1. Microsoft has said that a fee would be charged for any game disc to be tied to a second Xbox Live account following its initial installation.

    — Xbox One game discs are only used for initial installation, fee charged for second account | The Verge

  2. Bonus points for honesty

    Bonus points for honesty

  3. The Game Of Thrones Car Paradox: How Magic Makes People Stupid →

    Hell, I’m proud to not be from some magical world. Humans are great at exploiting the loopholes of the natural world to make lives better and more interesting, and as soon as you get that crutch of magic — even as limited as it is in Game of Thrones — all that curiosity and innovation goes out the window.

    Muggle pride, bitches

  4. this has been tried before—a number of countries have built jet-engine-powered trains. Sadly, they never took off. Fortunately, they never took off.

    — Train Loop

  5. Daring Fireball: Facebook Home and Dogfooding →

    It’s always a sign of trouble when you’ve built something you don’t want to use yourself. Why does everyone I know who works at Apple carry an iPhone? Every single one? Not because they have to. It’s because they want to.

  6. Hadfield, who returns to Earth today, added as much whimsy and wonderment to the idea of people going to space as we’ve had in the last thirty years combined

    — How Chris Hadfield Made Us Care About Astronauts Again

  7. (via AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart)

    (via AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart)

  8. Post-apocalyptic South Philly after the Broad Street Run.

    Post-apocalyptic South Philly after the Broad Street Run.

  9. During his famous experiment in his cabin at Walden, moralizing about his solitude, he did not mention that he brought his mother his dirty laundry and went on enjoying her apple pies

    — Sample Chapter for Thoreau, H.D.; Moldenhauer, J.J., ed.: The Maine Woods.

  10. The same gatekeeper annoying developers with an approval process is the trusted source telling users, This app is OK, no harm will come to you from installing it.

    — Daring Fireball: Web Apps vs. Native Apps Is Still a Thing

  11. Baby geese!

    Baby geese!

  12. This is the ‘problem’ with the Millenials. We are trading control and knowledge of what we buy for time-efficiency. It is not in the company’s best interest to build the best product for the money, it is in their best interest to build the safest.

    — An Opinion on Zipcar and the Millennial Problem

  13. Therefore, this tiny strip of land in Central PA is the only spot in the entire country that one can not legally watch Phillies games. It is purgatory for a Phillies fan.

    — The Sad State of MLB’s Blackout Policy — VintageZen

  14. More die from syphilis than from texting and driving →

    The number of fatal instances of syphilis outpaced the number of fatal auto accidents caused by text messaging while driving, according to 2011 data from the Centers for Disease Control and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  15. Ironically, it wasn’t until Mad Decent decided to give music away for free that it hit a nerve

    — Diplo On Major Lazer, Why EDM Is Horrible And How Mad Decent Created A Culture