Give Me Fiction is a prose reading series hosted by Ivan Hernandez. On this episode, comedian Kyle Mizono tells a story of adolescent development and Mortal Kombat.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QJCGzOwt6SY/oh-hey-guy-we-might-be-sending.html

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other senior officials gathered today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to announce that NASA will resume human space flight in the United States-- Boeing and SpaceX will be the commercial partners to help transport astronauts to the International Space Station, and they will launch from Cape Canaveral. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PzhYWvrPpmA/nasa-announces-the-return-o.html

Colin Marshall came to my house and interviewed me for his excellent Notebook on Cities and Culture podcast. Listen to it here. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_QZy9YHi8tw/the-freedom-to-be-foolish.html

Some of my favorite things about zombie movies are the details of the changed world. The dead grass, broken windows, toppled telephone poles, abandoned cars with missing wheels and trunks left open, boarded-up buildings, spent ammo shells, and other signs of struggle and desperation serve to create a fascinatingly creepy environment. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Tbiyi1WBIYU/dead-inside-do-not-enter.html

French illustrator John Rebaud's “Skateographie” series transforms classic skateboard tricks into poster art. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lj5LLSjqPpA/classic-skateboard-tricks-ill.html

SPACELAB9 and Hasbro Studios are releasing two picture disc vinyl editions of "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic," availably only from Hot Topic. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ilqibJES2Bk/my-little-pony-vinyl-soundtrac.html

The case of Timothy Young made national headlines in 2012 when New Mexico police anally probed him in search of drugs (no contraband was found).

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Tiny, delicate, and precious without being--well, precious. Read the rest

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This Russian motorcyclist throws trash into the windows of litterbugs she comes across.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/MQiOgvk2Y0A/watch-self-appointed-vigilant.html

The California Sunday Magazine is a brand new publication launched by longtime Boing Boing pal Chas Edwards and Doug McGray, founder of the Pop-Up Magazine live event series. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1OoaehRqcMA/california-sunday-magazine-ne.html

Available early next year, the TiVo Mega has 24TB of hot swappable RAID storage, 6 tuners, includes a lifetime TiVo subscription, and costs $5,000. Load it with years of shows you'll never watch!

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zpesYtiPYVU/ridiculously-massive-tivo.html

George Mason University’s Green Machine pep band rages against the machine. (via Devour)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ontiP4Qd4hg/band-class-covers-killing-in.html

In Smithsonian, Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, profiles everyone's favorite Amazonian princess. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/O3uV0-gtOGM/wonder-womans-secret-history.html

Breakfast cooked as it should be - on a levitating aluminum hot plate. From Popular Science, 1966.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_vj6I8ldEK4/bacon-and-eggs-grilled-in-air.html

A football team executed a fake punt so terribly that one component of it--a player pretending to have some kind of seizure on the field of play--seemed strangely authentic. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Y3B5G-54DFc/football-fake-punt-play-had-de.html

The Illustrated Man was one of the first Ray Bradbury books I bought. I picked it up at my junior high school's weekly book sale.

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This fellow (mostly) delights New Yorkers by high-fiving them as they hail taxis.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-5NMALyTTd0/video-high-fiving-people-hail.html

Dotcom claims he has emails between New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Warner exec Kevin Tsujihara in which Tsujihara explains that Dotcom was followed by private security in Hong Kong and that Key had made the extradition promise to Warner as part of the deal to shoot The Hobbit in NZ (the MPAA, Warner and Key's office all dispute the email's authenticity). Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Snb5bC_Gqq8/kim-dotcom-accuses-nz-pm-key-o.html

My wife has kissed me in front of Studio Police, CA and she wasn't handcuffed. So why did they handcuff and detain Daniele Watts for kissing her boyfriend?

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