We are as close as we've ever been to Pluto, and images even more spectacular than this are on the way. Read the rest

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The Hootananny pub in Inverness, Scotland no longer will feature barman dresses in kilts. The owner and assistant manager say intoxicated customers were lifting the employees' kilts, and in some cases, grabbing their penises.

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Since January, Tabby the cat has returned to her family's home in Canada five times with a square patch of fur shaved from her body. The family is mystified, and when they told neighbors about it, one of the neighbors reported that his four-year-old cat Twilight has received similar treatment. Read the rest

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Lesson learned! Or perhaps not.

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Won't someone think of the poor exoplanets? Read the rest

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Aww. Poor little Pluto.

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Before the Amiga, before the C64, there was Commodore's PET, its first great 8-bit machine. Now it's being resurrected, in spirit, as a cellphone.

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I want to make this delicious looking ice cream (but with much less sugar). No ice cream maker needed!

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A rare Enigma machine, the proto-computer used by the Nazis to send codes during World War II, just sold at auction for $233,000 to an unnamed buyer. Of course, the Enigma code was cracked by Alan Turing and the other cypherpunks at Bletchley Park. Read the rest

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Recode's Mark Bergen and Kurt Wagner take us through the internet's latest crazy craze, from top to endlessly repeating puppy-eyed bottom.

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ProxyHam is a portable WiFi router that costs $200 and mask users’ IP addresses. Rhino Security Labs, the company that developed ProxyHam was scheduled to debut it at the Def Con convention in Las Vegas in August, but on Friday Rhino tweeted that they were scrapping the project without explaining why.

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Gawker's Jesus Diaz points us to this bangin' video charting the escape route of noted Sinaloa drug cartel boss Chapo Guzm'an, with a narco-corrido soundtrack. Read the rest

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“We have a healthy spacecraft, we recorded data on the Pluto system, and we're outbound from Pluto.” Read the rest

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The Oscar-winning documentarian, who directed Citizenfour, was detained and searched over 50 times, but the breaking-point was when the US Government refused to respond to her Freedom of Information Act request for the reasons for her harassment. Read the rest

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Marketed as packing twenty-three functions into one pocketable gadget, the Kelvin 23 is a screwdriver with 15 bits, a hammer, a level, an LED light, a tape measure, and a magnetic picker-upper.

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is expected to radio home any minute now. We're watching on NASA TV. The moment will end a nearly 22-hour radio blackout as the probe focused on a series of close-up observations of Pluto and its moons.

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Donald and Rudy!

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IIBC2Le57uI/heres-our-prediction-for-don.html

Lindsay is a silent comedian, and her performances are unlike anything I've seen. Besides being clever and funny, Lindsay is a very skilled juggler and magician.

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echochamber.js creates a fake comment form on your site. The clever part: it stores the comment in the user's browser storage, so when they come back later it's still "there." (more…)

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