Slavery was outlawed in the British Empire in 1833, decades before the U.S. Civil War. The outcome: relative historical obscurity, leaving Britains 17th and 18th century luminaries untarnished by their ownership of other human beings. [Guardian]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/P6nLktBSmdc/british-history-of-slave-owner.html

#SerenaSlam! I love her. What an athlete, what a role model, what a woman!

 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 11, 2015 Tennis star Serena Williams won Wimbledon, to the satisfaction of many, including author J.K. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SJtBh3hYFfg/j-k-rowling-delivers-work-of.html

Everything you dont need to know about the legendary expandable text editor, courtesy of @ieure.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Kkv5BjZA5SI/the-perfect-emacs-setup.html

Is it orbital changes? No? Solar variation? Uh uh. Volcanoes? Ffft. What could it possibly be? [Bloomberg]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1OybHmhjlTM/whats-causing-climate-change.html

The course was taught under the Anthropology department by homeopath Beth Landau-Halpern, who is married to the dean of the Scarborough campus, and who had been previously caught on hidden camera selling sugar pills to parents and calling them vaccine alternatives. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/L3MLjk6Da94/university-of-toronto-upholds.html

Protect Yourself from Web Threats with 6 Video Courses Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bfqv8HJv9H8/deal-white-hat-security-hacke.html

Remember the fun Satanic Temple that fought to put a statue of Baphomet on the grounds of the Oklahoma Capitol and held a pink mass at the grave of the mother of Wesboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps to turn her gay in the afterlife? The New York Times talked to the Satanic Temples two chief instigators, Malcolm Jarry and Lucien Greaves (aka Douglas Mesner), about their approach to poignant political pranksterism in the face of conservative Christianity. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nss3GaXJCts/satans-merry-pranksters.html

Watching My Name Go By is a great half-hour BBC documentary from 1976 about the early days of graffiti culture in New York City. (YouTube, thanks UPSO!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qBuTisPTDB0/watch-a-short-1976-documentary.html

A man driving an Audi decided to go on a joyride last Thursday  in reverse. For miles, the mysterious driver with a female passenger winded his way down the Hollywood hills backwards, crossing over yellow lines and almost hitting a pedestrian.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pf1O2wFIJMQ/watch-man-drives-backwards-fo.html

A mama bear with two cubs made a habit of sneaking into a mobile home in British Columbia, Canada and raiding the freezer.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wXU9T3L9o6s/officer-suspended-after-refusi.html

Its crystal clear! intones the narrator. Come for the pumping stock music, stay for the languid, awed discussion. [Youtube via]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Eu7rd8LGQrQ/amazing-drone-probably-jus.html

Air freshener may look like the desirable beverage moonshine, but what sort of moonshine smells like air freshener? Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fO98mbEnKlw/woman-regrets-drinking-air-fre.html

The death of the PC, writes Davey Alba, has not been greatly exaggerated.

Research outfit Gartner tracked a 9.5 percent decline in shipments in the second quarter of this year compared to the same time a year ago, posting a tally of 68.4 million units.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EzX2QfANTb8/pc-shipments-decline-sharply.html

Ariel Waldman and Lisa Ballards lovely designs are also available as posters, tees and other useful things. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/vNsvSfdKvg8/single-serving-site-for-space.html

Take one Google Inceptionism neural-net system, which, when fed its own output over and over, begins to hallucinate dogish-lizardoids in random noise; add one supercut of cheese-porn pizza ads; stir thoroughly and strain. (via JWZ)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zNBy0Gj6qBw/latent-doglizards-of-cheeseglo.html

The compromised data includes Social Security Numbers, Dates of Birth, and Home Addresses. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zShzgL_5Ci4/us-army-national-guard-reveals.html

That smile!

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In Tahlequah, Oklahoma, things escalated quickly at a local Taco Bell when Amber Henson discovered the fast food restaurants WiFi wasnt working. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SozSjaGxTa0/outraged-that-a-taco-bell-lack.html

The raccoons name is Melanie. (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rJmcM3R4V4g/cute-raccoon-enjoys-riding-her.html

I have taken whale-watching boat rides off Newport Beach many times, and seen many beautiful things. But theres always new beauty nature has ready to surprise us. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FDo5yRwoeQk/humpack-whale-exhales-a-beauti.html