@BTPSussex huge drugs bust at Gatwick airport. In collaboration with @ukhomeoffice powders tested and discovered to be vegan cake ingredi...
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Recomendo: a book of 550 recommendations of cool stuff
This book features 550 recommendations grouped by subject. These “best of” recommendations have been selected from the accumulated pool of 6...
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Pedro Bell, the psychedelic painter behind Funkadelic's visual vibe, RIP
Pedro Bell, the visionary painter whose astonishing psychedelic art (and liner notes) appeared on numerous Funkadelic albums and helped insp...
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If you enjoy the work of the great cartoonist Gahan Wilson, he needs your help
One of the world's great single-panel cartoonists, Gahan Wilson, is ailing and needs support for his care. His wife Nancy passed away in...
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The Microwriter, a tiny chording word processor from 1984
Back in the 80s, the inventor Cy Enfield created this fascinating device -- a six-button "Microwriter" where you'd chord com...
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Nail-biting video of frightened fellow paragliding, now with subtitled terror
This man's fear and exhilaration is palpable without understanding what he's saying. The subtitles amplify his terror. from Boing...
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Woman wins her fight with New Hampshire to keep her vanity license plate
Fifteen years ago Wendy Auger got a vanity license plate that read, "PB4WEGO" (pee before we go). But the New Hampshire Department...
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Gorgeous photos of undersea life, in black and white
Typically, marine photography is done in rich, saturated color -- the better to show off the riot of life beneath the waves. But the photog...
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Here's what happens when you touch a wild monkey
The large primate could not resist touching the little primate. The little primate didn't want to be touched by the large primate, and ...
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Dior launches Native American-themed ad campaign for "The New Sauvage"
You can explain it to them. They can sense the damage, and they can perceive that they have made a mistake. They can pretend to be contrite...
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Watch the PuppetMaster, a robotic puppeteer, control marionettes
ETH Zurich engineers demonstrated a system enabling a robot to control a marionette. Although a robotic puppeteer is pretty damn cool, that...
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Stuff you don't expect to see speeding around the Nürburgring
The Jag at 1:29 and Volkswagen Bug at 3:26 are my favorites. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2zuTkSR via IFTTT
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Zero jail time for those two bribe-taking NYPD cops who had sex with a handcuffed teenager in custody
Eddie Martins and Richard Hall, the two former New York detectives who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and nine counts of "official ...
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How skaters resolved a dispute in 1986
These were the same kids that declared break dancing a memory. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/34hdIVN via IFTTT
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The Mall, footage from a dying mall in 1994
This is The Mall, first opened in Huntsville, Alabama and demolished in 1998. Collected by Highway Explorer in 1994 as this former retail h...
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Amazon reviewers note: "This is a lot of cheese."
This short set of Amazon reviews had me laughing out loud! Check out Amazon's bulk Cheez Whiz offer . After the top rated review, the r...
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Trailer for new documentary series about Bill Gates
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates is a new three-part documentary that premieres on November 20. It's directed by Davis Gugg...
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My Life on the Road: Accidental Rocket Sighting
In April, my wife and I returned from a few months in Mexico, to Texas. We were planning on hanging around until the end of the month before...
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Blind kitten gets a new pair of (googly) eyes
No animals were harmed in the making of this video. "Vink is a 5-month-old kitten who is blind. He was found on the streets of Greec...
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Diamond and Silk demand a retraction from critic in bizarre cease-and-decist letter
Diamond and Silk are a social media duo famous for supporting Trump and claiming, without evidence, that Facebook "censored" them...
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If we ate bread the way we drank beer
I'm actually a big fan of Bread Pong. Razmig writes: "When it comes to calories, 1 beer = 2 slices of bread...but you never have y...
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Hero EMT driver has a message for California's awful drivers
In this video, a paramedic with San Bernadino County Fire Department attempts to reach the site of an accident, but finds his way blocked b...
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The Picture of Dorian Spray: Category 4 feared for hurricane approaching Florida
CBS News reports that Hurricane Dorian has become more alarming overnight and may grow to Category 4, making it "very dangerous" t...
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Renovated Brady Bunch house debuts September 9 on HGTV
The Brady "kids" have been busy all year helping to renovate the Brady Bunch house (well, the Studio City home that served as it...
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Save an extra 15% on these Bluetooth speakers and headphones
Just in time for your songs of the summer playlist, we've got a roundup of headphones, speakers, and earbuds. The best part? They're...
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Apple sets date to plop our new iPhones
I spend a lot of time typing shit and talking smack about Apple's recent hardware shortcomings , greasy dealings with authoritarian gove...
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Los Angeles invites doggos to swim in their public pools on Labor Day
Who let the dogs out... and into the swimming pool? L.A. County does, as part of their third annual "Pooches in the Pool" event. ...
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Infowars relaunches YouTube channel one day after Susan Wojcicki takes action to reduce extremist content
Infowars' “War Room” created a brand-new hate channel on YouTube exactly one day after chief executive Susan Wojcicki's letter to co...
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The Milky Way from Anza Borrego desert, a sky-stabilized timelapse
A moment of peace. Photographer and night sky enthusiast Eric Brummel captured this incredible sky-stabilized Milky Way timelapse in Aug...
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It's fun to play with this colorful fluid simulator
Pavel Dobryakov's beautiful fluid simulation requires no plug-ins to play with. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2ZjMlv8 via IFTTT
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Hawaii's action adventure helicopter tour company rings a bell
If you want more than just humming around the skies in luxury, Magnum has you covered. This seems to strike some odd note of familiarity.....
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Two people got lifetime bans for bringing CBD oil into the US
Two Canadians who tried to bring bottles of cannabidiol (CBD) oil into the Washington state have been banned from entering the US again, eve...
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Apple tech, jewelry, guns: Dataviz of what Americans pawn
I'm coming late to this one, because it was posted last year -- but hey, better late than never: Behold this fascinating set of Pricenom...
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Molly of Denali has a pretty great dog
I like Suki, Molly of Denali 's pet dog. Molly and her dog Suki, an Alaskan Malamute, live in the fictional town of Qyah, Alaska. Moll...
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YouTube removed battlebot videos because its system thought they contained "animal suffering"
Apparently YouTube has been removing videos of battlebots, after their system flagged the videos for containing "animal suffering"...
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Everblaze, book 3 of Shannon Messenger's 'Keeper of Lost Cities' series is so good
I am addicted to Shannon Messenger's Keeper of Lost Cities series . Everblaze continues the saga of seriously reluctant hero Sophie Fo...
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Beekeeper uses bears to taste test his honey
Trabzon is a northeastern province of Turkey. You'll find a lot of light industry there: small farmers, plantations growing tea and cra...
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Double-layered D20
Majestic Trinkets created a double-layered D20 that looks like something right out of a dingy pub in Waterdeep. It's $80, but think how...
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Apple cleans up Siri's privacy problems, screwing over workers in the process
Good news everybody: Apple's really sorry about recording our conversations with Siri. In a statement issued earlier today, the company...
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Shocking: Trump campaign official insists President Trump has never lied
It is all the fake media, she says. "No. I don't believe the President has lied." Trump campaign national press secretary ...
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AI increases the resolution of emoji, turning them into horrifying creatures
There's an AI algorithmic technique known as "Progressive Face Super-Resolution" , which can take low-rez photos of people...
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The final trailer for Joaquin Phoenix's Joker movie ain't nothing to laugh about
DC makes some fabulous animated movies and their television programming has, even where budget has been a concern, been pretty good (I stil...
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"Mysterious medallions" popping up on Bay Area sidewalks
There's a Happy Mutant reality hacker on the loose in Berkeley, California... affixing "mysterious medallions" on the city...
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After US trial, YouTube will adjust UK algorithm to reduce hate videos and fake content
In an effort to reduce the amount of false and extremist content pushed to viewers, Google's video platform YouTube will adjust its pres...
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