Coffee retailer Starbucks tells USA Today that it plans to offer designer artisanal soft drinks, and is launching three flavors of Fizzio Handcrafted Sodas. Read the rest

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A federal judge ruled today that the US deprived 13 people on its no-fly list of a constitutional right to travel, and provided no effective way to challenge being on the list.

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In 1975 The Talking Heads recorded some demo songs at CBS studios. Open Culture has them.

We’ve featured a fair few early Talking Heads performances, from Dortmund and Rome in 1980 to Syracuse in 1978 all the way back to CBGB in 1975.

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Hospice used to be charity work run by religious organizations. Now it's big business, complete with all-too-predictable horrifying corruption unmasked in an expose by Ben Hallman at Huffington Post.

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While most of the sterilizations were agreed to by the women, those same women also report being heavily pressured into the surgeries.

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The United States government may use lethal force against a citizen of our nation abroad, if the government determines that they're is part of an enemy organization seeking to attack America, according to a previously-classified memo released Monday.

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My Monday AM wakeup.

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In rural areas all over the world, snake bites are a serious, deadly threat. A nasal spray that counteracts neurotoxins could buy time to get victims to medical help.

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This Helix Oxford drafting set comes in a really pretty tin. The protractor, compass and set squares are nice, but I really just wanted the tin.

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The news network says the sentences defy "logic, sense, and semblance of justice". Read the rest

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The first few moments of this are quite a surprise. Ralph is a different character in German. I didn't bother to try and translate.

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According to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, it's not always necessary to prevent a person with a concussion from falling asleep.

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You cannot reduce traffic jams by building more lanes — in fact, more lanesjust creates more traffic. But new studies show that reducing roads doesn't make traffic worse.

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David Glowacki, a theoretical chemist, was forcibly ejected from a performance of Handel’s Messiah last week when he attempted to crowd surf.

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The 2000th song in Jonathan Mann's Song A Day series is a retrospective that contains every single video from the last 1,999 days.

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Here's a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage, which examines how Hachette's insistence on DRM for their ebooks has taken away all their negotiating leverage with Amazon, resulting in Amazon pulling Hachette's books from its catalog in the course of a dispute over discounting:

Under US law (the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and its global counterparts (such as the EUCD), only the company that put the DRM on a copyrighted work can remove it.

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[Video Link] Frank Conniff of Mystery Science Theater, and former Mr. Show, and Chris Rock Show writer Mike Upchurch produced a surreal "lost" Dragnet episode.

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Michael sez, "New documents released on MuckRock show the Illinois State Police crying "Terrorist" in order

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By Ben Frisch. [Video Link]

At the suggestion of Boing Boing reader FoolishOwl, I added an appropriately cinematic soundtrack:

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The first painting to show the gut-wrenching horror of World War I was immediately censored: "What you notice first about the two figures in Christopher Nevinson's painting Paths of Glory is the banality of their death." [BBC]

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