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1. Doublefine is trying to crowdfund Psychonauts 2.

2. The Good Dinosaur crew gift.

3. Telltale is making a Batman game. Relatedly, the Arkham Knight is the newest unlockable character in Injustice.

4. NECA's making action figures based on the characters from the video game Contra.

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1. "Drudge has a profound effect on America’s premier news outlets: it’s the top source for referral traffic to industry powerhouses like Fox News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Reuters among others."

2. Photo gallery: "Mount Sinabung looms above the abandoned village of Sukanalu in North Sumatra, Indonesia"

3. "Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser because he lived through the Napoleonic Wars."

4. From my wishlist, The Teleportation Accident: A Novel is $1.99 right now.

Michelle Roque 2015 Flag Football Highlight Tape

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1. "dealers say despite this, there is one thing Isis still needs: ammunition"

the fast-paced fighting in between — mostly with Kalashnikovs and truck-mounted machine guns — can consume tens of thousands of bullets in a single day. Fighters say that ammunition trucks resupply various front lines every day.

...

The jihadis’ opponents are intrigued by the group’s ability to move huge supplies of munitions quickly during fighting. In northern Iraq, Kurdish peshmerga fighters recovered detailed documents of weapons and ammunition shipments outlining orders that had been made for the battles that had just ended.
“Within 24 hours, the ammunition was sent to them by car,”

2. "Nuts-and-bolts Washington coverage has shifted to subscription-based publications, while the capitol’s traditional outlets have shrunk."

while political news is everywhere, coverage of the day-to-day inner workings of government—the slow, steady development of policy in Congress, in the administration, and in the independent regulatory agencies, and how those policies are implemented—has become increasingly scarce in the media that average citizens historically have relied upon.

The opposite, however, is true of the “paywall press”—that is, high-subscription, insider-oriented news organizations like the one I worked for in 2009 and the ones I have worked for since. This sector of the Fourth Estate is booming, and its coverage of government has never been more robust.

3. Spider-Gwen Marvel Legends series now available for preorder.

4. New movie-inspired travel posters in Steve Thomas's webshop (50% off posters right now, I think, with the code ZAZWEEKSALES ).

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1. "Transform Your Leftover Turkey Into Crispy, Juicy Carnitas"

2. Guy Davis:

A recent episode of this years Simpsons (“Halloween of Horror” Season 27 Ep 4) had the Cthulhu I designed from Guillermo del Toro’s Treehouse of Horror XXIV

3. "Did you watch Magic Mike XXL and think, Hmm, whatever happened to Alex Pettyfer"

Pettyfer ended up renting an apartment in New York through Tatum's friend. He left after four months due to an allergic reaction, but says he forgot to pay rent ..."I all of a sudden got a very negative email from Channing, rightfully so, saying, 'Don't fuck my friends. You owe money. Pay the fucking money. Don't be a clown,'" probably in all caps. Pettyfer didn't take it well and, out of spite, refused to pay the rent

4. A detailed discussion regarding whether Football and the mirror world were real or all in BMO's head.

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1. "That Time Europe Air-Dropped Vaccine-Loaded Chicken Heads to Bait Rabid Foxes"

William Winkler developed a more effective but equally wince-inducing option: the Vac-Trap. Picture a foot pad, connected to a spring-loaded armature that held a vaccine-filled syringe. Step on the pad and—bam!—syringe in the leg. It worked, but as Winkler wrote, “it proved too hazardous.” Anyone, including unlucky hikers, could trigger the giant needle.

2. "Police in Kern County, California, have killed more people per capita than in any other American county in 2015. The Guardian examines how, with little oversight, officers here became the country’s most lethal"

3. "SEC Charges Bitcoin Startup CEO With Running a Ponzi Scheme"

“There are a lot of people in the bitcoin community that were familiar with the general scammy nature of his fraudulent promises,” he said. “He was uniformly recognized as a fraud, and nobody likes a fraud because it devalues the honest work other people do.”

4. Picked up from my wishlist, The Red: First Light (The Red Trilogy Book 1) is $1.99 at Amazon right now.

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1. "Russian Wikipedia on Friday said it had indefinitely suspended an editor who organized a meeting with Russian authorities to agree to closer cooperation on 'socially sensitive' entries."

2. "14 Percent of Los Angeles County Land is Dedicated to Parking"

3. "Less than a day after Motherboard revealed that the hacker who breached the company also obtained thousands of pictures of children and parents, as well as a year’s worth of chat logs, VTech revealed that the breach affected more than 6 million children and not just 200,000."

4. Injection by Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey is great and currently 99 cents an issue at Amazon.