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Fashion Fab: The Gayest T-Shirt At Comic Con

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Every time I go to an event, I always keep my eyes open for really great shirts. At this year’s Comic Con I happened upon this guy wearing what had to be not only the most awesome t-shirt at the Con, but definitely the gayest t-shirt at the con. Sadly, I didn’t think to ask the wearer where he had gotten it and a cursory scouring of Google has turned up no leads. If any of you can figure it out, please let the rest of us know! Everybody needs some robot on android love.

Quote Of The Day

Shared by Erin

I will admit that I love the word too!

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“I say it only around men, but I love it. Cunt is in Chaucer, in Shakespeare! I say, Let’s bring it back!”

- Rob Thomason C*NT being his favorite word, to the new issue of Rolling Stone

[Image via WENN.]

Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 [Image Cache]

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Holy fuck. These two guys are pretty much the coolest motherfuckers on the planet right now.

Holy frak. Holy frak. HOLYROLLERBLADINGFRAK! Movie producers paid two Sukhoi Su-35 pilots to fly without a canopy at Mach 2.0, and have one of them eject in what probably is one of the most dangerous stunts ever filmed.

While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside – it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air.

That’s what the pilot who remained in the cabin said he did after his crazy comrade ejected, landing safely on the ground. I don’t know what this movie is, but I definitely want to see it.

To add even more awesome details, the actual airplane is the SU-35UB prototype, identified by its tail number 801. This is the most advanced Sukhoi fighter ever built. Crazy Ivans indeed. [The Dew Line]

Is Cursive Handwriting Dead? [Ask The Readers]

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I only write in cursive. Only. I’m 20 years old.

Cursive handwriting, a one-time mainstay of communication and mark of status, has become a rarity on the cusp of extinction. We’re wondering if you think that’s a good thing for all those future thank-you notes and other correspondence.

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If you’ve long since abandoned writing in cursive, you’re in the good company of most of the world and the entire Lifehacker editorial staff. According to TIME magazine, cursive has been on a slow decline since the 1920s and practically on life support since the 1980s:

People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that’s not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven’t learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. “Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore,” he says.

Write everything in cursive? Only your signature? Plan never to write another word in cursive, thanks to the non-tender ministrations of Sister Angelina?

Do You Write in Cursive?(polls)
Log your vote in the poll above and then sound off in the comments with your tales of dapper penmanship or handwriting woes.