The woman recorded video of a Miami cop punching a suspect who had already been handcuffed and put in the back of a cruiser; the video was interrupted by another officer trying to seize her phone. Read the rest

This is a million times better than oblique references to bloating and neat test-tubes of thin blue liquid. (via That Book Smell)

White Rhino entertained his sister on a seven-hour road-trip with some damned fine lip-synching to tunes ranging from the Spice Girls to Enya to Daddy Yankee to Keyshia Cole. (more…)

A DoJ filing in an ACLU lawsuit in Oregon admits that you can be put on a no-fly list based on "predictive assessments about potential threats," as opposed to threatening or dangerous things you've actually said or done. Read the rest

Why oh why did the "Erotic Mud Dance" not make the final cut? (more…)

Flashback posted a terrific set of photos taken by official cruise ship photographers in the 1990s. Read the rest

$10. Designs to reconsider. [h/t Karen!]

HOWTO build an Endor Speeder Bike/rocking horseAKA, how to win parenting forever. Read the rest

The FBI found no criminal wrongdoing, or evidence that any other officers were involved with the KKK. Read the rest

Amazon is selling the GE remote wall switch for just $15 right now. It's a good solution for being able to turn on a floor lamp (including ones with LED or CFL bulbs) or other electric appliance from across the room. Read the rest

Last week on a particularly hot summer day my 12-year-old daughter and her friend decided to avoid the outdoors and spent the afternoon coloring the pages of Fantastic Cities. Read the rest

"1940s Celluloid Caterpillar Thimble Holder. US$65.87, 7 bids starting at US$5.00." (Via Notes from a Thimble Psycho)

In the late 1970s, Parisian poet, artist, and singer Lizzy Mercier Descloux made the downtown New York scene with peers Patti Smith and Richard Hell. Descloux's music melded no wave, disco, and minimalism into a funky, dissonant groove. Yes, you can dance to it. Read the rest

Robert Jones's Die Antwoord/Teletubbies mashup turns a troubling childhood memory into an even more troubling one. This makes Teletubbies getting spattered with pink goo seem even more freeky. (more…)

Getting harassed on Twitter? You know what to do. And so does this tank top. Read the rest

For more than a century, physicians have used music to make patients feel better before, during, and after surgery. A new scientific meta-study looks at the evidence and confirms that yes, listening to music has measurable pain-killing properties and reduces anxiety around surgery. Read the rest

Getting grime out of tight places on my bikes can be a real pain. This microfiber line lets me clean, and shine, even the toughest spots!Read the rest

There's something appealing about putting a broken thing back together, a way of restoring order to the world—or affirming that damaged things are still worth saving. Read the rest

Reddit user noveltysin put her Fitbit on after 20 minutes of foreplay to record her heart rate during a 8 minutes 59 seconds intercourse session. She added notes to the graph indicating when she changed positions, when her knees gave out, and the time of her orgasm and "aftershock."

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President Obama posted two Spotify summer playlists, one for day and another for night. Some nice soul and jazz cuts on there from Coltrane, The Temptations, Al Green Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Miles. Read the rest

Cory James Marriott is Kickstarting a cool $600 chemistry set. The examples on the video of glowing liquids, colored flames, color changing liquids, and weird crystals are the kinds of things kids hope and expect when they are given a crappy modern-day chemistry set, only to be disappointed to find out it contains not much more than a baggie of salt, a plastic eyedropper, and a pair of safety goggles. Read the rest

Official Chinese Communist Party newspaper People's Daily claims that the Changying Precision Technology Company in the city of Dongguan replaced 600 people on its assembly lines with 60 robots, making it the "first unmanned factory in Dongguan" as part of the company's "Robot Replace Human" program. Read the rest

Designer Sean Adams takes us through the creation of a full-page color magazine advertisement as it was done in the Mad Men era. Read the rest

Cyagen also makes stem cells and other bio-research materials: they'll pay academics $100 in vouchers per citation, multiplied by the impact factor of the journal in which the paper is published. -

Pol Clarissou's Lil Ghost Garden, made for the virtual pet-themed PetJam, is a pleasant desktop companion. I love the design of his ghost character, a sympathetic looming moonface whose shadow body trundles dutifully around what begins as a sparse garden. Read the rest

The Ice Cream Store in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware sells ice cream flavored with ghost peppers, which are loaded with so much capsaicin that they make jalapeños seem like strawberries. Read the rest

Why would someone wear a realistic bear costume and use it bother a mother grizzly and her two cubs trying to eat salmon in an Alaska river? Read the rest

A show conceived to help low-income kids keep up with their affluent peers will now be "paywalled so that rich kids can watch it before poor kids can." Read the rest

Magician Jose Ahonen performed some sleight-of-hand magic on dogs and they were totally fooled. First, he showed them a treat held between his fingers and thumb. The dog naturally expressed interest in it. When the treat disappeared, they were like, "huh?"

Two allegations of sexual assault leveled against Julian Assange by Swedish police were dropped Thursday due to that nation's statute of limitations. Read the rest

Public Radio International aired this short audio piece on ska, the musical form that took off in the early 1960s, blending Jamaican jazz with American soul and rhythm and blues, and influenced numerous excellent bands, from The Clash and The Specials to No Doubt and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Read the rest

His hilarious, bathetic op-ed in Glamour is full of sneaky, countersunk gender ha-ha-only-serious humor: "Women havesmart, resourceful role models -- Marissa Mayer, Michelle Obama, Sacajawea, and the green M&M." Read the rest

The studio behind "Dallas Buyers Club" will be able to demand that people caught downloading the movie without permission pay for the cost of a legit download, plus a small surcharge to cover the cost of getting their details through a court. Read the rest

Judges struck down the state's death penalty, commuting 11 doomed killers' sentences to life imprisonment, notwithstanding the fact the state hasn't actually executed anyone since 1960 except Michael Ross. Read the rest

The White House has released the list. Read the rest

It might not look like much as a GIF—a couple of black pixels and a puff of pixelated smoke—but Wired's Nick Stockton explains the powerful weather satellites that make it possible to see disasters from afar—and impossible to hide them from the world.

In INSIDE THE MACHINE: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age [W. W. Norton & Company], cultural historian Megan Prelinger guides readers through the history of electronics. Read the rest

It's not unusual for political candidates to snap up all the variations of their name (and then again with "sucks" appended, too!) but Trump's collection gives the impression of The Donald himself sat late at night, hunched paranoid over namecheap.com, dreaming up new variations to snag. Read the rest

Reminder: it's cheaper to get fined in Pennsylvania than it is to park in New York. Read the rest