The 13-year-old’s father, Mehmet, had brought the goat into town to sacrifice on Muslim feast day Eid al-Adha. The goat also died. [via]

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The Guardian: "A tour of Oklahoma’s state-of-the-art killing room unveils how the state spent thousands on restraints, an electric bed and medical equipment, but also how a theatre of transparency hides actual practices"

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Thinkgeek's $80 Medieval Knight Hoodie lets you stay warm and stylish by simulating a suit of plate armor. The spaulders and visor snap on and off, and the sleeves are pulled into shape by thumb cuffs.

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The new Nexus will have a 5.9-inch screen, reports the Wall Street Journal, though that seems, oddly, to be the only thing they report about it.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mia7r5oaEo0/google-to-sell-enormous-smartp.html

Federal officials today said that passengers arriving from West Africa will be screened for body temperature at five American airports. The first will be JFK in New York, as early as this weekend.

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Paolo Ballesteros, a makeup artist and performer in the Philippines, transforms himself into celebrities and shares the results on Instagram: Rihanna, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, and others. Read the rest

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"Lucrative irrelevance" is the phrase Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean uses to elaborate Microsoft's future under Ballmer. With Ballmer gone, though, does new CEO Satya Nadella offer an alternative?

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Pitched as an action camera for the rest of us, the $200 tiny Re pairs with Android and iOS smartphones and shoots 1080-lines video at 30fps, or 720-line video at 120fps.

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Gorgeous culinary art by Ruth & Sira, illustrators and graphic designers from the north of Spain. Read the rest

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Italian fashion photographer Lucia Giacani’s “Under My Skin” series, originally shot for Vogue Italia. Read the rest

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This video from German paper airplane enthusiast site Papierfliegerei is pretty fantastic. Read the rest

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With much of the world's attention focused on West Africa for other reasons today, it's a great time to remember that cool people are doing cool things there. Like the surf instructors and surfers in this short documentary about catching waves in Dakar, Senegal. Read the rest

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Could Thomas Eric Duncan's life could have been extended or saved if the Texas hospital where he first sought help took him in sooner? Read the rest

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"It was a summer evening in 2011 when Crystal walked into Porsche of Destin with a check for $109,588.74 and left driving that year’s model Panamera automobile, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office report." (via)

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NASA’s newest spacecraft, Orion, will be launched into space for the first time in December 2014. Read the rest

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They're just asking for backdoors in complete ignorance of the facts of computer security, writes Chris Coyne.

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Unreal lab-grown oysters from "The In Vitro Meat Cookbook," a glorious exercise in recipes as design fiction from Next Nature. More over at re:form.

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About to get tougher, too.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YDEu4HhdJ6U/wearables-is-tough-says-g.html

“Get it away from me, I don’t ever want that taste in my mouth again.” She does enjoy other candied varieties VIA

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JmlbkKEFcXM/charlotte-observer-food-editor.html

Frozen, 16-bit.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NoxAGGYxHUI/frozen-the-chip-tune.html