian tomb paintings reveal the origins of our favorite summertime fruit.
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Ranger School Grads Join Long History of Warrior Women
When Capt. Kristen Griest and First Lt. Shaye Haver graduated from the Army’s Ranger School on Friday, they became the first female soldiers to have passed the demanding nine-week training and leadership course.
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WATCH: Extreme Diver Discovers Ancient Whale Skull
How do you retrieve an ancient whale skull buried in a Virginia riverbed? The same way you recover a human body: with a body bag.
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Nuclear explosion scale : mildlyinteresting
Nuclear explosion scale via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/rSXxM9RZn2 http://t.co/8RRWSnPo8f
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Yellow Boxfish by Gaby Barathieu / 500px
Yellow Boxfish by GabyBarathieu http://t.co/Qt37PeKiRt http://t.co/a9jgpXApV1
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Puss… In Boots. via /r/cats http://t.co/zEBz8Z9Hfs http://t.co/POTI5m2Myc
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Abandoned trappers cabin in the Yukon (3264×2448) : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned trappers cabin in the Yukon (3264×2448) via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/enY6dSIpD3 http://t.co/tiHbXJfWvf
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This is an almost nightly event at my house… : funny
This is an almost nightly event at my house… via /r/funny http://t.co/RBAk1Pk3va http://t.co/QwXk8pQsnR
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Meeting Pluto: Upcoming Kavli Hangout Explores New Horizons
Adam Hadhazy, writer and editor for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. After a journey lasting nine and a half years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally reached the distant world of Plu…
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The Great American Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming 2 Years from Today
Two years from today, on Aug. 21, 2017, North Americans will get an opportunity to observe nature’s greatest sky show. Picture this: The day starts off bright and sunny. Then, a bit later, you begin to notice that, although it is still sunny, the da…
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Apple is offering free camera replacements on iPhone 6 Plus due to manufacturing defect | The Verge
If you bought an iPhone 6 Plus between September 2014 and January 2015, you could be eligible to get your back camera replaced.
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It’s the end of the week, and we’d like to go out on a sweetly upbeat number, so here it is: It’s been a number of years now since the age of outrageously over-produced spectacles involving marriage proposals began.
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Shooting in Lower Manhattan, Two Shot | Al Jazeera America
Police at the scene told Al Jazeera the suspect entered the building, shot the guard in the head and then shot himself in the head. They said the guard had a weapon but it doesn’t appear he was able to fire. He was rushed to a hospital, the officer …
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Lifting the crude oil export ban would be terrible for the climate | Grist
Congress may vote as soon as next month on whether to lift the ban, which has been in place since 1975. If Senate Bill 350 passes, California utilities would need to get half their electricity from renewables in 15 years.
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California looks to boost clean energy with ambitious new climate bill | Grist
At a Pacific Gas and Electric power plant east of San Francisco, greenhouse gases flow from a stack as the air shimmers from heat, with no dirty cloud of pollution in sight. In the distance, wind turbines spin slowly under a cloudy sky.
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Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, c. 1913 : OldSchoolCool
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Stephen Colbert on the town : pics
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Daddy’s little helper. via /r/cats http://t.co/WfviOUA4Ki http://t.co/Vyh4TvlEs3
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Gooseberry Falls, Minnesota. [OC] [6000×4000] : EarthPorn
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So I walk into my room and… : aww
So I walk into my room and… via /r/aww http://t.co/3LtxJxwAug http://t.co/hOv4dmUnDc
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Are gun laws useless? | Al Jazeera America
Gun laws did not prevent Dylann Roof of Charleston, James Holmes in Aurora, Jared Loughner in Tucson, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez in Chattanooga, Elliot Rodger in Santa Barbara, and the list goes on, from getting a gun.
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Ah, the shoreline! The sand, the ocean air, the sun, the miles of concrete—wait, what? A new survey of the U.S. coastline determines that a full 14%, over 22,000 kilometers has been paved over in concrete. By 2100, that percentage is expected to hav…
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Scientists Say Climate Change Is Making California’s Drought Even Worse | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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The pen and paper behind Verge Hack Week 2015 | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Islamic State’s Second-in-Command Killed by US Drone Strike Near Mosul | VICE News
A US military airstrike reportedly took out the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s second-in-command in Iraq earlier this week, according to US officials.
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This Infographic Shows Which Fast Food Chains Serve Alcoholic Beverages
Sometimes you just want a drink with your meal. If you’re out looking for a place to grab a quick bite, these fast food chains will serve you beer, wine, and even some mixed drinks.
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Alfre Woodard might be the bad guy in Netflix’s Luke Cage series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now that Vincent D’Onofrio and Daredevil have proven that “bad guy in a Netflix Marvel series” is a surprisingly good way for a respected actor to remind people how they got so respected in the first place, it looks like Oscar-nominated actress Alfr…
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A Whole Bunch of People Named Their Babies After Anakin Skywalker Last Year
We have officially hit peak Star Wars. The Social Security Administration just published its annual tally of the most popular baby names in the U.S., and “Anakin” made the top 1,000. Squeaking in at #957 on the list, Darth Vader’s birth name was bes…
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Imagined Celebrity Connections: Jennifer Aniston Catches Up With Vince Vaughn | Vanity Fair
Each week, Josh Duboff looks at the biggest celebrity news—and amuses himself by imagining how those celebrities might have reacted. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner take their children to Disneyland.
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This Trailer Makes Final Girls Look Like the Most Meta Horror Movie Yet
Horror films are at their best either when they’re really scary, or really self-aware. The Final Girls looks like a bit of both. It’s a new, ultra-meta take on the genre, where a girl meets her dead mom—after she finds herself inside the mom’s popul…
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Say what you will about the quality of Space Jam the movie, but it’s hard to deny the quality of Space Jam the website. While nearly 20 years later the design might seem garish and outdated, the mere fact that it’s still standing is impressive in it…
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Gawker Viral Christian Pregnancy YouTuber Sam Rader Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account | Jalopnik Low-Ass Bridge Obliterates Another Box Truck, Happy Friday | Kotaku The Fascinating Story Behind Nintendo’s Biggest Flop | Lifehacker Why a 5% Beer Gets…
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Fires at Night in the U.S. Northwest : Image of the Day
In summer 2015, wildfires raged across the western United States and Alaska. Many of those fires burned in the U.S. Northwest, visible in these images from late August.
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An amazing view of a sunset over Cape May, New Jersey : Breathless
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Picked this up for my fox obsessed wife : foxes
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Morgan Phillips Photography by Morgan Phillips / 500px
Morgan Phillips Photography by morgan__phillips http://t.co/KhqphpNqgt http://t.co/so5nIzP39K
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Don’t you ever tell me how to live my life again : firstworldanarchists
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In recent years, a lot of media and telecommunications executives dismissed the idea that Americans would stop subscribing to cable and satellite TV services. But the cord-cutting phenomenon can no longer be ignored.
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This Weekend F1 Tackles One of the Best Corners in Racing | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Every sport has its iconic battlegrounds. Fenway. Lambeau. Wembley. For fans, such places are more than a location, they’re a legend, one packed with memories and emotions. Formula One is no exception.…
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Yemen: A country in chaos as fighting continues – BBC News
Dozens of civilians have been killed in the latest fighting in the Gulf state of Yemen. It came as the United Nations warned that millions of people there are at risk of famine.
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Come on, how did the Air Force screw up ‘loose tweets sink fleets?’ | The Verge
Hey, remember when this designer made a whole bunch of amazing internet-themed World War II propaganda parodies? Well, one of those just cropped up in the actual military, albeit not for the first time.
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China Draws Executives From Silicon Valley | TechCrunch
As a result, salary and compensation packages for executives at Chinese tech companies are approaching those of Silicon Valley, and working for Chinese technology companies is now a viable and competitive alternative for technology executives.
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Verizon might not support Samsung Pay at launch | The Verge
Samsung Pay, the company’s mobile wallet that works across all the latest Galaxy smartphones, will launch in the US on September 28th. Similar to Apple Pay’s rollout, Samsung has all three major credit card providers and several key banks behind the…
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We’ve pretty much all been there: you hand your phone to a friend to show them a picture. They look at the photo, they chuckle… and then they casually swipe to the next photo in your camera roll like it ain’t no thing. NO. BAD FRIEND! BAD!
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Match Head Bomb video: 6000 matches in a blender, shot at at 2500fps – Boing Boing
The Slow Mo guys are back at it with an amazing, totally unsafe, possibly illegal homemade pyrotechnics display.
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Cartoon: The sugar water workout
Click to enlarge. A story in last week’s NYTimes revealed how Coca-Cola funds scientists who tout exercise while downplaying the role calorie consumption has on health.
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Trumpismo From Boston to the Dominican Republic | The Nation
On Wednesday, August 19th, two South Boston men “inspired” by Donald Trump, pissed on and brutally beat a 58-year-old homeless Latino with a metal pole. Trump and most of the rest of the Republican candidates want to do away with “birthright” citize…
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Migrants or refugees? – Al Jazeera English
Macedonian police used tear gas to drive back refugees at the border. On Thursday, they declared a state of emergency, which means the army will be deployed to stop people transiting through the country. Germany wants to see measures to stop new arr…
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Photo Shoot Gone Awry Releases Wild Tiger in Detroit | | Observer
British wildlife photographer David Yarrow was in the midst of a shoot at Motor City’s abandoned Packard Automotive Plant, to which he brought two wolves, a bobcat and a tiger–because why not?–when authorities noticed photographs of the wild animals…
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While Downton Abbey’s Maggie Smith was presumably off somewhere quiet resting, the rest of the period drama’s cast recently convened at London’s Ivy to celebrate the end of series filming. (Sob.
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The Believer – A Common Language
It took Ron Capps all morning, but he was finally ready. He finished his reports, borrowed a pistol, and drove out of town into the Sudanese desert. When he found a low-rise with a commanding view of the red-tinged sand dunes, he parked and opened a…
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Boston, crossing the viaduct into Cambridge [3100×2100] : CityPorn
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My Character in Pokemon Emerald gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Giant red ball from an art installation broke free in Toledo : gifs
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This Silent Protest Song to Benefit Refugees Just Topped the Charts in Austria | VICE News
It’s quiet at the top of the iTunes chart in Austria — no melody, no bass, no vocals.
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I adopted a stray cat, help me with name suggestions. : cats
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“home from work” blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/0Cf5GPRS6w http://t.co/eOpEO35fvf
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Cuddle buddies via /r/aww http://t.co/kguIDVW2Rz http://t.co/MCq2JzIXid
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Somehow not feeling musical this week.
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How Did This Get Made? Theodore Rex (An Oral History)
Nobody sets out to make a bad movie. But the truth is, it happens all the time. And every time it does, there’s a fun misadventure and cautionary tale lurking somewhere behind the scenes. This is that story for the most expensive movie that ever wen…
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One Direction Goes to Space with NASA in ‘Drag Me Down’ Music Video
Houston, we have a pop band. The hit U.K. boy band One Direction unveiled its latest music video “Drag Me Down” and it has a decisively out-of-this-world vibe thanks to NASA.
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Darren Dutton’s weird comedy remix masterpiece: Badgers – Boing Boing
Darren Dutton outdoes himself with a very funny pastoral pastiche, handmade from 100% recycled materials.
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IFTTT’s Maker Channel Connects Your Electronics Projects to Nearly Everything
One of the big problems with DIY electronics projects is connecting them to the internet as a whole. Now, with If This Then That’s new Maker channel, getting your Raspberry Pi or Arduino projects online is easier than ever.
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Chicago police officers shoot and wound 14-year-old boy after chase | US news | The Guardian
Chicago police officers shot and wounded a 14-year-old boy on Thursday night after police say he ignored commands to stop running and drop his weapon. Local news reports identified the boy as Deguan Curry, although police have yet to release the tee…
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Last Night Rachel Maddow Made a Drink in Honor of Donald Trump | WIRED
The only thing MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow seems to enjoy more than politics is mixology. So last night she went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to use some drink science and make a Millionaire cocktail in honor of Donald Trump’s entrée into Ame…
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Vice News’ Motherboard just published an interview with the hackers who claim responsibility for the Ashley Madison breach, known as The Impact Team. Joseph Cox emailed with The Impact Team, and asked about their motivations for the hack.
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Mass shootings, once the subject of around-the-clock national news coverage, have become so commonplace in the U.S. that the crowdsourced database Mass Shootings Tracker lists one for virtually every day so far in 2015, most of them unknown outside …
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Ghana doctors suspend strike after one week – BBC News
Doctors in Ghana have suspended a three-week strike they called to press for better working conditions, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) said. Outpatient services at state-run hospitals have been closed for more than a week because of the dispute.
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Jon Stewart as a Debate Moderator? Yes, Please! | The Nation
The humorist Will Rogers ran a mock campaign for the presidency in 1928 that got so much attention, and was so favorably received, that some Democrats proposed him as a serious contender in 1932.
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This week’s most important songs: Deerhunter, Panda Bear, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s roundup of the most important music from the week that was.
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The Vergecast 167: Galaxy Note 5, Google OnHub, and Hack Week | The Verge
As Verge Hack Week winds to a close, Chris Plante returns to the Vergecast. We also have surprisingly strong feeling about keyboards and no-so-surprisingly strong feelings about Apple Music. We also bid a fond farewell to Sam Sheffer at the Hype Des…
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We made a Twitter bot to save everyone the trouble of writing and reading TV recaps | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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CrunchWeek: Amazon’s Soul, Ashley Madison, And Uber’s IPO | TechCrunch
Welcome back friends, we are here to cap off the week, taking a look at the biggest stories in the process. This time ’round, our coterie was helmed by none other than TechCrunch’s own Sarah Lane. Megan Rose Dickey and myself rounded out the quorum.
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Inside Banksy’s Dismaland, for Those of You Who Can’t Make It | Vanity Fair
Earlier this week we reported on the rumors that Banksy was getting ready to crush our warm and fuzzy memories of Disneyland with his pop-up exhibit Dismaland. And now it’s open! Demand was so high for tickets that the website broke.
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Black Lives Matters activists outline policy goals – BBC News
Black Lives Matter activists have released a 10 point plan to address abuses by US police forces after critics said that the group has lacked direction. The plan, called “Campaign Zero”, urges policy changes and proposes laws on federal, state and l…
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The Thermians Are at Worldcon Looking For Their Next Space Hero. Is It You?
We’ve seen some pretty great costumes thus far at Worldcon 2015—but our favorite thing thus far was this group of Thermians from the movie Galaxy Quest. They were doing the voices and the mannerisms and everything. But what if they’re real and that …
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Disrupt SF Early-Bird Pricing Extended | TechCrunch
Don’t say we never did anything for you. We’re offering an extension on the early-bird pricing for a limited time. You have just one more week to get your Disrupt SF (September 21-23) tickets and save $1,000.
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Top 10 DIY Projects That Cost Less Than $3
Why pay tons of money for something when you can make it yourself for pennies on the dollar? Here are some of our favorite life hacking DIY projects that’ll run you less than the cost of a latte.
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It’s Rumor Time: George Miller might direct Man Of Steel 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After spending more than 15 years traversing the animated wasteland with Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two, director George Miller roared back into live-action stardom this summer with the smash success of Mad Max: Fury Road.
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There are a couple of different ways to wind down after a hard week. Some people want to challenge themselves with thoughtful, intellectual prose; others want uproarious comedy to lighten their moods; and some want to mindlessly scroll through a ser…
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White House confirms key Isis leader killed in US air strike | World news | The Guardian
The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a US air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a caliphate in the Middle East.
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Hackers Just Posted a Third Dump of Alleged Ashley Madison Data | Motherboard
Yesterday, the hackers who breached affair website Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media (ALM) dumped a huge 20GB archive of company source code, as well as the supposed emails of ALM’s CEO Noel Biderman.
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The Lives of Others | The Nation
This was a week when a lot of people were hurt, some very badly, by the practice of doxxing, or splattering people’s private information online. And it was a week when media outlets that should know better were complicit.
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Hear Jim James’ Heartfelt Solo Track, ‘Take Care of You’ | Rolling Stone
Fresh off My Morning Jacket’s new album The Waterfall and helping to serve as Roger Waters’ backing band at Newport Folk Festival, Jim James is back with a surprise new solo track titled “Take Care of You.” The heartfelt, spirited song appears on th…
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Macedonia again closes border to refugees – Al Jazeera English
Macedonia has closed its border again overnight, after police earlier in the day fired tear gas and stun grenades to drive back refugees who were trying to cross its border from Greece.
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Answers to Your Burning Questions on the Ashley Madison Hack | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article.
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U.S. Stock Markets Plunge; Dow in Correction Territory – The Atlantic
The U.S. stock market is having a terrible day as a sell-off in global markets continues amid worries about China’s manufacturing numbers. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points on Friday.
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Matisyahu Agrees to Play at Controversial Spanish Reggae Fest | Rolling Stone
Earlier this week, Matisyahu was kicked off the lineup for Spain’s Rototom Sunsplash festival after the Jewish-American reggae artist failed to respond to their requests to appear in a video endorsing Palestine.
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Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison Problem – The New Yorker
The first outed celebrity in the Ashley Madison hacking dump is Josh Duggar, the eldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, whose enormous, homeschooled, right-wing Christian clan was the subject of the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting.
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Acid Rain Was Discovered Way Earlier Than You Probably Think
When did people first know about the phenomenon now known as “acid rain”? Think of a date. Odds are, you’re off by at least a century. Robert Angus Smith was born in the early 1800s, and had two major interests: religion and chemistry.
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Clive James Is Good at Dying Publicly | | Observer
When writers develop terminal illnesses, we get the rare chance—if we’re lucky—to see them publicly cope with the dying process.
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Why a 5% Beer Gets You Drunk So Much Faster than a 4% Beer
If you look at the alcohol percentage on beers, it doesn’t seem like they’re all that different. After all, a 5% lager is just 1% more alcohol than a supposedly lighter beer, right? While that’s true, Draft Magazine explains the science of how ABV a…
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Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Steven Spielberg Movie? | Rolling Stone
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Steven Spielberg Movie? Cast your vote in our weekly poll
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White supremacist convicted in plot to kill Obama with ‘death ray’ device | US news | The Guardian
A New York white supremacist was convicted by a federal jury on Friday of plotting to use a remote-controlled radiation device he called “Hiroshima on a light switch” to harm Muslims and President Barack Obama.
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This access point bracket has a built in level. : mildlyinteresting
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WARNING: Don’t watch if you’re Home Alone : ledootgeneration
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Smoke from Pacific Northwest Fires Drifts East
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Jon Stewart would be the perfect presidential debate host. Will it happen? | Grist
Jon Stewart fans: Take note. Jon Stewart is more than qualified to tackle the moderating job. Mr.
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Scientists say we’re “super” good at killing stuff | Grist
Humans don’t really need another reason to feel like the greatest species on Earth, so far removed from nature that we can basically do whatever we want with it, but here’s one: Scientists in British Columbia have officially dubbed us “super predato…
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Study finds a link between neonic pesticides and honeybee deaths | Grist
A new study, published on Thursday, shows a correlation between honeybee colony deaths and neonicotinoid pesticide usage in the United Kingdom. Neonicotinoids generally come as a seed coating. When the seed sprouts, it takes in the pesticide, which …
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Eating Healthy At The Iowa State Fair Means Salad On A Stick : The Salt : NPR
Trying to find healthy food at a state fair awash with deep-fried Oreos and foot-long corn dogs is no easy task. At the Iowa State Fair, one of the rites of passage is trying food on a stick.
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France train shooting: Americans overpower gunman – BBC News
An armed man has injured three people on a train between Amsterdam and Paris before being overpowered by two American passengers, officials say. The incident happened on the high-speed Thalys service near Arras, and the attacker was arrested at Arra…
Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by two American passengers. The incident happened on the high-speed Thalys service near Arras, and the attacker was arrested at… -
Report: ‘The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep’ By Carl- Johan Forssen Ehrlin : NPR
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How? Every so often, a genuine publishing phenomenon emerges. The latest one is no Harry Potter, but the reason for its meteoric rise to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list is self-evident.
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Ultra-Orthodox In Israel: Keeping Cool While Keeping Customs : Parallels : NPR
In the hot sun of a Jerusalem afternoon, kids wait for a fountain to turn on. When water spouts into the air, 9-year-old Tzipora Baranas jumps right in. She’s wearing black tights, a black, below-the-knee skirt and a long-sleeved black shirt.
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The Definition of ‘Fuckboy’ Is Not What Bad Trend Pieces Are Telling You
By its very definition, slang is simple. It is informal language used by a group of people to discuss or describe certain concepts or characteristics that are implicitly understood if one is a member of said group.
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PARIS — A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, wounding at least three people before two American passengers subdued him, French officials said. One of the Americans was among the wounded.
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“Abandoned factory winter environment (process)” by Sy Gardner : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Tractor Fractal : oddlysatisfying
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HMB while i give everyone a high five! : holdmybeer
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shits on fire : trippinthroughtime
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/8U6sk9Pjp6 http://t.co/ByACnmkbJQ
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Geirangerfjord, Norway [3264 x 1896] [OC] : EarthPorn
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She found a shortcut to class : woahdude
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Ketamine Can Cure Your Depression And Other Facts – Digg
Welcome to “What We Learned This Week,” a regular feature where we share all the most interesting nuggets of information we picked up in the past week. By trade, Glenn Brooks is an anesthesiologist. But for the past three years, he’s treated the dep…
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Scott Walker refuses to take position on birthright citizenship debate | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker has backed away from his call for birthright citizenship to be brought to an end, refusing to take a position on the issue in an interview on Friday.
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FCC announces video calling platform for sign language users | The Verge
The Federal Communications Commission is backing development of a platform that it hopes will help make communicating easier for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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The Final Girls puts a hilariously meta twist on ’80s slashers · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The Final Girls presents a cool twist on the horror formula, by forcing present-day teens to relive an ’80s formulaic slasher flick.
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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The New York Daily News Is Incubating An Ad-Tech Startup Called Optimera | TechCrunch
The second startup participating in the New York Daily News’ Innovation Lab began at the Daily News itself. Optimera was founded by Keith Candiotti (pictured above), the ad operations manager at the Daily News.
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Family of bears have pool party at New Jersey home – video | US news | The Guardian
A family of bears are filmed cooling off in a backyard pool in Rockaway Township, New Jersey.
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Banksy Made A Theme Park And It’s Terrifying | WIRED
It’s theme park in the most literal sense—a heavy-handed doom and gloom play on Disneyland, complete with a grim reaper riding in a bumper car and a dead Cinderella tumbling out of her over-turned pumpkin chariot. There’s also an Orca jumping out of…
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It was a time of turbulence and strife, when a disenfranchised population found themselves at odds with oppressive law enforcement and a disinterested political system. It was against this backdrop that a musical force emerged to present a threat to…
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Mario Maker and the Beautiful Art of Manipulation | WIRED
Super Mario Maker, Nintendo’s upcoming game-creation software for Wii U, doesn’t give you all of its tools immediately. Instead, it rolls them out in dribs and drabs, a day at a time.
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Border Gore: Pamir Mountains [2050×1362] : MapPorn
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For Kazakhstan’s LGBT Community, A Struggle For Recognition And Rights : Parallels : NPR
Last month, the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan made the news, as it competed with Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Kazakhstan lost its bid, but the effort drew attention to the problems faced by the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual…
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Will Tell Dropbox’s Story At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 | TechCrunch
Dropbox is perhaps one of the companies in the toughest position in Silicon Valley right now. The company has been a darling in the eyes of the tech industry, rising to a $10 billion valuation as of last year.
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Ten Migrants Injured During Border Clashes With Macedonian Police | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. Ten people were injured Friday as Macedonian police fired stun grenades into a crowd of migrants who had gathered at the border between Greece and Ma…
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Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: ‘Nobody Was Watching’ | Motherboard
For the past week, international media has reported on the hack of extramarital site Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media, which has affected potentially tens of millions of site users, as well as spewed the alleged source code of t…
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College student sinks basket from half court to win free tuition – video | US news | The Guardian
Lem Turner, a first-year student at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, wins free tuition for a semester after sinking a half-court shot. Turner, who is from Illinois, makes the lucky shot on Thursday night during a freshman pep rally.
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White House: ISIL Deputy Killed in Air Strike | Al Jazeera America
The second-in-command of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was killed during a U.S.
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Labour leadership: Party ‘robustly’ verifying voters – BBC News
Labour officials are “rigorously, robustly and fairly” verifying that those applying to vote in its leadership contest do support the party, its interim leader says. Harriet Harman said infiltrators were “not clever” but the party’s safeguards would…
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Dr. Dre Issues Statement on Past Assaults on Women | Rolling Stone
Dr.
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If You Want to Insult Cate Blanchett, Here Is What to Call Her | Vanity Fair
While we hope that you never find yourself in a name-calling match with Cate Blanchett, consider yourself now equipped with the single insult that will cut the Oscar winner to her very core.
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Revisiting Trekkies, The Movie That Showed Fan Documentaries How to Fan Documentary
Bronies, Jedi Junkies, Turtle Power, Mudbloods, The People vs. George Lucas… as geekiness gets cool, we’ve been deluged in documentaries exploring fan subcultures, sub-subcultures, and sub-sub-subcultures.
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Coalition airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia reportedly killed more than 65 civilians in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz on Friday, as aid officials excoriated the US government for its role in supporting the Arab force that has targeted Houthi reb…
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‘Mad Men’ Creator: Coke Ad Finale Planned From Beginning | Rolling Stone
‘Mad Men’ Creator: Coke Ad Finale Planned From Beginning “The idea that he would end up at an ashram…
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Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution – The New Yorker
When researching the work of a great filmmaker, it’s important to talk not only with the director but also with the cast, crew, and other associates in production. That’s because artists, when they describe their experience, tend to deliver gems.
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Should Clinton Emails Have Been Classified From the Start? | Mother Jones
Hillary Clinton’s repeated insistence that she didn’t send or receive classified emails through her infamous personal email server seemed to take a hit Friday morning, when Reuters reported that many of her State Department emails should have been d…
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Avebury Henge 16 09 11_5816 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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HMB while I parkour : holdmybeer
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A Hubble Cosmic Couple | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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HMB while I put on these pants : holdmybeer
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Airstrikes In Southwest Yemen Prompt Appeals From Aid Groups : NPR
An airstrike has killed dozens of civilians in the city of Taiz, Yemen. Aid groups are calling on the Saudi-backed coalition and the Houthi rebels on the ground to stop attacking civilian targets.
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Mayor Landrieu Tells Displaced New Orleanians: ‘Y’all Can Come Home’ : NPR
After the levees broke 10 years ago in New Orleans, tens of thousands of residents fled the city and never returned. They resettled in 32 states around the nation, many of them landing in Houston.
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Somali-Americans Divided Over How To Prevent Youth From Joining ISIS : NPR
More Somali-American young people have disappeared from the Twin Cities, and community leaders fear the missing have joined the self-declared Islamic State. The news comes as the Somali community remains divided on how to stem the flow of potential …
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New Mexico Rejoices As Yearslong Drought Finally Ease : NPR
Drought and wildfires are the top news from most of the West this summer. But it is a different story in much of New Mexico, where more than half of the state is no longer in a drought, after nearly 10 years.
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Price Of Oil Drops To $40 A Barrel, Despite Predictions It Would Rise : NPR
The price of oil has dropped to a 6 1/2 year low. Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, explains why the low price hasn’t been reflected in lower consumer prices.
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Letter From Obama Wins Congressman’s Support For Iran Deal : NPR
President Obama today won over a key ally in support of the Iran nuclear deal after sending New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler a lengthy letter.
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Two Women Make History By Graduating From Army Ranger School : NPR
At Fort Benning, Ga., on Friday, the Army celebrated the latest crop of soldiers who made it through the grueling Rangers training program — including the first women ever to complete the course.
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North And South Korea Exchange Fire Across Border : NPR
Tensions between North and South Korea have been rising. This week the North fired a rocket across the demilitarized zone separating the two countries. The South responded with dozens of shells.
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Global Markets Dip As Chinese Economy Slow-Down Spooks Investors : NPR
Global markets endured a brutal week as concerns about a slowing Chinese economy spooked investors. But the U.S. stock market has enjoyed strong gains in recent years, and this week’s losses don’t even begin to erase them.
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Novelist Kamel Daoud, Finding Dignity In The Absurd : NPR
The most talked-about novel written in French recently is not by a Frenchman, but by an Algerian, newspaper editor Kamel Daoud.
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Starz Hopes For Breakthrough Hit With Patrick Stewart Comedy : NPR
Blunt Talk stars Patrick Stewart as a British host on American cable TV. He wants to transform cable news, but he also has a taste for drugs and sex. With the show, Starz aims to compete with more prestigious premium channels.
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Week In Politics: Campaigns Grapple With Immigration, #BlackLivesMatter : NPR
Audie speaks with syndicated columnist Cynthia Tucker, from Mobile, Ala., and Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for The National Review and columnist for BloombergView, to discuss recent developments in the 2016 presidential race.
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Le Pen Expelled From French National Front : NPR
Jean Marie Le Pen, longtime leader of France’s far-right political party, has been ousted after a feud with his daughter, the current party leader.
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A Radio Romance: A Host And Her Listener Find Love Over The Air : NPR
Anne Levine and Michael Hill had a real-life Sleepless in Seattle romance. She has a radio show on Cape Cod; he was listening online in Seattle, when he fell in love with her voice.
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Trump Still Leads In Race For Republican Presidential Nomination : NPR
The latest CNN/ORC poll shows 24 percent of Republican voters like what they see in Donald Trump. Who are these supporters, and what is Trump’s appeal?
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Outlook for iOS Now Opens and Edits Office Documents Easier
Provided you have other Office apps installed (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), you can now open attachments directly from Outlook, edit the attachment, then attach it back into the reply email in a snap.
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Shondaland sells comedy pilot written by Trophy Wife creators to ABC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Another day, another Shondaland pilot bought by ABC. As part of Shondaland’s overall deal with ABC Studios, Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers recently sold a comedy project, Splitsville, to the network that might as well change its name to The Shonda Rh…
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This Liberal Billionaire Just Bought a Whole Bunch of Coal Company Stocks | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Beset by a boom in natural gas and a rising interest in clean energy, King Coal is losing his grip on his throne.
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Senegal jails seven men for ‘being gay’ – BBC News
Seven men have been jailed for six months in Senegal, after they were found guilty of homosexuality. The mother of one of the accused told the authorities her son was gay, but she failed to show up as a prosecution witness at the trial.
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Djokovic rolls over Wawrinka to reach Cincinnati semis – Al Jazeera English
Top seed Novak Djokovic avenged his French Open final loss to Stan Wawrinka by crushing the Swiss 6-4 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.
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Banksy Opens ‘Dismaland’ Theme Park – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Give your spam filter something to do.
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The Meta Horror Trailer: The Final Girls | WIRED
Every once in a while in horror movies, you need someone to step in and hit the reset button. The genre needs to be run up flagpole so we can all have a good-natured laugh at its inherent silliness and abuse of tropes and over-the-top expressions se…
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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Stock prices around the world continued to plunge on Friday, threatening to end one of the longest bull runs in the history of the United States stock market.
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What You Need To Know About The Fat Jew – Digg
Last week, it was reported that Josh Ostrovsky, AKA The Fat Jew, had signed with the CAA and had a pilot in development at Comedy Central. Ostrovsky, who also recently signed a modeling contract, is known for stealing jokes from comedians on Twitter…
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Hey, Burning Man: Your desert party sucks for the rest of us | Grist
Get ready, folks! The most magical time of year is almost upon us. That’s right: Burning Man. Lest you mistake me for a tech billionaire with a penchant for fuzzy boots, hula hoops, group showers, and dudes named Dusty Unicorn — au contraire.
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Wingnut Week In Review: BatTrump
This week, Donald Trump gave the 2016 presidential election its best unofficial campaign slogan yet. Meanwhile, the Duggar family is proving harder to get rid of than a coldsore.
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This Is How Bernie Sanders Could Win | FiveThirtyEight
micah (Micah Cohen, senior editor): We’ve been pretty tough on Bernie Sanders here at FiveThirtyEight. He’s surged in the polling and drawn big, enthusiastic crowds, and yet we’ve written several articles largely dismissing his odds of toppling Hill…
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Martin O’Malley Offers Strong Plan To Expand Retirement Security
Friday, Democratic Presidential candidate Martin O’Malley released a plan, called “Expanding Social Security So Americans Can Retire With Dignity,” to boost retirement security.
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Adonis Blues (Polyommatus belargus) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Korean Riot Police use Ancient Roman Tactics : interestingasfuck
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Rise [Redwood National Forest, CA] | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Smithsonian’s First Kickstarter a Success: $720,000 Raised to ‘Reboot’ Spacesuits
Lisa Young, conservator at the National Air and Space Museum, works on Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit. The museum’s successful “Reboot the Suit” Kickstarter campaign has funded the conservation, digitization and display of the astronaut’s suit…
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Week in Fashion: The Color Everyone Was Wearing This Week | Vanity Fair
1/10LUPITA NYONG’O Lupita’s neon-green Lanvin mini is the perfect way to kick off this slide show because if someone’s going to teach us how to rock green in every right way, it can only be Lupita. By Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images.+−zoom
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NRA trains national guard members on firearms after Chattanooga attacks | US news | The Guardian
The National Rifle Association has been instructing Indiana’s national guard members on how to use concealed weapons after Republican governor Mike Pence directed the state’s military bases and training centers to beef up security in response to rec…
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Mad Max Director George Miller Rumored to Be Up For Man Of Steel 2
“I want to see that again” was probably your first thought after watching Mad Max: Fury Road. The second may have been “I wonder what director George Miller is doing next.
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Saudi-led Assault on Yemeni City Kills Dozens of Civilians | VICE News
Coalition airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia reportedly killed more than 65 civilians in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz on Friday, as aid officials excoriated the US government for its role in supporting the Arab force that has targeted Houthi reb…
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Two Steps Closer to the Search for Dark Matter and Dark Energy – Scientific American
Editor’s note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
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Ellen Page challenges Ted Cruz on LGBT rights at Iowa State Fair | US news | The Guardian
Presidential hopefuls are used to having animated conversations about policy at the Iowa State Fair. But their interlocutors are not always Oscar-nominated actors.
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Amazing: Scott Walker now says he’s ‘not taking a position’ on birthright citizenship
Walker’s unwillingness to state actual policy positions seems at this point less campaign strategy and more personal pathology.
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Jeb Bush gets feisty over his use of ‘anchor babies’ term – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush engages in a feisty exchange with reporters over his use of the term ‘anchor babies’. Speaking in New Hampshire on Thursday, Bush says he does not regret using the term in a radio interview. He challenges t…
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NASA to Test Emergency Locator Transmitters by Crashing Airplane | NASA
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This man is 104 years young. He has more swag than some youths. : pics
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Saudi-led Assault on Yemeni Town Kills Dozens of Civilians | VICE News
Coalition airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia reportedly killed more than 65 civilians in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz on Friday, as aid officials excoriated the US government for its role in supporting the Arab force that has targeted Houthi reb…
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Australian bowlers leave England reeling in final Test – Al Jazeera English
England crumbled meekly to 107 for eight in reply to Australia’s 481 to put the touring side firmly on course for victory in the final Ashes Test after a dramatic second day at The Oval.
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US: ISIL’s second-in-command killed in air strike – Al Jazeera English
The US government says it has confirmed that the deputy leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group was killed in a US military air strike in Iraq earlier this week.
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Interviewing is an art form. Especially in this day and age, when celebrities are bombarded with the same questions from all sorts of outlets, it’s hard to elicit a real moment from them. However, it does help if the interviewer is being kind of a d…
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In Memoriam: ‘Six Feet Under’ Cast Eulogizes HBO’s Late, Great Reminder to Live | | Observer
The concept was short and simple: a series set in a family-run funeral home. In poetic fashion, nearly every episode of HBO’s Six Feet Under begins with the end of somebody’s life.
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Clarice Lispector is Brazil’s Little-Known Successor to James Joyce – The Atlantic
Clarice Lispector was a woman plagued by “the hellish grandeur of life.” Throughout her career the Brazilian author and journalist showed a fascination for the mundane, as well as a desperation to quiet her mind and achieve a semblance of normalcy.
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Stephen Amell to wear his Arrow costume for WWE SummerSlam · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Non-fans of the sport might not know this, but the WWE’s annual SummerSlam isn’t just a place for retired political pundits to hide from the baying crowds and their demands for even-handed debate moderation.
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This Social Network Turns Your Personality Into an Immortal Artificial Intelligence
By learning everything there is to know about you and your online habits, social network ETER9 promises a kind of digital immortality wherein an artificially intelligent agent continues to post on your behalf long after you’re dead. The future is cr…
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What Does 15 CPW’s Midsummer Sales Rush Mean? | | Observer
When a thirty-eight floor unit at 15 Central Park West hit the market last week asking $36.5 million, it brought the grand total of for-sale apartments currently available in the luxury condo to ten, raising the question of what exactly is going on …
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Religious Jewish Pols Rip Manhattan Congressman Over Iran Deal Support | Observer
Two elected officials from a deeply religious section of Brooklyn tore into Congressman Jerrold Nadler after he announced this morning that he would support the Obama administration-backed deal to ease sanctions on Iran in exchange for a pause in th…
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This Real-Time, First-Person Video Game Lets You Fight Zombies on Chatroulette | Motherboard
Breaking the monotony of the site’s normally scheduled barrage of unwanted genitalia, a team of British filmmakers used the video-chat site Chatroulette to make a real-life, interactive first-person video game.
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CoCo Vandeweghe is the Ronda Rousey of Tennis | Observer
Balls at a tennis tournament number in the thousands, and almost all are of the bouncy, fuzzy, yellow-green variety.
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‘Six Feet Under’: A Non-Oral History Regarding My Personal Feelings About the Show | | Observer
Okay! Guys! Listen up: Six Feet Under is the best, most influential pieces of television in the history of the medium. To me.
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Conan Throws Jordan Schlansky A Bachelor Party : television
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It has been a frantic week on Wall Street and in other financial centers, with stocks and other risky assets experiencing their worst week of the year — and in some cases several years.
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IS ‘deputy’ killed in air strike – US – BBC News
A deputy leader of Islamic State, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has been killed in a US military strike in Iraq, the White House says.Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, is described by US officials as the second in command of the group.They said he was k…
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Rex Nutting has a very nice article about the reality of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, which has been distorted out of recognition by the myth of Saint Reagan.
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Criminals are already using the Ashley Madison leak for blackmail | The Verge
Online criminals aren’t wasting any time taking advantage of this week’s Ashley Madison data dump. Krebs on Security is reporting on one such scheme, noticed by an email provider in Milwaukee that found the following message being spammed to its sub…
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Use this fake birthday generator the next time you sign up for Ashley Madison | The Verge
Because Hack Week? Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Instagram Rabbit Hole: Rihanna and the Colorful Cars of SF | WIRED
This week associate photo editor and photographer Josh Valcarcel (@joshvalphoto) takes us down the Instagram Rabbit Hole. Valcarcel started with well-known street photographer Daniel Arnold, who was featured on WIRED last year.
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Peru Just Allowed Its Military to Shoot Down Planes Suspected of Drug Trafficking | VICE News
Peru has become the latest country in South America to permit its military to shoot down suspected drug-smuggling planes that pass over it.
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Remakes, reboots, and reimaginings suck, right? You know, except for Heat, True Lies, Little Shop Of Horrors, True Grit, The Fly, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and John Carpenter’s 1982 redux of Howard Hawks’ The Thing From Another World.
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Dave Chappelle heckler is free to be awful to (black) comedians once more · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Back in April, self-described “court jester” (and self-evident douche) Christian Englander went to see Dave Chappelle’s stand-up in Santa Fe. Englander brought his friend Johnny Appleseed, an Englander-certified “sensitive artist” (these guys must t…
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This Week in TV: Lily Tomlin Is Your Friendly Neighborhood Weed Lady | WIRED
After a slow couple of weeks, late-night TV started to pick up again over the last few days as Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon came to the rescue with some really top-notch skits.
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Channel Tunnel train halted for migrant search – BBC News
The company said there was a 60-minute wait before check-in at the Folkestone terminal in Kent and a three-hour wait after that. Passengers in France are also facing a two-hour wait at the terminal.
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ISIL destroys ancient monastery in central Syria – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has demolished a monastery founded more than 1,500 years ago in the central Syrian province of Homs, close to where it abducted scores of Christians earlier this month, activists and a Christian …
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‘Radicalised’ schoolgirl must leave family home – judge – BBC News
A schoolgirl was “radicalised” when her family exposed her to propaganda by the Islamic State group and must be removed from their home, the High Court says.The 16-year-old’s “deceitful” parents showed her images of beheadings, and material on bomb-…
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McKinsey Project Report on My Dating Life – The New Yorker
The client, Blythe Roberson, contracted McKinsey & Company to develop a strategy to improve her dating life. According to the client, ideal improvement would consist of “getting to kiss good hot boys who are artistic and nice or, at the very minimum…
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Cincinnati Masters: Novak Djokovic sweeps past Stan Wawrinka to last four | Sport | The Guardian
Any doubts Novak Djokovic might have had about his shoulder and elbow, which inhibited him in Montreal last week and briefly in the third round here, dwindled in the Ohio sunshine as he exacted revenge on Stan Wawrinka for defeat in the French Open …
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Paul Thomas Anderson made a documentary and didn’t tell you · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As far as Paul Thomas Anderson is concerned, 2015 has been one big long surprise party. First it was announced that Anderson was writing a live-action Pinocchio for Warner Bros., with nudge-nudge hints suggesting that he was also considering directi…
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Brady Olson has a leg up going into his sophomore year of high school. By creating a fictitious presidential candidate out of the classic prank-call mainstay “Deez Nuts,” the 15-year-old has struck viral gold.
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Sources: ISIS No.2 likely killed in Iraq – CNN.com
The U.S. intelligence community is in the final stages of confirming the man who died was Mutazz, a top deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, the officials said. The U.S. believes Mutazz was prominently involved in directing ISIS’ financial ope…
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Middle East conflict drastically ‘improves air quality’ – BBC News
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PRINCETON, N.J. — THIS has been a tough season for commuters in the New York region: the Amtrak crash in May, trains stuck in Hudson River tunnels in June, subway service disrupted by never-ending summer construction. Still, more than 5.
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The Cure The Same Deep Water As You – YouTube
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The Online Mob Masquerades as a Social Justice Movement – The Daily Beast
In late July, an unofficial public service announcement about a serially abusive man in Brooklyn began circulating on social media.
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Midday open thread: Oil-price plunge takes jobs down with it; booze and bullets in Florida
Everyone who eats or drinks at the restaurant will have to submit to an ID scan, and if they’ve had alcohol, they won’t be allowed to shoot at the range that day, WFTV reports. […] Patrons who go to the gun range will also have to sign an affidavi…
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Gadget Lab Podcast: Hell Is Other People | WIRED
It’s episode #250 this week on the Gadget Lab. And wouldn’t you know it, even with such a landmark occasion to celebrate, Michael missed it. He was off snorkeling in the alps or something, so Molly and David recorded the show without him.
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Petition for Jon Stewart to moderate presidential debate attracts 175,000 | US news | The Guardian
A petition calling for former Daily Show host Jon Stewart to moderate one of the 2016 presidential debates has gathered over 175,000 signatures – including one endorsement from Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley.
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Ex-security guard pleads guilty to cooking meth in government lab | US news | The Guardian
A former security officer at a federal laboratory in Maryland pleaded guilty on Friday to trying to make methamphetamine at work last month, setting off an explosion in what his lawyer has described as an unauthorized experiment.
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Bike Intervals Can Make You a Faster Runner
Looking for variety, or just trying to stay off your feet to rehab an injury? According to a new study, a short interval session on a stationary bike can help you build running speed.
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All the Disney Live-Action Adaptations That May Potentially Ruin Your Childhood
Hardly a week goes by without Disney announcing a live-action adaptation of something. Some of them make a sort of sense, and the others are complete lunacy. As we have done before, it’s time to figure out just how many of these things are on the wa…
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Dr. Dre says he’s sorry for beating women | The Verge
In a statement to The New York Times Friday morning, Dr. Dre apologized for a pattern of misogyny and abusive behavior that emerged in the late ’80s and early ’90s, a time period that’s attracted renewed interest in recent weeks.
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Smartphone Sales Fall In China For The First Time | WIRED
In China, the world’s largest smartphone market is getting smaller. Smartphone sales fell 4 percent during the second quarter of 2015, according to new figures from Gartner, a market research firm. It’s the first time sales of the devices has fallen…
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Dr. Dre Issues Apology to “Women I’ve Hurt” Amid Continued Misogyny Criticism | Vanity Fair
While Straight Outta Compton grossed $80 million at the box office in its first week in theaters, criticism of the N.W.A. biopic, and the story lines it left out, has gathered momentum in recent days. Several women who have accused group member Dr.
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Hexagon Cake Knife? Hexagon Cake Knife. Hexagon Cake Knife!
A hexagon cake knife is a knife that can cut cake into hexagonal pieces. Matthias Wandel, who is an engineer by trade but moonlights as a woodworking wizard (see his eminently watchable YouTube channel), was in need of such a knife, so he designed a…
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The Government Plans to Stockpile a Vaccine That Doesn’t Even Exist Yet
The USDA announced this week that it’s launching a plan to stockpile a huge cache of vaccines against the avian flu which swept through bird populations this year. Sounds pretty reasonable! There’s only one problem: As of yet, there are no approved …
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Middle East conflict drastically ‘improves air quality’ – BBC News
Political disturbance and armed conflict in the Middle East since 2010 have had the unintended consequence of making the air cleaner. Researchers say that in countries like Syria and Iraq, levels of air pollutants have fallen dramatically.
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New Order – True Faith (1987) [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO] – YouTube
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New Order – True Faith (1987) [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO] – YouTube
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Van Morrison – Caravan (1978 Live) – YouTube
Caravan live during ‘The Last Waltz’ (1978), fantastic performance. I do not own this song, it belongs to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended.
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The lost language of gay English men
Polari was a secret slang language spoken by gay men in England so that they could converse together in public without fear of arrest. It fell into disuse in the 1960s, but this short film by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston features a conversatio…
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The earliest record of coffee drinking as we know it comes from Yemen, near the end of the fifteenth century, when the beverage was popular among Sufi mystics.
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Ashley Madison Targeted by Class-Action Lawsuit in Canada Over Privacy Breach | VICE News
A disabled widower from Canada’s capital city has stepped forward to be the face of a class action lawsuit against AshleyMadison.com, as the fallout continues for the hacked online dating site that facilitates infidelity among married people.
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Weekend of Wonder: Baby Tattoo’s Carnival of Astounding Art – Boing Boing
Starting tomorrow the Oceanside Museum of Art plays host to Weekend of Wonder co-creator Baby Tattoo’s Carnival of Astounding Art!
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China emitted a little less greenhouse gas than we thought | Ars Technica
As a rapidly emerging economy with over four times the population of the US, China is playing an increasingly large role in the story of climate change. That makes trends in energy production there rather important.
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War, humanitarian catastrophe and economic crises in the Middle East have “drastically altered” air pollution levels in the region, according to a new study.
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‘Chemical agent’ traced in IS mortar fire, says US general – BBC News
Tests on Islamic State mortar fragments from fighting in Iraq show traces of chemical arms, the US military says. US Brig Gen Kevin Killea said they found traces of chemical agent sulphur mustard on mortars used by IS to attack Kurdish forces in nor…
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Has One Year of Bombing the Islamic State Made a Difference? | VICE News
It’s been a year since the start of the US bombing campaign against the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. Now known as Operation Inherent Resolve, the goal of US Central Command’s aerial campaign and subsequent training mission has bee…
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Dr Dre apologizes for assaulting Michel’le and Dee Barnes in the 90s | Music | The Guardian
Dr Dre has apologized to R&B singer Michel’le and journalist Dee Barnes, whose past accusations of abuse against the rapper were notably absent from the newly released NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton.
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Black Lives Matter activist refutes allegations that he lied about his race | US news | The Guardian
Shaun King, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, has responded to weeks of allegations that he had lied about his racial background with an article confirming he is biracial and was born to a white mother and a black father he does not know.
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A ‘Paparazzi Proof’ Apartment Will Run You $50 Million | Vanity Fair
People in Los Angeles hate the paparazzi so much that they’d be willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to avoid them.
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Journalist Killed Just Days After Ominous Threat From South Sudanese President | ThinkProgress
South Sudanese journalist Peter Moi was killed by unidentified gunmen Wednesday evening just days after an ominous threat was issued by President Salva Kiir against the nation’s press corps.
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Opera Max Compresses Netflix and YouTube Videos to Save You Data
Android: Every once in awhile, I find myself out in the world with no Wi-Fi, bored and itching to watch Netflix on my phone—but I don’t want to go over my data cap. Opera Max helps solve that problem.
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Viewpoint: Greek election heralds fresh bailout battle – BBC News
Greek political instability has reached alarming new levels, with the emergence of a new left-wing party in parliament defying Syriza.
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One of My Instagram Followers Is a Prude | Motherboard
Instagram’s mysterious censorship policies and anti-nudity guidelines have long been a point of contention, from the ongoing #freethenipple battle to users challenging the platform’s removal of menstrual blood and pubic hair images.
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Sam Rader, one half of the Christian vlogging couple whose alleged miscarriage video went viral this month, was listed as a paying subscriber to Ashley Madison, according to stolen data shared online by hackers.
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Saturn’s Moon Dione: Photos from Cassini’s Final Close Flyby
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Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories | Ars Technica
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove links from its search results that point to news stories reporting on earlier removals of links from its search results.
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Our unsustainable habit of hunting and fishing only for adult animals | Ars Technica
It’s not news that humans are having an astonishing and unprecedented impact on global ecosystems, or that we consume other species at a voracious and unsustainable rate. But analyses of humans’ roles in ecosystems tend to look only at how much we d…
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Google Brings Tweets To Desktop Search Results | TechCrunch
Back in May, Google and Twitter partnered to bring tweets into mobile search results. It was, and is, a pretty big deal for both companies. Update, 8/21/2015: We’ve extended this to desktop now too, and in English everywhere.
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Surprise: The guy who calls himself The Fat Jew is kind of obnoxious · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In recent weeks, Josh Ostrovsky, a.k.a. The Fat Jewish, a.k.a. The Fat Jew, has emerged as a sort of millennial boogeyman, taking all of the internet’s darkest, laziest, most attention-whoring impulses and manifesting them into one marginally talent…
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Survivors speak of Syria chemical attack, two years on – Al Jazeera English
Two years ago, up to 1,500 people died when rockets filled with Sarin gas struck the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. The government denies widespread accusations of being behind the chemical attack.
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As immigration continues to dominate the Republican presidential race, both Donald Trump and Jeb Bush have been criticized for their use of the term “anchor babies”. Ellen Brait looks at what the phrase means and why it is so controversial.
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Although a few dozen of Hillary Clinton’s publicly released work emails from her time as secretary of state are now stamped “classified”, the US Department of State, and Clinton herself, have maintained these classifications are new.
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Global market turmoil in six charts | Business | The Guardian
World stock markets have suffered their worst week of the year so far as concerns about the health of the Chinese economy rattle investors across the globe.
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This Robot Is Better at Tinder Than You | WIRED
Life certainly would be easier if you could just automate your love life. Your thumb would certainly feel better. Saurabh Datta probably has a well-rested thumb.
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Scott Walker Is ‘Not Taking A Position’ On Birthright Citizenship | ThinkProgress
Scott Walker was tired from “hours” of interviews when he said that fellow contender Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship was “very similar” to the immigration position that Walker supported as Wisconsin governor, according to an interv…
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: England collapse as Australia dominate at Oval
Steve Smith’s century and a dreadful England batting collapse handed Australia total control of the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval. The tourists’ captain-in-waiting, who was caught off a Steven Finn no-ball on 92, went on to score 143 and propel his t…
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Robert Rodriguez will make another film for $7,000 next year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of his debut feature El Mariachi—which was made in 1992 for $7,000—do-it-yourself filmmaker Robert Rodriguez said on the Nerdist podcast that he plans to make another film for $7,000 next year.
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7 Big Oil Companies Submit Climate Commitments To The U.N. | ThinkProgress
Earlier this week, seven oil and gas companies proposed methane emissions cuts as part of their contribution to a global climate deal ahead of the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris later this year.
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NPR uses Jeb! Bush supporter as source for latest Hillary Clinton email story
Michael Hayden, the Bush man NPR uses to trash Hillary Clinton. Media Matters digs and exposes the sources behind yet another Hillary Clinton email story from NPR.
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You Really Don’t Need To Work So Much – The New Yorker
Recently, the New York Times ran a front-page story about the conditions for white-collar workers at Amazon. It revealed a workplace where abrupt firings are common, grown men and women cry at their desks, and people are scolded for not responding t…
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A Day in Space? For Scott Kelly, It’s Work, TV (But No Laundry!)
Aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly talks to journalist Katie Couric on Aug. 19, 2015.
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Poll: Indian Muslim women want end to verbal divorce – Al Jazeera English
New Delhi, India – An overwhelming majority of Muslim women in India want reforms in religious laws involving matters of divorce, alimony, polygamy and custody of children, according to a survey conducted by a rights group.
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io9 Newsstand: Read Some of the Creepiest, Darkest Horror Stories on the Internet
This week’s stories are about transformations born out of joy, fear, loneliness, pain, and the fierce fire of retribution. Sometimes I’m cornered at parties by someone who’s been watching me from across the room as they drain their glass. They think…
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Matt Barnes Says He Definitely Dated Rihanna: ‘I’m Too Grown to Lie’ | Rolling Stone
We began the week with the sordid tale of Rihanna and Matt Barnes’ Dategate, and despite RiRi’s wishes, we’re still talking about it as the week comes to a close.
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New Moto 360 seen near Motorola’s Chicago headquarters | The Verge
All signs (even Motorola’s own) point to a new Moto 360 smartwatch arriving in the near future, so perhaps it shouldn’t be any surprise that the company has apparently been testing the unannounced device near its Chicago offices.
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BBC Sport – World Championships 2015: Mo Farah eyes historic double gold
Double-Olympic champion Mo Farah is relishing the prospect of achieving an unprecedented 5,000 and 10,000m double at consecutive World Championships. Farah makes his first bid for gold on Saturday when he competes in the 10,000m final.
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Twitter Influencers Can Get Anonymous Feedback with Wondr | | Observer
Twitter users with huge followings have a way to solicit anonymous, one-to-one feedback, but also keep it manageable through a new app called Wondr. This could be useful, for example, going into the political season next year.
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I was on Judge Judy, AMA : IAmA
Long Story Short Last year I was suing my former best friend for payment of rent and related costs. After filing a small claims case through my county I got this in the mail. After laughing over it for a few days, I decided to JUST DO IT.
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Jonny Greenwood, Paul Thomas Anderson Team for ‘Junun’ Documentary | Rolling Stone
Jonny Greenwood, Paul Thomas Anderson Team for ‘Junun’ Documentary Radiohead guitarist’s journey to India to record with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur captured by ‘Inherent Vice’ director
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Donald Trump Just Stopped Being Funny | Rolling Stone
So two yahoos from Southie in my hometown of Boston severely beat up a Hispanic homeless guy earlier this week. While being arrested, one of the brothers reportedly told police that “Donald Trump was right, all of these illegals need to be deported.”
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See Jerrod Niemann Take a Gypsy Road Trip in ‘Blue Bandana’ Video | Rolling Stone
In Jerrod Niemann’s new video for “Blue Bandana,” the first single from his upcoming fourth major-label album, the story of a festival-hopping beauty with a gypsy spirit comes to life.
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Kip Moore on Failed Singles, ‘Effing Auto-Tune’ and New ‘Wild Ones’ | Rolling Stone
It’s a little after 11:00 am on a Tuesday, and Kip Moore is sitting at a table in the back of a chicken restaurant called Party Fowl near downtown Nashville, sipping a glass of water and thumping out the bassline to the Temptations’ “My Girl” on his…
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Jury Deadlocked in Cop’s Shooting death Trial | Al Jazeera America
Randall Kerrick, 29, faces a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the September 2013 death of Jonathan Ferrell, 24, a former Florida A&M football player who had wrecked his car on a dark road and was seeking help when he encountered officers.
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Does Country Music Need Jamie Lynn Spears? | | Observer
The transition from teen TV star to adult musician is tricky enough—but try adding the last name Spears into the mix.
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Hear Duran Duran’s New Electro-Pop Ballad, ‘What Are the Chances’ | Rolling Stone
Duran Duran get philosophical on new electro-pop ballad “What Are the Chances,” as singer Simon Le Bon ponders the mysteries of fate. “Playing with your life – or is it destiny? – which sets you on a path,” he sings over skittering digital hi-hats a…
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‘Magic box of science’: The first television in San Francisco – The Big Event
I will never sound older than I do when describing the few years I worked as a reporter before the Internet became a big thing. Looking up stuff in books. Cutting out clippings with a scissors so I could read my stories again in the future. Finding …
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What Josh Duggar Thinks about Reddit, Currently : AdviceAnimals
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Bought a new tea steeper the other day. Hang in there buddy! : sloths
Bought a new tea steeper the other day. Hang in there buddy! via /r/sloths http://t.co/i5rdGn7vWS http://t.co/SOp3jk7Pv7
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Sunset in Rhode Island taking with UAV [4000 x 2250] : EarthPorn
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‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar. : cats
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar. via /r/cats http://t.co/rpxvBfdzy4 http://t.co/zkTwXgOS27
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FORT BENNING, Ga. — First Lt. Shaye Haver, an Apache attack helicopter pilot who on Friday will be one of the first women to graduate from the Army’s elite Ranger School, wants to remain an aviator.
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A View Inside Typhoon Atsani : Natural Hazards
While it has been a quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, the western North Pacific has been churning out typhoons on a near weekly basis.
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Don’t Reverse Mobile-Platform Improvements That Benefit App Developers And Consumers | TechCrunch
The global app industry has grown dramatically in recent years. Creative developers, enabled by harmonized platforms that incorporate inexpensive feature-rich devices and extraordinary software tools, have powered this growth.
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For Dr. Dre, this summer was meant to be a victory lap in a successful career. The movie, “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about his hip-hop group, N.W.A., topped the box office last week with a $56.
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Gunman wounds three on French train – BBC News
A gunman has injured three people on a train between Amsterdam and Paris before being overpowered by passengers, according to French rail company SNCF.The incident happened on Friday afternoon near Arras in northern France and the assailant was arre…
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Of the many hats that Louis CK wears on his show Louie—producer, writer, star, director—probably none are more overlooked than his job as editor of every episode.
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What Are You Doing with My DNA? – Scientific American
(from left) DeLanna Studi and Tina Benko in the Primary Stages and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation production of Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer, directed by Liesl Tommy, at Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street.
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Working Over 40 Hours a Week Makes You Less Productive, Not More
Sometimes you have to crunch and work overtime. While that can give you a productivity boost and help you get needed things done, in the long term—past four weeks—long work weeks actually make us accomplish less.
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John Cena has granted more Make-A-Wish wishes than any other celebrity · Newswire · The A.V. Club
This week has been filled with reports of public figures behaving badly, so we’re going to indulge in some heartwarming news to cleanse the old palate.
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Make your own TSA universal luggage keys – Boing Boing
The image above, published in 2014 in this Herald.net story and credited to The Washington Post, showed the keying patterns for all of the TSA-complaint “Travel Sentry” luggage locks. I’ve redacted the version above.
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Climate Change Is Hurting Oil And Gas Businesses, Too | ThinkProgress
Dozens of tar sands developers in Alberta’s tar sands have been suspended from taking water — needed for their operations — out of local rivers, after a low flow advisory was issued.
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Naturally the DVD for this incredible, baffling movie is only $6.48! Honestly, things don’t get much weirder. Howard is reading a risqué magazine back on his homeworld of Duckworld, when a janitor’s inter dimensional transportation device rips him f…
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New York City’s historic Opera House Hotel, identified as the source of a deadly spate of Legionnaires’ disease, said it will go beyond newly imposed regulations in testing its cooling system even as officials declared an end to the outbreak.
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Air Conditioning From Outer Space – The Atlantic
Alarms were going off on the International Space Station. Mission control put emergency procedures into action. Up in space, astronauts were being evacuated from different modules and forced to camp out in the Russian section.
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Photos of the Week: 8/15-8/21 – The Atlantic
Cleanup work at the site of the Tianjin explosions, red sprites in the sky above Mexico, wildfires in the American West, filming Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland, the most recent selfie from the surface of Mars, topless performers in New York’s T…
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In Noah Baumbach’s ‘Mistress America,’ Greta Gerwig Explores Generational Malaise – The Atlantic
In the rapidly evolving millennial age, it’s good to know some life experiences are still universal, at least according to Noah Baumbach’s energetic new comedy Mistress America.
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This Tool Compares Mutual Funds Side-by-Side
Building an investment portfolio is easier than you probably think. You don’t have to be a pro to get started, but you do have to pick a few funds. We’ve given you a few to start with in this article, and you can compare them in a little more detail…
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Watch One Direction Go to Space in Their New Music Video, Then Seeth with Jealousy
It’s a slow news Friday, but if you’re on Twitter, all “the kids” are taking about the new music video from boy band One Direction. 99.99% of the time, we wouldn’t care, but in this new video, the band is playing with awesome NASA tech and being sho…
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These Boots Were Made for Stalking: When Women Harass Women Online | Broadly
In 2005, West Coast blogger and author Cynthia* had accumulated a number of sweet but hyperbolic followers–“the late 00s equivalent of #lifegoals commenters,” she says–when one particularly effusive fan started to stand out.
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More of a baguette via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/xzPf8dtqjI http://t.co/Y7FPGf0IqR
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Dark Energy –New Research Asks “Is It a Hidden 5th Force?” http://t.co/2t2oFiy8jD http://t.co/b72g8XBKRE
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Giving out samples on the street is kind of silly. Taking a little cup of urine-colored sports drink or a nasty bag of chips offers little in the way of customer generation and it usually ends up in a messy sidewalk and tired sample givers.
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Why America’s New Toxic Substances Legislation Is a Win for the Chemical Industry | VICE News
For decades now, I’ve called out corporations when they compromise our health and the environment. But rarely in those years have I been as worried as I am now.
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The next 35 years of college football, predicted | The Verge
College football thrives on disorder — far more so than its professional counterpart. This is a sport that, for decades, could not find a way to have the teams ranked first and second play each other at the end of each season.
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Play the world’s largest version of Minesweeper, maybe – Offworld
Ah, Minesweeper. One of the most popular and frustrating puzzle games of the ’80s is about to have its 30th anniversary.
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China says mass fish deaths unrelated to Tianjin blasts – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of dead fish have been found stockpiled on the riverbank of the city of Tianjin, several kilometres from the site of last week’s giant chemical blasts that killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds of others.
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Yemen crisis: Saudi-led air raids ‘kill 65’ in Taiz – BBC News
At least 65 civilians have reportedly been killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on the Yemeni city of Taiz. More than half of the dead were women and children, according to aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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Sea-Turtle Season – The New Yorker
The turtle emerged unannounced from the sea, her massive shell peaking into the moonlight first, then her head, then her body. Heaving after her thousand-mile journey, she dragged herself ashore, found a quiet spot in the dunes, burrowed into the sa…
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BBC Sport – La Liga: Barcelona and Real Madrid set to kick off new season
Summer signings Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal cannot play until January because of a transfer ban. Real Madrid begin their season under new boss Rafael Benitez with a match away to newly promoted Sporting Gijon.
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Every job and career has its perks and range of disposable income. With Salaries in Real-Time, you can discover the purchasing power of popular occupations.
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An unlikely friendship : AnimalsBeingBros
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Slender Man case: Two girls accused plead not guilty – BBC News
Two 13-year-old girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the online horror character Slender Man have pleaded not guilty in court. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier have been charged with attempted murder over the attack.
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Here’s the Lego Jurassic World You’ve Been Waiting For | WIRED
Jurassic World was pretty fun. Like, a bajillion people now agree on this. But if you want to relive it without spending another two hours and $15 at a theater, this 90-second Lego re-enactment pretty much hits all the highlights.
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Ingenious Service Swaps Ugly Online Ads With Pretty Photos | WIRED
Display ads are a necessary evil. Publishers (like us!) rely on them to stay in business. Unfortunately, every time a flashing banner ad starts dancing in your peripheral vision, it erodes the quality of that publisher’s product. This is how the Int…
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I use a cheap WiFi laser printer with cheaper 3rd party toner cartridges – Boing Boing
I stopped using an inkjet printer a couple of years ago because I don’t think the prints looked good and the cartridges needed replacing frequently. And I rarely needed color prints anyway. I bought the Brother HL-L2340DW Compact Laser Printer for $…
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Caged Bunnies Placed at Tianjin Explosion Site to Reassure Public as New Fires Erupt | VICE News
Four separate fires have erupted within the evacuation zone around the site of last week’s massive explosion in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, according to state news outlet Xinhua, as Chinese officials placed caged animals and foul in the disast…
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Paul Thomas Anderson is making a documentary about Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood | The Verge
Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson are continuing to explore their mutually beneficial friendship. Greenwood, Radiohead guitarist and frequent Anderson collaborator, is the focus of Anderson’s upcoming documentary, Junjun.
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With these Weeping Angel lights, blink and you’re dead · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you weren’t sufficiently creeped out by the Weeping Angels of Doctor Who fame, the good people at ThinkGeek have created a way for you to bring the Lonely Assassins into your home. The website is now selling strings of 10 angels, with five in the…
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Emergency workers from Australia and New Zealand are traveling to the western United States to help fight raging wildfires in five states including Washington, where expanded evacuation orders were sent out across the state overnight.
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You Can’t Walk in a Straight Line—And That’s Great for VR | WIRED
Humans, quite simply, suck at walking in straight lines: Give a man a blindfold, and he will walk around in circles. In virtual reality, though, this failing becomes very convenient.
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The Company Formerly Known as Google Now Has a Smart Contact Lenses Startup | Motherboard
The newest company company since Google restructured into Alphabet has been announced, and it’s the Life Sciences division, which … will be called just that.
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Babies at a Banquet: The Longest and Most Influential Pediatric Food Experiment
In the 1920s, one pediatrician ran an “orphanage” like no other. It’s single purpose was a detailed, long-running, and bizarre experiment. Let babies figure out what they wanted to eat.
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The New Anthems of Resistance: Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter – In These Times
It’s been a year since the death of Michael Brown, a year since the rebellion in Ferguson, a year since the Black Lives Matter movement began to shift the conversation in just about every avenue of American life.
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Carmen Electra to host reality series about exes getting over each other · Newswire · The A.V. Club
WE tv has ordered 10 episodes of reality series Ex-Isle, on which a bunch of exes will be trapped on an island together. What could possibly go wrong? According to the network’s description of the show, Ex-Isle will help couples move on from each ot…
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[Easy Chair] | Abolish High School, by Rebecca Solnit | Harper’s Magazine
I didn’t go to high school. This I think of as one of my proudest accomplishments and one of my greatest escapes, because everyone who grows up in the United States goes to high school. It’s such an inevitable experience that people often mishear me…
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Apps like Instagram introduced easy-to-apply smartphone photo filters, so that even as we scoff at the idea of having to get film developed, we can make our digital shots resemble the vintage pics that were snapped back when Gerald Ford was presiden…
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Walker: Black Lives Matter meeting would be ‘ridiculous’, not part of ‘things that matter’
While speaking in Iowa, Walker used his unwillingness to meet with concerned but opposing groups as a badge of courage. “You want someone who’s tested? I’m right here. You can see it. This is what happened in Wisconsin. We will not back down!” he to…
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Concern and anger are rising in Lancashire more than two weeks after 300,000 homes were warned to boil tap water following an outbreak of a parasitic bug.
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Making Sense of the GOP’s Crazy Birthright Citizenship Debate | The New Republic
A droll Politico headline earlier this week nicely summed up the state of bemusement and incomprehension surrounding the Republican Party’s revived fixation with ending birthright citizenship.“Trump to O’Reilly: 14th Amendment is unconstitutional.
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Lawns are dumb. Arresting people for poor lawn care is dumber | Grist
In 2008, Joe Prudente, a 66-year-old man from Hudson, Fla., turned himself into the Pasco County jail wearing a “Grandpa Gone Wild” T-shirt. His crime? Failing to properly maintain his lawn.
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Rough fucking day. via /r/funny http://t.co/OPLWnN1POS http://t.co/6D28wXgK73
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Using lasers to make sure you’re drilling straight : gifs
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Romance Languages of Europe [808×571] : MapPorn
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With each city Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visits, the number of supporters he draws to his rallies keeps growing. Since June 1, Sanders has spoken to 100,000 people across seven events.
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This Is How Much It Costs To Run A Professional Race Team
Racing is expensive. The cars, the trucks, the tires, hell, even the snazzy polo shirts with a little logo on it all cost money. But it’s always been a mystery just how much money. Until now.
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The Coolest Obscure Science You Don’t Know About Yet | WIRED
A lot of cool work in science flies under the radar, lost in the weekly outpouring of research or hidden in texts with obscure names. This Friday, we encourage you to dip your toes in five different journals that you may not have heard of before.
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Terms And Conditions Are The Biggest Lie Of Our Industry | TechCrunch
THE LEGAL AGREEMENTS SET OUT BELOW GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS TECHCRUNCH POST (“TECHCRUNCH”). TO AGREE TO THESE TERMS, CLICK “AGREE.” IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT CLICK “AGREE,” AND DO NOT USE THE SERVICES. You agree that you never read T…
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Google has long opposed Europe’s “right to be forgotten” laws that require the search engine giant to remove links to outdated or irrelevant information about an individual upon request.
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Katharine Hepburn’s Hollywood home for sale – in pictures | Film | The Guardian
The star of The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen and On Golden Pond rented the Mexican-style home in Coldwater Canyon, Los Angeles, for five years when she first moved to Hollywood. She reportedly moved out claiming ghosts had taken to rearrang…
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North Carolina jurors deadlocked in police officer’s manslaughter trial | US news | The Guardian
Jurors in the trial of a white police officer accused in connection with the shooting death of an unarmed black man say they’re deadlocked after three votes, but the judge has sent them back to continue deliberating Judge Richard C Ervin brought the…
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: With Lifetime debuting The Unauthorized Full House Story, we take a look at some favorites from the TGIF era. Any sitcom can do a Hallowe…
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Ronda Rousey to fight former top female boxer Holly Holm on 2 January | Sport | The Guardian
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has announced her next fight will be against the world’s former No. 1-rated female boxer. Rousey told ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday that she will defend her title against former world champion bo…
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The science of ‘Drag Me Down’: a roundtable on One Direction at NASA | The Verge
One Direction debuted the video for their first single without Zayn Malik early this morning, and to the surprise and general awe of the entire Verge newsroom, it appears to be filmed not only in our very own United States but also in one of our ver…
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Paul Simon to Join Underwood, Gill at Country Hall of Fame Benefit | Rolling Stone
One of the world’s greatest living songwriters has been added to the already stellar lineup for New York’s All for the Hall concert benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
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7 Ways That World War I Could Have Started Before 1914
The First World War was instigated by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but it’s no small miracle that a general European war didn’t happen earlier. Here are 7 international crises in the years before 1914 that could have started a glob…
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Wolf pack sighting could signal comeback in California – BBC News
The appearance of the five grey wolf pups and two adults could signal a return of the animals, which have not been found in the state since 1924. California Department of Fish and Wildlife first discovered the pack this month in Siskiyou County near…
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“A History Of Lovers” is a bitter mystery wrapped up in a love song · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: songs that tell a story. What sounds like a love song is interrupted with a knock on the door.
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How Can Frank Zappa’s Colorful Life Possibly Fit in a Documentary? | Rolling Stone
The Zappa estate recently gave filmmaker Alex Winter, who is best known as Bill from the Bill & Ted movies and who in recent years has earned acclaim for documentaries like Downloaded and Deep Web, unprecedented access to the family’s fabled vault o…
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The Fat Jew: I Have Never Intentionally Stolen a Joke | Rolling Stone
After years of plagiarism accusations levied against Josh “The Fat Jew” Ostrovsky finally boiled over in recent weeks, the Instagram celebrity has given his first interview since the backlash to express remorse and a promise to properly credit each …
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Craigslist Anarchy : firstworldanarchists
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Typhoon Goni Brushes the Philippines : Natural Hazards
Typhoon Goni, one of two powerful typhoons brewing in the western North Pacific, brushed the Philippines before heading north in August 2015. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image at 1…
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Study: Condoms Don’t Reduce Feeling – The Daily Beast
Men of the world: ever told a woman you couldn’t use a condom because it would make you lose your erection? Then it’s time to start formulating another excuse, as new research shows rubbers aren’t to blame for wilting wieners.
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Opaekaa Falls, Kauai. Hiding in that lush valley. [3450×2285] [OC] : EarthPorn
Opaekaa Falls, Kauai. Hiding in that lush valley. [3450×2285] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/CVfqNpM7PN http://t.co/ukQIqInBir
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Here’s How Burners Can Prepare for the Bugpocalypse | WIRED
On Wednesday, San Francisco’s schadenfreude meter went off the scale when the organizers of Burning Man confirmed that their site—a desert patch outside of Gerlach, Nevada that they call Black Rock City—is being overrun by bugs.
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Chrome Extensions Are Coming To Firefox
Mozilla today announced major changes to how Firefox will implement add-ons going forward. The most important of these is the adoption of a new extension API that will be largely compatible with the one currently in use by Blink-based browsers like …
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Microsoft has no plans to tell us what’s in Windows patches | Ars Technica
Microsoft has now released three cumulative updates for Windows 10. These updates combine security fixes with non-security bug fixes, and so far, Microsoft hasn’t done a very good job of describing the contents of these cumulative updates.
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: August 14th to 21st
This week we looked at how Windows 10 manages RAM, learned how to help friends who have had one too many, conquered financial fears, and more. Here’s a look back.
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Samsung Wants to Give you a Galaxy Phone for 30 Days, for $1 | WIRED
In Samsung’s never-ending quest to take on the iPhone, it’s giving customers the chance to test drive one of its Galaxy phones (the S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, or Note 5) for 30 days for the low, low price of $1.
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Illinois Governor Signs Sweeping Law Banning Gay Conversion Therapy | VICE News
On Thursday, Illinois became the fourth state in the country to ban gay conversion therapy on minors — controversial practice of attempting to “cure” a person’s sexual orientation through counseling or behavior modification.
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Jonathan Franzen Is an Internet Genius | | Observer
For a guy who consistently decries modern technology, Great American Novelist Jonathan Franzen sure is good at getting people to talk about him on the Internet. This morning, The Guardian published a preview of its forthcoming interview with Mr.
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How to Wear Watches and Bracelets | Vanity Fair
Omega De Ville Tresor Master Co-Axial 40-mmOmega Watch: Remember watches? We used to wear them before we had iPhones. They are sexy and great and the key to a really good wrist situation. I love this rose-gold with brown croc-strap watch by Omega.
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Magnetic Wormhole Created in Lab – Scientific American
Ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel, physicists have crafted a wormhole that tunnels a magnetic field through space. The idea of a wormhole comes from Albert Einstein’s theories.
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Khloé Kardashian & Kylie, Kendall Jenner Selling Used Clothes Online | Observer
The Real Real is a digital luxury consignment shop that sells authentic, gently used clothes. Their latest sellers? A few members of the stylish Kardashian-Jenner clan. Kendall, Khloé & Kylie have all recently put some of their favorite clothes and …
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State Senator: Stop Times Square Nudity by Banning All Toplessness | Observer
The Times Square desnudas and the Naked Cowboy might both have to cover up, if Bronx State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. has his way.
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A Back-to-School Gin and Soda, the Color of a Freshly Sharpened No. 2 Pencil | Vanity Fair
When we first saw the Frag and Mentha at L.A.’s Faith & Flower, we thought: yessss, adult Tang (“It’s a kick in a glass!”). But don’t let looks deceive you—the bright-orange hue comes from amaro, not powdered chemicals that make you hallucinate chim…
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Migrant crisis: Austria chart success for minute of silence – BBC News
A minute of silence released by an Austrian artist to protest against the treatment of refugees is topping online music charts.Schweigeminute, by Raoul Haspel, has been number one on the iTunes and Amazon download charts in Austria.
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DEA Agents on Hunting Pablo Escobar, El Chapo, and the Accuracy of Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ | | Observer
Although they haven’t been official partners since 1994, it’s not hard to gauge the rapport between former DEA Agents Javier Peña and Steve Murphy — Mr. Peña is quiet, more thoughtful, Mr. Murphy an energetic West Virginia native with the accent to …
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Obama’s Climate-Change Disclaimer Is Getting Old | The New Republic
In speaking about climate change, President Barack Obama has a certain rhetorical tic that’s starting to wear thin. ““We can’t attribute any particular weather event to climate change,” he said a few weeks after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Andromeda with a DSLR at 400mm js – Just Space
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The Arctic sea ice starts about three days’ steaming north of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. Small, sporadic floes grow larger, the great Atlantic swells flatten out, the bitter polar winds are stronger and the utter stillness begins.
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Earn 1 cent every 4.5 seconds for turning a crank – Boing Boing
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Palestinian Christians urge help against West Bank barrier – BBC News
Palestinian Christians are appealing for international support to oppose renewed construction of part of Israel’s West Bank barrier. Residents of Beit Jala – a town along the planned barrier route – made the appeal at an open-air mass among centurie…
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‘A spiritual journey’: dive team explores Tuskegee Airman’s plane wreckage | US news | The Guardian
Kamau Sadiki traveled from the US capital to Michigan to join a dive team charged with officially documenting for the first time the wreckage of a plane that was piloted by a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
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John McEnroe says he could beat Serena Williams | Sport | The Guardian
Tennis veteran John McEnroe has boasted he could still beat world number one Serena Williams, even as she moves in on a calendar grand slam that has not been seen in the women’s game in 17 years.
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Here’s the first 3 minutes of Fear The Walking Dead · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The premiere is only a couple of days away, but zombies (and fans of zombie-themed shows) aren’t known for being patient. Thus, AMC has gone ahead and released the very first scene from its upcoming Walking Dead companion series Fear The Walking Dea…
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A long-anticipated management plan for national public lands near Moab, Utah, formally unveiled Thursday by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is being hailed by outdoor recreation and conservation leaders for its landmark protections of the area’…
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Corey Feldman says BaseballGate cost him a Special Olympics gig · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Minor League Baseball is about watching a bunch of underdogs play their hearts out, despite the fact that most of them won’t ever get up to the majors. That’s why Corey Feldman’s BaseballGate fiasco doesn’t make sense.
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Exporting Oil Overseas Would Come At A Huge Environmental Cost, Report Finds | ThinkProgress
Oil exports have been a major topic of discussion in recent months, as the United States has relaxed and considered lifting its long-standing ban on exporting oil to other nations.
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What It Takes to Become a U.S. Army Ranger – The Atlantic
Until this week, there was one very important requirement for becoming an Army Ranger: You had to be a man. On Friday, Captain Kristen Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver became the first women to earn the coveted black-and-yellow tab when they …
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Geniuses turn Chatroulette into a first-person shooter · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Chatroulette—not just for exposing oneself anymore? That’s the daring premise RealmPictures sought to prove when they decided to turn the random video-chat platform into a first-person shooter (FPS) game.
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Uber May Be Going Public in 18 Months, Leaked Documents Show | Motherboard
Uber may be going public in as early as 18 months, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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Someone Turned the Futility of Tinder Into an 8-Bit Game | Motherboard
Sometimes the best way to understand the exact moment in time that your generation occupies is through an 8-bit, dadaist game. Millennial Swipe Sim 2015 is a pixelated mini game that turns the experience of using dating apps like Tinder into even mo…
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Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist | TED Talk | TED.com
Dustin Yellin makes mesmerizing artwork that tells complex, myth-inspired stories. How did he develop his style? In this disarming talk, he shares the journey of an artist — starting from age 8 — and his idiosyncratic way of thinking and seeing. F…
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Antarctica- Ice ridges & spiraling clouds [1400×835] : EarthPorn
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Uber seen reaching $10.8 billion in bookings in 2015: fundraising presentation| Reuters
BEIJING Uber Technologies Inc’s [UBER.UL] global bookings are projected to rise nearly threefold to $10.84 billion this year and reach $26.12 billion the next, according to a recent presentation for potential investors seen by Reuters.
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Harry Kane, Luckiest Man In Soccer | FiveThirtyEight
We’re only two games into the current English Premier League season, so it’s way too early to make any sweeping pronouncements. (Except maybe that Chelsea’s stint in 16th place won’t last long.
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Man with balls of steel : AnimalsBeingBros
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I will never understand my cousin’s ex’s thought process. : AdviceAnimals
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Ammunition company is selling shotgun shells designed to shoot drones – Boing Boing
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Women graduate for the first time from the US Army Ranger School | US news | The Guardian
Women graduated for the first time from the US Army Ranger School on Friday, a milestone for the American military as it slowly integrates female soldiers into its most storied units.
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Uganda AU soldiers charged over Somali wedding attack – BBC News
Three Ugandan soldiers have been charged over the killing last month of a group of civilians in Somalia, an African Union (AU) official has said. Maman Sidikou, the head of the AU in Somalia, apologised to the families of the seven people killed in …
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Fine Tune Your Woodworking Projects with a Chisel
A set of chisels should be in every woodworkers arsenal. The video above demonstrates how and why to use them. Much like hand planes, chisels are used to remove wood when no other tool will suffice.
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A senior official at the State Department has admitted there is an “obvious tension” between the US’s commitment to combat climate change and its approval of Shell’s oil drilling in the Arctic.
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No Surprise: Trump Is a Union Buster At His Own Hotel | The Nation
Their boss is famous for firing people with merciless gusto. So you can imagine it took just as much chutzpah for the workers at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas to rally today and demand the right to unionize and to gain respect on the jo…
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In the crush with migrants on Macedonian border – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants have started streaming into Macedonia after the authorities allowed some of them to enter. Earlier, police had fired tear gas to disperse thousands of people trying to get into the country from Greece.
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Better Late Than Never: Netflix Is Getting Person of Interest Next Month!
Yes, you can finally watch the best science fiction show on network TV, on Netflix. Person of Interest has been mind-blowingly great for the past four seasons, but this show about artificial intelligence hasn’t found the geeky audience it deserves. …
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1940s women use bizarre robotic exercise equipment – Boing Boing
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Troye Sivan Blue Neighbourhood Teaser | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular new videos of the week.
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Pluto Fly-By Video From New Horizons’ Images By Björn Jónsson
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Teenager Killed by Police Was Shot in the Back | Al Jazeera America
An autopsy on the body of the black teenager shot and killed by white St. Louis police officers earlier this week shows the 18-year-old died from a single gunshot wound in his back, police said on Friday.
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Everything You Need To Know About Republicans’ Latest Crusade Against Immigrants | ThinkProgress
The GOP presidential campaign kicked off with real estate mogul Donald Trump’s incendiary remarks about Mexican immigrants being rapists and drug dealers, and quickly evolved to endorsements of changing the Constitution to strip millions of immigran…
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Taylor Pemberton has just spent four days in North Korea, the secretive military state said to be preparing for war with its neighbour South Korea. The 26-year-old from Minneapolis in the US flew into Pyongyang from Beijing in China.
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According to one source, the top 100 tours of 2000 captured 90 percent of all revenue, while today the top 100 capture only 43 percent. without either naming the source or providing a link.
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From Mark Christian, a selection of deliciously pun-filled food truck name ideas. Some favorites: Shwarmageddon Calamari Damacy Get Quiche Or Die Tryin’ What About Kebab? Planet of the Crepes Naan Disclosure Agreement Entrée the Giant
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$1 Million Worth of Sports Cards Found in Abandoned Warehouse | Rolling Stone
In news that will make your hoarding uncle smile, turns out there’s treasure to be found in just about every pile of trash. Or, in abandoned buildings. As you probably know, Detroit is home to thousands of dilapidated warehouses and factories.
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Turkey Has Killed Hundreds of PKK Members but Must ‘Do More’ Against the Islamic State | VICE News
Turkish state media are reporting that the country’s armed forces have killed 771 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since Ankara began its “war on terror” four weeks ago, as the US says Turkey must do more in the fight against the so-cal…
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Why Lip Sync Battle is the most cynical show on television : television
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Which Republican Will Call Out Trump For Rationalizing This Hate Crime?
Which Republican Will Call Out Trump For Rationalizing This Hate Crime? http://t.co/nc2KdxN4gJ
Donald Trump’s ability to say offensive things and continue to rise in the polls has cowed other Republicans from attacking him directly for his bad behavior. Jeb Bush and Rand Paul have begun challenging Trump’s conservative bona fides, a sensible … -
Regal promises security-theater bag-searches in America’s largest cinema chain – Boing Boing
Going to the movies is getting airportified: your knapsacks, bags and purses will be searched on the way in to stop you from carrying in guns that you don’t stick in your waistband or in a shoulder-holster.
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Bangkok bomb: Thailand trebles award to find main suspect – BBC News
Thailand has trebled its reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the deadly bomb attack on the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok. Police are hunting for a man seen dropping off a backpack shortly before an explosion ripped through…
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Watch the Trailer for ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ | Motherboard
Knots are cool, and woodworking is definitely a skill everyone should have—is there anything more delightful than a jigsaw?—but this is 2015. The life skill I wish I’d learned as a young buck is how to survive the end of the world.
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The First Order and the Resistance Rule In New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Photos
Gone are the Rebellion and Empire. In a post-Return of the Jedi world, the good guys are the Resistance and the bad guys are the First Order. How and why? We don’t know yet, but two new images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens highlight both of thes…
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Why Content Farms Hate the Fat Jew, the Ultimate Content Farmer | Motherboard
Life on the Content Farm is a long, drawn out series about how everything in the media is terrible, especially in the business of aggregating pageviews from Facebook likes.
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I almost forgot my Briefcase containing important Lab results this morning – Imgur
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I felt this was necessary. – GIF on Imgur
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1st Ad Will Land on the Moon in 2016
Advertising is about to take one giant leap to the moon. The Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. aims to land a special “time capsule” can of the Pocari Sweat sports drink on the moon next year.
First Ad on the Moon: Lunar Billboard for Pocari Sweat to Fly in 2016 http://t.co/5N0d4Vxr7C -
At first sight, the scrubby land around Lost Hills in California’s Central Valley looks like the worst place in the world to grow anything. The climate is unrelentingly hot, dry and smoggy. The soil frequently leaches toxic white selenium salts.
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Once-sexy American Apparel looks impotent in face of impending doom | Business | The Guardian
It has weathered storms of controversy over sexy adverts that bordered on porn and accusations that its flamboyant founder sexually harassed his young employees, but in the end money, not sex has proved the undoing of American Apparel.
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Newborn puppy rescued from drainpipe in Phoenix – video | US news | The Guardian
A newborn puppy is freed from a drain pipe at a house in Phoenix, Arizona. Police officers found the puppy stuck, head-first, in the drain when they were at the property to serve a drug-related search warrant. Animal rescue officers were quick to re…
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GOP insiders to Trump: Stop telling the base what they want to hear
A Granite State Republican said it was “harmful to the party, the brand and the future of our country. What’s disappointing is the speed in which other candidates follow his lead. He’s forced that to be standard operation.”
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‘Purity’ of Heart: The Time Jonathan Franzen Wanted to Adopt Some “Iraqi War Orphans” – The Atlantic
While struggling to write Freedom, he got it into his head that becoming a father might actually help the creative process. “I was seriously thinking about adopting some Iraqi war orphans.” He mentioned this plan over a drink with his editor at The …
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Americans aren’t as pissed off about standardized testing as headlines often make it seem. In fact, it looks like most of the country’s adults support it.
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West Wing Week: 8/21/15 or, “A Look Ahead” on Vimeo
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Last week, we took you behind the scenes of some of the summer’s most momentous White House moments. This week, we’ll preview some of the exciting …
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Cilla lands number one album day after funeral – BBC News
Cilla Black has landed her first ever number one album, with her Very Best Of compilation, just a day after her funeral. She beat both singer songwriter James Bay and the Welsh Heavy Metal band Bullet for My Valentine to claim the top spot in the UK…
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Judge: City of Inglewood can’t use copyright to censor videos of council meetings – Boing Boing
Joseph Teixeira doesn’t like Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, so he makes Youtube videos featuring City Council meeting footage.
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Booze Sent to Space to Explore ‘Mellow’ Mechanism
Liquor is taking a trip across the final frontier to see how alcohol “mellows” in weightlessness. Tokyo-based Suntory Global Innovation Center, which has a division called Suntory Whiskey, launched a set of alcoholic beverages toward the Internation…
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Hillary Clinton Is Letting This Guy Take Over Her Instagram | WIRED
Today, there will be no throwback photos of Bill or selfies with Kim Kardashian gracing Hillary Clinton’s Instagram account.
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This Material Can Remove Carbon Pollution From the Atmosphere | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. By far, the most abundant greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. It’s emitted when planes fly, cars drive, and power plants burn fossil fuels like coal and …
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Dealmaster: Get a 24“ Dell QHD Monitor for $287.99 and a $100 gift card | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, the Dealmaster is back. The top item today is a 24″ 2560×1440 Dell Monitor with a $100 Dell gift card for $287.99. That’s $81 off the MSRP, plus a potential $100 savings if you use the gi…
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The Horrifying Details Emerging From A Rape Trial At An Elite Prep School | ThinkProgress
An elite boarding school in New Hampshire that’s considered to be an “Ivy League” among prep schools has been thrust into the national spotlight this week, as a former student is standing trial for allegedly raping his 15-year-old classmate.
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How to Switch to Insider Preview Builds of Windows 10
If you’ve installed the release version of Windows 10 on your machine, but want to switch to the Insider Preview builds, you don’t need to reinstall Windows. Just tweak this one setting.
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Court Orders Home Care Workers To Get Minimum Wage Protections | ThinkProgress
In 2013, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it would make changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act so that this workforce, who care for the elderly and disabled in their homes, would be guaranteed the same labor protections as all other wor…
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Model and Musician Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis to Release EP | Vanity Fair
Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis had hardly set foot in the black-tie casino fashioned by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel’s fall couture show this summer when the Internet exploded with articles fawning over the 20-year-old’s prominent eyebrows.
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Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley appears to be channeling his inner Elizabeth Warren with his new Social Security plan released Friday. Sen.
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Voter Registration Efforts Are Overlooking 1 in 5 Black And Hispanic Citizens | ThinkProgress
The number of Americans excluded from the political process may be even larger than previously thought. A new study released Thursday shows that at least 11 percent of the U.S.
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The Best Alaia Red Carpet Moments Ever | Vanity Fair
1/10Rihanna at the 2013 Grammy Awards.+−zoom
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MIND Reviews 3 Weight-Loss Apps – Scientific American
I went to an afternoon party at a neighbor’s house a few weeks ago. I am trying to lose weight, so I made the healthiest choices I could without abstaining entirely: a couple of glasses of wine and some guacamole on veggies.
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Don’t Blind NASA to Earth’s Climate – Scientific American
NASA was always supposed to look close to home as well as out to the stars. In 1958 the U.S. Congress chartered the agency to focus on “phenomena in the atmosphere and space.
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Dark Energy –New Research Asks “Is It a Hidden 5th Force?”
Dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical particles called “chameleons,” Holger Müller and his team at UC Berkeley plan to flush them out.
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UK supermarkets cut petrol prices as crude oil cost slides | Money | The Guardian
Supermarkets in Britain have slashed their petrol prices as the cost of crude oil continued to slide. Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco all announced on Friday a cut in the price of unleaded fuel by 2p, leading to predictions that motorists could soon be …
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Today Is The Last Day To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets | TechCrunch
Today is the last day to save $1,000 on tickets to the hottest show in tech, so you need to head over to our ticketing page right now and get your tickets to Disrupt SF 2015. We’re thrilled with the lineup of speakers we have in store for you.
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Italy outrage over lavish funeral of alleged mafia boss – Al Jazeera English
Italy’s interior minister has voiced anger over an extravagant funeral held for an alleged mafia boss, whose coffin was carried through the streets of Rome in a gilded horse-drawn carriage as rose petals were dropped from a helicopter.
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Chris Froome aims for historic double
Briton Chris Froome will aim to become the third rider in history to win the Vuelta a Espana and Tour de France in the same year when the third and final Grand Tour of 2015 starts on Saturday. The 30-year-old has twice finished runner-up in the Spai…
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View from the plane before landing at Anchorage, Alaska. [OC][4160×3120] : EarthPorn
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Patti Smith says goodbye to Aqua Teen Hunger Force with this song – Boing Boing
Iconic punk poet Patti Smith composed a song to send off the cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which concludes this Sunday after 13 seasons. Thirteen seasons, what did it mean?
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Today’s Sports News Would Boggle the Mind of a 1965 Sportswriter | The Nation
Imagine with me. You are a sportswriter who for reasons entirely unclear entered a hermetically sealed chamber in 1965 only to wake up in 2015.
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
This week, Amazon came under fire by The New York Times for harsh work culture allegations, Google surprised the world with a new router, and data from an extramarital affairs site was leaked online. These are the stories to catch you up on all-thin…
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Porn Star Lisa Ann Will Lead the World’s First Virtual Gang Bang | Motherboard
The next milestone in sextech is here in the form of the first ever live virtual gang bang.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Unknown, sorry! (800×960)
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You surely don’t need an excuse to watch one of this year’s best A.
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What’s most impressive about The A To Z Review’s supercut of swearing in Wes Anderson films isn’t the assembled curse words themselves, but the loving care that has gone into stitching them together.
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Voters Who Favor Border Wall Cannot Identify Border on Map – The New Yorker
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Amid the growing debate over building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a new poll shows that voters who strongly favor building such a wall cannot successfully identify the border on a map.
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“What a funny picture! Let me download it.” : AdviceAnimals
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Macedonia police open border to some migrants – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants have started streaming into Macedonia after the authorities allowed some of them to enter. Earlier, police had fired tear gas to disperse thousands of people trying to get into the country from Greece.
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Google confirms Life Sciences as the first new company under the umbrella of Alphabet | The Verge
Google co-founder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin published a blog post this morning announcing Life Sciences as the first new company created under the Alphabet umbrella.
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‘Oldest’ message in a bottle found more than 108 years on – BBC News
A message in a bottle that washed up more than 108 years after it was thrown into the sea may be the world’s oldest, a marine association has said.The bottle was released in the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 and found by a couple on a beach in Amr…
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I would pay to see this – Imgur
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Rand Paul’s Desperate Gamble to Keep His Senate Seat | Mother Jones
Cash in not an abundant resource for Rand Paul’s struggling presidential campaign these days.
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Confirmed! Discovery of Cosmic Neutrinos from Beyond Our Galaxy
Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new evidence in support of 2013 observations confirmin…
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Paid Leave: 25 Percent of New Moms Return to Work After Just Two Weeks | The New Republic
Over a quarter of new moms go back to work two weeks after giving birth. And 12 percent took only a week off, according to a report from In These Times.
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Uganda book tackles children sexual abuse – BBC News
A book which teaches children how to recognise and reject sexual abuse has been published in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The Bad Touch tells the story of a mother telling her children how to resist and expose abusers.
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Funky Friday: “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” Elvin Bishop, 1975 – Boing Boing
In 1976, Elvin Bishop released this track as a single. It would go gold and become the greatest hit of his life: “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.”
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Right-wing media has been abuzz over the past few weeks with rumors that Black Lives Matter activist and writer Shaun King is not actually black.
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New York City Is Officially Losing Its Mind over Some Naked Ladies in Times Square | Vanity Fair
There’s a moral panic that has seized New York City, and it’s emanating from the so-called Crossroads of the World. A dozen or so women clad in only underwear and body paint have been congregating in Times Square, posing for photos with tourists and…
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In June the European Union (EU) responded to the colossal toll of people fleeing war and poverty dying on its borders by launching an 11.8 million euro ($12.8m) per year naval mission.
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Hitman: Agent 47 Will Give You The Joyous Sensation of Temporary Brain Damage
If you’re the sort of person who huffs paint and gives yourself mild concussions for fun, then you’ll enjoy the heck out of Hitman: Agent 47, in theaters today. Actually, anybody who enjoys incredibly dumb movies will get a kick out of this cinemati…
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Uniqlo and the Four-Day Workweek – The Atlantic
Uniqlo workers, rejoice: Three-day weekends are coming. Fast Retailing, the Japanese mega retailer that owns Uniqlo, Theory, and J Brand, is testing out a plan to offer 10,000 full-time employees in its Japanese stores the option of a four-day work …
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For someone who spent the night celebrating a Welsh community’s rejection of a giant opencast coal mine, Craig Bennett seems pretty clear-headed.
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A pound of Tibetan “Viagra” mushrooms jumps in price from $2 to $40,000 – Boing Boing
Yartsa gunbu (summer grass-winter worm) is a fungus that parasitizes moth larvae by devouring them from the inside-out and sprouting from their exoskeleton. It has been used for centuries by Tibetan and Chinese doctors to “improve breathing, metabol…
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EFF-Austin panel commemmorating the 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games raid – Boing Boing
The Secret Service raid on Austin’s Steve Jackson Games started the fight over freedom and privacy online, and resulted in the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and EFF-Austin.
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Blokus takes 2 seconds to learn, but many games to master – Boing Boing
Apparently Blokus is a popular game that’s been around since 2000, introduced by the French company Sekkoia before being sold to Mattel in 2009. But it’s new to me.
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On the drive up to Whistler, British Columbia [3000×2000] : EarthPorn
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Voters Who Favor Border Wall Cannot Identify Border on Map – The New Yorker
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Upside down under the chair. : cats
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Spotify Clears Up Its Controversial Privacy Policy | WIRED
Yesterday, Spotify’s new privacy policy created quite a stir. Today, the company released a statement in which CEO Daniel Ek clarified how exactly the privacy permissions would be used.
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Newspaper In City Famous For Civil Rights Battles Lays Off Its Last Black Reporter | ThinkProgress
A newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama, a predominately African American city famous for civil rights battles in the 1960s, has laid of its last black reporter.
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Report: NYC tech sector employs 40 percent women, 21 percent minorities | Ars Technica
Companies like Google, Apple, Intel, and Yahoo have been relatively forthright about their diversity hiring numbers, particularly in the form of reports that reveal lower representations of women and minorities in those companies’ tech-specific fiel…
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The Brand New Soho Juice Shop That Comes Equipped With An Instagram Mural | | Observer
“Do you have the juice?” One of the construction workers asked me as I took in the Baron Andre graffiti outside the new Tiny Empire NYC shop, waiting to preview their new 234 Lafayette Street location in Soho. “They said there was going to be juice.
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Only assholes question the identity of others
I’m on an iPhone with poor cellular data, so I can’t offer a link-studded piece examining the various angles of this shit, so I’ll be as brief as I can be: fuck those assholes, and fuck them to hell. We have a nation that kills brown people at will,…
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The First Photos of Banksy’s Anti-Theme Park ‘Dismaland’ | Observer
Banksy’s latest project is a big one. The artist has built a haunted anti-theme park he’s calling “Dismaland.” The London exhibition features 10 of his own new works, as well as pieces by 60 other artists including Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer and Dav…
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Mac Demarco: An Old Soul Whose Crowds Have Not Matured | | Observer
Mac DeMarco must be exhausted. Dude’s literally everywhere these days, from big festivals like Pitchfork to Williamsburg’s Baby’s All Right, where just last week he celebrated new mini-LP Another One with a secret release day gig that packed out the…
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Next Week/This Week: The Naked and the Dead | Observer
WHO HAD A GOOD WEEK? 1.
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Retiring General Sounds Alarm: Army Cuts Imperil U.S. Security | | Observer
General Ray Odierno, the Army’s Chief-of-Staff retired last Friday after 39 years of distinguished service. In his farewell remarks, he said something that was both distressing and refreshingly candid: the U.S. Army is at an inflection point.
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Choker Necklaces: So Much More Than a Throwback Style | Observer
Before jumping to conclusion that choker necklaces should stay in the ’90s and never be worn again, just hear us out. First of all, referring to them as a collar is equally acceptable, and slightly less of a #TBT term.
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Is Today’s Literary Culture Macho Enough for Kingsley Amis? | The New Republic
What is today’s reader offered by the work of Kingsley Amis? This may not seem an especially pertinent question to ask of a writer who only died in 1995, but in art the recent past can sometimes appear more outmoded and inaccessible than distant his…
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Environment The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures Sleeping otters, a giant gecko and humpback whales feature in this week’s pick of images from the natural world Friday 21 August 2015 11.24 EDT Last modified on…
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Axl Rose proves The Secret Of The Ooze is tardiness · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Get your Chinese Democracy jokes ready, because here’s some news about how Axl Rose is sometimes late for things.
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Guy Turns Chatroulette Into A First-Person Shooter – Digg
This is just like that terrible voice-controlled PS2 game “Lifeline,” but better executed and a lot more fun.
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VHS Camcorder app makes your video look nice and bad – Boing Boing
Record the world through a 1980s lens with Rarevision’s VHS Camcorder app, currently available for iOS with Android coming soon. Don’t forget to please be kind, rewind. (via Laughing Squid)
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Each week, Big Issues focuses on newly released comic books of significance.
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Global shares see further falls as China woes continue – BBC News
Stock markets around the world have continued to fall after poor manufacturing figures in China exacerbated global economic fears. Shares slid on Wall Street in early Friday trading, following the lead of European and Asian markets.
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No Escape Clips Shows Off Owen Wilson, Action Hero | Vanity Fair
Normal people dream of some day becoming an action hero and saving the day, so why shouldn’t movie stars? Owen Wilson may be more famous as a member of Wes Anderson’s crew, or as Vince Vaughn’s parter in crime in Wedding Crashers and The Internship,…
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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of seminal alt-rock album Ritual De Lo Habitual by Jane’s Addiction, Rolling Stone spoke with the band’s singer Perry Ferrell and lead guitarist Dave Navarro for an extensive behind-the-scenes break…
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Jonathan Franzen Says He Almost Adopted an Iraqi War Orphan to Better Get Young People | Vanity Fair
Every article in anticipation of Jonathan Franzen’s upcoming novel, Purity, causes a flurry of reaction on Twitter, or at least Book Twitter, which is practically kept alive by screen caps of particularly barbarous paragraphs—and a place Franzen is …
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Written & Directed by: Matt Ingebretson Director of Photography: KR Blair-Henderson Cast: Richard Bain, Jen D’Angelo, Josh Fadem, Matt Ingebretson, Esther Povitsky, Anna Seregina, Jake Weisman Edited by: KR Blair-Henderson Sound Design & Mix by: Joe…
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Firefox is about to work a lot more like Chrome | The Verge
Mozilla is beginning to make a series of changes to Firefox that’ll make certain aspects of the browser operate a lot more like Chrome.
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How a jerk scams a free quadruple espresso at Starbucks 365 days a year – Boing Boing
A Starbucks barista named Brad describes a guy who bought 365 Starbucks gift cards and registered each of them with a different birthday so he can get a free drink every day. That’s already a dick move, but the guy makes it worse by being a real jer…
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Upgrade Your Kitchen: How to Choose New Countertops, Cabinets, and Floors
The kitchen is the heart of your home and the most important room for most homebuyers. It’s also the most stressful room to try to upgrade or remodel, thanks in large part to the seemingly countless options you have for countertops, cabinets, and fl…
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Beautifully shot video of a different kind of string quartet – Boing Boing
Jordan sez, “Fourplay are a one-of-a-kind string quartet. Much more of a band than a classical ensemble. They jam out songs, they have vocals, they rock. We did a film clip!”
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Watch Future, Drake Celebrate Success in ‘Where Ya At?’ Video | Rolling Stone
Future has unveiled his new video for his DS2 cut “Where Ya At?” featuring Drake.
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The Science Of Why The Viral Bad Lip Reading Republican Debate Video Is So Hilarious | ThinkProgress
The popular YouTube channel Bad Lip Reading has given us another gem — a hilarious reading of the first Republican debate that’s gotten over 4.5 million hits in its first few days. There is possibly nothing funnier than Dr. Ben Carson playing with p…
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How the Weeknd Became 2015’s Most Unlikely Pop Superstar | Rolling Stone
This is the summer of the Weeknd. Look around, the signs are everywhere: In July, the 25-year-old Canadian singer performed his absurdly catchy hit “Can’t Feel My Face” for 83,000 screaming Taylor Swift fans after she brought him out as a surprise g…
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Fires at Night in the U.S. Northwest : Natural Hazards
In summer 2015, wildfires raged across the western United States and Alaska. Many of those fires burned in the U.S. Northwest, visible in these images from late August, 2015.
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Rand Paul said something funny the other day. No, really — although of course it wasn’t intentional. On his Twitter account he decried the irresponsibility of American fiscal policy, declaring, “The last time the United States was debt free was 1835…
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French MP Yves Jego calls for vegetarian school meals – BBC News
A French MP is campaigning for vegetarian school meals to be introduced to help pupils whose religions prevent them eating pork.Yves Jego has launched a drive on the Change.org website calling for vegetarian alternatives to be compulsory in all scho…
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Saving the Scream Queens: Why Yale University Library Believes In the Value of VHS – The Atlantic
Naughty Roommates, Sorority Babes in the Dance-a-Thon of Death, and What the Swedish Butler Saw part of its collection.
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Bernie Sanders and Black Lives Matter – The Atlantic
A Conversation About Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders http://t.co/3bvF0mzFPQ
In “A Tough Weekend for Black Lives Matter,” I wrote about the members of the social justice movement who interrupted a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle, drawing some boos from the crowd and ultimately causing the cancellation of the presidential can… -
Charlotte Church adds her voice to Arctic oil protest | Environment | The Guardian
She’s performed for the Pope, the Queen and the former president of the United States, but next week Charlotte Church will turn her attention – and her voice – to the employees of the oil giant Shell.
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From /r/cringepics : TrollXChromosomes
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QuizUp Looks To Gamify Corporate Learning With QuizUp At Work | TechCrunch
Work isn’t all about fun and games but QuizUp is trying as hard as it can to change that. The popular and frustratingly addictive trivia game is announcing a new initiative today to change corporate learning with QuizUp at Work.
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He-Man and Skeletor character designs improved by children – Boing Boing
A child of the 80s, I recently rediscovered my love of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoons and toys. So naturally, I’ve done everything in my power to hook my five-year old niece and three-year old nephew too.
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Cat poses next to its own “missing cat” poster – Boing Boing
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Homes Make as Much Energy as They Use – Scientific American
WOODLAND, Calif. —Marisol Sanabria points to a small white device about the size of her palm encased in a hard clear plastic box.
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QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Einstein? – Scientific American
Take our quiz to test your knowledge of the work and life of the iconic physicist Albert Einstein. Correct answers appear after the questions, and so does the scoring. See if you qualify as a lowly patent clerk or a brilliant physicist
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The Flavor Connection – Scientific American
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Bones: a lexical excavation of the television show | The Verge
How — and how often — do the characters use the word ‘bones’? Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Samsung tries to lure away iPhone users with 30-day trial for $1 | Ars Technica
Samsung’s sales have been sliding downward for a while now, and it’s getting creative in its attempts to win new users.
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The Internet Is Awful | TechCrunch
We were on the coast of Croatia when we saw our first nude sunbather. He was an older gentlemen who probably looked good in a suit but now, skin pruned from the water and his body hair plastered to a half-wiry/half-fat frame, he looked like a drowne…
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Reserve, a “dining concierge” startup that helps users with restaurant reservations and payments, has acquired bootstrapped New York City company Set for Service.
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Mèche Is for Monday! Mèche Salon in Los Angeles is the Place to Be | Vanity Fair
The famed Mèche salon, which is located in Beverly Hills on Burton Way is the place to be on a Monday, and then some.
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Girl asks Hillary Clinton: ‘As president, will you earn the same as a man?’ | US news | The Guardian
A young girl asks Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton if she will get paid the same as a man if she becomes president – prompting spontaneous applause from the crowd at a Las Vegas rally earlier in the week.
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St Louis teenager killed by police was shot in the back, autopsy finds | US news | The Guardian
A black 18-year-old killed by police in St Louis earlier this week was shot in the back, authorities said on Friday, adding weight to protests that have challenged the official account of his death.
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Marvel’s September Comics Are Covered With Awesome Cosplayers
Cosplay is a huge part of fandom these days, and companies are embracing the ridiculous talent and creativity of their fans more than ever.
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This Party Is Coming for You, GIFs.
Move, GIFs, move! There’s a party coming—and it’s headed right for you! You know what to do: updates, digital mingling, stories about your week, plans for the week ahead, and the perfect GIF to shepherd it all through. This party begins now!
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Monty Python, Doctor Who, and More
The greatest work in the history of filmmaking to include a killer rabbit is getting a re-release for its 40th anniversary, and you can preorder and save on two different versions. As always, if the price drops any further prior to release, you’ll a…
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One Direction have released their first music video without Zayn Malik and it’s out of this world, kind of. Niall, Liam, Louis and Harry play astronauts in their video for Drag Me Down.
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Why the Ashley Madison hack should scare you – Boing Boing
Heather Havrilesky explains that the moralizing and schadenfruede around the leak has obscured what it means for everyone, even those of us who don’t sign up to cheat on our partners: everyone has something to hide.
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Lions can be cute too via /r/aww http://t.co/Pm6Cndxbos http://t.co/a91UsIXoSE
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Two men guilty of attacking HK editor get 19 years in jail – BBC News
Two men who were found guilty of attacking a former Hong Kong newspaper editor in February 2014 have been sentenced to 19 years in jail. Kevin Lau, the former chief editor of the Ming Pao newspaper, was attacked with a meat cleaver in the street.
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US stock markets follow global plunge as China concerns deepen | Business | The Guardian
US stock markets fell on Friday following a broad sell-off on markets across the world as investors become increasingly concerned about the health of the Chinese economy.
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Sports News in Brief: Entire Ruby Tuesday Waitstaff Just Trying To Ignore Table Holding Fantasy Football Draft http://t.co/Ln4BfkdicK
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Some permafrost might soak up methane as climate warms | Ars Technica
Talk of a warming planet often focuses on places that are cold. Glaciers shrink and raise sea level. Arctic sea ice dwindles, opening an actual northwest passage in the summer.
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There’s something wrong with this ball! : sports
Picture/VideoThere’s something wrong with this ball! (i.imgur.com) That kid got decked…
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Cockney rhyming slang “dying out” – Boing Boing
The “old, confusing tradition” is on its way to the history books, should the newspapers be believed. Pictured above is a section of the rhyming slang tube map, available for £17.99 as a print.
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Companion Helps You Stay Safe When You’re Walking Somewhere Alone
Walking alone at night can be dangerous, but with an app like Companion, you can use your smartphone to stay a little safer. As someone who’s been mugged, I’m pretty wary about walking alone in even the safest neighborhoods at night.
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Spotify CEO apologizes for controversial new privacy policy | The Verge
Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek has just published a blog post responding to the wave of confusion and alarm that resulted from the company’s newly updated terms and privacy policy.
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Glendon Scott Crawford was a man with a dream: He wanted to build a mobile radioactive ray gun to kill Muslims in the US. One problem with that dream was the only people who offered to help him were FBI informants and undercover agents.
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Donald Trump: Problem in Baltimore, Ferguson is ‘a lot of these gang members are illegal immigrants’
Also note that the mass deportation element of Trump’s anti-immigrant plan would cost $141 billion. That cost would rise substantially, though, if President Trump decided that the “illegal immigrants” to be deported should include everyone whose anc…
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Sri Lanka claw back in second Test against India – Al Jazeera English
Retiring home hero Kumar Sangakkara featured in a brief rebuilding act in his 134th and final Test as Sri Lanka reached 140-3 in reply to India’s first innings total of 393 on day two of the second Test.
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Equality via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/AHeZyY2htL http://t.co/6iBYPybVE4
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Russian mud volcano looks like a giant eye : interestingasfuck
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My iron pills are magnetic : mildlyinteresting
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Jesus Christ… via /r/funny http://t.co/wBUGeMFeol http://t.co/HJvcPFRBAm
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It’s Surprisingly Simple to Hack a Satellite | Motherboard
Hacker conferences are famous for using quirky, hackablebadges. DefCon’s 2015 badge was a working vinyl LP containing a spoken-word ciphertext copy of the Hacker Manifesto.
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Myanmar Passes Extreme Religion Bills Targeting Marginalized Muslim Population | ThinkProgress
Myanmar’s parliament passed two bills on Thursday that are widely believed to offer further legal cover to the country’s harsh policies toward its Rohingya Muslim population.
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SUFFOLK, VA—Hoping to have as little contact as possible with the large group of college-aged men until they left the restaurant, every member of the waitstaff at a local Ruby Tuesday admitted Friday that they were actively avoiding a large table co…
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‘Minecraft’ Creator Says Spotify’s New Privacy Policy Is Basically Evil | Motherboard
It’s no secret that Spotify’s new privacy policy is a nightmare for the Do Not Track crowd in the sense that it basically wants permission to track everything, from your location data to your phone contacts.
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This kitten is a tiny red panda. : aww
This kitten is a tiny red panda. via /r/aww http://t.co/kIf6f4TEgT http://t.co/NYMB7slIzH
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Next on the New York Political Agenda: Naked Women | Al Jazeera America
There may be too many Elmos, Spidermen, “Frozen” Elsas and Incredible Hulks to count but it’s the semi-naked women of Times Square who have captured the attention of New York City politicians.
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You have the right to bear arms, but what about “electrical” arms or stun guns? | Ars Technica
The intent of the Second Amendment is up for debate again. This time the controversy illuminates a modern-age quandary about whether “electrical” weapons like stun guns—or possibly even homemade 3D-printed weapons—are constitutionally protected.
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Are jellyfish going to take over the oceans? | Karl Mathiesen | Environment | The Guardian
Another British summer, another set of fear-mongering headlines about swarms of “deadly” jellyfish set to ruin your holiday. But news that jellyfish numbers may be rising carries implications far beyond the interrupted pastimes of the sunburnt masse…
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Deadspin Baylor’s Investigation Of Sam Ukwuachu Was Shameful | Gizmodo It Looks Like We’ve Got Ourselves a Good Old-Fashioned Hyperloop Build-Off | Jezebel Investigators Aren’t Actually Recommending Manslaughter Charges For Caitlyn | Lifehacker Top …
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Why Certain Snakes Shimmer Like Rainbows
Of all the iridescent snakes in the world, the rainbow boa is the most famous, but the sunbeam snake, which we see above, is the most spectacular. The shimmer that they have comes from special structures called iridophores.
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Bangkok bombing: ‘I gave lift to suspect’ – BBC News
The motorbike taxi driver who police believe gave a lift to the main suspect in the Bangkok bombing has spoken to the BBC’s Jonathan Head. He said the suspect, who is thought to have left his backpack at a shrine where a blast killed 20 people, spok…
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
The Andromeda galaxy is one of the most distant objects that we can see in the night sky with the naked eye. The light that we see now left there 2.5 million years ago.
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Little blep! Finally got one! : Blep
Little blep! Finally got one! via /r/Blep http://t.co/91ABVKSFXM http://t.co/uqiysvGZc1
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Keep Looking Up by Chad Galloway
Keep Looking Up by Chad Galloway http://t.co/heUHZ6Y7hn http://t.co/yEV8Dsue9e
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SmartThings Support Is Coming To Amazon Echo | TechCrunch
It would appear that Amazon has plans to team up with SmartThings to power various home automation features with the Amazon Echo, the voice-powered personal assistant device.
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Conservatism and modernity side by side in Iran – BBC News
For the first time in six years, the BBC has been given rare access to report from inside Iran. Our correspondent in Tehran, Kim Ghattas, considers the gap between conservative Iran and the urban, modern classes of Iranian society.
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Dutch police make arrest over fake Van Gogh painting – BBC News
Police in Holland have arrested a man suspected of trying to sell a fake Vincent Van Gogh painting. The unidentified 56-year-old was allegedly trying to pass off a study of Van Gogh’s The Harvest for 15 million euros (£10.7m).
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There’s not much you can do about Spotify’s new privacy policy | Ars Technica
Spotify released a new privacy policy that is now in effect, and it turns out that the company wants to learn a lot more about you and there’s not much you can do about it.
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Photoshop of Lady Diana with Princess Chartlotte – Boing Boing
The death of Princess Diana was a turning point in UK public life, an event met (contrary to the expected English sang-froid) by an outpouring of intense, irrational, somewhat deranged grief.
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Hand-cut silhouettes from Tolkien, Rowling, GRRM – Boing Boing
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Rachel Maddow: Trump ‘Says Stuff That Has Never Been Said Before’ | Rolling Stone
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has a tough job trying to sort through the madness of American politics. But Donald Trump’s headline-making presidential campaign has given her some clarity. “I feel like my job every day is [that] I paint houses with a nail…
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Twenty-four hours of notifications | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Uniqlo Will Give Some Workers A Four-Day Workweek | ThinkProgress
Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, Theory, and J Brand, will give about a fifth of its employees the option to work four days a week starting in October, Bloomberg News reports.
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The Barefoot Movement: Johnson City, Tennessee’s Bluegrass Future | Rolling Stone
Their Sound: Acoustic music performed around one microphone, drawing on original material, traditional tunes and sometimes even a creative cover of the Blind Melon pop hit “No Rain.
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Scream’s Carlson Young will have recurring role on Grimm next season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
TVLine reports that Carlson Young, who plays queen bee Brooke on MTV’s Scream, will have a recurring role on the fifth season of Grimm as a woman who gets caught up in some kind of Wesen feud.
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Hear Lana Del Rey’s Hypnotic New Song, ‘Terrence Loves You’ | Rolling Stone
Lana Del Rey is paralyzed by loss on her hypnotic new track, “Terrence Loves You.” “I lost myself when I lost you,” she sings over piano and moaning saxophone. “But I still got jazz when I’ve got those blues.
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‘Bad Lip Reading’ Makes Republican Debate Intentionally Funny | Rolling Stone
One possible reaction to the the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month was to laugh to keep from crying. The proceedings had plenty to spark a depressed chuckle, but now Bad Lip Reading has turned the candidates’ actually horrifyin…
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Robert Griffin III Can’t Get Right | Rolling Stone
Four years ago, I sat in a conference room in Waco, Texas with a young quarterback named Robert Griffin III and listened to him talk about the inherent compromises of playing in the National Football League.
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One Direction Go to Space Camp in ‘Drag Me Down’ Video | Rolling Stone
One Direction go from global superstars to deep space-reaching astronauts in their new video for “Drag Me Down,” which was filmed at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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The future seems stupid – Imgur
The future seems stupid http://t.co/hFV5ASPNk9 http://t.co/pfiVayxAgo
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While everyone is distracted by a certain orange presidential candidate, a river turned orange in Colorado. The Animas River disaster happened when contractors working for the EPA accidentally released a toxic stew from an old abandoned gold mine.
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Use Sugar and Salt Instead of Soy Sauce for Perfect Fried Rice
Fried rice is a great way to make a delicious, quick meal. Next time you cook up a batch, swap the soy sauce for a little sugar and salt instead to get the perfect flavor combination.http://lifehacker.com/make-a-quick-a…
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Brad DeLong is searching for the origins of the phrase “confidence fairy”.
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When New York City installed pedestrian plazas in Times Square six years ago, replacing traffic-choked streets with beach chairs and picnic tables, the move prompted civic controversy, late-night monologue jokes and, eventually, widespread praise as…
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OnePlus 2 cheap-phone overhyped but OK, say reviewers – Boing Boing
Hailed as a flagship-killing bargain, the OnePlus 2 is just OK and not even that cheap. Wired makes fun of its cult fandom.
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Mirrored Ziggurat melds earth with stairway to the skies – Boing Boing
Sydney’s Underbelly Arts Festival included this cool Mirrored Ziggurat by Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad.
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Catch Up With Marc Jacobs, Meet Karl Lagerfeld’s Keeper | Observer
Just call him Marc: The esteemed Marc Jacobs offers up an intimate interview from his West Village townhouse. It turns out that he has this new thing where he kind of hates last names and his company is probably preparing for an IPO. via T: The New …
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What Are the 2016 GOP Candidates Reading? | | Observer
Most of our Founding Fathers were serious readers, which is one reason we have a free and prosperous nation built on a foundation of the rule of law. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison were all deeply influenced by the books they read.
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Bandwidth: How First Nations Kids Built Their Own Internet Infrastructure | Motherboard
Three years ago, the people living in the Ochiichagwe’Babigo’Ining Ojibway Nation in Ontario would crowd in each other’s homes and outside the band office to access what little internet the community had.
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The Sad Sight of A Company Downloading Its Own Stolen Data | Motherboard
Yesterday, hackers dumped another 20GB of internal data from the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, and its parent company Avid Life Media (ALM) on the dark web.
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Race in the US: What if your identity was a lie? – Al Jazeera English
My father’s anger was a storm. Like many other boys, I was carefree and careless with a thoughtlessness that bordered on stupidity. The world revolved around my desire to laugh and run in a bubble of fun and I rarely noticed the wake of catastrophe …
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Travelling to Athens with a Syrian refugee – Al Jazeera English
Boarding a scheduled flight from Lesbos to Athens, an American holidaymaker holds her nose and mutters: “I can’t stand this.” A Syrian family take their seats opposite. There are kids and loads of hand luggage. The air is pungent with sweat.
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Picked up our kitten today, need help with a name. : cats
Picked up our kitten today, need help with a name. via /r/cats http://t.co/WT8SzKq5kC http://t.co/cBC5kkVrOe
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BOWLING GREEN, OH—Saying they hadn’t yet found a location with the proper combination of bland decor, uncomfortable seats, and bleak fluorescent lighting, admissions officials at Bowling Green State University confirmed Friday they were still lookin…
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Zany Pac-Man 256 Lets You Toast the Ghosts With Lasers | WIRED
I haven’t played a Pac-Man knockoff with anything approaching verve in decades. Pac-Man Party? Snore. Pac-Man World Rally? Come on, really? How many ways can you retool/exploit the maze-running escapades of a pellet-gobbling electric-lemon pizza?
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Justin Gatlin on track to be least popular 100m world champion of all time | Sport | The Guardian
If Justin Gatlin wins the 100m on Sunday, a feat he is firmly on course for if predictions are based on current form, the American may just be the least popular world champion of all time. The IAAF president-elect Sebastian Coe has said the prospect…
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Real-life first person shooter on Chatroulette
These folks created a real-life first person shooter game and invited strangers on Chatroulette to control the action. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how they did it. (thx, oren)
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New trailers: The Martian, The Daily Show, Victor Frankenstein, and more | The Verge
Trailers! They’re like movies, but cut down to about 2 minutes and 30 seconds long, or about 1/44th the length of the average* movie. Sometimes there’s music over them, much like how movies have music. There are characters, plots, action sequences, …
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Gun Rights Win A Major Victory In Federal Court, And That’s Actually A Good Thing | ThinkProgress
On the surface, a federal appeals court’s decision in United States v. Meza-Rodriguez concerns a fairly narrow issue — whether “unauthorized non-U.S. citizens within our borders” enjoy Second Amendment gun rights.
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The Quest for Genius in Einstein’s Brain – Scientific American
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died at Princeton Hospital of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Within hours the pathologist on call, Thomas Harvey, acting on his own initiative, removed the famed physicist’s brain without the family’s permission.
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/ASsMV9eIQc http://t.co/sIxUmTX79E
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Excuse me! When are you going to collect my homework? Best essay on how to kill a mocking bird I’ve ever read.
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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Tiger Woods had his best round of golf in two years, shooting a 6-under-par 64 at the Wyndham Championship.
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When Politicians Make Playlists – The New Yorker
This spring, I found myself at a conference full of policymakers and Washington, D.C., wonks, listening to Ohio Governor John Kasich test out his talking points. At the time, he had yet to announce his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination.
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Fix All Your Facebook Mistakes With the Activity Log
You may not yet have stumbled across the Activity Log page in your wanderings around Facebook, but it’s worth exploring.
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Holy crap. Don’t sneak up on someone like that Carl : StartledCats
Holy crap. Don’t sneak up on someone like that Carl via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/emL62sNI32 http://t.co/2oQRHMv90N
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These GIFs of Hokusai Woodblock Art with UFOs and Lasers Are Freaking Awesome | Motherboard
Japanese video artist Atsuki Segawa has created Ukiyo-e 2.0 by transforming some centuries-old woodblock art into a series of animated gifs. Ukiyo-e are woodblock prints that became popular in Japan from the 17th to the 19th century.
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Tig Notaro Is Just a Person | Vanity Fair
“Oh my God. It’s you! Hi!” The young man behind the counter at the Big Gay Ice Cream shop in Manhattan’s East Village has just recognized Tig Notaro, who responds with a sort of “it’s me” gesture and says, “Hi,” back, smiling big.
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A Tekken-Style Pokémon Fighting Game Is Coming to Wii U | Motherboard
A Japan-only Pokémon arcade game called Pokken Tournament is coming to the Wii U worldwide next spring, the Pokémon Company announced to a couple thousand rabid fans at the Pokémon World Championships in Boston on Friday.
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Meet the GynePunks Pushing the Boundaries of DIY Gynecology | Motherboard
Access to reproductive health care is key to the wellbeing of women around the world. But for countless underserved groups—sex workers, immigrants, LGBTQ, and the uninsured, to name a few—access often doesn’t exist.
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Saw this on /r/funny and immediately thought of us Trolls! : TrollXChromosomes
Saw this on /r/funny and immediately thought of us Trolls! via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/5uDIBsbn4H http://t.co/i76pxmFNkj
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Dismaland: Ticket and queue misery at Banksy show – BBC News
Long queues form at Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition in Weston-super-Mare as it opens its doors to local residents. The show, a dark take on theme parks with a nod to Disneyland, has been organised in secrecy for months.
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Trump presidency fanfic – Boing Boing
Here’s what appears to be a Digg-approved audio adaption, but it doesn’t play for me because WNYC’s audio widget can serve me 68 separate javascript files but cannot serve me one MP3. Post your Trump fanfic in the comments! The rule: it must read li…
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Shark with a mounted GoPro : gifs
Shark with a mounted GoPro via /r/gifs http://t.co/sDB3GNBC8U http://t.co/ZVZMk5HVP2
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A Rare Cross-Sectional View of a Super Typhoon
Atsani is the the sixth super typhoon to make an appearance during the 2015 West Pacific Tropical Season, which already surpassed the normal average of four.
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Nvidia’s GTX 950 is a highly capable, good-value GPU for 1080p gaming | Ars Technica
What is the most common gaming resolution these days? 1080p? 1440p? 4K? Despite the graphical splendour of a high-resolution monitor—and don’t get me wrong, I love me a high-resolution monitor—for the vast majority of people, 1080p is still king.
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Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Seeks a Broader Audience, Including with Traditional VCs | TechCrunch
Many crowdfunding startups now make it easier for founders to reach a bigger audience of investors. The question is whether investors are as keen to continue funding crowdfunding sites. OurCrowd may find out soon.
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Ars Technica’s songs of the summer—and how our staff discovers music | Ars Technica
Hello from the 2015 Technicon, the annual Ars Technica staff meet-up where we all put on pants, leave our home offices, and gather in a single city to talk about editorial policy and come up with new nicknames for Jon Brodkin.
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Glass-bottomed “sky pool” to be suspended above London
The 25-metre-long pool will link two blocks of apartments that form part of the 2,000-home Embassy Gardens development by London architects HAL, now in its second stage.
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An Exclusive Interview With the Fat Jew — Vulture
A week ago, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Instagram star the Fat Jew, a.k.a. the Fat Jewish, a.k.a. Josh Ostrovsky, signed with CAA, one of Hollywood’s largest agencies.
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What Do Greeks Think of Tsipras Resignation and the Upcoming Elections? | VICE | United Kingdom
Last night, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced his resignation, signalling that a new election is on its way. “The popular mandate that I received on the 25th of January has exhausted its limits. Now the sovereign people of Greece must we…
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Poro’s Sleepy Blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/YLwHRCyVDc http://t.co/iXfqgC2aJP
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The Pokemon arcade fighting game is coming to the Wii U | The Verge
Pokkén Tournament — a Pokemon-themed fighting game that was previously only available in Japanese arcades — is coming to the Wii U, the Pokemon Company announced today.
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Make Your Own Self-Rising Flour with Stuff You Already Have in Your Kitchen
Self-rising flour is commonly called for in recipes for biscuits, pancakes, and muffins, but if you don’t have room in your kitchen for multiple varieties of flour (or just don’t feel like going to the store), Epicurious has an easy formula for maki…
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One Direction Heads to Space in First Zayn-Less Music Video | Vanity Fair
Whatever collective is charged with devising the concept of One Direction music videos—we’re imagining some sort of laboratory filled with Koosh balls and puppies, and other such props, populated with 40 researchers in white coats—must have had some…
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BBC Sport – Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho denies competing with Man Utd for Pedro
Manager Jose Mourinho said Chelsea did not intend to “beat” Manchester United to the signing of £21m Pedro. Former Barcelona forward Pedro and Chelsea’s other new signing this week, ex-Augsburg left-back Baba Rahman, are in the squad for Sunday’s tr…
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Schengen free movement ‘may be suspended’, says Germany – BBC News
Passport-free travel between several European countries may have to be halted, Germany has warned, with the continent facing an influx of migrants. Thomas de Maiziere told the BBC he supported the Schengen Agreement that abolishes internal EU border…
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This 80s Japanese Robot Looks Suspiciously Like a Bunch of Dicks | Motherboard
Soft robotics is an emerging field that promises to yield machines that are more useful, flexible, and lifelike than your average bucket of bolts. But the biggest advancement in soft robotics may be 25-years-old. It also looks oddly… phallic.
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Samsung Courts iPhone Users With $1 Galaxy Test Drive Program | Motherboard
Samsung really wants you to stop using your iPhone. The Korean giant rolled out a promotion this morning that lets current iPhone owners test drive a Galaxy Note5, Galaxy S6 edge, or Galaxy S6 edge+ for a full 30 days for only $1.
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York Train Station : Breathless
York Train Station via /r/Breathless http://t.co/9juF08B8fl http://t.co/mdbHrVpD1T
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/B9cHUs2XSv http://t.co/M3g3EjlkLT
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Darlene Love on New Solo LP, Working with Springsteen | Rolling Stone
About 35 years ago, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt were in Los Angeles when they heard Darlene Love was playing at the Roxy. Love had been one of Phil Spector’s go-to singers in the 1960s, powering “He’s a Rebel,” “Today I Met the Boy I’m Gon…
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In a setup that would not look out of place in fiction, Jonathan Franzen, the bestselling American novelist, has said he once considered adopting an Iraqi war orphan to help him understand young people better, but was persuaded against it by his edi…
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Scottish town cuts twinned link to Faroe Islands over whale killings | Environment | The Guardian
A Scottish town has broken off its relations with the Faroe Islands in protest against this year’s “disgusting” killing of over 400 pilot whales.
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Moon Bridge in Dahu Park, Taipei : Breathless
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Chasing ice / Sentinel-1 / Copernicus / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
Satellite images show that the fastest moving glacier in the world shed a chunk of ice measuring around 12.5 sq km this week – one of the most significant calving events on record.
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Productivity slumps after 40-50 hours of work a week – Boing Boing
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Loma Prieta creates a destructive Self Portrait with “Never Remember” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hailing from California’s Bay Area it’s fitting that Loma Prieta took its name from the earthquake that devastated the area in 1989. Over the course of its decade together the band has transcended genre tags and found ways to strike in ways that are…
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Actor Austin Stowell Has Two New Projects with Steven Spielberg | Vanity Fair
For as long as he can remember, Austin Stowell wanted to pitch for the New York Yankees. Growing up, he’d take trips in his father’s Oldsmobile from his Connecticut home to 161st Street to see the Bronx Bombers play, all the while dreaming of gettin…
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Marvel’s Daredevil had some impressive fight scenes that landed with a sense of weight, pain, and brutality not really seen on the airier stage of the company’s silver screen efforts.
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New site Eter9 promises digital immortality using a kind of artificial intelligence to scan your posts. It will then continue posting online for you after death. Yes, it’s the creepiest thing we’ve learned today too.
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Oilseed rape pesticide linked to UK honeybee deaths, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
Protecting oilseed rape crops with a controversial nicotine-like pesticide has led to the loss of honeybee colonies across England and Wales, a government-backed study has found.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 110 | WIRED
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb…
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Fish That Wears a Suction Cup as a Hat | WIRED
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DUBUQUE, Iowa — As 1,800 mad-as-hell supporters jumped out of their seats and pumped their fists last Sunday, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivered the message they had come to hear.
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Our First Look At Lady Gaga In American Horror Story: Hotel!
We may know which side Spider-Man’s is on in Civil War. Ben McKenzie discusses Gotham’s shortcomings, and we know what HRG has been up to since Heroes. Plus, Ingrid Oliver talks Doctor Who, meet the stars of Fear The Walking Dead, and what’s to come…
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Samsung rumored to be working on 18.4-inch Android tablet | The Verge
How big is too big for a tablet? While most of the industry has converged around two sizes (one about 7 inches from corner to corner, the other roughly 10 inches across), Samsung apparently wants to push the boundaries.
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Man draws dozens of penises in Ikea, with Ikea pencil – Boing Boing
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AwardAce Compares Flight Prices in Rewards Miles
Rewards travel is a beautiful thing. Earn enough points with an airline, and you can score free flights or upgrades. If you’re planning a trip, and you’re a member of multiple programs, you might want to see how much that flight will cost in terms o…
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Ditch Your ISP’s Modem Rental Fees By Buying Your Own, On Sale Today Only
Every modem rental fee you pay to your ISP is padding for their bottom line, and a total rip-off for you. Fortunately, you can buy your own modem for a small upfront cost in today’s Amazon Gold Box, and recoup the cost in savings on your monthly bil…
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Comcast now lets any of its customers stream live video to friends’ TVs | The Verge
Comcast will now let any of its customers use its Xfinity Share app, allowing many to live stream video to their home TVs or the TVs of other Comcast subscribers. Xfinity Share initially launched back in May, but at the time it was only available to…
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Cilla Black funeral: In pictures – BBC News
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More Than 50 Women Have Now Come Forward To Accuse Bill Cosby Of Sexual Misconduct | ThinkProgress
At a press conference on Thursday, attorney Gloria Allred introduced two more women to the American public who are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault. With their allegations, the total number of Cosby’s alleged victims is now over 50.
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Despite Overall Growth in U.S. Households, Millennials Aren’t Forming Their Own – CityLab
Recovery or no, the housing news is grim for Millennials. A new report from Goldman Sachs echoes the new findings from the Pew Research Center last month: The economic recovery has not shown any decline in the share of young adults who are living at…
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Poop Could Help Save Rare Tree Kangaroo from Extinction http://t.co/CpWVOiRmUf
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From Calais refugee to millionaire: one man’s story – Al Jazeera English
London, Britian – On the last night of 1999, Fahim Qayumi huddled with 12 other Afghans in the dark, a little distance from the French port of Calais, where thousands of refugees have massed in recent months.
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The Complete History (So Far) of Ryan Adams’ Taylor Swift Cover Project | WIRED
Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams is celebrating the last month of summer in style. Actually, he’s doing it with “Style.” And with “Shake It Off,” and “Out Of The Woods,” and the rest of Taylor Swift’s quintuple-platinum 1989 by covering the whole damn t…
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Spotify’s new privacy policy lets it collect everything on your phone – Boing Boing
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The First Real Smart Drug? Researchers Say Modafinil Works | Motherboard
So-called smart drugs or “nootropics” might have a roaring internet trade already, but there’s still little consensus on how effective most substances actually are at enhancing cognitive function in people who are healthy but just want a bit of a br…
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North Korea orders troops on war footing after exchanging fire with South – BBC News
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his frontline troops to be on a war footing, state media says, after an exchange of fire with the South across their heavily fortified border. The KCNA report said Mr Kim declared a “semi-state of war” at …
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Harvesting Lavender : oddlysatisfying
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1350 BC – Ancient Monk Administers Holy Brew — Through A Straw : monkslookingatbeer
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Thomas Lubanga appeal: Congo warlord seeks ICC release – BBC News
Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga wants to be released from prison early to study the causes of ethnic conflict, he has told the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Lubanga became the first person to be convicted by the ICC, in 20…
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Black rhino to be reintroduced in Chad | World news | The Guardian
The critically endangered black rhino is to return to Chad decades after it was last seen in the country as part of an ambitious relocation from South Africa, where it is under siege from poachers.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Provided you live in a Nerd Colony, that is. And let’s face it: We do. I mean, we’re all “talking” to computers right now.
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How to launch a Kickstarter campaign even if you don’t have any ideas | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Q&A: Syria’s White Helmets – Al Jazeera English
As the war in Syria rages on and bombs continue to rain down on civilians, it is often a group of ordinary citizens who are the first to enter the destroyed buildings, scouring through the rubble and debris in search of bodies and signs of life.
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Unstable ground hampers search for body of last victim of Alaska landslides | US news | The Guardian
Crews searching for the body of the last man believed buried by a landslide in a coastal Alaska town have been sifting log-by-log through a debris field, careful not to trigger any more movement of the mass of unstable, tree-tangled muck.
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Vurb Searches Dozens of Services, Saves Info About Movies, Events, and More
Android/iOS: The internet is full of tons of useful information, but it can be kinda scattershot. Vurb aims to help that problem by collecting all the data it can find from a variety of services in one place and giving you the tools to organize it.
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US says Turkey needs to do more in fight against ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Turkey needs to do more in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said.
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Why The Difference Between A House And A Home Is Happiness | Observer
The only thing that stands between me and homelessness is $4,195 a month. Or, as of July, $5,376 a month. That’s what I pay in rent, now that I am no longer a homeowner. Well, not that I was a homeowner before so much as a home mortgager.
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Better Bed Than Dead: Why Mourners Often Hook Up At Funerals | Observer
On a Yelp message board, the question “where to flirt” in San Francisco ignited a vigorous debate. Jason D. ranked funerals as the fifth-best flirting hot spot, beating out bars and nightclubs. “Whoa, whoa, back up,” responded Jordan M. “People flir…
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What Jeff Bezos Could Learn from Henry Ford | | Observer
Henry Ford and Jeff Bezos changed the world. That’s not an exaggeration. In their own ways, they both revolutionized how business is done. After Henry Ford’s labor-saving, assembly line innovations, companies that made physical products had to adapt…
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First female graduates of Ranger School earn elite tab
WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping their history-making week, the first female soldiers to complete the Army’s rigorous Ranger School are graduating Friday, putting a spotlight on the debate over opening all combat roles to women. First Lt. Shaye Haver of Co…
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Wide Sipadan by Chanon Ngernthongdee / 500px
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When Politicians Make Playlists – The New Yorker
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Movie music too loud but dialogue too quiet? the fixarooni – Imgur
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Audie Murphy wearing all his medals, 1945 : OldSchoolCool
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Saw this at a flea market. : firstworldanarchists
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Seagull in Flight [OC][5970×3771] : AnimalPorn
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Judgy blep. (X-post from /r/aww) : Blep
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In a setup that would not look out of place in fiction, Jonathan Franzen, the bestselling American novelist, has said he once considered adopting an Iraqi war orphan to help him understand young people better, but was persuaded against it by his edi…
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The leafy top of Mount Bental, on the Israeli side of the disputed Golan Heights, offers a café and souvenir store, a seasonal fruit stand, and an unimpeded view of the smoking ruins of Syria’s civil war.
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Tianjin explosions: New fires burn at site – BBC News
Four new fires are burning at the site in the Chinese city of Tianjin where blasts killed at least 116 people, the state-run Xinhua news agency says. One of the fires started at an automobile distribution site not far from the epicentre of the blast…
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Nelson Mandela grandson charged with raping girl of 15 – BBC News
One of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in South Africa. The 24-year-old, who cannot be named until he enters his plea, is accused of raping the teenager in the toilets of a restaurant in Johannesburg.
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BBC Sport – Strictly Come Dancing: Anthony Ogogo cannot box until December
Middleweight boxer Anthony Ogogo says he is doing Strictly Come Dancing this year because he is unable to box until December with a shoulder injury.
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Islamic State in Syria demolishes al-Qaryatain monastery – BBC News
Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria have demolished a Christian monastery in al-Qaryatain town in Homs province.
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Why LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out Almost Never Happened | Vanity Fair
August of 1990 was unseasonably warm. The hottest month in one of the city’s hottest years in history, ever, it was a fitting climate for the release of one of hip-hop’s greatest albums.
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