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Younger Bill Gates poses with older Bill Gates Fulvio Obregon, an illustrator from Cali, Colombia, created a series of portraits that show younger and older versions of the same celebrity as if they are in the same room together. Read the rest... Video captures taxi driver stealing customer's phone YouTuber 44alimorris shot a video of a taxi driver stealing her friend's phone. Here's her report of the incident: On Saturday night i took a cab home with a friend. Read the rest... How to bring the look of women's high fashion into your closet for cheap Over at eBay, fashion designer/stylist Kelly Sparks, who moonlights as my wife, wrote about how to bring the trends seen in the crazy couture of fashion show runways into a woman's everyday wardrobe: "Five Fall Fashion Trends That Aren't Just for Supermodels" And don't miss Kelly's previous guide in this series: "The Thrill of the Hunt: A Personal Stylist's Guide to 10 Vintage Items Every Woman Needs In Her Closet." Read the rest... Man trying to fix broken windshield ticketed on way to repair shop Nick Berlin was "yards away" from a windshield repair shop when he was pulled over by an Adams County (Colorado) Sheriff's Deputy who gave him a ticket for having a broken windshield. Read the rest... Video: the occultism of Robert Anton Wilson Fortean journalist Cat Vincent have a presentation at London's Treadwell's esoteric bookshop about the strange mysticism of bOING bOING patron saint Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, and Cosmic Trigger, a book that changed my life in weird and wonderful ways. Read the rest... Weekend of Wonder is unveiling SKEYE Pico Drone - world's tiniest drone Meet the SKEYE Pico Drone, the smallest drone in the world Read the rest... Why snoozing puppies twitch cutely and other facts about animal sleep Walruses sleep in a big pile. Hippos bob to the surface to take a breath and then sink back underwater. (National Geographic) Read the rest... Little girl scared of her own shadow This toddler is having a nice time in a parking lot when she is startled by a stranger who silently sneaked up to her. Read the rest... Music: "Frying Pan," Mac Sabbath Great write up on Mac Sabbath at The Village Voice. Read the rest... Ugly camera strap like your dad's? $6 If you've gone to great lengths, spending big bucks to get a new digital camera that looks like an old film slr, you might as well have the ugly camera strap to match! Read the rest... Crown shyness - when trees don't like to touch each other This incredible photo is an example of "crown shyness," a phenomenon in which the crowns of trees maintain a little personal space between each other. Read the rest... A better solution for astronauts who drink their own piss Aquaporin A/S made this new small and lightweight filter that uses aquaporins, membrane proteins, to turn urine, sweat, and wastewater into drinkable water. Read the rest... Watch child ruin magician's trick on television, and his return 20 years later What a twerp. (via DIGG) And "twenty years after ruining/improving Dave Williamson's magic career, Murray returns to The 2011 International Magic convention in London to try again": (Thanks, w00master!) Read the rest... Raccoon sweeps the floor Looks like Disney wasn't lying when they portrayed forest animals helping clean homes. Read the rest... The Strange Misadventures of Famous Corpses Being well known can make it harder to rest in peace. Read the rest... The Filming of Andy Warhol's EMPIRE (1964) Is Andy Warhol's eight-hour film a supreme act of considered minimalism, or one of the 20th century's most notorious art pranks? Read the rest... Dennis the Menace statue stolen ten years ago shows up across country This steel statue of Dennis the Menace, swiped from a Monterey, California playground in 2006, has turned up at a scrapyard in Orlando, Florida. Read the rest... Robots wish you a happy Rosh Hashanah! A robotic Shanah Tovah (Happy New Year!) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology! (Thanks, Ken Goldberg!) Read the rest... Ukranian guys have fun directing microwave beams out of the oven I doubt it's safe to do what these guys are doing in this video, but it's fun to watch them use the guts of a microwave oven to illuminate and pop light bulbs and vaporize metal objects. Read the rest... Etsy to allow manufactured goods Previously forbidden from the vintage 'n' handmade marketplace, companies that make large numbers of any given item now have a home at Etsy. Read the rest... Sagan, Hawking, and Clarke have a gabfest (1988) Watch these three guys discuss "God, The Universe and Everything Else," which includes extraterrestrials, creativity, science fiction, education, the Cold War, fractals, and so much more. Read the rest... Basketball sized chunk of ice crashes through roof of California home It was just an another quiet 100-degree day in Modesto, California when a large chunk of ice fell from the sky an crashed though the roof of Monican Savath home, and landed on a car in the garage, damaging the bumper. Read the rest... 17th century illustrations of butterflies They're the work of Maria Sibylla Merian, a scientist and artist whose meticulous illustrations of wildlife were mostly forgotten until a late 20th century reappraisal. Read the rest... Tim Wu joins the New York Attorney General's office Wu, a protege of Larry Lessig who coined the term "Net Neutrality," will be on sabbatical from Columbia Law while he works for the AG: "If I have a life mission, it is to fight bullies" I've known Tim since we were small children and have been avidly watching and admiring his work since we made contact again as adults, on the eve of Lessig's Supreme Court argument. Read the rest... Homophobic attitudes linked to psychological problems A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine (great name for a soul album) finds that gay haters Read the rest... Copyright Office seeks your comments on its crazy, broken plan to deal with orphan works The "orphan works" problem has obsessed the Copyright Office -- as well as authors, publishers, libraries, scholars -- for years. "Orphans" are the hundreds of millions of books, photographs, films, and other creations whose creators are unknown or can't be located, but whose copyright protection is still in place. Read the rest... "Trendy font" blamed for bottle of "POO" sold by UK grocer It's supposed to say PDO—Protected Designation of Origin—but this bottle of olive oil came out the wrong way. Spotted on the shelves of UK supermarket Aldi, the typeface trip-up is the chain's second this month. Read the rest... Australian PM Tony Abbot ousted in own-party coup Australia's Liberal Party voted out its own leader, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and replaced him with Malcolm Turnbull. Abbott was a terrible leader: a sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, authoritarian climate denier who substituted talking points for substance in his public utterances and debates. Read the rest... What it's like to know everything about Star Wars, despite having never seen it The greatest story of late capitalist American popular culture, and Charley Locke hasn't even watched it! But Locke knows every moment. Read the rest... Bitcoin exchange operator charged with embezzlement Mark Karpeles, the operator of Bitcoin exchange/scam Mt. Gox, was charged Friday with embezzlement in connection to its collapse. Karpeles, 30, was arrested last month in Tokyo, where he remains in custody after being accused of falsifying data and snagging millions of dollars' worth of the digital currency. Read the rest... 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