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ze-tarts:

Done doing these so here they all are in one place! Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines.

Point of this: An exercise in character design, attempting to clothe the heroines nearly all the way and not making them painted-on, while still keeping the look of their original costumes in some way.  Hopefully keeping them looking as iconic as the originally were. Just showing what can be done with a costume breaking outside the barrier of the norm.

NOT the point of this: some moral code I’m trying to push on you

Sorry if there was a character you wanted me to do that I didn’t get to!

This threatens many dearly held beliefs of technology workers: It suggests those at the top aren’t there because they’re the best, but because of hard work and privilege. It suggests that the enormous wealth generated by tech startups and founders isn’t justified by their superior intelligence.

In short, it requires geeks to re-examine their own revenge fantasies of being outsiders who now rule the world and admit that they might, themselves, be actively excluding others.

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alioutfit:

Green puffer jacket with faux fur trim. (And this bag is becoming a favourite I think)

It’s just good, old-fashioned hard work, and there’s not a lot of that now. You know, hard work? Like not on the computer.

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everythingistemporaryanyway:

brain-food:

Artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations.

this ^ is the.awesome.

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From Jack Kirby’s unpublished adaptation of The Prisoner 

Life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and the incidence of degenerative disease was 10% of ours. Their levels of physical activity and hence calorific intakes were approximately twice ours. They had relatively little access to alcohol and tobacco; and due to their correspondingly high intake of fruits, whole grains, oily fish and vegetables, they consumed levels of micro- and phytonutrients at approximately ten times the levels considered normal today.

Out of frustration, I tweeted ‘Here are the 10 biggest markets for Letter to Jane…’ and the next tweet was ‘If anyone in those markets gave me a job that can pay for an apartment and wifi, I’m yours’ and five minutes later, David Jacobs tweeted me and said ‘DONE!’

monkeyajb:

Google Closes Google Reader

Google Shutters Google+

Google Sunsets Groundbreaking YouTube Service

Google Moves On from Popular Maps Service

Google Makes Difficult Decision to Close Gmail, Focus on Core Users

Google Announces New Enterprise Software Division, Lays Off 20,000 in Search Division

Google Closes Search

The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us on our iPhones and iPads. One reporter used a tool called Collusion to track who was tracking him; 105 companies tracked his Internet use during one 36-hour period.

This is ubiquitous surveillance: All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever. This is what a surveillance state looks like, and it’s efficient beyond the wildest dreams of George Orwell.

Bob Roth, one of my bosses when I edited Washington City Paper, told me to watch people as they picked it up from a street box and walk away with it: Almost to a one, they would hold it in their hands or fold it under their arms as if to display the paper’s flag so onlookers would know they were City Paper people, whatever that meant.

Been singing this to myself for weeks.

The first thing I ate as part of my new diet was ox liver, so I really threw myself in at the deep end. I was a bit squeamish because you can’t pretend a liver is anything other than part of an animal. It freaked me out a bit but I got through it. The second thing I ate that day was a rare steak. That was when I had a transformative experience.

Like most freelancers of my generation, I prefer to be paid in whiskey and sadness.

"Traffic," they spit. And I get it. The word has been used to bludgeon you into dumb shit. To put great stories on the shelf to build slideshows. To give up on quality and focus on quantity. I do get all that. But that’s precisely why we journalists must understand the numbers! The business side of any publication knows them inside and out. If we don’t understand how to tell good stories with our own data, who do you think wins any argument that involves data, which they all do?

Justice Scalia, when you spew that entitlement discourse from the bench you undermine the very core of our democracy. But you know what? I want to thank you for what you said. Because on Wednesday, you showed us all exactly who you are. And in the words of the late, great poet Notorious B.I.G.: “if we didn’t know, now we know.”

Huber is not a brave man, and his premise is totally false. People will only think you “simply discussing race” is racist if you, like Huber, treat black people like inscrutable extraterrestrials whose moral shortcomings might be responsible for their own poverty.

If this looks good, I’m making one for myself later.

The cover stands out for its cast of black and Hispanic caricatures with exaggerated features reminiscent of early 20th century race cartoons. Also, because there are only people of color in it, grabbing greedily for cash. It’s hard to imagine how this one made it through the editorial process.

It’s OK, I’m just recording video.

www.youtube.com/watch

monkeyajb:

“Improper Tensions”

A video reenactment of scrolling through this page. Embroidery by Maysles Bros.

(earlier: http://rw.adamrice.org/post/44070851932/embroidery-trouble-shooting-page)

They were never included in the Parker Brothers version, but, in all the early boxes, you were given an address to send to [Monopoly creator Lizzie] Magie for her advanced rules. If you did, under the heading of “For Advanced and Scientific Players”, Magie suggested a way to play where, rather than one person owning everything, all the players could share in the wealth.