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His family notified via tweet that Gilbert Gottfried passed away after a long illness at the age of 67. This photo is even more sad now:

Apparently he was living with colon cancer since 2016 and nobody knew.

My wife hates how she looks. She feels heavy and ugly every day. Every day I tell her she's beautiful to me, and I could never want anyone else besides her. I have a feeling, though, my words are meaningless to her now, since I'm biased towards her and always supportive. Is there anything else...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Jack-Andraka-the-Teen-Prodigy-of-Pancreatic-Cancer-179996151.html?c=y&story=fullstory So, this is a little old, but I just heard about it yesterday, and didn't see anything about this. I'm generally pretty skeptical about purported advancements in...

Wherein I make an attempt to be less introverted and latch onto a fad long since tired out.

Hostess is closing for good: http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/

Alex Karras passed away today at the age of 77 after kidney failure. He was most famous for being a professional football player in the 60's, playing Mongo in Blazing Saddles, and playing Webster's dad in Webster.

You may not know Bob Anderson by his name, or even his face... ...but if you were to compile a list of top 10 movie sword fights of all time, he's likely responsible for all of them. Star Wars, The Princess Bride, Highlander, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, the guy wore Vader's...

http://www.geekosystem.com/17-yo-cancer-nanoparticle/ So, medical professionals...impact? At face value this seems important and encouraging, but the general media does like to blow these things out of proportion with regularity.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans out there, and belated Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadians we forgot about a few days back when it was their time.

In keeping with the recent Sky theme, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is released this Sunday. I haven't been this excited about a game in more than ten years, I think.

Here, go waste 30 seconds: 1) Don't be using Internet Explorer (use FF/Chrome/anything else) 2) Go to www.google.com 3) Type in "Do a barrel roll" 4) ??? 5) Profit

Is this the definition of irony? http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-wikileaks-chief-condemns-memoir-225357917.html

So, I found this pretty interesting: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/19/pc-gamers-save-the-world-a-bit/ Basically, scientists are making use of FoldIt, a puzzle solving online game, so that gamers can help them crack enzyme protein puzzles related to HIV, cancer, and Alzheimer's...

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b248227_green_mile_actor_51_marries_16-year-old.html#ixzz1PqcKYWmj No, that's not creepy at all...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/paramount-plots-next-animated-pic-194394 This is real, right?

Most of the action takes place next week, but actually Konami's press conference is this evening, in about a half hour. Thanks to some fortunate volunteer work, I'm really focused on this year's effort, particularly from Nintendo. Here are the times for the keynotes: Konami: Thursday, June 2...

Why? Because I care, and I'm still giggling from how awesome that was tonight.

So, long story short, I work as a database and web software developer for a school, and our entire existing administrative software package makes use of terribly outdated ActiveX programming that only functions in old versions of IE. I'd like to update it to a more...relevant...standard, so I...

A friend of mine gave birth two months ago, and freaked out this week when her baby got 5 shots at her 2 month checkup, and is now paranoid that the vaccinations are some government conspiracy to make people sick or do drug testing or whatever. Are there reputable resources online debunking any...