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For seven year Disney World segregated postal carrier Gurdit Singh from visitors and other staff members because his facial hair and turban violated the resort’s “Disney look” policy. Read the rest

Easy as it may be, New Republic has a guide for absolute beginners who feel comfortable having at least read the manual.

The makers of Holus, a “holographic display,” broke all the rules in the book. They posted fake CGI renderings of what’s described elsewhere as a “Pepper’s Ghost”-style optical trick, yet claim to “convert any digital content from a computer, tablet or smartphone into a 3D hologram.” The viewing angles and qualities depicted are technologically unlikely. They only wanted $40k, but research and manufacturing costs could surely not be so tiny, suggesting crowdfunding as a VC-marketing vehicle. Most oddly, they even used a Kickstarter “Staff Pick” badge; when challenged, Kickstarter disclaimed interest in the unofficial use of the badge. The big question, from Joanie Lemercier, an artist and engineer who specializes in projections and holograms: is Kickstarter covering a scam? Read the rest

Tomorrow’s will be even better. And the day after that, and the day after that… Read the rest

Quick! When you think of cereal, who says, “Theeey’re great!” Who’s the suave yet finicky cat peddling Nine Lives? The patch-eyed comic punk selling gum? Read the rest

Joel Johnson, freshly out of Gawker’s top editorial role, reports on what Apple may achieve by facilitating ad- and content-blocking in the next version of iOS: leverage over publishers. Read the rest

I had a big smile watching Modern Family writer Danny Zuker runs comedic circles around Donald Trump on Twitter. The presidential candidate’s rejoinders to Zuker’s spot-on zingers consisted of name calling — “boring,” “moron,” “loser,” “very dumb,” “stupid.”Read the rest

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn artist who tried something new to speak up for herself—and address street harassment—through art. Read the rest

N&B Gaming commemorated US marriage equality with a fabulous GTA V rainbow dance party, till the cops showed up. Stick around for hilarious outtakes. Read the rest

Can you solve "the prize puzzle of British criminal jurisprudence"? Read the rest

Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones! The photo (and more) were posted to gaming forums NeoGAF. Looking forward to this.

Sock ‘im! A right! A left! A … gahhhh! You let ‘im too close!

Jesse Vincent has productized the scratch-built split keyboard he built and is kickstarting a production run.

German MEP Julia Reda’s brilliant recommendations for reforming EU copyright have passed the European Parliament, and the dastardly attempt to make it illegal to take “commercial” photos in public places has been killed.

Tom Selleck, best known as Magnum P.I., has apparently settled, at least tentatively, with the Ventura County water district after the actor was accused of stealing water from a fire hydrant and trucking it to their 60-acre ranch. Read the rest

As previously posted, Pope Francis plans to chew coca leaves and already drank tea infused with coca, the raw ingredient in cocaine, during his visit to Bolivia.Psychedelic historian Michael Horowitz points out that Francis is following in the footsteps of Pope Leo XII who appeared in an advertisement for the coca-infused French wine Vin Mariani, popular in the late 19th century. Read the rest

From Russia’s masters of science fiction comes a manorhouse murder mystery parody that puts Clue to shame. The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn is every bit as clever, and queer, a novel as I’ve come to expect from the brothers Strugatsky. Read the rest

Lena says, “HuffPost Highline just posted an article about Jackie Fuchs (aka Jackie Fox), who was a member of 70s band The Runaways. Read the rest

I was a mechanical engineer in the 1980s. I was a quality assurance engineer and a development engineer in the disk drive industry. Read the rest

The age of 3D is upon us, and the 3Doodler is changing the way we draw with its one-of-a-kind functionality. With the 3Doodler, you can freestyle scribble or draw solid, stable objects and crafts by extruding heated plastic filament in mid air. Read the rest

It’s about time.South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, just now: “”The Confederate flag is coming off the South Carolina Statehouse. Tomorrow morning at 10:00am, we will see the Confederate Flag come down,” she added, “with dignity.”Read the rest

The new number is a lot higher than the 14 million figure investigators offered last month. Read the rest

If someone in your life is confused by the recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the USA, show them this helpful video in which Grover and Jesse discuss what marriage is. (more…)

This fantastic video from the World Wildlife Fund in Australia is a turtle’s eye view of the The Great Barrier Reef. Read the rest

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen was Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The basilica looks like a giant drippy asymmetrical sandcastle. Read the rest

San Francisco-based brands Joie de Vivre Hotels, Noise Pop and Boing Boing announce GOOD MEAUSURE, a multi-city indie music tour. GOOD MEASURE will span four cities, exploring sense of place through sound. Read the rest

In 1995 Time magazine published a cover story about online pornography that gave grandstanding politicians an excuse to try to censor the Internet. Read the rest

Quaaludes, the pills Bill Cosby admitted giving to women so he could have sex with them, are a prescription sedative that took off as a recreational drug during the 1970s disco era. In 1985, commercial production ceased and clandestine synthesis began. Read the rest

That's Bertha Boronda in the lower left square. I'm not sure if her proud look reflects her satisfaction of having the biggest hat or successfully cut off her unfaithful husband's penis with a straight razor in 1908.Female inmates of San Quentin State Prison and their very fine hats

People who claim to be real vampires and must drink others' blood for energy are hesitant to talk to psychological counselors and other helping professionals about their lives because they fear being "judged as being wicked or evil or viewed as being psychotic, delusional or having a psychological problem," according to a new scientific study. Read the rest

One useful tip of many from this list.

In 2013, Wang Kaiyu, a Yunan resident in China, bought two cute black puppies, one male and one female, who were playful and well-behaved. Read the rest

Researchers partially restored hearing in deaf mice with a certain kind of genetic hearing loss by inserting working copies of the mutated genes. Eventually the technique could lead to gene therapy for certain causes of human deafness. Read the rest

Otto Dieffenbach uses the Force (and some creative RC engineering) to levitate R2-D2. (more…)

The state of Tennessee extended its "Good Samaritan law" this month, allowing people to smash a car window to save a dog from dying in a hot car. Read the rest

Instagram doesn't allow women to show their nipples, but they allow men to show their nipples. So here's a man's nipple to cut, resize, and paste over a women's nipple. Problem solved! Read the rest

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In 1957 the FBI felt threatened by the Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD after the magazine ran a piece about draft dodging as a game, which involved writing to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and asking him for “full-fledged draft dodger” membership card. An FBI agent directed his bureau’s New York offices to “make contact” with MAD and “advise them of our displeasure” and to make sure “that there be no repetition of such misuse of the Director’s name.” The agent also decided it was important to give his opinion on the quality of the article: "It is also of interest to note that…it is rather unfunny.” Read the rest

Josh Dzieza profiles The Awl, the Internet's best.Founded in 2009 by Choire Sicha and Alex Balk, The Awl stands counter to the prevailing trends in the media industry, commenting skeptically on the conventions of the wider web while running a mix of stories that are both wide-ranging and unabashedly specific: writerly reviews of the previous day’s weather, deconstructions of minion memes, tirades against negronis and the Moon, personal essays, deadpan lists, poetry. Read the rest

“Captured this whilst hiking the cliffs in Látrabjarg [Iceland]. This came across as an anomaly where it seems that the fog was flowing down like a waterfall.” Reginald Schmidt via r/videos.

Colonel Steve Austin nearly died in a fiery space accident. The Office of Scientific Intelligence rebuilt him better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.Read the rest

Pictured here in a photo taken by prospektvernadskogo on Instagram, the flag—depicting two opposite-sex adults and three kids—was reportedly designed by Russia's Unity party. Read the rest

A two-inch replica of this delightful creature (previously) may now be printed out to keep forever.The Tardigrade (also known as the Water Bear) can survive in extreme environments. Read the rest

Pornhub sells these. Why? It hardly matters. (more…)

Enjoy the latest podcast from Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt Read the rest

Will you live long enough to watch the setting suns?"This is a truly exotic star system. In principle there's no reason why it couldn't have planets in orbit around each of the pairs of stars. Read the rest