Make squares. Just make them. There is no other Dots strategy.Quartz writer Zachary M. Seward • Describing the best strategy to play Dots, the absurdly addictive puzzle game that’s currently kicking ass and taking names on the iTunes charts. One other tip on the game: “Reset the game until you’ve got a good opening board. Is there already a square for the taking? A few near-square formations? Is the board heavily concentrated with a few colors? No? Tap the time or score at the top of your screen, and select ‘restart.’” One other piece of advice from me: Don’t download this game because you’ll be playing it while walking and will get hit by a car. It’s that addictive. (via @topherchris)
The final piece of the spire at One World Trade Center is lifted into place in New York, May 10, 2013. The tower now rises to a symbolic 1776 feet, making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere. INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He (UNITED STATES)
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Beautiful skyline.
I went to the 9/11 memorial a few weeks ago, and just as gripping as the memorial itself was this tower. A symbol of recovery and renewal if there ever was one.
If you haven’t been keeping a close eye on the story in West, Texas, a lot has happened since the deadly explosion a few weeks ago. Bryce Reed (right), an early responder who was one of the first EMTs on the scene of the incident, was found in possession of components for an alleged pipe bomb. While he has not been charged with anything in connection with the explosion as of yet, authorities have opened up a criminal investigation into the incident since his arrest. As Talking Points Memo reports, he had a shaky personal situation in recent days.
EDIT: Quick clarification — he had pipe bomb components, not an actual pipe bomb. Sorry about that. That’s what I get for trying to write on an iPad.
HuffPo has a loose definition of “Women.”
Bow Down. I knew the day would come when I would be named one of the funniest women on Twitter.
Cherish this moment.
Some design agency spent a lot of time coming up with a rough concept of what iOS 7 probably isn’t going to look like. But let’s just say it looks kind of cool.
Michelle’s grandmother, Deborah Knight, confirmed the information, telling 19 Action News: “When she was severely beaten, he had beat her so bad in the face, she has to have facial reconstruction, and she’s lost hearing in one ear.”
Records obtained by Carl Monday investigations show Michelle may have faced physical abuse before she was kidnapped. Records show David Feckley was charged and convicted in the early 2000’s of child endangerment, for breaking Michelle’s infant son’s arm. He served eight years in prison. But a rape charge was dropped when the alleged victim, Michelle, couldn’t be found. Of course, now we know where she was: on Seymour Avenue.
Michelle wasn’t seeing visitors Thursday, not even her family. Yesterday, her mom, in from Naples, Florida, met with Michelle briefly at the hospital. But a relative told us the meeting was strained, and Michelle asked her mom to leave.
Meanwhile, main suspect Ariel Castro is confirmed to be the father of Amanda Berry’s child through DNA testing, according to the state of Ohio. He may face the death penalty for the crimes; despite initial reports suggesting otherwise, police say his brothers were not involved.
Mark Pocan is a really nice person.
He’s a legislator, not a graphic designer!
The State Department has asked Defense Distributed to take down its controversial 3D-printed gun blueprint. “I immediately complied and I’ve taken down the files,” said the group’s Cody Wilson. “But this is a much bigger deal than guns. It has implications for the freedom of the web.”
Syria’s main armed opposition group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), is losing fighters and capabilities to Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist organisation with links to al-Qaida that is emerging as the best-equipped, financed and motivated force fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Evidence of the growing strength of al-Nusra, gathered from Guardian interviews with FSA commanders across Syria, underlines the dilemma for the US, Britain and other governments as they ponder the question of arming anti-Assad rebels.
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said that if negotiations went ahead between the Syrian government and the opposition – as the US and Russia proposed on Tuesday – “then hopefully [arming the Syrian rebels] would not be necessary”.
Street Legal Batmobile: Team Galag, a group of racers who all hail from Saudi Arabia, will be entering their to-scale Batmobile (seen above) in this year’s Gumball 3000. A win seems virtually impossible, given the nature of the race and the Batmobile’s top speed of 100 mph, but that doesn’t seem to be making us any less jealous. source
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Everything you need to know about the changing nature of the internet, in two corresponding graphs comparing the subscriber counts of AOL and Netflix. (via SplatF)
The Cleveland man credited with helping free female captives from a house of horrors is a convicted felon whose rap sheet includes three separate domestic violence convictions that resulted in prison terms, court records show.
Cleveland Hero Was A Repeat Domestic Abuser | The Smoking Gun
Of course. This is America. We don’t get to have nice things.
Check out the comments. Nearly everyone has criticized The Smoking Gun for digging up dirt on the guy. One person put it best: “Once in awhile, people on the internet make me proud. I’m so thrilled that virtually all of the comments on this post point out that this was totally unnecessary.”
Just a month after its debut, the price of the HTC First, also known as the Facebook Phone, has dropped from $99 to 99 cents on a 2-year contract with AT&T. Tech media outlets say that while users are drawn to Facebook Home which can be downloaded on Android devices, the Facebook Phone wasn’t necessary or particularly innovative at that $99 price tag.
Would you buy that for a dollar (and two years of contracts)?
The Comcast-owned MSNBC will be the subject of a protest next week at the cable giant’s annual shareholders meeting in Philadelphia.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a Tea Party group invited 60,000 activists to show up at the meeting to accuse the network of masquerading left-leaning propaganda as news.
Wait, so does this mean they aren’t aware of the same criticism lobbed against Fox News… except from the other side?
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