Pantyhose Casserole Carrier: Potluck be a lady tonight. Read the rest

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Wednesday is chockablock with Warrrior-worthy car chases and road battles, rival gang-tribes, beautifully and memorably-rendered characters, those 80s pop-art colors and sensibilities, and that bad-ass, supercharged blown-hemi Barracuda. Read the rest

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Rob Walker has a terrific photo essay about the spiky metal cages designed to discourage people from sitting on standpipes.

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In 1972 a man using the alias D.B. Cooper highjacked a commercial jet flying out of Portland, Oregon and jumped out with a parachute and $200,000 in cash.

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"When asked what is the difference between The Masonic Fraternal Police Department and other Police Departments the answer is simple for us.

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How a surprising iPhone and Apple Watch bestseller is pushing the boundaries of fiction Read the rest

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Forget George R. R. Martin's map book: an Etsy user called MongoLife has reimagined the Game of Thrones continent of Westeros in Google Maps. Read the rest

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Researchers at the University of Toronto found that “badly tuned” cars are responsible for most of the air pollution. Read the rest

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Suburbia is a technocrat’s take on urban planning. The art is streamlined to the point of austerity, there is almost no luck, and the game is unashamed to show off its mathematical guts.

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I haven't read a comic book this much fun in a quite a while. The Humans, written by Keenan Marshall Keller and drawn by Tom Neely is about a planet (Earth?) where apes rule supreme and humans are mute beasts.

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Steven Mathieson, 38, was high on cocaine when he stabbed 23-year old Luciana Maurer to death at his home in Glasgow, Scotland, then held two more women at knifepoint and raped them.

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Smartphones and tablets have been great for games, but are much-maligned for the antisocial act of screen-staring. Luckily, games like Glitchnap's Sentree can help all your friends play together, with just a couple of devices. Read the rest

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Why were pies in the 1600s baked in such improbable shapes? Over at HiLobrow, Tom Nealon investigates, and Deb Chachra drops some science on the question.

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Loki, as a character, seems to suit our modern times exceptionally well. Of all the gods of Asgard, he is the subversive; the social and racial outsider; a gender-fluid character in a very binary world. Read the rest

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It's a lot of fun to watch and hear these people making fun of phone scammers pretending to be from the IRS or Microsoft tech support.

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I'm thrilled to report that today Medium has launched explicit Creative Commons licensing as part of the product. That means when you post a story to Medium, you can simply click to select a CC license for whatever you write! Read the rest

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After leaked recordings of high-level government officials (including the PM) plotting to cover up a murder surfaced, Macedonia erupted into demonstrations that were met with extreme police brutality. Read the rest

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Amazon's toys category is no longer sorted into "Boys" toys and "Girls" toys. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nPFF2TyptQA/amazon-drops-boy-and-gir.html

James Siddle has analysed the voting records of the incumbent MPs in the UK parliament to see how often they rebel against the party line, and who they side with then they do. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hIFKLmWO8hc/which-uk-mps-rebel-against-the.html

Do-it-yourself neon. This thin electroluminescent wire (el-wire) glows very brightly. You can bend it easily and tie it to anything. It produces essentially no heat.

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