If your "best-hope" scenario is that Trump just said random trash to get elected and now has no idea what to do and will just let the GOP run the country while he pipes up occasionally with more random trash—things are looking rosy for you today. (more…)

Mink-holding should be a professional sport, as it seems harder to hold a mink for 8 seconds than to ride a bull. Coyote Peterson tries to hold an Alaskan mink, which promptly shows why members of the weasel family are known for weaseling out. (more…)

Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 (volunteer). John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats adds: "please do whatever you can to be as ok as you can be. I reblog this in the names of my friends who didn’t make out of earlier darker times. most of you who read or hear my stuff know their names. quinn. brad. emil. rozz. many more. you are missed and I will love you forever."

Aarian Marshall reports that poor towns are ripping up pothole-ridden roads rather than pay to maintain them.Repaving roads is expensive, so Montpelier instead used its diminishing public works budget to take a step back in time and un-pave the road. Workers hauled out a machine called a “reclaimer” and pulverized the damaged asphalt and smoothed out the road’s exterior. They filled the space between Vermont’s cruddy soil and hardier dirt and gravel up top with a “geotextile”, a hardy fabric that helps with erosion, stability and drainage.In an era of dismal infrastructure spending, where the American Society of Civil Engineers gives the country’s roads a D grade, rural areas all over the country are embracing this kind of strategic retreat. It's also true that some rural towns paved unnecessarily and bizarrely. When I lived in the southwest, I'd sometimes run into grids of perfectly black country roads gridding through the empty flat llano, like something put into Sim City before you even get started on what buildings you zone for. Oil money. Which is to say this sounds like an infrastructure problem, but in many cases it's just coming to terms with the reality of life in the country: "most of the community leaders interviewed by the report’s authors said their residents approved of de-paving, especially if agencies kept them informed about the process."Photo: Deborah Fitchett (CC-BY-2.0)

New that Trump's elected, those to whom debts are owed can start fucking with him. Took it all of a day for one to get started!Russia said it was in contact with President-elect Donald Trump’s team during the U.S. election campaign, despite repeated denials by the Republican candidate’s advisers that any links existed. “There were contacts” before the election, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday, according to the Interfax news service. “We continue this work of course,” he said, without giving details of what the contacts were.Bonus points to Ryabkov for the ostentatious ambiguity. It's like something from a 1970s Hollywood movie about a secret technology that makes Americans scared of radio waves in the 650nm range: “We continue this work of course.” In The Guardian, a "pro-Kremlin political analyst" quoted as saying "maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks" is getting a lot of play, too. This fits the pre-election suspicions of U.S. intelligence, but that job title means he's just a blogger/pundit type.

The Gilmore Girls Netflix revival is huge news for fans of the mother/daughter dramedy. But for those who need a refresher before the new episodes drop on November 25, Netflix also has you covered with these zippy season recaps. Narrated by Sean Gunn a.k.a Kirk Gleason, they’ll get you caught up on all seven seasons in just about seven minutes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yl8eRcgzBMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY7HyL_Sd9shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhVSkRW3h10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760QR6Ktjeohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBq_XKWGCu0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGYq7UU_wfE

The Australian man who sent a drone to pick up a hot dog, then return it to him in his backyard hot tub, is in trouble with the law.The BBC reports that the aerial meat journey breached local drone flight safety rules."Tim," as he is anonymously known, reports that the hot dog was "freezing" anyway by the time it got to him.There's something a bit fishy about it. It's all sourced to "YouTube video", but the BBC heavily edited and rehosted the video and doesn't link to either YouTube or the original story at The Age. It doesn't even name it, instead calling it "local media". Go looking for it, and the only thing on YouTube seems to be a ripped and reuploaded version of a professionally-produced ad for a hot dog shop that isn't on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dHQxNCIYUEThere's an interesting ethical question for you: if something viral is newsworthy (Man Fined Over Hot Tub Hot Dog), but not newsworthy enough to do any real work reporting out whether it's a marketing stunt or not, how clever can you be in removing non-newsworthy elements that might be The Marketing Part? After all, you might get it wrong. You know, like that thing where I carefully avoid using the word "GoPro" when posting that "GoPro footage of Badgers Skydiving" video, but fail to notice that all the badgers are wearing North Face.

I attended Chicago’s massive Trump protest yesterday, in which thousands of Chicagoans shutdown the heart of the city. Here’s my live tweet and some photos of the event.https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796502702868008966https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796505523717808128https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796507266967097344https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796508958269829121https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796512847828320256https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796517155948797952https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796527687418466304https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796531934742593536https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796540673671528448https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796547883508043776https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede/status/796571129007767552

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My daughter and I have been having fun with the latest Kano computer and coding kit, which comes with a screen. It's powered by a Raspberry Pi, a small Linux computer, and was created to allow kids to make games, music, and art through coding.The operating system is already installed and comes with a bunch of fun applications and games, like Scratch and Minecraft. It has built in wifi and a Chromium web browser, and the small orange wireless keyboard has a touch pad. It plays YouTube videos and you could probably get away with using it as an everyday computer.To "build" the Kano, you follow the simple, well designed instructions to snap pieces together. The manual describes the function of each component as you go along. Once you put it together, plug it in and you'll be taken on a candy-colored tour of Kano-land, where you can create an avatar and sign up for an account on Kano, so you can complete quests (like customizing a Pong game with a Scratch-like program called Kano blocks), and share and download your creations. There's a game called Terminal Quest that teaches Linux commands as "spells" to make things happen.Check out Kano's Make Art website to give you an idea of what Kano's coding environment is like. The Screen Kit is a 10" LDC 1280 x 800 display that's crisp and bright. You don't need the screen to use a Kano. If you want you can buy the basic Kano kit and plug it into any HD display.The overall design of the hardware, software, and printed documentation is terrific.

For only love can conquer hateYou know we've got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here today

Former dentist Kuang-Yi Ku created a prototype orthodontic retainer designed to improve the fellatio experience for the wearer's partner. After practicing dentistry for six years, Ku is now a student at Design Academy in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His Fellatio Modification Project is a speculative design effort featured in the Science Gallery London's new exhibit Mouthy: Into the Orifice. The prosthetic consists of a custom orthodontic retainer with the top "embossed" with soft denture base material to create nubs on the roof of the mouth. From New Scientist:Science doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to incorporating human sexuality into research and practice. Dentistry, for example, considers three functions for the oral cavity: aesthetics, pronunciation and mastication. “There is another function, sex, which is never mentioned in the textbooks,” says Ku. “I’m from the gay community and I realised that the medical school is a very patriarchal system, very serious, and the professors are very traditional, particularly in Asian countries. So I wanted to approach that relationship.”Instead of treating disease and restoring normal function to the mouth, Ku imagines dentists enhancing it along one particular line, the act of performing fellatio. To do this, he created retainers which offer a more intense sexual experience for your (male) partner."Sex and dentistry: I made a fellatio prosthetic for my mouth" (New Scientist)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9Pt-0vYOA

A co-branded product from watchmaker Jacob & Co and luxury design retailer Colette, the SF24 features a tiny flip clock like the electromechanical split flap displays popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s before LEDs and LCDs became all the rage. I'd like it more if they dispensed with the analog dial entirely. Then again, it sells for $90,000 so I'm clearly not their target customer. Jacob & Co X colette 'SF24' Watch (via Uncrate)

This excerpt from Harvey Milk's famous "Hope" speech, given at the start of the last anti-LGBT backlash, is brimming with timeless wisdom and inspiration. Another excerpt from the full speech: (more…)

Lyon, France-based tattoo artist JC Sheitan Tenet has no right arm. In place of his right hand, he wears custom tattoo machine prostheses he developed with biomechanical sculptor Jean-Louis Gonzal. According to Great Big Story, "the device can pivot 360 degrees and allows Tenet to create abstract designs unlike anyone else."

Illustrator Lorenzo Etherington created a bunch of wigglegram 3D posters based on a mythological movie called Stranski. They are really cool and remind me of some of Will Eisner Spirit splash pages.He has two massive sketchbooks for sale on Lulu.

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is one of the most intricate and impressive graphic novels I’ve ever read. It’s a biography of the great Singaporean comic artist Charlie Chan Hock Chye, and traces the evolution of Chan’s career by showing the wide array of artistic styles he experimented with. These range from Marvel-style superhero comics to celebrity caricatures, cartoonish science fiction, manga, noir, and more. All this is complemented by explanations and annotations of Chan’s work, which are also presented in graphic form. The work is complex not only in style, but also in content. A driving theme throughout Chan’s career has been uncompromising political satire. Thus the survey of Chan’s work is also a dense and dizzying tour of 20th-century Singaporean history. The comics depict the complex Singaporean identity following independence from Britain, as the tiny nation-state struggled to define itself ethnically, politically, and economically. While this is a weighty topic, there’s an ever-present humor in Chan’s comics. For instance, his superhero parody is called Roachman. Roachman worked as a human waste collector in Singapore’s pre-plumbing period, and gained his powers from the bite of a cockroach. His transformation into a superhero allows for commentary on the social ills of the day, as well as providing a snapshot of a country just before rapid urbanization and development.The big conceit in all this is that Chan isn’t real. He’s a fictional character invented by Sonny Liew to take readers through a simultaneous history of Singapore and of 20th-century comics. One lasting impression from this book is that it must have been so fun to create: inventing not only an artist, but also his works, and the additional meta-layer of being a faux biographer/art historian. Only someone with an enduring love of comics could have produced this work.The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Pantheon Graphic NovelsPantheon 2016, 320 pages, 7 x 1.2 x 10.4 inches (hardcover)$18 Buy a copy on AmazonSee sample pages from this book at Wink.

Breed and Publicize Your Own Congenitally Deformed Celebrity Cat by Frank Tuplin and Dorris LaForge. Buy your copy here.

Doshisha’s new Vintage Taste 20-inch LCD Television has HDMI, AV, USB, LAN inputs, and digital audio outputs, coated in a plastic craptastic retro veneer. It's main selling point is a clickable knob to change channels.[via]

Here's Steve Lawrence singing "Bewitched" in 1964, the same year the popular TV series starring Elizabeth Montgomery launched. I didn't know the theme song had lyrics, just as I didn't know the Dick Van Dyke Show's theme song had lyrics until I saw this recent video of Dick Van Dyke singing them:https://youtu.be/StV3qNgVmtY

Line and Colors decided today would be a good day to feature "Hell," the right panel from the tryptich, The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted between 1480 and 1505."Paintings like this were meant to strike fear into the minds of those who viewed them, showing the horrors of eternal damnation that would inevitably follow their unwise choices."Browse the 30,000 × 17,078 pixel image here!

Primitive Technology is a YouTube video channel produced by an Australian guy who goes into the jungle with nothing but the clothes on his back, and makes things like shelters, tools, and weapons. There are no words or text in the video, only the sounds of nature for a soundtrack. In this episode, he weaves a trap to catch shrimp, which he puts in an earthenware jug, and then cooks them over a fire he starts with friction.Shrimp (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists of a simple basket with a funnel shaped entrance. Shrimp easily find their way into the trap as they are funneled in, but have difficulty finding the way out.I wove the main body of the trap from lawyer cane then made the funnel from sticks with vines woven between them. The funnel was then inserted in the top of the basket and was complete.I put the trap in the water under some tree roots without any bait. About 10 minutes later caught the first shrimp which I stored in a pot of water. I caught another one and made a fire.I humanely killed the shrimp using the splitting method which destroys the central nervous system (boiling alive is more painful). Then I put them back in the pot with water. I collected some yams that I planted years ago from wild stock and put them in too. I took 5 hot rocks from the fire and put them in the pot boiling the contents. The shrimps turned red after cooking. They were peeled and eaten. The yams were also peeled and eaten.This method of catching shrimp is easy with the only skill needed being basketry. In practice, a long stretch of creek might have several traps collecting food each day without any effort on the part of the fisherman. Bait is not necessary to catch shrimp as they will be naturally be drawn to the fish trap out of curiosity. But scraps from previous shrimp may be used to bring in new ones (they are cannibalistic) or other fish like eels. The shrimp trap is easy to build and can be reused many times.

If you’re looking to learn a new trade skill like sales, master a language for a job, or take a professional development class, you normally would pay in the thousands for classes at a local institution. Cudoo Foreign Language & Professional Development Library is a really useful website that offers these sorts of courses for much less and conveniently online.With Cudoo, you have 24/7 access to a comprehensive library of self-study courses and videos covering a wide range of computer skills, languages, and professions—for $45 total. For that price, you’ll have your Cudoo membership for two years.I found that Cudoo's courses are good quality, and live up to industry benchmarks. The language courses are mapped to CEFR standards, an internationally-recognized framework that sets 6 levels of language ability. And the best part is, Cudoo is is updated regularly, so you’ll always be able to access content that is current.Don't miss this 87% off discount in the Boing Boing Store.Explore other Best-Sellers and Giveaways on our network right now:HealthBamboo Bed Sheets: 6-Piece Set White (84% off)Apple6.5 Ft Apple Lightning Cables: 3-Pack (50% off) Music + EntertainmentBrain.fm: 3-Year Subscription ($29)Cord-CuttingGhost Indoor HDTV Antenna (57% off) GiveawayThe Google Pixel Phone Giveaway

At the 2016 Hugos, a Chinese book in translation made history by winning for Best Novel: Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem". (more…)

Researchers from Dalhousie University (Canada) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) have published a working paper detailing a proof-of-concept attack on smart lightbulbs that allows them to wirelessly take over the bulbs from up to 400m, write a new operating system to them, and then cause the infected bulbs to spread the attack to all the vulnerable bulbs in reach, until an entire city is infected. (more…)

A report in BILD am Sonntag claims that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has uncovered the secret test that Audis were programmed to perform to determine whether to pollute like crazy or to pretend that they were low-polluting, legally compliant vehicles. (more…)

One after another, ex-Wells Fargo employees have come forward to reveal that when they blew the whistle of millions of frauds committed against the bank's customers, the bank's management fired them and blackballed them from the banking industry for life, by falsifying claims of wrongdoing on a semi-secret list of corrupt bankers that is consulted by the industry before they make new hires. (more…)

Irishman Colin Davidson painted the new official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II."With anybody I paint, it's a human being in their own right, but with this particular painting I was aware of the gravity and sheer importance and weight which comes with the person I was painting."Davidson sees it as symbolic of a closer relationship between Britain and Ireland, reports Robbie Meredith. Elizabeth became the world's longest-reigning head of state in October after the death of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85OysZ_4lp0&feature=youtu.beSafety standards matter. The cheapest Nissan sold in Mexico, the Tsuru, and the cheapest Nissan sold in the USA, the Versa, were driven into one another at 40 miles per hour. You don't want to be in either car, but you definitely don't want to be in the Tsuru.A car-to-car test between a 2015 Nissan Tsuru, the least expensive sedan sold by Nissan in Mexico, and a 2016 Nissan Versa, the least expensive sedan sold by Nissan in the United States. With a 50% overlap and each vehicle travelling at 40 mph (64 km/h) the test highlights the significant differences in safety standards between these two baseline models sold by the same manufacturer in different markets.Wired reports that the Tsuru (basically a 1990s Sentra) is being put to pasture soon, and that Mexico is toughening its car safety laws.

In this great essay, lawyer and writer Mirah Curzer examines the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Remember Me” from a feminist lens. The episode centers on Dr. Beverly Crusher, who begins to notice that people are disappearing and she's the only one who can remember that they ever existed. Curzer writes:What surprised me the most about the episode was how long it took for anyone to question Beverly's reliability.She says someone is missing, but no one remembers him coming onto the ship, and they can’t find any record of him ever being born. And yet they mobilize all resources to find him and the other missing people only Beverly remembers. They sideline their mission and change course more than once based on her unconfirmed claim that something is wrong. It is only 20 minutes into the episode that Picard gently and hesitantly suggests that maybe the problem could be her memory.And even after Picard has asked Beverly to see the counselor because he thinks she may be having memory issues, he still trusts her. She asks him to turn the ship around even though she has no evidence to present but her own memory—which is contradicted by everyone else’s memory as well as all the physical evidence. And still, he responds:“Your word has always been good enough for me.”You can read the full essay over on Medium.

These amazing paper dolls were created for Vivid Seats by my friend Tyler Feder. You can find more of Feder’s work on her website and Etsy shop.

I have a Kindle Paperwhite and use it almost every day. About a year ago I was on a plane and when I took my seat belt off the buckle hit the screen damaged it. It still works but it has a distracting white spot where the buckle landed. I've been looking for a reason to buy the superior Kindle Voyage, but at $200, I couldn't justify it to myself. But Amazon started selling refurbished Voyages for $120, which is low enough for me to hit Amazon's patented 1-Click Buy Now button. Hopefully I'll get it in time to finish reading A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin. If you like Patricia Highsmith, you will like this novel about a charming young psychopath. Levin also wrote Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives, two of my favorite movies.

The Washington Examiner reports that Conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh said "I'm told that George W. Bush and Laura Bush voted for Hillary Clinton today." Believable! (more…)

Video from Peter Serafinowicz. (more…)

If you’re like me, you're always trying and failing to organize your tasks and computer files. Pagico 8 is a well-reviewed organization app that looked well worth a try, and I was very impressed. Pagico is a one-stop app that takes all of your disparate items—tasks, notes, projects—and turns them into beautiful interactive flowcharts. It's super easy to use once you get going.With Pagico, you can easily manage and browse all your projects, events, and contacts in one place. You can even browse through hundreds of projects using Pagico’s powerful tag browser. There’s also a new calendar view that allows you to schedule and re-schedule meetings easily. Pagico allows you to drill down into a view of each day using the “Today” option, so you can plan better, organize smarter, and actually improve your productivity levels.And of course, if you prefer to work on your phone rather than on your laptop, Pagico also syncs your data with your mobile devices (or other computers). Pagico is well worth investing in and will definitely help you get more organized. You can get 62% off deal today.Also explore the Best-Sellers on our network right now:Cord-CuttingGhost Indoor HDTV Antenna (57% off)HealthBamboo Bed Sheets: 6-Piece Set White (84% off)Apple6.5 Ft Apple Lightning Cables: 3-Pack (50% off) Music + EntertainmentBrain.fm: 3-Year Subscription ($29)CodingLearn to Code 2016 Bundle (Pay What You Want)

Just the thing to pair with a Cthulhu ski-mask and a studded skull/eyeball bowtie for a bit of trypophic dress-up fun! It's $28 from Etsy seller Talulahblueburlesque of Leicester, England. (Thanks, Alice!) (more…)

The Onion is apparently struggling to satirize an election that is so absurd it can only be called "self-satirizing," but they scored a hit with their op-ed by Donald J Trump: "No Matter What Happens Tomorrow, At Least I Had Fun." (more…)

Suffragist and one-dollar-coin model Susan B Anthony put her life and freedom on the line to win the vote for women in America, but she never got to cast a ballot herself. (more…)

As the FBI announced that it had reviewed the emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop and determined that there was no incriminating material about Hillary Clinton on them, the Trump campaign roared with incredulity, insisting that it was inconceivable that the FBI could have vetted 800,000 emails in 8 days. (more…)

I recently became an American citizen. I just voted for the first time in my life. Ballot selfies are legal in PA, but it's all on computer and all you get printed for you is this wee receipt! I'm a sexy anarchist, but I voted for Hillary Clinton and recommend that you do too, because she's the second-best choice this system has ever given us and the best one's already got the job. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is a racist cheapjack, a gallon baggie of apricot pruno left to go rancid in the sun until it bursts like a beached whale. Go and vote.

The “confused math lady” meme has gotten a heavy workout during this election season. It turns out it comes from a Brazilian telenovela called Senhora do Destino. The meme features star Renata Sorrah and the original scene actually has to do with jail, not math:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDGaSpgH3l4

Johns Hopkins is among several institutions challenging a key tenet of outlawing psychedelics: that they have "no medicinal use." Baltimore Magazine examines the progress made by key researchers Roland Griffiths and Bill Richards. (more…)

Mats Valk used a custom Rubik's Cube tricked out with neodymium magnets to set a new world record for speed cubing: 4.74 seconds. (more…)

Brian Pollet (aka PsyBry) created this fantastic series of 20 images each themed on a specific drug. Several have accompanying making-of videos that are as hypnotizing as the final stills. (more…)

At least when they are looking for some sweet, slow lovin'. BBC Earth served up this charming video of a sloth swimming in a shallow waterway in search of a ladyfriend. Turns out sloths get a little spring in their step when climbing if there's a chance for a romantic interlude in the trees. The clip is a nice palate-cleanser after the harrowing "baby iguana vs. a few dozen snakes" clip that made the rounds earlier this week. (more…)

The Hugh Mungus saga continues (previously). Hugh Mungus nemesis Zarna Joshi posted a series of videos outlining her views and asking viewers to support her financially via funding platform YouCaring. Ethan Klein at H3H3 gave Zarna $100, then created a companion fundraiser for Hugh Mungus (aka Rudy Pantoja), who recently revealed he has costs related to health treatment. On Monday night, YouCaring abruptly shut down both fundraisers. (more…)

Because Donald Trump, that's why. (more…)

Bill Maher went to the White House to interview President Obama for a special episode of Real Time. Here's the full 37-minute interview. It's worth watching because Maher brings up topics that most journalists aren't interested in, like the war on drugs (Obama wants to treat it as a public health issue), and rights of atheists.

The Millennium Falcon is pretty well shaped to fly as an RC quadcopter!I'm a huge fan of Air Hogs RC toys, and have been destroying their boats in salt water for years and years. I was thrilled to see someone flying this giant 27" Millennium Falcon XL around the beach this weekend, and even happier to find out there is a smaller, 10" version that don't cost an arm and a leg.The fine person flying the XL model on the beach said the big guy a little rough to control, however the smaller unit is a great indoor flyer. It doesn't surprise me, the XL model is pretty ambitious. I know which nephew of mine is getting the smaller one for Hanukkah!Air Hogs - Star Wars Remote Control Millennium Falcon XL Flying Drone 2.4GHz 4-Channel with Gyro via AmazonAir Hogs Star Wars Remote Control Millennium Falcon Quad via Amazon (10" model)