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Chevy Chase gone from Community

The writing has been great on this show, but it’s probably run its course.

Chevy Chase is off Community, effective immediately

While reports say that the decision was mutual, Chevy Chase has made a deal with NBC to leave Community and never come back. Chase had filmed the majority of the fourth season’s episodes, but there is no word yet on how the absence of his character, Pierce Hawthorne, will be addressed. Everyone who enjoyed his voicemails and borderline racist behavior will miss him dearly. (via Deadline)

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News

Big piracy clampdown coming

Sounds like a backdoor version of SOPA. So, can we expect a retaliation from Anonymous?

One week left before US faces clamp down on piracy • The Register

As Americans settle in for the Thanksgiving weekend of food and family, filesharing traffic traditionally shows a modest rise. But those downloading content may look back on this holiday as the last golden weekend of piracy if the major ISPs have anything to do with it.

Next week AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon will be signing up to a monitoring system run by the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). This organization will check for the IP addresses engaged in peer to peer or torrent downloading of copyrighted material and alert ISPs.

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Psychology

Success is perseverance

It seems like the will to persevere relies on confidence. I remember reading Derren Brown arguing that confidence is indistinguishable from pretending to be confident. And so, could success be even simpler: just pretend like you’ll figure it out eventually.

Is the secret to success as simple as just not giving up?

We all know intelligence is important, creativity is important… but how much do these types of natural talent control really what you can achieve in life?

In ~95% of cases, they don’t.

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News

Archos GamePad is an interesting form factor

This is an interesting form factor showing up for Android devices. It’s essentially a clone of a PSP with a touch screen. It must appeal to people wanting to run emulators because the choice of games for Android is sparse.

Latest ARCHOS tablets availability: ARCHOS 80XS, GamePad, Arnova Familypad and 7h G3 | ARCTABLET NEWS

Latest products releases with the ARCHOS GamePad, ARCHOS 80 XS (Gen10), Arnova 7h G3 and Arnova FamilyPad haven’t yet appeared in stores. Some offers for these tablets are showing as pre-orders, let’s hope they’ll hit the shelves before Christmas.

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Tony Sly benefit in Walnut Creek includes NOFX

This is a curious show, mostly because of the location. Vices is the club in Walnut Creek that has the reputation for fights. I hate going to Walnut Creek, partly because parking is terrible and partly because there’s some weird pretentious vibe.

NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, Elway, and GFP to play benefit for Tony Sly

NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, Elway, and G.F.P. will be playing a benefit show for the late Tony Sly of No Use for a Name. The fundraiser will take place December 15 at the Vice Ultra Lounge in Walnut Creek, CA with all proceeds going towards the Tony Sly Memorial Fund.

Tickets can be purchased here.

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