An elderly woman in Lynden, Wa., somehow got turned around on her 6 mph scooter and ended up on the highway.

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Kate Milford made a name as a young adult writer able to tap into a rich Bradburian vein of lyricism with the Boneshaker -- now she shows us that she's an expect mystery writer as well, in Greenglass House, an illustrated middle-grades novel that will keep you guessing. Read the rest

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The Altec Lansing Life Jacket is $135 at Amazon—just don't get it wet.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NhTt2vLuiqE/indestructible-speaker-destroy.html

This weekend, my short story "The Man Who Sold the Moon" won the The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a juried prize for the best science fiction story of the year. Read the rest

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A 65-year-old man in Buchen, Germany was collecting bottles and cans on an early morning walk when he was attacked and killed by a circus elephant who had somehow escaped her enclosure.

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Valery Spiridinov, a 30-year-old Russian man with the severely debilitating Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, intends to undergo the world's first human head transplant.

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The Cthulhu Mythos is turned into a game of dice in Steve Jackson's Cthulhu Dice. The demonically beating heart of the game is a large, beautiful, and gem-like 12-sided die covered in Cthulhu-related runes.

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Dragon Dictate for Mac Version 4 ($99) merges fast, accurate speech recognition and versatile transcription to fit the way you work.

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The fact that many Amazon reviewers were aghast to realize that this stainless steel double spoon holder resembled a scrotum was reason alone to buy it.

Culina Stainless Steel Double Spoon Rest 7" ($10) on Amazon

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3qLSDFYnSus/the-1-star-reviews-convinced-m.html

Exhibit A: Chimpanzees found to drink alcoholic plant sap in wild.

Exhibit B: Chimpanzee smoking and acting like a gangster.

Previously: Chimp fight at the LA Zoo. Chimp with a stick knocks drone out of sky.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/i9j1TwGQW4Y/chimp-with-a-drink.html

Our field requires ethical frameworks we accept, instead of rules that remain technically unbroken while we hackers violate their spirit with as much ingenuity as we can muster. Read the rest

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The first collection starring Phoebe and her unicorn friend Marigold Heavenly Nostrils was the strongest new syndicated strip I'd read in years; with Unicorn on a Roll, Dana Simpson demonstrates that she's got plenty more where that came from. Read the rest

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Darryl Anka telepathically channels a space alien from the future named Bashar who lives on the planet Essassani; on this basis, he has claimed many copyright infringements in the creations of Tumblr's GIF artists. Read the rest

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If you liked the solar-powered spinning Mars globe, but wanted something more exotic, there's the spinning Titan globe, and for something closer to home, there's the Lunar edition. Read the rest

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Cross a judiciously edited briefing scene from Star Wars with the audio from the briefing scene in Ocean's Eleven, and what do you get? (more…)

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Apple today made available its new San Francisco system font, offered for developers who are working on next-generation apps for iOS 9, OS X El Capitan and watchOS 2. (more…)

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“Time lapse, one second intervals. Canon 5dmII. Wide angle lenses.” Read the rest

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The past, set into motion. Read the rest

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1943 U.S. Employment Service propaganda poster. (more…)

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“The state is reaching back more than a century in the hierarchy of California water rights,” reports the Los Angeles Times. Read the rest

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