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Art, Meet Cookie Monster
One of my favorite pieces of art paired with my favorite Sesame Street character. Via photosunny on Reddit.
Comment from discussion Great wave of Kanagawa (4,335 × 2,990).
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Awesome Zelda Art from GlitchCon
Light Grey Art Lab runs an event called GlitchCon, which is described as:
a 2-day festival hosted at the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota campus that explores video games as a culture, career, and creative practice.
You can see more art form the event over on Geek-Art, although I of
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Pinterest Just Made a Big Move
Well, we’re excited to let you in on some good news! In a few weeks, we’ll be introducing buyable Pins—just another way to bring the creative ideas you find on Pinterest to life.
- via Pinterest
This is huge!
And when you pay with Apple Pay, it uses a device specific account number
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USB-C is the Future
And earlier today Intel helped deliver the first blow, announcing that Thunderbolt 3 would adopt the USB-C connector after previous iterations used Mini DisplayPort. Thunderbolt 3 stands on USB 3.1’s shoulders to deliver speeds of up to 40Gbps, letting you run two 4K displays at 60Hz through just one port. It’s
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What’s Up with Google and Android Wear?
They made no mention of anything meaningful in health and fitness, and the didn’t address the slowly-coming-into-focus idea that the wrist can really be a great place for technology. It all just felt very blah.
- Abdel Ibrahim for WatchAware
I agree with Abdel that Google’s Wear announcements were pretty bland.
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Is Destiny Really a Terrible Video Game?
Jon Bois writing for SBNation:
Destiny both represents and precipitates a slow death of the heart. Ostensibly presented, as is every video game, as a refuge from our work and obligations, it instead re-packages that work and those obligations, rejoicing in them, blissfully conflating "doing stuff" with "fun." It doesn&
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Spectacular Blade Runner Poster
I know this is a truly excellent poster because I really want to watch Blade Runner right now. Via The Ninja Bot, but it's tragically sold through its limited run.
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Custom Crystal Pokéballs
I missed out on my chance to get a Charizard Amiibo for a reasonable price yesterday, but I would pay so much more for one of these custom-made pokéballs.
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I Wish This Was Real: The Tea Calendar
The Tea Calendar is a super rad concept for a tea sampler. I don’t even drink much tea, but I would take it up to use this calendar.
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The Anti-Tidal Press Continues
That’s Business, Man: Why Jay Z’s Tidal Is a Complete Disaster - Bloomberg
Some of the Tidal artist-owners can’t pull their work from rival services—because their record deals don’t allow it—but this raises a delicate question: If they could, do Jay Z and his partners really believe that their
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The Pebble Faithful Are Getting Bent Out of Shape
Reviews are out for the Pebble Time, and Pebble diehards at /r/pebble are going nuts over some of them. This thread in particular has drawn quite a bit of ire. I find it fascinating how much weight people put on review scores. Some suggested that The Verge was too afraid to give the Pebble
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Heist Nabs GAME's Entire Splatoon Inventory
Splatoon stock swiped in Nintendo lorry heist - Eurogamer
A lorry carrying stock of Splatoon and its various Amiibo figurines has been stolen.
Copies of the rarer, more expensive Splatoon Special Edition - which contains the game's rare Squid Amiibo - made up much of the delivery.
GAME's entire shipment is now gone.
Just
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Smart Watches are Made for Goliaths
Serenity Caldwell on smart watch sizing
It just baffles me. Women buy phones. We like technology. And, by and large, we like nice-looking jewelry on our wrists. Yet Apple is the only company that even considered including women in its initial watch marketing.
Even speaking as a man, I don’t like large watches,
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Photos, Photos Everywhere
Google is releasing “Photos” for Android
We’ve been hearing for a very long time - virtually ever since Vic Gundotra left Google+, with more rumors springing up recently - that Photos would be splitting off from Google’s social/sign-in platform. We’ve heard vague rumblings, and even seen some baby steps toward this split,
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Love Loving Things
Tomorrowland review | The Verge
Hating on things is fun. Particularly online, where we tend to grade things not by the ways in which they succeed, but by the degrees in which they fail to meet our expectations.
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What can be hard is looking past that cynicism and admit to actually liking things.
Bryan Bishop has
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Ad Blocking Is On The Rise
Ad Blocking Poses a Growing Challenge to Media Companies - American Journalism Review
The same report found the number of people blocking ads on Google Chrome increased 96 percent from midyear 2013 to midyear 2014, and the number blocking ads using Firefox rose 21 percent.
It felt like the web was getting better a few years
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Take Your Time to Form an Opinion
Andy Ihnatko on reviewing tech products:
My immediate plans for the Apple Watch include a quick first-look for the Sun-Times and then (yeeks) at least three weeks of daily wear before I even consider writing up my formal take on it. It’s important to get a lot of serious “deep soak” experience
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Practice Makes Perfect No Matter How Big You Are
Star Wars Battlefront on PS4 looks amazing, and here's why - PlayStation Universe
Ingvarsdóttir said that the team were able to squeeze a lot of power out of Sony's black box due to being more familiar with the hardware. Specifically, working with Battlefield 4, which was a launch title for PS4, helped