Clemson University has withdrawn its demand, which would have mandated students answer questions on how often they have sex, what sort of sex it was, and the number of partners. The quiz was supposedly anonymous, but required students to use their official IDs and third-party services to complete.

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Deanna Dahlsad escapes Soviet Russia, sends her friends to Siberia, and braves the wicked Kommissar in this 1960s-era board game. Read the rest

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McDonalds used to include this perfectly utilitarian spoon with coffee--perhaps the company's only genuine claim to a design classic. Because it could be used to measure out drugs, though, it was removed from the market at the demand of lobbyists seeking a symbolic victory over drug "paraphernalia."

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You do not need another unboxing video. This is the one unboxing video you need. (more…)

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Plus-Plus building bricks become popular in Denmark, where the toy began. Read the rest

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Valiant SCA member Jimmy Morgan Jr. fended off burglar Thomas McGowan with the spear he keeps by his bed. (VIA)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CPiT3JGZAKI/man-stabbed-with-spear-while-r.html

There are a handful of other books about African-American quilts, particularly quilts from Gee’s Bend; each have beautiful quilts to show, but this obscure exhibition catalogue remains my favorite.

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Ciro Trezzi's Death of a star/Birth of an hero shirt design is up for your votes on Threadless -- it's quite a lovely take on the eternal struggle for the Force.

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Amazon beat Google to the new .buy top-level domain, and will be able to sell on domains under it (such as, say, boingboing.buy) to others. The .tech suffix, though, went for $6.7m...

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tVEpYMy8DvM/amazon-pays-4-6m-for-buy-dom.html

Scotland votes 'No' to independence [BBC]

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Perth, Australia. The first in-store pickup of the long-awaited new iPhone. The glare of the new day. The crush of the crowd. The crack of metal on concrete.

The phone was fine.

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Lewis Dartnell descends a kilometer underground to visit a laboratory where scientists have spent twenty years searching for the elusive particles that hold our galaxy together. Read the rest

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Ilan Stavans did some literary exploring in Cuba, and he's sharing with us the fruits of his (and many others') labors. Read the rest

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Ab writes, "Toronto Reference Library (TRL) recently completed a multi-year revitalization project (to spotlight the new changes in the Reference Library, we also flew a mini drone around TRL to get a bird's eye view of what's new): the library is celebrating the completion of this project with an event on Friday, Sept. 19." Read the rest

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George K's tumblr, Olex Oleole, is a beautiful running feed of gloriously weird remixes of Victorian woodcuts, in the style of the brilliant Dan Hillier. Read the rest

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My two favorite soundtrack reissue labels, Death Waltz Records and Mondo, have united, and the vinyl gods are pleased. Read the rest

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From 1903-1905, a Japanese-born, Dutch artist named Gustave Verbeek turned America’s Sunday funny papers on their collective head. Read the rest

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Automobile-Sized Refrigerator: When a cooler just isn’t cool enough. By Matt Maranian Read the rest

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We had a blast at the legendary Village recording studios in West Los Angeles on September 13 for another edition of the Twilight Session music showcase, co-hosted by the Crescent Hotel, Audeze, and the LA Weekly, among others. Read the rest

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Botto Bistro in Richmond, California is unconcerned about its Yelp rating. In an effort to undermine the reliability of its Yelp page, Botto Bistro is working to be the worst-rated restaurant in the Bay Area and is encouraging its customers to leave one-star Yelp reviews and offering deals for anyone who writes a bad review: 25% off any pizza and a chance to win a cooking class. Read the rest

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