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Favorite tools of You Are Not So Smart author David McRaney On the Cool Tools Show, blogger and author David McRaney introduces us to some lesser known creative solutions to life's tiny nuisances that will help you untangle your wad of keys, opt for a better YouTube experience, and explore the future of musical experimentation. Read the rest... Australia bans Duff Beer Australia's Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code has banned the Woolworths grocery from selling Homer Simpson's favorite beverage Duff Beer because "it will be instantly recognisable and highly appealing to children and young people under the legal drinking age," according to a complaint filed with the organization. Read the rest... Comcast blocks Tor "Users who try to use anonymity, or cover themselves up on the internet, are usually doing things that aren't so-to-speak legal; we have the right to terminate, fine, or suspend your account at anytime due to you violating the rules -- Do you have any other questions? Read the rest... Slow motion skateboard tricks Beautiful slow motion footage of skater Christopher Chann shot by Adam Shomsky at Stoner Skate Plaza, Los Angeles. Read the rest... Premiere: new video from SF noise pop trio El Terrible "Last Cab" is the first video from San Francisco noise pop trio El Terrible, led by underground music veteran Terry Ashkinos (Elephone, Fake Your Own Death) with Scott Eberhardt on drums and vocals, and Adrian McCullough on bass, synth, and backing vocals. Read the rest... Pennies now cost 1.6 cents to make Congress has yet to phase out pennies, despite years of plans and the near-useless coin costing more to manufacture than their own face value. Read the rest... Pop music's 1,264 micro genres Skweee, Laboratorio, Deep Filthstep, Chalga (see below)-- those are only four of the 1,264 micro genres of popular music identified by "data alchemist" Glenn McDonald, creator of Every Noise At Once, which I posted about last year. Read the rest... Excerpt from In Real Life, YA graphic novel about gold farmers In Real Life is the book-length graphic novel adapted by Jen Wang from my short story Anda's Game, about a girl who encounters a union organizer working to sign up Chinese gold-farmers in a multiplayer game. Read the rest... Movie scenes recut from stock footage Iconic movies and movie scenes recreated using stock footage. My favorite is The Shining, at 22 seconds in. (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!) Read the rest... TSA demands to search man who's already flown Minnesota's Kahler Nygard drew a Spirit Air boarding car with the dreaded "SSSS" extra-search marker, and halfway to Denver, Spirit and/or the TSA decided he hadn't been searched properly (he says he was), so they panicked and dragged him off the plane in Denver for another search because he might have been a time-traveller who could harm a plane after getting off of it. Read the rest... Oxytocin: "the biological basis for the golden rule" Here's the transcript at Medium of a deeply fascinating Aspen Ideas lecture by neuroeconomist Paul Zak, author of The Moral Molecule, about the chemical reason why the vast majority of us feel good helping others. Those who don't? Psychopaths, mostly. Read the rest... Microsoft to acquire Minecraft for $2.5bn Tech giant Microsoft is to buy Mojang, creators of Minecraft, for $2.5bn, reports the Associated Press. Launched in 2009, Minecraft is a sprawling, endlessly-replayable "sandbox" game that dumps the player in a randomly-generated abstract world. Read the rest... New Commemorative Edition of Neil Gaiman's Newbery Medal Winner THE GRAVEYARD BOOK In commemoration of more than 1 million copies sold, this special paperback edition of The Graveyard Book features a gorgeous metallic gold cover, new content from Neil Gaiman, and sketches by illustrator Dave McKean. Read the rest... Sesame Street does Star Wars "A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away, Princess Parfaita was taken prisoner by the evil Galactic Empire and had to be saved by a group of unlikely heroes including the young Luke Piewalker, Flan Solo, and Chewie the Cookie. " Read the rest... What's in Boing Boing's developer's gadget bag? Dean Putney reveals all over at Cool Tools. Read the rest... The Headset Revolution will be a blizzard of conflicting realities—if it happens, that is Artists and journalists will use virtual reality to transform perception—and virtual reality will transform everything. Jason Lvov stares into the Rift between promise and product. Read the rest... Blogging History: Netflix uses piracy to guide business decisions; Asking favors from writers; Bubblegum Alley One year Netflix uses piracy stats to choose its programming: Senior executives from Netflix have explained their method for choosing which programs to license for the service: they buy the rights to the most-pirated shows in each territory, because that's where the demand is. Read the rest... Urban Outfitters' "blood-spattered" Kent State sweatshirt condemned by university In 1970, Army National Guardsmen opened fire on students at Kent State University in Ohio who were protesting the Vietnam War. Read the rest... Do animals cry? Maria Konnikova on the appearance and the authenticity of emotion in the animal kingdom--and how we can use science to explore it. Read the rest... Kim Dotcom accuses NZ PM Key of conspiring with Warner to extradite him to US Dotcom claims he has emails between New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Warner exec Kevin Tsujihara in which Tsujihara explains that Dotcom was followed by private security in Hong Kong and that Key had made the extradition promise to Warner as part of the deal to shoot The Hobbit in NZ (the MPAA, Warner and Key's office all dispute the email's authenticity). Read the rest... Giant grubs, bug and worms made of gummi Akai Tento's Yahoo Japan Store features some of the beautiful glistening gummi larvae, worms and bugs for sale in the tiny coffee shop/market stall in Aomori Prefecture, a Japanese fishing district. Read the rest... CBC warns Canadians: US cops will pull you over and steal your money 62,000 US drivers have been pulled over and had their cash seized by small-town American cops in the past 13 years, under civil forfeiture laws that let them declare anyone to be a probable terrorist and/or drug dealer and take their money without charge or evidence; the only way to get it back is to hire a lawyer and return, over and over again, to the tiny town you were passing through when you were robbed at badgepoint. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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