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Ellie Regio - You Came In My Ass (1972)
Ellie Regio, the funky '70s disco diva, didn't always dazzle audiences with her sparkling sequin dresses and infectious groove on the dance floor. Before her rise to stardom, she spent her days as a car hop at Benny's Drive-In Diner, a retro-chic eatery nestled in the heart of a bustling California boardwalk, where she perfected her signature moves while delivering burgers and shakes on roller skates.
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Have AI image generators assimilated your art? New tool lets you check
New search engine combs through harvested images used to train Stable Diffusion, others.
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How To Retrain Your Frazzled Brain and Find Your Focus Again
Are you finding it harder than ever to concentrate? Don’t panic: these simple exercises will help you get your attention. Picture your day before you started to read this article. What did you do? In every single moment – getting out of bed, turning on a tap, flicking the kettle switch – your brain was blasted with information. Each second, the eyes will give the brain the equivalent of 10m bits (binary digits) of data.
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What Will Be the Language of Our Digital Future?
Without online diversity, only a handful of people will dictate the fate of the world.
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What Many Americans Get Wrong About States' Rights
When it came to slavery, the Union, not the Confederacy, was the true guardian of states' rights in the antebellum era.
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The Lost 110 Words of Our Constitution
The 14th Amendment says states that infringe the vote must lose representation in Congress. It’s time to actually make this happen. The U.S. Constitution is famously short—a mere 7,591 words, including its 27 amendments. That makes it all the more remarkable that 110 of those words have been, in effect, lost to the ages.
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Why you might be counting in the wrong language
Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count.
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50 Old British Dialect Words We Should Bring Back
9. CRUMPSY: Short-tempered and irritable.
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Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain—here’s what that means
The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.
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Sausage Party - Official Red Band Trailer
#SausagePartyMovie in Theaters August 12, 2016 Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.
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Super Mario becomes a surreal physics experiment in this free browser game
Mario floats about like a confused jellyfish.
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Roman Empire Maps
So I found these maps recently of the Roman Empire. The first has some interesting details about the Roman provinces in general while the second is far more detailed and carefully constructed. If y…
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This Map Shows all the Disappearing Languages in the World
Amazingly, there are 7,099 languages still spoken in the world today.
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Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt
It had a good 36-year run, but its day is done.
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For Those Who Don’t Want to Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils
Ranked-choice voting is catching on, and Maine might become the first state to help citizens vote for candidates they actually want. By Peter White.
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'Erin Brockovich' Carcinogen in Tap Water of More than 200 Million Americans
In the film "Erin Brockovich," the environmental crusader confronts the lawyer of a power company that polluted the tap water of Hinkley, Calif., with a carcinogenic chemical called chromium-6. When the lawyer picks up a glass of water, Brockovich says: “We had that water brought in ‘specially for you folks. Came from a well in Hinkley.” The lawyer sets down the glass and says, "I think this meeting’s over."
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10 Places Nearly Wiped Off the Map
Here today...
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The Delightful Perversity of Québec's Catholic Swears
Québec is bilingual, but reluctantly. As a French province with small pockets of English, and a few larger pockets that will willingly use both languages, the signs, by law, are in French. The language on the street is French. Ordering food or browsing a store will likely involve some amount of standard conversational French, and should you get in trouble with the law, it's going to be time to find a Francophile lawyer. The profanity, though, is pure Québec.
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EFF to FCC: Prevent ISPs From Following Your Every Internet Move
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to update privacy rules to prevent broadband Internet access service providers from recording and sharing their customers’ every move online.
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How a new emulator generates 3D scenes from 2D NES games
The world of NES emulation hasn't been all that exciting since the late '90s, when NESticle provided "good enough" emulation accuracy and stability for any NES game out there (though there has been a lot of subsequent work to get that final bit of true emulation accuracy). So it was a bit of a surprise this week to stumble across a new NES emulator that provides a genuinely new perspective on decades-old games by rendering them in three dimensions.
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Microsoft Edge's incognito mode isn't so incognito
Microsoft's latest web browser saves users' Web browsing history while they're in incognito mode, defeating the entire purpose of the feature.
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New open-source ad-blocking web browser emerges from brain of ex-Mozilla boss Eich
Former Firefox head honcho takes a Brave stance
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Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing
Scant few games stand the test of time and retain a large active player base sixteen years after release. But not only has Age of Empires II endured, it has thrived. It’s gained new steam thanks in part to an official high-definition re-release but mostly due to the ragtag group of modders-turned-developers who made that release possible. Forgotten Empires filled the game with new stuff and rebalanced the multiplayer in one enormous mod and then...
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Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
Late in 2014, I was abruptly pardoned and freed from Evin prison in northern Tehran. In November 2008, I had been sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail, mostly over my web activities, and thought I would end up spending most of my life in those cells. So the moment, when it came, was unexpected. I was sharing a cup of tea when the voice of the floor announcer – another prisoner – filled all the rooms and corridors: “Dear fellow inmates, the bird of luck has once again sat...
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Super Mario Bros in HTML5
Play the original Super Mario Bros on your browser!
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Teach Yourself Italian
For a writer, a foreign language is a new kind of adventure. By Jhumpa Lahir.
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Solve Common Windows 10 Problems With FixWin 10 Tool
There is a new version of FixWin tool on The Windows Club, used for correcting annoying problems in Microsoft's operating system Windows 10. FixWin 10 for Windows 10 is solving the following bugs and difficulties in use: - Problems with apps download from the Windows Store - Application was no...
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Syria secretly sentenced free software developer Bassel Khartabil to death
Khartabil has been imprisoned in a Syria's Adra Prison since 2012, though as of October, he has been transferred to an undisclosed location. The free software/open culture activist was the lead for Creative Commons Syria and has contributed to Wikipedia, Firefox and many other projects. He was arrested on the first anniversary of the Syrian uprising, and was tortured for five days by Syria's Military Branch 215 and was tried, without access to counsel...
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Baffle Web Trackers By Obfuscating Your Online Activities
Software that spits out misinformation about what you're actually doing on the web is a fascinating development in our relationship to online surveillance.
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Rdio shutting down, and Pandora will buy its technology
Streaming music service Rdio is planning to shut down and sell "key assets" to Pandora. Pandora announced the pending acquisition today, saying it will spend $75 million to buy "technology and intellectual property from Rdio" and hire "many members of Rdio's team." Pandora is not buying the full company. But using Rdio technology and staff, the buyer "expects to offer an expanded Pandora listening experience by late 2016, pending its ability to obtain proper licenses."