Yesterday, March 11, was Douglas Adams' birthday. Did you know you can celebrate by playing the 1984 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game in your browser at work this instant?

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Latonya Pennington wants more of them: "Why can’t strong female characters just be complex?" Read the rest

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The most judgmental map of New York City yet is at its most judgmental when no name is given at all. The Real Manhattan Subway Map [Thrillist via Kottke]

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According to Nielsen, 36 percent of American households get Netflix, 13 percent Amazon Prime, and 6.5 percent Hulu Plus. [NYT]

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Purple dye, so expensive as to connote imperial power, was made from the mucous of sea snails. Then a teenage chemist sat down and tried to make synthetic quinine.

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I just ordered a pair of these $9 stick-on LED light strips for our craft supplies closet and under-stairs storage space. (more…)

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My most recent Quarterly.co mailing was a magic kit of tricks I selected. I wanted to provided as many high-quality tricks as possible for the $50 cost. My next Quarterly.co mailing is a selection of Quirky Kitchen Gadgets, which you can order now.

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Heidi MacDonald of Comics Beats says: "I was tooling around on the internet the other night, and unexpectedly came across this masterpiece: Read the rest

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The economist says that the US's post-crisis job creation record and the EU's lagging record demonstrates that austerity cripples recoveries. Read the rest

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Chile's famous Chinchorro mummies, preserved perfectly for more than 7,000 years, are melting into black gelatinous goo because of increased levels of moisture that may be the result of climate change. Read the rest

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The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. Read the rest

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Woohoo, happy early Saint Patrick's Day guys! Read the rest

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As marchers commemorated the 50th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' this past weekend, in Selma, Alabama another tribute was taking place: to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the lieutenant general in the Confederate army and first Grand Wizard of the

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I’ve got to tell you, I had a real mind-warping moment with Intelligent Sentient?. Read the rest

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“If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you have a cookie on your computer or your smartphone that says how much you like weed—or at least how you feel about the idea of weed being legalized.” Read the rest

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Windermere Cay apartments in Winter Garden, Florida makes its residents sign a "Social Media Addendum" agreement that stipulates a $10,000 fine for "publishing or airing negative commentary" about Windermere Cay. Read the rest

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In this week's New Yorker, Adam Gopnik visits one of the more intriguing and strange European libraries, the Warburg Institute in London, a 115-year-old institution with a sadly uncertain future. Read the rest

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Rightcorp, the notorious, publicly traded copyright trolls, have warned investors that they're losing money despite a successful claim of mass extortion against alleged copyright infringers. Read the rest

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From the 1960s to the 1980s, Robert Landau photographed the rock and roll billboards over Los Angeles's famed Sunset Strip, images collected in his book /www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883318394/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1883318394&linkCode=as2&tag=boingboing0e-20&linkId=7EJC4ASTZLPPU6E6">Rock ’n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip. Read the rest

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Even Mac fankids are unable to draw the Apple logo from memory. Read the rest

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