What's more, it seems that retail stores have largely been unable to give folks a clear indication as to when new stock will arrive, which prompted some folks to line up each morning just to see if a new shipment has come in (as pictured above).
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We're already fans of the iconic nishikigoi (meaning "brocaded carp") color scheme as pictured above, but what really caught our attention this time are the fluid animations and uniqueness of the "iida UI" 2.0 (iida stands for "innovation, " "imagination, " "design" and "art") by interactive designer Yugo Nakamura.
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Clearly taking a cue from Cupertino's own iTunes app on the tiny media box, the Hulu Plus redesign makes perfect use of a top navigation bar, which, as pictured above, lists familiar entries like TV, Movies, Kids, Latino, Queue and Search -- a nice visual (and useful) change when compared to what we've been become accustomed to since the app first arrived on the "hobby" platform.
The game lets you assemble a team of three, choosing from the seven characters (the Twins count as one character) pictured above.
Thanks largely to social media, police identified one rowdy fan (pictured above) as 22-year-old Gregory Tyler Graniss.
Another laser that came close to being practical enough to use was the Tactical High Energy Laser, also known as the Nautilus laser (pictured above), which was designed to shoot down incoming artillery rounds.
He caved in to pressure from the army only after a threat by some parties to quit the governing coalition forced him to bring the hawkish Moshe Dayan (pictured above) on board as defence minister.
Angkor Wat, a temple complex in Cambodia, and the Inca fortress of Machu Picchu in Peru (pictured above) are often cited as places of world-historical importance where a vast influx of tourists may be causing serious damage.
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Microsoft thought it was in the clear since the company had licensed the MP3 codec from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute (members of which are pictured above), which bills itself as "the birthplace of MP3", but as the New York Times writes today there are a bunch of companies which claim to have had at least something to do with creating the codec.
They want Meir Dagan (pictured above), now into his eighth year as Mossad's head, to make way for a younger man.
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You can see Ciarin Hinds (Rome) as Mance Rayder, the Wildling king and once-Crow, pictured above.
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