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Honeycrisp vs Red Delicious - "how we finally got good apples"

I missed this NPR video when it first came out, but I came across it today on the delightful Doobybrain website. It's about the evolut...

Lowest price I've seen on a six-pack of Gildan T-shirts

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Gildan crew T-shirts are very inexpensive and comfortable. Today's price is the lowest I can recall. If I didn't already have a shi...

Vlogger visits Los Angeles establishents with 1-star Yelp ratings

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Mar is a vlogger who likes to visit LA's worst restaurants, nail and hair salons, massage parlors, and the like. Above, she visits the ...

Having a bad day?

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“Singing in the Rain,” with a pug wearing electric windshield wiper goggles. Silly Marshmallow the white pug. You're welcome. [ YouT...

Kitty is a fluff-butt

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It's so fluffy! [faints of cute] Mirror, Mirror on the wall - Who has the fluffiest tail of all? [ via ] from Boing Boing htt...

It's Gonna Be May

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It's Gonna Be May. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2XWhFuS via IFTTT

BARR COVERUP: Mueller told A.G. he failed to capture ‘context, nature, substance’ of Trump Russia report

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The WaPo reports tonight that Robert Mueller wrote a letter to Bill Barr, in which the special counsel told Trump's handpicked attorney...

Kickstarter for the Bitty -- a pocket drum machine/synthesizer

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Nickolas Peter Chelyapov, founder of Curious Sound Object, has launched a kickstarter for fun electronic musical instrument called the Bitty...

Mass shooting at UNC Charlotte leaves 2 killed, 4 injured [DEVELOPING]

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Two people were killed and four others were injured at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the Mecklenburg Emergency Medical Serv...

Is water better at freeing up rusty nuts and bolts than penetrating oil? This guy finds out

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Project Farm is an excellent YouTube channel about machinery. In this episode, they run a test to see if water is better than penetrating o...

Duke University acquires the archives of Charles N Brown, founder of Locus Magazine

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Charlie ("Charles N") Brown was the force behind Locus Magazine ( previously ) until his death in 2009 ; he hired me to be a colum...

Ottawa! I'll be at the Writers Festival this Saturday night (then Berlin for Re:publica and Houston for Comicpalooza!)

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This Saturday, May 4, at 7:30PM, I'll be presenting at the Ottawa Writers Festival , talking about my novel Radicalized and how it ties...

Game of Thrones meets Vanilla Ice

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Quite a tribute to a faded star . from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2IQqgvG via IFTTT

The Intercept's top security expert reviews Helm, a standalone home email server that keeps your comms out of Big Tech's data-centers

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Last October, a startup called Helm announced a $500, plug-and-play home email server that was designed to be a secure, decentralized, priv...

Watch famed Spinal Tap play with Elvis Costello

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Not the best quality recording of two longtime favorites, but satisfying nonetheless. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2GKrN2Q via IFTTT ...

Securepairs.org will send debullshitifying security researchers to Right to Repair hearings to fight industry FUD

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Dozens of Right to Repair bills were introduced across the USA last year, only to be defeated by hardcore lobbying led by Apple and backed b...

Most US eighth graders have taken apart a gadget to fix it or see how it works

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From the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress : "In 2018, fifty-three percent of eighth-grade students reported that they b...

The platforms suck at content moderation and demanding they do more won't make them better at it -- but there ARE concrete ways to improve moderation

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Concentration in the tech sector has left us with just a few gigantic online platforms, and they have turned into playgrounds for some of th...

Virginia judge rules automated license plate data collection by police is illegal

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A Virginia state judge ruled earlier this month that automated license plate data collection by police qualified as protected “personal info...

Vodaphone sources claim Huawei created a "backdoor" for its home routers and network switching equipment and then lied about removing it

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Vodaphone discovered that the home routers that Huawei provided for its Italian residential broadband business had a "backdoor" --...

The best evidence for extraterrestrials may be their massive engineering projects

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The classic approach to the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to scan the skies for radio transmissions from int...

Venezuela military coup: Guns fired at Maduro protesters, Internet blocked as Guaidó with soldiers claims ‘final phase’

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Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader in Venezuela who is supported by the Trump administration, published a video message online on April 30 t...

Indian Army mountaineers find Yeti footprints

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The Indian Army tweeted photos of Yeti footprints spotted by its team of mountaineers near Makalu Base Camp between Nepal and Tibet. Based ...

Talking Radicalized with the LA Public Library: Trump derangement syndrome, engagement algorithms, and novellas as checked luggage

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The LA Public Library's Daryl M interviewed me about my new book, Radicalized , specifically, about how my Trump anxiety (created, in p...

Lorem Ipsum but for images

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David Marby & Nijiko Yonskai's Lorem Picsum is an online service that generates placeholder images. All you have to do is write ima...

Serpent profiteers: how a summer camp snakebite turned into a $142,938 medical bill

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Last July, a nine year old child named Oakley Yoder got bitten on the toe by a venomous snake while at summer camp in Jackson Falls, Illinoi...

Keanu's 60 second recap of the 'John Wick' films

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I love when he kills the royal ugly dudes. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2PCgZb6 via IFTTT

Big Tech's addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by "terrorizing" employees

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NDAs were once used exclusively to protect bona fide trade secrets, but today's Big Tech companies force new hires to sign far-ranging N...

Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer

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They've obviously refined the design since the suprisingly bad model sheet leaked. Now it is perfectly bad, launched on an orbital tr...

Chase's idiotic poverty-shaming "inspirational" tweet, and Twitter users' magnificent responses thereto

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Every Monday, some poor "brand ambassador" at Chase has to post a "Monday motivation" tweet aimed at convincing people t...

The most dangerous amusement park in US history

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Opened in Vernon, New Jersey's in 1978, Action Park's biggest claim to fame was the number of injuries experienced by visitors to t...

Babby is fully formed

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Mark Lisseman asks: "Is that diagram… accurate??" ‏ I looked into it and it turns out that the book is called The Story of Life...

Fortnite champions don't even like the game anymore

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Having won the Fortnite nationals, co-champion Jack Stuttard is asked what's next: another season? More tournaments? The online circuit...

Get a complete master class in coding for under $30

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To an outsider, the world of computer programming can seem like it's rotating around the Tower of Babel at times. There are so many diff...

Drones that save power by hanging like bats and perching like birds

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New drone designs enable small UAVs to conserve battery life by taking breaks in unusual locations as opposed to landing back on the ground...

Pope urges barbers and hair stylists not to gossip

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More than 200 Italian barbers and hair stylists visited the Vatican yesterday where they received a a solemn word of warning from Pope Franc...

Capybara enjoys meditating in the bath

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Wise little capybara. Not entirely sure what's going on in this video as I do not speak Japanese, but the title is: Capybara @ Izu S...

Cow enjoys being petted like a dog

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Want to boop that beef snoot so bad. Adorable grass puppy. 12/10. Cows are just like dogs with bigger snoots [ via ] from Boi...

Low poly shower cat

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Looks like they're gonna need a stronger download connection for this cat. [ via ] from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2XYj3gB via IFT...

How to: make a hackintosh

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Ernie Smith has produced a spectacularly complete guide to making a "hackintosh" -- that is, a Mac OS computer running on PC hard...

Jimmy Fallon played a video game on air, meaning that streaming your own game gets you taken down as a pirate, thanks to NBC

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NBC (and the other broadcasters) provides copies of its shows to Youtube's Content ID filter, which is supposed to protect copyright by ...

The World’s Smallest Post Service to open a magical brick-and-mortar experience in Oakland

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