Roulette.pizza allows you to order a random pizza, "because maybe you were unfair to pineapple." Tell us how many pizzas you wan...
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Watch: video of a stable plasma torus
https://youtu.be/Ht0_Kkx5-YU Caltech posted video of a stable plasma torus, created by engineers using water and a dielectric plate: "...
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Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant
When the USA decided to retroactively extend the term of copyright, it deprived itself of free, open access to important cultural treasures...
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Forum for doglifting enthusiasts
r/doglifting , a forum to post pictures of you lifting up your dog, is my new favorite subreddit. https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status...
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Terror-nuggets: winners of this year's 15 Second Horror Film contest
The 15 Second Horror Film Challenge is an annual competition run by a nonprofit (you have until Oct 2018 to get your entries in for next y...
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Big Weed: ten farms could supply all of America with marijuana
When Washington State legalized recreational marijuana three years ago, it created a licensing regime that was supposed to protect and enco...
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The DHS has illegally stuffed America's airports full of $1B worth shitty, malfing facial-recognition tech
More than a dozen major US airports are now covered in facial-recognition cameras, installed by the DHS to scan people departing on interna...
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If the UK's minimum wage had risen with its executive pay, the lowest paid jobs in the country would be worth £26K/year
Britain is one of the most unequal countries in the world, thanks to the Tory-in-sheep's-clothing policies of Tony Blair, and the naked...
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Forward your spam to sp@mnesty.com and a bot will waste the spammer's time
Spamnesty is a simple service: forward your spam to it and it will engage the spammer in pointless chatbot email chains, wasting their tim...
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Don't carry a gun with Punisher logo on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmYbV_7xGL4&feature=youtu.be&t=25s Derek DeBrosse, a lawyer specializing in defending gun owners wh...
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Dumbledore asked calmly
Literature vs. cinema, the great tonal constrast of the 20th century. [ via ] from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2zQBoQj via IFTTT
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Erica Garner, 1990-2017
Erica Garner, the daughter of police brutality victim Eric Garner , died early Saturday aged 27. Inspired to activism by her father's k...
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Watch droll sheeple (actual human 'sheep') being shepharded
Sometimes I think I've reached the end of the internet, you know, that I've simply "seen it all." Then a video of a human...
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Delicate papercut art dresses by Eugenia Zoloto
I'm so utterly charmed by these intricately-cut paper dresses by Ukranian artist Eugenia Zoloto (and, really, all her work). She has a...
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Animatronic Trump more life like than the real thing
I replaced . @realDonaldTrump with his Disney animatronic figure and honestly, it's an improvement http://pic.twitter.com/o0G12K22bH ...
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A stovetop pizza oven that hits 600F in 10 minutes
The $77 Pizzacraft PC0601 Pizzeria Pronto Stovetop Pizza Oven is a clever design: it's a stovetop oven that has a large thermal mass (...
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All that stuff that was "killed by the net"? The real culprit was hedge funds
The web blew up at the same time as the Reagan/Clinton/Bush financial bombs were detonating, leading to a huge private equity bubble in whi...
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Tehran's police tell women that violations of religious dress codes will henceforth be treated as civil offenses, not criminal offenses
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani campaigned for re-election last year on a reform platform, and in the wake of his successful campaign, the...
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China's new army of nationalist trolls is an all-volunteer force
The early days of the Chinese national internet strategy were dominated by the 50-Cent Army , so-called because they were reputed to be pai...
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The GOP tax plan will pay millionaires to subsidize failing religious schools
Until the GOP tax plan came along, rich people who donated to religious schools only get partial tax write-offs for their gifts, because th...
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Trump's Cabinet of Billionaires operates in unprecedented (and illegal) secrecy
Eight of Trump's 17 cabinet secretaries do not release any information about their travel schedules -- a standard practice under the Ob...
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Hoaxer with a history of fake bomb threats SWATs and murders a random bystander over a $1.50 Call of Duty bet
Swatting is the practice of tricking police SWAT teams into storming your victim's home by phoning in fake hostage situations; it'...
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Climate deniers beat Google and topped the page on searches for "climate change"
Google has long maintained that it must keep the workings of its search and ad-placement algorithms a secret, lest they provide a roadmap t...
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My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing
I chanced upon an ancient backup of my RSS feed subscriptions, a cold hard stone of data from my time at Wired in the mid-2000s. The last-m...
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Stranger Things Upside-Down doormats
UK Etsy seller Retromend (who specialise in vintage VW-related gifts ) sell this Stranger Things-themed Upside Down doormat (coir fibers w...
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#Metoo: from the Balkans to Twitter
A friend asked me to follow the flow, and write this hashtag #metoo. Cavafi, the Greek poet who lived all his life by the sea and wrote abo...
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"LOCK HIM UP!" A guy heckles the Trumpbot at Disney World's Hall of Presidents
Jay Malsky knew he'd never get close enough to Donald Trump to heckle him in person, so he did the next best thing , chanting "LOC...
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For 40 years, American Conservatives have filed down the definition of "corruption," turning the Framers' spear into a blunt stub
Zephyr Teachout's ( previously ) 2014 book Corruption in America is an incredibly important, timely book about the way that American p...
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The internal economics of a popular Minecraft server are an object lesson in everything great and terrible about markets
Alice Maz was part of a small group of players who came to have near-total mastery over the internal economy of a popular Minecraft; Maz de...
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What Britons are worried about
Wired UK created a beautiful chart to illustrate the miseries of Britain 's current occupants. Debt, divorce, welfare cuts and housing ...
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Giant poop snake delights Russian villagers
Mikhail Bopposov created an enormous poop snake -- not the predictable result of holiday overeating, but a menacing 9-foot sculpture of a c...
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Marvel to launch "Create Your Own Comic" app, but "social issues" and "alternative lifestyle advocacy" are banned
Marvel is launching a website that allows visitors to create their own comics using the company's pantheon of famous characters. They ...
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Hedge funds killed the newspaper industry, not the web
The web came of age with no-holds-barred finance capitalism , so it's hard to decide which of the last twenty years' worth of chang...
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Survey of top U.S. evangelical churches reveals "three explosive insights"
Church Clarity set out to report the policies and structure of America's churches, a project doomed to anger them. It results in ...
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The once-dreamed wonders of trailer life
Trailers have a mostly negative reputation, these days, drawing working-class resentment and middle-class contempt. But they once embodied ...
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Nintendo's music from the Mii channel, "but all the pauses are uncomfortably long"
This quiet genius from "SardineWhiskers" returns the sinister potential to Nintendo's love of midcentury charm. Make musak gr...
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Charlie Stross's CCC talk: the future of psychotic AIs can be read in today's sociopathic corporations
Charlie Stross's keynote at the 34th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg is entitled "Dude, you broke the Future!" and i...
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Uber's major shareholders just dumped a ton of stock for a lowball offer 30% under the current share price
Softbank's bid to buy Uber shares based on a valuation 30% lower than the company rated in its last round has been largely successful,...
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The GOP tax plan was supposed to gouge high tax blue states with massive hikes, but it'll probably end up making them richer
The Republican tax plan -- more than a 1,000 pages covered in last-minute scribbled annotations and pastebombs, passed without any substant...
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California's record poverty and real-estate bubble are creating a "wheel-estate" boom of people with good jobs living in their cars
Extreme housing prices in California -- driven by a combination of speculation, favorable legal/tax positions for landlords, foreclosures a...
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Millions of poor rural voters now hate Trump and millions of rich voters still support him, but the press only profiles poor people who remain Trumpists
Trump won the election by welding together a coalition of racist rich people who wanted tax breaks and racist poor people who'd been li...
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Does capitalism breed greed, or elevate the greedy?
When a billionaire Koch heir announces that he's taking a break from suing ex-fiancees to give back their engagement rings and playing ...
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Nearly half of Republicans think Trump has repealed Obamacare
Choose Your Own Adventure: 44 percent of Republicans think Donald Trump has repealed Obamacare . If you want to just shut yer mouth and let...
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Wedding was a flop
Posted by one Noah Nicholls to YouTube with the title "I was in a wedding and smashed my face," this video depicts the perfect ce...
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UK retailer refunds money over bleachy, rotting christmas turkeys
Britain's largest supermarket chain has refunded customers who said the Tesco turkeys tasted like they were soaked in bleach or were r...
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