Who’s a pretty boy then? A dog with animal designs at a creative grooming competition in Seacaucus, New Jersey. From picture desk live: the best news images of the day
Photograph: Ren Netherland/Barcroft Media
Where’s the owner so I can criticize them for doing this to their dog?
Just for kicks, speaker and overall techie Tom Scott took a copy of Romeo & Juliet, saved the text file as a RAW Photoshop file, then saved the files as JPGs at different levels of compression to see how it corrupted the file. He then printed up the results as bound books, which is sort of a fun way to waste money. The results? At 100 percent, the text is barely readable. At 50 percent, it looks like gibberish. At zero percent, it looks like an accident. But the images Scott created? Here’s the interesting part: “On the front of each book is the JPEG image it was derived from,” he explains “And, for all but the lowest quality, they appear utterly identical to the naked eye.” Check the middle images of the photoset to see the photos in order.
My best effort to explain this whole internet balloon concept Google just floated us.
In its first shot against the bow against the Business Insider audience, BuzzFeed literally writes an article that’s so fetch. Move over Financial Times, BF is gunning for your readership.
Lesson from Sean Parker’s wedding: A natural-growth redwood forest isn’t cool. Tearing up that forest and replacing it with ancient ruins, and paying $2.5 million in fines? Now that’s cool.
But when it comes to paying for sex now, Lipton says, “If you can’t earn it on your own, then you don’t deserve it”JAMES
James Lipton on paying for sex these days: “I think if you can’t earn it on your own, then you don’t deserve it.”
Before email existed in your inbox, an Australian manufacturing giant better known for making refrigerators and other household appliances had a monopoly on the name. It was a simpler time, when checking your email meant leftovers were always within reach, rather than merely spam. Obviously, that now-defunct company’s name ranks high in the SEO ranks these days. (via the Voices of East Anglia Facebook page)
The Iowa Republican said immigrants that Ronald Reagan legalized by signing a 1986 “amnesty” bill were responsible for Obama’s election.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Thursday that President Obama would not be president if it weren’t for the 1986 amnesty bill that Ronald Reagan signed into law.
King is a leading GOP critic of efforts to pass an immigration reform bill, and has often said on the House floor that Republicans are overreacting to the 2012 election, which some Republicans saw as a sign that the GOP needs to get behind a reform bill.
Well, we certainly didn’t expect to see that headline when we woke up this morning…
Gawker claims to have seen video of Rob Ford using crack cocaine pipe
A published report says a video that appears to show Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine is being shopped around by a group of men allegedly involved in the drug trade.
There was no way to verify the video, however, which was the subject of a report on Gawker on Thursday and then became the subject of numerous stories.
The Toronto Star said two of its reporters watched the video and said it appears to show Ford in a room, sitting in a chair, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe.
A story on the Star website Friday also alleges Ford makes several disparaging and crude remarks about Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and the high school football team he coaches.
A lawyer retained by Ford, Dennis Morris, told the newspaper that Thursday’s publication by the Gawker website of some details related to the video was “false and defamatory.”
In case you missed this last night, because this is definitely not one to miss.
We’re just going to post it straight up from the press release, no editing: “In the new animated comedy series Mike Tyson Mysteries, Mike Tyson is taking the fight from the boxing ring to the streets… by solving mysteries! Armed with a magical tattoo on his face and a trusty associate by his side — a talking pigeon — if you have a problem that needs solving, Iron Mike is in your corner. The series incorporates live-action appearances featuring Mighty Mike himself, and the gloves come off as the former heavyweight champ and his fowl-mouthed partner gear up for weekly adventures as they put unsolved mysteries — like how to defeat a super computer at chess or why a famous author/werewolf can’t finish his novel — down for the count. Animated quarter-hour from Warner Bros Animation.” (photo by Brian Birzer/via Wikimedia Commons)
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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?
University of Wyoming Police have issued a citation to Meg Lanker-Simons for a charge of interference. According to the citation “Subject admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it.”
An anonymous statement posted to the UW Crushes Facebook page last week caused a controversy. The post stated that the author would like to copulate with Lanker-Simons in an angry manner. At the time, Lanker-Simons came out publicly against the post saying that she had felt threatened by it and perceived the post as a rape-threat.
University of Wyoming spokesperson Chad Baldwin said that the citation was the result of UW Police Department’s investigation into the UW Crushes Facbook incident, but could not comment further.Update: More information is available here.
Um, not sure what happened, but based on a search, Meg (who runs the popular Cognitive Dissonance Tumblr) ended up having to take down her site temporarily. But Fox Nation picked this up, so now it’s going crazy. *whew*
What a gas: Back in 1925, the U.S. government started a giant helium reserve, assuming that it would be essential to our military forces, which we correctly assumed would be made up of thousands of zeppelins like the one shown above. Instead, it became a key element of birthday parties nationwide, with much of that thin air being supplied by the federal government. In recent years, numerous presidents have tried to get rid of the Federal Helium Program, with President Clinton signing a law in 1996 to eventually shut it down. But there’s a problem: Nobody in the private sector has stepped up to replace the program, leading to members of the House recently voting to keep the program going for a few more years. In other words, the private sector is high on the government’s supply.
Yeah, so this just happened.
I don’t know
This ricin thing is secretly the greatest thing that ever happened to this guy.
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