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Monica Lewinsky on what it's like to be slut-shamed by the entire world "How does it feel to be America's premier blow-job queen," someone asked Monica Lewinsky at a public appearance in 2001. It's hurtful and it's insulting," I said, attempting to gather my wits. Read the rest... Is it OK to pee in the ocean? Yes. Read the rest... Just look at these unaccompanied immigrant minors. Arriving at Ellis Island. 100 years ago. The New Republic put together a photo gallery of some of the 12 million immigrants who passed through Ellis Island from 1892 to 1954, when it closed. Read the rest... Deadspin is crowdsourcing a database of police shootings in America The Gawker blog Deadspin is asking for reader help gathering data on officer-involved shootings in America. Kyle Wagner writes: The United States has no database of police shootings. Read the rest... Bathroom fixtures made from chocolate The chocolate bathtub, bidet, toilet, and sink in this $133,000 fixture collection will last for six months at room temperature or until eaten. Read the rest... Bulldog has difficulty with human pillow [via Reddit] Read the rest... "Wallflower," by Texas trio Purple Purple hails from east Texas. I'm looking forward to their new album, 409, which comes out later in the year. (Watch the video for their song, Wallflower.) Read the rest... Australian surveillance law will legalize snooping on and hacking the entire Internet The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation wants the power to break into any computer on the Internet and to spy on any person in the world: Liberal MP Philip Ruddock says "We are now looking at how you find out what people are thinking about even before they do it." UNSW's Professor George Williams said it could extend as far as the entire internet. Read the rest... My Whole World Ended, David Ruffin "Did you ever mean those sweet things, that you used to say? Did you mean 'em baby? Read the rest... Canadian government orders scientists not to disclose extent of polar melting Stephen Harper's petro-Tories have a well-earned reputation for suppressing inconvenient environmental science, but they attained new Stalinist lows when their ministers prohibited Canadian Ice Services from disclosing their government-funded research on the rapid loss of Arctic ice. Read the rest... North Korea says John Kerry has "Hideous Lantern Jaw" In a Korean-language press release issued Wednesday, North Korea said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was a "wolf donning the mask of sheep," but cursed with a "hideous lantern jaw." "His behavior fully revealed once again the U.S. Read the rest... Virginia braces for gay marriage Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, same-sex couples may legally marry from 8 a.m. Thursday: "In Richmond, deputy clerks will be brought in to assist that city's marriage-license desk in anticipation of a large crowd." Read the rest... Ballmer resigns from Microsoft board Citing his new duties as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, etc., former Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer is leaving the company's board. Read the rest... Free snake with used car A woman found a 3ft boa constrictor in the trunk of an old Volkswagen she had just bought for $300. The snake is OK, according to the local reptile rescue. Read the rest... Man murdered "with oranges" South African Babanto Chauke, 38, was killed earlier this week by two men who "starting throwing oranges at him until he died," according to Lt-Col Moatshe Ngoepe, a local police spokesman in Tzaneen, Limpopo. Read the rest... Making no apologies for Potterotica Brenna Twohy performs "Fantastic Breasts and Where To Find Them" [NSFW], a witty, epic rant about erotic Harry Potter fanfic and sexual politics. Read the rest... Twitter to add "tweets from accounts you don't follow" to timelines So far, this has meant tweets favorited by people you do follow, but the idea is clearly to get users accustomed to feeds made of all sorts of things you can't curate—"a terrible decision on Twitter's part, and I've seen nothing but complaints about it," adds John Gruber. Read the rest... Can You Save a Life With a Flashback? Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Billy Dare saves Nathoo's life with a defensive flashback! Read the rest... A future dictator's guide to disrupting protests Watching the small-town cops of Ferguson play GI Joe with their Army-surplus machine-guns is scary enough -- but what happens when the tech-smarts of Google trickles down to the Barney Fifes of America? Tom Craver speculates on tomorrow's dissent-suppression tactics, and offers some countermeasures. Read the rest... Can technology become a force for global equality, or is the future destined to remain unfair? Here's video from a debate I participated in at last summer's Howthelightgetsin festival in Wales, with the BBC's Kate Russell and Steve Fuller, an advocate for creationism and transhumanism, who said some pretty silly things, as you might expect. Read the rest... Goth-Icky: vintage monster art, selected by MST3K's Mike Nelson In 2005, MST3K's Mike Nelson published Goth-Icky: A Macabre Menagerie of Morbid Monstrosities, part of the Pop Ink series -- it's a gorgeous graphic tour of four-color monster art that were pulled from the archives of the Charles S. Read the rest... John Oliver on Ferguson and police militarization - must-watch video "[A curfew] is profoundly patronizing. 'Look, let's see if you can all remain quiet for twenty minutes, and then we'll see if you can all go and play outside.' If even the governor can't distinguish between the good and the bad elements of the community, and has decided to punish everyone equally, then that should go both ways. Read the rest... Cat in a shark suit on a Roomba, with duckling and human baby 3 perfect videos. Read the rest... Psychedelic GIFs: Hexeosis "Endlessly manifold. Self-contained. Replete." Hexiosis: Tumblr. [via Asylum Art] Read the rest... Blogging History: GCHQ performs laptop exorcism at Guardian; Graphic novel for Afghan voters; Docs helped Gitmo torturers One year UK intel officials enter Guardian offices, destroy hard drives with Snowden docs: The Guardian's editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, explains that he is now forced to work on stories about the US National Security Administration from New York City, because UK intelligence officials went into the Guardian's headquarters and destroyed hard drives that had copies of some of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Read the rest... ISIS beheads American journalist ISIS militants today released a video depicting the beheading of journalist James Wright Foley, who was kidnapped in 2012. Describing it as a message to America, which has provided air support to Kurds and Iraqi forces battling the insurgent group, ISIS also threatened to kill Steven Sotloff, another captive American. Read the rest... The paper honeycomb sculptures of Li Hongbo "Paper—you can never predict what it will become in the end." Chinese book editor, designer, and sculptor Li Hongbo. More works here. Read the rest... Police op-ed: 'Do what I tell you,' I may shoot you if you 'threaten to sue me' Sunil Dutta: "If you don't want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you." Read the rest... Robin Sloan on Ye Olde Geek Shoppe At Medium, Robin Sloan writes an appreciation of Nerdhaven, the archetypal shop in Everytown "catering to comic book readers, the D&D players, the gatherers-of-Magic." Read the rest... Copyright extortion startup wants to hijack your browser until you pay Rightscorp, the extortion-based startup whose business-model is blackmailing Internet users over unproven accusations of infringement, made record revenues last quarter, thanks to cowardly ISPs who agreed to lock 75,000 users out of the Web until they sent Rightscorp $20-$500 in protection money. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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