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Crushing on your bff's crush! Staying home from school to work on an anime fansite! Having your dad pull out your console during a boss battle in a fit of rage! Relive all of your favorite middle school memories in lost memories dot net, a browser game in the tradition of Emily Is Away.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 9:49 PM PST - 2 comments

Michael Bay is producing a live-action Dora the Explorer movie. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:21 PM PST - 57 comments

Lots of rules about samurai behavior, tips, and names. As usual with such old books, the author and the dates are debatable, but it has lots of interesting tidbits about samurai education, behavior, and even what to name your baby samurai. The second translation is of a tactical manual for policemen in the late 1880s. Samurai Secrets. One basic necessity, for instance, is rope for tying guys up, and if you don't have rope, paper-wrapped twine will do.
posted by MovableBookLady at 9:06 PM PST - 8 comments

In partnership with the Equality Federation Institute, HRC released its sixth annual Municipal Equality Index, the only nationwide rating system of LGBTQ inclusion in municipal law, policy and services, ranking cities on five metrics:

• Non-Discrimination Laws
• Municipality as an Employer
• Municipal Services
• Law Enforcement
• Relationship with LGBTQ community

Find your city here. [more inside]
posted by Grandysaur at 8:38 PM PST - 26 comments

On 07/07/07, at 7:07PM, Boredoms constricted themselves in the coils of a 77-drummer boa. 77 BOADRUM was performed under the Brooklyn Bridge, at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park by the East River. • Full Audio via Egg City Radio. • The full lineup of drummers is available above the comments section and under the fold on this recording. • In Japan, the packaged recording sells for ¥7777
posted by not_on_display at 8:22 PM PST - 8 comments

The Best Horror Games [PC Gamer] “So you're looking to spook yourself with the best horror games you can play on PC, are you? Whether you're into jump scares, interactive fiction, thematically interesting stories or just large men running after you with a chainsaw, we've included a wide variety of games that'll hopefully freak you the hell out. Like our lists of best strategy games or best FPS games, we tried to focus on a variety of horror experiences that still hold up well today, though we've expanded the remit slightly to include a few retro curios as well.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 6:11 PM PST - 50 comments

Latin phrases translated into British football terms, for your defense against upperclass bullying.*
* interesting and useful for non fans too.
posted by Artw at 5:33 PM PST - 26 comments

A hundred years ago Britain experimented with state-run drinking establishments to turn rowdy bars into community hubs.
posted by The Whelk at 12:20 PM PST - 26 comments

Slashdot wanted to see what machine-generated headlines would look like. So they asked research scientist Janelle Shane to train an open source neural network on the site's 20 years of tech news headlines -- over 162,000. Shane writes that some "appeared to come from an alternate, much more advanced, somewhat terrifying timeline." [more inside]
posted by destinyland at 11:59 AM PST - 40 comments

Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces is a nifty online tool that helps you find fonts to use by implementing some of the ideas in Cole's Anatomy of Type book. As explained in this post, it uses objective ways to classify fonts by things like the height of the "x" character and the proportions of letters, which make it easier to find similar (or different) fonts. Turn on advanced filters to see the cool area charts.
posted by blahblahblah at 10:58 AM PST - 12 comments

"There is still no occupation in which a woman who works full time earns a lot more than a man, and few in which women have parity. Women have less savings than men, and are less likely to qualify for a mortgage. The cost of living, for everyone, has risen in urban areas. These are the parameters of the psychic vise, for growing numbers of women are the main or sole breadwinners for their families. When a woman delays children and partnership into her 30s to earn money and establish independence and then sees how her paths are blocked, it is perhaps no wonder that something like anguish is the result."
posted by Lycaste at 10:51 AM PST - 51 comments

Grace Spelman has a new apartment, and a small white cat who likes to explore and hide. Can you help her find Pierogi? [more inside]
posted by figurant at 10:42 AM PST - 67 comments

Study finds pollution is deadlier than war, disaster, hunger. "Environmental pollution—from filthy air to contaminated water—is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015—about 9 million—could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released Thursday in the Lancet medical journal. The financial cost from pollution-related death, sickness and welfare is equally massive, the report says, costing some $4.6 trillion in annual losses—or about 6.2 percent of the global economy." [more inside]
posted by homunculus at 10:05 AM PST - 32 comments

Halloween, when even the candy ads (well, sort of) are scary. Viewers watching various Fox networks over the past week have been visited by some strange and chilling advertising just in time for Halloween. For this, they can thank Fox and Mars candy brands, which teamed up to get up-and-coming horror directors to make disturbing short films, which have been running in their entirety during commercial breaks. Original story in AdWeek, with an interview of the directors of "Floor 9.5."
posted by holborne at 9:03 AM PST - 7 comments

“Gentlemen, I swear I will figure out who this David Pumpkins is by the time it’s on television.” He thought it was insane. When you say it out loud, it’s insane. “Hey Tom, so you play a guy. His name’s David Pumpkins. He’s in a haunted elevator. No one knows who he is and you’re just super confident and cool.”
posted by a fiendish thingy at 8:28 AM PST - 72 comments

Major Vancouver real estate developer Westbank Corporation has come under fire for its free downtown art exhibit, Fight for Beauty, which contains works by renowned Vancouver artists Fred Herzog, Stan Douglas, Shane Koyczan and Douglas Coupland. Vancouver activist Melanie Ma, however, calls the Westbank exhibit "artwashing," or using "arts and culture as a facade or Trojan horse to go into neighbourhoods and claim it as revitalisation, when in fact it's a profit-driven motive that results in displacement and gentrification of the residents in those neighbourhoods." Ma and other critics in Vancouver's art and activist community have launched their own satirical website, The Real Fight for Beauty. [more inside]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 8:06 AM PST - 10 comments

The Taylor Compressor relies solely on the energy inherent in falling water. It is a machine that uses no moving parts, does not require any fuel to operate, and is completely self perpetuating as long as there’s an adequate supply of water. The hydraulic compressor at Victoria was able to supply enough compressed air to run the entire operation, including the hoists, rock crushers, drills, and even the mine’s short line railroad.
posted by Bee'sWing at 6:29 AM PST - 32 comments