While I was on vacation Harry sent me Young Moon. This fantastic dystopian future is told from the point of view of a young Chinese/Korean girl, growing up in a communist society!

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Andy Baio's been playing with Twitter's "promoted tweet" targeted ads, sending out tweets that are only seen by Twitter staff (hey, verify me already!), politicians (make better laws!), and, in one bizarre case, no one (a process Twitter calls "nullcasting").

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Drew Friedman is the great portrait artist of our time. He’s always had an interest in the eccentric and the oddball, focusing on D-list celebrities like Swedish professional wrestler and actor Tor Johnson and late night monster movie hostess Vampira. Read the rest

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A short film with stunning footage of French freediver Guillaume N'ery riding fast currents along Tiputa pass. Read the rest

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Veronica REALLY wanted to make the title of this episode "Tom Merritt is a sexist pig." But Tom doesn't need that kind of grief.

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Google's dropped its dumbass Real Names policy for social media, but don't worry, the adorable little fella found a welcome home in China, where bloggers and other social media users are now prohibited from using aliases or parody names.

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Dave Hax shows you how to make a microphone out of a matchbox and graphite from a pencil. [via]

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The University of Qassim in Saudi Arabia held a women's rights conference last year. No women attended. Read the rest

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"The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health." (more…)

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Diana Moyer of Columbus, Wisconisn was kicked out of a local McDonald's when a customer complained about her support animal, a baby kangaroo named Jimmy. Read the rest

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Boom goes the citrus fruit.

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A TransAsia Airways flight carrying more than 50 people crashed in Taiwan's Keelung River after takeoff from Taipei's Songshan Airport Wednesday morning.

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If you trust the reviews.

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The Guardian shares a fine sampling of Colin Batty's cabinet cards, 19th and early-20th century portraits modified into science fiction oddities: Read the rest

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"I just need rocks. It's all what I need." Manuel Cisneros is an artist working and living on the beach in Ventura California. Video By Ross Harris.

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Blank on Blank's animation of a 1986 interview with blues master B.B. King about his guitar Lucille, his influence on John Lennon, and the real source of the blues. (more…)

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They're such magnificent creatures.

Jonathan Gordon spotted this one while snorkeling in the Caribbean.

"I dove down to have a look at the shell that you can see just under where the octopus appears and as I approached the octopus came out of hiding," Jonathan says. "I had literally no idea he was there until I was about a meter away."

[YouTube via Reddit]

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The horse is being a really good sport about it.

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Brava, nonna!

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Can't stop watching. (more…)

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