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Thousands of SF marijuana convictions to go up in smoke, DA applying new pot legalization laws all the way back to 1975

San Francisco plans to retroactively apply California's new marijuana legalization laws to thousands of pre-existing pot related convic...

The Awl bids farewell

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Alex Balk: The Awl, 2009-2018 . The surprise shouldn’t be that The Awl didn’t last, it should be that it lasted as long as it did. And no...

Reality TV is the New French Novel

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I’m a Reality TV producer. I make the stuff. Oh, go ahead, scripted television snob, snark away, I’ve heard it all before. If it makes...

'Florida Man' pleads guilty to child porn charges, then goes full 'Florida Man'

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Baffling. Boggling. Florida. This story has everything from a hitman named 'the Rabbi' to a child pornographer asking his mom to a...

Tory Council Leader's son gets plum job with government contractor, teen constituent damned as an "appalling little child" for asking about it

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Kevin J Davis is the leader of the Council for the London Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames; his son Cameron Davis's Linkedin profile sho...

Find your Garbage Pail Kid name

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This exhaustive database of Garbage Pail Kids is structured to make it almost easy to find one with the same name as yourself. Meet the un...

Restaurant preferences mapped

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Simon Rogers, a data journalist and data editor at Google, created a series of maps showing the regional popularity of certain kinds of res...

Split images into individual pixels, then stack them neatly

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Pixel Chart splits images into their constituent pixels, then organizes them in various interesting ways that you can define. [ via ] fr...

Mural is subtle reminder of Mexican restaurant's former national cuisine

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It's El Sol in Harrisonburg, Va. , according to Bombaskos on Reddit. [ via ] from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2rXUxB4 via IFTTT

Monopoly: Cheaters Edition is indicative of our times

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"A recent study conducted by Hasbro revealed that nearly half of game players attempt to cheat during Monopoly games, so in 2018, we d...

Dumbledore to stay in closet for new Fantastic Beasts movie

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A decade ago, J.K. Rowling famously told the world that Dumbledore was gay. Just don't expect it to be shown any time soon. “Not exp...

An ode to the audio jack as an engineering marvel

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Plenty of folks have bemoaned the disappearance of the audio jack from phones. Among other problems, it'll create "DRM for audio...

Celebrity UFO sightings, secret witnesses, and cold cases solved in this week’s tabloids

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What’s old is new again in this week’s tabloids, which plunder the past for today’s headlines. Child pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was mur...

Microfluidic LEGOs for scientific research

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Microfluidic systems that move and mix tiny amounts of liquids are used in laboratories for biotechnology, chemistry, and even the developm...

Twitter's daily gun death tally is a reminder that America has a problem

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A mass shooting is defined as four or more people shot in one location, but Seattle ad agency Cole & Weber believes that mass shootings...

United Airlines denied a woman trying to fly with her emotional support peacock

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United Airlines barred Dexter , an emotional support peacock, from boarding a flight at Newark International Airport on Saturday. From the ...

Train carrying GOP lawmakers crashes with trash truck, killing one - no lawmakers or staff injured

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An Amtrak train carrying GOP lawmakers and their staff to a retreat has collided with a garbage truck, killing at least one person. This is...

The earth's magnetic poles may be getting ready to flip

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So, geophysicists have been studying the earth's magnetic field, and they think it's getting ready to "flip" -- with the ...

HAPPY WORLD and its dark underside is a game you'll want to play more than once

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Earlier this month, a game called HAPPY WORLD by Jimi Masuraki was released on itch.io . When I first downloaded it, I honestly thought I m...

Watch how to make homemade glow sticks

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Oil of wintergreen makes for lovely glowsticks, but the secret ingredient is the solvent used to create chemiluminescence. (more…) from...

Trump's new lawyer: Harvey Richards, Lawyer for Children!

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FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book . IF you like Tom the Dancing Bug, be part of the team that makes it happen: INNER ...

Watch an impressive series of crashes avoided by autonomous vehicles

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Some of these near-misses would probably have been catastrophic and unavoidable without predictive autopilot. (more…) from Boing Boing ...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Nancy Pelosi: "I think she should smile a lot more often"

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders fancied herself an expert on etiquette this morning during an interview on CNN. While di...

CDC chief Brenda Fitzgerald quits after outed for buying into a tobacco company

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Brenda Fitzgerald was Donald Trump's Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, charged with reducing smoking among Am...

Sous vide blackened salmon fillets

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Surprise! Making perfect blackened salmon is easy. (more…) from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2rUbNXR via IFTTT

In-depth investigation of the Alibaba-to-Instagram pipeline for scammy crapgadgets with excellent branding

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Artist Jenny Odell created the Bureau of Suspended Objects to photographically archive and researched the manufacturing origins of 200 obje...

Nerf's new blasters are pretty danged badass

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Nerf has unveiled six new blasters that will ship in fall of 2018, with some pretty amazing features , as detailed in Josie Colt's Wire...

California joins Montana and New York in creating state Net Neutrality rules

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The FCC's order killing Net Neutrality in December 2016 also includes a prohibition on states making their own telcoms rules that resto...

What living in a dictatorship feels like, and why it may be too late by the time you notice it

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Comics writer G. Willow Wilson, who previously lived in Egypt and wrote for the opposition weekly Cairo Magazine , writes movingly and haun...

Popehat's new First Amendment law-podcast is great!

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Make No Law is a just-launched podcast hosted by Ken "Popehat" White ( previously ), a former Federal prosecutor who writes some...

Investors throw $300m at dog-walking startup that hired ex-CEO of fraudulent anti-fraud company Lifelock

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Before being hired to serve as CEO of Wag, a dogwalking startup that just received a $300,000,000 investment from Softbank, Hilary Schneide...

The carnivorous moon-worm story hiding in plain sight in the diary of early Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson

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Australian science fiction author Sean Williams ( previously ) is an Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellow , who got to live in the Ant...

Australian government's worst-ever state-secrets leak: accidentally selling filing cabinets full of classified docs in a surplus store

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Australian national broadcaster ABC has gotten hold of a massive trove of state secrets that were inadvertently sold off in a pair of cheap...

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