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Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" is out today, bringing lots of improvements to your favorite Linux distribution. It has a new quick search feature called the HUD, some new privacy settings, a few tweaks to the Unity interface, and more. Advertisement This release is another "Long Term Support" release, meaning Canonical will support it for longer than other versions—five years, to be exact. It also usually means lots of new features, though this time around it seems to be more polish than anything—though the HUD alone is reason enough to upgrade. Here's a look at everything that's new. The HUD Makes Finding Menu Items Super Easy Have you ever been in a situation where you're using a program, and want to do something specific that you know is in the menus, but you just don't know where? The new HUD solves that problem. Just hit Alt, and a search bar will pop up in the upper left-hand corner of your screen. From there you can type in what you're looking for, and it will … [Read more...] about First Look at Ubuntu Linux 12.04 “Precise Pangolin”

The Connecticut Sun left the first game of their best-of-five semifinals series against the Los Angeles Sparks Tuesday night not only with a 84-75 win, but also with a narratively sweet one. For a season, the No. 2 Sun have felt like the WNBA’s most underrated team, beloved by their women’s basketball-crazy state but by few else. “It’s an interesting dynamic when you talk about Connecticut, because there isn’t really that main attraction star,” John Brickley said on ESPN’s WNBA playoff broadcast Sunday, noting that the team did have some “crafty” role players. Before long, the Sun had adopted “role players” as a rallying cry. After their high seeding allowed them byes through the first two single-elimination rounds, it’s a little perfect that they begin the playoffs in a series with shades of the ‘04 Lakers-Pistons Finals: the Sun the team-oriented, blue-collar machine, the Sparks the glamorous, star-powered … [Read more...] about Alyssa Thomas Couldn’t Lift Her Arms Above Her Head, But She Carried A Team To Victory

Personally speaking, reactive performances are generally much more interesting to watch than traditionally active ones. It’s not just the inherent difficulty of expressing internal emotions via external movements, or the subtlety required to pull that off without defaulting to exaggeration, but it’s also a more precise representation of how many people engage with the larger world. As satisfying as melodrama can be, so many of us don’t fall back on outsized passion to express ourselves. It’s often just a shift in expression, whether it’s as big as a facial twitch or as small as a nostril flare. Sometimes that’s all people can muster to get their feelings across, and it can be a particularly rewarding experience to to pick up on those cues to better understand someone’s emotional matrix. Advertisement Though these types of performances are frequently overlooked because they don’t call attention to themselves, Bill Hader has … [Read more...] about Even as it spins its wheels,

Punk vets Against Me! have a new album coming out this month. But while Shape Shift With Me won’t be out until September 16, the band has released a new music video for the album today, giving fans another glimpse of its latest stylistic shift. Directed by Say Anything star Ione Skye, “333” is a plum little piece of sexual psychodrama, starring Skye’s old friend, Orange Is The New Black’s Natasha Lyonne, as a ’60s-style housewife trying to keep herself some semblance of sane. Co-starringBates Motel’s Andrew Howard, it’s a stylish backdrop for Laura Jane Grace’s screaming vocals and the band’s driving percussion. Meanwhile, Grace’s memoir, Tranny: Confessions Of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, is out on November 15, and the band is about to head on tour, both for headlining dates, and with Bad Religion, starting today. You can see the tour dates—and the track listing for Shape Shift With … [Read more...] about Natasha Lyonne and

The year: 2007 Billboard Hot 100’s Top 20 Songs Of 2007 1. Beyoncé, “Irreplaceable” 2. Rihanna, “Umbrella (feat. Jay Z)” 3. Gwen Stefani (feat. Akon), “The Sweet Escape” 4. Fergie, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” 5. T-Pain, “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” 6. Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats” 7. Plain White T’s, “Hey There Delilah” 8. Akon (feat. Snoop Dogg), “I Wanna Love You” 9. Nelly Furtado, “Say It Right” 10. Fergie (feat. Ludacris), “Glamorous” 11. Akon, “Don’t Matter” 12. Avril Lavigne, “Girlfriend” 13. Maroon 5, “Makes Me Wonder” 14. Shop Boyz, “Party Like A Rockstar” 15. Akon (feat. Eminem), “Smack That” 16. Mims, “This Is Why I’m Hot” 17. Daughtry, “It’s Not Over” 18. Timbaland (feat. Keri Hilson), “The Way I Are” 19. … [Read more...] about St. Vincent, No Age, and Yeasayer were the next wave of 2007