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"Sinfest Fan Fiction 2" - Sat, 18 May 2013

http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4638

Sinfest Fan Fiction 2

something_awful

The Everdraed Showcase: A Star Turn for Dr. Tobias Funke!

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/everdraed-showcase/tobias-funke-starwars.php

A Star WARS turn, that is! INTERNET FANBASE CONVERGENCE BONUS

something_awful

Front Page News: Today's Top Sport Move Plays

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/sport-top-play.php

That's team captain Andy Chipwich standing near the pool shirtless without crossing his arms in front of his torso to cover his supple breasts. He doesn't even suck in his stomach! Another stunning play by Andy.

wiredtopstories

From S.H.I.E.L.D. to Downton's Dracula: 10 New TV Shows to Check Out This

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/11HqOjPeBXE/

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/new-tv-shows-fall-2013/

This week, the broadcast TV networks announced their new shows for the 2013/2014 TV season. If you're overwhelmed by the choice, here are ten to watch.

wiredtopstories

After $200 Million, Darpa Gives Up on Formation-Flying Satellites

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/A7OleCbQJ7Y/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/formation-flying-satellites/

Darpa is ending its experiment with small, close-flying spacecraft, but that doesn't mean the concept is dead.

drhoz in wtf_nature

Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker



With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard laboratory—and not at the scale of inches, but microns.

These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that's what they are. Rather, fields of carnations and marigolds seem to bloom from the surface of a submerged glass slide, assembling themselves a molecule at a time.

By simply manipulating chemical gradients in a beaker of fluid, Wim L. Noorduin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and lead author of a paper appearing on the cover of the May 17 issue of Science, has found that he can control the growth behavior of these crystals to create precisely tailored structures.

"For at least 200 years, people have been intrigued by how complex shapes could have evolved in nature. This work helps to demonstrate what's possible just through environmental, chemical changes," says Noorduin.

pennyarcaderss

News Post: Video Content

http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/17/video-content

Gabe: We had some technical difficulties this week and the result was that a couple of our shows ended up being late. I apologize for the mess up. Here’s the new episode of Gabeart that should have gone up yesterday. And here’s the latest episode of Strip Search that should have gone up earlier this morning.    Sorry about that. -Gabe out  

wiredtopstories

Slowly, Military Opens the Door to Outside Prosecutions for Sexual Assault

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/uSDyOhb82SI/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/hagel-dempsey-assault/

The military doesn't want to take sexual assault cases out of the chain of command. But as scandals compile and Congress prepares to act, it may have to.

wiredtopstories

Game|Life Podcast: EA Ditches Online Passes and Wii U, But Mostly Wii U

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/MnHHCs_DtDY/

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/gamelife-podcast-episode-70/

Wired senior editor Peter Rubin joins me to explore two Electronic Arts announcements that might prove quite telling of gaming's future.

wiredtopstories

Trailer Face-Off: The New Pacific Rim vs. the Atlantic Rim Knockoff

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/Wsk0_Iw0xGY/

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/new-pacific-rim-trailer/

So, there's a new trailer for director Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim. However, on another YouTube channel not so far away, there's also a new, not as sleek but equally entertaining trailer for Atlantic Rim ? the mockbuster by The Asylum. How do they stack up? Let's find out.

wiredtopstories

Star Trek Into Darkness Updates Federation Fashion by Returning to the '60s

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/rAbS7197cTg/

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-costumes-uniforms/

Star Trek Into Darkness costume designer Michael Kaplan readily admits that he wasn?t a Star Trek fan prior to being hired for the 2009 reboot. Still, with iconic sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and Armageddon under his belt, he was confident he could capture and improve the look of Starfleet, updating the occasionally clunky aesthetic of the original series into something long-time fans would still recognize and appreciate: ?I certainly want to please Trekkies.?

wiredtopstories

The Fiftieth Anniversary of Chaos

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/VpiqbxbDo8I/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/the-fiftieth-anniversary-of-chaos/

Edward Lorenz wasn't planning to spark a scientific revolution when he published his famous paper on weather models in 1963. But the unexpected behavior of his equations opened the door to an entirely new field: chaos theory. Fifty years later, Samuel Arbesman takes a look at what this new way of scientific thinking has wrought.

wiredtopstories

The Strange Story of Marie Antoinette's Watch

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/l2G1sMepZBg/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/the-queen/

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It was a watch so beautiful, so elegant, so precise, that it could only have been meant for royalty. Then it vanished without a trace.    |    Photo: David Silberman/Getty Images




The tiny Simca 1000 Sedan puttered through the winding streets of a tony enclave near Israel's presidential residence. The spring evening ...

dieselsweet

Shameful Pun Sale

http://store.dieselsweeties.com/collections/socks

I just made a pun so bad that I am feeling human guilt for the first time.

All socks in my store are $4.99 until midnight tonight because the pun was THAT bad.

pixel socks

pennyarcaderss

News Post: Increasingly Damn Late

http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/17/increasingly-damn-late

Tycho: “Too Damn Late,” like Strips Which Include Div, is a specifically Gabriel form.  I relent when when we are exposed to a glut of news which might individually make for thin gruel, but leveraged in this context are appropriate.  The cadence is also fun to model.  Anyway, the stars were right. Electronic Arts has dicussed the wealf they’d stacked as a result of Online Passes, part of Project Ten Dollar, which was itself a kind of retail counterinsurgency.  With the advent of new consoles, cost conscious players will almost certainly stay or adopt the…

wiredtopstories

Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/U9tLAnYOVuU/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/moon-explosion/

NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact on the moon that they have seen in eight years of monitoring.

wiredtopstories

New Efforts to Overhaul Psychiatric Diagnoses Spurred by DSM Turmoil

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/SAmdYDOSvOQ/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/dsm-psychiatry/

Tomorrow marks the official release of the DSM-5, a hugely influential diagnostic guide that defines disorders of the mind. Many experts say it's fundamentally flawed, and efforts to develop a better alternative have begun.

wiredtopstories

In Tomorrow's Wars, Battles Will Be Fought With a 3-D Printer

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/JEScrM7L8ys/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/military-3d-printers/

Printable drones, limbs and ammunition. It's a far-out vision, but more and more military officers are starting to think that future troops will rely on 3-D printers to manufacture the tools of war.

wiredtopstories

A Watchmaking Renaissance Is Yielding the Most Complicated Timepieces Ever

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/14VQ-n4NYCw/

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/watchmaking/

New materials. Outlandish technologies. Insane movements. Today?s watchmakers are engineering the most complicated mechanical timepieces ever.

wiredtopstories

The Strangest Ways Wild Animals Crossed Paths With Humans This Week

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/bFowmKscVRA/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/this-week-in-wild-animals-5/

A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

wiredtopstories

How a Massive Glass Casino Represents Traditional Native American Forms

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/LHJ3t6QN8JY/

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/mohegan-sun/

Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free to make recommendations in the comments, by Twitter, or by e-mail.

wiredtopstories

What We Supposedly Learned About Technology From 1995's Evolver

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/qeU_MakeB5g/

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/technology-evolver-movie/

Today's dubious lesson in technology as explained by movies: 1995's Evolver in which a teenage videogame fan wins an indestructible military robot in a contest and it works out pretty much exactly as you expect.

wiredtopstories

Let's Fight Big Pharma's Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/ckEznz9BDyY/

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/lets-defy-the-big-pharma-attempt-to-turn-difference-into-illness/

We are homogenizing our crops and homogenizing our people. And Big Pharma seems intent on pursuing a parallel attempt to create its own brand of human monoculture. With an assist from an overly ambitious psychiatry -- given tomorrow's impending release of the DSM-5 -- all human difference is being transmuted into chemical imbalance meant to be treated with a handy pill. Turning difference into illness was among the great strokes of marketing genius accomplished in our time.

wiredtopstories

Push Back Against the Elements With New Flexible, Super-Strong Umbrella

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/NF3r_fPa3Yw/

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/recyclable-ginkgo-umbrella/

Anyone who has spent time in blustery, rainy climates knows the frustration of an umbrella defeated by the elements. In 2009, designer Federico Venturi experienced this frustration firsthand and, instead of throwing away the broken umbrella like everyone else does, decided to use it as inspiration for everything an umbrella should not be.

wiredtopstories

Welcome to Google Island

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/hBYrn6XX10Q/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/on-google-island/

I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco?s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions from the audience and promoting a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms.

wiredtopstories

Hangouts Feature Emerges as a Big Bright Spot for Google+

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/VNog4ECzmZ8/

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/google-hangouts-emerges-as-a-bright-spot/

In many ways, Google+ is still struggling to define itself. But there's been one clear success story inside the Google social network: Video "Hangouts," which have proven popular in group communications, from academia to large corporations to startups.

wiredtopstories

Photos of Mangled Cars Find Beauty in the Wreckage

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/Y1lKzPHn1Hw/

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/05/car-crashes/

It's hard to resist rubbernecking when we pass an accident on the freeway. What's happening is none of our business, but we do it anyway. This voyeuristic urge is what Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt wants to explore in his series, Car Crash Studies.

wiredtopstories

What Star Trek Into Darkness Could Tell Us About J.J. Abrams' Star Wars

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/qjsgBpKz1J8/

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/star-trek-abrams-star-wars/

The biggest question that comes up in Star Trek Into Darkness: What does this mean for Star Wars?

qotdrss

Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Chuck_Lorre%2C_Steven_Molaro_and_Eric_Kaplan

"Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!"

qotdrss

Henry Kissinger

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_Kissinger

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

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