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The Light Phone 2 is designed to be used as little as possible
The makers of the L ight Phone 2 want you to leave your smartphone at home, and use this simple phone with calling, messaging, and an e-in...
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Premiere of “Heathers” TV series will be delayed out of respect for those affect by Florida school murders
Viacom issued a statement this afternoon that the “Heathers” TV series will be delayed "out of respect for the [Florida shooting] vict...
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Here's an expandable vault to protect students during routine school shootings
https://youtu.be/D9nQmKNtOY4 If the GOP and NRA have their way, frequent mass murders of students in classrooms will continue to be the new...
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Hey, Sydney! I'm coming to see you tonight (then Adelaide and Wellington!)
I'm just about to go to the airport to fly to Sydney for tonight's event, What should we do about Democracy? (more…) from Boing...
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Video: How old folks talked in 1929
Dinotopia artist James Gurney writes : Old people were lively and well spoken a century ago. Some of the people in these video clips were b...
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My short story about better cities, where networks give us the freedom to schedule our lives to avoid heat-waves and traffic jams
I was lucky enough to be invited to submit a piece to Ian Bogost's Atlantic series on the future of cities (previously: James Bridle ,...
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The latest "reflection attack" gooses Denial of Service attacks by a factor of 51,000
To launch an effective Denial of Service attack, your bots need to overwhelm your target with a flood of requests; the more bandwidth and c...
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Simone "Shitty Robots" Giertz hunts a robot and eats its tofu
https://youtu.be/c3PLJnKPn6g Simone Giertz is the beloved creator of a series of Shitty Robots , and now she's working at longer lengt...
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How citizenship-for-sale and statelessness change cities
James Bridle ( previously ) is the latest contributor to The Atlantic's excellent series on the future of cities ( Bruce Sterling , Mo...
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Watch this 3D-printed Killmonger spear get made
Darrell aka The Broken Nerd created this cool Killmonger spear from glimpses he caught in Black Panther . It turned out really great. (mor...
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Watch: The Yes Men's short documentary on the NRA's murder-happy nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvnyFPKX8-A In 2016, the Yes Men ( previously ), everyone's favorite political pranksters, hoaxed the ...
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Cotton balls turned into a colorful garden tool handle
Peter Brown decided to dye some cotton balls, soak them in resin, then turn the resulting form on a lathe to make a delightful colored hand...
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As a boy, Ronald Clark literally lived in a New York Public Library
In the 1940s, Ronald Clark's father was a custodian at the New York Public Library's Washington Heights Branch. That meant he and h...
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Drugs in the bible
Over at pop archaeology site Ancient Origins, Danny Nemu considers the psychoactive plants referenced in the Bible: The Odyssey and the Ved...
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Watch how to make transparent potato chips
Barry Lewis from My Virgin Kitchen decided to make clear potato crisps , and they look amazing, like little starchy dried jellyfish. (more…...
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A list of all 8 fonts used on the Srirachi bottle label
Fonts in Use took a stab at identifying all of the fonts used in the Srirachi bottle label, which breaks all design rules but still looks ...
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Toner 2-pack for Brother laser printers: $8
Life has become immeasurably better ever since I swore off inkjet printers and started using a laser printer exclusively. Unless you must h...
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Watch how to make hard candy that has a sunflower inside
Greg at Public Displays of Confection created this delightful honey-flavored crystal candy with a sunflower pattern inside. It's reall...
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Elfquest concludes 40-year run
Elfquest , one of the first breakout indie comics of the 1970s, is ending its 40-year-run with today's issue . There's a farewell ...
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#ENOUGH: Striking instant camera photos memorialize victims of Chicago gun violence
Last year, photographer Jim Young visited murder scenes and memorials in Chicago and documented what he saw with an instant camera. Last ye...
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Marvel at this master of coin stacking
TANU is a master at the magical art of coin stacking. Don't sneeze... More on Twitter: @thumb_tani (via Laughing Squid ) https://ww...
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The 'mystery' of who built the earthen mounds in the Midwest was nothing but white dude propaganda
I've lived my whole life as a pale, red headed fella. So, I say this, with authority: white people are dicks. According to Smithsonian...
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Video tour of VR World NYC
This video report looks at the current state of consumer arcade VR with VR World’s Head of Content Tommy Goodkin. (more…) from Boing Bo...
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Criminals are laundering money by selling books of computer-generated gibberish on Amazon
Lower Days Ahead is an Amazon print on demand paperback book filled with nonsense sentences, the kind found in spam email to make its way ...
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Scientists in Antarctica watch the movie that inspired The Thing, every year.
Chock up another one for the women and men who work in Antarctica. Not only do they spent months on end slugging away for the betterment of...
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Trailer for a game in which you have one hour to rebuild civilization
One Hour One Life is a "multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building" by Jason Rohrer. Your character ages o...
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Lovely animation of kites for a song of hope
Hannah Jacobs animated this simple and clean kite-themed video for Secret For The Mad by Dodie ( previously ). (more…) from Boing Boing...
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Experimental animated film records jazz with a Kinect
Marcin Nowrotek filmed a jazz quartet with a Kinect, then ran the recording through volumetric processors to give NEBULA an otherworldly 3...
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Artificial intelligence brought the freaky visuals to this music video
A loud experimental band from Monaco named Hardcore Anal Hydrogen enlisted the aid of artificial intelligence to generate the trippy, psyc...
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Artists humorously adds himself beyond the edges of iconic album covers
Russian digital artist Igor Lipchanskiy humorously imagines what's just beyond the edges of iconic album covers. In every case, it...
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This “Floral Tea Story” photo series offers a whimsical tea time
As part of her incredibly aesthetically pleasing Instagram account , Russian artist Marina Malinovaya creates these whimsical photographs i...
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Help kids see A Wrinkle In Time for free
The racial justice organization Color of Change has launched the #GiveAChildTheUniverse campaign to make it easier for kids to see Ava Du...
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Wildly-popular UK dance party pays homage to Sir David Attenborough
Legendary naturalist and longtime BBC personality Sir David Attenborough is the inspiration for " Jungle Boogie ," an ongoing se...
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Does Marilyn Monroe’s stuffing recipe still hold up?
Tasty ’s Devon and Jared test out Marilyn Monroe’s prized stuffing recipe and try to figure out what secrets it holds about her love life. ...
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Clerk jailed for refusing same-sex marriage licenses writes of "furious, fist-pounding homosexual men"
Rowan County county clerk Kim Davis famously refused to issue licenses to gay couples after same-sex marriage was legalized in Kentucky. Sh...
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Otherwise professional ad with native English voiceover uses machine-translated script
The ROICHEN EASY TRAY "helps you to stock and pull out your clothes without making a mess" and is an instant classic in the anna...
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The NRA actually used to support gun control
In this video, AJ+ ’s Sana Saeed breaks down the long history of the NRA, from its beginnings as a post-Civil War sports club to its presen...
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Burglar doesn't realize he's being filmed
This burglar doesn't realize he's got about a minute to get his work done before the Scottish police turn up. It's interesting ...
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Whirlwind video tour of five fabulous tiny houses
From treehouses to homes on wheels to tiny off-grid cottages, the folks at Living Big In A Tiny House count down their five favorite tiny h...
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Watch a bullet get shot at an axe blade
In this fascinating video , the energy of a bullet is on full display as it's shot directly at the sharp edge of an axe. The first shot...
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Learn how to break a glass with your voice
Mike Boyd of Learn Quick shows how to tune your voice to the resonant frequency of a glass and break said glass using only the unamplified...
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An oral history of that insane Oscars fuck-up from last year
It’s been a year since the infamous Oscars broadcast in which La La Land was briefly crowned Best Picture before it was revealed that Moon...
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