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Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3 Gets October Airing Date

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Sep 14, 2015

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3 Gets October Airing Date

Adult Swim has announced the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship will air on Oct. 18 at Midnight E.T.

The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship surrenders DC Comics’ multitude of Super Heroes and Super-Villains to the demented whims of the award-winning Robot Chicken for a triumphant third time. This time around, Batman and Superman’s bromance takes a competitive turn and the fate of the universe somehow hangs in the balance! The all-star cast includes Seth Green, Matt Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Alfred Molina, Nathan Fillion, Weird Al Yankovic, Alex Borstein, Giovanni Ribisi, Jonathan Banks, Mae Whitman, Hugh Davidson, Dee Bradley Baker, Zeb Wells, Kevin Shinick, plus Adam West and Burt Ward.

The New Free Clapping App Will Help Your Repetition And Groove Unless You’re Elaine From Seinfeld

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Here’s a brilliant – and infuriatingly addictive – way to lose a few hours in the app-osphere: the new (and free!) iPhone and iPad app from London Sinfonietta and Touchpress dedicated to Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. OK, so it’s not based on a behemoth of classical music like the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony app, one of Touchpress’s previous iOS blockbusters, but Clapping Music is arguably an even better fit for interactive technology.

Reich’s original 1972 piece embodies a dazzlingly simple idea, one of the purest distillations of his minimalist musical principles: have two musicians clap a single, simple rhythm over a span of 12 quavers, and then have one of the players move the pattern one quaver ahead after each set of repetitions until the patterns coincide again a few minutes later. Easy? Well, in theory.

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This Guy’s Email Exchange With A Scammer Turned Into An Awesome Story

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Sep 13, 2015

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London-based comedian James Veitch has done something we’ve all thought about, but never followed through on – he spent the last two years replying to spam emails and compiling the amazing conversations that ensued. “Dot Con,” a book of these interactions, was published this year and is available on Amazon.

“I set up multiple pseudonymous email accounts and began replying to spam,” Veitch told Mashable. “This must have put me on some sort of list because the spam came in a torrent and I replied to as much as I could.”

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That time Sassy Magazine had their own boardgame

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That time Sassy Magazine had their own boardgame

The game is all about you … and your friends! You’ll get to say what you think! Are you SASSY enough to share your secrets?

Sassy was a teen girls magazine that folded in 1994, never quite able to summon the advertising strength of other teen mags. Maybe that’s because it was different. Sassy assumed that the girls reading it were smart and worldly; articles about alternative music trends and edgy fashion were set among pieces about alcoholic parents and dealing with STDs. Sassy, according to Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer, the authors of How Sassy Changed My Life, had a smart, strong feminist message, giving them more than advice on how to land the boy of your dreams or how to starve yourself until you are loveable. How that great magazine translated to this hard-to-find boardgame (in which there is no board) is a little more complicated. The rules are hard to discern (though the drunken, foul-mouthed team from Beer and Board Games make an effort at it), but the goal seems to have been to be the first player to collect awards in the categories of Awareness, Brains, Confidence, Love, Sensitivity, and Talent. The other players vote on whether or not each girl’s answer to questions on those topics is deserving of a Sassy or Non-Sassy point. There is no telling the amount of women, many who’ve grown from Sassy girls to women with the brains, power, and ferocity to shape culture and society, would delight in the re-issue of this game.

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Oliver Sacks on the power of music to bring solace

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Oliver Sacks on the power of music to bring solace

With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition in Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. He will be sadly, deeply missed.

On my morning bike ride to Battery Park, I heard music as I approached the tip of Manhattan, and then saw and joined a silent crowd who sat gazing out to sea and listening to a young man playing Bach’s Chaconne in D on his violin. When the music ended and the crowd quietly dispersed, it was clear that the music had brought them some profound consolation, in a way that no words could ever have done.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. One does not have to know anything about Dido and Aeneas to be moved by her lament for him; anyone who has ever lost someone knows what Dido is expressing. And there is, finally, a deep and mysterious paradox here, for while such music makes one experience pain and grief more intensely, it brings solace and consolation at the same time.

What Happens When You Take Baked Marbles And Put Them Into Icy Water. Wow!

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What Happens When You Take Baked Marbles And Put Them Into Icy Water. Wow!

Stunning and gorgeous, but be careful, though. After baking/frying the marbles, they may break if dropped onto a hard surface, like a tile floor. These are not suitable toys for young children, and they shouldn’t be doing this without close adult supervision. Get out your safety goggles when taking these out of the oven and putting them into the water. The marbles can shatter from this process, so be careful and keep your face away from the orbs when they’re popping.

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Selena Gomez Has A Message For You Body Shamers

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Selena Gomez Has A Message For You Body Shamers

Selena Gomez stopped into The Cruz Show to talk about her new album “Revival” and the emotional roller coaster she went through while creating it. She also touches upon the body shaming she faced by ridiculous trolls earlier this year, her thoughts on the paparazzi, and her take on social media.

“You have to understand that I dealt with a lot of body shaming this year, and I’ve never experienced that before. I don’t care about that stuff, but I did start gaining weight and I didn’t really mind it. I enjoyed it. But, mman, that hurt. That was really hurtful. I’ve experienced people who have tried to control that stuff before. It’s not even about my weight. It’s just not that I’m not going to give a fuck what people, sorry, I’m not going to care. I’m not going to let them get to me. I can do what I want. At the end of the day, this is not even going to be a subject once the album comes out. The music is going to take over because that’s how confident I am about it.”

Listen to the interview with Power 106 here:

Don’t invite drummer Kwon Soon Keun to your next gig. Actually…you should invite Kwon to your next gig.

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Sep 11, 2015

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Don’t invite drummer Kwon Soon Keun to your next gig. Actually…you should invite Kwon to your next gig. The song, by the way, is called “You’re Too Much [or Unkind]” first sung by Kim Suhee in 1976 and written by Yang Cheon-gang.

Video: 2 French rappers put themselves in classic movies

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Sep 11, 2015

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Video: 2 French rappers put themselves in classic movies

Flynt and Orelsan introduce themselves to America by putting themselves in these classic movie scenes, while these French rappers introduce themselves to classic film characters. Brilliant.

S Patent number 3005282 A, issued October 24, 1961, for a design for a “Toy building brick,” later known as LEGO

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US Patent number 3005282 A, issued October 24, 1961, for a design for a “Toy building brick,” later known as LEGO. For the complete look, check out the full Patent.