Give Me Fiction is a prose reading series hosted by Ivan Hernandez. This week's episode is a piece of feminist existential horror by author Sarah Griffin entitled "The Badger."

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California's power infrastructure stinks, but we do get a lot of sunshine. I wanted the option of solar charging my 12V batteries; I found it cheap and simple.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5fj_soxsEfw/solar-charging-your-car-campi.html

Bill Watterson on what legendary satirical magazine Puck tells us about change and opportunity. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KVVuNLMCF60/what-fools-these-mortals-be-a.html

17-year-old Marcel Hamer smoked a cigarette in public, so a police officer pushed him down and punched him in the face, knocking him out: “Do you wanna get fucked up?” [NYMag]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/T7dWUsrHbHg/cop-knocks-out-teen-for-smokin.html

Lawyers for a detainee held captive at Guantanamo since 2002 are arguing in court that new force-feeding protocols are particularly abusive, and designed to deter detainees from participating in hunger strikes. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rMlr37At_dc/gitmo-officials-admit-force-fe.html

Modern erotic realism, in works by French painter Hubert de Lartigue. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Yr_bZEamFIM/the-paintings-of-hubert-de-lar.html

I could watch this video all day.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/k1u9F_jn6Og/video-how-bubble-wrap-is-made.html

“Watchtower of Turkey,” Leonardo Dalessandri.

[via Reddit]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/VdGROG6l8VM/video-turkey-2200-miles-in-2.html

One of the motorcycles I ride is now equipped with Kung Fu grips. They are so cleverly named, I must try them.

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Images recently released by NASA' twin GRACE satellites show an ever-worsening situation. Read the rest

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Should American airports screen passengers to identify those who may have Ebola? Government officials and U.S. airlines are considering this, as public concern in the West grows after news of new cases affecting non-Africans. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UsWn2Ey4pzY/airlines-and-u-s-officials-co.html

One of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's friends was incapable of lying to the FBI about visiting his dorm room and removing a backpack, because he was simply too high to recall what he did on that day, said the man's attorney Monday.

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Reading Daniel Pinkwater's novels as a kid changed my life for the better, and I've never looked back, so this beautifully written profile by Josh Nathan-Kazis was a pure delight to read, from Pinkwater's experiences as a cult member to the time that Terry Gilliam blamed him for killing Harvey Kurtzman's Help! magazine, putting R. Crumb out of a job. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-9gKJ_efIUM/profile-of-daniel-pinkwater.html

Pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong have ebbed in numbers, but continued into early Tuesday. Thousands of participants, many of whom are students, are still gathered the city center. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/t-515lLpu7k/photos-hong-kong-protests-ebb.html

Egyptian diver Ahmed Gabr dove to 1090 feet, setting a new SCUBA record. He spent 12 minutes achieving the depth, and the next 14 hours decompressing.

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From Corridor Digital: “We can't actually do flips and tricks in real life, so we applied a bit of video magic.” Facebook, Twitter. [Thanks, Joe Sabia!]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jclXDZi4Se8/watch-amazing-stop-motion-par.html

I already can (and do) nap anywhere, but the Nap Anywhere looks like it would make it more comfortable to do so. Here's a video demo. (Thanks, Tanya Schevitz!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OlndYXoUerQ/nap-anywhere-head-support.html

Tabletop photographs of incredibly realistic tiny dioramas by Satoshi Araki. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Qg7e1x3jlOw/satoshi-arakis-exquisite-urb.html

"Eleven long-haired friends of jesus in a chartreuse microbus."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dtCKc81jBr0/convoy-cw-mccall.html

If you must stand in line for over 30 minutes to clear a security check for your job, is that part of your job and should you be paid for that time?

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