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Guns & Ammo magazine is facing stiff backlash from its readers after publishing an editorial in its December issue supporting gun regulation.

The magazine’s Facebook page has been inundated in the last 24 hours with people claiming they’ve either canceled their subscriptions or pledging to never buy another issue until Dick Metcalf, the contributing editor behind the article, is fired.

Mr. Metcalf’s editorial, which appears on the December issue’s final page, argues that gun regulation does not equal infringement of the Second Amendment. “The fact is,” he writes, “all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be.”

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The video-rental chain Blockbuster will close the 300 stores that it still has in the next two months, said the company’s owner, Dish Network.

Oslo design hotel The Thief (which previously replaced all its pay-TV porn with contemporary art) is letting guests choose to sleep beside a rock star of their choice in an interactive stunt. The Guardian reports that the hotel is launching an interactive suite that encourages guests to project a life-size image of their favourite musician onto the bed beside them. They can choose between A-ha’s Magne Furuholmen (known as Mags in the band’s ’80s heyday), Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, Mew singer Jonas Bjerre and producer Martin Terefe, all members of the pan-European supergroup Apparatjik.

The members of Apparatjik helped design the suit, which also features pixelated carpets, video installations, antlers on the walls and a mirror ball in the bathroom as well as eight prints signed by the musicians. The Apparatjik Suite will cost between $420 and $ 700 a night.

Mr. Furuholmen is closely involved with the hotel, having developed Climax Card Game, a “do-it-yourself” version of his art installation “Climax,” for guests to assemble in its lobby. The original artwork, a giant stack of cards made from aluminium plates, was unveiled by Al Gore during the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.

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Earnings were $1.2 billion in the third quarter, an increase of 44 percent compared with a year ago, reflecting growth in its television networks and production of TV shows.

(TrendHunter.com) Artist Robby Cook has created a series of covers featuring well-known Disney Princesses for an imagined publication entitled Wish Magazine.

Robby Cook’s choice to add barcodes, dates and…

Em 2014, a cidade russa de Sochi irá sediar os Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno. Até aí, nada demais, a não ser os fatos de a Rússia contar com uma legislação anti-LGBT e muitos atletas serem assumidamente gays. O paradoxo levou a organização All Out a lançar a campanha #LoveAlwaysWins, pedindo ao Comitê Olímpico Internacional que se posicione contra a chamada lei anti-gay, “honrando seus princípios e condenando a discriminação”.

Entre as diversas ações em torno da causa está um bonito filme dirigido por Mike Buonaiuto, que mostra uma atleta gay imaginando como seria poder comemorar sua medalha ao lado de sua parceira para, em seguida, lembrar qual é a realidade atual na Rússia, em que é preciso viver uma mentira para poder realizar um sonho.

Ao final, o público é convocado a compartilhar a mensagem e cobrar um posicionamento mais claro do Comitê Olímpico. Vale o play.

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i.TV said today that it’s acquiring GetGlue, the social TV pioneer whose app lets TV viewers “check in” to shows they’re watching. The buyer is known for its namesake TV-guide app among and, in the business-to-business space, for powering second-screen products for brands including AOL, Entertainment Weekly and Nintendo.

The terms of the deal are not being released — and both companies are privately held, so they won’t have to report them anywhere — but late last night i.TV founder-CEO Brad Pelo told me that “the GetGlue investors are coming along as part of the deal,” meaning they will now acquire equity in i.TV.

The scuttlebutt in the tech community for much of the year has been that GetGlue’s investors — which include Union Square Ventures, Time Warner Investments and Rho Capital Partners — were impatient and looking for a new exit in the wake of the January collapse of a deal that would have seen GetGlue being acquired by social-TV check-in competitor Viggle. That deal, which hinged on Viggle securing financing that ultimately didn’t come through, would have meant a $25 million payout to GetGlue, plus 48.3 million shares of Viggle stock (the company is publicly traded), which were worth roughly $50 million at the time.

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This first YouTube Music Awards was a show of essentially no consequence, but one that valued a theoretically equal playing field, risk taking, resilience in the face of failure and evanescence.

(TrendHunter.com) Entitled ‘Paper Memories’, this striking fashion story by Koty 2 Photostorytellers is captured for the #38 issue of HIRO. This collaged image series features model Klaudia Jagodzka of…