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Worldcon attendees: silent auction today at the SFWA booth!
Bicycle Eco Edition Playing Cards
The classic Rider Back deck, recyclable with organic finish and inks!Read the rest
Cory at Reno's Grassroots Books this Friday!
Assemblage under glass
Match Head Bomb video: 6000 matches in a blender, shot at at 2500fps
The Slow Mo guys are back at it with an amazing, totally unsafe, possibly illegal homemade pyrotechnics display. (more…)
Cat who is getting a bath says “no more”
No more. (more…)
Impact Team hackers behind Ashley Madison breach: More coming, but we'll spare you the dick pics
"We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and get everything,” Impact Team said. Read the rest
Darren Dutton's weird comedy remix masterpiece: Badgers
Darren Dutton outdoes himself with a very funny pastoral pastiche, handmade from 100% recycled materials.(more…)
Weekend of Wonder: Baby Tattoo's Carnival of Astounding Art
Starting tomorrow the Oceanside Museum of Art plays host to Weekend of Wonder co-creator Baby Tattoo's Carnival of Astounding Art!Read the rest
Make your own TSA universal luggage keys
Howard the Duck
Naturally the DVD for this incredible, baffling movie is only $6.48!Read the rest
Play the world's largest version of Minesweeper, maybe
In honor of the game's 30th anniversary, you can apply for a chance to clear 38,799 mines from a massive Minesweeper board that stretches across 24 screens—on expert mode. Read the rest
I use a cheap WiFi laser printer with cheaper 3rd party toner cartridges
I stopped using an inkjet printer a couple of years ago because I don't think the prints looked good and the cartridges needed replacing frequently. Read the rest
Earn 1 cent every 4.5 seconds for turning a crank
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Ammunition company is selling shotgun shells designed to shoot drones
Even though it's a federal offense to shoot a drone out of the sky, Snake River sells shotgun shells marketed for that purpose. They admit it's really just "high end goose or turkey load," which doesn't sound as bad ass.
Free six-part course on encrypting email and securing your network sessions against snooping
1940s women use bizarre robotic exercise equipment
These machines look like they are doing all the work.
Regal promises security-theater bag-searches in America's largest cinema chain
Look at the size of this grizzly bear paw
From West Coast Native News: "This is how big a grizzly bears paw is – by the way, the bear is sedated and about to be tagged."
Judge: City of Inglewood can't use copyright to censor videos of council meetings
Joseph Teixeira doesn't like Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, so he makes Youtube videos featuring City Council meeting footage. Read the rest
Funky Friday: “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” Elvin Bishop, 1976
A seventies country cock-rocker soft-bluesy ballad that you may know best from the soundtrack for the movies “Boogie Nights,” or “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Read the rest
Patti Smith says goodbye to Aqua Teen Hunger Force with this song
Iconic punk poet Patti Smith composed a song to send off the cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which concludes this Sunday after 13 seasons. Read the rest
VHS Camcorder app makes iPhone video look like 1980s tape
Record the world through a 1980s lens with Rarevision's VHS Camcorder app, currently available for iOS with Android coming soon. Don't forget to please be kind, rewind. Read the rest
Blokus takes 2 seconds to learn, but many games to master
Apparently Blokus is a popular game that’s been around since 2000, introduced by the French company Sekkoia before being sold to Mattel in 2009. Read the rest
A pound of Tibetan "Viagra" mushrooms jumps in price from $2 to $40,000
Yartsa gunbu (summer grass-winter worm) is a fungus that parasitizes moth larvae by devouring them from the inside-out and sprouting from their exoskeleton. Read the rest
EFF-Austin panel commemmorating the 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games raid
The Secret Service raid on Austin's Steve Jackson Games started the fight over freedom and privacy online, and resulted in the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and EFF-Austin. Read the rest
How a jerk scams a free quadruple espresso at Starbucks 365 days a year
A Starbucks barista named Brad describes a guy who bought 365 Starbucks gift cards and registered each of them with a different birthday so he can get a free drink every day. Read the rest
Beautifully shot video of a different kind of string quartet
Jordan sez, "Fourplay are a one-of-a-kind string quartet. Much more of a band than a classical ensemble. They jam out songs, they have vocals, they rock. We did a film clip!"
Cat poses next to its own "missing cat" poster
Brian M. Cassidy snapped this photo of a cat peering through a window with a poster announcing that it was missing. Read the rest
He-Man and Skeletor character designs improved by children
A child of the 80s, I recently rediscovered my love of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoons and toys. Read the rest
Photo of Bigfoot taking a poop
ZacWaffle says that what appears to be Bigfoot dropping a deuce in this photo taken in Columbus, Ohio turned out to be "sticks in the perfect formation." But we all know the truth. (more…)
Why the Ashley Madison hack should scare you
Heather Havrilesky explains that the moralizing and schadenfruede around the leak has obscured what it means for everyone, even those of us who don't sign up to cheat on our partners: everyone has something to hide. Read the rest
Cockney rhyming slang "dying out"
The "old, confusing tradition" is on its way to the history books, should the newspapers be believed.What was the source of all this anxiety? Read the rest
China loves the lingo of games
In honor of games' growing influence on contemporary Chinese vernacular, here are 5 translated phrases to Second Kill your English vocab. Read the rest
Photoshop of Lady Diana with Princess Charlotte
The death of Princess Diana was a turning point in UK public life, an event met (contrary to the expected English sang-froid) by an outpouring of intense, irrational, somewhat deranged grief. Read the rest
Hand-cut silhouettes from Tolkien, Rowling, GRRM
OnePlus 2 cheap-phone overhyped but OK, say reviewers
Hailed as a flagship-killing bargain, the OnePlus 2 is just OK and not even that cheap. Read the rest
Which kid's slide is more disturbing?
In order to out-gross the Dude Wipes post earlier this week, which inflatable kid's slide is worse? Goatse Dog, or Pervi Luigi? Read the rest
Mirrored Ziggurat melds earth with stairway to the skies
Sydney's Underbelly Arts Festival included this cool Mirrored Ziggurat by Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad.Inspired by the pyramidal structure of Ziggurat in ancient Mesopotamia, this installation offers a transformative view of the self. Read the rest
Trump presidency fanfic
"Looking back on the presidency of Donald Trump" is fiction in the style of a steeple-fingered newsfeature, published, perfectly, at The Atlantic. Read the rest
Productivity slumps after 40-50 hours of work a week
It's the historically-emergent standard for good reasons, because the quality of work simply goes to shit when people work too much. Read the rest
Man draws dozens of penises in Ikea, with Ikea pencil
A 31-year-old Aalborg resident was charged with vandalism after drawing "up to 30 penises" on the walls and fixtures of the Aalborg Ikea. Read the rest
Techy distance-ed courses from O'Reilly: Learning Paths
O'Reilly's debuted "Learning Paths," a promising new line of distance-ed programs for techy subjects, with the quality and range you'd expect from the company that brought us the camel book and Make: magazine. Read the rest
Spotify's new privacy policy lets it collect everything on your phone
Madness, reports Wired. “we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as contacts, photos, or media files … we may also collect information about your location based on, for example, your phone’s GPS location."
Yeti poses for portrait
Andrey Lyubchenko, reports The Siberian Times, encountered the creature on a trip to Yeti-infested Kemerovo. It posed for a sketch (above). Read the rest
Bernie Sanders' spoken-word album
Released in 1987, We Shall Overcome is "pretty terrible", according to Dangerous Minds' Amber Frost, but "frankly it rules" according to Gawker's Andy Cush. Read the rest
Spectacular, swirling custom-built stone walls and furniture
Stonemasons Andreas Kunert and Naomi Zettl of Ancient Art of Stone elevate the art of stonemasonry with carefully designed and positioned decorative stone walls. Read the rest
Report: Xerox is now region-coding some DRMed ink cartridges
German tech pub c't magazin reports that Xerox is now requiring customers not only to use their toner cartridges, but they even have to be from a specific region to work. Read the rest
WATCH: These gymnastic Japanese breakdancers will leave you breathless
World of Dance just held their World Finals in Los Angeles, and the breakout team in the Youth competition brought insane levels of energy and breakdancing precision to win their division. Read the rest
WATCH: NSFW Camgirl Odalisque by Hugo Arcier
Hugo Arcier's Camgirl odalisque "aims to establish a connection between classical nude artworks, odalisque figures (such as Ingres’ or Manet’s), and the more contemporary vision that camgirls represent." Read the rest
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