This video describes symptoms of people with narcissistic personality disorder (aka selfish jerks).

Poor -> Stress -> Drink -> Poor -> Stress -> Stop drink -> Work -> Work -> Collect money -> Work -> Collect money -> Pay debt -> Work -> Collect money -> Get educated -> Stable life -> Help others -> Happy -> Wife loves him -> Happy family -> Healthy -> Teach others -> Improve social -> Smart -> Improve his country -> Just stop drinking!

Garrett Finucane wrote a generator lets you create your own animated art in the style of the album sleeve for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. You can save your work as an animated GIF and check out the code from Github, too.Previously: The story of the iconic cover art for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures.

Number 1, of course, is the source of the Amen Break. But a surprise or two lurks in the top 10, as calculated by Who Sampled, a truly amazing website that tells you the when and where and what of samples for singles over the last few decades. (more…)

When it comes to the uncanny valley of video game characters, the eyes have it. Even as digital characters become increasingly (hyper)realistic, the eyes lag behind. At FastCo Design, Mark Wilson looks at the technological and perceptual challenges of designing eyes with personality:

The photograph rather explains itself, in terms of craftsmanship, but Christine Friar's guide to making this delightful Halloween piece is worth reading all the way through

Easypoem asks you a few questions, then generates a charming verse for your entertainment and that of your friends. Here's the one is made for me:

The Samsung Galaxy should be renamed the Samsung Supernova: despite recall and replacement, the company's smartphones keep burning up in spectacular fashion. The Korean manufacturer has paused production and retailers are pulling it from the shelves, reports the BBC.

By millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump's standards, the second debate was a success. Hillary Clinton was cagey and tense, leaving him free to blather on incoherently and bicker with the moderators when they told him to stop. Her supporters are left to wonder why she's such a cautious closer. His are left to drown themselves in the joy of bullshit—and hope that it buries a brutal news cycle for their man. (more…)

After the release of the now infamous Donald Trump/Billy Bush tapes, dozens of politicians tweeted their disgust with Trump's behavior on behalf of their daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers.https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/784530223605903360https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/784546373525966849https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/784777415692263428?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwAs the father of a brand new daughter himself, John Legend had the perfect response: https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/784579802363723777https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/784580131109081088https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/784580774179827715https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/784584474851938304Remember, it's simple: Women are human beings.

“You know, people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child.”https://www.instagram.com/p/BLRMzuxjgb_/

“I’ve made a huge mistake.”[via catgifcentral.tumblr.com]

The latest video from Joss Whedon’s “Save The Day” campaign encourages American voters to take the heat off Brexit and #MakeAmericaHatedAgain.

"I want to show you something," intones Mister Rogers, showing these pikers how he's been terrifying children with his creepy clown prank since 1968. (more…)

Steven writes, "The team (full disclosure: that includes me) that created the award-winning multicultural steampunk anthology 'Steampunk World' are now crowdfunding another steampunk anthology - this time with a focus on characters that are disabled or aneurotypical." (more…)

After week of ranting at women and being heard boasting of groping them, millionaire Presidential candidate Donald Trump teeters on the precipice. For many Republicans, it's the end, and BuzzFeed's Jim Dalrymple II compiled a list of pols publicly withdrawing their endorsements.After a year of naked racism, sexism, bigotry and nativism, here are the Republicans who've finally found a principle worth standing for:Gov. Dennis Daugaard

After the #trumpwon hashtag topped the Twitter trending charts -- something Trump gleefully noted, saying it proved he'd won the initial debate with Hillary Clinton -- @DustinGiebel's claim that the trend had originated in St Peterburg, Russia (along with an accompanying map, supposedly from Trendsmap) went viral, with more than 15,000 retweets. (more…)

Muphry's Law predicts that "if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written." (more…)

Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Mitch McConnell reaffirmed their support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, offering only milquetoast rebukes to his boasts of groping women.Ryan:

Chloe Eudaly, whose zine emporium Reading Frenzy (previously) and publishing makerspace the Independent Publishing Resource Center are PDX institutions, is running for Portland City Council, campaigning on affordable housing for all in a city whose longterm residents are being left behind by runaway rents and spiraling housing prices. (more…)

Millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump apologized last night for hot-mic boasting about groping women. He did drone on, though! So I edited all the bullshit out, leaving only the sincere and truthful parts. You're welcome.

When registered dietitians like Roseanne Rust, Sylvia Klinger, Carol Berg Sloane tweet about proposed taxes on sugary drinks and claim that these will be used to impose "stealth tax" on other food, promoting the anti-soda-tax group Cart Choice (funded by Coke) they're reflecting the deeply held views of the Coca-Cola company and its industry body, the American Beverage Association -- and amazingly enough, they all take money from Coke or the ABA. (more…)

https://gfycat.com/OnlyKeyDobermanpinscherThere's so much Florida goodness in this footage.Vertical video ✓

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition.

“We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities,” said a statement today from the Obama administration about a series of cyberattacks on U.S. political figures and organizations.Them's fightin' words.(more…)

Do you like the Highline park in Manhattan? There's a subterranean version coming soon. The Lowline looks like it's going to be amazing.(more…)

A sublime incarnation of the WoW-playing "mad gamer" from that epic South Park episode, "Make Love Not Warcraft." The man (can't find his name!) deserves all of the prizes, and I hope Blizzcon rewarded his genius appropriately. (more…)

See sample pages from this book at Wink.New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943

Marietje Schaake (previously) is a Dutch Member of the European Parliament who has a fantastic track-record for getting it right on issues related to technology, free speech, human rights, and privacy; she is the author of a report on export controls for spying technology used to identify dissidents to torture. (more…)

Ex-Yahoo employees have spoken anonymously to Motherboard about the news that Yahoo had built an "email scanner" for a US security agency, likely the FBI or the NSA. These sources -- at least one of whom worked on the security team -- say that in actuality, the NSA or FBI had secretly installed a "rootkit" on Yahoo's mail servers and that this was discovered by the Yahoo security team (who had not been apprised of it), who, believing the company had been hacked, sounded the alarm, only to have the company executives tell them that the US government had installed the tool. (more…)

"All the way up to Jacksonville." (more…)

There are many ways to change your IP Address from Static to Dynamic, but GFC's tutorial represents the most comprehensive-yet-easily understood method. [via]

Tips for the wine connoisseur (or amateur) in your life.

Cat owner Kai Nimura forgot to clean out her bathtub after using a sparkle-filled Lush intergalactic bath bomb. So her black cat Salem, who loves to roll around in the empty tub, inadvertently wound up creating his own Halloween costume: The galaxy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXspc699el0[via kainimuramonster.tumblr.com]

Typeroom looks back at ITC Benguiat, the font that so embodied its time that it's now canonical for late 1970s to early 1980s. Turns out its designer and namesake Ed Benguiat was motivated by a potential big payoff:

At Adventures in Mapping, John Nelson developed a sobering series of maps that visualize the intensity of the drought gripping much of the US: (more…)

On its official store, the Hillary Clinton campaign sells merchandise centered on specific identities, like “Latinos for Hillary,” “Women for Hillary,” and “LGBT for Hillary.” And now a new independent organization called Nerds For Her is taking that idea one step further with fandom-themed designs like “Wizards For Her,” “Ham4Her,” and “Time Lords w/ Her.”According to the site's description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapmUU2d44UForget kids, plenty of adults would love to rock a bike helmet that made them look like a toy figurine. (more…)

I stumbled across this fantastic Tumblr full of traditional hand-drawn animation, and I can’t get enough of it. Artist Willow S. Linda reinterprets live action and cartoon characters in her own style, like these Star Wars portraits or this Beauty and the Beast design. But she also creates her own characters too. The first one that caught my eye was this delightful little story of a mermaid and a centaur.There's just so much whimsy and joy to Linda's art, I could look through it all day.You can find all of Linda’s work on her Tumblr.

Photochrome is a nifty algorithm that generates a color palette based on a keyword you enter. It compiles all images in their database tagged with your keyword and averages the results into RGB and hex values. (more…)

Lylah, who is five, can now begin training for "American Ninja Warrior" in earnest, thanks to the DIY ingenuity of her most excellent dad.(more…)

“Zoidberg meets Admiral Ackbar.”(more…)

Hurricane Matthew looks like it may become the first major hurricane to directly hit the United States in more than 10 years. The powerful storm has killed 339 people in Haiti, according to updated figures from local officials Thursday night. As Matthew spiraled north through the Caribbean toward the southeastern U.S. coastline, it grew into even more of a monster.(more…)

Design student Sugko at Sejong University used a CymaScope to visualize bird songs, with beautiful results. (more…)

This could be the beginning of a great "found footage" style zombie movie.

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Longest Day of the Future

Jon Ronson is my favorite author of book about charismatic charlatans, dangerous lunatics, and interesting weirdos. So I am eager to read his brand new Kindle Single, The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right”The e-book is $1.99, or you can read it for free if you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber (I am and I love it). Try Kindle Unlimited with 30-Day Free Trial

For half a century Los Angeles's Stoughton Printing Company has been considered one of the highest-quality printers of vinyl record packaging in the world, manufacturing album art for the likes of The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Jack White, Blue Note, and countless other artists and labels who value exquisite quality. Indeed, that's where my partners and I intend to produce the lavish packaging for our “Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition” vinyl box set! Our pal Ben Marks writes about the artisans at Stoughton for Collectors Weekly:

In northwest China, archaeologists dug up an ancient corpse in a burial shroud of cannabis plants. The fellow was buried approximately 2,400 to 2,800 years ago. Archaeologist Hongen Jiang and colleagues described the discovery as an "extraordinary cache" of well-preserved plants. From National Geographic: