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Fearless Defenders #1
Cullen Bunn and Will Sliney deliver the new adventures of odd couple Misty Knight and Brunnhilde the Valkyrie in "Fearless Defenders" #1.
|February 6th, 2013
Red Lanterns #16
"Red Lanterns" #16 from Peter Milligan with art by Andres Guinaldo delivers the final tie-in chapter between this title and the "Rise of the Red Lanterns" event.
|February 1st, 2013
Avengers Assemble #11
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Stefano Caselli wrap up a fun, high-stakes arc with The Avengers in "Avengers Assemble" #11.
|January 18th, 2013
Avengers Assemble #10
It's a shame that "Avengers Assemble" didn't get its numbering restarted at #1, because Kelly Sue DeConnick and Stefano Caselli's Antarctic adventure deserves a lot of attention.
|December 12th, 2012
New Avengers #34
Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato wrap up the series in "New Avengers" #34, closing out the adventures of Bendis' New Avengers in anticipation of Marvel NOW!
|December 3rd, 2012
Avengers Assemble #9
"Avengers Assemble" #9 gives Kelly Sue DeConnick a chance to write some classic Avengers, like Iron Man and Hulk, while Stefano Caselli draws pretty pictures to match.
|November 15th, 2012
The final issue of "AVX VS," arguably the summer's most divisive series, offers readers the most surprising installment yet, as things get weird.
|October 8th, 2012
Spider-Men #5
The finale for "Spider-Men" travels between dimensions and opens up a realm of possibilities for further adventures to be shared by Miles Morales and Peter Parker.
|September 20th, 2012
New Avengers #30
While transporting Emma Frost to prison following her Phoenix-depowering in "AvX," one Avenger makes a shocking decision in "New Avengers" #30.
|September 17th, 2012
Red Lanterns #12
"Red Lanterns" #12 does a nice job of tucking in some loose ends and providing a point for the characters, creators and readers to refocus.
|August 2nd, 2012
New Avengers #27
In "New Avengers" #27, the connection between the Phoenix and the Iron Fist has something to do with -- Spider-Man?!
|June 25th, 2012
Wolverine #307
Chris Samnee delivers another creepy cover to cover up the gory interiors of "Wolverine" #307.
|June 1st, 2012
Wolverine #305
Wolverine survived Jason Aaron, so what does Cullen Bunn have planned for Logan? It all starts here.
|April 26th, 2012
New Avengers #19
The New Dark Avengers make their public debut.
|December 14th, 2011
New Avengers #18
Norman Osborn is free and rebuilds his Dark Avengers. Because that worked out well for him last time. Crazy idiot.
|November 10th, 2011
New Avengers #17
The "New Avengers" are coming at ya with a roster on the cover sure to draw casual fans in. If only the interiors could convince those fans to stick around.
|October 12th, 2011
New Avengers #16
Daredevil joins the New Avengers and fights some Nazi robots!
|September 14th, 2011
X-Men Legacy #252
"Lost Legions" is already moving towards a conclusion, which makes this story much more concise and peppy than it first looked.
|July 28th, 2011
Fear Itself: FF #1
"Fear Itself" continues to stretch through the Marvel Universe, grabbing hold of Ben Grimm and turning him against his family and the future, which are one and the same with the Future Foundation.
|July 22nd, 2011
War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #1
The War of the Green Lanterns is over. Mogo is dead. Hal Jordan has been returned to Earth. Sinestro, wearing the ring of Sector 2814 decides to start whining. Good times.
|July 21st, 2011
X-Men #11
Xavier relates a story of a past vampiric encounter to Jubilee.
|May 17th, 2011
New Avengers #12
Screw the present! If the past is always drawn by Howard Chaykin, I want a 1950s Avengers book monthly!
|May 15th, 2011
Fear Itself: The Home Front #1
"We may be home to Asgardians now, but we were first and always home to Broxtonians. Our town is open to everyone as long as you show each other some respect."
|April 6th, 2011
Secret Avengers #11
John Steele's secret history revealed!
|April 4th, 2011
Secret Avengers #10
The Secret Avengers prevent the copyright- infringing resurrection of Shang Chi's father.
|February 28th, 2011
New Avengers #9
It's a comic by Bendis, Chaykin, and Deodato... yeah, it's good.
|February 12th, 2011
Secret Avengers #9
Steve Rogers vs. John Steele in the battle of the super-soldiers!
|January 30th, 2011
The Thanos Imperative: Devastation #1
In the wake of "The Thanos Imperative" comes a comic where the plot is thing and the end point is already known. That's worth four bucks, right?
|January 6th, 2011
Secret Avengers #8
"Secret Avengers" is good for the big picture, but not so much for the smaller details.
|December 26th, 2010
Secret Avengers #7
Action! Suspense! Steve Rogers being a badass! Hell yeah!
|November 28th, 2010
Avengers #7
The Avengers are still less angsty, but this issue is all set up.
|November 22nd, 2010
New Avengers #6
Wolverine takes a beating, Immonen provides perfect art and the rest of the team is ready for a shake up.
|November 12th, 2010
Secret Avengers #6
It's fast spy action to halt the resurrection of an unnamed father as his son finally gets a shirt.
|October 29th, 2010
Secret Avengers #4
The conclusion to the first "Secret Avengers" storyline feels a little flat.
|August 19th, 2010
Time Bomb #1
Upon finding a mysterious underground location, first things first, don't try to break in, especially if that mysterious subterranean establishment is a Nazi base of some kind.
|August 2nd, 2010
Secret Avengers #3
Did anyone expect this book to go cosmic when it was announced? Not really, but it's still pretty good!
|July 28th, 2010
New Avengers #2
A mystical villain attempts to snatch the Eye of Agamotto.
|July 27th, 2010
Secret Avengers #2
Steve Rogers takes his team to Mars to see what Nova has been up to.
|July 3rd, 2010
Secret Avengers #1
Steve Rogers forms his own black ops team as they retrieve what they think will be the Serpent Crown, but turns out to be something different.
|May 26th, 2010
Dark Avengers #16
With "Dark Reign" over, so ends "Dark Avengers," and Bendis sends the book and its 'heroes' off in style.
|May 12th, 2010
New Avengers Finale #1
"New Avengers" concludes its five-year run with the team finally getting to step out of the shadows by taking down the Hood, Madame Masque, and Count Nefaria.
|May 12th, 2010
Dark Avengers #15
Bullseye and the Sentry's wife are alone in a plane over the Atlantic Ocean. I don't think Bob's going to be too happy about that.
|March 18th, 2010
Dark Avengers #14
If you're going to stall for a month, "Dark Avengers" shows a good way to do so.
|February 17th, 2010
Dark Avengers #13
The secrets of the Sentry are revealed to have been revealed already! Um, what?
|January 20th, 2010
Dark Avengers #12
What started out promising feels like a deus ex machina ending, even as it all-but-ensures that one character is going away shortly.
|December 20th, 2009
Dark Avengers #11
Norman Osborn and his crew are in serious trouble. "Secret Wars II"-level trouble.
|November 17th, 2009
Dark Avengers #10
A marked drop in quality in this issue as the tone is too light-hearted and Deodato's art doesn't mesh with the script as much as usual.
|October 22nd, 2009
Thunderbolts #136
Andy Diggle's "Thunderbolts" is fun, but I wish he'd been in charge when "Dark Reign" wasn't happening.
|October 4th, 2009
Dark Avengers #9
Ares doesn't take kindly to this whole "Secret Warriors" business, especially because his son is involved.
|September 19th, 2009
Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3
This lackluster mini-series ends with its best issue yet, but even these creators can't rise above the limitations of the format.
|August 25th, 2009


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Have Connecticut Republicans learned their lesson yet? The lesson is a simple one: Money isn't everything. Tuesday, Rep. Christopher Murphy, D-5th District, easily outdistanced Republican Linda McMahon to ensure that both of Connecticut's U.S. Senate seats will be in Democratic hands for the foreseeable future. The campaign, which began when incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman unexpectedly announced his intention to retire nearly two years before Election Day 2012, seemed endless. But less than an hour after the polls closed, Rep. Murphy, then riding a 24-point lead, had been declared the winner.
Mrs. McMahon, whose ability to fund her own campaigns seemingly blinded the GOP to the availability of stronger candidates, was never competitive with Sen.-elect Murphy when it came to articulating arcane public-policy positions. Having served six years in Congress, he was well schooled in the ways of Washington, D.C. Voters never seemed to grasp that Mrs. McMahon, a successful businesswoman, understood better than her Democratic opponent the nature of the job that needed to be done — but couldn't articulate in ways voters could understand and support.
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I'm learning to use Mercurial, and its learning curve is pretty straightforward. But one of my problem is, I can't add the .hgignore file to Mercurial folder. Windows (7) does not allow me to do this, and when I run the command
hg add .hgignore
, it returns error:
the system cannot find the specified file.
How can I create/add this file?


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7 Amazing Things People Got Just by Asking
#3. A Ride to School from Jay Leno
Remember the days when all the kids viewed Jay Leno as the epitome of cool? Right, neither do we, but apparently there was a time when that must have been the case. Or at least it was if Jay Leno is to be believed.
Would this man lie to you?
According to the story Leno eventually tells in this video (after ten-and-a-half action-packed minutes of him talking about cars), a young boy sent him a letter requesting help with a dire problem. See, this insincere lad had been telling his classmates that Jay Leno was his uncle, and sometimes Uncle Jay would give him a ride in his Lamborghini! Or at least he'd promise to give him a ride five years later, only to have the kid forcibly removed once he got in the car. We're unclear which version of the story the kid was feeding his friends. And it doesn't matter, because of course nobody believed the little fibber. After word of his deception hit the playground, little "Unnamed Jay Leno Fan No. 1" was a walking punchline. Hey, just like his fake dad!
Fast forward to Jay Leno reading a note from this kid asking if he'd help him live a lie and give him a lift to school. Because Jay Leno is a nice guy, and not overly concerned about sending kids the worst possible message about the consequences of their actions, he agreed to help out. A few days after receiving the letter, he showed up to give his young fan a ride to school and, upon dropping him off, even yelled some uncle-worthy words (whatever that means) in the kid's direction to sell the ruse to onlookers.
Donato Sardella / Getty Images
"You ain't inheriting shiiiiit!"
And now, an indeterminate number of years later, all of those friends know that the kid was a liar all over again. Thanks a ton, Jay Leno.
#2. A One-of-a-Kind Smartphone
Shane Bennett really liked Samsung products. So much so that he owned a Samsung LCD TV, a Samsung Galaxy S and a Samsung laptop. And, as everyone knows, once you've purchased three of anything from the same company, those people owe you something. Loyalty is meant to be rewarded; that's the whole point.
So, looking to cash in on his continued patronage, Bennett took to Samsung's Facebook page and posted a simple proposition. They send him a free Galaxy III S smartphone, and, not wanting to come off as some kind of freeloader, he would offer up a crude drawing of a dragon in return. Entire nations have changed hands on similar deals.
Shane Bennett via Mashable
This is the 21st century's Louisiana Purchase.
Because marketing people sure are wacky, someone from Samsung replied and explained that they couldn't just give away phones to everyone who asked, but, as a gesture of friendship, offered Bennett a drawing of a kangaroo instead. This adorable and completely improvised exchange made the front page of Reddit. That's a pretty big deal these days, especially from a marketing standpoint. Naturally, the company was going to have to come up with some other way to thank Shane Bennett.
Shane Bennett via Mashable
Although it was a wicked awesome drawing.
What they came up with ... was actually kind of sweet. They used his drawing of a dragon to design a one-of-a-kind Samsung Galaxy S III and shipped it off to the eager fanboy at no cost. And now here we are telling you about it. Marketing magic, ladies and gentlemen.
Shane Bennett via Mashable
Rawr indeed.
#1. A Beer With the President
Man, those Obamas sure are a social pair. We've already covered Michelle's openness to being hit on by strangers in uniform, but you might be surprised to know that her slightly more famous husband is just as susceptible to the charms of strange men.
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"Wanna see the Lincoln bedroom?"
When a Marine named Dakota Meyer was scheduled to receive the Medal of Honor for his role in saving 36 lives during an Afghanistan ambush, he was contacted ahead of time by the White House. That's standard procedure. What's less standard is for the soon-to-be medal recipient to take the phone call as an opportunity to ask if he could maybe slam a beer or two with the president while he's in the neighborhood.
But Dakota Meyer did just that, and his request was granted. In a private meeting on a patio at the White House, the Marine and the president shared a brewski and, according to Meyer, discussed what it takes to be successful. Obama's advice: Get an education and don't make any rash decisions.
"And any beer that's less than 8 percent alcohol isn't worth your time."
Sounds like a party to us! No wonder everybody wants to drink with Obama!
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I've followed Railscast 360 to setup Omniauth-Facebook authentication for my Rails app. The authentication works well, but i'm driving myself crazy trying to pass the scope request for additional permissions. I know they are available as I can manually typed the scope request into the url. I have tried everything and exhausted all google searches.
As suggested in the Railscast comments I have downgraded my Omniauth-Facebook gem to 1.4.0 which to my understanding means the scope cannot be passed as a hash from the Omniauth initializer but instead via the javascript. Neither work for me, but unlike the comments i'm running coffee script as per the Railscast, i've tried various placements for scope in this but either get errors or incomplete results....i.e. just email, no user_events etc.
I realise there's no code here, but it's exactly as per the railscast.
Can anyone who's also followed the same Railscast offer any advise on either fixing the issue with 1.4.1 so I can pass the scope hash from the initializer OR how to correctly pass it when running 1.4.0.
Massive thanks in advance!
UPDATE: I'm kind of getting somewhere! But it's not quite right. Any pointers would be really appreciated.
In my Omniauth initializer I have:
Rails.application.config.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :facebook, 'app_id', 'secret_id', {:scope => 'user_birthday,user_events,email'}
(With real ids inserted!)
I can then seem to make the correct request by placing the word scope into FB.Init within the coffeescript:
jQuery ->
$('body').prepend('

')
url: "#{window.location.protocol}//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"
dataType: 'script'
cache: true
window.fbAsyncInit = ->
FB.init(appId: 'app_id', cookie: true, scope)
$('#sign_in').click (e) ->
FB.login (response) ->
window.location = "/auth/facebook/callback" if response.authResponse
$('#sign_out').click (e) ->
FB.getLoginStatus (response) ->
FB.logout() if response.authResponse
(Again with real appid inserted above)
However, this stops the popup working so i'm pretty sure i've placed scope incorrectly. The other examples I have seen place it in FB.login but my attempts to place there have either thrown errors or simply do not work.
Help! :)


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I am getting this error in maybe one out of 50-100 requests. I am running 10 Thin instances behind nginx and I don't think that my load is high enough to max out the usage in all 10 instances.. and I would expect nginx to wait even if all instances were busy (maybe not??). Has anyone else seen this before? I am trying to figure out a good way to debug it.
Here is my setup: CentOS 5.5 on Rackspace Cloud Servers 2GB instance nginx 0.7.67 Thin 1.2.7 Rails 3RC Ruby 1.9.2rc2
Nginx and 10 Thin instances are running on the same server.


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Throughout a long and storied career, Jack Greenberg has played a frontline role in some of the most important social justice struggles of our time.
On January 24, 2014, Columbia Law School will host "Crusading for Justice: A Symposium Honoring Jack Greenberg's Contributions to Civil and Human Rights Law and Lawyering," a day-long symposium in recognition of Greenberg's contributions to civil rights and human rights advocacy, activism, teaching, and scholarship, both in the U.S. and around the world. A roundtable of current and former legal directors from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and public interest law firms modeled on the LDF will offer perspectives on Greenberg's impact on the U.S. civil rights bar, and on the movement of which it was a part. A second panel of distinguished advocates, scholars, and activists will focus on Greenberg's international contributions, including his most recent work in the field of international human rights on behalf of the Roma.
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Apparently the European Championship is a big deal. Not nearly as big as the CONCACAF Gold Cup, but it seems to be picking up some steam in recent years. If only they held the tournament every two years instead of four…
Now calmly put away your outrage at my ignorance for a more appropriate time, I'm only kidding.
TSG could not be more stoked for Euro 2012 as the tournament takes place in both lands of Matthew and my ancestors, Poland and the Ukraine.
As such, there is a good chance that my head will explode if ESPN gives the motherlands even a quarter of the "South Africa treatment" when it comes to covering the tournament. And don't worry, these great nations will be prepared by the time the tourney comes around in 2012.
While Poland and the Ukraine automatically qualify for the tournament (June 8 – July 1, 2012) the draw for the remaining hopefuls took place today in Warsaw. A total of 16 teams will qualify for Euro 2012 which represents the last of the 16-team Championships as Euro 2016 will expand to 24 qualifying team.
TSG will be doing its best to straddle the fence between the Yellow-Blues and the White-and-Reds, but as of now I'm leaning slightly towards the land of kielbasa and peirogi after acquiring this gem of a Polska shirt earlier this week. (Don't worry Mom, I'll make up for it by telling the story of my trip to the Ukrainian-American club on the Lower East Side in NYC to watch Ukraine-Italy during the 2006 World Cup soon.)
Here are the results of the qualifying draw fpr the group play that will kick-off later this year:


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I rephrase my last question. Given a locally finite countable connected (as a graph) poset which satisfies the following further condition: the intersection of any antichain with the set of elements preceding (or succeding) any element is a finite set.
Is the automorphism group of this poset countable or uncountable?
If the group is uncountable, is there a suitable topology AND a measure on the group? Thank you


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I'm out of school for the summer then I start community college, I do not want to waste time. Is there anything I can do to gain knowledge and experience? I doubt I can score an internship without any knowledge or experience so..
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Contribute to open source projects. That's mostly how I gained knowledge and experience (and even scored a Web UX job straight from college with an AB Psychology degree, which many employers would consider to be unrelated)
I would also suggest participating here in UXExchange, IxDA, and other related communities.
What I think is useful is probably not going to help you get a job !
However... what I'd suggest doing is get some practice teaching software. This would preferably be to people who need a lot of help (say the over 65s if you can find a retired person's club).
That way you build up a bank of experience on "why people don't understand what's on screen".
How a design works is always obvious to the people who build it. What you've got to do is to be able to step out of that mindset and 'get into your users heads', to understand why they don't understand it.
I think it's pretty easy to decide what to do.
Read, find a mentoring program (the IxDA has a mentoring program), when you feel confident enough try to work for free projects or volunteering.
But first you need to devolop a knowledge of base, in this site you can find various thread on this subject:
UX & Usability resources for web?
What book would you recommend as a decent 'intro to UX' aimed at non-practitioners?
In addition to the excellent responses already posted:
Get yourself a portfolio together, comprised of varying content from design to evaluation, illustrating your skills and experience (wireframing, higher fidelity prototyping, information architecture, persona development etc). Then use that portfolio to demonstrate your potential in landing an internship (or better).
Employers almost universally want evidence, and a portfolio is probably the best way forward for you.
Do as much research as possible and practice. You will learn a lot more doing than just reading alone.
Some great suggestions here. I'm in a similar boat to you in that I'm trying to break into the UX field too (from a traditional programming background) and there's a lot to learn, so as you say, let's not waste time.
You should try:
Read the book About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design. It is a fantastic introduction to goal oriented interface design.
(yeah, that's an affiliate link but it's not mine. It's what you get if you go to cooper.com and click on the book link).
1) Have a look at this summary of ux:
What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources
2) Do some essential reading
UXBooth put so many great stuff that you will get you in a good shape in no time (of course time is an illusion)
For Books: http://www.uxbooth.com/view/resources/books/
Beginners stuff:
Complete Beginners Guide to Interaction Design http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-interaction-design/
Complete Beginners Guide to Information Architecture http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-information-architecture/
Complete Beginners Guide to Content Strategy http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-content-strategy/
Just start with those links, and then roads will unfold itself and you will then able to decide what's your strength and weakness, polish it your way and you are good to go my friend.


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I picked up a couple of these off of a different deal-a-day site a while back. Recently bought a couple more from this vendor, too, since the manufacturer went bust. Don't expect much in the way of future support. They are surprising solid speakers, depending on the surface. Part of the fun comes from testing different surfaces to see how they sound. Wood laminate floor provides an amazing sound surface, as do quality hardwood furniture pieces.
The speakers do not do a good job with bass, but mid and high range are pretty solid. They make a great office/portable speaker set, and are great for ambient music for casual gatherings or presentations. Just don't expect to use these to replace quality home audio.
The only reason to opt for the "Whiterock" model over the "Alien" model is appearance. They both sound the same and use the same internals. The "whiterock" is heavier, and has a full metal body, while the "alien" is slightly larger with a plastic shell.
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FORT HOOD (September 24, 2012)—Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist facing trial and a possible death penalty for the deadly November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Center, was in Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Monday.
A brief press release from Fort Hood said Hasan was in good condition and should be released within the next 48 hours, but citing federal privacy rules, the Army released no information about why Hasan was hospitalized.
Hasan, who was injured in an exchange of gunfire with two Fort Hood police officers, is paralyzed from the waist down and is confined in a wheelchair.
He has been held in the Bell County Jail since his release from the hospital after the shooting rampage.
His court-martial was put on hold after defense attorneys filed two appeals related to Hasan's beard, which has been a point of contention in pretrial proceedings.
Military Judge Col. Gregory Gross has ordered Hasan to shave and said if he refuses he would be shaved forcibly before the trial begins.
Hasan, however, argues he grew the beard because his Muslim faith requires it.
His attorneys filed appeals seeking a ruling on whether the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows Hasan to keep the beard.
The first seeks to overturn contempt findings against Hasan in previous hearings and to bar any future contempt proceedings over the beard.
The second seeks a ruling on whether the act allows Hasan to have a beard while in military uniform during his court-martial.
Hasan faces a possible death penalty if convicted in the Nov. 5, 2009 rampage that left 13 dead.


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13 Old-Timey Photos That Will Give You Nightmares (Part 3)
History is the nightmare that keeps on giving. As we've shown you twice before, grainy black-and-white film combined with the insanity of old-timey people is a recipe for madness. The subjects of these photos may have shuffled off this mortal coil, but the unsettling nature of what they considered everyday dress will forever live on in the darkest depths of our minds.
#13. "Now Dance for Me. Or Else My 'Brother' Will Become Very Angry."
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Glasses and a World War I sniper rifle would only make him less creepy.
If you ever see this guy just sitting around, smoking a pipe, immediately call a SWAT team -- it's safe to assume this man's supervillain scheme is already well underway. (Note: Getting captured is almost certainly part of said scheme.)
In reality, 1940s Two-Face is doing this for science -- he's relaxing on a beach in Florida while saving one half of his body so he can compare it with the sunshine in California. It seems like there would be an easier way to do that, but our larger concern is why he isn't just using a towel, or an umbrella, or literally anything else that doesn't make him look like he's kicking back after an exhausting murder spree. YOUR FACE COVER DOES NOT NEED A FAKE EYE, AND YOU FUCKING KNOW IT.
#12. Grandpa Was a Zombie
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Or Grandma was an illegal ventriloquist.
Look at the face of the old man. WE SAID LOOK AT IT.
All right, now check out the thousand-yard stare on the child. Yeah, that kid has seen things, and that's because Daddy Murder Gaze made him watch. And then after, when the boy cried, Mother held him tight and whispered, "If you don't be quiet, I'm going to lock you in the attic with your deformed twin. He's so very hungry."
#11. The Original Pumpkinhead
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This was not carved. It carves you.
WHAT IN THE POSSIBLE SHIT IS THAT?!? You can see the stem at the top; it's supposed to be a pumpkin that, just, grew like that? All we know is that there's no way that thing's mouth didn't move when no one was looking.
This all-too-lifelike pumpkin was grown by a farmer in 1938 after "four years of experimenting," and for some reason they wrote a glowing newspaper article about him instead of recognizing it as the origin story of a mad scientist. He almost certainly went on to decapitate that poor woman and attach the pumpkin to her body.
#10. Put Your Hand Over the Top Half of This Photo. Now Do the Bottom.
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And try masturbating with your other hand. Just try.
A good creepy photo just gets worse the more you look at it.
At first there's the obvious fact that no possible context will make sense of what these women are doing, unless it's part of some occult ritual intended to summon Cthulhu. But keep looking -- specifically at the four human faces in the middle. Notice their expressions? It goes from "startled baby" to "worried boy" to "terrified adult" and then finally ends on "utter hopelessness and despair." It's literally depicting the progression of a man who, over the course of a lifetime, comes to terms with the bleak hopelessness of a cruel universe.
He is, of course, flanked on all sides by insane predatory birds and alligators. As are we all.
#9. While We Dine, Our Comrades Will Release the Nerve Gas
Eliminating the Dharma Initiative once and for all.
We want you to take note of the two signs in the back. On the left you have one that points out that this is a meeting of the "Optimist Club"; on the right, a sign noting that the theme of this dinner is "Why wait till 1955, we might not even be alive."
The Optimist Club is an international organization dedicated to community programs that help "bring out the best in kids." So you know things have gotten bleak when a club of Mr. Rogerses feels it's time to strap on gas masks for a banquet about impending nuclear annihilation. "You might as well go out into the night to rape and pillage, kids, because nuclear war will kill you all in a few months." Optimism!
#8. Executioner Football
He cooks victims on the gridiron and then feasts on their flesh.
That ball's made with skin alright, but not pigskin.
Modern football is a little scary, what with all the brutal injuries and brain damage. But it has nothing on 1920s gridiron, where the players wore masks that would presumably protect their faces from blood splatter when they beheaded the losing team.
Again, the more you look at John Hellway here, the creepier he gets: The sunken, dead eyes. The needle through his belt, which he no doubt called "Ol' Stabby" and put to regular use in scrums. And the tear in his shoulder, where an opposing player clawed in vain as he held him down and watched his life force drain away.
#7. The Doctor Will See You Now
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Your Earth weapons mean nothing to him.
See the cross on Buckethead's left arm? Yeah, this guy was supposed to help you. We don't know what kind of monster we'd have to encounter before we'd be willing to run toward this man(?), but it would have a lot of tentacles. Wait, why does his helmet have ears?
That is in fact a radiologist from World War I, because the Great War was basically a nonstop worldwide nightmare. "Couldn't we at least make things behind the lines look normal so our soldiers aren't constantly screaming in terror?" asked one general. "No," replied another. "We cannot."
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Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. Ideally, what I want is:
- A wiki
- Static pages of some kind, perhaps cms controlled.
- Some sort of blogging or news functionality
I've been playing with django, but it's difficult to get the results you want when on cheap shared hosting (limited control of httpd.conf)
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17 Aug 2012 9:33 AM #1
How to make vertical tabbar on landscape orientaion in sencha touch2I have a horizontal tabbar at bottom.I need to change bootom horizontal tabbar to vertical tabbar in landscape orientation. I have gone many articles but they are explained only for bottom and top tabbar position.i didn't not got about vertical tabbar position in landscape orientation. Is it possible to achieve in sencha touch2?. Any one can tell me how to acieve this one .
17 Aug 2012 10:20 AM #2
You can acheive it by using CSS
thread: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?236743-SideBar&p=871453
It is essentially what you want. If you don't want to rotate the text, just remove that from the css and just make the tabs wider.
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Vertical tab-bar in landscape orientaion
Hi, Thanks to both of you. it is working fine but there is one issue. initially in MainTabbarView i have set tab-bar docked bottom. in controller based on orientations i have set tab-bar docked positions, those conditions i have given in below controller code. tab-bar and its items are coming fine during portrait orientation, in landscape orientation tab-bar is coming at right it is nice but tab-bar item are coming horizontal and also not able to see the icons of the items(See in below attached image within red box). i need to show these tab bar items in vertical order in landscape orientation. below i have given view code, controller code, styles and images. Tell me how to achieve this one.
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Ext.define("SLS.BRND.WEB.view.MainTabbarView", { extend: 'Ext.tab.Panel', xtype: 'MainTabbarView', id:'mainTabbarprofile', config: { tabBar: { docked: 'bottom', width: '5em', layout: { pack: 'center', align: 'center' } }, items: [ { xclass: 'SLS.BRND.WEB.view.View1' }, { xclass: 'SLS.BRND.WEB.view.View2' }, { xclass: 'SLS.BRND.WEB.view.View3' }, { xclass: 'SLS.BRND.WEB.view.View4' } ] } });
Ext.define("SLS.BRND.WEB.controller.ApartmentController", { extend: "Ext.app.Controller", requires: ['Ext.data.proxy.JsonP'], config: { refs: { mainTabbarView: "MainTabbarView", viewport: 'viewport' }, control: { viewport: { orientationchange: 'handleOrientationChange' } }, handleOrientationChange: function (viewport, orientation, width, height) { var realOrientation = Ext.Viewport.determineOrientation(); var tabbarPosition = Ext.getCmp('mainTabbarprofile'); if (realOrientation == 'portrait') { tabbarPosition.setTabBar({ docked: 'bottom', width: '5em' }); } else if (realOrientation == 'landscape') { tabbarPosition.setTabBar({ docked: 'right', width: '5em' }); } } });
.x-tabbar.x-docked-bottom .x-tab .x-button-icon { -webkit-mask-size: 9em; width: 5em; height: 6em; position: relative; } .x-tabbar.x-docked-bottom { height: 5em; } .x-tabbar.x-docked-right .x-tab { color: whiteSmoke; text-shadow: black 0.1em 0.1em; width: 1.2em; height: 2em; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#ffe6b7, ffefd0 20%, #fff8ea); border-top-right-radius: 0.5em; border-bottom-right-radius: 0.5em; -webkit-box-shadow: inset rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) -0.1em -0.1em 0.2em; } .x-tabbar.x-docked-right .x-tab-active { background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#fff8ea, #ffefd0 20%, #ffe6b7); color: white!important; text-shadow: none !important; }
22 Aug 2012 7:19 PM #5
Can you provide a demo? I understand if you have some privacy issues, but it would help (even if you could send it in a private message).
I have had that problem when I first started playing with the CSS to get it working, but it was a while ago and I can't remember how I got around it. In the meantime, I will look at my code and take away properties to see if I can get it to the point of how yours looks.
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this problem is solved
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I have cooked my pavlova the same way I normally do, however it hasn't formed a nice crust like it usually does. I've heard that it may have something to do with the humidity? (It did rain here today and was a reasonably warm day.) Can I put it back in the oven and to save it or do I have to start all over again?
I have never tried it myself, but a torch can be used to make a crust on the meringue in a baked Alaska. Testing it on a small part of it could give you a clue if it is worthwhile.
I guess there is a good chance you can save it by extending the time in the oven and increasing the temperature slightly (if the humidity is the problem it means that it is loosing water slower so it needs more time and it can benefit from a temperature boost).
BUT IF IT IS CRITICAL that you get it right and you don't have time to do it again if this fails, assume it would fail. The crust may get too thick for your liking.


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Warmth for your knees
We're all for better-engineered, exceptionally-designed solutions. Especially for pieces of apparel that have gone relatively unchanged for decades. Knee warmers -- we're lookin' at you. Think of it, have you ever known of a knee warmer that hasn't been a lightly-tapered tube of fleecy fabric with grippers on both ends? It seems as if no one has ever put any thought into fit. Well, if you're fed up with banality, the Assos kneeWarmer_S7 feature a design that at least deserves a nose wrinkle.
Upon first site, you'll notice that the kneeWarmer_S7 have no grippers. Instead, both hems simply double-over the RXQ fabric. Reason being is that they use a contoured shape design that eliminates the need for grippers. And where other warmers are just rudimentary cones of fabric, Assos constructs its kneeWarmers with two different fabrics over multiple panels. The paneling is designed to move seams away from the areas where chafing typically occurs -- like at the back of the knee. This also means, that by default, the warmers are designed specifically for your left leg and right leg to achieve the perfect individual fit.
It's worth noting that Assos doesn't design its cycling apparel for walking. Instead, each piece comes to life only through the movements and positions of cycling. Accordingly, these warmers are going to look like they don't fit when you're standing up straight, but give them that precious 88.3 degree bend, and the wrinkles will quickly disappear. In fact, at the top of your pedal stroke, where your knees are towards the chest, the warmers move with your motion without giving the slightest tug.
To give you an idea of what temperature range the kneeWarmer_S7 falls into, Assos classified it as part of its ClimaRange 4. In English, this means fall, or even more specifically, 59 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit. However, within the Assos Layering System, you can formulaically add it to other ClimaRange ensembles to increase their weather-resistance.
The Assos kneeWarmer_S7 Knee Warmers are available in the color Black Volkanga and in the sizes 0 (X-Small to Small), I (Medium to Large), and II (X-Large to XX-Large). Please note that this is a unisex item.
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|5ft 3in - 5ft 6in
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dont panic....
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
placement is critical ...the bottom edge should be approx 3-4 inches below the bottom of your knee cap/about mid calf .. or the panelling should conform behind the knee as designed. it stayed and "disappeared" .featherwt! i guess i got what i paid for!
Great knee warmers
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
was a bit concerned about the fact these have no grippers, but they work great. can barely notice they are there. At first i was wearing these a bit too high (just below the knee) and they bunched up, but once i adjusted to about mid calf - these did not move at all and were super comfortable. highly recommend. fyi - i have size II and I'm 6'3" with a 33.5" inseam and as mentioned above these sit about mid calf and about half way up my thigh. with no thigh gripper these do not pull at all on the skin of my thigh like i have had happen with other knee warmers with grippers.
agree with yoda. At first i was disappointed coz it dropped/slipped out under my bibshort then i readjusted it with the bottom edge approximately 3-4 inches below the bottom of the kneecap( as the panelling fits behind the knee) and never readjusted even after my 50- mile hilly ride! featherweight and not constricting . size 0 5'7" 140# fits like a glove !
Warmer than you think
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have a pair of Rapha knee warmers that lasted over 5 yrs (I got them from CC when they still carried raphia); They needed replacement. While the Rapha were typical shiny lycra material the assos is more of a flat fabric look. They are also much warmer material. In fact, I realized these were good for much colder fall days and got hot on 60 deg rides. Not having a gripper at the top felt strange at first; I thought they would continue to drop/sag but they never did. In fact they disappeared under my bibs. Perfect fit and stretch material. The labels are in the back and at first I thought they needed to be cut but they go under your bib. Excellent material and fit/finish and I suspect will last many seasons.


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Who is going to go see Prometheus this weekend?
I can't decide if this is worth seeing. It has pretty decent reviews though.
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Since I've seen every other movie in the franchise, quite likely. I still remember going to the original Alien movie with a bunch of friends and the one was extremely squeamish. We didn't see her till after the movie was over when she bolted out of the theater when the alien burst out of the guy's stomach.
I want to, but we have the Relay for Life this weekend. So, it will have to wait. I love Ridley Scott movies and this one looks pretty good to me....
My boyfriend and I are going to a festival this weekend with live music and yummy food, then going to see Prometheus at night. I am SOOOO freggin excited for this weekend!
It's unbelievable. I don't quite understand a couple of the plot points, but it's a great movie. 10/10 will watch again.
Yes, in t-minus 1 hr, 6 min... with another Woot! member!!
@conanthelibrarian: Don't base your decision on reviews.....just go, and then decide for yourself if YOU like it. Who cares what others think? I'm a science-fiction addict myself, and so for me, even bad sci-fi is good sci-fi (think Plan 9 from Outer Space).....and then the really awesome sci-fi is even better!!!
I'm hoping to go tomorrow night, but still haven't seen MIB3 yet, so.....depends on the crowd, I suppose (and what time I end up getting out of the hospital.)
@mellielou: Ooooooooo......Woot gossip!
Is there a date.woot.com site I don't know about yet???
LOL. I didn't know that would turn into an actual hyperlink, and I just clicked on it and got this:
Yikes, there's been a server error
Something on our side of things went wrong. The site could be overloaded, or you may have tried something we didn't test.
Your best bet is to try again. If you get this error page consistently, we'd love it if you'd write us, telling us exactly what you did to get the error. With any luck, we'll fix the problem, and it'll work the next time you try.
If I write to them, do you think they'll fix the problem and that it will work the next time I try? ;-)
I may if kayaking gets rained out.
I'm going to the first 3D showing tomorrow at noon.
Hearing mixed things about it, but I don't care. I love Ridley Scott and the Aliens franchise so I can't wait.
I hope I can make some time to sneak away from the wife and daughter. Really excited to see the movie in the theater!
yes see it. I cant wait to see it, i just have to make sure i dont cry when i see it from being too scary
I'd like to but I my wife is working. So that means I have the baby. He is probably a lot cuter than anything in the movie though.
Hearing a lot of mixed/not great things about it from valued friends, so skipping.
This guy.
All told.
@reginafilangee: haha! Honestly, I wanted it to be scarier.
And for the midnight showing out here, cardstock posters were handed out.
P.S. love the screen name...Phoebe :)
@jumbowoot: I will be sure to ask you Monday for a review on this! :)
I was going to go last night at midnight, my theater's a couple blocks from my apartment, but then it hit me that I'd be going to bed at 3am after a horror movie on a day I had to work on lots of stuff... so I'll see it this weekend, maybe.
Just saw it. Was ah-maz-ing in 3D. Holy cow. Very deep movie. It's main theme is actually about faith and creation. Well worth the money!
Like Inception, you will have plenty of things to think about when you leave the theater.
@mellielou: Phoebe??? Who's this Phoebe you speak of? speaks slowly....I'm R e g i n a.....Regina Filangee. Pleased to meetcha. extends hand to shake
Alas, I did not get out of surgery in time to make the showing I'd planned on, then was too pooped to go to a later one, even in the Prive section of the theater where they serve drinks and real food that you can consume whilst watching. I had selected a good seat and came >thisclose< to clicking the button to buy the ticket, but just couldn't commit to more than 2 hrs of sitting there as tired as I am. Was afraid that would lessen my enjoyment of the movie, even in those nice roomy and comfy seats. It's probably just now letting out, in fact. I was supposed to meet my friend Ken Adams there, but had to break our date. :(
Saw it Sat. AMAZING!! Way better than expected.
The 3D was awesome. The movie was filmed with actual sets with helped make the 3D real. Smooth and flowing. Not all jumpy and glitch like most. Spend the extra few bucks and do the 3D.
Story was good. Even if you have never seen Alien, you can still totally get this movie. My GF enjoyed it and had only seen pieces of Alien just recently. She didn't know it was a prequel till I told her.
Do yourself a favor and go see this in theaters. It's worth it!


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How old do you have to be to learn Kabbalah? (I think its 60 ) but it seems everyone learns it anyway (Maharal, Chassidus). Is there a defense or is it just done?
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Rabbi Haim Vital in his introduction to Sefer Eitz Haim gives three pre-requisites to learn Kabbalah, 1) A person must be married 2) A person must have learned Gemarra for five years 3) A person must be 20 years of age.
Rav Ovadyah Hedayya(He was the Chief Kabbalist of Israel, as well as the Av Beit Din of Jerusalem, and Rav Ovadyah Yosef's Rav) in his seer De'ah V'Haskeil(1:1) states that a person who is an exceptional talmid hakham may begin younger than 20(as did his own father), though he must still be married(though it should be noted he let that requirement slide for Rav Kaduri). He also stated that a person as young as Bar Mitzvah who meets none of the requirements may, and in fact should learn Zohar.
Rav Ovadyah Yosef rules that a person needs to be married, 20, and knowledgable in the laws of Issur V'Heter(Yehave Da'at 4:47)
As others have said, the Shach (the Sifsei Cohen), says that one must be 40 before they can learn kabbalah.
As far as Chassidus is concerned, the Lubavitcher Rebbe said many times that this age limit referred to the time before the Baal Shem Tov. To quote from AskMoses.com
Inner.org, the website of the famous contemporary kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburgh, says that the reason for the age limit was the concern that the knowledge of kabbalah could be misused:
However, it goes on to say, Chassidus is not susceptible to this problem:
Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul (Or LeTzion, Mussar, Shaar HaTorah, Maamar 7) writes that one should be 40 to learn Qabbala. Also, the Rokach writes in Sefer HaShem that one should 40 to learn the Qabbalistic Names of Hashem. However, the Kaf HaHaim Sofer (Orah Haim 155:12) writes that one should be twenty (see Mekubal's answer for the rest of his prerequisites).
Excellent source quoted by AY. Regarding Maharal and Chasidus, the danger with Kabbala is in the misinterpretation of it. There is no danger in learning kabbala pre-filtered and presented by mumchin in a ready-to-serve manner. See also the end of hakdamas haramban al haTorah.
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Officials say it had the potential to be an explosive incident Monday afternoon along U.S. 68/80 in Logan County as a tanker truck overturned multiple times trapping the driver inside.
"The overturned tanker was still pouring out gasoline. They attempted to use the jaws of life to extricate the driver which was a very dangerous situation. The battery was still active on the semi which also presented another dangerous situation because there was still power to the vehicle," says Captain David Kitchens from the Logan County Sheriff's Department.
52-year-old Michael Gosser, the driver of the truck, was taken to The Medical Center by ambulance. Logan County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating the crash and say driver fatigue may have been a factor.
"Commercial Vehicle Enforcement was present. They did a quick safety check of the vehicle and advised us the brakes were never utilized so there was no braking at all. Right now the preliminary investigation we believe the driver fell asleep," says Captain Kitchens.
24 hours after the accident tire tracks and a strong smell of gasoline were still present. Crews from the Kentucky Division of Waste Management are cleaning up contaminated soil and water from a nearby ditch. The sheriff's department says the damage was so heavy all 3,000 gallons of fuel leaked from the tanker.
"The fuel tanker part of the truck had actually separated in the accident. It was upside down from the semi approximately 15 feet and you could see it was pouring gasoline out," says Captain Kitchens.
As a final investigation continues so does the clean-up. Crews hope to remove all contaminated soil by the end of the week. They do not believe the spill has seeped into drinking water.


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Seattle Parks and Recreation Jesús Aguirre, Superintendent
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The first public park within the city limits of Seattle was Denny Park - a gift to the city by David T. Denny in 1884.
In 1887, the Board of Park Commissioners was established to oversee development of the Seattle park system.
Seattle Parks Commissioners hired the famed Olmsted Brothers landscape
architecture firm in 1903 to design a comprehensive system of parks
and boulevards for the city. The Olmsted Plan for Seattles parks
spurred the early development of the Seattle park system and has been
the basis of our modern day park system.
Much of Seattle Park history was documented by Donald N. Sherwood (1916-1981).
The Seattle Parks and Recreation's Sherwood History
Files is the incredible legacy of Sherwood, who worked as an engineer
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Let $M$ be a 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold of non-positive curvature everywhere, of genus > 1. Let $\textbf{D} \subset \textbf{C}$ be the open unit disc in the complex plane, the universal cover of $M$. Let $\gamma \subset \textbf{D}$ be a curve representing a geodesic in $M$ which is entirely in a region of zero curvature. It seems to me, because the definition of geodesic is local, that unless $\gamma$ is tangent to some region $A \subset \textbf{D}$ of negative curvature, $\gamma$ will be a Euclidean line through $\textbf{D}$. Is this correct?
Secondly, does anybody have any references that I could peruse to learn how a geodesic $\gamma$ which does in fact pass tangent to some $A$ of negative curvature reacts to this region (will it turn into $A$, away from it, etc. and maybe some way of calculating the actual effect)?
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Was this an error?
Did you manage to get one (or possibly 3)?
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woah.... no i did not.
Fools! They could have made more $ selling them as bocs...
I'm pretty sure that was an error. :) It'll be interesting to see how woot handles it. In my state, there's a law about what kinds of errors in pricing that a store must honor; I don't know if woot would be subject to Texas or Washington law - or what the laws are in those states about pricing errors - but I suspect woot isn't obliged to "make good" on $0 for an $85 printer. However, they have a tendency to surprise us by being honorable in weird ways, so I wouldn't be shocked if they honor the price.
If they do, we should all write into The Consumerist, eh, and praise woot!
Hmmmm. I'm betting someone is going to get a talking to. Yes, an error. Most likely.
I guess the Woot servers aren't using the HAL 9000 yet, otherwise errors like this wouldn't occur.
Offer invalid in Jovian / Saturnian systems
Note the "What is Woot Thinking" alongside the Scavenger Hunt Sale:
"This sale seems like an odd mix of items to be grouped together....allright, let's play a game: Everyone guess which item will sell out first!".
Kind of makes me wonder...
@neuropsychosocial: In your state, there's a law that says they must honor pricing errors? What state do you live in and can you quote me the statute that covers that? I ask because I used to be a senior manager at a retail store and that was never the policy.
Under the circumstances, Woot may be able to claim equitable relief from the deal on the basis that any reasonable consumer would have known (or should have known) that the price reflected an error, or that completion of the sale would result in an unreasonable economic harm to the business.
You would have to take your chances in court and, being the plaintiff, you would have the burden of proof to show that you had no idea this was a pricing error. You'd be hard pressed to prove it since the price was $0.00.
Most stores have disclaimers on their websites and inside their advertisements that state they are not responsible for pricing errors. That covers them in these cases.
That truly is a DEAL!
Seems a little fishy to me
Price: $0
Speed to First Woot: 1m 52.229s
Almost 2 mins before people starting taking free printers??
Wonder what replacement Ink is priced like ? Many companies give away blood sugar monitors - then charge $90 for 50 test strips... Printer ink can easily end up costing more than the printer from just a few refills. Anyway it's of course now 'Sold Out' (wonder what shipping was ?).
@thomaswbowman: Except on t-shirts, shipping has been $5 on every product. If you bought something else that same day, shipping on additional items could be free.
Even at $0.00 for a Kodak printer, I would not get it.
We have Kodak printers at work, and they are trash. They cannot scan, they suck up ink, and they jam all the time. This is not something that happened over time. This happened out of the box.
@cengland0: I think you may have misread my post. I said: "In my state, there's a law about what kinds of errors in pricing that a store must honor... I suspect woot isn't obliged to "make good" on $0 for an $85 printer [emphasis added].
I don't post identifying information on the internet, so I won't post the details of my state's policy. The FTC says "In many jurisdictions, companies are legally required to charge no more than the advertised or shelf price for a product... For tips on accurate pricing practices in advertising and in retail stores, ask the FTC for Good Pricing Practices? SCAN DO." SCAN DO says "... it is against the law to charge more than the advertised shelf price." Here's a newspaper article with details about Wisconsin's policy. In some states, it's a percentage: say, items under $x must have the incorrect price honored; above that, there's a x% discount.
I see it as $80. Never saw the $0.
I missed out period.
So what ended up happening? Anything yet? Inquiring minds and all :)


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Public Cloud Security Anti Spoofing Protection
By Orgad Kimchi-Oracle on Jun 14, 2013
This past week (9-Jun-2013) Oracle ISV Engineering participated in the IGT cloud meetup, the largest cloud community in Israel with 4,000 registered members.
During the meetup, ISV Engineering presented two presentations:
• Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure presented by Frederic Pariente
• Use case : Cloud Security Design and Implementation presented by me
In addition, there was a partner presentation from ECI Telecom
• Using Oracle Solaris11 Technologies for Building ECI R&D and Product Private Clouds presented by Mark Markman from ECI Telecom
The Solaris 11 feature that received the most attention from the audience was the new Solaris 11 network virtualization technology.
The Solaris 11 network virtualization allows us to build any physical network topology inside the Solaris operating system including virtual network cards (VNICs), virtual switches (vSwitch), and more sophisticated network components (e.g. load balancers, routers and fire-walls).
The benefits for using this technology are in reducing infrastructure cost since there is no need to invest in superfluous network equipment. In addition the infrastructure deployment is much faster, since all the network building blocks are based on software and not in hardware.
One of the key features of this network virtualization technology is the Data Link Protection. With this capability we can provide the flexibility that our partners need in a cloud environment and allow them root account access from inside the Solaris zone. Although we disabled their ability to create spoofing attack by sending outgoing packets with a different source IP or MAC address and packets which aren't types of IPv4, IPv6, and ARP.
The following example demonstrates how to enable this feature:
Create the virtual VNIC (in a further step, we will associate this VNIC with the Solaris zone):
# dladm create-vnic -l net0 vnic0
Setup the Solaris zone:
# zonecfg -z secure-zone
Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone:
zonecfg:secure-zone> create
create: Using system default template 'SYSdefault'
zonecfg:secure-zone> set zonepath=/zones/secure-zone
zonecfg:secure-zone> add net
zonecfg:secure-zone:net> set physical=vnic0
zonecfg:secure-zone:net> end
zonecfg:secure-zone> verify
zonecfg:secure-zone> commit
zonecfg:secure-zone> exit
Install the zone:
# zoneadm -z secure-zone install
Boot the zone: # zoneadm -z secure-zone boot
Log In to the zone:
# zlogin -C secure-zone
NOTE - During the zone setup select the vnic0 network interface and assign the 10.0.0.1 IP address.
From the global zone enable link protection on vnic0:
We can set different modes: ip-nospoof, dhcp-nospoof, mac-nospoof and restricted.
ip-nospoof: Any outgoing IP, ARP, or NDP packet must have an address field that matches either a DHCP-configured IP address or one of the addresses listed in the allowed-ips link property.
mac-nospoof: prevents the root user from changing the zone mac address. An outbound packet's source MAC address must match the datalink's configured MAC address.
dhcp-nospoof: prevents Client ID/DUID spoofing for DHCP.
restricted: only allows IPv4, IPv6 and ARP protocols. Using this protection type prevents the link from generating potentially harmful L2 control frames.
# dladm set-linkprop -p protection=mac-nospoof,restricted,ip-nospoof vnic0
Specify the 10.0.0.1 IP address as values for the allowed-ips property for the vnic0 link:
# dladm set-linkprop -p allowed-ips=10.0.0.1 vnic0
Verify the link protection property values:
# dladm show-linkprop -p protection,allowed-ips vnic0
vnic0 protection rw mac-nospoof, -- mac-nospoof,
restricted, restricted,
ip-nospoof ip-nospoof,
vnic0 allowed-ips rw 10.0.0.1 -- --
We can see that 10.0.0.1 is set as allowed ip address.
Log In to the zone
# zlogin secure-zone
After we login into the zone let's try to change the zone's ip address:
root@secure-zone:~# ifconfig vnic0 10.0.0.2
ifconfig:could not create address: Permission denied
As we can see we can't change the zone's ip address!
Optional - disable the link protection from the global zone:
# dladm reset-linkprop -p protection,allowed-ips vnic0
NOTE - we don't need to reboot the zone in order to disable this property.
Verify the change
# dladm show-linkprop -p protection,allowed-ips vnic0 LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE
vnic0 protection rw -- -- mac-nospoof,
vnic0 allowed-ips rw -- -- --
As we can see we don't have restriction on the allowed-ips property.
Conclusion In this blog I demonstrated how we can leverage the Solaris 11 Data link protection in order to prevent spoofing attacks.


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I'm working on a classical mechanics problem in which the problem states that a particle of mass $m$ moves in a central field of attractive force of magnitude:
$$F(r, t) = \frac{k}{r^2}e^{-at}$$
- $r$ is the distance from the force center,
- $t$ is time,
- and $k$, $a$ are constants.
I am concerned about the $t$ in the exponent. I did more than half of the question already (which involves finding lagrangian/hamiltonian equations) using a potential I'm not even sure is correct.
I calculated it by taking the integral of $F(r, t)$ with respect to $r$. It is just that there is a $t$ in the magnitude so I know I shouldn't be able to do that.


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Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text)
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share using"));
I have tried different combination of setType() with no joy including "text/*", "text/html" and passing HTML text in the putExtra as follows:
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This is the text that will be shared.
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When I use "text/plain", Facebook comes up as an option but the text does not load up when selecting it. But the text does load for Twitter,email, SMS.
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I often hear that the rate of innovation was very high during ancient times in Greece and the Roman empire. I've also heard that the rate of innovation was reduced once the Catholic Church gained strength. Is there any clear evidence to support (or disprove) this?
It would be very interesting to see a chart of rate of innovation over time in western civilization.
Of course, this begs the question of what is "innovation". Do you count number of inventions? Do you give more weight to inventions that would have long lasting significance through history? Or ones that may have been less influential but providing a huge impact at the time? Or ones that represented great leaps in intellect? Do you count scientific discoveries as innovations if they had no immediate tangible effect on society?
For instance, the Romans were quite influential and important in Western history, but they certainly did not have anything resembling an R&D department (perhaps excepting in the gladiator pits). Yet they were skilled at productizing other civilization's innovations. Due to their omnipresence and the long duration of the empire they can be credited with a number of innovations yet I would still score their rate of innovation as quite low.
The Dark Ages following the Roman Empire (very roughly 500-1000 AD) were a time of low innovation certainly. A lot of knowledge simply disappeared during these times. This had nothing to do with religion however, and more to do with socio-political factors. If anything, the Irish monks deserve a huge share of credit for their work transcribing greek texts to keep that learning alive in the west.
The Middle Ages (loosely 1000-1500) in contrast were a period of increasing innovation. Part of this was rediscovering or relearning from the past, and I think they deserve credit for this! But this period also brought a number of completely new traditions in agriculture, art, medicine, economics, mathematics, politics, and so on which form the foundations of society today.
What role did the Church play during this period? If anything I would have to credit them as a promoter of innovation, or at least of higher education. The Catholic Church in this period was the only source of advanced education, and in fact many of the earliest philosophers, mathematicians, and proto-scientists were themselves clergy members. Much of the greatest art, sculpture, literature, and science of this middle period was arrived at due to the patronage of the church.
Galileo serves as a turning point. But I think it has less to do with him specifically, nor his particular findings, than the general trend of scientific skepticism and inquiry that Galileo and his peers represented, and the evolution of society to a more heterogeneous R&D environment. More specifically, prior to the invention of the printing press, transmission of knowledge depended upon scribes - of whom the Church had a distinct monopoly; with the printing press, they quickly lost that monopoly and had to resort to more conspicuous methods of exerting authority.
A demarcation point can also be found here. Prior to this, the general consensus of Church intellectuals would be that all philosophy, science, and mathematics could be derived to the Will of God. Any study of these topics could be equated to a study of God Himself. But at this point there was a general view that further investigation into these topics would serve to diminish God or at least increase questioning into His existence.
The Scientific Revolution, which followed the Middle Ages and was more part of (or at least foundation of) the Renaissance, saw the increased involvement of the Church as a reactionary suppressor of innovation. Questions continued to be raised that organized religion could not effectively answer. Thus, organized religion quite naturally shifted to a more suppressive relationship with knowledge. And that's what we tend to remember today.
As negative as I am on the Roman Catholic Church in general, I don't think they can be credited with anything more than a modest influence. In a few specific periods they were definitely detrimental, but in other periods they had a strong positive force.
Quite the contrary as Rodney Stark pointed out in The Victory of Reason - the Catholic church itself promoted most of the societal conditions that allowed the Middle Class to take hold, and in so doing also promote the nurture of science and industry.
Chief among these were personal property rights (stemming from the idea that we were God's stewards) and equality before God in all judicial matters (hence the rule of law). The ideas for patent and copyright also come out of respect for the Imago Dei in all men.
Stark also points out the explicitly Christian roots of the Renaissance, which stemmed from a religious effort to go ad fontes - back to the sources - first of Christianity (hence the glorification of Rome), then to the society in which Christianity flourished.
Stark spends a great deal of time talking about the factors that eventually led Southern Europe (Catholic) to eventually decline after the Reformation - and these mostly boil down to the Roman Catholic church siding with strong men who could protect the church over against the very ideals for which the church stood.
It's a good read and will make the case very persuasively.
Also, along these lines is How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill. There the thesis is that if it were not for the church in Ireland, we would have lost most of the learning and literature of Rome.
If you're looking to make the anti-clerical case, look to Edward Gibbon's polemic Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. He'll make the case, but most historians agree that it is a polemic moreso than a valid historical argument.
The Middle Ages reduced innovation in the Middle Ages. If anything, the Church was the only thing keeping Western Europe literate during that time (and even then, just barely). The fact that any books from earlier times survived at all we have Church scribes to thank for.
Knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge is the lifeblood of what you would call "innovation". They were certianly repressive about a lot of things, and certianly could have been more free and open about information, but without the Catholic Church all literary activity in Europe, including the preservation of old knowledge, would have ceased completely.
Hypatia was killed by order of the Church for being a scientist who dared to believe things that were contrary to Holy Scripture... and so was Giordano Bruno. In between, there were a lot of people killed and documents declared heretic.
Then there is the Index Liborum Prohibitorum - an Index of Prohibited Books - that made scientific texts like Kepeler's unavailable in Catholic countries from the creation of the printing press until well into the 18th century.
Let's look at some of the scientists banned by the Index:
So, there's some direct evidence, altho the Index is more early modern than medieval.
The greatest destruction of knowledge caused by Christianity occurred much earlier at the start of the dark ages. The burning of the library at Alexandria and the murder of Hypatia (she was skinned alive with oyster shells) is but one famous example of the damage wrought at that time by christian mobs. These were made up of people who expected the world to end any day and who had often given away all their possessions to follow some wandering preacher. They moved across the countryside like a plague of locusts and were very destructive. As most couldn't read they burned pretty much anything written just in case it might be heretical and killed anyone who could write in case they might be a heretic or witch. The church ironically was responsible for saving much written material from these mobs as only they had the authority to turn the mobs away. While the church was mostly concerned with saving records of early church history they saved many other documents in the process.
In the middle ages the church was more interested in controlling and suppressing knowledge rather than outright destroying it. Ironically Galileo appeared towards the end of this period when knowledge was starting to escape from church control.
The Catholic Church, especially in the High Middle ages, was a great aid to science. The Church even founded the modern university system.
Physicists of the High Middle ages had such a profound affect on the intellectual atmosphere of Galileo, Newton, et al. that they took their discoveries as common knowledge. Some of the most famous of the pre-Galilean physicists were:
Even further back, Philoponus (late 5th, 2nd ½ of 6th century A.D.; also called "The Grammarian" or "The Christian") is impressive:
He argued that the sun is fire and of terrestrial-like, corruptible matter. He devised a precursor to the notion of impetus which Buridan later developed, that which keeps moving bodies in motion even after the mover ceases being in contact with them; air does not keep projectiles in motion. He discovered that light rays travel the same both backwards and forwards. He invented functions of variables and their "courses" (what we'd call "first derivatives" in modern calculus). He discovered the law of inertia, that bodies in motion remain in motion unless something impedes their movement, literally a thousand years before Galileo, Newton, et al.!
He's certainly one of the "grands génies de l'Antiquité" ("great geniuses of Antiquity") and "principaux précurseurs de la Science moderne" ("principle precursers to modern Science"), as Pierre Duhem wrote in his magisterial, 10 volume work in the history of medieval physics:
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7 Iconic Skylines That Almost Looked Ridiculous
Every city in the world shares the same basic building blocks -- brick, stone, steel, mortar, and McDonald's restaurants -- but architecture is what sets them apart. When you think "Paris," you don't imagine a city, you imagine the Eiffel Tower.
However, either by chance or by design, some of the most iconic cities on the planet almost looked very, very different, like knockoff made-for-cable versions of themselves.
#7. London Almost Had a Giant Dildo Skyscraper (and No Tower Bridge)
Via Steve Weinik
London is home to some of the world's most famous historical architecture, including the Tower of London, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and that movie studio where they shot Batman. To continue that grand tradition, a group of functionally rational adults proposed building a 1,400-foot robot clown dildo called the Green Bird in 1990.
Via Steve Weinik
"It isn't very green yet, because it hasn't been used."
In their defense, this would have become instantly more famous than any of that other bullshit we just mentioned. The 83-story multipurpose building, which we assume would have had a huge fountain at the top, never got the go-ahead for construction, for some reason. What company wouldn't want to house their corporate offices in the tip of that thing?
Meanwhile, London's third most famous landmark, the Tower Bridge ...
... was almost replaced with this contraption:
Via Architecturefoundation.org
For the love of God, it's eating the machines!
The goal of the Tower Bridge's design was to allow both road and waterway traffic to pass through, and while the elegant drawbridge it eventually became may seem like the obvious solution, it managed to elude everyone in the United Kingdom for a while. So one idea was the "duplex" bridge pictured above, which would split in two to allow one road to always be open while water traffic passed beneath it (this is ignoring the fact that both roads stretched over the same waterway).
Another was to dig a tunnel beneath the river, which doesn't seem unreasonable until you consider that this was suggested in 1876, back when a bridge tunnel was exactly as possible as lashing your coach to Pegasus and flying across the Thames.
Via Daily Mail
Just think of how many orphan laborers this project would've claimed.
#6. Paris Was Almost a Dystopian Wasteland
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Quick: If you had tons of money and an urge to whisk your lover to the most romantic place on Earth, where would you go? Paris, right? Packed with artful cafes and shops along fashionable tree-lined boulevards, the city has provided the backdrop for countless pieces of timeless cinema such as An American in Paris and An American Werewolf in Paris. Well, Le Corbusier, one of the most influential pioneers of modern architecture, took a look at all that celebrated Parisian charm and decided it was total bullshit.
His proposed solution? Smash Paris to the ground like a GWAR video and replace it with 18 identical 60-story skyscrapers that look like candles on Ayn Rand's birthday cake, then crisscross its paved-over corpse with arterial superhighways.
"And while we're at it, let's fill the river with cement."
It was called the Plan Voisin, hatched in the mid-1920s and backed by automobile manufacturer Avions Voisin, which unsurprisingly was a huge supporter of a plan that called for more roads and was named after itself. The entire area between the river Seine and Montmartre would have been knocked down and filled with a bunch of Blade Runner towers for Parisians to jump off of once they'd seen what had been done to their city.
Via Archdaily.com
"Did we lose a high-stakes game of Tetris or something?"
Le Corbusier said of his vision of Paris: "When night intervenes, the passage of cars along the autostrada traces luminous tracks that are like the tails of meteors flashing across the summer heavens." OK, he might have been crazy.
#5. New York City Almost Housed Spaceships
Juxtapoz via Sinehead.com
In 1908, American investors approached Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi about building a hotel on the site of the future World Trade Center in New York City. Gaudi accepted, and what he came up with was the 1,181-foot-tall "Hotel Attraction," which looked like the giant starship all of the rich people built to take them off the planet before the asteroid hits.
Juxtapoz via Sinehead.com
Holy crap, that thing really is gaud- ooooooh, we get it now.
This Cake Boss version of the Fortress of Solitude would have been the tallest building in the world at the time, featuring a 375-foot presidential memorial hall and decorations made from authentic New York City garbage.
Via Bdonline.co
"Welcome to our totally normal not-cult building. Please enter the weird haircut room on your left."
There were plans to put a room inside the star at the top of the tower called "The Sphere of All Space," large enough to hold 30 people while their sanity was slowly devoured. Most of his notes on the project were later destroyed in the Spanish Civil War (a phrase here meaning "when the gateway in his nightmares opened up to reclaim them"). However, the plans were resubmitted in 2003 as a replacement for the World Trade Center, albeit unsuccessfully.
But that's hardly the only example of weird-ass projects that would have utterly changed the face of the city. More recently, Frank Gehry, designer of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, helped us to visualize what would happen if a space colossus took a diamond shit on the East River:
Via Timeout.com
You can almost hear the muffled "blub" sound it makes when it hits the ground.
This was to be the East River Guggenheim, a sprawling art museum, and it had the greenlight for construction from Mayor Rudy Giuliani. However, the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 and the resulting economic plunge put an end to the project before some Men in Black sequel could build a hackneyed premise around it.
#4. Toronto Was to Be Dominated by a Huge Pyramid
Via Blogto.com
You've seen Toronto lots of times, whether you know it or not -- Toronto has served as a stand-in for Chicago and New York in movies like Good Will Hunting and True Lies, because it has a similar skyline to those bustling metropolises, but it's cheaper to film in Canada and there are fewer assholes. However, when Buckminster Fuller (one of our favorite batshit crazy architects) was approached to provide an urban plan for the rapidly expanding Toronto back in the 1960s, he suggested that they turn the city into a floating G.I. Joe base instead. This was Buckminster Fuller's "Project Toronto."
Via Wyliepoon
"Of course, we'll need a large patch of empty land for the UFOs to dock, but you get the idea."
Describing his role in the project as assisting in "the ballistics and navigation of humanity on spaceship Earth" (an explanation that probably should have led to him being excused from the meeting), his proposal centered around a colossal Crystal Pyramid approximately 450 feet tall with a base wide enough to garage a handful of aircraft carriers. This would effectively narrow the list of things to do in Toronto down to a single item: "Stand outside and look at that godawful pyramid because it blots out everything, including the sun."
Meanwhile, three self-contained neighborhoods (complete with shops, schools, and housing for around 6,000 people) would float offshore in Lake Ontario for reasons that can best be described as "nonexistent," although they could be towed elsewhere, just in case the people of a different waterfront city suddenly decided that floating suburbs were a good idea.
Pictured: The last floating suburb. Also known as "sublurblblblbblrblrb."


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Undercoat removal made easy! Here's the solution for undercoats that can be imprinted with a thumbnail. Biodegradable undercoat remover quickly loosens the bond of the undercoating to the base metal and allows you to easily scrape it loose. Use PRE Painting Prep to remove any remaining residue for a "paint ready" surface. Not for use on baked-on, epoxy or urethane undercoatings. For cleaning up an area to be welded, this is a must! 17 oz. net wt. aerosol.
One aerosol can contains 17 oz of Undercoating Remover.
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Non-toxic, non-corrosive, CFC-free, Biodegradable
Shake can thoroughly before, and periodically during, use. Spray-apply to a 12" square area and allow to penetrate for 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Then scrape loosened undercoating from surface. Reapply if necessary to remove heavy applications.
NOTE: Will remove paint! Rinse painted surfaces immediately with water to avoid damage. Do not use for removal of baked-on, epoxy or urethane coatings.
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Bobby Lake
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Bobby Lake is 85 acres in size and 71 feet deep. Populations of rainbow and brook trout. This gentle trail passes through lodgepole going to noble fir and mountain hemlock. There is an excellent view of Maiden Peak and Bobby Lake.
Directions: From Crescent: Go out the Crescent County Road 10 miles to Davis Lake, Forest Service Road #46. Turn right and go north 13 mils to Forest Service Road #4652. Turn left and go 4 miles to Forest Service Road #400. The trailhead is 3/4 miles on FRS #400.
Seasonal Access: Normally Open: Spring-Fall
Facility Type: Lake
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