An infographic that keeps track of all of Shakespeare's deaths for you (io9)
Cam Magee and Caitlin S. Griffin created a infographic that crosses Shakespeare with the people from bathroom signs. It shows every death from the tragedies, plus one of the most famous stage directions ever, from The Winter's Tale: "Exit, pursued by a bear."
23 Outrageous Marketing Lies You See Every Day (Cracked)
The claim "they can't advertise that or else they could get sued" is a wicker shield at best. Not only do companies try it all the time, but some of them have succeeded and continue to sell you products chock full of false information.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to as Number 1, an official numerical position given to members of SPECTRE.
He was played on screen by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow, among others. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a closeup of him stroking his white blue-eyed Turkish Angora.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Turkish angora
mj wrote:
The cat was running the show all along.
I'm pretty sure it was Persian, now Iran.
Alan J responded:
Turkish Angora
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Turkish Angora
Sally said:
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a super villain from the James Bond series, is frequently shown stroking his white, blue-eyed, Persian cat.
PS: Well, we missed the storm bullet, it passed us by and headed down to South Jersey. Barely got a half inch of snow out of it. No shoveling for me - yeah!
@Marian, glad to read that your are back home safe and sound!
Adam answered:
As a James Bond fan I should know this, but I'm just now finding out Blofeld's cat is Persian.
Marian wrote:
Persian...Sally, hope that your storm got downgraded as Philly went from a predicted foot of snow to about five inches. And the ice which was supposed to be the big problem melted before the snow hit.
Dale Hollywood of Diamond Springs, Norrainycali, responded:
I hardly knows cats at all. But I do knows a Persian when I seeze one. Blofeld was friends with Dickster.
PS - Joe, did you even see Dallas Buyer's Club?
PPS - I did see all of the movies that won the Oscars in the contest. And others too!
Lois With The Expired License To Kill In Oregon replied:
Dr. No's kitty was a Persian, or as they are now known, an
Iranian, and you can own a replica today if you act fast!
Get your bid in on e-bay, and enjoy stroking your own
stuffed SPECTOR mascot (thought I was going to say "pussy"
didn't you) in the privacy of your own home! Act now and get
two bonus easy-to-keep pet cats.
DJ Useo, said:
I don't know breeds of cat. I would'a called it a 'fuzzy cat', but luckily,
my wife was home. She already knew it was a 'Persian Angora'.
Thanks to Patricia.
MAM wrote:
White Turkish Angora ~ The breed is also sometimes referred to as simply the Angora or Ankara cat.
BttbBob answered:
What? Angora cats ain't gots no horns! I thought we'd agreed on the Gnu (or warthogs or aardvarks - an' I know aardvarks ain't gots no horns neither, ya don't have to remind me). How's 'bout: What cervid species (thats 'deer' to all y'all city-slickers ... Yeah, SP, I'm talkin' to you!) is the only one where both sexes have antlers? Huh? What? Now there's a spifferifically (I just made that word up - pretty cool, eh?) fine question, I'm tellin' ya, dagnabbit! Better yet! What is the only cervid with tusks? Un-huh... Yeah, ya read it right... tusks!
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Bah! Long haired felines just shed all over the damn'd place, anyways... I know... I've had one.
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I guess I'm just kinda crabilacious (I just made that word up, too) at the moment... Ya know what I mean? I'll betcha "The Boss" does...
And, Joe S replied:
It's a Turkish Angora. Turkish Angoras are one of the ancient, natural breeds of cat, having originated in central Turkey, in the Ankara region (historically known as Angora). The breed has been documented as early as the 1600s and is believed to be the origin of the mutations for both the coloration white (the dominant white gene is in truth the absence of color) and long hair. The breed is also sometimes referred to as simply the Angora or Ankara cat.
Cats, contrary to popular opinion, are not native to this planet. No, they were left here as spies to get to know humans, and their ways, and eventually take over the earth for the Alien Overlords. I mean, look. They have retractable claws, what other animal has retractable claws? And those eyes, look at those eyes, slitty pupils. I know some of the big cats have round pupils, but not all. All cats, regardless of size, are basically the same animal and they have no cousins, like primates for instance. And they're prickly, they have thin sharp claws, thin sharp teeth, their fur is prickly and so are their tongues. They could lick the skin right off you if they wanted to. They are all killers, everyone of them. Oh they may try to disguise it, but they're killers. You think they are pets? Do you? You think you can train a cat? I don't think so, but they sure as hell can train you. I rest my case.
See? Killers.
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All male deer have antlers with one exception. What is that exception?
Chinese Water Deer
With the exception of the Chinese Water Deer, which have tusks, all male deer have antlers. Source
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Michael Keaton and Phantogram.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Elijah Wood, Keke Palmer, and Glasvegas.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'About A Boy', then a FRESH'Growing Up Fisher', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Chelsea Handler and Lea Michele.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Ralph Fiennes, Allison Williams, and Mike Birbiglia.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Tony Revolori, Kodaline, and Ron Josol.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', followed by a FRESH'The Goldbergs', then a FRESH'Trophy Wife', followed by a FRESH'Mind Games'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jane Lynch, Omar Epps, and Fitz & the Tantrums.
The CW has a FRESH'The Originals', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Columbus Short, Draya Michelle, Malaysia Pargo, and Brandi Maxiell.
Faux has a FRESH'Glee', followed by a FRESH'New Girl', then a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rocky III', followed by the movie 'Rocky IV', then a FRESH'Game Of Arms'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Smith and Jones
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Shakespeare Code
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH-Season 3 - Ep 5 - Day Five
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 9 - Force of Nature
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 10 - Inheritance
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Revisited: La Riviera
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 8 - Michon's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 9 - El Greco
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 2
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 3
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 5 - Deserts
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 6 - Ice Worlds
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 7 - Great Plains
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 8 - Jungles
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 9 - Shallow Seas
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 5 - Deserts
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 6 - Ice Worlds
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 7 - Great Plains
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 8 - Jungles
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 9 - Shallow Seas
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 5 - Deserts
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 6 - Ice Worlds (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Flipping Out', 'Southern Charm', 'Real Housewives Of BH', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Kroll Show', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Kroll Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jim DeMint.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jaron Lanier.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man', followed by a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'Counting Cars', then a FRESH'American Restoration', and another 'American Restoration'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Birthday Boys-Catching up on Shows
[6:30AM] The Fog
[8:30AM] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
[11:30AM] DeepStar Six
[1:45PM] The Children
[3:30PM] The Fog
[5:30PM] Boiler Room
[8:00PM] A Nightmare on Elm Street
[10:00PM] A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
[11:45PM] A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
[1:45AM] A Nightmare on Elm Street
[3:45AM] A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
[5:30AM] Portlandia-Sharing Finances (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Sundance Shorts
[6:15AM] The Red Violin
[9:00AM] An Education
[11:15AM] The First Time
[1:15PM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[3:30PM] The Wackness
[5:45PM] Hard Eight
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Legacy
[9:00PM] Up in the Air
[11:15PM] The Ides of March
[1:30AM] A Single Man
[3:45AM] Hard Candy (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Carvers'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Betty White, Jason Momoa, and American Authors.
English actor Hugh Laurie looks out at the crowd as Bacchus 2014 during the Krewe of Bacchus Parade in New Orleans, Louisiana USA on 02 March, 2014. The city's Mardi Gras celebration will continue through the weekend and cullminates with Fat Tuesday.
Photo by Dan Anderson
A U.S. advertisement for a movie that sounded like an emergency alert has drawn fines of $1.9 million for media companies Viacom Inc and Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal and ESPN, co-controlled by Walt Disney Co. after viewer complaints.
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it found the three companies "apparently willfully and repeatedly violated" the rules that prohibit the use of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) sounds for purposes other than to warn viewers of national emergencies.
Several consumers had complained about the trailer for the movie "The Olympus Has Fallen" shown on the television channels Comedy Central, ESPN and SyFy in March of 2013.
The FCC review confirmed that the 30-second ad for the movie used portions of EAS codes and alert signals, accompanied by text "this is not a test" and "this is not a drill," which caused "the transmission of false distress signals."
Viacom now faces $1.1 million in penalties for airing the ad 108 times on seven of its channels; NBCUniversal faces a charge of $530,000 for showing the trailer 38 times on seven of its cable networks; and ESPN faces a penalty of $280,000 for showing the promo 13 times on three of its networks.
Nancy Wilson (L) and Ann Wilson pose with Steven Tyler as they arrive at the 2014 Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd claimed Monday that Japanese whalers attacked its vessels in the Southern Ocean, and accused the Australian government of "broken promises" to monitor whaling operations.
Sea Shepherd said Japanese harpoon ships, the Yushin Maru and Yushin Maru 3, towed steel cables across the bow of its vessel the Bob Barker 11 times on Sunday in a bid to jam its propeller and rudder.
It said that when the Bob Barker launched two small boats to defend the ship and cut the steel cables, a bamboo spear was thrown at crew members.
Japan's fisheries agency said its ships were dragging cables with buoys as a warning to Sea Shepherd to stay away.
For centuries, farmers in the fragile ecosystems of the high Andes have looked to the behavior of plants and animals to figure out what crops to grow and when.
If reeds dried up in the late summer, rainless weather lay ahead, they believed. If the Andean fox made a howling appearance, abundant rains were thought sure to come. But increasingly erratic weather that scientists attribute to global warming is rendering their age-old methods less reliable, endangering harvests in a region where life is hard in the best of times.
In the reeds on Titicaca's shore, he points out the height of the nests built by birds known as quilli quilli, a diminutive species similar to hummingbirds. Farmers have long used the locations of those nests as measures of how much the lake will rise and the amount of rainfall to come.
"This year they initially built their nests about 40 centimeters (1.3 feet) above the water level. Then they dismantled them," Condori says. Twice, in fact, did the birds dismantle nests before finally reweaving them at nearly twice their original height. "We knew it was going to rain a lot," he says.
Musician Jimmy Buffett and his wife Jane Slagsvol arrive at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
A new interactive graphic shows the ebb and flow of baby name popularity over time. Enter a name and watch a U.S. map scroll through nearly a century of baby-name data to see when names caught on, and how they spread.
Creator Brian Rowe used census data to show the prevalence of more than 29,000 baby names across the country, state-by-state. Jacob, the most popular name for boys as of 2012, starts out strong in Alaska in 1917 and remains fairly constant throughout the country until the 1970s, when it catches on out West and spreads.
Sophia, the No. 1 name for girls, takes off in the late 1990s, with Rhode Island leading the pack in proportion of girls with this name. Other names are newbies: Nevaeh, which is "heaven" spelled backwards and often tops lists of most-hated baby names, doesn't appear on Census records until 2001. The name appears strangely popular in New Mexico beginning in that year.
The West is known for broader acceptance of unique baby names, and cowboy-esque monikers show a clear regional distinction. The name Gunner, for example, shows up in stronger proportions in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska in the early 2000s before moving into the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana. Unsurprisingly, you won't run into too many Gunners in New York or Vermont.
Bill Gates has returned to the top of Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people, as rising stock markets swelled the ranks of billionaires, which included a record number of women.
With a net worth of $76 billion, the Microsoft Corp co-founder reclaimed the top spot after a four-year hiatus, toppling Mexico's telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim Helu, who placed second at $72 billion, Forbes said in announcing the list on Monday.
Investing icon Warren Buffett, who runs Berkshire Hathaway Inc and is a frequent bridge partner for Gates, was fourth at $58.2 billion. Oracle Corp chief Larry Ellison came in fifth at $48 billion.
A record 1,645 billionaires with a total net worth of $6.4 trillion made Forbes' list, up from 1,426 last year.
Producer Megan Ellison (L) arrives with Robyn Shapiro at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Italy's culture minister demanded explanations on Sunday after more collapses this weekend in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii raised concerns about the state of one of the world's most treasured archaeological sites.
Pompeii, preserved under ash from a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. and rediscovered in the 18th century, has been hit by a series of collapses in recent months and years which have sparked international outcry over the neglect of the site.
Officials said the wall of a tomb around 1.7 meters (5.5 feet) high and 3.5 meters long collapsed in the necropolis of Porta Nocera in the early hours of Sunday.
That followed a smaller collapse on Saturday of part of an arch supporting the Temple of Venus.
Conan O'Brien and his wife Liza Powell, arrive at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
News Corp's education division Amplify on Monday unveiled a digital curriculum aimed at middle school students in a move to kick-start growth in the unit after years of investment.
The curriculum is for English Language Arts aimed at sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students, and features content from a library of e-books, dramatic readings by actors, story animations, and role-playing games about classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe.
Amplify is betting on the changes roiling U.S. school districts, which are spending billions of dollars on digital technology at the expense of textbooks. At the same time, many states are moving toward adopting Common Core, a national academic standard that Amplify follows.
Amplify will make the digital lessons available starting at $45 per student per year in fall 2014. It plans to roll out curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade 12 for English, math and science at a later date.
Education is a cause close to the heart of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch (R-Puppet Master), who has been a vocal advocate of school reform privatization.
Birtish singer Marianne Faithfull arrives at the Stella McCartney's ready-to-wear fall/winter 2014-2015 fashion collection presented in Paris, Monday, March 3, 2014.
Photo by Thibault Camus
Nationalist Japanese politicians urged the government on Monday to revise a 1993 apology over Asian women forced to serve in wartime brothels, saying accounts that tens of thousands of women were forcibly recruited were a "total lie".
Any revision to the landmark apology by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono would enrage Japan's neighbors, China and South Korea, from where most of the "comfort women" were drawn. Both accuse Japan of failing to atone fully for aggression before and during World War Two.
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which wants to bolster the military and be less apologetic about the past, has said it will set up a team to review the testimony of South Korean comfort women. But officials have been careful to avoid any mention of revising or watering down the apology.
Noriaki Nakayama, a lawmaker from the nationalist Japan Restoration Party, which Abe's government looks to for support, dismissed any notion of large-scale forced recruitment of women.
The 1993 apology recognized the involvement of military authorities in the brothel system and apologized for the women's suffering. It was based in part on the testimony of 16 South Korean women, their identities kept anonymous in line with a Japanese government pledge.
Musician T-Bone Burnett and his wife Callie Khouri arrive at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Climbers scaling Mount Everest will have to bring back eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) of garbage under new rules designed to clean up the world's highest peak, a Nepalese official said Monday.
The rule, one of several new measures for mountaineering in the Himalayan nation, will apply to climbers ascending beyond Everest's base camp from April onwards, said tourism ministry official Madhusudan Burlakoti.
Decades of mountaineering have taken a toll on the peak, which is strewn with rubbish from past expeditions, including oxygen cylinders, human waste and even climbers' bodies, which do not decompose in the extreme cold.
Expeditions will have to submit their trash to an office to be set up next month at base camp. It will also offer medical aid and resolve conflicts, after a brawl between European climbers and local guides last year.
A carnival float with papier-mache caricatures of Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) kissing a Russian-orthodox priest, takes part in the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German city of Duesseldorf March 3, 2014. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season. The heart reads 'homophobic?' and 'Certainly not us'.
Photo by Ina Fassbender
A mysterious giant virus buried for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost has been resurrected.
The virus only infects single-celled organisms and doesn't closely resemble any known pathogens that harm humans.
Even so, the new discovery raises the possibility that as the climate warms and exploration expands in long-untouched regions of Siberia, humans could release ancient or eradicated viruses. These could include Neanderthal viruses or even smallpox that have lain dormant in the ice for thousands of years.
"There is now a non-zero probability that the pathogenic microbes that bothered [ancient human populations] could be revived, and most likely infect us as well," study co-author Jean-Michel Claverie, a bioinformatics researcher at Aix-Marseille University in France, wrote in an email. "Those pathogens could be banal bacteria (curable with antibiotics) or resistant bacteria or nasty viruses. If they have been extinct for a long time, then our immune system is no longer prepared to respond to them."
A carnival float depicting US president Barack Obama, left, putting whistleblower Edward Snowden on an electric chair during the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on Monday, March 3, 2014. The foolish street spectacles in the carnival centers of Duesseldorf, Mainz and Cologne, watched by hundreds of thousands of people, are the highlights in Germany's carnival season on Rose Monday.
Photo by Martin Meissner
In the latest indignity suffered by Soviet-era monuments in Bulgaria, unknown artists Saturday transformed a huge sculpture into a colossal version of a traditional lucky charm in the eastern European country.
The two giant figures of a man and a woman -- representing participants in Bulgaria's anti-fascist resistance movement who descended from the mountains to greet the Soviet army at the end of World War II -- were wrapped in white and red cloth.
They resembled the red-and-white yarn figurines of traditional Bulgarian folklore that people here exchange on March 1 as lucky charms to wish each other health during the year.
The makeover comes less than a week after another Soviet army monument in downtown Sofia was painted in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag and adorned with the caption of "Glory to Ukraine!!!" to back anti-government protests in Kiev.
In 2011, unknown artists had turned the monument's soldiers into pop culture heroes -- including Superman, Captain America and fast-food mascot Ronald McDonald -- with buckets of paint.
A Hasselblad 500 'EL DATA CAMERA HEDC' is displayed at Westlicht photographic gallery and auction house in Vienna March 3, 2014. The camera was used by James Irvin during an Apollo 15 mission and is the only Hasselblad camera which has returned to earth from the moon surface. The fully working camera will be on auction on March 22 for a starting bid of 80,000 euros ($110.000), with an estimated value range from 150,000 euros ($207.000) to 200,000 euros ($275,000).
Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader
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