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Watch Mr. Darcy get rekt R.I.P. Mr. Darcy. Read the rest... REM's Michael Stipe to Trump et al.: "Go fuck yourselves!" "Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you — you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men," Stipe said, responding to Trump playing REM's hit "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" at a rally yesterday. Read the rest... Ashley Madison's passwords were badly encrypted, 15 million+ passwords headed for the Web A flaw in the fraudulent dating site's password hashing means that at least 15 million of its users' passwords are liable to decryption. Read the rest... Hotel safes are easily opened with a screwdriver and a paper clip Jim Stickley of Stickley Online Security uses his handy $8 Utili-Key to open a locked hotel safe at the Horseshoe Hotel in Bossier City, LA. Read the rest... Beautiful (and affordable!) Kelly Tunstall art print San Francisco painter Kelly Tunstall and the People's Print Shop teamed up on this wonderful fine art print, "Cloud Chat," limited to 30 signed/numbered copies for just $40 each! Read the rest... Heathrow security insists that ice is a liquid Simon Perry froze a can of Diet Coke solid and took it through security at London's Heathrow Airport to see whether he could find a loophole in the "no liquids" rule. Read the rest... You are the seagull who will burn the world At first, it seems like just another day at the beach for just another seagull. Then you open your tiny yellow beak and sing the song of fire. Read the rest... New neuroscience-based platform to get to know your mind My friend Stanford neuroscientist Melina Uncapher and her colleagues are piloting a new public project called mymntr meant to create a "user guide for your brain" through brain tests for self-knowledge, interviews with fascinating creative folks to get a sense of the minds behind the madness, and lots of other cool stuff at the intersection of science and culture. Read the rest... Meet Homo naledi, the distant ancestor you never knew In South Africa, scientists have unearthed a humanoid species from what appears to be a burial chamber hidden deep inside a system of caves. Read the rest... DoJ says it will consider jailing executives who order corporate crimes The doctrine under former AG Eric Holder (documented in Matt Taibbi's brilliant The Divide) was to allow executives to pay fines that were less than the profits from their crimes. Read the rest... Boston man hasn't showered for 12 years, prefers homebrew bacteria spray Dave Witlock is a practical man. "I have not taken a shower in over 12 years," says the chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate. Read the rest... World's fastest tortoise Bertie the tortoise broke the world record for the fastest animal in his species, moving at .28 meters/second, beating a tortoise named Charlie's 1977 record of .125 meters/second. Read the rest... Burrito, unicorn and middle finger emojis are coming to your iPhone Developers get a closer look at the emoji riches of iOS 9.1. Read the rest... Attack on Pizza! (or: A live-action scene done anime-style) Having watched Attack on Titan, I enjoyed this video of a live action fight over a slice of pizza at a party, edited anime-style. Read the rest... This $3 illuminated jeweler's loupe comes in handy Early this week I gave an online Arduino sensor workshop, and without this LED jeweler's loupe, I wouldn't have been able to read the tiny markings on many of the components. Read the rest... Government-run egg board waged high-price, secret PSYOPS war on vegan egg-replacement The American Egg Board's members are appointed by the FDA, and it was they who funded a secrets, deceptive smear campaign against startup Hampton Creek's vegan egg replacement. Read the rest... NSA whistleblower James Bamford profiles Edward Snowden Bamford was the first-ever NSA whistleblower, whose bravery led to the Church Commission and the unprecedented curbs on the agency's spying powers -- his long, sympathetic Wired profile of Snowden is full of insight and wisdom. Read the rest... Cyclist videos self plunging down a dam wall Primož Ravnik thought it would be cool to ride down the face of a 200-ft dam. Damn, Primož! Daaaaamn! [Sploid] Read the rest... Things to add to your building lobby's CCTV warning Someone in JWZ's building put up a "THIS BUILDING IS MONITORED BY CLOSED-CIRCUIT CAMERAS" sign in the lobby where only the residents and their guests go, so he's been updating it with messages like "FEAR THE UNKNOWN - MONSTERS ARE REAL." His neighbors -- or possibly the maintenance staff -- keep taking them down, but he's not giving up. Read the rest... Using sandwiches to teach the Socratic method Fans of the Judge John Hodgman podcast know that the harder you interrogate the category "sandwich," the less definitive it becomes, until you find yourself raging over tacos and hot-dogs. Read the rest... Fury Road cosplay: wheelchair and amputated arm edition When Fury Road came out, Laura Vaughn made an iconic post about how her left-arm transradial amputation gave her the potential to be the world's greatest Imperator Furiosa cosplayer -- and now she's done it, homebrew prosthetic and all. Read the rest... WSJ: consumers should be allowed to repair their gadgets Wall Street Journal columnist Geoffrey A Fowler: "There's a fight brewing between giant tech companies and tinkerers that could impact how we repair gadgets or choose the shop where we get it done by a pro. Read the rest... Lawyering is brutal "Long hours, missed family vacations, and significant burnout" — Leigh McMullin on a job so unpleasant there's a cottage industry helping you escape it. Read the rest... Millennium Falcon quadcopter Skinning drones with iconic spaceship shells is an absolute natural and I expect to see a lot more of it -- here's a salvo, Air Hogs's Millennium Falcon quadcopter, which hits stores on Sept 15 -- part of a family that includes landspeeders, TIE fighters, X-wings, and speeder bikes. Read the rest... 2-star Legend reviewer on the "marketing gold" of bad write-ups The Guardian's 2-star outlier review of Legend was cleverly misrepresented on the movie poster. Author Benjamin Lee writes on how bad reviews like his can be turned into marketing gold. Read the rest... How to make bizarre topographical eye art Jhovany Quiroz's art is "the human eye made weird and psychedelic." [Wired] Quiroz cropped each frame to place the eye front and center. Read the rest... Join a colorful crew of bounty hunters in this choice-driven visual novel A team experienced at eerie, atmospheric sci fi is developing a new visual novel with amazing illustrations and a diverse crew. Read the rest... Wes Craven "gentrified" the genre, then "was priced out" Wes Craven obeyed the gatekeeper's creed: "learn the rules before you break them." Ben Gabriel suggests this is why, despite great success, he never quite earned the same status as Carpenter and Cronenberg—a status he certainly deserves. Read the rest... Glitch Runs of Super Mario World Let's Glitch Super Mario World is a YouTube series about the creative destruction and remaking of a classic game, simply by exploiting its glitches. Read the rest... Zooming in on the mysterious white spot on Ceres Looks like it's some kind of volcano poop, but NASA's still hedging its bets. The latest images from Dawn reveal surface features as small as 450 feet across. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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