Questions about the Tucson Police Department’s handling of unruly crowds at the University Of Arizona.
A video taken Saturday night shows a police officer slamming into a female University Of Arizona student.
Monday 31 March 2014
LinkedIn: A Social Network For Nerds Bragging About Their Jobs
167,903 emails: “Someone would like to add you to their professional network! :)”
More dinos who don't want to add you in their professional networks at Dinosaur Comics.
Kevin Tang
How James Van Der Beek Became A Character Actor Trapped In A Leading Man's Body
Now 36, the former teen star continues to make bold career choices without shying away from his Dawson’s Creek past.
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James Van Der Beek isn't the most casually dressed person at Soho House, a members-only club in West Hollywood, but he's still more dressed down than you'd expect given his surroundings and the fact that, on a quiet Monday afternoon, he's the biggest name in the place.
On the whole, there's little to suggest that Van Der Beek spent six years as one of the biggest stars on television. He's amiable and down-to-earth, smiling consistently as he sips his iced tea. When your most notable acting roles are an impossibly sincere teenager and an exaggerated version of yourself, maintaining a good sense of humor and humility comes with the territory.
Which is not to say that James Van Der Beek doesn't take his work seriously. On the contrary, he's fully committed to his craft. But Van Der Beek, who stars on the upcoming CBS sitcom Friends With Better Lives, has come a long way since he played softhearted Dawson Leery on the WB's iconic teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 until 2003. And that meant learning to stay grounded and keep his ego in check.
"I think probably in my younger days I was a little put off by having to prove myself, but now it's just part of the game," he says. "Part of being a working actor is having to prove yourself every day, every project, every scene, every season. It is what it is. And I've come to accept it, and enjoy it, and enjoy the challenge, and enjoy auditioning."
Now 36, Van Der Beek is a more developed actor than ever before, displaying his range as he moves between sitcoms and serious dramas, like Jason Reitman's Labor Day, released in January. And while no longer a teen heartthrob, Van Der Beek hasn't lost his good looks, maturing from Tiger Beat cute to movie star handsome.
But Van Der Beek is less interested in being a star these days: The more opportunities he gets, the more he realizes he's drawn to strong characters over big roles.
"The size of the role matters almost none to me, as long as there's something to it that I feel like I can grab on to," he says. "I can totally take three great scenes, two great scenes, one great scene in a great movie … I had an agent who called me a 'character actor trapped in a leading man's body,' which to me was the highest compliment of all, because those are the guys I love watching."
Options aren't something Van Der Beek always thought he would have. When he signed on to Don't Trust the B–––– in Apartment 23 in 2011, there was concern that playing a parody of James Van Der Beek could prove limiting. Where do you go after playing yourself?
"In a weird way, it's almost like the playing field is wide open after you do that," Van Der Beek says. "I remember some of the conventional wisdom at the time when I was offered the opportunity was a question of 'Will people be able to take you seriously in serious roles? Is this going to take anything away?' In fact, it did the exact opposite. It actually opened the door to a whole lot more."
Van Der Beek and co-star Katie Holmes as Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek.
Sony Pictures Television
Before James Van Der Beek was James Van Der Beek on Don't Trust the B––––, he was Dawson Leery on Dawson's Creek. Along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Felicity, Dawson's Creek defined the WB as the premier network for smart, sensitive teens. It helped that Dawson was a soulful aspiring filmmaker, wise beyond his years. As played by Van Der Beek, Dawson was iconic for his good nature and unwavering sincerity.
"At the very core of this, we had to find someone who was the leading man of our show, the man around which all of these characters rotate," recalls Paul Stupin, the Dawson's Creek executive producer who approached Kevin Williamson to write the series' pilot. "He had to have a star quality and a real sense of presence. And he also had to combine that with a sense of emotion, a sense of passion, a sense of intellectuality."
To some extent, that perfectly describes Van Der Beek. Dawson's relentless earnestness, however, was a bit much.
"Dawson's sweet, but he's the kind of guy I'd find myself making excuses to not hang out with," he admits, echoing an earlier statement he made to Paper Magazine that stirred up some tabloid controversy.
Van Der Beek isn't being cruel, just honest. But despite their differences, Van Der Beek has long been linked with the character he played for six years. While he was aware of the challenges of being typecast before he joined Dawson's Creek, he wasn't prepared for Dawson's long-lasting influence.
"There was a time when it was frustrating because I always felt very capable of things that had nothing to do with that," Van Der Beek says. "I never felt like I would be trapped or only be able to do that type of character. It seemed so odd to me."
It wasn't just the character of Dawson but that he was so omnipresent, a clear symbol — like Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar and Felicity's Keri Russell — of teen drama's potential.
"It did hold me back," Van Der Beek continues. "'He's so recognizable, is he gonna pull us out of this more serious movie?' And I know that's come up from time to time. When I've gotten opportunities, that has not been the case, so then you think, All right, are we past this now? Are we over it? But at the end of the day, it just makes you work that much harder."
7 Quick Dinners To Make This Week
AKA delicious things to look forward to after a long day.
Stir-Fried Clams with Spicy Bean Sauce Recipe
Get the recipe. Serve with roasted Chinese broccoli and brown rice. (To roast Chinese broccoli, toss it with oil and salt, put in 500 degree oven to 5-7 minutes, chop into smaller pieces then serve.)
Easiest Indian Stew
Chicken & Artichokes In Wine Sauce
Faith Durand / Via thekitchn.com
This Browser Tool Lets You See Anyone's Email Address Via LinkedIn
A marketing company is hijacking LinkedIn to promote its data services. And it’s scarily easy.
Via sellhack.com
If you use LinkedIn, your email address can easily be exposed to anyone with access to a web browser, thanks to a Chrome extension called Sell Hack.
The tool, first noticed by Yahoo Tech , is easy to install after a quick visit to Sell Hack's site. Once installed, a small "Hack In" button will appear on any LinkedIn profile. Users will then be able to dig up an email address associated with the user's account even if they're not "connected" via LinkedIn. A recent Sell Hack blog post notes that the site was created for marketing professionals "as an internal email finder tool for us to use when prospecting."
It's important to note that Sell Hack isn't mining LinkedIn's private data; rather it takes publicly available data (like name and work information) and then references that other publicly available data across the web to find an email address. In short, Sell Hack using is LinkedIn's brand and visibility to sell its data service.
Here's how Sell Hack describes the process :
The data we process is all publicly available. We just do the heavy lifting and complicated computing to save you time. We aren't doing anything malicious to the LinkedIn website. We think browser extensions are the best way to personalize an individuals web experience. We love LinkedIn and are trying to make it better for the community.
I tried it with my boss, since we're not connected on LinkedIn. Once Sell Hack was installed, all I had to do was click the button...
After a few seconds, this started to happen...
Sebelius: Insurers Tell Us 80 To 90 Percent Of "Initial" Obamacare Customers Have Already Paid
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is doing a media blitz of local news channels for Obamacare’s sign-up deadline Monday.
"What we know from insurance companies...tell us for their initial customers it's somewhere between 80, 85, some say as high as 90 percent have paid so far," Sebelius told KWTV during an Obamacare media blitz Monday.
51 Questions We Need Answered In The "How I Met Your Mother" Series Finale
After nine seasons, there are a lot of loose ends that need to be tied up.
CBS
1. What causes Ted to leave Farhampton the night of the wedding?
2. What causes the Mother to leave Farhampton the night of the wedding?
3. Why is Ted still in New York three days after the wedding when he's supposed to move to Chicago the next day?
4. How does Ted ask the Mother out?
5. When do Ted and the Mother get married?
6. Where do Ted and the Mother get married?
7. Where is Penny born?
8. Who, or what, are Ted and the Mother's son Luke named after?
9. Will we see the Mother's doppelganger?
CBS / Via queenmycrofts.tumblr.com
10. How long do Lily and Marshall actually live in Italy?
11. Who lives in the apartment when they move? (Or ::gasp:: does a stranger move in?)
12. What does Marshall do in Italy?
13. How does Marshall get back on the judge track after turning down the seat to move to Italy?
14. Does Lily return to teaching when they move back to New York?
15. Where do Marshall and Lily raise their kids?
16. Does Marshall's mom marry Lily's dad?
17. Do Robin and Barney ever adopt?
18. Does Barney get a new job after outing his co-workers to the Feds?
19. Will we see Robin Sparkles again?
20. Do Robin and Barney stay together forever?
14 People You Didn't Know Voiced Multiple Disney Characters
What would our favorite characters be without voices?
Sterling Holloway
Characters he voiced:
Mr. Stork (Dumbo 1941)
Adult Flower (Bambi 1942)
Prof Holloway (The Three Caballerros 1944)
Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 1966)
Kaa the snake (The Jungle Book 1967)
Roquefort the mouse (The AristoCats 1970)
He was also the narrator for Mickey and the Beanstalk in case you weren't convinced he is a true Disney treasure.
classichollywood101.blogspot.com / Via Walt Disney Animation Studios
Kathryn Beaumont
Characters she voiced:
Alice (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Wendy Darling (Peter Pan 1953).
disney.wikia.com / Via Walt Disney Animation Studios
Verna Felton
Characters she voiced:
Mrs. Jumbo (Dumbo 1941)
Fairy Godmother (Cinderella 1950)
Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Aunt Sarah (Lady and the Tramp 1955)
Flora (Sleeping Beauty 1959)
Mother Elephant (The Jungle Book 1967)
imdb.com / Via Walt Disney Animation Studios
J. Pat O'Malley
Characters he voiced:
Walrus (Alice in Wonderland 1951)
Jasper (101 Dalmatians 1961)
Col. Hathi the Elephant (The Jungle Book 1967)
Otto (Robin Hood 1973).
Findagrave.com / Via Walt Disney Animation Studios
Facebook Used Its Data To Map Every Baseball Team's Fans By County
Or, why everyone seems to be a Yankees fan.
Facebook / Via cdn.bleacherreport.net
Today marks baseball's official Opening Day, and to celebrate, Facebook used some of its user data to map MLB fandom across the country. Specifically, Facebook went to MLB team pages and mapped the likes on each page county by county.
Unsurprisingly, the Yankees appear — based purely off data — to be not only America's favorite team, but Louisiana's favorite team, Virginia's favorite team, Hawaii's favorite team, Alaska's favorite team, and New Mexico's favorite team. If you're a Yankees fan, this is probably a point of pride. For everyone else, the wide dispersement of Yankee fandom no doubt looks like the spread of some vile plague, a nasty pinstriped virus moving swiftly across the nation.
A few more interesting results:
"Red Sox Nation" is real.
The Atlanta Braves own the South.
Via Facebook
MSNBC Shows Wrong Photo In Report About The Death Of Former Senator's Husband
Ronan Farrow reported the death Monday of Ray Hutchison, a former state legislator and the husband of the former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. But the broadcast showed a picture of Kay Bailey Hutchison with former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
45 Things About "Harry Potter" You Wouldn't Know Without Reading The Books
Disclaimer: This list is not a substitution for reading this magical series in its entirety. So get crackin’.
Peeves the Poltergeist
There is a Hogwarts poltergeist named Peeves who wreaks havoc wherever he goes and is actually quite hilarious.
Pass the Moldy Cheese
Ghosts hold deathday parties to celebrate the day that they died. Harry, Ron, and Hermione attended Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday party on Halloween in their second year where they were served rotten fish, maggoty haggis, moldy cheese, and a tombstone-shaped gray cake.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Close One, Snivellus
When they were students at Hogwarts, Sirius Black intentionally lured Severus Snape to the Shrieking Shack when Remus Lupin was going through his transformation from man to werewolf, with the intention of Snape being gravely injured. But James Potter caught wind of the scheme and went after Snape and saved him.
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Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and James Potter were the authors of the Marauder’s Map.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Organizing For Action Is Still Asking For Money After Implying They Would Stop
Yes we can….spam your inbox.
From the Times piece:
Responding to these concerns, several Democrats said Friday that Organizing for Action would cut back its fund-raising activities so the group would not be in competition with the candidates for donors. Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for it, said, "We understand and expect that some of our more than 420,000 contributors will shift their focus to their local campaigns during the midterm season."
But OFA definitely has not cut back their email fundraising effort. The past week has seen 14 emails from OFA that included a link to donate to the group.
(Two of the above emails — "Forward this" and "We're giving this sticker away - want one?" — do not include donate links.)
Organizing for Action Emails/Andrew Kaczynski's Inbox
"As OFA has been fighting for the last year we will continue to tell the success stories of ACA and fight on issues that the american people want to see action on like raising the minimum wage. We understand that some of our more than 420,000 contributors that give an average contribution of under $40 will shift their focus to their local campaigns during the midterm season. OFA does not work on electoral politics, and will still be engaged on the issues through our more than 4.4 million action takers across the country."
18 Strange And Possibly Sacrilegious Vatican Souvenirs Featuring Pope Francis
Because who doesn’t want a papal shot glass?
Bobbleheads.
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed
Spoons.
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed
Tapestries.
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed
Magnets.
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed
21 Hashtags For Everyone In The Midwest
#WhereTheFuckIsSpring
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Watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt Awkwardly Defend Cutting His Hair In 1998
From when JGL’s hair was more famous than he was.
In 1998, Joseph Gordon-Levitt went on Conan to promote his latest movie, Halloween H2O. The first thing Conan remarked was that JGL's hair was gone...
Joe didn't really know what to say...
But then he had to explain how complicated it was to get permission to cut off his distinctive locks.
Which was a big deal, because remember this?
23 Surefire Ways To Piss Off A Server
The job is a lot more difficult than you think.
Splitting the bill 17 ways with 5 mixed matched methods of payment.
Yes, the process is streamlined with a POS system, but it's easier to let them know before hand.
Via economictimes.indiatimes.com
Complaining or wanting a refund after finishing the entire meal.
Via seriouseats.com
Talking on the phone while the server is trying to take your order.
"Just go ahead and text the order when you're ready."
Asking for copious amounts of complementary items.
Seven baskets of bread sticks is enough.
Via dealnews.com
Lindsay Lohan's New Hobby Is Pole Dancing
Hey, whatever works.
The controversial star discussed her favorite hobby on her show Lindsay.
Lindsay / OWN
"It's actually a really good workout. It's really empowering for women to get to know your body and yourself."
Lindsay / OWN
"I like doing that kind of workout and I sweat more doing that than I do doing yoga, or getting on a treadmill, or anything else."
Lindsay / OWN
Why does the light bulb have to be red?
Lindsay / OWN
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