New posters for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

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1.  Wolfenstein The New Order free paper toys.

2. How to motivate yourself.

3.  Fun fan theories: Dumbledore is actually a time traveling ____;  Kylo Ren is actually ____ all grown up.

4. Ex Machina (Blu-ray + Digital HD) is $13.99; Skyfall [Blu-ray + DHD] is $6.00.

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1. Remember Google Flu Trends?

GFT failed—and failed spectacularly—missing at the peak of the 2013 flu season by 140 percent...Google quietly euthanized the program

2. "Unflagging, unwearying, unrelenting; he is the Anton Chigurh of goodness."

The Case For Making Columbo America’s Doctor Who

3. 500GB PlayStation 4 Console - Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection Bundle with Assassin's Creed Syndicate for $350 at Amazon.

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1.  The New Yorker on Salem's Witches:

In isolated settlements, in smoky, fire-lit homes, New Englanders lived very much in the dark, where one listens more acutely, feels most passionately, and imagines most vividly, where the sacred and the occult thrive. The seventeenth-century sky was crow black, pitch-black, Bible black, so black that it could be difficult at night to keep to the path, so black that a line of trees might freely migrate to another location, or that you might find yourself pursued by a rabid black hog, leaving you to crawl home on all fours, bloody and disoriented. Even the colony’s less isolated outposts felt their fragility. A tempest blew the roof off one of the finest homes in Salem as its ten occupants slept. A church went flying, with its congregation inside.

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In 1692, a basic medical kit looked little different from an ancient Greek one, consisting as it did of beetle’s blood, fox lung, and dried dolphin heart. In plasters or powders, snails figured in many remedies.

2. Gallery of Soma screenshots.

3. Gotham Academy Vol. 1 is terrific--Harry Potter-esque hijinks at a boarding school funded by Bruce Wayne, with art that looks like stills from a cartoon.

The Force Awakens movie poster recreated with stock photos of people in Star Wars costumes from Party City

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1. "Lenny Dykstra [claimed] he used to blackmail umpires"

2. "Macy’s Disclaimer: Sale Item May Have Never Sold For ‘Regular’ Price"

3. Comparing the mainstream media's take on new Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg ("the Ames man known as 'the mayor' oversaw a basketball practice, chatted with broadcasters, answered questions and behaved mayorally") with a professional gambler's ("Every single NCAA bettor who i’ve talked to (who is successful) has said he was horrible").

Psychonauts Raz Plush

Available for preorder.