Singapore Airlines just launched the longest nonstop commercial flight route in history -- 20 hours between New York City and Singapore. On the other side of the coin though is the shortest international commercial flight in the world: Anguilla Air Services' 12-mile route in the Caribbean between Saint Martin's Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) and Anguilla's Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport. Flight time is 10 minutes. Meanwhile, the shortest domestic commercial flight is from Westray to Papa Westray, Scotland. From CNN:

In 1911, inventor Frank P. Snow invented this "hat guard" to inflict a painful punishment on any creep with the gall to steal a chapeau belonging to another gentleman. From Weird Universe:

Joey from Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination writes, "Frankenbook is a collective reading experience of the original 1818 text of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein. The project is hosted by Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, The MIT Press, and MIT Media Lab. It features annotations from over 80 experts in disciplines ranging from philosophy and literature to astrobiology and neuroscience; essays by science fiction authors, scientists, and ethicists; audio journalism; and original animations and interactives. Readers can contribute their own text and rich-media annotations to the book and customize their reading experience by turning on and off a variety of themes that filter annotations by topic; themes range from literary history and political theory to health, technology, and equity and inclusion. Frankenbook is free to use, open to everyone, and built using the open-source PubPub platform for collaborative community publishing." (more…)

I didn't bother to watch any of the NBA championship series but I was glued to the screen for this Bad Lip Reading of the 2017-2018 pro basketball season.

A physics student and an engineering student from Stanford fed 400,000 memes to a Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network and asked it to generate more memes of its own. (more…)

The Maximum Fun podcast network (home to such shows as Judge John Hodgman (previously), Oh No Ross and Carrie (previously), and Sawbones) has just launched its most ambitious project to date: a science fiction sitcom about life in a domed city in a monster-haunted wasteland called Bubble, and it's hilarious. (more…)

Back in May, the romance writing community was rocked by a scandal after author Faleena Hopkins started enforcing a trademark over the common word "COCKY" in the titles of romance novels; I predicted then that there would be some sociopaths who would observe the controversy and decide that it was an inspiration, rather than a warning, and start trying to use trademark to steal other words from writers and their titles. (more…)

As of July 1, registering a car in China will involve registering an RFID radio-beacon that will be planted on the car in order to track its movements. (more…)

Everyone hates Content ID, Google's $60,000,000 copyright filter for YouTube that tries to stop users from uploading copyrighted videos. (more…)

Felix Colgrave animated this wonderful video for Nitai Hershkovits' Flyin' Bamboo. (more…)

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston S. Churchill

To stave off the cold and boredom of waiting at the train station, Dutch design student George Barratt-Jones made a pedal-powered knitting machine that can whip up a neck scarf in five minutes flat. He writes, "[It] gets you warm by moving, you are making something while you wait and in the end you are left with a free scarf! That you can decide to keep yourself or give to someone who needs it more."Check out his design notes and photos here:https://imgur.com/gallery/LBofgnr(Colossal)

Parents of Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Provo, Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Plano, Detroit, Troy, Warren, Kansas City and Pittsburgh: beware. (more…)

When 13-year-old Courtney Hadwin of Hartlepool, England took the America's Got Talent stage to audition she was visibly shy and nervous, but watch what happens when she started her performance. It's like the music possessed her (you know, in a good way)!After her cover of "Hard to Handle," Howie Mandel, one of the show's judges, compared the young rocker to Janis Joplin. He then pressed the coveted "Golden Buzzer" which earns her a spot at the show's live performances. https://twitter.com/CourtneyHadwin/status/1006997091372228608

Evil Mad Scientist Labs sell a bunch of cool open source hardware kits for making plotters -- basically, a very precise robot arm that draws with whatever pen or marker you screw into its grip. There's the Eggbot (for drawing on curved surfaces like eggs, balloons and balls), but there's also the Axidraw, which works on flat surfaces. (more…)

In just six days, an EU committee will vote on the most drastic, foolish, harmful internet regulations in the history of the EU: a mass censorship and surveillance system that will fail to defend copyright (its stated purpose), while snuffing out EU-based online services and giving a permanent advantage to their US-based Big Tech rivals. (more…)

Normally practiced by elite chefs, sous vide is a cooking style that involves placing food in a sealed bag or jar and heating it in a bath for hours at a time, cooking the item evenly and retaining its delicious moisture. The Chefman Sous Vide Precision Cooker with WiFi lets you practice this culinary style right in your kitchen, and you don't need to be a Michelin-star chef to use it. It's on sale today for $89.99.With just a few clicks, this smart cooker lets you prepare restaurant-quality food with complete culinary control from your smartphone. You simply place ingredients in a vacuum packed or re-sealable bag, drop in a pot, set the time and temperature, and cook until ready. The device features a high-quality PTC heating element for precise use, and you can link the immersion circulator to your mobile device to achieve consistently ideal doneness.The Chefman Sous Vide Precision Cooker with WiFi is available in the Boing Boing Store for $89.99 today.

In 1804, when she was 5 years old, Mary Anning began to dig in the cliffs that flanked her English seaside town. What she found amazed the scientists of her time and challenged the established view of world history. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew.”We'll also try to identify a Norwegian commando and puzzle over some further string pulling.Show notesPlease support us on Patreon!

Albert Einstein's diaries reveal starkly racist sentiments well into middle age. The BBC reports that he disliked China most of all: “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” about whom “it would be a pity if [they] supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”On Egyptians: "Levantines of every shade... spewed from hell"On Sri Lankans: "They live in great filth and considerable stench down on the ground, do little, and need little."More on the Chinese, and women to boot:

Artist Masumi Ishikawa has announced a new project to immortalize iconic David Bowie imagery in the style of ukiyo-e, or Japanese woodcuts. (more…)

Ladies and germs, allow me introduce you to the world's first mechanical unicorn!Jumpverhuur, a Dutch inflatable party rental company, introduced this "rodeo unicorn" to their roster last summer. It's available to rent for ~575 euros/day (in the Netherlands only, it appears). That will get you three hours of riding bareback on the rainbow-horned creature, along with a professional "escort" (no, not that kind) to make sure all the riders are safe.(VT)Thanks, Bunny!

Greg from Lofty Pursuits used his antique candy drop roller to create Madness, his mixture of candies that all have the same red color but have many different flavors. He also demonstrates the Stroop effect. (more…)

A raccoon in Minnesota got its 15 minutes of fame after climbing up the side of a skyscraper Tuesday. The world watched online as the adorable little trash panda scaled more than 25 stories of St. Paul's UBS building.The New York Times:

Artist Robert Longo has created Death Star II, a stunning sphere made with a bullet for each gun death in the US. It premiered at Art Basel this week (photos below). (more…)

On Sunday at London Men's Fashion Week, Chinese designer Xander Zhou sent male models down the runway wearing prosthetic pregnancy bellies for a 2019 collection called, "New World Baby."HYPEBEAST reports:

Six Flags Great Adventure debuted their newest thrill ride Wednesday, the 7-story-high CYBORG Cyber Spin. The Jackson, New Jersey theme park claims their gyroscopic anti-gravity attraction is a first of its kind in the United States (Europe's had one since 2015.)

The latest episode of 99 Percent Invisible is about the the 1940 Emeco 10-06 Navy Chair, made of bent aluminum and strong enough to withstand a torpedo blast.

Scotty Allen is a nomadic engineer, entrepreneur, adventurer, and storyteller who lives in San Francisco and Shenzhen, China. His YouTube series, Strange Parts, is a must-watch for me. In his latest video, he went to JLCPCB, one of the largest prototype printed circuit board manufacturers in China.If you'd like to listen to my podcast interview with Scotty, here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQV3ifJopoChristian Thompson has a YouTube channel where he clearly explains how to write neat little game-like programs in Python. It reminds me of the fun I had writing programs in BASIC to generate Mandelbrot fractals and cellular automata. He just uploaded a four-part series on how to simulate bouncing balls. https://youtu.be/ibdICVK0W3Qhttps://youtu.be/CZO_UzegLC0https://youtu.be/horBQxH0M5A

As an insomniac, I take my gaming seriously. When I get to a point in a cycle of sleeplessness where I’m too tired to work or keep track of where I am in the book I’m reading, I turn to video games to keep me from delving too deeply into the dark thoughts that creep into my skull in the middle of the night.After waiting for over a year to see if it would prove popular enough with developers and players to make it worth picking up, I finally broke down and bought a Nintendo Switch – that I have an upcoming assignment that involves testing Switch accessories made it easy to pull the trigger, despite its steep price tag here in Canada. The last Nintendo console that I bought was the Gameboy Advance Micro. I still own it, 13 years later, and play it on a regular basis. After tinkering with the Switch for just over a month, I’ve got some thoughts on the major differences between it and my much-loved GBA Micro that I thought might be fun to share.Cost of OwnershipThe GBA Micro wasn’t cheap, back in the day. I remember paying around $200 for it in Vancouver, BC. But aside from the games I’d buy for it, that was it. There was no need to purchase anything else. The Switch? Not so much. After paying $300 for it or, in my case, $400 Canadian, there's still a ton of cash that needs to change hands to ensure a solid experience with the console.Memory cards, like these ones from SanDisc, are a must if you plan on building a game catalog. The Switch’s display, which isn’t easily replaceable like the one on my GBA Micro is, needs to be protected. I’ve ordered this to take care of that. Because it’s relatively fragile, you’ll want to pick up a case for the console, too. If you do wind up buying a bunch of physical game media for the Switch, the game cards are small enough and made of a suspiciously cheap-feeling plastic. So, you’ll want to grab something to protect and organize those, too.You can talk about extra controllers, external battery packs and the like in this category, too. But I feel that those are more wants for the Switch than needs.Build QualityMy GBA Micro has had the shit beaten out of it over the years. Save a few scratches on its face plate, which is replaceable on the cheap, you wouldn’t know it. All of its buttons and its control pad work as well as the day it came out of the box. Despite only weighing 2.82 ounces, its feels as solid as all get-out. It’s still got its original battery and can hold enough of a charger for me to play it for a few hours at a time. I don’t believe that the Switch will be in as great of shape. Maybe Nintendo needed to keep the per unit cost low. Perhaps they were worried that a large handheld, like the Switch, would be passed over by gamers if it took up a ton of space in their bag AND weighed a ton. No matter the reason, to me, the Switch feels flimsy by comparison to the GBA Micro. This is a console that’ll I’ll pay dividends to keep running over the years. I can feel it.PortabilityThere’s no getting around the fact that the Switch is HUGE compared to the GBA Micro. That said, I don’t have a problem fitting it into my bag when I’m headed out on a trip. So, let’s talk about another area that I haven’t seen discussed online very much: The portability of media.One of the things I have always disliked about the GBA Micro is that its game carts are a pain in the ass to lug around. Two of them take up almost as much space in my bag as the console itself does. It forces me to think about which carts to bring with me. Not so the Switch. Its game cards are small and light enough that you could lug along 20 of them and it’s no big deal. More than this, The Switch’s internal memory and its ability to use SD cards to expand its storage make it so that if you want to, there’s no need to carry any physical games with you at all. That’s a win.GamesThe complexity of the games that the Switch’s guts allow for pretty much curb-stomps my Micro. Being able to play Skyrim and LA Noire on a portable device? Absolutely insane. I’m really hoping that Rockstar, in particular, makes more of its back catalog available to Switch owners. I know that the rumors about the code in Red Dead Redemption being a mess make the possibility of a port pretty remote. But man, I’d love that. GTA IV or V, too. I absolutely adore being able to hand off one of my Joy-Con controllers to my wife so that we can abuse each other in Mario Cart. I can’t remember that last time I laughed out loud playing a game like I do when we’re racing each other. That alone was worth the cost of the console.There is something to be said about the charm of the graphics and the limited nature of game play that, by comparison, the GBA Micro offers. I still dig taking a spin with MarioKart Super Circuit and my Grand Theft Auto cart still gets a lot of use, too.Perhaps the biggest change in game play, for me at least, is that playing the Switch doesn’t make the joints in my hands ache like the GBA Micro does. I’m old. Over the years, I’ve broken a lot of bones – I shattered my left hand two decades ago. Shit hurts. It’s nice to be able to enjoy myself without every twitch of my fingers causing me discomfort.SpontaneityThere's few things that suck more than popping a new game into your console and being told that you'll need to download gigabytes worth of data before you're able to fully enjoy it. For a couple of the games I've played on my Switch, that's a thing. That thing is annoying when you live in the city and have a decent broadband connection. I'm writing this from the literal middle-of-nowhere, using my smartphone to access the Internet. Downloading a game to my Switch, additional content or an update can take days. That sucks.Final ThoughtsI love the Switch! It’s a lot of fun. I’m glad to own one and so far, my productivity hasn’t suffered for it. I wish that it was a little bit more rough and tumble, like my GBA Micro is, but that’s a minor complaint – I’m an adult and should be able to look after my stuff well enough to keep the console alive. I’m looking forward to a long relationship with this thing. Hopefully, it won’t disappoint me.

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Flying boldly in the face of reality takes a mix of bravura and sociopathy, but this week’s tabloids manage the feat with élan.#MeToo activist and Anthony Bordain’s long-time girlfriend Asia Argento is photographed in Rome with a “much-younger man” with “no Bordain in sight,” and the National Enquirer headline asks: “Where’s Anthony?!” Sadly, committing suicide in France, where everyone but the Enquirer knew he was filming a new TV series. He took his own life last Friday, four days before the Enquirer went to bed, meaning that they chose to run the story rather than re-make the page. Classy.Prince William “Gives Up Throne!” claims the Globe cover, allegedly to “protect Kate and kids from terrorists.” But the Globe ignores two key facts: 1) His father Prince Charles is next in the line of succession after the Queen’s death, and 2) If William did relinquish his claim to the throne, his rights of succession would go directly to eldest son George, putting the toddler directly in the firing line. How would that be protecting his kids?It’s errant nonsense, as is the Enquirer report that Tom Cruise’s “miracle” touch as a “high-ranking Operating Thetan VI member of Scientology” has cured Val Kilmer’s throat cancer. Setting aside the question of whether the Top Gun star has been imbued by Scientology with healing powers, Kilmer is a faithful follower of Christian Science, and unlikely to let Cruise intervene in health matters that are in the hands of whatever god he believes in. Moreover, Kilmer stated in May 2017 that faith in the love of Jesus – not Tom Cruise – had healed him. What’s more, Cruise was supposedly laying hands on Kilmer during filming of Top Gun: Maverick, which began filming in May 2018 – a year after Kilmer had announced he was healed.“Racist Roseanne’s Nazi Shame!” is exposed by the Enquirer, which shows a photo of the beleaguered comedian posing as Adolf Hitler, with slicked hair and full Fuhrer mustache, supposedly displaying her “Sick Nazi Obsession.” Whatever one thinks of Roseanne Barr’s racist, Trump-loving views, it’s unfair to tar with her being a Nazi-lover since the photo, first published in 2009, was commissioned for and published by a Jewish satirical magazine. Offensive and in bad taste it may be, but the photo was clearly intended to parody Hitler, not to praise him. Also, kudos to the Enquirer for labeling the well-known nine-year-old photo as an "Enquirer Exclusive" beneath the banner headline “First To Know.”“Bill Cosby & Wife: It’s Splitsville!” screams the Enquirer headline above a story claiming that the "convicted rapist” comedian’s wife Camille has fled their Pennsylvania mansion. Or maybe she’s just taking a vacation? That doesn’t stop the Globe from running the same story, but of course with the addition of the tag: “World Exclusive.” Sure it is, as long as you don’t read the Enquirer.Wheel of Fortune letter-turner Vanna White is “Caught in Hooker Scandal!” raves the Globe. Is Vanna turning tricks? Running a brothel? No – the truth is more devastating than that. Before finding fame, Vanna posed for “racy pictures” in 1982 with Hollywood photographer David Gurian, who in 1987 reportedly sold those “naughty pics” to Playboy magazine. That’s 31 years ago. Today the Globe reveals that lensman Gurian was convicted in 1996 of “promoting prostitution.” That’s 22 years ago, but that counts as breaking news for the Enquirer. One can only imagine how Vanna must be mortified to be “caught in hooker scandal.” Right.Us magazine’s cover promises us “Harry’s Sweet Words to Meghan!” but fails to deliver on the story inside, since the magazine doesn’t have Harry’s “words” but simply one word that he whispered to her during the recent Trooping of the Colour: "Okay?” Perhaps “Harry’s Sweet Word to Meghan” didn’t look so good on the cover? It’s barely a story, but more a ploy to grab the few readers who haven’t already overdosed on the “Event of 2018,” as the mag’s special Royal Wedding souvenir edition calls it.The “Beckhams’ Marriage Crisis” also touted on the cover has even less substance, as the story inside dismisses rumors of impending divorce as “lies.” But of course, there’s nothing like repeating a good rumor, no matter how untrue.People devotes its cover to the suicide deaths of Anthony Bordain and Kate Spade, under the headline “Talent & Tragedy,” and then fills its issue with unrealistically thin, improbably wealthy, preternaturally beautiful celebrities who serve as impossible-to-attain role models that will add to the depression and anxiety of countless readers. People prints the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline atop its front cover, and perhaps it should be there every week.After flaunting Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Guidice’s bodybuilding competition body, and singer Kelly Clarkson’s 37-pound weight loss, People sends its readers decidedly mixed messages by devoting a page to celeb chef Nigella Lawson's calorific cardiac-attack-on-a-plate recipe for Mozzarella Garlic Bread. Bon appetite.Fortunately we have Us magazine’s crack investigative team to tell us that Sarah Jessica Parker wore it best, that Kelly Preston puts peanut M&Ms in her buttered popcorn at the movies, that Grammy winner Eve carries lipstick, two cell phones and bobby pins in her Boy Chanel purse, and that the stars are just like us: they pick up dry cleaning, hydrate during workouts, stop by newsstands, and help their kids run lemonade stands. Good for them.As if all that’s not depressing enough, the National Examiner cheerily informs us that “The world as we know it is unraveling rapidly, with the beginning of the end starting July 4!” America’s Independence Day seems like as good a day as any to commence The Grand Unravelling, as it will undoubtedly go down in history, as the “world’s leading prophets agree last days are upon us!” Unfortunately for those “leading prophets” – Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and Jeane Dixon – their last days came decades, even centuries, ago. Nostradamus naturally predicted wildfires, volcanic eruptions, droughts and plagues, while American visionary Cayce supposedly foresaw an aviation disaster and a nuclear accident (an impressive prediction since he died in January 1945 before the atomic bomb was revealed or nuclear power was a realistic possibility), and Jeane Dixon forecast earthquakes, a shift in the magnetic poles, and “the rise of a tyrannical dictator who will threaten world peace.” The Examiner uses a photo of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to accompany this last prediction. Perhaps they couldn’t find a suitable photo of Donald Trump?Onwards and downwards . . .

Most carillons are fixed in bell towers, but Chime Masters makes a mobile carillon, used here to play a lovely Beatles cover. (more…)

Tent cities for migrant children separated from their parents at the border? Sure, why not.According to USA Today, the Department of Health and Human Services will be paying a visit to Fort Bliss Army base, just outside of El Paso, Texas to see if it would be a suitable location to set up a tent city designed to house between 1,000 and 5,000 migrant kids. According to the report, HHS officials are also eyeing Air Force bases in San Angelo and Abilene for the task.So, tent cities built by the homeless are deemed illegal and get torn down by the government, but when the government wants to build one, it’s totally cool. Got it.From USA Today:

YouTuber Tina Yong grabbed an inexpensive digital microscopic camera and shot some extreme closeups of her makeup, to horrifying results. (more…)

On the heels of the successful fan campaign for Weezer to cover Toto's "Africa," and the subsequent online release of the song, they performed it last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Special guest all-too-brief synth solo by Toto's Steve Porcaro! Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you!

MIT researchers designed and 3D-printed an array of soft, mechanical critters that are controlled by waving a magnet over them. The shapeshifters that fold up, crawl, grab things, and snap together into intricate formations may someday lead to new kinds of biomedical devices. For example, one of the devices "can even be directed to wrap itself around a small pill and carry it across a table." From MIT News:

Designed by French engineer Victor Bouffort, the Suitcase Scooter sold for a whopping $245 in 1962. That's steep even with its 2.8 horsepower engine and 35 MPH speeds. Unfortunately, it was also ahead of its time or perhaps behind it. From FOTO:

Today my friends in Death Cab for Cutie released the first song and video from their forthcoming album, Thank You for Today. Featuring a sample from Yoko Ono's "Mindtrain," the tune is a fantastic, funky, soulful shuffle with Ben Gibbard singing about the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill that he's called home for two decades but now feels increasingly foreign. Not necessarily better or worse. Just different."As I've gotten older," Ben told NPR, "I've become acutely aware of how I connect my memories to my geography and [how] the landscape of the city changes. I'll walk down Broadway and walk past a location that used to be a bar I'd frequent with friends, or somewhere where I had a beautifully intense conversation with somebody that I once loved very much. The song is not a complaint about how things were better or anything like that. It's an observation, but more about coming to terms with the passage of time and losing the people and the moments in my life all over again as I walk down a street that is now so unfamiliar."Death Cab for Cutie's ninth album, Thank You for Today, will be released August 17.As a bonus, here's the sample source, Yoko Ono's Mindtrain from the album Fly (1971):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-k0kCSJcM

As of this Friday, anyone operating an independent online presence in Tanzania will have to pay a licensing fee equivalent to an average year's wages, and submit to a harsh set of censorship rules, as well as an obligation to unmask anonymous posters and commenters, with stiff penalties for noncompliance. (more…)

The creative mind is a curious thing, filled with brilliant ideas but not always the conclusions to link them together. That's why writers, artists, and other imaginative minds are using Scapple to turn their loose thoughts into concrete action plans and goals. This software is available in the Boing Boing Store for $9.99.https://player.vimeo.com/video/242042863A freeform mind-mapping tool, Scapple lets you easily record and find connections between your ideas, whether you're working on a blog, narrative, tech project, or business venture. You can quickly jot down ideas to make sense of them, trace lines or arrows between related ideas, and better organize your thought clusters into actionable strategies.Plus, with the ability to share your projects, you can easily communicate your new strategies to family, friends, coworkers, and anyone else you plan on collaborating with.Scapple is available in the Boing Boing Store today for $9.99.

Boing Boing is proudly sponsored by David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs!Enter for a chance to win a copy of Bullshit Jobs.Is your job bullshit?David Graeber, author of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, analyzes the rise of the menial, hapless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences.There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation.Enter here to win a free copy of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs!

Konrad Rieck has data-mined the nine top security conferences, compiling a decade-by-decade list of the papers most often cited in the presentations delivered at these events: top of the pile is Random Oracles are Practical: A Paradigm for Designing Efficient Protocols (Sci-Hub mirror), from the 1993 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Rieck has also produced a "normalised" ranking that tries to offset the seniority effect, whereby older papers collect more citations. (via Four Short Links)

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I had the pleasure of meeting comedian Cameron Esposito earlier this year on the JoCo Cruise (a mind-blowingly fun geek cruise produced by Jonathan Coulton). She was the MC for a variety show one night on the ship, and introduced me on stage so I could tell my story about forgetting my bitcoin password. Since then, I've been a fan of her comedy, which is a blend of cultural criticism and political analysis and is funny, scary, lighthearted, and profound. She's posted a recent show on her website called Rape Jokes. It's "a standup special about sexual assault from a survivor’s perspective. Proceeds benefit RAINN, the United States’ largest anti-sexual violence organization."

"My name is Yoyoka Soma. I am 8 year old Japanese drummer."In the video description she writes:

The design of the ORIGINX wall-mounted arcade cabinet was inspired by the simple wood and yellow paint of the original Pong arcade game from 1972. The walnut and aluminum tribute is an edition of 50 and available for €2,899.00 (US$3407). From Love Hultén:

I appeared on CBC Radio's national flagship news programme As It Happens last night, talking about the EU's Article 13 proposal to use AI algorithms to spy on and judge everything posted online for potential copyright infringements. (more…)

Lisa Rein writes, "DJ Spooky is having a record release party Wednesday night for his new Phantom Dancehall album, which utilizes samples from legendary VP Records' Greensleeves sublabel." (more…)