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Video of this incident is making the rounds online, and is extremely graphic. Read the rest

Imaginary Friends is a series of interactive books for kids that involves online and real-world puzzles that parents set up. I just got a sample from the creator, and the art and stories looks excellent. Read the rest

Everyone in my family is devouring Trader Joe's Partially Popped Popcorn. They're kernels of popcorn that have "processed using a proprietary method to produce the little crunchies usually found in the bottom of the bowl, but with a texture that makes them almost addictive and easier on the jaw." And they are flavored with butter and sea salt. Read the rest

Photographer Won Kim (Instagram) took these photos of people living in a "downscale version" of a Japanese capsule hotel. They are basically sleeping / privacy burrows for urban dwellers. I wonder how much they pay in rent? Read the rest

Bruce Schneier weighs in on last week's ridiculous UK government talking points memo that Murdoch's Sunday Times dutifully published as front-page news. Read the rest

Such a great deal, I should buy ∞ of them! (more…)

"Your car battery is dead and you like a boost to jump start? Maybe you can use AA batteries to crank the engine..." (more…)

La Colombe Coffee CEO Todd Carmichael came up with a cool idea, and made it real. Read the rest

Google recently told Jacob Appelbaum, who has worked with WikiLeaks, that it was ordered to provide account data to federal investigators. Read the rest

Big Kitten is watching you.(more…)

“Our Springer Spaniel Rocco loves squirrels, but when he can't chase after them because he's in the car, he gives us an earful. We like to call it 'the squirrel song.'” (more…)

“Caught the moment when my dog realized he wasn't laying next to a rock,” says Redditor Muffinlette. (more…)

VHS, arcade games, rainbows, neon, and big fat beige computer workstations. Read the rest

Welcome to the risk-averse, ersatz world of heroic characterization when hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line. Read the rest

One of the great GIF maestros of our time. Read the rest

Isaac Cohen's interactive storybook follows the journey of a strange creature. Read the rest

No, it's not science fiction. For the first time ever, scientists in Albany, NY were able to use a "brain-to-text" interface to read thoughts and translate them into text. Read the rest

My daughter, her friend, and I had fun taking this non-scientific color brightness vision test. You have to identify the one square that has a different brightness level within a grid of similarly colored squares. Read the rest

The entertainment value of a President Trump, especially as seen through the truth-enchancing eye of Vic Berger, would greatly mitigate the unassailable fact that his policies would turn our planet into a smoldering, gutted husk.

"In the bizarre clip, his political editor David Chesley can be seen standing incredibly close to the lens, and appears unhappy that the event is being filmed by American Bridge 21st Century, a left wing group known for monitoring public appearances by Republicans." Read the rest

No surprise that Cars 2—a naked toy ad—is at the bottom. But placing Brave next to it ("textbook Idiot Plot movie … dumb slapstick") seems a little rough. Up ("completely overshadowed by the heartbreaking preamble") barely sneaks into Tim Grierson and Will Leitch's top ten.All 15 Pixar Movies, Ranked From Worst to Best [via Kottke]

Wellington and Blucher beat him around Braine-l’Alleud and Plancenoit, writes Uri Friedman. Read the rest

And just like that, all is well with the world. (more…)

In just three days 10,000 dogs will be poisoned, beaten, killed and cooked as part of Yulin, China's annual dog-eating festival. Read the rest

Most people, including the police and the FBI, are calling 21-year-old suspected terrorist Dylann Roof's message to black people ("You rape our women, and you're taking over the country. Read the rest

Thundercats depicted a race of catlike humanoids, not earthfolk. But we sense that Panthro is black—even though he can't be in the continuity of the show—because of how the character is coded. Read the rest

A Federal Circuit Court judge in Sydney, Australia granted an injunction forbidding a 20-year-old woman from breastfeeding her son because she got a tattoo. Read the rest

Legendary Sega game series Shenmue is to receive a third installment thanks to a $3m-and-rising Kickstarter campaign. But now we find out that Sony is a 'partner' in the game, investing an 'undisclosed budget' despite no mention on the game's pleas for crowdfunding. Read the rest

In 2007 a 16-month-old toddler swallowed candy-colored Aqua Dots beads and lapsed into a coma. It turned out the beads were manufactured with a coating that dissolves into GHB, an illegal drug in many countries. Read the rest

The company objected to being mentioned in a story about SteamVR, a virtual reality project by Valve. So it ordered them to take the post down. Read the rest

The Snowflake’s smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360˚rolls in any direction make it truly best in class. Soar, hover, flip, and tilt with ease or join a fleet of drones, thanks to advanced anti-collision technology. Read the rest

Saipancakes (previously) shows how far he's come in progressing the art of carbohydrate illustration with these amazing, unbelievable, eye-popping Harry Potter pancakes -- and the video documents his build-process.

Telecoms will be given wider latitude to block nuisance messages to their customers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Read the rest

Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) was released 40 years ago Saturday. Enjoy this "best of" montage. "The score was clearly responsible for half of the success of that movie," Spielberg once said. (more…)

Finally, Nintendo's popular anthropomorphic town games will allow you to be something besides white—or tan. Read the rest

Heinz let a domain name expire, whereupon the URL fell into new ownership and the link printed on ketchup bottles began sending customers to porn. Read the rest

This game's too easy! Who created it?

In honor of the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary, NPR celebrates the iconic space craft with a little help from Iggy Azalea's “Trouble.” (more…)

NPR’s Science Tumblr Skunk Bear created this cool data visualization based on a study of the rise of partisanship in the U.S. House of Representatives: Read the rest

Engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied gave an awesome TED Talk about the danger of unconscious bias. (more…)

Having already mastered the world of YouTube, Hank and John Green (aka the Vlogbrothers) are now moving into the realm of podcasting as well. Read the rest

"All I have is sadness, at the depravity of what we do to one another and the gaping wound of the racism we pretend does not exist. Read the rest