The Orbit Flote is designed to hold your tablet just where you want it, so you can go about your business hands-free.

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Xeni made some great points about appropriation artist Richard Prince's Instagram screenshot art tonight on All In. Prince's biggest (and perhaps only real) crime, said Xeni, is that his latest show is terribly boring.

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The three Genius Illustrated books dedicated to the life and works of Alex Toth make up what’s likely the most lavish and complete portrait ever of an American comic book artist or animator: Toth was both.

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Bassist Maureen Herman on the romance and reality of hitting the road Read the rest

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Flying Monkey wardrobe test from "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). Such pride. (more…)

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WE WILL RIDE THROUGH THE GATES OF VALHALLA SHINY AND CHROME! WITNESS ME! (more…)

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Ten years after Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner published Freakonomics, the most fun book about economic incentives you'll ever read, have published a greatest hits collection from their fantastic blog, titled When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants.

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Examining the planet's deep interior could reveal clues about how all rocky planets, including Earth, formed and evolved. Read the rest

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The Ecocapsule holds two adults and contains a kitchenette with running water, flushing toilet, hot shower, and storage space. I can imagine fields in San Francisco peppered with these as the housing crisis continues. Read the rest

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In the criminal justice system, the people are protected by two separate yet equally important heroes: Matt Murdock, the brash young lawyer; and Daredevil, his vigilante alter ego. This is his story.

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I am a huge fan of this Gerber survival series fire starter. It is cheap, rugged and easy to use.

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Flushing's PS 120 asked kids to contribute $10/each to a carnival held in the school-yard during school hours, and kids who couldn't pay had to sit in the auditorium watching old Disney movies and listening to the shrieks of delight from outside. Read the rest

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27-year-old Wang Sicong is the son of Wang Jianlin, worth about $34 billion dollars. Read the rest

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The author of This Book Is A Dungeon [This Dungeon Is A Book] describes his new project as "a multi-format creative experiment that merges the worlds of game design, interactive fiction, indie authorship, and self-publishing together in one crazy project." Read the rest

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The West Village's unique identity made it one of the most valued real-estate spots in the world, which is why its bohemian tenants are being forced out by landlords who jack up the rent and leave the place empty until they can convince a multinational to sign a lease -- it's Mark Jacobs versus Jane Jacobs. Read the rest

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What would it be like to have actor Vin Diesel gently and encouragingly DM a game of Dungeons & Dragons for you? Thanks to a new Twine game, you don't have to guess, and the result is joyful. Read the rest

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The Surface 3 offers you the best of both a tablet and a laptop.

While the 10.8-inch screen and thin, light frame make the Surface as easy to toss into your backpack or purse as a tablet, the ability to run full scale desktop software on Windows 8.1 will make you forget that you’re not using a laptop.

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Matt Taibbi writes that the recent blow-up is about much more than the killing of Freddie Gray. Beyond that murder, there is a complex legal infrastructure that encourages — and covers up — police violence. Read the rest

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A Vine of greatness.

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