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Pepsi: Is It The End Of Groups On “The X Factor USA™?”

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:30:09 -0400

Pepsi: Is It The End Of Groups On “The X Factor USA™?”:

It was bad news for Paula again last week when she found another two of her groups at the bottom. The Stereo Hoggz were on the chopping block again, as well as the country/rock hybrid that is Lakoda Rayne. The Stereo Hoggz were kicked to the curb and Lakoda Rayne must have thanked their lucky…

artchipel: Mark Warren Jacques (b.1984, USA) - Inner Peace in...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:30:07 -0400

artchipel:

Mark Warren Jacques (b.1984, USA) - Inner Peace in Outer Space. Acrylic and ink on wood, 20”x16”

[more Mark Warren Jacques | artist found at alecshao]

Adam Laiacano: More fun with 1.usa.gov data

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:30:05 -0400

Adam Laiacano: More fun with 1.usa.gov data:

adamlaiacano:

I took another look through the 1.usa.gov data, this time to see if there is a difference in the distribution of browsers between the different top-level domains (nasa.gov, fbi.gov, weather.gov, etc.).

First let’s take a look at the overall browser usage for the data that I’ve collected.

You…

theworldwelivein: Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA© aliockasi

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:30:04 -0400

theworldwelivein:

Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
© aliockasi

walkwithme-likeloversdo: In northwestern Montana, USA. The...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:30:02 -0400

walkwithme-likeloversdo:

In northwestern Montana, USA. The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it’s very deep.

vogue: Christian Dior Spring 2012 Couture Photo: Yannis...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:29:57 -0400

vogue:

Christian Dior Spring 2012 Couture

Photo: Yannis Vlamos/GoRunway.com

Visit Vogue.com for the full collection and review.

kevinbolk: As promised, here’s the Avengers parody (namely of...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:29:55 -0400

kevinbolk:

As promised, here’s the Avengers parody (namely of this promo image of the movie) I’d been working on. Those are some strong male characters. Am I right, ladies?

lil-b: Introducing our new game called: “Don’t Be A Di*k During...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:13 -0400

lil-b:

Introducing our new game called:

“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”

The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.

Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.

Rules:

1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.

2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.

3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.

4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.

5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.

Variations/house rules:

-Starting the game after everyone is seated.

-In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players.

- Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems.

Notes:

- No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones.

- You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes.

- I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k.

- I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =).

- Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life.

Finishing a Game

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:12 -0400

makegames:

As I work towards completing my own game, I’ve been thinking a lot about finishing projects in general. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of really talented developers out there that have trouble finishing games. Truthfully, I’ve left a long trail of unfinished games in my wake… I think everyone has. Not every project is going to pan out, for whatever reason. But if you find yourself consistently backing out of game projects that have a lot of potential, it could be worth taking a step back and examining why this happens.

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youranonnews: ACTA in a Nutshell – What is ACTA? ACTA is the...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:10 -0400

youranonnews:

ACTA in a Nutshell –

What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.

Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”

What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.

Negotiating Parties -

Australia

Canada

European Union

Japan

Mexico

Morocco

New Zealand

The Republic of Korea

Singapore

Switzerland

United States

Essential ACTA Resources -

HOW TO ACT AGAINST ACTA: Make a difference

Read more about ACTA here: ACTA Fact Sheet

Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text

Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history

Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response

Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video

Watch a lulzy video on ACTA: Lulzy Video

Reuters: ACTA signed in Tokyo: Article

United States ACTA: Read

European Union Trade Commission ACTA: Read

Australian Gov’t ACTA: Read

Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic: Read

ACTA Undermines Access to Medicines: Article

Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA. #ActAgainstACTA

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:09 -0400

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY':

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

The Real Zack Morris: The State of the Art is Terrible

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:07 -0400

The Real Zack Morris: The State of the Art is Terrible:

zackarymorris:

I stumbled onto this post the other day through Hacker News. Basically Ryan Dahl (the guy who wrote node.js, a web framework that makes running web servers easy with javascript) called out the deplorable state of software today.

I fully agree with him.

And here’s why - I’ve seen…

Paddy Johnson: Occupy Museums! Speaking out in front of the Cannons

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:06 -0400

Paddy Johnson: Occupy Museums! Speaking out in front of the Cannons:

paddyjohnson:

The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation…

raginggrannies: Make no bones about it, our beloved internet is...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:05 -0400

raginggrannies:

Make no bones about it, our beloved internet is in serious danger…

and here is why.

Last year legislative measures were introduced in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, S. 968 (the “PROTECT IP Act”) and H.R. 3261 (the “Stop Online Piracy Act”). Their primary purpose, as we see it, is to help Hollywood keep rolling in the profits. Passage of these bills would mean that so-called “rogue” websites could be censored when they infringe on copyright law.

BUT…the language in both of these bills is written with a very broad paintbrush. Their passage would have a huge impact on the work of human rights advocates who speak out against injustice on sites that could easily be labelled “rogue” websites. It’s a slippery slope when censorship reigns.

The indymedia network that thrives on open publishing (and our favorite www.indybay.org here in the San Francisco Bay Area) would be subject to censorship, defeating the very purpose of its existence. Similar platforms created to provide anonymity to whistleblowers could become major casualties of these bills.

All to save Hollywood’s bottom line?

It’s not often that Raging Grannies align with the likes of Facebook and Google. We’ve protested at Facebook about their lack of privacy considerations, and at Google because of their flip-flop on internet neutrality. (After we demonstrated last time at Google we wound up on Jon Stewart’s ‘The Daily Show’ and in a New York Times photo). But this time we are on the same side with the two internet giants. They too have come out AGAINST these Hollywood generated bills.

We are keeping track of who supports PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the house through this useful site. And we are taking action.

Our Senator Dianne Feinstein has disappointed us before by not standing up for Social Security…she disappoints us again by being a co-sponsor of PIPA. We are sent her an open letter with the photo above.

And we applaud our local Silicon Valley Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo who say NO to SOPA.

US Senators from California Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are listed as PIPA co-sponsors. You can contact Senator Boxer at (202) 224-3553 and Senator Feinstein at (202) 224-3841. In other states, reach out to your own US senator.

Tell them the PIPA is dangerous…it could be used as a tool for online censorship. Tell them what websites YOU use that could become toast, and why you think it is important that we have a free internet.

Please tell your Congressperson to vote NO on SOPA.

Our friends at the Electric Frontier Foundation and Save the Internet help us stay up to date on what can be done to keep the internet free of censorship. We proudly stand together with them for internet freedom.

Notes EM: this is how you start a takedown!

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:03 -0400

Notes EM: this is how you start a takedown!:

evgenymorozov:

The first paragraph of Matt Cartmill’s review of Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions book. It appeared in the International Journal of Primatology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991)

This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that is not a criticism of it, because its author thinks…

wearethe99percent: I am an artist. I am 57 years old. I am...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:28:02 -0400

wearethe99percent:

I am an artist. I am 57 years old. I am broke and in debt. (insert fucked-up story here, replete with unemployment and inability to pay for medical care) I am not a joiner and have never been much interested in politics (perhaps because I have sensed it was all a sham and have given in to cynicism) yet seeing this movement has excited me. It is the first genuine thing in politics that I have seen in 40 years!

        I would like to address the “1%”: Greed is NOT good. Ambition is good- and there will always be inequality- viva la differance. Greed=Fear. Greed is the irrational hoarding of wealth in the face of fear. The reason you are afraid is that we are seeing a shift in the economic paradigm- such as has happened throughout history. We are also facing environmental catastrophe on a scale never seen before. The tectonic plates of economy are shifting from the old oil/consumerist/imperialist model of capitalism towards something else. It’s not that we don’t need energy and goods- but we’ve got to get smarter, better and more equitable than ever before. We are moving towards an increasingly intellectual, autonomous and creative phase. You will kill yourselves trying to preserve that which must die. The smarter of you will indeed profit from change, and I, for one, would not deny that to you- but the only way to preserve that which must be preserved (i.e., the planet (Earth, remember?)) is for us all to profit, sustainably. We have so much potential- more amazingly creative human resource than ever, but we must all grow together as a species. We must abandon irrational modes of governance and planning that is based upon fear! This whole question of “socialism vs. capitalism” is bullshit!! Things like medical care and internet (like education, roads, postal) could/should be moved into the realm of “infrastructure” to fuel a new, diverse, locally rooted yet global economy that can increase “profits” on a scale never seen previously. for all.   The govt. is currently subsidizing outmoded and harmful industries but the movement of life on this planet is shifting- GWTP! (get with the program)

        I am not lazy. I am impatient to work. I am not depressed. The economy is, dummy! I am excited. I am hopeful. I must try to do what I can, however seemingly insignificant.

                                        the 99%. -eyesection

chicagohistorymuseum: 1904 Chinese New Year, girl in...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:27:39 -0400

chicagohistorymuseum:

1904 Chinese New Year, girl in traditional dress.

Want a copy of this photo?
> Visit our Rights and Reproductions Department and give them this number: DN-0003283.

peppersprayingcop: “In España, we can sit wherever we want....

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:27:30 -0400

peppersprayingcop:

“In España, we can sit wherever we want. Unless we get bombed by warplanes. But that hasn’t happened since 1937AUAUAUAAUAAAHAHHHHFGGGHHGHGHHHHHHHHH”

Varsity Bookmarking: Dear Graphic and Web Designers, please understand that there are greater opportunities available to you.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:27:29 -0400

Varsity Bookmarking: Dear Graphic and Web Designers, please understand that there are greater opportunities available to you. :

pieratt:

You have an inherent need to solve problems, visually and conceptually. There is enormous value in this, but you may be misplacing your talents.

The internet, at this time in history, is the greatest client assignment of all time. The Western world is porting itself over to the web in mind and…

MS nerd: Clarity

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:27:28 -0400

MS nerd: Clarity:

msnerd:

One amazingly wrong story about Windows Phone has picked up a lot of steam lately. I’m afraid with my Rhythm post, I may have contributed to the problem. (Oddly, the Ecosystems post has gone relatively unnoticed, what with the recent Lenovo leak). I am referring to the widespread…