David already posted about the amazing TBD Catalog, which is filled with "design fiction" about the devices of the future; but I just read it and I need to rave about it. Read the rest

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Roca Labs makes the "Non Surgical Gastric Bypass" (which one expert says is mostly industrial food thickeners) with terms-of-sale that prohibit complaining if you get sick, or don't like the product, or feel like you were ripped off. Read the rest

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Anil Dash has been at it for 15 years (slightly longer than me, but only slightly!) and his reflections on a decade and a half of blogging -- through major life changes from marriage to parenthood -- really chime with me, especially: Read the rest

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For 45 years, our friends at Last Gasp have kept the counterculture busy with books, publishing wild, weird, wonderful, and subversive works by R Crumb, Robert Wilson, Diane di Prima, Mark Ryden, Timothy Leary, and a slew of other greats; Now they need our help. Last Gasp has launched a Kickstarter to fund the printing of their next season of books, a stellar line-up of projects by the likes of Camille Rose Garcia, Ron English, the Thanatos Archive, and Mike Davis. The awards are fantastic! Read the rest

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Here's a shout-out to our sponsors at Blackwing602, a website about the creative process and creative people. Blackwing602 has stories about notable Blackwing users, like Walt Disney and Moises Chiullan. As you might know, I love the Blackwing 602 pencil, and have used it for many years. If you'd like to experience Blackwing for yourself, buy a dozen right here.

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You gotta be in the right mood to enter this dark small book. But it is unlike anything else you’ve seen.

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Last night, I read Vicious. This is a fantastic story about college age relationships and how the addition of super powers really doesn't help.

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South Carolina state trooper Sean Groubert (mugshot shown here) shot an unarmed black man and was fired and charged on Wednesday with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.

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The woman beaten by a CHP Officer Daniel Andrew will receive $1.5 million under a settlement, and Officer Daniel Andrew has "elected" to resign. (more…)

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In 1977, Robert Anton Wilson’s Cosmic Trigger predicted a utopian, space-faring, enlightened future. 37 years later, writes Jason Louv, it’s finally starting to show up. Read the rest

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Designer Paul Bacon is known for developing the "Big Book Look" - commercial, bold and iconic - designing many well known covers from the 1960s through the early 2000s. Mulholland Books designer Lauren Harms tells how his Coma cover was revised for the new edition. Read the rest

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Neil Gaiman's introduction to A Slip of the Keyboard, a collection of Terry Pratchett's nonfiction essays, exposes a little-known side of the writer than many think of as a "twinkly old elf" -- the rage that is Pratchett's engine, driving him to write deceptively simple stories that decry unfairness and make virtue from bravery. Read the rest

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(photographer unknown): India's Mangalyaan satellite attained Martian orbit on Wednesday; at $74m, it's "staggeringly cheap" for an orbiter.

Martian spacecraft staffers at Indian space control, September 2014

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These handmade Darth Vader cufflinks, $22.49 from Cuff Relations, are a pretty good power meeting accessory (cue "Don't fail me again, Admiral"). (via Geeky Merch)

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The Folio Society has issued a lavish new edition of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, illustrated by Ben Jones and with an introduction by Irvine Welsh.

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Iron filings move to the music above an array of computer-controlled magnets in TechnoFrolics' "Choreographed Iron Dust" display shown at last weekend's World Maker Faire in NYC.

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Director Steven Soderbergh removed the dialogue and color from Raiders of the Lost Ark to fully showcase Spielberg's mastery of visual staging. Read the rest

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Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios choreographed a dance of drones and people titled Sparked. Below is a behind-the-scenes video.

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Give Me Fiction is a prose reading series hosted by Ivan Hernandez. On this episode, writer Casey Childers describes the conflict between student, teacher, and timepiece in “Complications.”

The first Sunday of every month at Lost Weekend Video, a group of comedians, writers, and artists read pieces based on a theme.

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“Blue eyes,” a photo by Fred Facker. "One of the rehabbing sea turtles at Sea Turtle, Inc. sea turtle rescue in South Padre, Texas." Shared in our Flickr Pool.

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