A Santa Monica sushi chef arrested in a 2013 sting operation for selling whale meat has been sentenced to two years’ probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service.

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It's an actual unauthorized leak, too, from the set. You know, just in case you were thinking that the movie's PR team would be as profoundly stupid as the people making this movie.

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The BBC is offering Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis as a free streaming audiobook, read by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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“Air Jordan XI (11) Retro Legend Blue Unboxing + Review + On Feet,” by Brad Hall. (more…)

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Grady Runyon owns a used record store in Ventura, CA. In this video by Rossangeles, Runyon tells a wonderful story about how a stranger asked to meet him in a parking garage to show him a mysterious artifact: an illustrated handbound manuscript with the title "Screenplay by Alexandro JODOROWSKY / Adapted from " DUNE" / by frank HERBERT."

The color pencil drawings in the book are highly detailed outsider art scenes of weird sex, monsters, outlandish costumes, and exotic weapons.

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Over the weekend the US conducted a raid in Syria where they killed an alleged ISIS leader. Beyond the whole conducting-war-operations-in-a-country-we're-not-at-war-with question, the NYT published an interesting anecdote buried in their piece. It's about how they found out where this ISIS guy was located, and way more sensitive than anything Snowden leaked. Read the rest

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“Louise Bonito's 102nd birthday party will certainly be one for her family to remember – but not necessarily for the reasons they might have thought.” Read the rest

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He looks like an animated stoner GIF. Read the rest

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I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

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Karen Momsen-Evers was aboard a Southwest Airlines flight when she received a disturbing text from her husband, asking for forgiveness for what he was about to do.

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Soon-to-be presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will vow to protect and uphold the American Constitution if elected to office. But also he “will kill you” extrajudicially with “a drone” if you even think about supporting al-Qaeda or ISIL. Read the rest

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A funny moment from Silicon Valley, where an entrepreneur learns that his new operating system is even worse than Windows Vista.

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"Millions of people over the decades will tell you 'Yes, it may be the holy grail of technology.' A proper name eludes us, so we will call it simply, The Wishing Machine." Only $195.

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Ramadi, about an hour and a half from Baghdad, fell over the weekend to Islamic State fighters. The U.S. insists that the city is still "contested", though it seems Iranian-backed militias will be doing the job of contesting.

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The entire magazine industry has been hurt by the web, but pornographic magazines have been hit the hardest.

From an essay in Quartz by Lee Quarnstrom, former editor of Hustler:

In a January 2014 interview with Erin Moriarty of CBS, Flynt announced that he didn’t expect Hustler, the heart of his porn empire, to last more than two or three years.

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Jami Attenberg saw a flash of internet fame, but it didn't help her sell her book. It made her no money at all.

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This adorable orangutan saw zookeepers caring for tiger cubs at the Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina and decided he wanted to try it out too.

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