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Pet Wolf Yuki (9 pics), from Daily Picdump - Funny and interesting pictures updated every single day | Funny pictures daily http://dailypicdump.com/

@LisaZdravkovic: @peteashton have a read :o).... http://t.co/0LgV1oQy

@robinince: nothing worth your while on TV? so here is The Quest for Tanna Tuva - Feynman may have been ill, but always inspiring http://t.co/i7I8sYcM

@BM_AG: Just read: "Birmingham: A new museum for photography?" on British photographic history: http://t.co/mlO5LYkD

Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought might be somewhat interesting to see what we'd find if we just removed an entire slice of the web.

"The digital version of Helvetica that everyone knows and uses today is quite different from the typeface’s pre-digital design from 1957. Originally released as Neue Haas Grotesk, many of the features that made it a Modernist favorite have been lost in translation over the years from one typesetting technology to the next."

cperciva's achievements: interesting when you think about tarsnap's pricing model (picodollars etc)

The Power of Positive Lightning, from Damn Interesting http://www.damninteresting.com

As the game progresses, your goal is to gain points, apportion them wisely, and level up. If you start with fewer points and fewer of them in critical stat categories, or choose poorly regarding the skills you decide to level up on, then the game will still be difficult for you. But because you’re playing on the “Straight White Male” setting, gaining points and leveling up will still by default be easier, all other things being equal, than for another player using a higher difficulty setting.

Likewise, it’s certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and/or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and/or simply because they play the game better than you do. It doesn’t change the fact you are still playing on the lowest difficulty setting.

You can lose playing on the lowest difficulty setting. The lowest difficulty setting is still the easiest setting to win on. The player who plays on the “Gay Minority Female” setting? Hardcore.