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Deliciously creamy cheese blended with charcoal "It's a mature cheddar but it's completely black inside where it's mixed with the charcoal but it tastes really creamy." (Image: Manor Farm Shops) Read the rest... Let's do international shots, it's Eurovision 2014! Europe gathers again for its annual extravaganza of wonderfully bad music and simmering political resentments. Leigh Alexander reports on the not-so-unlikely victory of Austrian beauty Conchita Wurst. Read the rest... Lightning hits tree, sends branches flying over one block radius Yesterday lightning struck a tree a block away from my parents' house in Boulder, Colorado. My mother said tree shrapnel bombarded their house and the "whole house shook." She took the above photo of what remains of the tree. Read the rest... Orphan Black: Governed As It Were By Chance [s2e4] Caroline Seide recaps the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama; the season's fourth outing heads into unsettling territory. Read the rest... Nintendo: Wii don't like Gay marriage Nintendo's forthcoming Tomodachi Life game lets players engage in romantic activities and get married--but not with characters of the same sex. Read the rest... Amusement park ride at night, Brazil (photo) Boing Boing reader Marcello Horta shared this wonderful photograph in the Boing Boing Flickr pool. Read the rest... 23 Florida cops shot 377 bullets at two unarmed men in car On December 10, 23 police officers "converged on a blue Volvo that had crashed in the backyard of a townhouse," and fired a total of at least 377 rounds on the car and two unarmed men inside. Read the rest... Spanish town of 'Jew Killers' considers possible name change The 56 inhabitants of a small town in Spain whose name translates to "Little Hill Fort of Jew Killers" are not eager to "adopt a different name and finally eradicate a link to the persecution of Jews during the Spanish Inquisition." [NYT] Read the rest... #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign featured wrong girls Celebrity-driven Twitter campaign calling for help for kidnapped Nigerian girls used the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, and appropriated photos of totally unrelated young women from a totally different African country. Read the rest... The new neuroscience of LOL "Laughter — the real kind, associated with genuine joy and mirth — sets off brain wave patterns quite similar to those generated when experienced meditators ply their mindfulness skills, a new study finds." [LA Times] Read the rest... Super Mariachi Bros.: band plays game theme at wedding [Video Link, thanks Guido!] Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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