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Interactive map of the swathes of England owned by offshore tax-dodgers
Pizza receipt warns of labyrinth, minotaur
In your head, hear this pizza receipt's delivery instructions in the demanding, sinister voice of Brad Dourif.
Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Leonard Cohen, Donald Sutherland and Ellen Page's vision for a better Canada
World map with countries the size of their stock markets
Created by Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett, this illustration shows "free-float equity market capitalization" in billions of dollars.
LISTEN: Back From the Dead?
Was an Australian butcher really a long-lost English aristocrat? Read the rest
Knuckle-scanning anti-cheating software won't say what it's doing with Rutgers students' data
Someone re-did the whole True Detective intro in Grand Theft Auto V
Sometimes the creative things people do with games are even more interesting than the games themselves. Read the rest
Read a bold new magazine for interactive fiction fans
The ambitious new Sub-Q aims to create a brand new venue for interactive fiction and the players who love it. Fans believe the form is going mainstream in a big way, and there are ever more ways for you—yes, you!—to take part. Read the rest
Drive-in snack-bar movie as David Lynchian horror-movie
It's a surprisingly good fit: from the FITC Toronto 2011 Festival. (via JWZ)
A hide and seek game where you murder your friends in a field
Badblood reminds me a little bit of playing Manhunt in the woods as a kid, except for the part where I got brained with a hammer. Read the rest
Get lifetime access to the ultimate design & animation bundle - 98% off
If you crave a life in design, computer animation or game development, this is the one-stop career-defining package you need. Through more than 200 hours of expert instruction, you’ll learn all aspects of computer-aided design (CAD), animation, engineering, and more. Read the rest
Jeb Bush: Leave NSA Alone
“We must stop demonizing these quiet intelligence professionals and start giving them the tools they need.” Read the rest
Chris Christie support at 1%
New Jersey governor Chris Christie's presidential favorability ratings have been falling since December 2014. He is faring so poorly that a Langer Research poll conducted for ABC News and The Washington Post released today didn't even bother to put Christie on a graph of the Republican candidates. Read the rest
10 photos of dogs that sure do look funny floating mid-air
Pups of various breeds lurch, flop, and float through the air in German photographer Julia Christe's wonderful “Freestyle Series.” Read the rest
"Crisis actors": a conspiracy theory that re-victimizes shooting survivors
Watch this ice cream vendor in Turkey blow tourists' minds with magic
In Turkey, an ice cream vendor on the streets offers passers-by some wonderfully entertaining magic.(more…)
In Uganda, a white German aid worker becomes an unlikely local pop star
Student Deena Herr, 22, has recently become a very unlikely superstar in the East African nation of Uganda. Read the rest
Anita Sarkeesian on women's bodies as prizes in video games
Kate from Feminist Frequency (previously) writes, "Feminist Frequency has just released a supplemental mini-episode in their Tropes vs Women in Video Games series." Read the rest
Chunk of gallium melts in your hand
A cool addition to my growing cabinet of curiosities. Read the rest
Harpo-Deetoo and Chicopio in "A Day at the Pod Races"
Dan/Ridetheory's amazing mashup of R2 & 3PO with Chico and Harpo from A Day at the Races is brilliant.
Vivienne Westwood drives a tank to David Cameron's house
The doyenne of punk design drove the tank to the UK prime minister's house in Chadlington, Oxfordshire to carry out a spoof "chemical attack" in protest over new fracking licenses in 27 residential areas (but not near David Cameron's home). Read the rest
Support an ambitious new project from David J (Bauhaus/Love and Rockets)!
Legendary musician David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets is collaborating with Detroit's Theatre Bizarre Orchestra to create an immersive performance experience involving a studio recording, DVD, and tour. Read the rest
Read Ben Hatke's original Adventures of Little Robot
EFF scores a giant victory for fair use and dancing babies
8 years ago, Universal Music sent a takedown notice over Stephanie Lenz's 29-second Youtube video of her kids dancing in the kitchen to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy." Read the rest
Just look at this Japanese 100-yen store banana chipper
Just look at it.
Surely this is the most Norman Rockwell photo ever taken of President Obama meeting a little boy
“President Barack Obama meets 4-year-old Malik Hall during departure photos with Malik's uncle, Maurice Owens, center, in the Oval Office, Sept 4, 2015.” Read the rest
A quirky coloring book with images of a typewriter and a giraffe with an overbite
Can you remember the childhood zen of scribbling with crayons atop the outlines of your favorite superhero? Ever wish you could go back? Read the rest
Video captures taxi driver stealing customer's phone
YouTuber 44alimorris shot a video of a taxi driver stealing her friend's phone. Here's her report of the incident: Read the rest
Younger Bill Gates poses with older Bill Gates
Fulvio Obregon, an illustrator from Cali, Colombia, created a series of portraits that show younger and older versions of the same celebrity as if they are in the same room together.
Man trying to fix broken windshield ticketed on way to repair shop
Nick Berlin was "yards away" from a windshield repair shop when he was pulled over by an Adams County (Colorado) Sheriff's Deputy who gave him a ticket for having a broken windshield. Berlin's windshield was broken when a vandal threw a rock at it. Jeremy Jojola of KUSA Channel 9 reported the story and spoke to Denise Maes, the public policy director for the ACLU: Read the rest
How to bring the look of women's high fashion into your closet for cheap
Over at eBay, fashion designer/stylist Kelly Sparks, who moonlights as my wife, wrote about how to bring the trends seen in the crazy couture of fashion show runways into a woman's everyday wardrobe: "Five Fall Fashion Trends That Aren't Just for Supermodels" Read the rest
Weekend of Wonder is unveiling SKEYE Pico Drone - world's tiniest drone
Meet the SKEYE Pico Drone, the smallest drone in the world Read the rest
Video: the occultism of Robert Anton Wilson
Fortean journalist Cat Vincent have a presentation at London's Treadwell's esoteric bookshop about the strange mysticism of bOING bOING patron saint Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, and Cosmic Trigger, a book that changed my life in weird and wonderful ways. Read the rest
Watch child ruin magician's trick on television, and his return 20 years later
What a twerp. (more…)
Little girl scared of her own shadow
This toddler is having a nice time in a parking lot when she is startled by a stranger who silently sneaked up to her. She panics and flees, but like the monster in It Follows, the stranger pursues her relentlessly.[via]
Ugly camera strap like your dad's? $6
If you've gone to great lengths, spending big bucks to get a new digital camera that looks like an old film slr, you might as well have the ugly camera strap to match! Read the rest
Why snoozing puppies twitch cutely and other facts about animal sleep
Walruses sleep in a big pile. Hippos bob to the surface to take a breath and then sink back underwater. (more…)
Music: "Frying Pan," Mac Sabbath
Great write up on Mac Sabbath at The Village Voice.
Crown shyness - when trees don't like to touch each other
This incredible photo is an example of "crown shyness," a phenomenon in which the crowns of trees maintain a little personal space between each other. Read the rest
Save 89% on a premium lifetime subscription of proXPN VPN
Surf the web with ultimate peace of mind – both at home and on the road – over proXPN’s fully-encrypted, lightning-fast servers. Read the rest
Ashley Madison users chose passwords like "whyareyoudoingthis"
Raccoon sweeps the floor
Looks like Disney wasn't lying when they portrayed forest animals helping clean homes.
The Strange Misadventures of Famous Corpses
Being well known can make it harder to rest in peace. Read the rest
Tim Wu joins the New York Attorney General's office
Wu, a protege of Larry Lessig who coined the term "Net Neutrality," will be on sabbatical from Columbia Law while he works for the AG: "If I have a life mission, it is to fight bullies" Read the rest
The Filming of Andy Warhol's EMPIRE (1964)
Dennis the Menace statue stolen ten years ago shows up across country
This steel statue of Dennis the Menace, swiped from a Monterey, California playground in 2006, has turned up at a scrapyard in Orlando, Florida. Police don't know who forcibly removed Dennis from his home and sent him across the country, but I wager the culprit's last name is Wilson. Read the rest
Etsy to allow manufactured goods
Previously forbidden from the vintage 'n' handmade marketplace, companies that make large numbers of any given item now have a home at Etsy. Read the rest
17th century illustrations of butterflies
They're the work of Maria Sibylla Merian, a scientist and artist whose meticulous illustrations of wildlife were mostly forgotten until a late 20th century reappraisal. Read the rest
Homophobic attitudes linked to psychological problems
A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine (great name for a soul album) finds that gay haters Read the rest
"Trendy font" blamed for bottle of "POO" sold by UK grocer
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