Stephenson’s new novel doesn’t generate the kind of excitement for the future that we’ve come to expect from the author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Anathem. Read the rest

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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn artist who tried something new to speak up for herself—and address street harassment—through art.

Mostly known for her oil paintings, her latest work focuses on what woman want to say to pests, putting a face to the stories that otherwise fall into silence every day.

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N&B Gaming commemorated US marriage equality with a fabulous GTA V rainbow dance party, till the cops showed up. Stick around for hilarious outtakes. Read the rest

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Can you solve "the prize puzzle of British criminal jurisprudence"? Read the rest

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Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones! The photo (and more) were posted to gaming forums NeoGAF. Looking forward to this.

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Sock im! A right! A left! A & gahhhh! You let im too close!

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Jesse Vincent has productized the scratch-built split keyboard he built and is kickstarting a production run.
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I met Caspar in 2001 while working for EFF; he was working for the Foundation for Internet Policy Research, which tirelessly lobbied the Lords and Parliament on the new surveillance powers that the Blair government wanted to bring in.
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A fantastic TV commercial for DeSoto automobiles from 1957. (via Weird Universe)

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German MEP Julia Redas brilliant recommendations for reforming EU copyright have passed the European Parliament, and the dastardly attempt to make it illegal to take commercial photos in public places has been killed.
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Tom Selleck, best known as Magnum P.I., has apparently settled, at least tentatively, with the Ventura County water district after the actor was accused of stealing water from a fire hydrant and trucking it to their 60-acre ranch. Read the rest

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As previously posted, Pope Francis plans to chew coca leaves and already drank tea infused with coca, the raw ingredient in cocaine, during his visit to Bolivia.

Psychedelic historian Michael Horowitz points out that Francis is following in the footsteps of Pope Leo XII who appeared in an advertisement for the coca-infused French wine Vin Mariani, popular in the late 19th century. Read the rest

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From Russias masters of science fiction comes a manorhouse murder mystery parody that puts Clue to shame. The Dead Mountaineers Inn is every bit as clever, and queer, a novel as Ive come to expect from the brothers Strugatsky.

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Lena says, HuffPost Highline just posted an article about Jackie Fuchs (aka Jackie Fox), who was a member of 70s band The Runaways.

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I was a mechanical engineer in the 1980s. I was a quality assurance engineer and a development engineer in the disk drive industry.

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The age of 3D is upon us, and the 3Doodler is changing the way we draw with its one-of-a-kind functionality. With the 3Doodler, you can freestyle scribble or draw solid, stable objects and crafts by extruding heated plastic filament in mid air.

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I had a big smile watching Modern Family writer Danny Zuker run comedic circles around Donald Trump on Twitter. The presidential candidates rejoinders to Zukers spot-on zingers consisted of name calling  boring, moron, loser, very dumb, stupid.

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Its about time.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, just now: “The Confederate flag is coming off the South Carolina Statehouse. Tomorrow morning at 10:00am, we will see the Confederate Flag come down,” she added, “with dignity.”

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The new number is a lot higher than the 14 million figure investigators offered last month. Read the rest

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If someone in your life is confused by the recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the USA, show them this helpful video in which Grover and Jesse discuss what marriage is. (more…)

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