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In this short ESPN interview with Mark Turmell, the man behind NBA Jam reveals a little handicap he coded against the Chicago Bulls when playing his beloved Pistons.
If there was a close game and anyone on the Bulls took a last second shot, we wrote special code in the game so that they would average out to be bricks. There was the big competition back in the day between the Pistons and the Bulls, and since I was always a big Pistons fan, that was my opportunity to level the playing field.
One of NASA's remote cameras capturing the launch of LADEE from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia on September 6, 2013 also snapped this unlucky frog caught in the aftermath.
Cue a eulogy for the frog:
She packed my bags last night, pre-flight Zero hour, nine a.m. And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then.
I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife. It's lonely out in space, On such a timeless flight.
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time ‘til touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the frog they think I am at home Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket frog Rocket frog, burning out his fuse up here alone.
Sammy Davis and Martin Luther King Jr having a laugh. I would love to know what they were discussing.
This 100 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe can currently be purchased off Amazon for $3. Zimbabwe abandoned this currency for obvious reasons in 2009. I dig the stacked rocks though.
I say everything's about the company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is a great meal.
- Chris Rock
Some say that pictures speak louder than words. Then again those people might just really hate writing. In any case, 
Via the New York Times Magazine's latest profile on Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia pictured above in 2001, the same year that Wikipedia launched.
Note the pre-green orange Oscar.
This photographer for the NY Times was in the right place, at the right time (Canal Street at 4:59 pm to be exact).
A statue of Louis Agassiz, a prominent naturalist and geologist, on Stanford's Zoology building fell during the 1906 earthquake that hit San Francisco. This was the reaction on campus:
People came running from the quad with such sober faces, but when they saw him they couldn’t help laughing, and one fellow went up and shook hands with him.
Stanford President David Starr Jordan later wrote, "Somebody-Dr. Angell, perhaps-remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.'"
Amazingly only his nose was broken in the fall.
Today this looks like a contemporary art piece one would find at Art Basel or The Armory Show.
Here's the first known photo which was taken in 1904 of the Boston Marathon.
Sammy Mellor is shown leading at 22 miles of the 8th running of the Boston Marathon. This amazing photo shows wonderful detail of children, bicyclists and horse-drawn carriages accompanying the leader. Its a shame Sammy dropped out of the race shortly after this picture was taken.
See more photos from the marathon's history here.
Submitting your federal income taxes only required 4 pages of paperwork in 1913. You could take deductions arising from losses sustained in shipwrecks.
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During my flight back to New York City the other day I watched "Hitchcock" (2012) starring Anthony Hopkins in the eponymous role. It was a terrific film that explored the tumultuous dynamic between the director and his wife Alma Hitchcock during the making of "Psycho." Coincidentally, soon after seeing this film, I came across this photo of Alma cheerfully posing in front of their fridge stocked with a wax bust of Alfred.
To promote its online tutoring business, The Tutor Crowd is correcting spelling and grammatical errors on graffiti dotted across London.
To express their support for gay rights during this week's gay marriage hearings at the Supreme Court, many Facebook and Twitter users changed their profile image to the red and pink "equals" sign.
The large LGBTA organization Human Rights Campaign, which was the first to display this soon to be iconic symbol, collected their favorite variations and progeny of this image.
Gerald Ford and Pelé kicking around the soccer ball.
While that Carnival cruise ship finally limped home the other week, this abandoned Russian cruise ship "has been adrift in the North Atlantic since January, after breaking free from a towing line as it was being delivered from Canada to a scrapyard in the Dominican Republic." The Lyubov Orlova once brought tourists to Antarctica as seen in the photo above but has now been spotted drifting towards Europe with a crew of rats. It's a lot more romantic to imagine this ship disappearing in Antarctica.