This is the stuff that I woke up to today. Can you believe it? Read the rest

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From Boing Boing with meme-love. You're welcome.

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Listen to it here. Read the rest

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I love my new Jackhammer Jill skateboard deck designed and made by Andreas Ekberg. Check out his website of beautiful creations.

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I bought my first Zojirushi stainless steel mug as a Christmas gift for my wife. She likes to take a lot of coffee with her to work for the day, typically filling both a travel mug and a thermos. I was looking for something that would keep a couple of servings of coffee hot for a long time, but would be easier to drink from than a traditional thermos. I came across this product, with extremely good reviews, and decided to get one for her to try. Read the rest

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Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber follows up his magesterial Debt: The First 5000 Years with a slim, sprightly, acerbic attack on capitalism's love affair with bureaucracy, asking why the post-Soviet world has more paperwork, phone-trees and red-tape than ever, and why the Right are the only people who seem to notice or care. Read the rest

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We use a lot of butter at my house. And we like our butter soft, so it is easier to mix in to recipes, and so it doesn't rip toast apart when applied with a knife. Instead of keeping butter in the refrigerator, we keep it in a butter crock (AKA butter bell, butter pot, or French butter dish) on the kitchen counter. Read the rest

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These may be the most unexpectedly gorgeous and disturbing examples of experimental GIF art I've ever seen. Read the rest

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Here are some of my favorite very simple animations by artist and GIF-master Florian de Looij. Read the rest

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Song-a-Day Man Jonathan Mann whipped up a quickie about those Katy Perry Superbowl sharks.

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Modify a Panasonic RC-6025 flip clock to play Sonny and Cher's “I Got You Babe” from the movie “Groundhog Day” over and over and over when the alarm goes off, and what do you get? The Groundhog Day Alarm Clock. Read the rest

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The music matches the execrable covers, which are frequently NSFW. Exceptions: Swamp Dogg's music, and Heino's look. [via]

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From Futility Closet:

In the top figure, one coin rolls around another coin of equal size.

In the bottom figure, the same coin rolls along a straight line. In each case the rolling coin has made one complete rotation. But the red arc at the top is half the length of the red line at the bottom. Why?

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Suppose there is a God, and you arrive at the Pearly Gates, what would you say to him, her or it? Stephen Fry, an avowed secular humanist, isn’t throwing God any softballs: Why create a world where kids have bone cancer? Why create insects that burrow into children’s eyes and render them blind?

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A 9-year-old boy was suspended from his Texas school for telling a classmate that he could make him disappear with his Tolkien invisibility ring.

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This video tour of the martial arts film star's dense hometown hits many of Hong Kong's hotspots, and reveals more about who Jackie Chan the man. Read the rest

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Your new rare groove obsession. You're welcome. Read the rest

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"'It's not my responsibility to inject my child with chemicals in order for [a child like Maggie] to be supposedly healthy,' he said. 'As far as I'm concerned, it's very likely that her leukemia is from vaccinations in the first place.'" Charming.

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I'm not much of a tennis player, so I don't know if this is a great idea or not. But one of the many reasons I don't play a lot of tennis is that I don't enjoy stooping over to pick up the ball a few hundred times per match. Read the rest

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After a protracted battle with the Bureau, artist and journalist Molly Crabapple (previously) has gotten them to admit that they're keeping a whopping file on her, which they will release to her lawyers at the rate of 750 (heavily redacted) pages/month for the next ten months. Read the rest

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