Not every remake is darker and edgier! Just most of them.
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Since you probably don’t know anything about it. But you should.
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It’s hard out there for a geek.
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Tumblr user persnicketyqueerprincess posted a sampling of the messages she gets from straight boys on Tinder.
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Sports aren’t for everyone.
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What's your wallpaper on your phone and/or computer?
A photo of me and my girlfriend in front of some Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico.
A sugar-free Redbull or soda water with lime.
What's the one word you are guilty of using too often?
F#*k.
What is the last thing you searched for on Google?
The definition of the word 'subjective' to prove to my friend he was using it incorrectly.
Who is the last person that called or texted you?
My agent telling me they offered someone else the part.
What was the last awkward situation you were in and how did you handle it?
I ran into some "old friends" that I have no intention of being friends with any more and, in classic LA fashion, agreed to do lunch.
When I saw the revival of 'Skylight' at The Wyndham Theatre in London. Great performances. Love Carey Mulligan.
What TV show should everyone should be watching?
Ray Donovan.
And what is your TV guilty pleasure?
Chelsea Lately.
What's the first album you bought?
2 Live Crew, "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." Needless to say my musical tastes have evolved since then.
Cheese burger and fries...with plenty of ketchup.
What music are you currently listening to?
A lot of synthpop like Kavinsky and M83.
What movie makes you laugh the most?
Groundhog Day.
What drives you absolutely crazy?
When people put their dog’s poop in my trash cans.
Pick one: Kittens or puppies?
Puppies, but I love all animals.
"When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles." - Neil Simon
Comedy or drama?
It's the same thing.
Bacon or Nutella?
Bacon dipped in Nutella.
'80s or '90s?
Everybody who knows me knows, I ❤ the 80's!
Wrong demo.
And finally: tell us a secret.
None of the answers I've given in this interview are true.
Season 3 of Dallas returns Monday, August 18th at 9/8c on TNT.
We asked Facebook for (anonymous) stories of kids behaving badly at summer camp. Kids poop in the funniest places.
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One kid woke up in the middle of the night, shit on the floor in the tent, in a circle right around the pole, and went back to sleep like nothing happened. I woke up to hear one of the kids complaining "it smells so bad in here!"
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I had a camper who stole 4 tubs of glitter from arts and crafts and decided to pixie dust everyone while they were asleep in their beds in the middle of the night. Glitter is the herpes of crafts; it never goes away.
Hello, gorgeous!
Good news: THE WAIT IS OVER.
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You need @mr_norman_the_bulldog in your life.
Arctic Fibre has a $620 million plan: to connect London and Tokyo without touching land.
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The Gulf of Boothia is a tall, narrow section of the Northwest Passage—the long-sought sea route through the Arctic Ocean—that resembles a Chinese dragon diving down into the Canadian north. For most of Canada's history, and thousands of years before, it was bound in Arctic pack ice: impassable. Over the past fifteen years, that has changed. Ice clearances in the gulf can now last for eight weeks or longer, from August to October.
To the scientific community, that's another drop in the ocean of evidence for climate change. To one Canadian telecom startup, however, it's a chance for an unprecedented, hugely complex business venture: to connect London and Tokyo directly via fiber optic cable.
Arctic Fibre
Later this month, Toronto-based Arctic Fibre will announce major investment from several New York private equity funds. Soon after, the company will begin elaborate marine surveys, now feasible because of the iceless weeks in late summer. They're the final step before laying fiber optic cable along the Arctic Ocean floor. And if climate and commerce permit, by the end of 2016, Arctic Fibre will have built a single, nearly 10,000 mile-long undersea network connection between Somerset, in England's southwest, and Ibaraki Prefecture, on the east coast of Honshu. At a cost of $620 million, they will have threaded internet through the Arctic Circle.
It's the latest, and maybe the most ambitious project in the global push to establish fiber optic redundancy, the need for which became glaring six years ago when several cuts of undersea cable in the Mediterranean Sea slowed or even stopped internet traffic across much of Asia. Last month BuzzFeed wrote about the effort to create new, overland internet routes between Europe and Asia:
In the wake of the 2008 disruption, companies on both ends of the Mediterranean route began clamoring for redundancy, or the creation of alternative network links from Europe to Asia. And over the past half-decade, a series of enormous European and Asian telecom consortia have done just that, building four new overland fiber-optic pathways to link Europe to the financial hubs of the Persian Gulf and the booming economies of South Asia...ISPs, banks, and other major companies will readily pay a premium to diversify the source of their internet service and ensure that they aren't vulnerable to future outages.
The new overland cables share one basic problem: They all run through the Middle East or the Caucuses, enormously volatile regions in which conditions are ripe for future service disruptions. The main cable of the Arctic Fibre, on the other hand, except for landings in Europe, Japan, at Cambridge Bay in the Canadian north, will hardly come ashore at all.
That's an enormously enticing prospect for commercial concerns in East Asia and Europe. Says Doug Cunningam, Arctic Fibre's CEO, "I've sat in offices in London, and I've picked up lots of carrier interest in South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and the Chinese will come around as well."
Still, laying cable across thousands of miles of rugged and topographically varied sea floor poses its own unique challenges. Sea ridges and cliffs can chafe cable to the breaking point; underwater currents can snap cable sideways; cascading rocks on the steep slopes of the Japan Trench could cause dangerous rockslides. For Arctic Fibre to work, the company needs to know where to use double-armored cable, where to give the cable slack, where to pull it taut, and where to bolt it to the seafloor.
That's where the marine mapping comes in. The first set of surveying ships will sail west from Prudhoe Bay on the northern coast of Alaska, south through the Chukshi Sea and Bering Strait (across which Sarah Palin famously glanced Russia), and then southwest to Shemya, at the western tip of the Aleutian Islands. They'll use advanced side-scan sonar, digital cameras, electromagnetic probes, and drills that snatch subsea cores, all in order to measure and characterize the seafloor on which they'll lay cables.
Says Cunningham, "We're going to know within a meter where we're putting this fiber".
This Reddit thread asked users to post side-by-side photos of themselves and their celeb twins. Some are INSANELY good.
Superhero + princess = awesome. This isn’t rocket science, people!
The movie, which will be produced by DC Comics' corporate parent Warner Bros., is going to set the stage for the three classic superheroes to star in a Justice League movie, and presumably, a solo Wonder Woman film.
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And some for much, much less.
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£85.99 from Vividress.
£48 from ASOS.com.
It measures pace and, er, thrusts per minute.
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The product description says: "When the centre light is lit, the user is hitting peak performance and matching the rhythm set by the training programme. Too many lights and the user will need to slow down, and not enough lights will advise them to pick up the pace. A "+/-"speed button on either side of the gadget can also be used to adjust the speed of the training session 'on the go'."
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These animals go to astounding lengths.
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Seriously.
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It’s all about the music.
No glamour shots, no psychedelic expression of their music via visual images. Just the name of the band, or album, or sometimes neither. Here's a tribute to those artists who had the confidence to let the music speak for itself...
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