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How rolls of turf are made
http://ift.tt/2AKnUuj Rolls of turf are made exactly how you imagine they would be: a huge truck courses over a well-kept lawn, literally s...
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You are a horrifying amorphous alien blob in this gruesome game
In most examples of sci-fi horror, a desperate human protagonist must evade, hunt and vanquish the unspeakable alien creature. But what if ...
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Trump pressured GOP leaders to kill Senate Russia inquiry
President Donald Trump “repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the...
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Senator Lindsay Graham sick of the press calling Trump a "kook", an unusual word familiar to him
In a TV appearance this week, Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham took exception to the media describing Donald Trump as "some kind of kook...
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Report: Tillerson to be replaced. White House: No
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former oil executive who famously called his boss a "fucking moron," is about to be fired b...
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Report: Trump visit to Britain canceled
The Telegraph reports that Donald Trump's visit to the UK has been canceled -- at least for now. A planned "working" stop i...
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The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018)
Imagine that a folded note before you reveals -- definitively -- whether an excruciating, protracted neurological death lies a decade into ...
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YouTube stars gone wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXntoTverSg&feature=youtu.be YouTube stars Alissa Violet and Ricky “FaZe” Banks were ejected Saturday n...
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Bitcoin loses fifth of its value in 24 hours
It was a hell of a ride. Peaking at nearly $11,400 earlier this week, Bitcoin's value dropped by a fifth Thursday, deflating the crypto...
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Man painted own road signs to get to work faster
A man in China was fined $125 after painting his own road signs to expedite his daily commute. The Modern Express reports that a 28-year...
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The best strap-on unicorn horn
After careful examination of several practically-identical products and a thorough delve into reader reviews, I can finally make my long-aw...
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Correlation between Trump tweets and Fox and Friends being on
If you hadn't noticed, Trump tweets constantly during Fox and Friends, a fact more apparent as his presidency continues, but subsiding ...
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Which are smarter, cats or dogs? New study gives us the answer
Ever wonder which are smarter, cats or dogs? You can teach dogs to sit, roll over, play dead, etc, which cats don't do on command. But ...
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Doctor Who theme creator Delia Derbyshire awarded posthumous Ph.D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH0hHZA0U5c Working from a traditional score by Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire created one of television and...
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Watch: Lauer to co-host Vieira while cameras were rolling: "Keep bending over like that. It's a nice view."
Even while the cameras were rolling, brazen Matt Lauer told his co-host Meredith Vieira to "keep bending over like that. It's a ni...
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Do not let the cat into the library
Max is the internet's new hero, and, mercifully, not a duck. That's not to say, though, that Max is not a problem for his humans. ...
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Former Facebook exec Randi Zuckerberg "disgusted & degraded" by harassment on Alaska Airlines flight
Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook's former spokesperson and sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, was told by Alaska Airlines flight crew to put ...
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Study: most Redditors don't read the articles
A paper published by Notre Dame researchers in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems reveals that Reddit users vote on things ...
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London's mayor warns Trump he isn't welcome
Reflecting the frank opinion of most Londonders, Sadiq Kahn said Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump is not welcome in the city. Lo...
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New York's rat population has genetically diverged into "uptown" and "downtown" subspecies
Matthew Combs, a Fordham University Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station grad student worked with colleagues from Fordham and the P...
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Christmas is under attack: vandals steal Satanic Temple's tree-topper from San Jose's Christmas in the Park event
Christmas is under attack! The Satanic Temple was one of the many faith organizations who applied to put a tree at the record-breaking Chri...
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Republicans destroyed Oklahoma with billionaire/corporate tax cuts and got killed in the following election
A toxic mix of voter suppression and dark money infusions has allowed Republicans to seize power at the state level across America, produci...
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Guillotine watch: The executives who bankrupted Toys R Us this year want $16M-$32M in bonuses for their performance
Toys R Us was taken over in a debt-loading act of financial engineering in 2005; over the years, despite turning a profit, the service on t...
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Bake: hand-pies with three-dimensional decorations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPp5FtQN8E&feature=youtu.be Carbohydrate whisperer Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (AKA @thePieous ) ( prev...
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A smartphone-shaped fidget-gadget to soothe your instinctive need for stimulus
Viennese artist Klemens Schillinger created these " Substitute Phones " as fidget toys with kinetic worry-beads that you can stro...
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How to overcome your fear of public speaking
Even when your audience is small enough to fit inside a conference room, presentations can be absolutely nerve-wracking. If you get physica...
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Cats with tiny faces
We've done our share of tiny-face politicians , so why not tiny-face kittehs? (more…) from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2Alb1DM via IF...
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Woodworker carves a 'Christmas Story' leg lamp based on his own leg
YouTuber craftsman Paul Jackman fashioned his own "major award" a la A Christmas Story , a "manly" leg lamp based on h...
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Watch this 120-year old mechanical organ play a song
Martin Molin traveled to Speelklok Museum in Utrecht for a demonstration of the Gavioli Dance Organ , part of his wonderful series on old-t...
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Enjoy a relaxing AI lullaby written by our future robot overlords
If you teach an artificial intelligence a bunch of lullabies, will the resulting AI-generated lullaby make you dream of electric sheep? (m...
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LA Peeps: Don't miss Allee Willis' campy 'Love N' Latkes' show
Heads up! The reigning Queen of Kitsch, Allee Willis , is hosting three live Christmas/Hanukkah mashup "party performance" shows ...
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Fancy it up with this silver spork
Inspired by my friend Veek, I now carry a titanium spork in my purse. Now, when I'm eating out and plastic flatware is the only option...
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Soaps that look like food
Artist Rochelle Javier makes soap carvings that look good enough to eat. But don't, because they're soap. (more…) from Boing Boi...
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors rules that if you're rich enough to own a private sidewalk, you don't have to worry about overdue taxes
Presidio Terrace is a private, gated street in San Francisco that has housed the likes of Nancy Pelosi and the UK Consul General; their nei...
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I found the best "bad Peppa Pig" video on YouTube
It has been noted of late that YouTube is full of bizarre, malicious and outright depraved viral chum based on childrens' entertainmen...
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The Credible Hulk: Ajit Pai thinks you only care about Net Neutrality because Mark Ruffalo told you to
"Taking away #NetNeutrality is the Authoritarian dream. Consolidating information into the hands of a few controlled by a few. Dangero...
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Prismatic Lazy Glasses actually work, pretty much
I can't remember quite how I came to be in possession of a pair of these Prismatic Lazy Glasses (Amazon), but the most shocking thing ...
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Drumming in sync to Boomhauer
David Dockery perfoms drums in perfect synchrony to the mutterings of Jeff Boomhauer from King of the Hill. Over the course of 66 seconds ...
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Voyagers: David Pescovitz, Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad nominated for Grammy award
Boing Boing editor and founding partner David Pescovitz, along with Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad, was nominated this week to receive a Gra...
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism and other Ramones t-shirts
From screenprinter Directfraction , Fully Automated Luxury Communism ( hipster coffee-shop logo version ), and Marx/Misfits . ( via Fully ...
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Comcast flushed its 3 year old net neutrality promise down the memory hole the instant the FCC announced its plan to allow network discrimination
Comcast fought the last net neutrality regulation in 2015 by making a bunch of promises about how fair it would be, whether or not the FCC ...
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Diesel Sweeties pins: I want to believe in RSS and Computers Professional
From the delightful R Stevens of Diesel Sweeties fame, a pair of excellent enamel pins: Computers Professional ($11.33) and I want to bel...
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Net Neutrality is just for starters: municipal networks are the path to paradise
We just bought a house here in Burbank and I was delighted to learn that my new home office -- part of a business incorporated in the state...
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YouTube's demonetization codes sleuthed out in HTML
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3H8D2LrLHc&feature=youtu.be YouTube's advertisers now want to choose what subject matters and pers...
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A visit to a secret Nintendo bar in an undisclosed location in Japan
Tofugu's Kanae Nakamine and Koichi went to a secret bar in Japan (somewhere) called 84 . Koichi told me, "Its main customers are m...
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