Roky Erickson, the pioneering psychedelic musician behind the 13th Floor Elevators, has died at age 71. A brilliant legend of Texas garage r...
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Company that makes dog food from fungi gets $11 million in venture capital funding
Wild Earth is a dog food start-up in Berkeley, California. It specializes in dog food made from the Aspergillus oryzae fungus, known as koj...
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Arizona sky penis
Again with the military and the sky penises. Last time I posted about this, it was Navy pilots pulling a prank over the state of Washingto...
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Hawaii reports three more cases of parasitic worms that burrow into human brains
Friends, don't eat slugs and snails you find on trails in Hawaii. And while you're at it, make sure to wash lettuce leaves thoroughl...
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Circling the USS Enterprise in 'Star Trek The Motion Picture'
Who needs V'ger? This scene of Kirk and Scotty made the entire movie for me. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2WH9xSc via IFTTT
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Watch Nico cover a Gordon Lightfoot tune in
In 1965, two years before Nico made the Warhol/Factory scene with the Velvet Underground and released her first solo LP "Chelsea Girl,...
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A dog collar with owls on it
I put a collar emblazoned with owls on my Cavalier King Charles spaniel, thus combining two things I love. I can't get a good shot of...
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Battery-powered 1950s lamp beautifully restored
This 1950s era Wonder lamp was purchased at a flea market in France. It's fun to watch this guy restore it to sparkling condition, but ...
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Still Ill: 25 Years of ‘Ill Communication’ by the Beastie Boys
This fantastic documentary must be watched. I love these guys. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2MlnNvX via IFTTT
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Trump's pick to head DHS immigration, Ken Cuccinelli, praised anti-Muslim extremist Brigitte Gabriel
Ken Cuccinelli is probably going to be confirmed soon as Donald Trump's new head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services . He once...
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Public outcry has killed an attempt turn clickthrough terms of service into legally binding obligations (for now)
On May 21, the American Law Institute -- a kind of star chamber of 4,000 judges, law professors, and lawyers -- was scheduled to pass a &quo...
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William Barr, Nihilist: 'Everyone dies'
If Donald Trump's bag man Bill Barr weren't such a malevolent son of a bitch, this wild quote of his from a CBS News interview would...
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Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism "a failed ideology" and sketches out a "progressive capitalism" to replace it
Joe Stiglitz ( previously ) holds a Nobel Prize in Economics ( not an actual Nobel Prize ), and has been an outspoken critic of the rigged e...
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Google's API changes mean only paid enterprise users of Chrome will be able to access full adblock
Since January, Google has been pushing for a change to its extensions handling in Chrome; one casualty of that change is ability to block un...
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Just look at this vintage "banana candle" recipe
Just look at it. ( Thanks, Seth! ) from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2wvHSEY via IFTTT
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Chase credit cards quietly reintroduce the binding arbitration clauses they were forced to eliminate a decade ago
Binding arbitration is a way for corporations to force you to surrender your legal rights as a condition of doing business, relegating you ...
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Watch a rusted flea-market lamp get lovingly restored
"In this video I'm restoring an old French Wonder lamp," writes MyMechanics ( Patreon ). "My good friend TysyTube Restor...
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Ted Cruz backs AOC's call for a lifetime ban on lobbying by former Congressjerks
Last year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez successfully challenged establishment Dem Joe Crowley for his seat in the Bronx; now Crowley works as a...
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To reduce plastic packaging, ship products in solid form
There's no one way to solve the plastic waste problem, but in the packaged goods sector, an enormous amount of plastic is used in order ...
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Footage of Chernobyl liquidators
Chernobyl, the five-part HBO/Sky dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, is filled with more dread, tension and horror than any Hollywo...
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For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections
There isn't single county in the nation where a minimum-wage worker can afford to rent a two-bedroom home; and although LA has the wors...
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GameShell: hackable portable game console for indie devs and retrogame fans
The ClockworkPi Gameshell is a portable game console you make yourself, coming as a modular kit and assembling to form a GameBoy-like gadge...
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Never lose a password again with this encrypted app
Passwords are necessary. Passwords are also a pain - especially when you've got multiple ones to remember for your email, subscriptions,...
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Patti Smith has a new memoir on the way
The inimitable Patti Smith will release a new memoir, Year of the Monkey , on September 24. A blend of reality and dreams, illustrated with ...
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How Mexican labor unions tried to rescue Freud from the Nazis
Anar writes, "Writer and scholar Rubén Gallo sheds light on a fascinating, obscure bit of history: After the press reported Freud’s tro...
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Wealth is correlated with greed, dishonesty and cheating -- are these effects or a causes?
There's a wealth of psychological research that correlates wealthy people in the real world with negative traits like rudeness ( people ...
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Wrist-mounted artists' palettes: the best wearables are analog
You know what's better than a smartwatch? Literally everything else. But especially: the centuries' worth of wrist-mounted paint pal...
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New Amazon patent application reveals "solution" to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording
When you talk to Alexa and other voice assistants, you have to phrase your requests by starting with their "wakeword" ("Alexa...
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Now that Uber and Lyft are public, their inevitable financial collapse is much clearer
Veteran transportation economics Hubert Horan has consistently published the best-informed, deepest critiques of Uber and Lyft , explaining ...
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High school student claims principal plagiarized Ashton Kutcher for graduation speech
Abby Smith, a graduating senior at West Virginia's Parkersburg High School, claims that her principal, Kenneth DeMoss, plagiarized his ...
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Good deal on allen wrench double set
This dual-set (US and metric) set of Bondhus ball-end allen wrenches are on sale for $14.73 . They have a lifetime warrantee and are highly ...
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Microscopic robots carry stem cells through a mouse's body
The 1990s nanotechnology dream of tiny robots swimming through our blood stream to treat disease is moving (verrrry) slowly but surely towa...
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This map shows the most Wikipedia'd residents of every town in the US
From The Pudding: a zoomable people map that shows the name of the person with the most Wikipedia traffic for any given city. I looked at G...
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Watch The Cure play the "Disintegration" album in its entirety
Last night, The Cure celebrated the 30th anniversary of their Disintegration LP by playing the entire album at the Sydney Opera House. They...
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Empty bag of blood is a Bob Ross aficionado
Those rascal corpuscles! This empty bag of blood at the hospital looks like a snowy mountain scene from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2HJ...
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New York's deadliest disaster before 9/11 was a 1904 steamboat fire that killed over a thousand people
In 1904 a Manhattan church outing descended into horror when a passenger steamboat caught fire on the East River. More than a thousand peop...
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Watch big shark circling unwitting swimmer
Yesterday, a guest on the 28th floor at the Tidewater Resort on Panama City Beach caught this video of a big shark circling a lone woman wh...
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Trump finally admits Russia was "helping me get elected", then denies it
This morning, Trump went on a rant about special counsel Bob Mueller, who reiterated yesterday that his investigation did not clear the Pres...
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Harrison Ford dedicates the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge 'Millennium Falcon'
Harrison Ford dedicates the Galaxy's Edge Falcon from r/StarWars She'll hold together. Reddit from Boing Boing http://bit.l...
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Stunning trailer for 'The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance'
Chills. I get chills and I'm on the edge of tears. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2XdOm6V via IFTTT
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How the "prosperity gospel" convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers
The "prosperity gospel" ( previously ) is a religious doctrine that encourages poor people to send specific amounts of cash (usua...
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RIP: Leon Redbone
While famed singer and songwriter Leon Redbone has passed away at the age of 69, the official announcement of his death claims he was 127. ...
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The Booty Duty bag: tactical toiletry for camping, fishing and hunting
Countless times I have frantically rummaged through my camping gear, digging for toilet paper as I madly need to go. My daughter never, ever...
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Hotwheels Xylophone
5MadMovieMakers shows us the perfect way to ruin a xylophone: "A total of 374 black-and-white '65 Ford Mustangs hit some black-and...
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After viral Youtube denunciations, Germany's establishment parties falter -- so the ruling party's leader faxed her colleagues demanding action
Ahead of this week's EU elections, the popular German Youtuber Rezo published a 55-minute video explaining the missteps of the ruling ...
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