Jake Knapp didn't want to get rid of his iPhone, but needed to get its endless attention-demands under control. He started by removing everything except Phone and Messages.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-UVNt6DiSYw/going-distraction-free-without.html

The amazing Hello Kitty Avengers meme started back in (at least) May, but has only picked up steam since then, growing to encompass many other Supers. (via Wil Wheaton)

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The program book for the 1967 Michigan State Fair is a slice of heaven -- like the Schoolhouse Rock kids have gone to the carny for the day.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bEGcAjzx4cQ/michigan-state-fair-ad-1967.html

I like Frank Sinatra's music. I didn't know he was so articulate and well-read, though. Go get 'em, Blue Eyes! Read the rest

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Five years Consumerist sued by Cash4Gold after critical blog posts: The whistleblower's post appeared on ComplaintsBoard last November. We featured it this February, as part of our ongoing coverage of Cash4Gold, after the company raised its public profile with a multi-million dollar Super Bowl ad.

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Laura Mixon (AKA Morgan Locke) writes, "Check out The Other Half of the Sky, a 2013 anthology of original short stories edited by PhD biologist and author Athena Andreadis, co-edited by Kay Holt of Crossed Genres. It has come out of left field to take science fiction by storm. My own take: I loved this book. Readers hungry for women heroes will gobble up these exciting, original space opera tales with a spoon." Read the rest

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These sandblasted 8-Bit Mario Pint Glasses are $15 each, with a glass question-mark coaster. (via Geekymerch)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_HddbCzjVbk/8-bit-mario-pint-sleeves.html

They smell like a tomb, and taste like stale crackers dusted with International Delight-brand instant coffee.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ncOTCh8Ojno/review-cappucino-flavor-lays.html

Starring Adam West is a profile of the actor who portrayed Batman in the 1966 television series, became instantly world famous, and then hit a brick wall with his career. Adam Mangels says: "This documentary is currently available for streaming on Encore Play and on Encore On Demand on most cable and satellite systems. Same bat-time, same bat-channel!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7XwDiMOEThE/watch-trailer-for-documentary.html

Our friends at Adafriuit, makers of cool electronic kits and components, have announced their first vinyl record: Frequency by Bartlebeets. They say it's the "soundtrack to your soldering." They are giving away the digital version at the link above.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/i3lSDurifSM/adafruits-pink-vinyl-record.html

On Crooked Timber, Ingrid Robeyns presents a tough moral calculus: if you can save 50% of a group of trapped miners with 100% certainty, knowing the remainder will die; or you can try to rescue all the miners, with a 50% chance that they'll all die, which would you choose (And then: what if they were babies, not miners?) Read the rest

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Deviantart's Taffgoch creates beautiful models of spheres made from kinetic elements, primarily gears. Read the rest

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Etsy's Frockasaurus makes great, pop-culture-inspired clothes for men and women, such as the Men's Star Trek Book shirt and Men's Batman Comics shirt; Hobbit Cover skirt; Legend of Zelda dress; and the Lord of the Rings skirt. Read the rest

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"An unfiltered list of games featuring a leading lady, because such a list should exist."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hFkXYWuUBGU/games-with-female-protagonists.html

Derrick Todd Lee didn't look much like the police artist's photo-composite. [via]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sG4KkfO0BKw/police-sketch-of-serial-killer.html

Thinkgeek's Zombie Hoodie zips right over your face to form a frightmask -- $50, made of machine washable polyester and awesomely grody. (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/DLMoHbUBmtM/gory-zombie-hoodie-with-zipove.html

Carl Douglas's 1974 Kung Fu Fighting made it ubiquitous, but NPR found that the distinctive, stereotyped combination of rhythm and scale dates to the 19th century, and arrived at its exact nine-note form in the 1930s: "It doesn't come from Chinese folk music; it's just a caricature"

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bX9pD1hfICc/the-history-of-the-stereotyped.html

Companies are taking measures to limit the volume of internal email and its insidious effect on productivity, reports The New York Times.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sXfiag_jqIY/email-a-giant-waste-of-time.html

Mark caught up with two of his favorite cartoonists, Gabrielle Bell, who has a new autobiographical book out, called Truth is Fragmentary, and Ruben Bolling, who announced his upcoming series of illustrated kids' books, called Emu Club Adventures. Read the rest

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PA governor Tom Corbett is not popular among women, or, indeed, anyone: “I think a lot of people want to be able to walk into a grocery store, particularly, a lot of the women want to go and buy a bottle of wine for dinner, go down, buy a six-pack or two six-packs, buy dinner and go home rather than what I described as three stops in Pennsylvania.” Read the rest

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