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Confira os 5 melhores emuladores SNES para Android!

Emuladores são uma parte valiosa do passado do Android. Por exemplo, os emuladores permitiam que os jogadores jogassem seus títulos retrô favoritos no celular. Felizmente, há um número decente de emuladores SNES realmente bons disponíveis para reproduzir clássicos como Super Mario World e Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Além disso, os emuladores do Super Nintendo se estabilizaram um pouco.…

The Twitter Account for the US Secret Service Disses Fox News: The president was in Connecticut today, so our friends at NBC Connecticut were monitoring the Secret Service's Twitter account when this bit of media criticism came through. It has since disappeared. Given that the tone of the Tweet is unlike anything else on the account, we assume someone was toggling between accounts on Tweetdeck or similar. I've been there, and it's not a fun place to be.

That's John F. Harris, co-founder of Politico, doing his damnedest to describe the enduring appeal of The Drudge Report. He ends up describing the audience of Politico, but maybe that's the point: Everyone looks at Drudge and sees what they want to see. People who hate conservatives read Drudge to see what those people are raving about now. People who hate the media read Drudge to fuel that grudge. The site's cryptic one-word banner headlines aren't codes so much as Rorschach blots.

-JN

Ben Affleck, explaining how his celebrity advocacy is maybe a little bit different from others'. As Laura E. Seay writes, "Glad to see that Affleck is trying to learn directly from the Congolese."

-JN

-JN

A Day Without "A Day Without Shoes." Maybe you noticed that #hardwithoutshoes was trending on Twitter on Monday. It was part of a social media campaign built by the for-profit company TOMS shoes, which promises that "with every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need." The idea of #hardwithoutshoes was to get Americans to go barefoot for a day because a) poor people in the Third World have a shortage of shoes b) getting First World people walking to work without shoes would constitute "a HUGE impact," as the front page of the TOMS website says.

Many people in the aid community disagreed, and they pulled together the video above, "A Day Without Dignity," in response.

I reached out to Tom Murphy, one of the people credited with pulling together the video, and asked him what he would say to someone who was thinking of buying a pair of TOMS. He told me that, in the likely affected countries, "the core problem is lack of economic opportunity (aka jobs) that will pay well enough so that people can otherwise afford the shoes.  Rather than buy more expensive TOMS, buy a pair of shoes that are of the same quality and cost half the price. Then donate the difference to your favorite NGO. That money will be more effective."

-JN