Photographer Tod Papageorge's new book Studio 54 documents the infamous 1970s New York City disco during its coke and boogie-fueled heyday.

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Pretty morning.

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Photographer Jonathan Bright may have snapped the clearest picture yet of the legendary Loch Ness Log, a mythical column of cellulose and lignin said to lurk amid the Scottish lake's waves.

Scientists, however, have poured cold water on the sighting, saying that the indistinct form is clearly just a plesiosaurus.

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Police in Wales confronted a man who was "trying to eat the eyeball and face of a woman". He was tased but became unresponsive; both the man and the victim were subsequently pronounced dead. Read the rest

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Though the noise of wind turbines has no measurable effect on illness or chronic disease, Health Canada confirms that "The louder the noise was, the more people reported being very or extremely annoyed."

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Frank Platt via Arbroath.

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Sesame Street via io9

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"By imagining nerds as a race of their own," writes Christopher Tan in The New Inquiry, "Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy."

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"The Whale" is one of the spaciest tracks on Electric Light Orchestra's Out of the Blue, an already very spacy album. Someone interspersed it with footage of actual whales in a feat of majestic literalism.

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Making Cuban coffee is an art that's passed down jittery generations. And now you can do it too. Read the rest

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Paul Robertson's pixel art comes from a profane electric neon universe, Miyamoto on mushrooms. Read the rest

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Fans of the popular RoboGames event launch a Kickstarter to bring the robot-on-robot combat back as a web series, starring Internet sweetheart Veronica Belmont. Read the rest

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Colorado Republican Cory Gardner has ousted longtime privacy advocate Mark Udall in a Senate win. The outgoing Senator and champion of civil liberties has one last chance to read the truth about American atrocities out loud for the world to see,” writes Freedom of the Press Foundation's Trevor Timm in the Guardian, “Before it’s too late.”

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"The owner of a south Seattle convenience store says a man pulled a gun and asked him for a favor -- to empty the till."

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Jason Steffen, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, came up with a boarding method that greatly speeds up the traditional back-to-front boarding method used by most airlines. But the airlines aren't interested. Read the rest

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A mailman in Carlsbad, CA was alarmed by a ticking package and reported it to the authorities. Police evacuated several homes in the area and when they opened the box, they discovered it contained Mexican jumping beans.

“It was a little funny and made a serious situation humorous, but it is sad that police had to waste their time on a toy,” a neighbor said.

Now is a great time to read the Useful Information sheet given away with box of jumping beans.

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A classic sermon from 1969 delivered by the hypnotically charismatic Reverend Jack Van Impe, who warned that "by 1974, John Sinclair, the rock band The MC5, and specifically their song 'Kick Out the Jams' will produce sex on the streets in every major US city." [via]

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A dating site catering to people with sexually transmitted diseases exposed their private information to other dating sites. A jury in California detemined that the operators of PositiveSingles committed fraud, malice and oppression.

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I’ve always been fascinated by WWI trench art – objets d’art fashioned from bullet and shell casings and other materials found in the trenches and battlefields of that hellish quagmire.

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When the player count fades, online games often end up shuttered by publishers who can no longer pay for the servers and staff to maintain them. The EFF has asked for an exemption to copyright rules that make reverse-engineering netcode an iffy legal proposition. The aim? To allow online games to live forever on third-party servers. Read the rest

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