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The FBI targeted MAD magazine in 1957 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. Read the rest... Watch R2-D2 levitate for real Otto Dieffenbach uses the Force (and some creative RC engineering) to levitate R2-D2. (Flyguy Promotions) Read the rest... Icelandic fog waterfall "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. Read the rest... The Awl profiled 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... Putin's party launches "straight pride" flag 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... Game of Thrones deaths as pixel art animations "All Pixels Must Die" is the work of Filipe Costa, Matheus Muniz and Paulo Bohrer II. Spoilers! Nasty, nasty spoilers. Read the rest... The Six Million Dollar Man, season 1 Colonel Steve Austin nearly died in a fiery space accident. The Office of Scientific Intelligence rebuilt him better than he was before. Read the rest... 3D-printed tardigrades 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... Twerking robot bottom yours for $1000 Pornhub sells these. Why? It hardly matters. [Twerkingbutt.com] Some of you complain about GIFs in posts. Pray I do not add a GIF to this one. Read the rest... What happened at yesterday's Congressional hearings on banning crypto? Cryptographers and security experts gathered on the Hill yesterday to tell Congress how stupid it was to ban crypto in order to make it easier to spy on "bad guys." The Electronic Frontier Foundation's roundup on the day's events has five key takeaways from the testimony: 1. Read the rest... Shark repellants don't work Julia Child, before she was a celebrity chef, was a US intelligence officer who during World War II tried to develop a shark repellant for the Navy. Read the rest... LISTEN: Neil Gaiman writes all the things! Enjoy the latest podcast from Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt Read the rest... Awesome 5-star solar system with two contacting pairs found 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... WATCH: Bend light at Antrum spatio-graphical interactive installation Tatiana Plakhova created gorgeous pulsing geometric patterns, then projected them onto a membrane that allows visitor interaction. The installation looks like a grotto of the membrane, the surface of which is inhabited by strange creatures. Read the rest... Clever food festival posters turn produce into landscapes These delightful images were created to celebrate an annual food and culture festival in Brazil. The others in the series by Agência LZ are also fun, but the corn one is truly inspired. Read the rest... US Navy: By 2050 Arctic Ocean ice will all melt in summers Many troubling stats about climate change's effect in the North Pole region are tucked into Newsweek's article on the geopolitical gold rush taking place up there. Read the rest... WATCH: Kentucky official calls cops, denies gay couple's marriage license Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis discontinued all marriage licenses rather than give one to gay couples like David V. Moore and David Ermold, together for 17 years and local residents for ten. Read the rest... Buzzfeed infiltrated a racist teen message group and it's amazing Today's required reading; Joe Bernstein did not have to tell them his last name to get in. …my time in WPWW convinced me that our picture of the white supremacist internet is strikingly outdated, incomplete. Read the rest... Does this McDonald's Minions toy say "What the fuck?" Some parents are complaining that a Minions talking toy available at McDonald's sounds like it says "What the fuck!" Gotta love audio pareidolia. Read the rest... Get The Amazon Web Services Engineer Bootcamp Bundle For 89% Off Prove Your Cloud Computing Mastery with 4 Courses & 24 Hours of Certification Training ($29) Check out all of the items in the Boing Boing store, including gadgets, software, apps, and online courses! Read the rest... A segway/strandbeest that's powered by a hand-drill Izzy Swan's drill-powered walking-machine uses a leg-design inspired by the wind-walking strandbeest and connects it to a ride-'em platform for the pilot. Read the rest... Watch this trippy animated interview with Reggie Watts From our friends at California Sunday, this beautiful animated interview with comedian/musician Reggie Watts. Animation by Drew Tyndell. "California Inspires Me" (California Sunday) Read the rest... Archie's "new hipster look" Archie comics, that bastion of thick, small newsprint books at supermarket checkout, is getting yet another vaguely ironic makeover! The ginger ninja of our hearts is, to quote Bloomberg, "getting a new hipster look." What I have learned from this is that Bloomberg goes into Target, looks at the $5 plaid shirts by Mossimo for Target, and thinks, "Whoa, hipster." (P.S. Read the rest... Every item in Katamari Damacy, Tweeted It seems like you can't possibly count every single detailed dollhouse object in the well-loved Katamari Damacy, but someone is trying—and the item descriptions are even funnier than you remember. Read the rest... NZ's anti-troll law: gift to trolls, bad for free speech If you set out to create the platonic ideal of a badly considered anti-trolling bill that made a bunch of ineffectual gestures at ending harassment without regard to the collateral damage on everything else on the Internet, well, you'd be New Zealand's Parliament, apparently. Read the rest... Non-metal robot performs prostate surgery inside MRI Researchers are developing a robot made from plastic and ceramic motors that can perform surgery on a patient inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine where metal is a no-no. Read the rest... Ultimate guided meditation video Join with your inner stillness, where those fucks can't get under your skin with all their horseshit. Read the rest... Watch great white shark photobombed by another great white shark A great white shark photobombs another great white shark near Seal Island in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Video posted by Remo Sabatini. Read the rest... Bulldog puppies explore a slide for the first time and fail adorably A slobbering Sisyphus. Read the rest... Clever street art celebrating same-sex marriage ruling Celebratory street art spotted in San Francisco's Castro District, an iconic epicenter of LGBTQ culture. Photo by the Imaginary Foundation. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list