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Journalists top coffee-drinking chart Utterly addicted to the slime, they are, according to a survey of 10,000 professionals in Britain. Read the rest... School textbook withdrawn after teacher photo found to be from porn A photograph of a teacher on a school textbook was taken from a pornographic movie, reports Rocket News 24, leading to trouble for its Thailand-based publisher. Read the rest... Light Bulb Baking – The 50-year history of The Easy Bake Oven The 1960s were a magical decade in the world of toys. Toy companies like Wham-O, Hasbro, Mattel and Kenner were churning out captivating toys faster than toy stores could keep them in stock. Read the rest... Feds wanted to fine Yahoo $250K/day for fighting PRISM We've known since the start that Yahoo fought the NSA's Prism surveillance program tooth-and-nail; but as unsealed court docs show, the Feds made the process into a harrowing ordeal, and sweet-talked gullible judges into dropping the hammer on Y. Read the rest... Unusual childrens' books Can't remember much after about 8pm last night, but just found these on my desktop, so it must have been a good evening. Read the rest... Intestine socks Intestine socks! $11/pair (there's also lined notepaper versions for the squeamish), fits men's 9-12/women's 10.5-13. (via Canopy) Read the rest... Cast metal Lego brick charm They're $20 from Thinkgeek, and are made of a "silvertone metal alloy," whatever that is. Read the rest... Stormtrooper with hairbow earrings Etsy seller Bunnie Buns made these Stormtrooper Bow Earrings, which are cute as heck. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest... Into the Future! The Making of Beyond Cyberpunk! The gestation and birth of Beyond Cyberpunk! and Borg Like Me as narrated by Gareth Branwyn. Read the rest... What's right with Hermione 14-year-old Naomi Horn says the heroine of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series remains a depressingly rare example of a fictional female respected for her education and intelligence. In Hermione's world, being smart is what makes her important. Read the rest... Multi-layered, laser-cut art and jewelry Mtomsky's laser-cut art runs a gamut, from sweet, modest brooches like the $20.70 woodland squirrel to larger, more ambitious sculptural pieces from the wonderful mounted fish ($290); to massive spectacular pieces like the Warm Welcome ($580) and the hugely ambitious Deep Slumber ($4041). Read the rest... Elizabeth Warren asks why criminal bankers are too big to jail There were 800 convictions in the S&L crisis, but the DOJ hasn't prosecuted a single banker involved in the financial crisis; as Matt Taibbi points out in the brilliant, essential book The Divide, if shutting down a huge bank would impose too many costs on society, then why don't prosecutors insist that the banks be split up as a condition of not dropping the entire C-suite into the deepest dungeon in the nation? Read the rest... Teacher accidentally discharges handgun at school, hurting self The Salt Lake Tribune reports on gun-toting teacher Michelle Ferguson-Montgomery, who is taking the week off. Although no other faculty or students witnessed the shooting, they might have heard the gunshot or seen the teacher as she was taken out of the school to the hospital, Horsley said. Read the rest... San Diego school district acquires MRAP (basically a tank) from Dept. of Defense The San Diego Unified School District police recently acquired a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, through the federal government's surplus military equipment program. Read the rest... LA's Fashion District is Mexican drug cartel money-laundering hub, say federal investigators Federal agents view Los Angeles as the new Miami: an important center of drug cartel cashflow. Read the rest... Alan Moore's finished a one million word epic novel The creator of Watchmen, From Hell, V for Vendetta; zinester; defender of libraries; wizard; battler of Big Comics and pornographer has finished the first draft of a novel set loosely in Northampton, a kind of fictionalized memoir of Moore's family -- no publication date yet, and it's likely to come out in three volumes. CAN'T WAIT. (Image: Alan Moore, Nikki Tysoe, CC-BY) Read the rest... Study: 80% of female migrants who cross US-Mexico border are raped How do many migrant women prepare for the likelihood of being raped? They take birth control as their journey begins. Read the rest... Burning Man photo mosaic from 2,000 public Instagrams A gorgeous, hi-rez photo mosaic by Trey Ratcliff. "Thumbnails from 2,000 instagram photos taken and shared at Burning Man 2014. View full-size. Read the rest... D20 serving-bowl set The two halves of the bowl snap together to make a giant D20 (saving throw up, of course), and then snap apart to form a pair of dishwasher/ microwave-safe serving bowls -- $13 from Thinkgeek. Read the rest... Bob Mould: gay dance parties, punk rock, state fairs Over at Salon, punk legend Bob Mould talks to Rick Moody about rocking out in your 50s, deejaying big gay dance parties, and playing the Minnesota State Fair. Read the rest... Mind reading magic effect - The Code by Andy Nyman Jane and I have been having a great time with The Code, a magic effect created by actor and magician Andy Nyman. Read the rest... Documentary about Brazil's Tropicalia movement in the 1960s Tropicalia is a documentary about the 1960s music scene in Brazil, featuring Boing Boing patron saints Os Mutantes (formed in 1966 and still doing their thing!). Read the rest... T-shirt for your next D&D game Shirt-on-demand (tank, tee or sweat) from Lookhuman. Ain't No Party Like A D&D Party (via Wonderland) Read the rest... Great Childhood Books of Yesteryear A fabulous photoshop series by Bag of Delights. Check out the entire collection. Read the rest... Super Mean Mario YouTuber Pastek pasted Super Mario into a bunch of FAIL videos. Video above, GIF below. Read the rest... Art: 'Collages,' Eliash Strongowski A 2014 series by Eliash Strongowski, an artist based in Zhytomyr, Ukraine: "Collages." [via Asylum Art] Read the rest... A collection of gory and ghastly Creepy and Eerie magazines It's impossible to review the Dark Horse Comics collections of Creepy and Eerie without a few fond recollections. In the '60s and '70s, my father owned a men's tailored clothing shop on Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Read the rest... Cat sliding: sounds awful, cats love it (at least this one) Video. Hope they delete curling and replace it with cat sliding as a new Olympic sport. I'd totally be into the Olympics, then. Read the rest... Why the disgusting Red Delicious apple rules American grocery stores It started off as a celebrated, gorgeous mutation in an Iowa orchard, spread across the land, and was then selectively bred to look redder, bruise less, and ripen on the truck -- all at the cost of flavor and texture. Read the rest... Teletext ad, 1978 [via text-mode.tumblr.com] Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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