April 13, 2017
Oh. Oh dear.
Producer Steven Paul’s (Ghost in the Shell, Ghost Rider) SP Entertainment Group is launching development of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels into both a feature film and a television series.
FFFFOUND is LLLLOST
The great image-sharing site ffffound.com is closing down as of May 8. For sure, the site has a lot of pictures of exposed breasts there, but also a whole swath of other photos of all kinds from all sorts of sources.
Get stuff out there.
1001 Rogues
1001 Rogues: a browser-playable roguelike with a new story every day. There is also a twitter account to keep you updated on today's story. [via]
Oh Canada...
A New World Record! Toby set the record at the YMCA in Calgary on his 9th birthday as he frantically ran around and used his teeth and paws to pop the balloons while Springs cheered him on. [more inside]
"My childhood is ruined!"
Parents Explain Birth Control. Funny and sweet. [facts, laughter, pizzicato music]
Cannabis to be legal in Canada by July 2018
Proposed cannabis legislation from the Canadian Liberal government has provinces bracing for impact. Following recommendations from the Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation, Health Minister Philpot says that protecting the health of Canadians is the top priority, but the proposed legislation still has Canadian physicians, pediatricians, and psychiatrists concerned about the link between cannabis usage and mental illness. [more inside]
“—and so biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 every year.”
The Blood Of The Crab [Popular Mechanics] “Their distinctive blue blood is used to detect dangerous Gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli in injectable drugs such as insulin, implantable medical devices such as knee replacements, and hospital instruments such as scalpels and IVs. Components of this crab blood have a unique and invaluable talent for finding infection, and that has driven up an insatiable demand. Every year the medical testing industry catches a half-million horseshoe crabs to sample their blood. But that demand cannot climb forever. There's a growing concern among scientists that the biomedical industry's bleeding of these crabs may be endangering a creature that's been around since dinosaur days.”
You are accused of attempting to kill President Erdogan
Tickle Me Elmo, without fur
The Bad Batch
Ana Lily Amirpour, the director of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (previously on MeFi), is back with The Bad Batch, a dystopian love story set in a community of cannibals in a Texas wasteland. Trailer #1. Trailer #2. [more inside]
You know your man is working hard/HE'S WORTH A DEUCE!!!
A Love Letter to Ace Frehley: Artists Share the Blazing KISS Solos That Inspired Them
The crisis with Russia deepens
With a month to go until the finals week, Russia has announced that it is withdrawing from the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine. This follows the entry ban imposed on the Russian singer Yulia Samoylova for traveling to the Crimea via Russia post-annexation, and a tense standoff, unresolved by an offer of a satellite performance or intervention by Burger King's Russian office. In a statement, Russian Channel 1 station confirmed they will not show the event. [more inside]
Ride or die, remember?
How does Fate of the Furious stack up against the rest of the franchise? And now they've done one with a tank and one with a submarine and one that's in Japan but set 10 years after it was filmed and one where a man in his 30s is a teenager from that movie where can the franchise go next? Space, maybe. [contains spoilers, nitro, shots that zoom through the engine of a car in motion]
Jimmy The Cat Refinds His Home
Woman Looking At Shelter's Facebook Page Sees Her Cat — Who's Been Missing 2 Years "He walked over and head-butted me and I just starting crying."
We are creatures of duty, Captain
Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift. There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit. Kirk, as received through mass culture memory and reflected in its productive imaginary (and subsequent franchise output, including the reboot movies), has little or no basis in Shatner’s performance and the television show as aired. Macho, brash Kirk is a mass hallucination.
Let's get naked-er
Zekevivor
Zeke Smith, on being outed as a transgender man on Survivor: The lights magnified in brightness. The cameras, though 30 feet away, suddenly felt inches from my face. All sound faded. Something primal deep inside me screamed: run. I lost control of my body, my legs bounced up and down uncontrollably, willing me to flee, but the rest of me sat dead as stone. To my left was The Abyss. I could’ve made a clean break for it, but I knew there was no running from what had happened. Cameras would follow me, if not that night, then eventually. Running was not an option. So I sat blank, almost in a trance, unaware of what happened around me, trying to form a plan. [more inside]
Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year
I asked her what her secret was, and she said something that would change my professional life as a writer: “Collect rejections. Set rejection goals. I know someone who shoots for one hundred rejections in a year, because if you work that hard to get so many rejections, you’re sure to get a few acceptances, too.”
Sculptor wants "Fearless Girl" to back down (or at least step away)
The sculptor of the celebrated “Charging Bull” statue in New York City’s Bowling Green has complained that the recent installation nearby of another statue, “Fearless Girl, ” violates his copyright. [more inside]
8-Year-Old Hero Steals Car After Learning to Drive on YouTube
There’s something beautiful in every corner.
NYT Magazine: The Return of Lorde
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