It allows you to erase your browser history/cookies for 5 minutes, 2 hours, or 1 day, in case you want your browser to be able to unsee wherever it is that you've blundered into. Read the rest

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“Cancer, they agree, has become something they never imagined. 'A gift,' they say, almost in unison.”

Pass the medical marijuana. I feel a wave of chemo-grade nausea coming on. Read the rest

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In footage meant to air on 20/20, Elvis Costello and the Attractions play Boston and Detroit at the height of their powers and buy avocados with Geraldo Rivera. (more…)

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New York City police will stop arresting people for posessing small amounts of pot. The policy change reflects mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign promise to repair difficult relations between the nation's largest police force and people in the city who are not white.

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A lawsuit claims Bilgin Sasmaz was thrown to the ground by cops and arrested for photographing a police officer who was pointing a gun at protesters in Ferguson. Read the rest

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As if it wasn't suffering from enough problems already, the United States Postal Service said Monday its systems had been hacked, and employee information had likely been compromised. Read the rest

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Dude gets paid six figures a year to make up new tech jargon like “HoMo.” Are you jealous? You may be suffering from Shingenfreude. Read the rest

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Cartoonist Dennis Worden has been making some great wooden sculptures lately. This one looks like a nightmarish Cootie Bug game mutant.

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This bag has been my indefatigable mobile office for the past 2 years.

I am a train commuter navigating from Boston’s suburbs into Kendall Square (MIT), Cambridge five days a week.

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A series of stage events throughout the US focuses on the power of water. The next performance is scheduled for SF, CA on Wed. Nov. 12. Read the rest

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Serial is a podcast about a murder that happened in 1999. It's produced by This American Life and it's the best podcast series I've listened to. Read the rest

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A talented youngster tattoos a customer.

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On Halloween night Gabrielle Wathen paid $362.57 for a 20-minute Uber ride, thanks to Uber's "surge pricing." You can avoid Wathen's fate with SurgeProtector, a free app that finds locations nearby with cheaper Uber prices and sends a car to that spot. [via]

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Sauces that look like car polish. Windshield cleaner that looks like blue soda. Atrocious architecture. Unintentionally sexual signage. Confusing instructions. Enjoy this gallery of lousy design.

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G"orkem Sen of Istanbul designed this large musical instrument he calls the Yaybahar. He really starts playing it around the 2 minute mark. The music is beautiful and I love the room he's in, too! (more…)

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Over at Vantage, Yang Yongliang's breathtaking dystopian landscapes, each composited from hundreds of his own photos and video stills of the region around Shanghai, China. Read the rest

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Boo-Hooray gallery/publisher has installed an exhibition titled Cut-Ups: William S. Burroughs 1914-2014, a collaboration with Emory University celebrating the deeply powerful creative technique leveraged by Burroughs and his best friend Brion Gysin to transform their literary, audio, visual, performance, and magical works. Read the rest

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From the Secure, Contain, Protect dystopian collaborative fiction project, an image of an "urban druid" from The Victory Society, "believed to be Reverend Michael Hawshore." (Update: it's a crop from Dutch photog Cor Jaring's work)

SCP-1936 (via Bruce Sterling)

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Telly Savalas's stirring rendition of "If" made it to the top spot on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in 1975. [via]

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Abraham Lincoln's eldest son, Robert, is the subject of a grim coincidence in American history: He's the only person known to have been present or nearby at the assassinations of three American presidents.

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