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(Video Game Store | USA)
Customer: “You guys buy games, right?”
Me: “That’s right.”
Customer: “Any games, right?”
Me: “Unless we have several of them in stock, or they’re in very poor condition, yes.”
Customer: “So, you’ll take any games as long as there’s no scratches and you don’t have a bunch of them, right?”
Me: “Correct.”
Customer: “Okay, good! I’ve got 20 games here that I wanna sell.”
(The man opens the shoebox he’s been carrying and starts to unload a number of discs onto the counter.)
Me: “Uh, sir…I can’t take these games.”
Customer: “Why not? You just said you could!”
Me: “Because they’re illegally copied games.”
Customer: “But you said you’d take them!”
Me: “Not if they’re DVD-Rs with the names written in Sharpie!”

Stay in school, kids.

Stay in school, kids.:

Stay in school, kids.

Final Exams

Final Exams:

I think some of you college students are familiar with these, so here’s a reminder on how much you really need to study.

Game of Thrones Featurettes of the Day

The Game of Thrones season 1 Blu-ray includes a series of excellent animated history lessons that fill viewers in on the backstory of the houses of Westeros, the Night’s Watch, Mad King Aerys and more.
Even better, they’re all online (for now, anyway) and an industrious YouTuber has put them all in a playlist for your perusal.
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Amazing Spider-Man Trailer of the Day

Marvel Entertainment has released the most action-packed Amazing Spider-Man trailer yet, with less teenage spider-drama, more fight scenes, and more hints about the mystery of Peter Parker’s parents.
The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans and Denis Leary, opens in 3D July 3.
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Agreement groups in the US Senate

PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of the agreement groups within the United States Senate over time.
As you might imagine, there are two obvious groupings, Republican and Democrat. It gets interesting though when you look at Democrats classified as Republicans and vice versa. For example, the 11 Republicans placed in the Democratic group of the 110th Congress:

Most of whom are either moderates or closer to the Democrats than to their own party. Charles Hagel was critic of the Bush Administration which he described as "the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in consensus — almost every area" of any presidency in the last forty years. George Voinovich has been known to oppose lowering taxes and frequently joined the Democrats on tax issues. John Warner is a moderate Republican and has centrist stances on many issues, to the point that he once faced opposition of other members of his own party when he decided to run for re-election.

Be sure to click on the gray boxes to follow the trajectories of different cohorts.