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    A recent Rolling Stone article raises troubling questions about FBI entrapment schemes and their targets
    If we don't speak out, we're part of the problem - Progressive blogging for the middle class, not corporate welfare.
    The best that could have happened in tech blogging would have been for Facebook‘s IPO to “pop”. We still would have watched closely but there would have been no need to analyze it in-depth. As any good doctor after a successful operation, we would have clapped our hands and monitored. Instead, we’re stuck trying to break down exactly what happened on Friday and more importantly what will happen in the coming weeks....
    Mitt Romney says he wants to "take a look at tax returns" from potential running mates ... but he doesn't want you to look at his. The Hill's....
    So, Facebook is now public, and it got off to the most unimaginable and inauspicious start, losing $4 between the NASDAQ's opening and closing bells. But don't go jumping out any windows just yet.
    Apple has begun treating the word ‘jailbreak’ as an expletive by modifying it to j*******k. Besides the traditional meaning of breaking out of jail, the term is also used to describe the act of using Apple gadgets outside of their software controls....
    You may have noticed that, excepting the occasional zombie apocalypse, we humans tend to function best with our nervous systems intact and our brains, limbs and major organs all connected and happily communicating with each other. Well, we feel it's our duty to inform you that not all creatures are quite so picky when it comes to the intactness of...
    Soon, you’ll be able to add one more thing to Boris Said’s extensive racing resume: Pikes Peak Hill Climb veteran. Said will compete behind the wheel of a BMW M3 in this year’s event, but it isn’t just another race-prepped BMW that the NASCAR driver will be piloting....
    If you've been acting like more of an idiot than usual, check your diet, dummy. Researchers have found that too much sugar makes you stupid.
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    This is a video of a technician climbing up to the top of a transmission tower to do some maintenance work. I always assumed there were specific tools or safety precautions in place to protect them, but nope, they just climb up, dragging their toolbox on a rope behind them. No harnesses or anything. Well [...]...
    In a push to get people to actually use their site, Twitter has unveiled a new site redesign with a dual panel layout allowing easier and more intuitive navigation. Now you can click on an individual tweet and see more info about it, as well as any replies or retweets. It makes a lot more [...]...
    One of the funnier things ive seen today hahaha. You know, I prefer these mascots than the annoying dicks in giant fur suits Another one after the jump.
    Lady Gaga’s meat dress. It is a dress, made of meat. I suppose I will let the picture explain itself, there’s not much else really.
    Other than the fact that this infographic is supposedly written in the future (September 20, 2010), it does provide an interesting insight into the plight of the trapped Chilean miners. Thirty three miners have three holes – their sole key to survival. No sun, fresh air, their whole world are these 3 holes. Some notes: [...]...
    Man, I would have killed to hang out with the TMNT, back in the day. Hell even right now. If you stop to think about it, the whole concept of the show is so insanely crazy, it’s hard to see how anyone would have imagined that a show so outrageous would have been such a [...]...
    The main site is born. It was quite uneventful. This is it’s blog. What are you doing? Go check it out!
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    Telegraph.co.ukHundreds Attend Bedford Funeral for Mary KennedyThe Daily Mount Pleasantby Rick Pezzullo (email) Children and other relatives of Mary Richardson Kennedy carry her casket to a hearse following her funeral Saturday at St. Patrick's C...
    AFPItaly hunts for clues in deadly school bomb attackAFPBy Gildas Le Roux (AFP) – 1 hour ago BRINDISI, Italy — Italian police hunted for clues Sunday after a school bombing that killed a 16-year-old girl and grave...
    The HinduBlind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in USmsnbc.comBlind social activist Chen Guangcheng is starting a new life of freedom in the US NBC's Michelle Franzen reports. By NBC News Updated at 11:15 pm ET: Blind Chinese dissident...
    USA TODAYTropical storm watch issued for parts of SC coast after Alberto forms in the ...Washington PostRALEIGH, NC — Forecasters have issued a tropical storm watch for parts of the South Carolina co...
    USA TODAYMark Zuckerberg marries longtime girlfriendUSA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday. By Allyson Magda, Handout via AP This photo provided ...
    New York Daily NewsIn Largely Symbolic Move, NAACP Votes to Endorse Same-Sex MarriageNew York TimesThe board of the NAACP voted to endorse same-sex marriage on Saturday, putting the weight of the country's most prominent civil rights group behind a c...
    ABC NewsObama Sees 'Emerging Consensus' on Economic FixABC NewsConfronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the Europea...
    CTV.caI'll Have Another edges Bodemeister in PreaknessLos Angeles TimesThe Kentucky Derby winner shows great closing speed again in ov
    Sydney Morning HeraldForget protests: NATO summit's problem is Afghanistanmsnbc.comWASHINGTON — When NATO nations meet in Chicago on Sunday, one question will top the agenda: What happens in Afghanistan when US combat troops leave? To be sure, some troops from NATO countries, led by the United Sta...
    BBC NewsSuicide blast hits Syria as G8 calls for end to violenceTimes of IndiaDAMASCUS: A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in eastern Syria on Saturday killing nine people, as G8 leaders called for a "political transition" in Syria and an end to violence that has ...
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    BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- UFC star Jon Jones was charged with DWI early Saturday after the car he was driving struck a utility pole, police said.In a statement, police said they dispatched units at 5:02 a.m. for a one-car accident. Jones' 2012 Bentley struck a pole, according to the statement.Read More... More on Sports Crime ...
    Newt Gingrich may have ended his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, but his journey to retire the $4.7 million in debt he piled up during his run is just beginning. In a report provided to the Federal Election Commission on Saturday, the Gingrich campaign revealed that it had increased its total debt by $400,000 in April, despite having announced it had paid off $500,000 at the end of March.Much of the new debt is owed to the candidate himself. The campaign shows debts owed to Gingrich for travel expenses increasing by $300,000 in April.Read More... More on Campaign Finance ...
    DENALI NATIONAL PARK and PRESERVE, Alaska -- National Park officials say a climber has died of injuries after falling during a climb of Alaska's Mount McKinley.A park release Saturday says the climber fell about 1,100-feet Friday, while following the West Buttress route to the summit. Witnesses say the climber fell at about 16,200-feet. He was trying to recover a backpack that had started to slide downhill.Read More... More on Nature ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday.Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity.Read More... More on Facebook ...
    At the end of "Real Time" Friday night, Bill Maher lambasted Liberty University, the Virginia religious university that has become a mandatory stop for Republican presidential candidates. (Watch above.)MItt Romney delivered Liberty's commencement speech on May 12."You can't expect me to believe anything Mitt Romney said last week at Liberty University, because a) he's a liar and b) Liberty University isn't really a university," Maher began. "It's not like an actual statesman visited a real college. It's more like the Tupac hologram visited Disneyland and said what he would do as president during the Main Street Electrical Parade." Read More... More on E...
    Anthony Bourdain stopped by Brooklyn's The Great GoogaMooga Festival this weekend and as always, shared a lot of candid opinions about topics from Paula Deen to why you should make a good omelette (hint: it will impress a woman). Although he has ranted about many of the topics previously, the crowd continued to love his crassness and lack of sugar-coating.On Olive Garden, Bourdain said that he would take a "big f*cking can of gasoline" to soak the place and burn it down -- that's how bad they make pasta. He had similar sentiments for the James Beard house. "Why don't they turn the house into something useful like a methadone clinic," he asked.He also had some rather practical thoughts on the subject on cannibalism. An audience member posed a bizarre hypothetical situation: if he and Bourdain were trapped in a cave, would Bourdain eat him? "F*ck yeah," Bourdain said without hesitation. He added that if they were ...
    WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men.Read More... ...
    A look at the horses who have won thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. I'll Have Another can become 12th horse to accomplish the feat with a victory in the Belmont on June 9: AFFIRMED (1978) Read More... More on Horse Racing ...
    NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven 3-year-olds have won the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes). Nineteen have failed by losing in the Belmont. How they raced in the Belmont. Success Read More... More on Kentucky Derby ...
    LOS ANGELES -- Nothing was going to rattle the calm, cool and collected Spurs. Not even a 24-point deficit.Tim Duncan scored 19 points, helping engineer a defining 24-0 run in the third quarter, and San Antonio defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 96-86 on Saturday to take a commanding 3-0 lead in their second-round playoff series.Read More... More on NBA ...
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    While everyone else is dying to collaborate with Madonna, she has someone in mind she'd really love to fuse her sound with! Think you can guess who it is?? We don't knoOoOoww… According to her Madgesty, it would be a dream come true if she could get in the studio with Oscar-winning singer-composer AR Rahman! [...]...
    Yes!! Another sublime performance from The Dolly Rockers! They give Justin Bieber's Boyfriend a sultry, soulful facelift. And we are obsessing over it!! It's even almost blues-y. Fab!! If you've never seen this UK girl group, you're missing out. Plain and simple! :) Do URself a favor and ch-ch-check 'em outtt (above)!!!...
    Where's the vodka!?! It feels like someone just said Scorsese twenty times in a row, ha! ;) We are SO thrilled to tell you Melissa McCarthy and Bridesmaids director Paul Feig are joining comedic forces once again …WITH SANDRA BULLOCK!! The funny ladies will star in a buddy cop movie all about a "high-strung [...]...
    Please tell us this could really happen, Josh Safran! Please!! The seXXy dark CW series Gossip Girl will come to an end after its sixth and final season plays out next Fall. But will that really be the end of our favorite Upper East Siders?? According to Chace Crawford: I would imagine [getting a movie is] [...]...
    OoOo what is that!?! Well it's a not a film, that's for sure! No, no. When Pete Doherty goes to Cannes, he's prepared to enjoy all forms of entertainment. Taking a break at Nikki Beach Club, the English rocker enjoyed a lil' reading before probably hitting up another party. Looking very intellectual these days, Pete! [...]...
    Well Well Well!! What is this!?! Maria Menounos found herself on top of So You Think You Can Dance judge Nigel Lithgoe at The Grove! While Maria was interviewing Nigel, they decided to try a lil' dance-dance and before you knew it, they were on the floor in a crowd-shocking situation!! Scandalous, you two!! Just [...]...
    Described as a strong 250-pound man, John Truesdale is the 40-year-old John Doe #2 accusing John Travolta of naughty, naughty things on the massage table. Now represented by Gloria Allred, Truesdale refuses to let anything slip about the case, but Gloria says : I can confirm that we do represent Mr. Truesdale, and that we have [...]...
    Well that's one way to say thanks for an awesome baby-making scene!! During the filming of What To Expect When You're Expecting, Chace Crawford and Anna Kendrick went to a very special strip club. And while they were there, Chace thought it was time to really celebrate Anna's birthday. So he buys her a stripper!! [...]...
    At the Cannes Sphere party, Diddy is telling the yacht to back that *ss up because ___________________. [Image via AKM-GSI.]
    Are they bestiez again or just pAArty pals?? Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton were livin' it up at a ragin' Hollywood Hills party last night. They were having so much fun, neighbors finally had to call the cops for all the noise!! So of course, in roll the police and out comes Lindsay, who we hear [...]...
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    Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg capped off a busy week by getting married today to longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan.The couple, who met at Harvard and have been together for nine years, tied the knot in a small ceremony at… ...
    UFC Light Heavyweight champ Jon "Bones" Jones was arrested early this morning for DUI after he totaled his Bentley in upstate New York ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Jones was involved in an accident at around 5:00 AM… ...
    A woman was arrested at the home of Corey Feldman last night, TMZ has learned, after law enforcement sources tell us she violated a stay away order the actor had against her.According to our sources, Corey had allowed the woman to stay in his… ...
    Former wrestling superster Chyna collapsed at a porn convention in Miami today and taken to a nearby hospital ... TMZ has learned ... her third such episode in as many days. Chyna was appearing at the 2012 Exxxotica Expo to help promote Vivid… ...
    The dog who won "Britain's Got Talent" just rejected an offer to appear on the "American Idol" finale, TMZ has learned, because the talented canine is too busy being famous. Sources tell TMZ ... Pudsey the dog and 17-year old owner Ashleigh were… ...
    Missing "Terminator 3" star Nick Stahl has reached out to friends via email, TMZ has learned, telling them he's ok and pledging to go to rehab. According to our sources, Stahl emailed friends yesterday and apologized for scaring them. We're… ...
    Jonathan Arthur "Chico" DeBarge (from DeBarge) has filed for divorce ... TMZ has learned.Chico filed the papers in L.A. County Superior Court against his wife Andrea DeBarge, citing "irreconcilable differences."According to the docs, the couple was… ...
    The stars of CMT's "My Big Redneck Vacation" are PISSED ... as in the British speak for SUPER DRUNK ... as they have managed to down over 100 cases of beer in the first two months of filming, TMZ has learned.The upcoming season centers around the… ...
    The night before Chyna collapsed at a XXX convention in Miami ... she was kicked out of a hotel party for causing a scene and passing out in the pool, TMZ has learned. It all went down Thursday night at the Catalina Hotel in Miami (the same hotel… ...
    UFC Prez Dana White is on the receiving end of some terrifying death threats from an ex-MMA fighter who says he plans to "shoot [Dana] right in the head" -- and now cops are on the case.It's unclear what started the beef, but the wannabe fighter --… ...
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    Will Smith was at the Moscow premiere of ‘Men in Black 3’ today when a male reporter tried to kiss him on the lips. That went over about as well as you might think and Smith backhanded him in the face (it looks worse in the second clip), then said, “He’s lucky I didn’t [...] ...
    Back in February, Matt Lauer asked Lindsay Lohan if she still goes to bars and parties, and because she wasn’t hooked up to a polygraph, she said “that’s not my thing anymore” and “I’ve become more of a home body and I like it.” You’ll notice she made no mention of crawling out of some [...] ...
    Miley Cyrus, seen here on her hotel balcony holding a dog, and then making out with the dog, and then not holding a dog and leaning over the railing (she dropped the dog, didn’t she?) tells Lifetime (via Us) that she’s comfortable being sexy, or would be if anyone actually thought that. [...] ...
    It’s been 20 years since Jay Leno weaseled his way into hosting the Tonight Show, taking the job from David Letterman, and 2 years since he did the exact same thing to Conan O’Brien, which is why Letterman was absolutely delighted to have Conan on his show last night for the first time in 13 [...] ...
    Chinese actress Hao Lei is in Cannes to help promote her new movie ‘Mystery’, and I’ve never heard of her until now but it turns out she’s everything I’ve been searching for. That’s just how love works, it’s full of surprises and wonder. Image source = cannes) ...
    In 2009, a private equity firm co-founded by Bono paid $90 million to buy 2.3 percent of Facebook, which has been valued at over $100 billion for their IPO today. And according to TMZ and Page Six, that means Bono will become the worlds richest musician by 4pm! …the shares are now valued at [...] ...
    Lindsay Lohan has decided that her comeback is going so great that she’s gone ahead and moved into a mansion in Beverly Hills, the one pictured above, with a rent of $25,000 a month. To put that into context, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just moved into a mansion with a rent of [...] ...
    Christina Hendricks left her hotel in New York early this morning for an appearance on ‘LIVE! With Kelly’, and she’s so incredibly pale, with such intense red hair, that to see her in natural light is almost jarring. She’s like a big-titted Ghost Rider. (image source = pacific coast) ...
    Sofia Vergara walked around New York last night with her pants unbuttoned, and she hasn’t come right out and said anything but the obvious explanation is that she was masturbating and wants to have sex with me. Message received, mon amour. (image source = inf) ...
    When we last left John Travolta, he was on a bit of a cold streak, getting shot down for gay sex by two male masseuses, but as we pick up the tale today, John has adjusted his strategy by hitting on masseuses who are actually gay, or simply by blowing his friends while they [...] ...
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    We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from is from Warren, who wants to find an electrical moped within his budget. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com. "What's the cheapest two-wheeled electric vehicle that goes over 45mph available in the US? I looked at the Gas-powered $2,500 Sym Symba, but as far as I can tell, I'd have to spend four times that much for an electric equivalent. Am I missing something? Thank you!" Unfortunately, you are. The bigges...
    If you find yourself with nothing better to do this weekend, then you might have a bit of fun playing around with Samsung's soon-to-be-released S Voice application on your rooted Android 4.0 smartphone. The APK has now made its way into the wild, and we couldn't help but take it for a spin on our Nexus S. First off, while we can't vouch for the security of the file, we can confirm that it's indeed functional. Secondly, while some of the S Voice features work just fine -- such as search or contact queries -- other requests such navigation repeatedly caused the app to crash. In other words, if you're expectin...
    Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week, Verizon Wireless brought its LTE service to 28 new markets and expanded its reach in 11 additional areas. We also saw Straight Talk introduce the Samsung Galaxy Proclaim, and it appears that Rogers will soon offer the HTC One S. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the "best of the rest" for this week of May 14th, 2012.Continue readi...
    Hasselblad is typically known for everything but price cuts, and sometimes goes in the opposite direction. As such, we're more than a little caught off-guard by a round of price cuts on what's usually considered the definitive medium format camera line. The 'entry' H4D-31 has been cut down by as much as 23 percent; we're not sure we'd call it a steal at $11,995 without a lens, but it's now an option if you thin...
    Going by Microsoft's Greater China COO Michel van der Bel, the launch of Windows Phone in China is off to an auspicious start -- enough to give Apple the shakes. He claims that devices like the Nokia Lumia 800c have helped Windows Phone reach seven percent of the Chinese market, or just enough to get past the six points of the iPhone. We're waiting on hard data before we take van der Bel's word: the top smartphone makers ...
    Borders. Here at the Engadget Mobile Podcast, we're so over them. That's why we let former Engadget Mobile CEO-in-chief Chris Ziegler come back and hang out on our side of the fence for a few hours, no matter where he comes from. You know who's NOT over border? The United States Border Patrol, Division of Potential Patent Infringements on Apple Intellectual Property. Be a fence-sitter with us for a little while: it's not so bad up here (and we get great reception). Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen Guest: Chris Ziegler Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: ...
    What does one do after generating billions from an initial public stock offering? Go shopping, of course. After falling short of expectations following its somewhat helter-skelter IPO debut, Facebook simply shook off the whole thing and acquired itself some good Karma. No, we're not talking about that Karma. Instead, Facebook purchased the startup responsible for the Karma social gifting app. The move was apparently made to bolster Facebook's mobile chops -- an area the company considers ripe for opportunit...
    The final significant roadblock to Google's buyout of Motorola has been cleared, as Chinese regulators have just given their rubber stamp. Their approval follows a few months after the simultaneous American and European clearances, and virtually all that's left now is to formally close the deal and start integrating the two mobile giants. It might still come too late for the combined entity to present a united front at ...
    Looking through Engadget's annals of robotic achievements, we see droids juggling, dabbling in competitive sailing and even manning prisons. Cool as they are, those functions aren't going to mean a thing when Mr. Automaton is lost in the wilderness, damaged and without a helping human hand in sight. Researchers at ETH Zurich are working to change that scenario, as they're currently developing a "self-reconfi...
    In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. On average, North American consumers will spend a lifetime total of five days on failed attempts to pair their dock connector cable with an iPad or iPhone. Yeah, that's not true, but we can certainly sympathize with frustrated device owners -- fitting a tiny connector to any gadget can be a chore, especially in the dark. Scrap Pile Labs' CordLite sets out to point the way to a successful connection with its...
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    Google unveiled the Knowledge Graph. SlideShark makes giving presentations via your iPad easy peasy. Learn more about these stories and many more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more. ...
    Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged infringement of Java slipped from epic battle to soap opera this week: The relationships between the judge, jury, plaintiff and defendant have become a tangle of legal ambiguity and financial suffering — or is it avarice? The jury deferred to the judge on the extent of Oracle’s intellectual property protections. The judge, in turn, wrested from the jury control over the lion’s share of damages, yanking Oracle’s prize another few inches out of reach. With major issues still to be decided, it is becoming clear that Judge William Alsup holds the high cards - and that he has the tech smarts to play them intelligently and mercilessly. The trial is unfolding in three phases: Copyright, patent and damages. The copyright phase...
    Think emojis are fun? Now you can send messages that move. A new iPhone app called MyFaceWhen makes it fast and easy to record and send video in the form of animated GIFs attached to text messages.  We've had multimedia messages (MMS) for years, and we're used to static images showing up alongside text messages. Most phones can handle audio and video recordings, too. But those take a long time to send and receive, and they require the recipient to click 'play' to see the message. Spicing up a text message with an animated GIF is way better, and MyFaceWhen makes it incredibly easy. Wave hello, smile or spin around in circles, and instead of text, a still photo or a poop emoj...
    Facebook became a publicly traded company a few hours ago, but it's not wasting any time making new moves. The social networking giant acquired Karma, a mobile app for finding and sending gifts to one's friends and family. By buying the social gifting app, Facebook pushes further into the mobile space it so desperately hopes to conquer.  Karma relies on its users' Facebook accounts to find their friends and determine when important dates in those friends' lives happen to be. The most obvi...
    What to do with that $500 cash balance burning a hole in my IRA? Buy Facebook. It ended up being so much easier than they said it would be. My initial limit order with a maximum price of $45 for 10 shares was placed early this morning after I heard a report on Bloomberg television that Facebook was allotting anywhere from 15% to 25% of its 421 million shares for retail customers, and that lots of average Joes were filling orders for the $38 per share opening price. A lot of people must have had the same idea, as that order was canceled with a backup of orders, cancellations and changes that ...
    Venture capitalists have been getting a black eye to go with their blue shirts. A recent report from the Kauffman Foundation slammed VCs for “shortchanging” investors, pointing out that public markets deliver better returns. The next day, Fred Wilson, general partner at Union Square Ventures and prominent VC blogger, suggested that a flood of crowdfunding money unleashed by the JOBS Act could sweep away venture capitalists altogether. It could happen. ...
    If you are thinking about changing your online payment provider, you should take a moment to look at an interesting infographic from application performance management company New Relic. Turns out the most popular provider, PayPal, isn't even close to being the fastest processor. That distinction goes to Google Checkout. PayPal has the market share, but if performance is the critical metric for your company, you might want to consider the alternatives.   New Relic pulled data from more than 20,000 enterprise customers during one day in April and examined which gateways were the most often used, along with their associated ...
    If Facebook’s massive IPO represents the wealth created by the rise of social networking, mobile computing and the consumerization of IT, these tectonic shifts hold dramatic challenges to old-line technology companies built on yesterday’s revolutions. So even as Facebook mints a crowd of new millionaires and billionaires, Hewlett-Packard is preparing to send pink slips to some 30,000 of its employees. All those people busy social networking on smartphones and tablets are spending less time accessing Web pages on a PC. And while companies like HP and Dell are counting on the release of Windows 8 later this year to help stem the tide, many observers believe a new PC operating system simply won’t be enough to reverse the waning clout of Windows PCs. Facebook has 3500+ employees. HP is about to lay off almost 10 times that number. The contrast is stark. In Menlo Park, 3,500+ Facebook employees are celebrating their record-setting ini...
    Procter & Gamble should be kicking itself for not developing a mobile operating system when it had the chance: More people worldwide own mobile phones than toothbrushes. Get ready for a tsunami of mobile marketing and commerce to crash on the shores of retail. The beauty of mobile devices from a marketing perspective is that you can reach consumers at a more personal level – right in their pockets. The Holy Grail of marketers used to be a home telephone number and address. Direct mail and telemarketing, despite being some of the most hated forms of advertising, are historically effective. Now mobile takes marketers closer to consumers than direct mail ever will. But mobile isn't just one marketing channel. It's several. Think about ...
    Facebook became a $104.2 billion company Friday in much the same way it became the world’s biggest social network and a cultural game-changer: by stubbornly forging ahead despite criticism and calls that it couldn’t be done. Last week, rumors turned into full-blown financial news stories that the initial public offering was getting a lukewarm reception in road-show presentations to investors in New York City, Boston and Palo Alto, Calif. CEO Mark Zuckerberg was criticized for wearing his trademark hoodie to the event in New York and skipping the event altogether in Boston, and some analysts said Facebook could open with a value as low as $75 billion. And yet, by this week Facebook had raised its expected share price and was making more shares available to meet demand. By the close of markets Thursday afternoon, Facebook had set its opening share price at $38 (after considering levels as high as $40). Wh...
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    ananyo writes "California lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at protecting their state's citizens from surreptitious genetic testing but scientists are voicing their growing concerns that, if passed, such a law would have a costly and damaging effect on research. The bill, dubbed the Genetic Information Privacy Act, would require an individual's written consent for the collection, analysis, retention, and sharing of his or her genetic information—including DNA, genetic test results, and even family disease history. The University of California has submitted a formal letter objecting ...
    This morning's nixed launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule to the ISS with the company's Falcon booster was an exciting thing to be on hand for, despite the (literally) last-second halt. Shuttle launches used to cause miles of traffic backups extending well outside the gates of NASA's Cape Canaveral launch facilities; for all the buzz around the first private launch to the ISS, today's launch attempt was much more sparsely attended. In a small set of bleachers set up near the massive countdown clock, there were a few dozen enthusiasts and reporters aiming their cameras and binoculars at the lau...
    oyenamit writes "In a significant boost to online privacy, Twitter has announced that they will officially support the Do Not Track feature in browsers. While this is a good news for privacy advocates and users in general, it leaves Twitter to use only the information that is handed over to them by the users for advertising purposes." ...
    schliz writes "The Australian software patent system could be used by open source developers to ensure their inventions remain available to the community, a conference organized by intellectual property authority IP Australia heard this week According to Australian inventor Ric Richardson, whose company came out on top of a multi-million dollar settlement with Microsoft in March, a world without software patents would be 'open slather for anybody who can just go faster than the next person.' Software developer Ben Sturmfels, whose 2010 anti-software-patent petition won the support of open s...
    walterbyrd writes about a program from Microsoft to clean up bloated base installs, for a price. From the article: "Microsoft even offers up numbers to show how detrimental this OEM-installed crapware is to your system. Microsoft claims that Signature systems start up 39 percent faster, go into sleep mode 23 percent faster, and resume from sleep a whopping 51 percent faster compared to their crapware-ladened counterparts. (A 'Signature' system is one without crapware). But now, Microsoft will offer customers the opportunity to give their Windows 7 PC the Signature treatment by bringing it t...
    McGruber writes "The Federal Times is reporting that Northrup Grumman has filed suit against the US Postal Service, accusing the USPS of violating the terms of the 2007 fixed-price ($875 million) contract to produce 100 massive automatic sorting systems, each capable of handling millions of magazines, catalogs and other pieces of flat mail. The Postal Service embarked on the project just as mail volume was beginning to nosedive, cutting into anticipated efficiency gains. The sorting machines' performance has been uneven, according to a series of reports by the Postal Service's inspector gen...
    colinneagle writes with an excerpt from Network World: "Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London began trials of a Kinect-driven camera last week that would sense body position, and by waving his or her hands, the surgeon can sift through medical images, such as CT scans or real-time X-rays, while in the middle of an operation. During surgery, a surgeon will stop and consult medical images anywhere from once an hour to every few minutes. So the surgeon doesn't have to leave the table, the doctor will work with assistants, but sometimes, if you want things done to your satisfaction, you have ...
    Lasrick writes "Benjamin Loehrke describes the rather odd definitions of what is a 'tactical' nuclear weapon and what isn't. 'There is enough ambiguity surrounding the capabilities of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons to render the term "tactical" all but useless for arms control purposes. As the United States and Russia pursue new arms control treaties, they should drop the tactical distinction and limit the total number of all nuclear weapons — strategic, tactical, or other.'" ...
    PhunkySchtuff writes "I'm seeking the collective's recommendations on a laptop with a numeric keypad that doesn't suck. For practicality reasons, an external USB keypad is less convenient than a built-in one. A keypad is required for entry of lots of numbers, and using the alpha keys with the Fn key to turn them into a keypad is not acceptable. Looking at the larger manufacturers, it seems that none of their business grade laptops (e.g. Lenovo's T-Series or similar quality levels) have numeric keypads. Looking at their laptops that do have keypads, invariably they are cheap, plastic and fli...
    theodp writes "Q. What do you get when you surround the image of Men in Black star Will Smith trying on sunglasses with a pitch for 'MIB Bill Smith Dark Shades'? A. U.S. Patent No. 8,180,688. 'Many people consume broadcast media such as television shows and movies for many hours a week,' Amazon explained to the USPTO in its patent application for a Computer-Readable Medium, System, and Method for Item Recommendations Based on Media Consumption. 'The consumed broadcast media may depict a variety of items during the course of the transmission, such as clothing, books, movies, accessories, ele...
TechCrunch
    It's been about eight hours since our big Disrupt Hackathon kicked off, and all of our intrepid hackers have been busy letting the code (and the caffeine) fly ever since. I managed to tear a few of them away from their work (these folks are pretty motivated, so it took a bit of doing) to tell us a little bit about themselves and what they be trying to crank out during the wee hours of the morning....
    What a week. After eight years, Mark Zuckerberg takes Facebook public at a $104 billion valuation. His longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan gets her medical degree from the UC San Francisco. And to top it all off, they get married today. Mazel tov. An amazing ride for the pair and for the company, and hopefully a lot longer to go too....
    There's a strong murmur in the room with random spurts of excitement. Hackers and coders have teamed up and mostly (hopefully) decided on a project. There are only 15 hours left. But night is approaching. That's when things tend to get loopy thanks to the sudden influx of food and beer. So far the event has been fantastic. There's a 3:2 ratio of Macs vs PCs. Epic t-shirts are everywhere. Caffeine is flowing thanks to Red Bull and Outburst Energy Bites....
    Hackers aren't necessarily known for their fashion sense. Most of the time, a t-shirt and jeans is as far as it goes. But there are certain circumstances in which it's clear that hackers pay a little extra attention after rolling out of bed in the morning. The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is one of those instances, but that doesn't mean that the go-to jeans and T have been abandoned. Even better, our hackers are choosing to express themselves through the t-shirts, and I have to say that they're some of the coolest I've seen. Last year in San Francisco, most of our hackers had something on their heads, whether it was a baseball cap, headphones, ...
    Last time I took a look at the most over-hyped topics of the Future of TV, and I thought a great follow-up would be to look at the reverse case. After all, it's easy to sit there and critique, but what about the positive side, where's the action happening but not being talked about as much as it could be?  Here are four things going on in the TV industry that definitely don't get enough respect…...
    It's been just over nine months since Google announced their intentions to acquire hardware manufacturer Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, and now it seems that the final pieces of the deal have fallen into place. According to a new report from the Associated Press, Chinese officials have finally given the Google-Motorola deal their blessing....
    The anticipation is palpable. Hundreds of hackers have congregated outside Manhattan's Pier 94, planning, strategizing, and praying to baby Jesus that their fates will be similar to those of Group.me and Docracy. We've seen plenty of Hackathon winners go on to do incredible things, make millions of dollars, and rise to startup stardom levels, but the journey isn't a simple one. Let me paint a little word picture of what this is sure to look like:...
    The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Gabe Rivera, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — play toe jam football in the shadow of the Facebook IPO. Try as we might, we can't shake the weight of Facebook's dominance of Techmeme and maybe the fate of the global economy. Greece, move over. @gaberivera joins near the 30 minute mark. @scobleizer tries a reverse Statue of Liberty play around the forthcoming Samsung phone and the threat to Apple (nonexistent) but our hearts aren't in it. I fail in a weak attempt to roll up everything under push notification. Face it: our hopes and dreams are now tied to our jobs as feeders of the Facebook Empire Please Twitter. Save us....
    Comcast's plans to do away with its 250 GB data cap and charge users based upon usage marks the end of an era for cable TV providers, and for the online video industry. No longer will users be able to endlessly stream all the content their hearts desire. Not just that, but the fact that usage-based pricing is arriving at the same time that more, higher-quality content is appearing online could have a dampening effect on demand for services like Netflix or Hulu Plus. Comcast, of course, says that its new, usage-based pricing policy is pro-consumer, and to a certain extent it is. The average broadb...
    My set ritual before going to bed each night is as follows -- turn out the lights, plug in my iPhone, take off my glasses and attempt vainly to nod off. Step two in that process can be a bit of a crapshoot in the dark, but the folks at Scrap Pile Labs have recently kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign for a product called the CordLite that just may come in handy. As the name sort of implies, the CordLite is a dock connector cable for iDevices that, well, lights up thanks to a pair of forward-facing LEDs. It's a very simple concept, but the thoughtful execution is what ...
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    A Tyrannosaur fossil suspected to have been smuggled from Mongolia is set to be auctioned May 20. Scientists want the fossil to be donated to science and say the sale would further fuel illegal looting of fossils. ...
    The trio of films from the Jackass crew has grossed more than $334 million globally (emphasis on grossed). But they haven't cornered the global market on smart-stupid stunts. There are plenty of insane clown posses eager for fame. Who's got the goods? ...
    This morning?s scheduled launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed with less than a second remaining on the countdown clock due to higher-than-expected pressure in one of the rocket?s engines. ...
    Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
    The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon's massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2. ...
    Using your smartphone to take a photo of a document is one of those things that seems like it should be easy, but just isn't. First you have to futz with the angle and the distance. Then there's the flash: on, it's too bright and washed out; off, it's dark and blurry. ...
    Check out Wired's full coverage of the historic SpaceX launch on our new commercial-space portal, Open Space. A live feed will begin an hour before the scheduled launch, which is at 1:55 a.m. PDT on Saturday, May 19. ...
    The ITC decided on Friday that Motorola's phones and tablets should be banned from sale in 60 days due to a violation of a Microsoft patent. President Obama could possibly overturn the sale ban.
    Android phones are meant to be open, but unfortunately the best Android phone on the market is locked down, thanks to AT&T. It's time Google started to change that, by walking its talk on Android openness. ...
    Take a tour of the launch pad where SpaceX will attempt to make history May 19 by launching its Dragon capsule for a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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        Cake Beauty is running a great sale for the Victoria Day long weekend! Now through May 21, all regular priced items are 40% off. Cake Beauty carries bath and beauty products which are made using 90-95% natural ingredients, and their products are 100% paraben free. Their dry shampoo, body scrubs and hand cream are mainstays in a few of our editors' cabinets. This offer is running today until May 21 and the discount will automatically be applied to your order. Cake Beauty offers free shippi...
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        If you're looking for something to do this long weekend, you might be interested in the Toronto International Circus Festival taking place at the Harbourfront Centre! It's a free event featuring the Zero Gravity Circus (4 PM each day), the Canadian National Youth Circus (11:45 AM each day) and Zacada (1 PM each day) as well as puppet shows, tumble & swing acrobatic workshops for kids and events with hula hooping, LEGO and much more. It looks like a f...
        This weekend, you'll get an extra 15% off all sale items at Pottery Barn! The offer runs through Monday, May 21. This offer is valid in-store only, and unfortunately there are only a handful of Pottery Barn stores in Canada -- one in the Chinook Centre (Calgary), one in the South Granville Centre (Vancouver) and three in Toronto. ...
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    Thousands of images are supplied by multiple wire services to newspapers across the country each day. Many of those images depict ordinary scenes of life in different countries around the world. There are three picture editors that contribute to the Big Picture blog, each of them seeing the world in a little bit of a different way. Their backgrounds, their experiences, their interests - all very disparate. Each of them given the same resources (the visual wire) to edit from, each choosing very different ways to tell a story. The following photographs are my choices of those images for the month of May (and a few from late April) illustrating daily life around the world. -- Paula Nelson (53 photos total)
    It's something often ignored unless it's annoying, harnessed for sport or energy, the cause of great damage, or sometimes used for fun. Wind is simply defined as "a natural movement of air of any velocity." Here is a collection of images showing its effects on us and nature. -- Lloyd Young(40 photos total)A woman grips her umbrella against the wind in front of the Jubelpark - Cinquantenaire in Brussels as a storm moved over Belgium on Jan. 5. The Belgian Royal Meteorological Institute gave a code orange warning for the heavy storm weather that moved over Belgium this morning. (Benoit Doppagne/AFP/Getty Images)
    A potentially catastrophic food crisis in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa could affect as many as one million children. The food and nutrition crisis resulting from a severe drought, threatens the survival of an entire generation of children. Those children in eight countries - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal - are at risk of severe acute malnutrition. Sparse rainfall, poor harvests and rising food prices have left many vulnerable and weak, seeking medical attention. Sahel is one of the poorest regions in the world where children already face daunting odds of survival. The current crisis makes their survival even more tenuous. Associated Press photographer, Ben Curtis, documented the conditions in the region. -- Paula Nelson (EDITORS NOTE: We will not be posting Monday, May 14) (32 photos total)
    Russia and former Soviet republics marked the 67 years since the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II today. Russia's newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin promised a strong Russia during a speech he delivered during a military parade at Red Square in Moscow. The Soviet Union lost an estimated 26 million people in the war, including 8.5 million soldiers. -- Lloyd Young (31 photos total)A World War II veteran walks at the Red Square in Moscow, on May 9, 2012, after the Victory Day parade. Thousands of Russian soldiers marched today across Red Square to mark the 67 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in Worl
    The night sky on May 5 was animated by the once-a-year cosmic event of the perigee moon. Popularly known as the "Supermoon", the moon appears much larger above us when the elliptical orbit brings it within 221,802 miles to Earth, the closest point. The effect is magnified during a full moon, when we see our nearest celestial neighbor appear roughly 20 percent brighter and 15 percent larger. Collected here are images taken just before, during, and just after the perigee moon of 2012. -- Lane Turner (27 photos total)The May's full moon rises beside San Francisco's Coit Tower on May 5, 2012. (Freder
    With well over a year before American forces pull out of Afghanistan, the conflict there drags on. Every month in The Big Picture, we feature a selection of recent images of events there, from the soldiers and insurgents at war, the people longing for peace, and daily life and culture in the country of 29 million. Afghanistan remains among the world's poorest nations, and struggles with issues not found in other places, like an ongoing fight against polio. Afghanistan still supplies about 90% of the world's opium, a major cash crop in a country with few viable exports. Gathered here are images from April, 2012. -- Lane Turner (33 photos total)
    May Day was marked once again around the globe with political protests and demonstrations by organized labor. The Occupy Wall Street movement, which formed last year in New York, used the day to spread its message of social and economic inequality. Also known as International Workers Day, May 1 is marked in different ways around the world, and in many countries May Day is observed as a national holiday. This celebration of the international labor movement stemmed from a deadly 1886 labor demonstration in Chicago calling for an eight-hour workday. -- Lloyd Young(39 photos total)An Occupy demonstrator confronts a police officer during a rally
    Photojournalist Diana Markosian spent the last year and half covering Russia's volatile North Caucasus region. This year she started a personal project entitled "Goodbye My Chechnya" documenting the lives of young Chechen women as they come of age in the aftermath of war.  She writes, "For young women in Chechnya the most innocent acts could mean breaking the law.  A Chechen girl caught smoking is cause for arrest; while rumors of a couple engaging in pre-martial relations can result in her killing.  The few girls who dare to rebel become targets in the eyes of Chechen authorities.  After nearly two decades of vicious war and 70 years of Soviet rule, during which religious participation was banned, modern-day Chechnya is going through Islamic revival. The Chechen government is building mosques in every village, prayer rooms in public schools, and enforcing a stricter Islamic dress code for both men and women. This photo
    After 10 years of civil war, Sierra Leone is at peace. Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted April 26 by an international tribunal of 11 counts of planning, aiding and abetting war crimes committed in Sierra Leone during it's civil war in the 1990s. Taylor was guilty of involvement in crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape, slavery and the use of child soldiers. Prosecutors alleged that Taylor, from his base in neighboring Liberia, directed and armed the rebels and because of that, bears direct responsibility for the results of that war. The eleven-year conflict (from 1991-2002) left more than 50,000 dead and was marked by unprovoked and unjustified violence - especially the amputation of limbs. Sierra Leone is peaceful, a decade later, but is among the world's poorest countries, with a much longer recovery in store. Reuters' Photographer Finbarr O'Reilly gives us a glimpse of life in the West Africa
    Fighting continues along the border of Sudan and South Sudan this week. President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said the latest attacks amounted to a declaration of war after more bombs were dropped on his country. The conflict stems from South Sudan temporarily taking control of the oil-rich border town Heglig, which Sudan claims as its own. Tension between the two countries over control of oil resources and where the border lies has been ongoing since South Sudan seceded from Sudan in July of last year as a result of a 2005 peace treaty that ended decades of war. -- Lloyd Young(24 photos total)A Sudanese Peop
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    Tycho: Ben wrote up an article on the game already, which I think you might enjoy.  But of my favorite things about it is the incredibly genuine person behind it.  Watch this YouTube video, clearly converted from VHS or something, where he teaches you how to play his game. (CW)TB...
    New Comic: Recycling
    Tycho: The new paradigm for loot in multiplayer action RPGs has been altered somewhat.  Skeletons still explode with cash and prizes, that portion has been rigorously maintained.  But the merchandise they drop essentially drops separately for each player, so you never have to worry if you picked up the wrong thing or got somebody’s money or any of these other bookkeeping things (like Inventory Tetris) that used to be considered gameplay. I don’t mean that in a dismissive way, either.  I liked Inventory Tetris!  But this Diablo is smooth, smooth edges, smooth, from Health On Contact Globes to its infinitely...
    Tycho: One of the things we wanted to to do with The Penny Arcade Report was to accompany it with an expressive visual aspect, and to that end we secured the services of Dabe Alan.  We knew about him from his excellent resume, already: he applied for Erika’s job, back in the day.  I think he does great work in general, but I want to praise him specifically for the pictures he took at Bungie.  Seriously, just shit hot. (CW)TB...
    New Comic: Betwixt
    Tycho: This was a goofy joke when we wrote it at eleven or so yesterday morning, though it became less hilarious as the day progressed.  During “normal hours,” the failure of Blizzard to recall that Diablo is a popular game was a boon: I have my own shit to write.  But later, when I began to prowl for leisure activities, and it occurred to me that I might utilize the sixty dollars of congealed entertainment I had recently purchased, I was not able to.  And then I was, and then I wasn’t, and then no wait it’s still okay now it’s...
    Tycho: In place of the word Anathem - which is the actual name of a book by Neal Stephenson - I inadvertently typed Anathema, a word that means “someone or something intensely disliked or loathed.” We regret the error. (CW)TB...
    Tycho: Neal Stephenson was my favorite author for a very long time, and The Diamond Age remains my favorite book, even if I can’t read any of his newer books with so much as an approximation of enjoyment. I should emphasize that when I say “newer books,” some of these books are by now quite old: I loved the original Cryptonomicon, but every book past that has been torment.  I choked down Anathem from about the half-way point, jaw set, lower teeth pressed hard against the upper, determined not to be defeated.  He’d already gotten my money, but I was...
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    Tycho: It’s back, and everything you could possibly want to know (including how to submit panels) can be found at the official site. (CW)TB
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    By James Renner  Published: May 19th, 2012  Every once in a while, we ask a writer we enjoy to fill in for us. This week, we've asked James Renner, author of The Man from Primrose Lane, to speculate on how writers with balls would end some of our favorite TV shows. Ending a beloved TV show is ...
    By Miles Bacchus  Published: May 19th, 2012  Most of us have become completely numb to the weirdness of video games. From the 1970s on, it's been like "So he's a yellow circle being chased by ghosts while he eats? Seems pretty straightforward." Yet there has always been an underground video gam ...
    By Eddie Rodriguez  Published: May 19th, 2012  You may have noticed that, excepting the occasional zombie apocalypse, we humans tend to function best with our nervous systems intact and our brains, limbs and major organs all connected and happily communicating with each other. Well, we feel it's ...
    By Chris Bucholz  Published: May 19th, 2012  So last week, the CEO of Yahoo! was forced to resign after it was discovered that his resume was not composed of traditional resume things like accomplishments and proper names, and was instead more of an intricate trusswork of deceit meant to snare ...
    By Daniel O'Brien  Published: May 18th, 2012  It's no secret to anyone who knows me or follows this column that rap music is completely responsible for the way I speak. I looked at and accepted the "establishment's" vocabulary, sure, but I knew there were other ways to express myself. So I let r ...
    By Cody Johnston  Published: May 18th, 2012 
    By CRACKED Readers  Published: May 18th, 2012  The characters in the background of our video games have come a long way since their work as two dimensional blobs, cheering you up the ranks of "Mike Tyson's Punch Out." But even the living, breathing citizens of Grand Theft Auto's Liberty City rare ...
    By Simon Bower,Eddie Rodriguez  Published: May 18th, 2012  Look, we all have screwed-up priorities sometimes -- tell us you haven't at least once skipped class or work so you could, say, watch an all-day Frasier marathon. But as we like to point out, some people seem to be training to win the gold in the scr ...
    By The Editing Room  Published: May 17th, 2012  The Editing Room is one of our favorite humor sites on the Internet. They've written abridged versions of some of the most popular movies from the past five years for us. Below, they've summarized The Avengers, so you can make fun of it without actua ...
    By Eddie Rodriguez  Published: May 17th, 2012  Where would the kids' movie industry be without the "lost pets try to find their way home" genre? But, of course, the only reason the grossly unlikely plots of Homeward Bound and Finding Nemo could occur is because the animals in those movies have hu ...
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    [Destructoid's Director of Communications Hamza Aziz asked Jonathan Holmes to make a show called 'Sup, Holmes?' so that Destructoid could later sell a t-shirt that says 'Sup, Holmes?' on it. This is that show. Download the audio-only podcast version, subscribe to the podcast feed and find more episodes here.] On this week's Sup Holmes?, we'll be graced with the presence of the unflappable Rami Ismail of Vlambeer, developers of ...
    E3 is just a few weeks away. Everything that is going to be at the show already exists somewhere, right at this very moment. It's just a matter of time before wee see it all.  It looks like one surprise of the show may have leaked early. From the looks of it, the Wii U controller has gone through a few changes since last year. The first thing that jumps out at you is those analog sticks. You nub-haters out there must be pretty psyched.  We've attached a shot of the Wii U E3 2011 controller for comparisons sake. You'll see that there are a few other changes, like an added logo, and new placement for a few buttons. It looks like Nintendo might have t...
    Tyrone Rodriguez of Nicalis seems to be one of those guys that always has at least 10 projects going at one, and it's anyone's guess as to which one will be completed first. The only constant is that it always seems to come back to Cave Story. He loves that game hard.  I also love that game hard, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll be picking up one of these pixel-styled Cave Story figures if and when the ever go on sale. For whatever reason, taking the minimal low-res sprite and forming it into a three dimensional sculpture feels more direct to me th...
    [Talking to Women about Videogames is a series where Jonathan Holmes talks to different people who are women about the biggest videogame news of the week for some reason.] The debate over the artistic merits (or lack thereof) of videogames has been going on for years. Every time I think it's over, it pops up again. The passion on either side of the argument never seems to die down, while those on the outskirts are just desperate to put the whole debate to rest. Any ...
    Jimmy and Ashley decide to revisit the Elder Scrolls series -- their first episode revolved around Skyrim's Sunlight Souffle -- for the latest installment of Feast of Fiction. This time, they fire up the oven and pop in a few sweetrolls, a series staple. I don't mean to be that guy, but something about all that icing collected in the deep valleys of the rolls sends my mind to a very naughty place. I hope I didn't ruin anyone's appetite with that little mental image. Actually, I'm not sorry at all. Anthony Burch broke me this morning, so n...
    One of the weirdest games to be announced so far this year is E.X. Troopers, the manga-style Lost Planet spin-off for the 3DS and the PS3. After Lost Planet 2 failed to set the world ablaze, a lot of people thought the series was over. Instead, we're getting both the gritty and rough Lost Planet 3, and this colorful romp. What gives? Some discerning (or paranoid) fans are guessing that E.X. Troopers is actually the reanimated corpse of ...
    [Tune in to Saturday Morning Hangover every Saturday at 10am Pacific for the latest Xbox Live Indie Games, co-op play and assorted hijinks. Hosted by Conrad Zimmerman, Jordan Devore and the lovely Katrina. We have a couch! Come join us live on Dtoid.tv] Jordan and I simply cannot get enough of Awesomenauts, the recently released 2D, side-scrolling MOBA from Ronimo Games. So, we've decided that we're goi...
    So typical. Anthony Burch has a platform upon which he can share his insight into the value of videogames as a medium, yet he would rather throw all his credibility away for some cheap cheesecake exposure. He's not even all that hot, that anorexic skank. Dude needs to eat a damn sandwich. Today's episode of Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? is supposed to be about Driver: San Francisco, I guess. Or padded bras. Or booth babes. I don't know what's going on anymore. I feel dirty, and my life has lost all its color and meaning. HAWP: Hot Slutz [GameTrailers] ...
    If you missed the three-episode season finale of Community this week, it was a pretty good way to conclude the series while still holding hope alive that the show might go on. It also means you missed the episode, "Digital Estate Planning," which puts the study group inside a videogame to help Pierce claim his inheritance. Above is one of the better segments of the episode, as Annie and Shirley try to gear up for the great adventure to come and Britta is, for once, actually good at something. And fun as the clip is, it really was the weakest of the three episodes aired. Still, I don't...
    We've been riding on a wave of euphoria all week, which meant that we were bound for a big crash. Here it is: today at the Cannes Film Festival, Jackie Chan announced his retirement from action films. His final big performance will be in this year's Chinese Zodiac, the third film in the Armour of God trilogy. Chan still plans to do movies, but he wants to focus on more dramatic roles. Know what, though? The man deserves it. Aft...
Kotaku
N4G
    "Today, it's almost impossible to go walk into any store that sells video games without finding at least a dozen first person shooters. Unfortunately, we hardly ever see an engaging story, player choice or so on. Now, that is not to say there aren't exceptions. Recently I finally got a computer powerful enough to run The Darkness II. I went in expecting to play a game that was all about ripping the hell out of my enemies and the story taking a backseat to the action. Well, the story in my opinion wasn't the best around, I'll admit that much, but the characters and their interaction with eachother in that game amazed me. Other games show relationships etc, but The Darkness II proved to me that it can be done correctly in a first person view. This really excited me because I thought of all the possibilites for future first person shooters focusing on character, namely Far Cry 3." - Nick C, OnlySP.com...
    Fans clamoring to see the new web slinging action of the Amazing Spider-Man don't have to wait any longer thanks to a short teaser revealing just how cool its going to be. Read on to figure out what little information is currently known about the Carl's Jr and Hardees tie in shown at the end and what it may entail....
    Following the reveal of the first videogame project from app developer Heliceum, Electronic Theatre brings you the first official gameplay trailer from the forthcoming Human Defense. A tower defense videogame set inside the human body, Human Defense is currently set to launch next month....
    Welcome to Hell! After years of waiting it is finally available: Legendary developer Blizzard Entertainment has at last launched Diablo III, the long-awaited successor to one of the most popular action role-playing games of all time. We dug into the dark fantasy world and ran Diablo III on several notebook graphics cards. Can your notebook system make it through Hell alive?...
    Anarchy Reigns news has slowed down a little as of the last couple of weeks, but PlatinumGames did release a new short clip of Oinkie showing off his moves in the game.
    Capcom has recently announced a Lost Planet Spin off title for the 3DS dubbed E.X. Troopers. Looks pretty cool, right? Well, it seems some gamers around the net felt it looked very similar to another game....
    With the recent release of Max Payne 3, I got to thinking. What long lost franchise would I like to see make a return? There are many franchises that may have been popular or very successful in the past but for whatever reason vanished from the face of the earth. I have a couple of franchises I would like to see make a return to our precious gaming world. The first franchise I want to see a sequel or reboot to is Dino Crisis....
    A few more screenshots have been revealed by an online retailer for the upcoming Playstation 3 and Playstation Vita game, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.
    Hooked Gamers writes: "Despite the rocky journey it took to get here, Sleeping Dogs is already shaping up to be a groundbreaking return for the True Crime series. With movement and chase sequences that have already been compared to those of Assassins Creed, cinematic slow-mo gunfights that bear the hallmarks of the Max Payne series, Need For Speed-inspired driving, and simple yet brutally satisfying hand to hand combat that takes a page right out of the Arkham City handbook, United Front Games and Square Enix have met the tall order of the True Crime namesake head on and I for one could not be more excited for the final product come August."...
    Appearance plays an important role in any games success. We have seen so many games that have made millions of pounds from their characters not just within their own games but lending them as a playable character or a DLC in other big name Genres....
Videos

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  • Collegehumor
  • Youtube
Break
    Thank God it's finally Friday! How about a Hooter's Girl dancing with a Hula Hoop to take you into the weekend.
    Everyone got angry at this dude for kicking some chick at Rockfest 2012, but in his defense it does look a lot like Snooki.
    Mouth or beak, we're not sure how it works in this case. But nonetheless, these owners should be proud to own such an inquisitive parrot, even though it's not safe to take to work...
    For his bachelor party, this guy's friends take him bungee jumping blindfolded. But little does the guy know, he's not jumping very far.
    We're not entirely sure how a vacuum works internally. We know there's a motor of some sort. However, we are 100% positive the hose has to be connected for anything to happen. 100%.
    Elliot Loney parodies the popular Bear Grylls show 'Man Vs. Wild' by going around town and interacting with the locals. He's so good that, if our eyes were closed, we wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Or see the video.
    <a href="http://bit.ly/LWZ2N3">Animal</a> created this video of a coach who loves boxing, but hates his students: the people of Wall Street. He openly mocks them and it is absolutely hilarious. We'd take lessons from him and probably cry a lot.
    In this dog's defense, he really needs to get home to get to chewing on some things.
    It's a cool trick, but we would like to see him do it again after his 5th or 6th beer.
    So much for the saying 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks'. This chick just taught her old dog how to ride a bicycle, pretty sure that counts.
Collegehumor Videos
    It's too bad he can't clear his real-life history.
    Best Videos of the Week (May 18, 2012)
    Murph falls for the grossest joke in the book.
    I have a nightmare that--oh god, I'm awake.
    You so red.
    Shout to all my critical boys.
    Listening to Tenacious D a day keeps the doctors away.
    The overnight sketch-fest returns, now with more insomnia than ever.
    I think he's IPOver using it.
    You never forget how to watch a dog ride a bike.
Youtube: Most Viewed Today
    Video Game High School (VGHS) - Ep. 1 WATCH EPISODE 2 NOW! http://bit.ly/VGHSEp2 The first episode for our feature-length webseries "Video Game High School!" Here's how the release is going to work: We will be putting all new VGHS episodes on our site, rocketjump.com, one week before we upload them to youtube. So RocketJump will stay one week ahead of our youtube. Episode 2 is now available on RocketJump! From: freddiew
    DRUNK CHICK PROOF - Andy Milonakis Video CHECK OUT ANDY'S MUSIC VIDEO ON MAKER MUSIC: http://www.youtube.com/user/makermusic CZECH THIS OUT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57h_TP84g78 MY TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RayWJ MY FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/raywilliamjohnson MY INSTAGRAM: http://instagr.am/p/J5_5Q3vdvO/ MY GOOGLE+ http://Gplus.to/RayWJ STORE: http://www.raywj.com/shop/ WEBSITE: http://raywj.com ********************************************************************** Here are the links to the full reviews of the content discussed in this video. Please don'
    MUJERES HERMOSAS Y SENSUALES CHULADA DE VIDEO: http://youtu.be/3qV5PsA9_ko From: werevertumorro Views: 469519
    Will Smith Slaps Reporter! - HipHollywood.com Wowwww! This is a side of Will Smith we haven't seen before! Anyone who works in Hollywood will tell you that Will is the nicest guy, but everyone loses there cool every now and then. At the Moscow premiere of Men in Black 3 a reporter showed Will a little TOO MUCH love and tried to kiss him on the lips! Will was not having it and SLAPPED the overzealous reporter right in the face! It was only a split second of anger, then in true movie star fashion Will went on to the next outlet and was his fun bubbly self again!
    I SUCK AT DRAW SOMETHING! DELETED SCENES & BLOOPERS: http://bit.ly/DrawXTRAS OUR NEW CHANNEL: http://youtube.com/ShutUpCartoons After Ian realizes his Draw Something pictures are coming to life, he and Anthony decide to have a little fun with it. ------------------------------------ Hey it's our very own website: http://smosh.com Oh and our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/smosh Want to know when we're filming and/or pooping? Now you can: http://twitter.com/smosh From:
    Пламя тупости "ш" [Flame of stupidity] Майки This is Хорошо: http://stuff.thisishorosho.ru Наша группа Вконтакте: http://vkontakte.ru/thisishorosho Официальный сайт: http://thisishorosho.ru Видео с&#
    Will Smith and Gary Barlow Do 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Rap - The Graham Norton Show - BBC One http://www.bbc.co.uk/grahamnortonshow Among the guests on Graham's sofa are Hollywood star Will Smith, who stars in new film Men in Black III; Take That's Gary Barlow, who is discussing the Jubilee Celebration Concert; and music legend Sir Tom Jones. From: BBC Views: 375204
    Minecraft: Hunger Games Survival 2.0 - The Unfortunate Tale of CaptainSparklez Twitter: http://twitter.com/CaptainSparklez Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CptSparklez Live stream: http://www.twitch.tv/captainsparklez Merchandise: http://captainsparklez.spreadshirt.com/ Map: http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/the-survival-games-2-848118/ Music by Kevin MacLeod under creative commons license: http://incompetech.com/ From: CaptainSparklez
    Vete a la Versh - Episodio 6: Los Super Hermanos Mauricio Juega el primer nivel de Los Super Hermanos Mauricio: http://bit.ly/KWKhKy Sitio Oficial - http://www.vetealaversh.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/vetealavershoficial Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/vetealaversh From: vetealaversha Views: 632478
    Honest Trailers: Transformers Based on the cartoon shamelessly designed to sell toys, Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS is an incomprehensible mess that doesn't make any sense. But at least there's a lot of porny shots of Megan Fox! #HonestTrailers Thanks Everybody!! More HONEST TRAILERS are coming!! Tell us in the comments below what movie you'd like to see covered next!!! Voiceover Narration by: Gannon Nickell http://www.twitter.com/gannonnickell Written by: Jack Allison, Christian Lynch, Andy Signore & Brett Weiner For more great movie content visit http://brk.to/mov
Flash Games

  • Kongregate
  • newgrounds
Kongregate: New Games
    Help Teddy find his girl in this felty platformer! -- Delivered by Feed43 service
    Kara returns for the epic finale of the game series. The final episode of Covert Front series... -- Delivered by Feed43 service
    Join everyone’s favorite demon on yet another mission to find and kill a Reincarny deep in... -- Delivered by Feed43 service
    Blast your way through the legions of robots to liberate your homeplanet! -- Delivered by Feed43 service
    Destroy a serie of bosses as fast as you can and save the Earth in this Retro Bullet Hell. Keep... -- Delivered by Feed43 service
    I’m a Japan indie game creators. shoot-‘em-up. ?Add a progress bar and autofire(Zkey) ?Runs on... -- Delivered by Feed43 service
    Join Billy in this great and addictive tossing game featuring innovative game mechanics, dozens... -- Delivered by Feed43 service
    The big bad piranha is back and hungrier than ever! -- Delivered by Feed43 service
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Code

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DZone
    I recently had a business requirement to color the background of a TextBox in Windows Mobile to a specific color. After completing the tasks, I noticed that the color that was chosen(blue) didn’t look right on devices that used a different theme like red or green....
    Platform as a Service resides within the space between Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
    The creator of Bio4j made a general domain model including al node types and relationships in order to get a better picture of how data is related.
    Tomcat has been a very popular alternative to other application servers like JBoss, WebLogic and WebSphere. People preferred it for its simplicity. I am writing this article to point out how Java EE 6 changes things and why using tomcat could be downright harmful....
    These are the free plugins that helps admin in different way like security, wordpress tweak and many more...
    As I watch the mobile software market explode I can’t help but notice a pattern that keeps repeating itself. Like software architecture design patterns, software packages follow distinct patterns that have been repeating over the past 20-30 years....
    jQuery can be defined as a cross browser javascript browser and it is used and designed for the purpose of simplifying the client side scripting of HTML. It has a lot of advantages which makes it very widely used and popular also at the same time....
    All the latest Scala news in one place!
    Check out our interview with cloud guru Quinton Wall.
    So I have a lot of solution 1- Use ADF Security and integrate with active directory LDAP from weblogic server This solution is declarative but customization is hard 2- Use custom java code to integrate with LDAP directly. This solution is good but what if I change UI development by another tool? I will redevelop again in new framework 3- Create database package to integrate with LDAP I prefer this solution as I use DB to integrate with LDAP and it is unit of later maintenance and applicable for other application....
Proggit
Stack Overflow
    How can I get decimal from string hexdecimal: I have char* hexBuffer = "eb89f0a36e463d";. And I have char* hex[5] ={'\\','x'};. I copy from hexBuffer first two char "eb" to hex[2] = 'e'; hex[3] = 'b';. Now i have string "\xeb" or "\xEB" inside hex. As we all know 0xEB its ahexdecimal and we can convert to 235 decimal. How can I convert "\xEB" to 235(int)? ...
    This is my first php script. I actually code in vb.net.. I am making this licensing system for .net applications. This licensing system has a manager which the admin can easily control and view. Also Iam making a class library to login and register for the same. I have succeeded in doing so using only vb.net code but as the credentials need to be stored inside the application there always is a threat. Using php this problem can be overcomed somewhat :tongue: . So I decided to make the login + register system using this kinda php scripts. I am using a only admin read,write text file instead of a mysql database ( Easily maneagable for all hosting services ). So, I have come up with this following piece of code and I need some help in the confirming the login part. The text file is like this : username password hwid lastdate membershiptype All separated by 'space' and one account per line. I hope I have given enough information, If extra information is needed, I will gi...
    If I have two structs: struct A { float x, y; inline A operator*(A b) { A out; out.x = x * b.x; out.y = y * b.y; return out; } } And an equivalent struct struct B { float x, y; } inline B operator*(B a, B b) { B out; out.x = a.x * b.x; out.y = a.y * b.y; return out; } Would you know of any reason for B's operator* to compile any differently, or run any slower or faster than A's operator* (the actual actions that go on inside the functions should be irrelevant)? What I mean is... would declaring the inline operator as a member, vs not as a member, have any generic effect on the speed of the actual function, whatsoever? I've got a number of different structs that currently follow the inline member operator style... But I was wanting to modify it to be valid C code, instead; so before I do that I wanted to know if there would be an...
    I placed bootstrap tabs on my page, and is trying to active one dynamically from js. Here's an example: <ul class="nav nav-tabs"> <li class="active"><a href="?tab=day">Hot</a></li> <li><a href="?tab=week">Week</a></li> <li><a href="?tab=month">Month</a></li> </ul> <script> $(function () { $('.nav-tabs a[href="\\?tab\\=month"]').tab('show'); }); </script> But I always got: Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression; ?tab=month from jQuery (v1.7.1). How could I fix this? Thanks for your help....
    I'm making a website, and would like to know if the CSS property "borderRadius" is 'acceptable'. Like, should it be expected that everyone has a browser supporting it, or is it still too unsupported that I shouldn't use it?...
    I'm trying to unzip a huge file (400+M compressed well over 4G unzipped) using php zip archive. I'm only unzipping one csv file in the zipped file.. the file I am interested in, unzipped, is over 4G.. I get as far as 3 records from the end of the file and the process takes off into lala land.. I mean the process simply goes on.. no output.. no errors no looping it just goes on... I haven't a clue as to what its doing.. my code is simple: $zip = new ZipArchive; $res = $zip->open($file); if ($res === TRUE) { $num = $zip->numFiles; for($i = 0; $i < $zip->numFiles; $i++) { $filename = $zip->getNameIndex($i); // if its the file I want then... $content = ''; // my output file .. yes I've already checked to make sure the dir exists $unzipped = fopen($dir ."/2" . $filename , 'wb'); $fp = $zip->getStream($filename); if(!$fp) exit("failed\n"); while (!feof($fp)) { $chunkSize = 10240; ...
    I'm trying to write codes with BrainFuck that can read two numbers up to 9, calculate the sum of them and then print the result out, e.g.3 & 5 give the result 8 . Im just trying to understand the BF language but it looks much harder than I thought it will be.. Anyone can help with that !! ...
    I mean that I have developed a new but simple RISC CPU based on FPGA and construct a computer hardware system. Now I need to port the Linux to the hardware system. I have no clear sense of the process. What to do first and then? Thanks....
    How do i get to roman numeral 2 in microsoft word I got this part right I. Title here a.Title Here b. title here But how do i get to roman numeral 2 when i press enter it goes to c.
    Can someone tell me how to use the argument of Pattern.compile. Here is an example im using: Pattern p = Pattern.compile(".*<img[^>]*src=\"([^\"]*)",Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); Matcher m = p.matcher("<img src=\"aoeuaoeu\"/>"); m.find(); System.out.println(m.group(1)); So the output of this code is: aoeuaoeu. I want to know what I need to put in the parentheses to search something in a text, like in the example. Thenks....
Hacks

  • hackaday
  • lifehacker
Hack A Day
    [radicade] wanted to know what real life portals would look like; not something out of a game, but actual blue and orange portals on his living room wall. Short of building a portal gun, the only option available to [radicade] was simulating a pair of portals with a Kinect and a projector. One of the [...]...
    If you’re running your own recording studio, you’re going to need a lot of gear that seems excessively esoteric to the non-musically inclined. A rack full of synth gear looks just like any other cabinet of technology you would find in a server room. Electronic music is, for the most part, very utilitarian looking, but [...]...
    Many of you will remember [Mikey Sklar] from the multitude of times he’s been on hackaday. What you may not have noticed is that he is an ubergeek, living off the grid. He has Solar PV battery bank, three electric vehicles, a shipping container loaded with battery powered tools and a small army of iRobot [...]...
    [Richard Osgood] is back again with an interesting project. This time he has constructed a color sensor. His initial design was to use three LEDs and a photoresistor. He would shine a red, then green, then blue LED on a surface and record the reflected light with the photoresistor allowing him to determine how much [...]...
    There isn’t a hacker out there that isn’t interested at least a little bit in the prospect of building a mission specific rocket to explode someone off the face of the planet… without killing them. We got a tiny taste of what is coming when they let us watch their engine test a few weeks [...]...
    This glowing LED is proof that the experiments [Nvermeer] is doing with conductive ink are working. We’re filing this one as a chemistry hack because  you need to hit the lab ahead of time in order to get the conductivity necessary for success. He reports that this technique uses a copper powder suspended in an epoxy [...]...
    [Gigafide] just finished building this flame-powered phone charger. The concept is not new. He grabbed a Peltier cooler and used the temperature differential between a flame and a heat sink to produce electricity used by the charger. If you search around here enough you’ll find plenty of candle-powered devices, and a few hacks that use [...]...
    The NRF 24L01+ radio transceiver can be found in a lot of wireless project builds. But it’s only meant to work at a range of a few meters. [Achu Wilson] found that he could greatly extend the range by as much as 2 kilometers. All he needed to do was build this high-gain antenna. He already [...]...
    Over on the RepRap blog, [Rhys] has been experimenting with molten metal to build circuits with the RepRap. Last June, [Rhys] found a neat alloy made of Tin, Bismuth, and a little bit of Indium that melts at around 130° C, and has just the right properties to be extruded with a standard RepRap setup. [...]...
    [Chris] hasn’t managed to get his hands on a Raspberry Pi yet, so he ordered a BeagleBone and got down to business. He was surprised to find that there isn’t much info out there about using LIDD type displays with the hardware. This protocol is used in many of the 320×240 smart LCD modules on [...]...
Lifehacker
Anime

  • animenewsnetwork
  • n4g
  • thatanimeblog
Anime News Network
Anime Shinbun
    The June issue of Switch features a special segment about what manga teaches us about love and passion. In addition to a photo session with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and a handful of interviews and essays, ten masterpieces of romance manga were chosen by a battery of Japanese actors, artists, musicians, and more....
    Level-5 shared a few screens from PSP's Little Battler eXperience W today showing two massive "characters," Killer Droid and Sigma Orbis.
    Capcom has recently announced a Lost Planet Spin off title for the 3DS dubbed E.X. Troopers. Looks pretty cool, right? Well, it seems some gamers around the net felt it looked very similar to another game....
    Namco Bandais Digimon World Re:Digitize game on PSP is also getting a manga adaptation, revealed in a recent issue of Japans V Jump magazine. Fujino Kouhei, assistant artist on the Eyeshield 21 manga, will be providing the illustrations, and the series will begin serialization in June....
    Gia Manry writes, "This week, we're doing something a little different. Cartoon Network announced that it's bringing back its classic block of anime and anime-like shows, Toonami. These are ten anime that would be cool to see on the newly-relaunched block...not that Cartoon Network is even taking nominations for new shows as far as we know. This list is strictly for fun, and this week we especially want you to make additions to it by naming the shows you'd like to see on Toonai in the comments. Bear in mind this is Toonami, not Adult Swim, and go for it!"...
    Level-5 shared a new batch of screens for Little Battler eXperience Baku Boost today.
    IGN: "Analogue presents a rich and mature story (its certainly not for kids) sprinkled with lively morsels of humor that keeps you involved despite some stumbles. If you're just as into science fiction novels as you're into gaming, you'll likely find much to enjoy here aside from the relatively steep asking price."...
    Kotaku's Richard Eisenbeis writes, "Going in, I was expecting a game epitomizing how bad the visual novel/ero-game genre can be. What I got instead was a game satirizing how bad the genre can be. I don't often laugh when gaming, but the amount of times I literally laughed out loud are too numerous to count. If you enjoy crazy, over-the-top comedy, this game was made for you."...
    Rebecca Silverman writes, "Overall, neither Pokemon the Movie: Black or its White counterpart really stands out from the already packed herd. While not terrible, these are films that can be safely left alone unless you or your child have a compulsion to truly catch 'em all."...
    ANN: "Lance and Adam return to the podcast to talk all things Funimation! Simulcasting, those Dragonball blurays on hiatus, the relative success of Princess Jellyfish and oh, so much more!"
That Anime Blog
    This week’s chapters followed events after Nanami turned Haruto down, with summer coming to a close and Rin departing for Tokyo. School begins again and the characters begin preparing for an upcoming school festival. Haruto and Yuzuki are part of the planning committee along with classmates Kikukawa Kotone and Himuro. Kotone seems extremely shy but [...]...
     Of course he hasn’t. He just really likes shampooing his hair. Daww. Yikes, sorry for being all quiet on the blogging front lately. Let’s just say it’s been an exceptionally busy past couple of months both at and outside work. Anyway, I’m back now (minus Crusader though, as he’s busy with his last finals this [...]...
    Andy’s anguish continues this week as he is still unable to save Mix, as I suspected the curse of Eve is far more insidious than a merely lethal virus. So it seems that even the Iguras who survive the journey their troubles are far from over as the very air they breathe turns them into [...]...
    Oh Hyouka, why you so Sherlock. I’m starting to think that the Satoshi-Houtarou bromance is waaay better than whatever’s going on in Sakamichi no Apollon. Seriously if the guys in Sakamichi no Apollon turned gay it would resolve all the relationship problems. The beauty of Yaoi breaks all borders and heals all wounds. Except of [...]...
    When it rains it pours and as I had feared Mikage has taken dreadful notice of Zessica and made her his unwilling servant. Andy is going through a prolonged period of depression and nothing Yunoha can do seems to bring so much as a respite from the painful loss of Mix. Fudo is still out [...]...
    This may be simply another monster of the week but the Yuri is strong in this series and Kuko is now joined by another to further the cause. Kuko is really starting to become my favorite she is not only strong in the yuri but she also has a gift for shipping. I had suspected [...]...
    Of course, if I was seeing the world through technicolour lenses, I’d be having too much fun to bother with this “observing” stuff. It’s like being high and getting the associated sensory processing disorders, but without actually being high! (???) Eru outright begging for assistance. From what we’ve seen of Houtarou, he could probably manipulate [...]...
    Apologies for the delay, got a bit off track last week. This week’s chapters focused on the characters’ summer break and the lead up to the town’s summer festival, as well as the festival itself. The timing of the chapters was rather convenient, since it nicely stops for my week’s reading at a big confession [...]...
    Hyouka is a great many things – it is pretty, it is pretentious, it is trying very hard to be Haruhi 2.0. But I would not ever say that it is interesting. What else can you expect when the lead character’s primary motivation is a… very strict interpretation of the law of conservation of energy? [...]...
    The circle is nearly complete with Yoriko and Hasta-kun making their debuts. I approve of Nyaruko’s attempt to make her case with her future mother-in-law, unfortunately her tall tale was more prophetic than she could have imagined. Fortunately for Nyaruko and Kuuko, Yoriko the Deity Hunter is going to support them by opening up her [...]...




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