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Open Source By ROBERT MACKEY Usually, by the time the public learns the names and biographies of Islamic State militants, or radicals from other groups who attack civilians, they are already dead, and so unable to speak for themselves, except occasionally in the ritualized form of martyrdom videos or manifestoes posted online. This week, however,…
I say “I’m sorry” when I’m scared and I’m scared 50% of the time. The other 50% is spent in blissful ignorance as my brain catches up on all the things I should be scared of. I say “I’m sorry” when I point out to a stranger that they’ve dropped their MetroCard on the sidewalk….
November 12th marks the day that 104 Xbox 360 games will become backwards compatible with Xbox One, and according to Microsoft, more titles will continually be added to the list beginning in December. This feature, when it was announced at E3 earlier this year, was almost universally praised, and for good reason: it comes at…
LOL just sneaked into an op-ed in America’s paper of record. The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, author of several society-satirizing books, wrote a piece for the New York Times on the failures of French leadership following the recent attacks in Paris. The French will survive, he argues, out of force of habit at least, but “it’s unlikely that…
Colin Trevorrow’s Hollywood fairy tale started at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The bespectacled, bearded director, then 35, came to Park City, Utah, with an endearingly quirky time-travel romantic comedy executive-produced by the endearingly quirky Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay, and starring Mark. The $750,000 indie film, ‘‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’’ went on to make…
Yahoo Mail is purportedly locking out people who use ad-blockers. According to a post on Adblock Plus’ message boards, a Yahoo user noticed the issue on Google Chrome when trying to access email this morning, posting this screenshot: “Yeah, whatever Yahoo,” the person mused, adding that two other people noticed the issue, too. Advertisement Yahoo’s tactic…
Gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako Friday morning, with some 150 hostages taken. View this image › Malian security forces evacuate two women from near the hotel, Nov. 20. Habibou Kouyate / AFP / Getty Images ID: 7392014 SECURITY MESSSAGE (1/4) The Embassy is aware of an ongoing active shooter…
There’s a predictable social media formula for what women’s pictures online should look like. Breasts in barely-there bikinis are good (thumbs-up emoji, even), but breasts with babies attached them are questionable. Women wearing next to nothing is commonplace, but if you’re over a size 10 your account may be banned. Close-up shots of women’s asses…
Neel Kashkari, the at-the-time little-known Goldman Sachs banker who was put in charge (by Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson) of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (that is, the bank bailouts) in 2008, has been named the new president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. As head of TARP, Kashkari was responsible…
It’s time for a little good news, the kind of good news that you can pass down to and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren. According to new estimates from the World Economic Forum (WEF), it will be 118 years before women across the globe will achieve pay equality. A legacy, indeed. The report indicates that…