“Being gluten intolerant means you are entitled to tell people about the offensive things that happen to you if you eat gluten. Because they're not gluten free, they're obligated by law to listen.” Read the rest

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The Church of Scientology is so scared of 'Going Clear,' the new HBO documentary by Gibney and Wright, they have a whole website devoted to attack documentaries of their own. Read the rest

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Here's a genre mash-up you might not expect: Classic narrative-driven adventure games and two-dimensional space shooters? Read the rest

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Games can be an inviting tool to educate young people on social issues -- like how to recognize the signs of an abusive relationship, how to help a friend or to seek help for oneself.

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Virginia has become the first U.S. state in America strictly limit how long data from automated license plate readers can be retained by law enforcement.

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Kenji Yoshino of MAKE shows you how to make a powerful microscope from "the focus lens from a cheap laser pointer or two, and about $10 worth of materials from the hardware store." Read the rest

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Architect Luciano Pia designed 25 Verde, a 63 unit apartment complex in Turin, Italy. Read the rest

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Do you need some time on your own? Do you need some time all alone? If you want to make games but feel the chorus to "November Rain" burning in your heart, you're not the only one.

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Metaphor makes you more empathetic, it seems: When subjects in a new study read metaphors, they got better at identifing the emotion in pictures of people's eyes.

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Acting is a crappy business, but the world needs actors, and since we live in a time when digital production and distribution has democratized filmmaking, anyone can be a casting director. Exhibit A is a new tumblr, Casting Call Woes, which has netted a foul-smelling collection of ripe ones from the sea of DIY casting calls. Read the rest

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Bizarre and wonderful things can happen when you ask game developers to experiment with input devices. When teams are asked to work with alternative controls to the boring old keyboard and mouse, you get stuff like Butt Sniffin' Pugs.

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"Life would be boring without gossip", he told reporters in St. Petersburg, making his first public appearance in 10 days.

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The AP analysis of Bush's 275,000 FOIA'ed emails show that "donations" to his campaign were really more like "purchases." Read the rest

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In Terry Pratchett's novel Going Postal, an allegory about the creation of an Internet-like telegraph system called "the clacks," workers who die in the line of duty have their names "sent home," by being transmitted up and down the line in the system's signalling layer ("A man is not dead while his name is still spoken"). Read the rest

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The nonprofit, which created Writetothem, Fixmystreet, and other crucial, ground-breaking civil society projects, is looking for a new CEO to help it spend its £3.6m Omidyar Network grant. Read the rest

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"'I'm not easily offended,' Poole says, 'but I have never sought out the grotesque.'" Gamergate was the last straw, as Rolling Stone reports it.

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What I enjoy about this $5 herb grinder is not the clever design resembling a stack of silver dollars, but rather the low price.

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Stefan Lanka, a "vaccination skeptic" who claims that measles are a psychosomatic condition brought on by "traumatic separations," publicly challenged people to prove that measles was caused by a virus. Read the rest

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Youtube sensation Whitney Avalon has a brilliant new entry to her amazing Rap Battles series: a rude, hilarious battle between Belle and Cinderella, starring Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar. Read the rest

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Happy March 14. Sugar Pie DeSanto has an amazing voice.

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