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How the CIA created the Unabomber When mass murderer Ted Kaczynski was a 16-year-old undergraduate student at Harvard, he took part in a behavioral engineering project run by the CIA. Read the rest... 'How to Be Happy,' by Natalya Lobanova Link. Read the rest... This Day in Blogging History: TSA v Naked American Hero; Star Trek action figures and Bridge reissue; Ipod/torture mashup One year ago today TSA hearing for "Naked American Hero" John Brennan: He was acquitted of a ridiculous indecent exposure charge, and now he is appealing an equally stupid fine from the Transportation Security Administration for "interfering with the screening process." Five years ago today Star Trek original bridge and action figures reissue: The Star Trek Bridge playset was, hands down, the best toy I owned as a child. Read the rest... Haunted Mansion mantelpiece clock Etsy seller ArdoriaStudios created this Haunted Mansion Bat Wing mantel clock, which is handsome and glorious. Go Hatbox Ghost! Haunted Mansion Inspired Bat Wing Mantel Clock (via Haunted Mansion Disney! Read the rest... Congressmen ask ad companies to pretend SOPA is law, break anti-trust A murder of Congresscritters and Senators have told Internet ad-brokers that they expect them to behave as though SOPA passed into law (instead of suffering hideous, total defeat); they want the companies to establish a secret, unaccountable blacklist of "pirate" sites. Read the rest... Chapters one and two of Charlie Fletcher's The Oversight "A dark and glinting book set in Victorian London, a fat and aggressively readable novel about a secret society -- the Oversight -- charged with the policing of all the magical and supranatural (yes, supranatural) elements of Britain." Read the rest... Color for the Colorblind Kelly Kittell's EnChroma CX Receptor colorblind-correcting sunglasses arrived with the following warning: When first trying on the lens, the unusual appearance of colors may be visually distracting. "It's a bit of an understatement. The first time I saw brick red I was so overwhelmed I stopped cold. Purple and lavender, where have you been all my life?" Read the rest... Cookies for Breakfast (Recipe) In his never-ending quest to legitimize cookies as a breakfast food, Matt Maranian has reimagined the dough from a gluten-free chocolate chip cookie recipe into a nutritious breakfast biscuit. Read the rest... 2014 Locus Award finalists, including Homeland The finalists for the 2014 Locus Awards have been announced and I'm incredibly honored to see that my novel Homeland made the final five in the Young Adult category. Read the rest... Octopus unscrews jar from inside This video does exactly what it says in the jar, and demonstrates, once again, the preternatural cleverness of our future octopus overlords. Read the rest... Crowdfunding Indie Box, a human-usable personal server to replace big Internet companies Johannes writes, "Indie Box One is a personal server appliance that allows us to 'bring our data home' from the big Internet companies, and run indie Web applications at home. Read the rest... Peter "brokep" Sunde launches campaign for Finnish Pirate Party MEP Peter Sunde, founder of Flattr and co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has launched his campaign for election to the European Parliament. Read the rest... Schrödinger versus the morning Nobel-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger had a complicated relationship with mornings. At times, his sorrow over WWI kept him from getting out of bed; other times he was too hungover. Read the rest... Gadget to move a USB port to the front of an iMac Great idea - I can't stand reaching around my iMac to plug something in. Bluelounge Jimi - USB Port Extension for iMac Read the rest... Documentary: How to Build a Time Machine [Video Link] It's about smart people who are serious about building a time machine. Read the rest... Stross on NSA network sabotage "The same security holes that the NSA relied on to gain access to your (or Osama bin Laden's) email allowed gangsters to steal passwords and login credentials and credit card numbers. Read the rest... You Are Not So Smart 023: Learning from warring tribes of children Brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio. For a free trial and 10% off, go to squarespace.com and use offer code LESSDUMB. Read the rest... When bison are bullies Read the rest... Mary Blair and the World's Fair: Rolly Crump describes the birth of "it's a small world" Yesterday, I posted about the publication of More Cute Stories, Volume 4: 1964/65 New York World's Fair, an audio memoir of Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump. Read the rest... La Gigantesca Grua-Robot I like the person looking through the window in the robot's face. (Via Arcane Images) Read the rest... Brawling journalists tear apart table on TV [Video Link] The fact that I don't understand what they are saying made it more interesting to me, because I paid more attention to their increasingly aggressive body language. Read the rest... A Talk with Threes App Designer Greg Wohlwend (New Disruptors 74) Greg Wohlwend co-created the popular game Threes. He talks with host Glenn Fleishman about the joy of success, the burden of being independent, and the problems with parasites. Read the rest... Drivers do not like sinkhole [Video Link] Skip to 1:15 for the terrifying part. Read the rest... Fast food workers around the world to strike on May 15 Fast-food workers in 33 countries are planning a walkout on May 15, demanding better pay and better working conditions. The action, coordinated by Fast Food Forward, will target McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC. Read the rest... Police dashcam records suspects kissing to hide drugs Two men sitting in the back of a police car in Oklahoma. Man 1 has three eightballs of meth in his mouth. Read the rest... MK Wren's Shadow of the Swan Enjoy the second part of MK Wren's new ebook, offered exclusively by Boing Boing Read the rest... Nazi art hoarder dies "Cornelius Gurlitt, the 81-year-old German recluse accused of hoarding hundreds of artworks looted by the Nazis, has died." via the Telegraph Read the rest... 9th grader ignored by school board runs for a seat on the board Bridget Erickson, a freshman at St Paul, MN's Nova Classical Academy tried unsuccessfully to get the school board to create a student advisory seat on the board. Read the rest... I am going to need a bigger chair... Nemo has been with me for just over 1 year, look how he has grown! Thanks, Great Pyrenees Rescue of Northern California! Read the rest... Why is there so little research on animal vaginas? Everybody on the Internet knows animal penises are widely studied by scientists. But vaginas? In 25 years of animal genital research, 49 percent of the studies looked at penises only. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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