Beard Ramen

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Behold the latest in beard innovations – the beard ramen bowl.

Real life Monopoly properties in New Jersey

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Scouting NY:

the properties in Monopoly were in fact named after the streets of Atlantic City. Monopoly itself has a long and complicated history, but the addition of Atlantic City-based street names can be traced to one Ruth Hoskins. Hoskins had learned a version of the game in Indianapolis, and upon moving to Atlantic City in 1929, made her own copy from scratch naming properties after streets where her friends lived.

This past weekend, I was driving through south Jersey, and decided to make a quick detour through Atlantic City to see what the Monopoly board looks like in real life.

I had forgotten that the Monopoly properties were real. Sadly, none of them match up to what I imagined them to look like.

Hi there, publisher! I’m an author

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Chuck Wendig:

You don’t want books to be pirated; you implement DRM. DRM mostly just pisses off regular users who suddenly have reduced access to the thing they thought they owned. They decide to become pirates, instead, because it’s easier and it gives them the access to the content in the way that they want it.

DRM creates — and then challenges — pirates.

It punishes regular readers.

Funny, interesting piece from the writer about publishers and publishing.

iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet

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Quartz:

…if you’ve downloaded Apple’s iOS 7 you could be using Multi-path TCP already.

Multi-path TCP allows your phone to send data by whatever way it’s connected to the internet, whether that’s Wi-Fi, 3G or ethernet. This is the first time that this new means of connecting to the internet has appeared in a commercial product.

iOS 7’s motion effects are triggering vertigo and nausea symptoms

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Stuff:

A major change in Apple’s iOS 7 update was its sleek, minimal aesthetic; however, the amount of motion now found within is anything but minimal.

The net result: “It feels to me like the whole screen is moving, and it generates a sort of motion sickness. I feel dizzy and can feel the very beginnings of nausea kicking in.”

It’s not as bad as full on motion sickness for me but I do find the animations to be annoying eye candy I wish I could toggle off.

Netflix exec: Canada’s broadband caps “almost a human rights violation”

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. GigaOM:

Low broadband caps in Canada put that country close to third-world countries, and overage charges almost amount to human rights violations: Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos blasted broadband caps and usage-based-billing employed by Canadian ISPs during an investor event Thursday afternoon.

Well, That’s embarrassing for us.

The Fox

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This is it, right here. Music video of the year.

Elmore Leonard, RIP

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Elmore Leonard passed away on Tuesday after suffering a stroke earlier this month.

The making of Missile Command

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Polygon examines the making of Atari’s Missile Command, the classic coin-op game where you protect cities from hot nuclear death.

The Twelfth Doctor, in all his fuckin’ glory

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A collection of f-bombs from Malcolm Tucker, Peter Capaldi’s character in the ’09 comedy “In The Loop.” Capaldi is taking over as the 12th regeneration of the Doctor in the SF series Doctor Who.

Dear Daily Mail

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Amanda Palmer composed a song to the UK Tabloid Daily Mail after they focused on a wardrobe malfunction instead of her music.