Ajit Pai called it "illegal ." EFF called it "the strongest Net Neutrality measure in the country." The telcoms companie...
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Sarah Palin's kid Track arrested for domestic violence, again
Police reported to the home of Track Palin, son of Sarah, due to new reports of domestic violence. This is not his first offense . Perhaps ...
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Mailstrom declutters your inbox with smart sorting tools
Right up there with your Twitter feed and Mr. Coffee machine, our email inboxes are among the first things we check in the morning. And, no ...
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Curtains Up, a short film on movies and meditation featuring David Lynch
Stella McCartney profiles David Lynch in this moody piece on the joys of cinema and transcendental meditation. Via Nowness : Having bo...
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Matt Damon's eerily good Kavanaugh SNL sketch
Say what you will about the Trump era: it has ushered in a SNL renaissance. Between Baldwin's eerily good Trump and McKinnon's Sess...
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A Bad Lip Reading of Hillary Clinton's stories
These aren't the stories I'd expect to hear from Hillary Clinton... they're a bit more revealing than she's ever shared be...
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Affinity Photo is an awesome low cost Photoshop alternative
I pay for a monthly subscription to Adobe's suite of photo editing apps. They streamline my workflow on my Mac, iPad and iPhone. What...
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$100 bills outnumber $1s, and they're stuffed in our mattresses
For the first time, the most common US bill in circulation is the $100 : these benjamins aren't being used to transact our daily busines...
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Bill Cosby's new prison digs are known for racism, violence and systematic abuse
Bill Cosby has justly been whisked away to prison for the next three to ten years. Cosby--let's just go ahead and assume his prison name...
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Bunny comes to the rescue of his kitty pal
Cats have a tendency to fit themselves into places that they have a hard time getting out of: behind refrigerators, the highest branches of...
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Elon Musk agrees to pay $20 million and quit as Tesla chairman in deal with SEC
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has agreed to pay $20 million and quit the company he founded, in a deal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio...
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Twitter suspends academic who quoted feminist STEM research
MIT Comparative Media Studies researcher/instructor Chris Peterson is an adrent supporter of the Math Prize for Girls, and as part of his wo...
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App for UK Conservative Party conference exposes all attendees' private info
The UK Conservative Party's annual conference is about to kick off in Birmingham, and the Tories have distributed an app ahead of time t...
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Visualizing the relative evasiveness of Kavanaugh and Ford
Kavanaugh didn't just DARVO his way through yesterday's hearing : his bluster, tears, rage, and blame-shifting also allowed him to d...
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Incel, a disturbing short film about an "involuntary celibate"
This NSFW film examines a fictional incel named Sam, starting with his agonizingly tense interaction with a young woman and reaching a dis...
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Why you should add an ITIL certification to your resume
As today's businesses grow, so too do their IT needs. That's why demand (and pay) is high for experts who can keep these businesses ...
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A detailed anatomy of the hack that compromised Facebook's 50 million user breach
Yesterday, at least 90,000,000 Facebook users were forced to log back into the service without any explanation; later, the company revealed ...
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Facebook's spam filter blocked the most popular articles about its 50m user breach
When news broke yesterday that Facebook had suffered a breach affecting at least 50,000,000 stories , Facebook users (understandably) began ...
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Hillary Clinton on the first new "Murphy Brown" in 2 decades
This scene between Candace Bergen and Hillary Clinton is just one of the many reasons I am very much looking forward to new episodes of Mur...
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Marty Balin, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane, RIP
Marty Balin, co-founder in 1965 of the pioneering psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane, has died at age 76. Balin wrote or co-wrote nearly ha...
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How curly fries are cut
Such a soothing video. Potatoes make everything better. How curly fries are cut from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2xK1oP7 via IFT...
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Reddit 'quarantines' white supremacist, incel, holocaust denier, and other gross subreddits
Women-hating MRAs and Incels, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 Truthers, and snuff video fetishists on Reddit got harder to find today. An update of ...
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Photographer travels the globe documenting remarkable libraries
The World's Most Beautiful Libraries is a lovely collection of some of the most awe-inspiring libraries ever built. Via the publisher:...
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Judge rules Dems can sue Trump for doing business with foreign governments while in office
Donald Trump, meet the U.S. Constitution's 'emoluments clause.' A federal judge ruled today that 200 congressional Democrats do...
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Watch a very brave biker zip along a lakeside cliff
Nothing like a relaxing bike ride where the slightest mistake will send you careening down jagged rocks and into a lake far below. The onl...
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Dishtowel hanging solution for $3.69
We don't have a good place to hang dishtowels in our kitchen. This cupboard door hanger was just what we needed and the price is right ...
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Pixel room generator
The Pixel Room Generator lets you create charming little pixel-art rooms with all sorts of furniture, such as the one above designed by Itc...
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Cow plays fetch
This cow bellows with pleasure while playing fetch with a human. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2OY7bqC via IFTTT
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Account aggregates thematically similar Instagram travel pics
Platforms like Instagram reward users who post specific kinds of content, in some cases leading to travel largely for the photo op. Insta Re...
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Performer plays flute from wrong end
Is it even possible to play a flute from the wrong end? I suspect Milli Vanillism here. From the YouTube description: A woman played a c...
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Pulp Testimony: Beautiful mashup between Samuel L. Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh
This is very satisfying. pic.twitter.com/lZDRtMTD2Z — C H I L I (@heyitschili) September 28, 2018 from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2O...
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Feminist Frequency Radio's Anita Sarkeesian tells us her favorite tools
Our guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week is Anita Sarkeesian. Anita is a media critic and the host of Feminist Frequency Radio . She ha...
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Modern Monetary Theory: why government spending isn't like household checkbooks
You know the drill: someone proposes something utterly commonsense, that has been done all over the world (say, universal healthcare) and th...
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Support abortion access with 'Broadway Acts For Women' and 'A is For'
Kavanaugh got you pissed off about the future of Roe v. Wade? Support this awesome event , and this awesome nonprofit .—The Editors. In 201...
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LAX is cool with weed
Los Angeles International Airport announced its policy regarding pot - you can carry it and fly with it. If the TSA finds your stash, they ...
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An astronomer's beautiful pastel drawings of the cosmos from the 19th century
In the late 19th century, artist/astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895) painted thousands of stunning works illustrating the beaut...
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Kavanaugh's weeping, shouting, and blaming is classic DARVO behavior
Churlish Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh put on quite a show yesterday. He yelled, he gnashed his teeth, he blamed the Clinton...
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Incredible images from the rovers on asteroid Ryugu
Last week, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency landed two tiny rovers on the asteroid Ryugu where they'll "hop" across t...
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Stubby multi-bit screw and nut driver fits in tight spaces
This stubby screwdriver fits into tight spaces. It took longer to find a screwdriver that fits than to remove the screen from my espresso...
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Trying out China's girlfriend rental service
For about $50, you can hire a woman for a few hours to pretend to be your girlfriend in China. Kei, one of the hosts of Asian Boss, tried o...
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American Bar Association asks the US Senate to slow down and call the FBI
The American Bar Association, implied by apoplectic US Senator Lindsay Graham as offering their "gold standard" rating to Supreme ...
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Facebook: 50 million users personal information exposed in mega breach
Facebook says an attack on its network left 50 million users' data exposed to hackers. “We have a responsibility to protect your data, ...
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Most 80s thing I've seen today: Swedish Metal Aid (1985)
There is a dream, and they all spread the word that they can save this world. (Thanks, Jeff Ahern!) from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2Io...
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7 tools to upgrade your productivity
Between your work, emails, family, and friends, you've got a lot of responsibilities on your plate and hardly any time to tend to them a...
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Defcon Voting Village report shows that hacking voting machines takes less time than voting
Every year, security researchers gather at Defcon's Voting Village to probe voting machines and report on the longstanding, systematic s...
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