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by Xeni Jardin on (#FQ8T)
“Uncaged, Unaccountable, Fucked Up.†Better jot down that phone number for their Atrocity Tip Line. Read the rest
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by Cory Doctorow on (#FQ7D)
I'm reading from the novel I just finished (Utopia) and then being interviewed by Geekwire's Frank Catalano. Read the rest
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by Jason Weisberger on (#FQ5B)
L.A.'s Big Art Church, a studio, gallery, school and performance venue, is just getting going! Naturally, it needs our help! Read the rest
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by David Pescovitz on (#FQ5H)
In the 1973, subversive street artist Mike Mandel would take snapshots of the cheap motels where he stayed while traveling the country. Read the rest
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FQ5K)
In December, we wrote about the unbelievably stupid arrest of Rokudenashiko (nee Megumi Igarashi), a Japanese manga artist who makes art with castings of her genitals. Read the rest
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by Jason Weisberger on (#FQ5N)
I fell in love with Rysa Walker's time travel stories, the CHRONOS Files. Time's Mirror is a new novella exposing one of her most controversial characters!Read the rest
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by Jason Weisberger on (#FQ1Y)
In this terrible post, TechCrunch panders to the worst kind of start-up exec, the lying and failing kind. Nothing in their piece is good advice, and no one should look to these bozos for business tips. Read the rest
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by Cory Doctorow on (#FPZK)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FPFS)
Next month, security researchers will demonstrate how to crack a modern Brink's safe in seconds. Read the rest
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FPK5)
This KLM pilot nails it at Schipol airport in Amsterdam—and any passengers who refused to stash their stuff were likely nailed by their iPads during rapid corrections in 60MPH cross-winds. Read the rest
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FPK7)
The BBC investigates. tldr: olive oil. But also: saturated fats perhaps are fine.
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by Ed Piskor on (#FPHK)
Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FPFQ)
It's set up as a service you can use right now on your website: "We are continously improving and testing it but we know the devil never sleeps, especially in the metal scene!"
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FPCE)
Jessica Moreno was the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month, reports Noah Kulwin for Recode. Read the rest
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by Charles Duan on (#FP33)
A chilling piece of science fiction projects the future of our most frightening tech-law trends: what will the mission-creep for memory erasure look like? Read the rest
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by Laura Hudson on (#FPCF)
With over 16,000 indie games available on Itch.io, it can be hard to figure out what to play. But thanks to the Randomizer, finding a new game is as easy as swiping right. Read the rest
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FPB3)
Plans to ban puns may still be afoot, but China has at last lifted its prohibition on owning game consoles. Though widely unenforced, the official imprimatur of approval is expected to give the domestic game business a huge boost.
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FP7K)
A "smoking gun" found in a 1927 songbook may prove once and for all that the song "Happy Birthday" is out of copyright. Read the rest
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FP66)
eBay Now is dead, reports Trevor Mogg. The get-it-today delivery option was launched in 2012 in New York, San Francisco, Dallas and Chicago, but was not popular with buyers.
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by Futility Closet on (#FP34)
Did the spirits of dead composers contact British medium Rosemary Brown to dictate new music?Read the rest
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by Andrea James on (#FP36)
The fine folks at Vulture took clips from the doomed Roger Corman Fantastic Four and made a retro-style trailer. ICYMI, here's what they're parodying: Read the rest
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by Andrea James on (#FP38)
The Audubon Society received 9,000 entires for their annual photography contest and chose nine winners, including Mary Angela Luzader's Fine Art Honorable Mention for her shot of fighting Purple Gallinules, above. Read the rest
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by Andrea James on (#FP3A)
New Jersey's Action Park is legendary for crazy rides, and now it has a water slide that's about one-third of a mile long. Above: a ride by park employee Jasosn Mulder, including a mid-air corkscrew flip. Read the rest
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by Andrea James on (#FP3C)
The U.S. government estimates that hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits languish in police and crime lab storage facilities. The EndTheBacklog project illustrates that there's "more we do NOT know about the backlog than we do know." Read the rest
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by David Pescovitz on (#FMD8)
At Hopes&Fears, Kristen Felicetti has tips from private dicks on how to lose someone who is following you, in a car, on foot, and on public transportation. Read the rest
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by Rob Beschizza on (#FMR6)
Ivana Trump accused her husband of sexually violating her, and his lawyer has issued a series of insane threats to Daily Beast reporters, which they have published. Read the rest
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by Cory Doctorow on (#FMK6)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FMHA)
Just don't ask your barista where they store the cash. Read the rest
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FMFH)
“Here is my puppy Peanut Butter trying to go down the stairs at 9 weeks old.â€(more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FMFK)
No big deal.(more…)
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by David Pescovitz on (#FM8F)
"Kmart Solutions" in-store video from 1998. (more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FMC3)
The reaction of putting an effervescent antacid tablet into water was filmed with the Red Epic Dragon Camera, on board the ISS. Read the rest
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by David Pescovitz on (#FMC5)
In Tongham, England, police responded to a call about a man walking around with a shotgun. Turned out, he was carrying two didgeridoos. Read the rest
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FM4X)
Alexander “Zander†Rose is the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, which was founded in 1996 to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution that fosters very-long-term planning. Read the rest
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FM08)
A screw with a stripped head can be difficult to remove.There are a number of ways to remove screws with stripped heads. Read the rest
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FKXM)
In this video a semi jumps through the air, over half the length of a football field. Nobody dies. Read the rest
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FKXP)
You don't need the Bechdel test to call this movie a boy's club dud. Read the rest
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FKVG)
In a lawsuit against Conan O'Brien, San Diego resident Robert Kaseberg says his lulzy tweets about Tom Brady, Caitlyn Jenner, airlines, and the Washington Monument all made it into the late night host's monologue. Read the rest
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FKT4)
A retired air traffic controller won the "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest on his 15th attempt. Read the rest
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by Wink on (#FKQ6)
Reluctant cartoonist Sydney Padua tips us off early in The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer that her graphic novel/history book is probably neither. Read the rest
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by Xeni Jardin on (#FKQ8)
“Contrary to popular belief, the 2015 Donald Trump presidential campaign actually extends all the way back to 1985.†(more…)
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FKA0)
The new issue of New York magazine has a very powerful cover that is matched only by the photo essay inside. Read the rest
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FKHG)
"My first thought was to crush it with my cane, then I thought, no, it looks so strange, I'm going to take a picture of it," said Robert Palmer. The Toutle, Washington man was referring to a human-faced caterpillar he happened upon while watering his horse. "I'm going to be 70 in November. And I've never seen a bug with a human face staring back at me," said Palmer.
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FKJP)
"The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit" is by Leigh Hunt. It was published in 1836. Read the rest
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FKEA)
Gareth Branwyn came across this neat way to quickly find information in your notebooks.Based on his index of recipe types, [Adam, who runs the blog, High Five] puts the appropriate marking on the outside edge of the page for this Chinese recipe. Read the rest
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FKBR)
We are giddy with excitement that Martin Olson and Olivia Olson are coming to our Weekend of Wonder in Southern California (September 18-20). Olivia is the voice of Marceline the Vampie Queen in Adventure Time. And her father Martin (who is also a screenwriter from Phineas And Ferb) voices Hunson Abadeer (a.k.a. the Lord of Evil). Read the rest
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by Laura Hudson on (#FKBT)
Did you enjoy Ecco the Dolphin, but wish it had allowed you to commit mass murder? Then Pequod might be for you. Read the rest
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by Leigh Alexander on (#FJHP)
I've had an exceptionally good time of games the past week or so. It's been like crawling around inside other people's imaginations. Come along and hear about our best stuff lately! Read the rest
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#FKA2)
Portland police officer Jeromie Palaoro is sitting on his couch collecting a paycheck pending the results of an investigation of his alleged sexual assault on a woman who had called the police to report that her boyfriend attacked her. Read the rest
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by Andrea James on (#FKA4)
Among professional comedians, joke theft is no joke. Now Twitter is allowing members to use DMCA notices to take down tweets posted by accounts that copy and paste them without attribution. PlagiarismBad's name-and-shame campaign has already netted a few celebrities. Read the rest
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