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Dracula's $80MM castle for sale Smithsonian.com tells us Bran Castle, fabled home of Dracula, is up for sale. From the Smithsonian article: In real life, the castle has been home to Saxons, Hungarians and Teutonic knights, the Telegraph reports, and, perhaps, to the infamous Vlad the Impaler (Dracula's inspiration), who might have been briefly held prisoner there in the 15th century. Read the rest... How 40 countries view moral issues The Pew Research Center's 2013 Global Attitudes survey asked 40,117 respondents in 40 countries what they thought about eight topics often discussed as moral issues: extramarital affairs, gambling, homosexuality, abortion, premarital sex, alcohol consumption, divorce, and the use of contraceptives. Read the rest... Kleargear ruins customers' credit over online criticism, refuses to honor US judgment The latest update in the saga of Kleargear (previously) is downright bizarre. Having invoiced unhappy customers for complaining online about their crappy service and then ruined those customers' credit rating, the company now refuses to acknowledge a judgment against them from a US court because they insist that they're located in France and weren't served there. Read the rest... This Day in Blogging History: Canadian Tories war on climate science; UK Tory MP says we're jealous of his tax-subsidised private forest; Hilarious Warsaw police encounter One year ago today Chronology of the Canadian Conservative government's war on science: No government in Canadian history has been as hostile to science as Stephen Harper's Conservatives. Read the rest... Street art that cleverly incorporates its surroundings Bored Panda rounds up a gallery of street art that "interacts with its surroundings" -- a fancy way of saying that the artists incorporate found settings from cracks in cement to blooming trees into their work. Read the rest... TOM THE DANCING BUG: Meet the Super-Fun-Pak Comix Cartoonists Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we meet the talented cartoonists behind Super-Fun-Pak Comix Read the rest... Ebay hacked, change your password Ebay says that its corporate network and databases were compromised earlier this year, and will ask its users to change their passwords. Read the rest... Science fiction and the law: free speech, censorship, privacy and surveillance In Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech? Visions of the Future of Copyright, Privacy, and the First Amendment in Science Fiction , a paper from Communicaton Law and Policy by Texas Christian University's Daxton "Chip" Stewart, we're treated to a wide-ranging overview of the free speech, copyright, privacy and surveillance legal issues raised in science fiction from Frankenstein to my own books. Read the rest... Haunted Mansion Etsy Rummage: the golden age of Mansion merch Apart from 1975-80, this is the greatest time to be a Haunted Mansion fan and collector, writes Cory Doctorow -- and it's all thanks to Etsy. Read the rest... MK Wren's House of the Wolf [book excerpt] Here's a thrilling cut from the third part of MK Wren's science-fiction epic, available now as an ebook exclusively here at Boing Boing. Read the rest... Confessions of an Outlaw "My attitude as an artist," says World Trade Center high-wire walker Philippe Petit, "grew out of the realization I'd arrived at from an early age: that my intellectual engagement, my imaginative freedom, had a price: that of the forbidden. Whatever I decided to do, it was not allowed!" Read the rest... Escape: The Curse of the Temple (game review) Jon Seagull reviews a board game in which players must team up in a race against time to escape a cursed temple, grabbing as much treasure as they can along the way. Read the rest... The Atlantic's Olga Khazan (Gweek 147) Our guest is Olga Khazan. She's an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she writes about health and health policy. She's also covered global affairs, and technology. Read the rest... Mat Ricardo playing Dorchester this Sat Mat Ricardo writes, "After a sold-out London West End run of my one man show 'Showman,' earlier this year, I'm spending most of the rest of 2014 touring around the world; I've managed to squeeze in only one UK date, and its this coming Saturday, at the lovely Dorchester Arts Centre. Read the rest... Brussels: Water cannons turned on anti-TTIP protesters fighting the Son of ACTA In 2012, a winning combination of lobbying and street protests killed ACTA, a secretive, Internet-punishing copyright treaty. Now, protesters are being water cannoned in Brussels as they fight ACTA's successor, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Read the rest... Game of Thrones s4e7 recap (Boars, Gore, and Swords podcast) "Mockingbird", Season 4, Episode 7 of HBO's Game of Thrones, isn't just a table setting for the last three episodes, it's loaded with surprises. Read the rest... Schneier: NSA's offense leaves Americans undefended Writing in the Atlantic, Bruce Schneier explains the NSA's insane program of creating, discovering and hoarding vulnerabilities in computer systems in order to weaponize them. Read the rest... Lost in Jellyfish Lake (video) Shot on the GoPro HD HERO3 camera. Video: "Nana Trongratanawong surrounded by millions of golden jellyfish during a freedive at Jellyfish Lake, Palau." [Video Link, via @moth] Read the rest... The 30 US landmarks most likely to be obliterated by climate change From the Statue of Liberty in NYC to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, American landmarks are threatened by a likelihood of floods, rising sea levels and fires, said a group of scientists today. Read the rest... Nigeria: At least 118 killed in twin bomb blasts Over 100 people were killed in a pair of bomb attacks today at a bus terminal and nearby market in the busy central Nigerian town of Jos. Read the rest... The 10 most dangerous US cities for pedestrians Which American cities are the least and most safe for human beings on foot? Here are the stats, from "Dangerous by Design 2014" [PDF], a study by the Smart Growth America and the National Complete Streets Coalition. Read the rest... Report: US pursuing active criminal case against Wikileaks' Assange Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the target of "a multi-subject investigation" by the FBI, US court documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request reveal. Read the rest... 100 creeps busted in massive voyeurware sweep More than 100 people around the world have been arrested in a coordinated sweep of RATers (people who deploy "remote access trojans" that let them spy on people through their computers cameras and mics, as well as capturing their keystrokes and files). Read the rest... Look at Limor's awesome machine Look at how happy our friend Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries is with her SM482. She just got a SM481, too. Read the rest... Game Of Thrones opens a Moon Door [Recap: s4e7] Echoes of Tyrion's past are about to collide in the present. Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of Thrones, where the dwarf's uncertain doom approaches. Read the rest... How to get a cork out of an empty wine bottle Use the plastic bag you brought the bottle home in. A cloth napkin works, too! Read the rest... 1969 was a good year for horror-clowns Redditor CptQuestionMark posted this photo of a birthday clown from 1969. The clown is so frankly terrifying, it suggests some kind of profound aesthetic/cognitive shift in human perception in a scant 45 years. Read the rest... Maker Dad presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014 [Video Link] Maker Faire Bay Area 2014 was a blast. On Saturday I interviewed author and biohacker Tim Ferriss, and on Saturday my daughter Jane and I demonstrated some of the projects we built that are in my book, Maker Dad (get a copy of the book here). Read the rest... Smart high school student suspended for nerdy joke Paris Gray, the 17-year-old class vice president of Mundy's Mill High School in Georgia was suspended from school for a chemistry joke she ran in the yearbook: "When the going gets tough just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus." The message is decoded by consulting a periodic table: Read the rest... North Korean leader's girlfriend probably undead Musical performer Hyon Song-wol was reported to be Kim Jong-un's girlfriend. Last August, news spread that she was shot dead on the North Korean leader's orders, after he spotted her in a sex tape. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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