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Food fight Scientists are experimenting with ways to reduce the impact of certain food allergies with the help of other foods. For instance, chemicals in cranberry juice might be able to mute the effects of peanut allergies. Read the rest... Tug-a-Jug, treat dispensing dog toy My dogs love toys that pay out treats. The Tug-A-Jug by PetSafe is another winner for the small to medium sized dog. Read the rest... Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals? Molly Erman of The New Yorker says, "I thought you would be interested in Lizzie Widdicombe's piece in this week's issue of The New Yorker, in which she meets the founder of Soylent, a synthetic meal replacement, and—in part, by subsisting on it herself—looks at how it could someday revolutionize humanity's approach to food." In the May 12, 2014, issue of The New Yorker, in "The End of Food" (p. Read the rest... Maker of WordPress raises $160m because they can Raising ten times as much as your whole company's needed in the last decade may be the only way to keep blogging alive. Read the rest... Use of word "so" undermines your credibility I sometimes start my sentences with, "So, ..." (any episode of Gweek will be full of examples). But it irks me when other people do the same! Read the rest... EFF on the White House's Big Data report: what about privacy and surveillance? Last week, I wrote about danah boyd's analysis of the White House's Big Data report [PDF]. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has added its analysis to the discussion. Read the rest... Southern Gentleman robs Waffle House with a pitchfork, gets away The best local news video report you'll see this week: "Employees at a Waffle House fight back against man armed with a pitchfork." WSB-TV, Atlanta, GA. Read the rest... Rubber Chicken Players coming to Toronto's Webfest 2014 Robbo sez, "Our silly little web series, The Rubber Chicken Players, has the honour of being an official selection at TO WebFest 2014. Read the rest... GDF11protein rejueventates aged brains and muscles in mice "Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have shown that a protein (GDF11) they previously demonstrated can make the failing hearts in aging mice appear more like those of young health mice, similarly improves brain and skeletal muscle function in aging mice." (Novus Biologicals sells GDF11 for $349 per 0.1 mg.) Read the rest... Noted crazyman John McAfee launches 'secure messaging app' for folks who trust John McAfee It's called Chadder, created by John McAfee. I'm sure it's about as secure as a Central American bunker filled with guns, cocaine, and hot underage broads. Read the rest... Dogs playing bluegrass (video) The classic 'Dueling Banjos," played badly by dogs, but played by dogs. Sort of. Video Link. [Thanks, Dean!] Read the rest... Crowdfunding an illustrated A-Z defending libraries Gary sends us, "a library crowdfunding project I am involved with. It is aiming to creatively highlight the value of public libraries to those who believe they are outdated or irrelevant. Read the rest... This Day in Blogging History: Kaminsky on Bitcoin; doxxing Scalia; T9 collisions One year ago today Dan Kaminsky on BitCoin: Bitcoin's fundamental principle of fraud management is one of denial. Five years ago today Scalia Scoffs at Calls for More Data Privacy Protection, Students Surprise Him With Dossier of His Own Data.: The class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia's home address, home phone number and home value, his food and movie preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren. Read the rest... Twitter jerks, the webcomic Gerard Way -- former frontman for My Chemical Romance and creator of Dark Horse's brilliant comic Umbrella Academy -- sent me this funny and somewhat uncomfortable comic about the sociopathy of jerks on Twitter. Read the rest... "She flung her anus high up in the air..." and other OCR mistakes "So if the text is old, and it says 'arms', the OCR [optical character recognition] scanner will see it as 'anus.' OMG," Wendell tweeted. Read the rest... How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance In my latest Locus column, How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance, I tell the story of how I explained the Snowden leaks to my six-year-old, and the surprising interest and comprehension she showed during our talk and afterwards. Read the rest... Tales of Pirx the Pilot, classic scifi by Stanislaw Lem I can not help but root for Pirx the Pilot. Unfocused, day dreaming, and distracted at the drop of a hat, Stanislaw Lem's Pirx is a hero for all the wrong reasons. Read the rest... Imperial Melody Discharger - Stormtrooper helmet art build notes I built the Imperial Melody Discharger, an articulated Stormtrooper helmet music box, for the Star Wars Day ("May the 4th be with you") vinyl Stormtrooper helmet art show . Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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