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Lifehacks for sociopaths "Unethical hacks are life hacks that will help you advance through life by taking advantage of loopholes in society." I'm thinking these could somehow be used to create a game in the vein of Cards Against Humanity. Read the rest... "VW Camper Van: A Biography," by Mike Harding If you have ever owned, loved or labored on a VW bus, VW Camper Van: A Biography is the book for you. Read the rest... This is a pretty awesome a capella dubstep video. You should really watch it. Couple of years old, but as good as day one. Read the rest... A lawyer debunks five myths about beating traffic tickets If a cop doesn't show up for court, your ticket will be dismissed: false. If you overpay your ticket by one penny the ticket will not go on your record: false. Read the rest... A gallery of Adventure Time tattoos See them all here. Read the rest... LISTEN: An uplifting lecture about death The 2014 BBC Reith lecture with Dr Atul Gawande (previously) continue to amaze, delight and inform, and the third one, "The Problem of Hubris," fundamentally changed how I think about (and what I fear about) death. Read the rest... Runnur vs. Pacsafe: which compact sling bag is best? I prefer to be hands-free. So I bought the Runnur Hands free Carry-all and tried out the Pacsafe Venturesafe 150 Gll cross body pack. Read the rest... Watch the Kim Jong Un death scene that led to the untimely death of 'The Interview' Watch it, if you dare. Read the rest... Al Qaeda expert credited with designing deception of CIA torture program Information about her role was revealed in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report released last week Read the rest... Secret languages of twins "Cryptophasia" is the term for the secret languages that apparently 40 percent of identical twins develop. Nautilus investigates: The most famous example of cryptophasia is identical twins Ginny and Grace Kennedy from California. Read the rest... Charlie Brown's favorite jazz pianist Why do we love A Charlie Brown Christmas? Vince Guaraldi, that's why. (Cuepoint) Read the rest... Video: how a pinball machine is made Stern Pinball transforms 3,500 parts and 1/2 mile of wire into The Walking Dead machine. Read the rest... Queen Victoria in her goggles In 1899, Queen Victoria sported these stylish specs to, er, cure her cataracts; details over at Weird Universe. Read the rest... Mormon's Secret: temple garments for gentiles The company was founded by a formon (former Mormon) named Ann Jackson who was married as a teenager and has since divorced and left the faith -- she'll sell "temple garments" (AKA "magic Mormon underwear") to anyone who wants 'em, and promises that none of the profits go to the LDS. Read the rest... A modest proposal for Wall Street's future Michael "Flash Boys" Lewis gives us a wish-list of eight (implausible) steps that Wall Street could take to check its feckless, reckless, destructive lurch through the 21st century. Read the rest... Comics Code Authority merch to support anti-censorship work at CBLDF From IO9's excellent guide to charitable merch you can buy to support good causes, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's range of excellent swag, including these items bearing the logo of the hated, defunct Comics Code Authority, whose trademarks the CBLDF acquired in 2011. Read the rest... Caterpillar cosplay/cyberpunk braces From Ukrainian leatherworker/fetishwear-purveyor/steampunk/fashion designer Bob Basset, a pair of "Caterpillar" arm braces made from "Natural leather, steel furniture." Read the rest... Congress ends federal ban on medical marijuana The federal spending measure passed this weekend, and one of the provisions in it "effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy," reports the LA Times. Read the rest... Sock-puppet- and traffic-analysis-resistant group conversation protocol Dissent implements the Dining Cryptographers and Verifiable Shuffling algorithms to produce a group-conversation system that is resistant to traffic analysis. Feels like we're entering the second golden age of cypherpunk. Read the rest... Vast Humble Comics Bundle The latest Humble Bundle features an indescribably vast array of comics from Mega, including work from Mark Waid, Darick Robertson, Garth Ennis, Gail Simone, Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, J. Read the rest... The strange history of Disney's cyber-psychedelic "Computers Are People Too" The cult favorite documentary was produced to promote Tron's release, featuring a trippy plot and the strangest computer graphics this side of SIGGRAPH -- and it quickly became a staple of the LA club scene as visual accompaniment for whatever was floating your boat that night. Read the rest... Tucows launching "mini-Google-fiber" to compete with Comcast Tucows, who own two of the best Internet-infrastructure companies I know of (Hover, a domain registrar; and Ting, a mobile phone provider) have announced their own super-high-speed fiber-optic ISP in Charlottesville, Virginia, where it will compete with one of the worst infrastructure companies in the world: Comcast. Read the rest... Pancake safari The latest from Saipancakes: a beautiful assortment of African animals in carbohydrate form. Read the rest... 8-bit Philip Glass Have the most serious Gameboy at school with this rendition of Prophecies from Koyaanisqatsi. Read the rest... Vortexes in water [video link] Read the rest... Watch: If Tim Burton directed a porn video Edward Skimmerhands. Fairly safe for work. Read the rest... I'm dreaming of a Cat Christmas A photo shared in our Flickr Pool by Jason Litten. Read the rest... A-Z illustrated list of CIA's torture program Oscar Rickett and ​Krent Able created The A-Z of Torture for Vice. Read the rest... Cowardly U.S. theaters refuse to show 'The Interview' after free speech threats Free speech must be defended even when the speech at issue is a sure-to-be-shitty comedy vehicle starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, poking fun at tired ethnic stereotypes. Read the rest... HOWTO cut paper snowflakes in the likeness of Nobel physics prizewinners The physics journal Symmetry offers downloadable PDF templates to cut your own snowflakes in the likeness of Einstein, Marie Curie, and Schrödinger, to add some much-needed physics to your Xmas decor. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list