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posted by blue_beetle at 9:09 PM PST - 84 comments

🎶the singularity won't save you, there's not a thing that you can do, and you and me and us we're all gonna dieeeeeeeeeeeeee! 🎶(SLYT)
posted by divabat at 8:27 PM PST - 39 comments

RetroAchievements provides customized emulators and an account structure to add Achievements to hundreds of old-school video games on the NES, SNES, MegaDrive/Sega Genesis, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, and PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. Browse the most commonly won achievements, the games with the hardest achievements, and the most popular games. Or if you're more into coding than gaming, you could always just check out the GPL-licensed source code for the emulators.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:15 PM PST - 11 comments

The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font - Nikhil Sonnad
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:14 PM PST - 26 comments

You must use a Chinese against a Chinese...you're playing the game of death!
Youtube user wutangcollection offers a selection of ninja-sploitation trailers for your delectation:

• Ultimate Ninja
• Ninja The Protector
• Ninja Terminator
• Ninja Squad
• Ninja in Action
• Ninja Dragon
• Ninja Destroyer
• Ninja the Final Duel
• Life of Ninja
• The Thundering Ninja

posted by juv3nal at 7:52 PM PST - 18 comments

Slow motion video from inside the combustion chamber of a running flat head/L-head/Side valve engine with a rich mixture. Same engine running lean. Running at regular speed (misfires caused by carb tuning), (via /r/Justrolledintotheshop) [more inside]
posted by Mitheral at 7:06 PM PST - 19 comments

The Danish Girl [YouTube] [Trailer]

The Danish Girl is a 2015 British-American pseudo-biographical drama film directed by Tom Hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by David Ebershoff. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery, Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener, Matthias Schoenaerts as Hans Axgil and Ben Whishaw as Henrik.

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posted by Fizz at 6:43 PM PST - 59 comments

Say goodbye to online comments as you know them We have finally realized that the kind of person who devotes his day to arguing with strangers anonymously on the Internet is not necessarily representative of a large swath of public opinion or necessarily good at articulating anything. [more inside]
posted by modernnomad at 6:35 PM PST - 103 comments

Kitchen Sink Cookies. A note on amounts: You'll want to use about 1 cup for chocolatey things, 1 to 2 cups crunchy stuff like cereal and potato chips, 1 cup for nuts and dried fruit, 1 to 2 teaspoons for spices, 2 to 3 tablespoons for alcohol, and about 1 cup for most other things, like mini marshmallows and amaretto cookies.
posted by storybored at 6:17 PM PST - 15 comments

Teemu Kallio has created a pure HTML5 909 rhythm composer.
posted by jenkinsEar at 3:44 PM PST - 37 comments

Angela Lansbury teaches you everything you need to know about fitness and sensuality, no matter who you are.
posted by howfar at 3:36 PM PST - 27 comments

Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company Tyson Foods has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state—often to the detriment of workers. ... Tyson’s story also tells a broader one about American politics: How time after time, one determined company, facing a challenge to its profits, can bend government and the law to its will. Over the past year, ProPublica and NPR have examined how many states have been quietly dismantling their workers’ comp systems. [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna at 1:01 PM PST - 54 comments

"Palestinian culture — notably the writings of Mahmoud Darwish — have inspired non-Palestinian artists, such as the elegant, sparse album The Astounding Eyes of Rita by Tunisian jazz master Anouar Brahem. But all of these belong to very “grown-up” genres, appealing to audiences used to classical, jazz and “world” music. Checkpoint 303's "The Iqrit Files" offers something very different. Palestinian songs, poetry, history and landscapes provide the starting point for an album which combines them with the much more youthful sounds of drum and bass, minimal techno and ambient electronic." (The Electronic Intifada) [more inside]
posted by sapagan at 12:55 PM PST - 7 comments

Sheila Heti (previously) profiles Raffi: The wondrous — and occasionally weird — relationship between the children’s-music superstar, his fans, and the man he used to be.
posted by Cash4Lead at 11:56 AM PST - 32 comments

"2015 just may be the year that grime goes global. The MC-driven genre is in the middle of a strong, fertile second coming that’s reaching listeners farther flung than ever before. Though grime has had global aspirations for over a decade now, launching several UK superstars like Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Skepta, the music never managed to become an international export on the scale of American hip-hop. Now things are starting to change."
posted by josher71 at 11:54 AM PST - 21 comments

At the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Danielle Paquette explains “why you should always buy the men’s version of almost anything”
posted by Going To Maine at 9:58 AM PST - 216 comments

They aren’t necessarily superconservative. They often don’t think in ideological terms at all. But they do strongly feel that life in this country used to be better for people like them—and they want that older country back. The Great Republican Revolt: from the pages of The Atlantic, David Frum explains how current state of the Republican Party, explains the different factions and movements within the GOP, and lays out four possible options for the future. [more inside]
posted by Apocryphon at 9:53 AM PST - 92 comments

‘We had to put Charles Dickens in the movie. Who’s the least likely character to be Charles Dickens? Gonzo!’ How we made: The Muppet Christmas Carol
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:17 AM PST - 60 comments

How Four Roommates Got Duped Into Camping In A $6K A Month Williamsburg Death-Trap [more inside]
posted by poffin boffin at 9:11 AM PST - 67 comments

Jackie Fuchs writes about the public disclosure of her rape. (Warning, trigger material.)
posted by bearwife at 8:54 AM PST - 5 comments

My apparent new career as Hillary Clinton’s self-appointed Anger Translator (via Tumblr)
posted by bluesky43 at 8:51 AM PST - 101 comments

The bad guys on the border have lots of money and what they are putting money into is into spoofing and jamming GPS systems. DHS was unable to say just how often smugglers tried to jam or spoof border-watching UAVs. CBP had little to show for the big price tag. UAVs helped in just 2 percent of apprehensions on the southwest border.
posted by sammyo at 8:50 AM PST - 8 comments

Sleepy gorillas make their nests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. You can visit these gorillas by going on a virtual gorilla trek in Democratic Republic of Congo!
posted by ChuraChura at 8:17 AM PST - 9 comments

You're the Worst does not suggest depression can be defeated. It suggests, instead, that it can be lived with. Todd VanDerWerff, Culture Editor for Vox as well as AV Club reviewer, explains why the show You're the Worst understands the relationship between him and his wife.
posted by Kitteh at 7:55 AM PST - 27 comments

Gizmodo brings us one of the most esoteric and meta end-of-year lists with The 10 Coolest Time Capsules Opened in 2015 (which includes a few messages in bottles, so it's a fairly liberal definition of "time capsule"). Lot of people want to preserve booze for the future generations.
posted by Etrigan at 7:37 AM PST - 5 comments

46% say Rudolph is their favorite, and otherAmerican attitudes on the holiday season, via Public Policy Polling.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 7:17 AM PST - 134 comments

One day Harvard professor Latanya Sweeney googled herself with a reporter friend sitting next to her. An ad popped up inquiring about her arrest record. She had never been arrested. "It must be because you have one of those Black Names!" the friend said. "That's impossible," she replied, "Computers can't be racist." But then she started doing research. [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:15 AM PST - 61 comments

Vice's Noisey compiled the most important list of the year: 2015's Biggest Albums Rated By 1-Star Amazon Reviewers. [more inside]
posted by ourt at 6:57 AM PST - 21 comments

The history of the relationship between social science and foreign relations offers important insights into the changing politics and ethics of expertise in American public policy.
posted by infini at 6:14 AM PST - 1 comments

"Paula Zuccotti travelled around the world and asked everyone from a cowboy in Tucson to a toddler in Tokyo to list every single thing they touched in a day – then she photographed them. The items tell surprisingly intimate tales of the people who picked them up." (SLGuardian)
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:57 AM PST - 12 comments

Can Marshall Islanders whose lives are tied to the sea maintain their culture in Oklahoma?
posted by ellieBOA at 4:55 AM PST - 7 comments

"This caption is a blatant lie." On the 2nd April 2005, BBC Four broadcast the BBC’s first live drama for over 20 years which was a remake of The Quatermass Experiment, starring Jason Flemyng. A dvd was eagerly anticipated but as this exhaustive investigation demonstrates people did not end up buying the version which was originally broadcast.
posted by feelinglistless at 3:14 AM PST - 22 comments

Allegra Lab's recently published list of 30 essential books in cultural anthropology overlaps substantially with Ryan Sayre's earlier list, 100 influential ethnographies and anthropological texts, but neither provides many details. Angela Stuesse's Engaged Ethnography site provides an up-to-date list of politically-engaged ethnographies (etc.) with descriptions of what to expect, and the Staley Prize each year selects and describes a book at least two years old but not more than eight to recognize recent work of lasting interest. Incidentally, many books on these lists are available online. [more inside]
posted by Wobbuffet at 2:07 AM PST - 9 comments