In 2010, Paul Ceglia of New York sued Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that Zuckerberg had given him a 50% stake in Facebook, now worth $29 billion. Ceglia presented a contract signed by Zuckerberg to bolster his claim. Read the rest

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Moune-l`a conna^it y’ol'e Zydeco.

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An $850k anime-related initiative to put a tiny spear on the moon is one-third of the way to getting funded. Read the rest

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Latest in my long search for the perfect road trip backup battery is the Opteka BP-SC6000. This $20 6000mAh USB charging battery sports a solar panel!

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Derek Zoolander and Hansel McDonald returned to the runway today during Valentino's show at Paris Fashion Week! Video below. (CNN, thanks Kelly Sparks!) Read the rest

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David Nickle's horror novel Eutopia confronts the racial overtones of Lovecraftian fiction head on, revealing a terrifying story of the American eugenics movement and the brutality underbelly of utopianism. Read the rest

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My latest Guardian column examines the relationship between technology, surveillance and wealth disparity -- specifically the way that cheap mass surveillance makes it possible to sustain more unequal societies because it makes it cheaper to find and catch the dissidents who foment rebellion over the creation of hereditary elites. Read the rest

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The Wikimedia Foundation -- which oversees Wikipedia -- eight other organizations, and the ACLU have filed a lawsuit against the DoJ and the NSA, contesting the spy agency's program of mass "upstream" surveillance. Read the rest

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"Who said 'weaker sex?'" (more…)

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At the corner of Riverside Drive and Lexington Avenue in Elkhart, Indiana, you'll find a curious cement block packed with teeth yanked by a dentist who practiced nearby for nearly 60 years.

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"I Can't Enter Than (No Sandman)" by Neil Cicierga (more…)

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Behold Lunate, an intriguing swipe-based system for typing on an Apple watch. You can try it out yourself right now by downloading the Lunate app on an Iphone or Ipad. Read the rest

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A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind. Read the rest

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Because there are few things quite so disconcerting as milk in my scotch, I never drink without having first sterilized my bottle in the Munchkin Steam Guard Electric Sterilizer, as recommended by The Nightlight.

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In 1935 a shark in an Australian aquarium vomited up a human forearm, a bizarre turn of events that sparked a confused murder investigation. This week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast presents two cases in which a shark supplied key evidence of a human crime.

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A few hours after I ordered a box of half-wide playing cards I realized I had the tools and materials to make my own. Read the rest

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They're basing their case on the 14th Amendment, which addressed slavery by guaranteeing all persons equal protection under the law, and since corporations are people, well... Read the rest

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Experience what Koa Smith saw surfing through a seemingly-endless barrel that lasted nearly 30 seconds. (more…)

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Fluid simulator in ASCII by Yusuke Endoh. (via Waxy)

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Why did violins slowly develop f-shaped sound-holes? Because it makes them more acoustically powerful than their ancestors, which had holes shaped liked a circle -- as a team of MIT scientists recently concluded.

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