In a forum for ex-Mormons, a redditor asks how to rebut his wife's assertion that "Every civilization that has accepted homosexuality has failed" -- the answer is epic. Read the rest

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Kurt sez, "'Stalking the Bogeyman' is a Kickstarter-funded play about the true story of my friend David Holthouse, an investigative journalists, who tracked down the man who sexually assaulted him as a child, 25 years later." Read the rest

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Fire and Bone's repeating its previous Kickstarter success with a new collection of 3D scanned skulls (including velociraptors!) that are turned into lost-wax molds through 3D printing, available in finished form as yellow/white bronze and silver. Read the rest

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Tucked inside this $1.5 million watch by Greubel Forsey is a tiny ship sculpture by Willard Wigan who is the master at artworks you can't appreciate without high-powered optics. Read the rest

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Lindsey Loree proposed to her boyfriend by challenging him to a game of Magic: The Gathering into which she inserted a homemade "Proposal" card (she had to sneak a card into her lap to make it work); once he said yes, she gave him a ringpop to seal the deal! Read the rest

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The new, stupid ban on "professional" photography violates the First Amendment, the Service admits that there's no actual need for it, and it will undermine the visibility of the national forests at a time when they are under unprecedented threat from developers, the energy sector, and mining. Read the rest

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US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that he is resigning. Trevor Timm of Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's been the worst AG where press freedom issues are concerned since Nixon's John Mitchell. Read the rest

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Hint: It isn't goldfish crackers, a Tom Clancy novel, or clean underwear. Read the rest

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While you contemplate Eric Holder's track record of surveilling, intimidating and indicting journalists, remember that he also invented the Too Big to Jail doctrine, the failed idea that the answer to breathtaking criminal activity by gigantic banks is big fines, not criminal prosecutions. Read the rest

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A lovely image shot by Patrick Kuhl, shared in our Flickr Pool: “Bison at the Conservancy in Alaska.”

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KsiGGUJSWJ8/bison-alaska-a-photo-shared.html

Amazon's comedy-drama centered on the experiences of a trans person is an imperfect step forward, says Andrea James Read the rest

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National Geographic profiles Robert Wood, Harvard's maker of micro-robots inspired by nature, like these programmable bees. Read the rest

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MIT researchers demonstrated a barnacle-like underwater robot that can traverse a ship's hull to seek out secret compartments. Read the rest

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“You Poked My Heart,” says one kid as the debate escalates into physical territory. Shot and shared by Tara Willmott.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zACo5ylKNqY/cute-kids-arguing-is-it-raini.html

Independent game developer Bennett Foddy has improved chess. Pray that he does not improve it further. [Previously]

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A prison typist complained about the security of her workplace, was raped by an inmate, and sued her employer. In its defense, the state attorney general's office says she "acted in a manner which in whole or in part contributed to the events" [CNN]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/izrgGoomcqo/pennsylvania-attorney-general.html

What, you like clicking things, don't you? Kurt Wagner, at Recode, explains the social network's deal with processor Stripe.

This is noteworthy given that Facebook has other payments partners on different features, including PayPal’s mobile payments unit Braintree. It’s also not the first time Facebook and Stripe have worked together. Facebook partnered with Stripe last year on a separate project that enables Facebook users to autofill their payment information from Facebook when using third-party apps (Braintree was also a partner).

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/f7CWXvzAivU/facebook-to-get-a-buy-button.html

Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla bought a house by a public beach, then cut off access to it. A court has ordered him to unlock the gates.

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Eric Holder is to step down as Attorney General of the United States of America. The Onion explains what will happen next.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/k2DWO-o7GxI/attorney-general-quits.html

Security failures will live on forever, because protocols have no sell-by date. Glenn Fleishman exposes the eternity we face with broken software. Read the rest

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