The March 5th episode of Nickelodeon's Oggy and the Cockroaches showed a framed photo of a topless cartoon character. Read the rest

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Hindsight is 20/20 in this literal reimagining of the title sequence to the 90's cartoon Pinky And The Brain. Read the rest

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My friend Tricia Wang is an amazing tech ethnographer who's crisscrossing China -- and recording her observations on an amazing Instagram feed. Read the rest

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Here's a gallery of programs written in the Wolfram Language, short enough to fit in a tweet -- and producing lovely results.

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In the 1920s, the USDA encouraged rural communities around the U.S. to put bulls on the witness stand — to hold a legal trial, complete with lawyers and witnesses and a watching public — to determine whether the bull was fit to breed. Read the rest

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James Kochalka's The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza was the funniest kids' graphic novel of 2014; now, with today's release of The Glorkian Warrior Eats Adventure Pie, the adventure continues. Cory Doctorow read book two to his daughter and had to wrestle it away from her in order to write this review. Read the rest

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Welcome to Otome, visual dating games made with women in mind. They enjoy a healthy fandom, but many acclaimed titles remain in their native Japanese—frustrating, because romance and relationship games are more popular than ever. Read the rest

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The wild and talented cyberpunk original Rudy Rucker is kickstarting a volume of his journals, from 1990-2014, inspired by Kafka's journals, and "as long as three or four novels put together." Read the rest

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Remember back in 2008 when President-elect Obama promised to run the most transparent White House in history? Well, you might remember, but President Obama seems to have forgotten. Read the rest

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In 1950 newspapers around the world reported that a 10-month-old kitten had climbed the Matterhorn, one of the highest peaks in Europe. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll wonder whether even a very determined kitty could accomplish such a feat.

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Biopic starring longtime Boing Boing pal John Cusack opens in U.S. theaters on June 5. A new album from Wilson is out in April. Read the rest

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Cas Overton, a 75 year old t'ai chi master who has been teaching the martial art for 40 years, strangled with her bare hands a rabid raccoon that was trying to attack her. Read the rest

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My 11-year-old has been using an old keyboard on her hand-me-down computer setup. Some of the keys are worn down to the point of being blank. Read the rest

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A wonderful video by Ugoita. (more…)

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Marshall Mullen recorded Michal Kollbek riding the White Line in Sedona, AZ. (more…)

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I'm telling you, if Pringles or Lay's doesn't turn this into an ad, they're stupid. (more…)

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He is very adorable. (more…)

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Thomas Edison's test for job applicants was leaked in 1921. Gizmodo has all 146 questions, with answers supplied. Read the rest

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An 11-year-old boy was caught with a lighter and a leaf in his school backpack. Three separate tests on the leaf have come back negative for marijuana, so the school did the sensible thing and suspended the boy for a year. Read the rest

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I stopped being scared or creeped out by horror movies about 20 years ago, but when Carla and I watched It Follows on Saturday night we were both freaked out of our wits. Read the rest

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