Friday, May 11, 2012

Holy Shit This Is Real Fucking Corn [Food]

This is corn. No, it's not photoshopped. Yes, it's real. It's a corn variety called Glass Gem Corn and though it may look like jelly beans or beads, it's real, actual, edible corn. What in the world? More »


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96% The Kid with a Bike

All Critics (102) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (98) | Rotten (4)

The film should be required viewing for everyone who has lost faith in the power of random acts of kindness.

"The Kid With a Bike" vibrates with desperation, frustration and the simple unfairness of life, leavened with glimpses of hope.

Cyril is one of the most inspiringly resilient, self-aware young characters to arrive on-screen in recent memory...

"The Kid With A Bike'' is, remarkably, about hope - about the connections people forge when the ones they've been given desert them.

The Dardennes' quiet, naturalistic style strips this story of melodrama but not of emotion.

Without diminishing the boy's intensity or making him in any way ingratiating, the Dardennes take us into his mind, and we begin to appreciate not only his predicament but his resiliency.

Unlike many films, it genuinely earns every feeling it evokes.

a complex interweaving of bitter reality and a deeply humane worldview that sees the possibility of redemption in even the cruelest of circumstances

A beautiful and stirring story of unconditional compassion, of emotional honesty, and -- above all -- of hope.

The Dardennes' style resists cheap sentimentality, yet in The Kid with a Bike it yields a deeply moving examination of love as a shield.

Dardenne brothers set an orphan in search of a father

Will bad breaks break a boy?

How the Dardennes, time and again, turn gritty, mundane subjects into transcendent moments of honesty and truth is one of the great cinematic wonders.

This is a film that's not always easy to watch, but just about impossible to forget.

It is crystal clear on at least one point: People are mysterious and beautiful, and they need each other.

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne offer another in their remarkable succession of contemporary neo-realist dramas in this quietly devastating but gently hopeful [film].

[It] gives obvious homage to a variety of films. ... But one inspiration shines throughout the movie ... The Red Balloon.

...the film delivers a final act as riveting as it is artistically satisfying. Not many films can claim a perfect ending. This one can.

...manages to balance a spiritual sense of grace with the earthy eye of a here-and-now realist.

Hunched over the handlebars, the boy's body seems to carve a hole in the wind. And we watch as this unhappy, rejected child makes some terrible choices, some of which make us want to look away.

One of the classic international works about juvenile delinquency.

If the film doesn't sizzle as heatedly as the Dardennes' more celebrated works, it's nevertheless infused with the compassion and care that they seem always to bring to bear on any subject.

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

10 Classic Video Games We Wish We Could Play Right Now

Designed by Brutal Legend powerhouse Tim Schafer, Full Throttle is a point-and-click adventure about frame-ups, murder, and motorcycles. The dystopian future setting allows for creative dialogue and choices that are more reminiscent of 1990s action stars like Steven Seagal than Uncharted's Nathan Drake. In fact, our hero Ben would probably give Drake a nice little shiner.

Puzzles are sprinkled throughout, though you're typically able to accomplish your goals with brute force. The game's mix of traditional animation with CG looked pretty revolutionary in 1995 and still gets the point across today.

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European Space Agency to explore Jupiter's moons (+video)

The ESA has given the go-ahead for a solar-powered space probe that will examine the icy Jovian moons of Ganymede and Europa, along with Jupiter's upper atmosphere.?

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for an exciting mission to explore the icy moons of Jupiter, as well as the giant planet itself.

Skip to next paragraph This movie shows Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, as it ducks behind the giant planet. Astronomers combined a series of images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the 18-second movie. The 540 movie frames were created from Hubble images taken over a two-hour period on April 9, 2007.

credit: NASA, ESA, E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and G. Bacon (STScI)

JUICE???JUpiter?ICy moons?Explorer ? will consist of a solar-powered spacecraft that will spend 3.5 years within the Jovian system, investigating Ganymede, Europa and the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. Anticipated to launch in June 2022, JUICE would arrive at Jupiter in early 2030.

As its name implies, JUICE?s main targets are Jupiter?s largest icy moons ? Ganymede and Europa ? which are thought to have liquid oceans concealed beneath their frozen surfaces.

The largest moon in the Solar System, Ganymede is also thought to have a molten iron core generating a magnetic field much like Earth?s. The internal heat from this core may help keep Ganymede?s underground ocean liquid, but the dynamics of how it all works are not quite understood.

JUICE will also study the ice-coated Europa, whose cueball-smooth surface lined with cracks and jumbled mounds of frozen material seem to be sure indicators of a subsurface ocean, although how deep and how extensive is might be are still unknown ? not to mention its composition and whether or not it could be hospitable to life.

?JUICE will give us better insight into how gas giants and their orbiting worlds form, and their potential for hosting life,? said Professor Alvaro Gim?nez Ca?ete, ESA?s Director of Science and Robotic Exploration.

The JUICE spacecraft was originally supposed to join a NASA mission dedicated to the investigation of Europa, but NASA deemed their proposed mission too costly and it was cancelled. According to Robert Pappalardo, study scientist for the Europa mission based at JPL,?NASA may still supply some instruments for the spacecraft ?assuming that the funding situation in the United States can bear it.?

JUICE will also capture images of Jupiter?s moon Callisto and search for aurorae in the gas giant?s upper atmosphere, as well as measure the planet?s powerful magnetic field. Once arriving in 2030, it will spend at least three years exploring the Jovian worlds.

Read more in today?s news release from?Nature, and stay tuned to ESA?s JUICE mission page?here.

Jason Major is a graphic designer living in Dallas, Texas. He writes about astronomy and space exploration on Universe Today and also on his blog?Lights In The Dark, Discovery News and National Geographic News.

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Marketing Manager/Director POSTED: May 09
Salary: 50,000.00 - 90,000.00 Location: Lenexa, Kansas
Employer: Advanstar Type: Full Time - Experienced
Category: Direct Marketing: Ecommerce Preferred Education: 4 Year Degree

About Advanstar

Advanstar Communications Inc. serves business professionals and consumers in the Fashion, Life Sciences and Powersports industries with its portfolio of 143 events, 54 publications and directories, 253 electronic products and Web sites, as well as educational and direct marketing products and services. Market leading brands and a commitment to delivering innovative, quality products and services enables Advanstar to ?Connect Our Customers With Theirs.? Advanstar has approximately 600 employees and currently operates from multiple offices in North America and Europe.

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In our key role, you will be responsible for identifying new strategic opportunities as well as developing, implementing and assessing our Veterinary business marketing strategy and related tactical programs and integrated media and promotional campaigns.. Our portfolio consists of four leading publications, 3 conferences, an award-winning website, and a custom media division. . You will be a hands on marketer who will monitor market trends, direct and interpret market research efforts, digital and e-media efforts, while developing and supporting marketing programs and related sales tools. You will work with cross-functional teams and management to identify opportunities and achieve metrics and goals for our brands.

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A college degree in marketing or equivalent and seven to ten years of progressive experience in event media, online or direct marketing or promotions. You will have a progressive track record working within digital and print world through targeted marketing media: social media, search optimization, digital, direct, telemarketing, and print are all media approaches that are key to our business and your success. You should have strong analytics with ability to quantify results of marketing programs, and be able to strategically identify and translate ideas into projects using hands-on capabilities. Demonstrated ability to work with cross functional teams and experience in managing budgets and expenses In addition, must have strong attention to detail, excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and be computer proficient with MS Office products. Veterinary market understanding and agency experience is a strong asset for this position.

Please submit your cover letter resume with salary history to: eastcoastresumes@advanstar.com

We are a fast paced, dynamic, achievement-based environment offering a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes health/dental insurance, LTD, and 401(K).



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Anti-WiFi Wallpaper Available Next Year

hypnosec writes with good news for folks who want to live in a Faraday cage. From the article: "A new type of wallpaper, which has been developed by scientists from the institut polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier, will go on sale in 2013 after a Finnish firm, Ahlstrom acquired the license. What looks like a bog standard wallpaper roll actually contains silver particles that allows it to filter out up to three different frequencies simultaneously. It is not the first time that such a technology has surfaced. Back in 2004, BAE Systems was tasked by Ofcom to come up with a similar solution based on what was then called a stealth wallpaper. It used copper instead of silver and blocked Wi-Fi signals while letting GSM, 4G and emergency calls through. Back then though, a square meter cost ?500 whereas the Wi-Fi wallpaper devised by the French researchers should be priced reasonably, with costs matching those of a "classic", mid-range wallpaper according to M. Lema?tre-Auger, from Grenoble INP."

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Facebook Is Making Its Own App Store Called App Center [Facebook]

Facebook just announced that its making a new app store called App Center that will help Facebook users download apps on any platform—Facebook, the web, iOS, Android, etc. App Center will work over the web and on Facebook iOS and Android apps too. More »


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