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Dangerous Finds: Drummer sues Cheap Trick; Ramones Forever 21 t-shirt; Scientists ‘freeze’ light
07.26.2013
06:04 pm
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Why aren’t the New York Dolls in the Rock Hall of Fame? - Esquire

Texas cops go to wrong house, kill elderly man, blame bad lighting - Gawker

UK porn filter will censor other content too, ISPs reveal - TorrentFreak

Yoko Ono’s ‘Acorn’ delivers its messages concisely: The avant-garde icon offers brief thought experiments that offer a guide to simplifying the challenges of a complex world - LA Times

Zero for hero: Judge snubs man hurt stopping ‘Butcher of Brighton Beach’ - New York Post

Toy fetuses snuck into candy bags at state fair - Boing Boing

Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute - io9

German president says whistleblowers like Snowden merit respect - Reuters

Gibraltar might be the beginning of the end for the Atlantic Ocean - Ars Technica

BET in legal battle with fan over her popular “The Game” Facebook page - The Daily Dot

Police caught planting drugs in small business - YouTube

Estranged Cheap Trick drummer Bun E Carlos has sued the rest of the band for hundreds of thousands of dollars, saying they have no right to keep using the band name without him - Classic Rock Magazine

Five juveniles are facing serious felony charges on Thursday morning, following what police say was the creation a weapon of mass destruction made from household chemicals that damaged a home in Lexington - WKYT

Imprisoned for pooping. Really. A Maine man gets a week in jail for a terrible No. 2—the ruling is a must read - Salon

Yep! Studded Johnny Ramone t-shirt at Forever 21 - Forever 21

Husband and wife were born on the same day, stay married for 75 years, and die one day apart. - Press-Telegram

‘Pink Panther’ jewel thief breaks out of Swiss jail - NDTV

How to Cut the Airport Line - Mashable


Below, after 2 hours of this, you’re really gonna want this guy to SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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07.26.2013
06:04 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Summer movie mega-flops; North Pole now a lake; Bubonic plague in Los Angeles?
07.25.2013
06:08 pm
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Kenneth Anger: how I made Lucifer Rising - Guardian

Americans are cutting back on regular and diet sodas - The Atlantic Wire

China plans to invest 1.7trn yuan (£180bn) to combat air pollution over the next five years - Sky News

Binders Full of Women is the gaffe that will never die - The Daily Dot

The North Pole is now a lake - The Atlantic

Researchers discover that psychedelic mushrooms can grow brain cells; erase conditioned fear response in mice - UltraCulture

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook: Philosopher ponders making omelets in long lost diary entries - Open Culture

How Simpsons co-creator with terminal cancer diagnosis plans to give away vast TV fortune - LAist

Playing Dungeons And Dragons with Siri [Video] - Nerd Approved

A bizarro drone that would deliver peace and Oxycontin instead of missiles - Wired

City sued for its handling of pot bill: City violated rights with pass-and-repeal tactic, lawsuit says - News-Leader.com

France’s official human rights watchdog is investigating the US clothes retailer Abercrombie and Fitch (A&F) over possible discrimination based on job applicants’ physical appearance - BBC News

“Leaked” Lana Del Rey song from 2009 is all about how much Lady Gaga sucks - BuzzFeed

Oxford English Dictionary will change the entry for ‘marriage’ to include gay people after same-sex weddings enshrined in law - Daily Mail

Drugs Happen: Getting real about music festivals - Huffington Post

It seems that Enterprise Rent-A-Car do more than just pick you up - Arbroath

Health officials in Los Angeles County announced yesterday that a squirrel found covered in fleas has tested positive for bubonic plague - The Verge

The Latest Census of Global Fortunes: Mo’ Money for the 1%: The surveys of wealth-management groups show that the super-rich are gobbling up an ever greater share of the world’s bounty - AlterNet

Anyone who wants to offend the French president is now legally free to do so after parliament voted on Thursday for a change in law in favour of freedom of speech - The Local

Thousands of unexplained and unexpected deaths among elderly revealed in leaked Government analysis - Independent

Swaziland’s cannabis ‘gold’ - BBC News

Police Officer Tyrone Wiggins, imprisoned for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in his karate class, has been sued by his victim, now 32 and a police officer herself - Philly.com

Summer of the Mega-Flop: Last month, Steven Spielberg predicted a Hollywood implosion. Do recent big-budget disasters already prove him right? - Slate

Tall women more prone to cancer - The Daily Beast


Below, best reaction to a magic trick ever:

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07.25.2013
06:08 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Raw 1992 LA riot footage; No parole for Pussy Riot member; Goths in Kenya?
07.24.2013
06:16 pm
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A day in the life of a Kenyan goth - Think Africa Press

What a sheep that hasn’t been sheared in 6 years looks like - Business Insider

The Twilly, a hot dog in a twinkie bun with peanut butter & bacon - Laughing Squid

Death happens more slowly than thought - Discovery

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge book due - The Quietus

Original print of The Wicker Man has been found - Live For Films

A sudden methane burp in the Arctic could set the world back a colossal $60 trillion - New Scientist

Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer - New York Times

Watch the trailer for Björk’s Nature of Music documentary - CoS

A frog using a leaf as an umbrella in a rain storm - Kottke

Walmart has told India that it is unable to meet local sourcing requirements for foreign supermarket groups wanting to open stores in the country - France 24

Handsome Pixels’ “atmosplat” masterpiece immortalizes the righteous outrage of a AppleCare-stiffed shopper, in the form of an aural nightmare to send to your enemies - Boing Boing

Have we reached peak beard? - Guardian

Study: No link between mercury exposure and autism-like behaviors - EurekAlert

A member of Russian female punk group Pussy Riot lost her appeal for parole on Wednesday after nearly a year in prison - Reuters

What a peahen really watches when a peacock tries to impress her - Wired

US colonel caught smuggling carved ivory from Kenya - The Times UK

Spanish police say they have arrested 25 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang on the Mediterranean resort island of Mallorca - Washington Post

The Balcony Table (can also be used as a desk) - The World’s Best Ever

Japan: Hunt on for serial killer who left a haiku clue - The Independent

NASA scientists have established a new way to use satellites to measure what’s occurring inside plants at a cellular level - NASA.gov


Below: “Los Angeles riots after acquittal of Police officers related to the Rodney King incident. Riots began on April 29, 1992 in South Central LA and also in other cities. This is actual uncut video taken.”

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07.24.2013
06:16 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Slint to headline ATP; Google Glass porno; Tea party never went away
07.23.2013
05:53 pm
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Slint have been announced as headliners for ATP’s End Of An Era Part 2 - The Quietus

Court gives Chevron access to nine years of Americans’ email metadata - TechDirt

“Bernie Madoff of Bitcoin” charged in $4.5M Ponzi scheme - The Daily Dot

Snowden gets Whistleblower Award in Germany - The Moscow Times

Tokyo young women’s thighs used as advertising space - The Guardian

Studies finds link between autism and cannabinoids - Autism Daily Newscast

Norman Chan’s annual Comic-Con gallery - Tested

Moments of melancholy, sadness and saudade from the lives of strangers, gleaned from the unfairly maligned ocean of YouTube comments - Sad YouTube

My father once tried to take me away from my mother because she’s gay - The Atlantic

If you thought the Republican base was angry before, get ready for what could be a very interesting August recess - Washington Post

This Google Glass porno flick foreshadows your future sex life - Fast Company

Instant 90s music - The 90s Button

Jeffrey Deitch leaving MOCA… announcement tomorrow? - Juxtapoz

Built to Spill announce Fall North American tour - Pitchfork

USC Student: “Police said I wasn’t raped because he didn’t orgasm” - Huffington Post

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia officially done after season 10 - Death and Taxes

Rare 1910 Audio: Sarah Bernhardt, ‘The Most Famous Actress the World Has Ever Known,’ in Racine’s Phèdre - Open Culture

A Flock of Seagulls band equipment stolen in Downey - ABC News

NSA says it can’t search its own emails - Salon

Bullets underwater in super slow motion - Boing Boing

Worrying about a loved one’s health could do more harm than good - The Conversation

They Call Me “the Devil”: What it’s like to be an escort at Mississippi’s last abortion clinic - Slate

Amanda Bynes—Hospitalized on 5150 hold - TMZ

16-foot dinosaur tail unearthed in Mexico is in perfect condition - io9


Below, Slant 6’s “Love Shock” from their 1994 album Soda Pop*Rip Off:

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07.23.2013
05:53 pm
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Dangerous Finds: ‘Fight Club’ sequel; Russia’s war on gays; Chomsky-Žižek feud escalates
07.22.2013
05:25 pm
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The Hoboken Sound: An oral history of Maxwell’s - Vulture

Janis Joplin’s psychedelic porsche - Voices of East Anglia

Climate change is making poison ivy grow bigger and badder - Post-Gazette

Plain packaging on tobacco products is associated with lower smoking appeal, greater support for the policy and a higher urgency to quit among adult smokers, a new study has found - The Conversation

“A walrus asleep on a Russian submarine.” - reddit

Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out - Reuters

Iconic NYC music venues, then and now - BuzzFeed

Chuck Palahniuk announces a graphic novel sequel to Fight Club - Tumblr

According to a study by scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, small, herbivorous, dome-headed dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period known as pachycephalosaurids used domes atop their heads to fight for territory and mates - Sci-News

The sounds heard during a near-death experience - Daily Grail h/t WFMU

10 scientific and tech visionaries who experimented with drugs - io9

In Afghanistan, a quest to save the snow leopard - The Washington Post

Judge rules white girl will be tried as black adult - The Onion

Through photos and memorabilia, Stanford’s Allen Ginsberg collection captures a generation - Stanford.edu

Kick-Ass 2 stuntmen rescue suicidal woman on balcony at Comic-Con - Today

Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has declared war on homosexuals. So far, the world has mostly been silent - New York Times

America sterilized over 60,000 of its own citizens from 1907-1979—A program so successful that even the Nazis asked for consultation - UltraCulture

Singh street style - Singh Street Style

The future of farming: GM crops on organic farms fertilised by human excrement - University of Sheffield

The feud continues: Noam Chomsky responds to Žižek, describes remarks as ‘sheer fantasy’ - Open Culture

Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time - Phys.org

Why 80 percent of people worldwide will soon stop eating wheat - Raw For Beauty


Below, Girls Against Boys perform “In Like Flynn” live in 1993.

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07.22.2013
05:25 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Why movies are so samey; Pot quality tests; UK blood supply sold to Bain Capital?
07.19.2013
05:16 pm
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UK’s blood supply to be sold to US private equity firm co-founded by Mitt Romney - Planet Ivy

Pope brings in lay experts to help reform Vatican - Reuters

X: The Unheard Music is a fantastic documentary that tells the story of the band, and where they came from - Boing Boing

A “catastrophic” event destroyed the atmosphere of Mars four billion years ago, according to scientists - Telegraph

Let these old New Yorkers teach you how to keep cool during a heatwave - Gothamist

NSA phone snooping cannot be challenged in court, Feds say - Wired

Journalist warns of ‘explosive’ news from cache Snowden leaked - UPI

At 99, a St. Petersburg man finds meaning in the working life - Tampa Bay

In defense of Only God Forgives, the summer’s weirdest movie - FlavorWire

Big marine parks are abusing orcas… Here’s why we need to evolve and stop enslaving marine mammals - UltraCultre

The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood—and made every movie feel the same - Slate

Internet spots pizzeria owner jerking off in kitchen, unleashes PR hell - Gawker

A new study published in the journal PLoS One examined the teeth of Camarasaurus and Diplodocus dinosaurs and found that they not only had multiple sets of backup teeth, but also constantly regenerated new ones - ABC News

Snow and Arctic sea ice extent plummet suddenly as globe bakes - Washington Post

Schoep, the arthritic dog who became an Internet sensation last summer when he was photographed floating peacefully in Lake Superior in his owner’s arms, has passed away - Today

Boston’s Mission of Burma and WFMU’s Terre T added to Maxwell’s final shows - NJ.com

Virginia’s attorney general wants to ban oral and anal sex - Niagara Falls Review

Apes capable of ‘mental time travel’ - Science Mag

Drug testing takes on a new meaning with legal marijuana: quality control - The Bulletin

Researchers have discovered the largest virus ever, and they’ve given it a terrifying name: Pandoravirus - NPR

Oprah Winfrey ripped by former co-star—‘She would have been a field n**ger’ - TMZ

New brain study questions existence of “sexual addiction” - Psychology Today

Haunting portrait of a vanishing world: Photographer captures desperate decline of 1970s Leeds as the old way of life slowly died - Daily Mail


Below, because I’m in a 90s mood, Shudder to Think’s “X-French Tee Shirt”:

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07.19.2013
05:16 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Ayn Rand killed Sears; Be an atheist, not a dick; Scary bacteria in Hudson River!
07.18.2013
07:11 pm
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Detroit files for bankruptcy - The Detroit News

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria widespread in Hudson River, study finds - Infection Control Today

Olympic weed disqualification threshold gets way higher - ANIMAL

20 Minutes Into The Future was a sci-fi telefilm with a distinctive dystopian/cyberpunk flair produced by Channel 4 in 1985 primarily known for introducing the character Max Headroom - MetaFilter

How to be an atheist without being a dick about it - Jezebel

Watch the trailer for the Calvin & Hobbes documentary - Vimeo

Microbes can influence evolution of their hosts - Phys.org

Community‘s Dan Harmon reveals the wild story behind his firing and rehiring - The Hollywood Reporter

Ayn Rand killed Sears: How the me-first corporate structure installed by hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert helped ruin the retail giant - Salon

New surgical knife can instantly detect cancer - Boston.com

Kylie Minogue’s cameo In Nick Cave’s 20,000 Days on Earth - Contact Music

What’s the most metal thing about the latest heavy metal themed bikini, the Motörhead bikini? - Cherry Bombed

Largest viral genome yet carries 2,300 genes that are new to biology - Ars Technica

Artisanal Tinfoil Haberdashery - Kickstarter

Husband and wife jailed for attacking Sikh taxi driver and ripping off his turban - The Australian

Finnegan’s Spellcheck - Stammpunct

Hunter S. Thompson’s obit for Richard Nixon - Boing Boing

Gawker has obtained audio of an alleged Kanye West erratically justifying his interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards - Gawker

Peru to provide free solar power to its 2 million poorest citizens - Inhabitat

Boy raped in broad daylight attack because ‘his phone wasn’t good enough to steal’ - London Evening Standard

Go-carting babies reveal origin of fear of heights - New Scientist

The Act of Killing: A formally complex, emotionally overpowering, physically revolting, and darkly comic documentary about genocide - Slate
 
And this is why dogs are better than cats: Dog sees owner after being gone for over 6 months:

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07.18.2013
07:11 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Žižek responds to Chomsky; ‘Blade Runner’ props; Mary Louise Parker quits acting?
07.17.2013
05:47 pm
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Slavoj Žižek responds to Noam Chomsky: ‘I don’t know a guy who was so often empirically wrong’ - Open Culture

Mark Zuckerberg runs a giant spy machine in Palo Alto, California - Business Insider

Sub Pop celebrates 25th anniversary with 14 free tracks by Nirvana, Mudhoney, Pissed Jeans, Sebadoh, and more - Play.Google h/t WFMU

Blade Runner prop collection site - Ridleyville

Game of Thrones casts Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen actor, Mark Gatiss, in season 4 - Entertainment Weekly

Weeds star Mary Louise Parker to quit acting because of Internet ‘bitchiness’ and ‘meanness’ - News.com.au

Backdoor pharmacist can’t disco dance - Animal New York

Down syndrome’s extra chromosome silenced in lab cells - Bloomberg

Brian Eno will be designing ambient sound and a light installation for the foundation’s Long Now Salon project - Laughing Squid

Looking to reduce the time you spend in purgatory? There’s an easy solution: Follow Pope Francis on Twitter - Daily Dot

Peek inside Tesla’s robotic factory - Wired

David Lynch on why he hates “It’s A Small World” - AV Club

Sadness: Average erect penis in US is only 5.6-inches - Geekologie

Boston Mayor writes strongly worded letter to Rolling Stone about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover - BuzzFeed

By differentiating between bacterial and viral fevers, a new test may help doctors decide whether to prescribe antibiotics - Science News

Texas bill would block anti-abortion laws until death penalty is abolished - Huffington Post

Satan worshiper gets life in prison for killing, skinning mom - LA Times

Bank of America profit rises 63% - NY Times

The NSA admits it analyzes more people’s data than previously revealed - The Atlantic Wire

A drone fell from the sky and exploded next to a Florida highway - Gizmodo

Canada’s former Defence Minister claims that aliens are real - VICE

Putin puts U.S. ties above Snowden - Reuters

In the future, astronauts might play MMORPGs to fend off boredom - Boing Boing


Below, why you shouldn’t put a knife in a toaster (NSFW-ish):

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07.17.2013
05:47 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Radiohead manager sides with Spotify; John Waters on Warhol; drunk naked girl
07.16.2013
04:07 pm
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Video: Spend two minutes in 1970s Williamsburg - Gothamist

Nine minute Breaking Bad supercut (spoilers!) and “Betting Bad,” online game to speculate outcomes - Boing Boing

Hannah Arendt discusses philosophy, politics & Adolph Eichmann in rare 1964 TV interview - Open Culture

Snake in toilet bites man’s penis during bathroom trip - Huffington Post

Bradley Manning’s moment of truth - The Daily Beast

Man sues Apple for letting him see porn - Salon

Radiohead’s manager sides with Spotify - CoS

Portland voters to decide whether to legalize marijuana - Sun Journal

Riff Raff—the rapper and former MTV reality star—says he’s suing the people responsible for the movie Spring Breakers for $8 to $10 million ... because he believes he was the basis for one of the characters - TMZ

“Drunk Naked Girl on my lawn last night” - CraigsList

This Really Exists: Giant concrete arrows that point your way across America - The Daily Traveler

David Brooks wonders why men can’t find jobs: Comedy ensues - Rolling Stone

Johnny Depp is in Japan now to try to get people to see Disney’s biggest international piece of shit of 2013, The Longer Ranger - Dlisted

A brief history of the power of Angela Davis posters - Bitch Media

Panama’s president said the country has seized a North Korean-flagged ship carrying what appeared to be ballistic missiles and other arms that had set sail from Cuba on its way to the Pacific - USA Today

Jack Handey is the envy of every comedy writer in America - New York Times

A new study estimates that global sea levels will rise about 2.3 meters, or more than seven feet, over the next several thousand years for every degree (Celsius) the planet warms - Science Daily

Jean-Jacques Lebel interviews Allen Ginsberg - LA Review of Books

Anyone traveling into the UK can have their phones seized and data downloaded without cause - TechDirt

‘Dead’beat Dads: First evidence of posthumous reproduction - SciLogs

Media continues to focus on Snowden rather than the information he’s revealed - Freedom of the Press Foundation

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding: Particles’ changing masses could explain why distant galaxies appear to be rushing away - Nature

Watch John Waters open one of Andy Warhol’s “time capsules” - ArtInfo

North Carolina voters are seriously pissed at extremist Republican agenda on abortion, unemployment - Daily Kos
 
 
Below, how to get through border patrol in less than 30 seconds:

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07.16.2013
04:07 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Johnny Rotten called out pedophile in 1978; Snowden Nobel?; Radiohead: No Spotify
07.15.2013
02:06 pm
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Did John Lydon call out Jimmy Savile as a pedophile back in 1978? - YouTube

HBO Asks Google to Take Down “Infringing” VLC Media Player - TorrentFreak

Apparently Cassette Store Day is happening - Cassette Store Day

In bonobos, attractive females are more likely to win conflicts against males - Phys.org

The Scientific Assassination of a Sexual Revolutionary: How America Interrupted Wilhelm Reich’s Orgasmic Utopia - Motherboard

Thom Yorke blasts Spotify on Twitter as he pulls his music - Guardian

Brain scans of inmates turn up possible link to risks of reoffending - LA Times

Buddha on Strike: Meditating in Front of Goldman Sachs - UltraCulture

Fox’s Erickson Directs Liberals To Coat Hanger Sales Site After Texas Abortion Bill Passes - Media Matters

Watch and Listen to the Surprisingly Noisy Death of an Iceberg - National Geographic

Gay marriage is set to become law after clearing the House of Lords - Telegraph

Graphene could make Internet one hundred times faster - Machines Like Us

‘Heroic effort at great personal cost’: Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - RT.com

Massachusetts’ Simple Solution for Preventing Domestic Homicide - Slate

Evidence of cocaine use has been found inside toilets at the Houses of Parliament, including some just yards from MPs’ offices - Daily Mail

A gynecologist on how abortion restrictions lead to dangerous abortions - Boing Boing

Why Sad Songs Make Us Happy - PopSci

Jimmy Kimmel Tells Children ‘You’re Screwed’ in Animated Parody of Schoolhouse Rock - Laughing Squid

Police continued to fire Tasers at chests – despite cardiac arrest warnings - Guardian


“Morgan Freeman” reads Everyone Poops:

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07.15.2013
02:06 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Jodorowsky’s Dune; Willem Dafoe to play Pasolini; Were cave-painters tripping?
07.11.2013
04:48 pm
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Were Paleolithic cave painters high on psychedelic drugs? Scientists propose ingenious theory for why they might have been - AlterNet

Leah Remini quit Scientology - Dlisted

Sony Classics acquires Cannes docu Jodorowsky’s Dune - Deadline

Bruce Lee didn’t drink, but CGI Bruce Lee loves scotch - Planet Ivy

Willem Dafoe to play Pier Paolo Pasolini in biopic directed by Abel Ferrara - Indie Wire

Low-wage workers strike at Smithsonian museums - Washington Post

The City of Portland is preparing for the occupation of Mount Tabor, which is scheduled to start at 5 pm Friday, by closing all roads into the park - William Week

LIVE: Watch Mudhoney, J Mascis celebrate Sub Pop’s 25th anniversary atop the Space Needle - Slicing Up Eyeballs

Iris scans are the new school IDs - CNN

Gameboy booze flask - Neatorama

A new study led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that mammalian species can “choose” the sex of their offspring in order to beat the odds and produce extra grandchildren - Science Daily

The greatest baseball card ever - Death and Taxes

Here’s one way sex workers can hold clients and cops accountable: videotape them - Jezebel

Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid security leaks - Raw Story

Glendale steps into controversy with memorial to WW II sex slaves - LA Times

For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference - Ars Technica

Insect discovery sheds light on climate change - Phys.org

David Attenborough narrates a Swedish hooligan brawl - High Definite

The 7-word autobiographies of famous writers, artists, musicians, and philosophers - Brain Pickings

Wal-mart employee fired after reporting dog in hot truck - CBC News

14-month-old toddler buys car on eBay while playing with dad’s phone - Gawker

Death Valley rangers want you to please stop frying eggs at their park - Gothamist

Sam Mendes to direct next James Bond film - Vulture

U.S. drought grows for fourth week; South driest in weeks - Scientific American


Below, “Be More Dog”:

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07.11.2013
04:48 pm
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Dangerous Finds: NYC’s alien subway gas; Coal use shortens Chinese lives; Man’s Legoland dream dies
07.09.2013
05:31 pm
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There’s alien gas flowing through New York City’s subways - PopSci

Neanderthals shared speech and language with modern humans, study suggests - Science Daily

‘Mythical’ corpse-eating fly rediscovered in Europe - News.com.au

Maternal antibodies linked to Autism - The Scientist

Caroline Burns woke up in a hospital as doctors were about to remove her organs and donate them to patients on the transplant waiting list - ABC News

The Science of Muzak - Skeptoid

Life on the set of The Wire: How Bunk, Kima, Freamon, and McNulty blew off steam in Baltimore - Slate

Liz Taylor giving the one finger salute… Retrogasm

Pictures inside the NYC subway: 1983-1984 - BuzzFeed

The new generation of Twitter bots are disturbingly human - The Daily Dot

Yes, there’s a giant Colin Firth floating in the Serpentine - Now.Here.This.

Legoland dream dies for man, 63, over rule that adults must be accompanied by kids - CTV News

Photo collection of vintage Summers - Superbomba!

Robots inspired by water creatures - Discovery

Kenya seizes three tons of ivory - VOA News

China’s coal burning cutting lives short by years: Historical study links higher levels of pollution to higher mortality - Nature

The generation we love to dump on - CNN

The head of Australia’s leading alcohol research body has called for marijuana to be legalized to reduce the harm of drinking - Herald Sun

Ball State University’s hiring of a high-profile supporter of intelligent design just weeks after it launched an investigation into another professor accused of teaching creationism has left - Inside Higher ED

Suspicions growing over death of journalist (Michael Hastings) probing NSA and CIA abuses - The New American

Gay tourists could face jail following new anti-gay law in Russia - Planet Ivy

30,000 California prisoners refuse meals in apparent hunger strike - LA Times

5D optical memory in glass could record the last evidence of civilization - Phys.org


Below, “Dungeons and Dragons, Satan’s Game…”:

Video via Christian Nightmares

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07.09.2013
05:31 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Watch EPIC trailer for ‘Sharknado’; Researchers create human livers; Vegan sellouts
07.03.2013
05:53 pm
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Lock of hair from Mick Jagger was sold for $6,069 - ABC News

Researchers in Japan have used human stem cells to create tiny human livers like those that arise early in fetal life - New York Times

Fraiser with lasers will destroy us all - Death and Taxes

No sign of HIV return in bone marrow transplant patients, say scientists: Two men who had longstanding HIV infections have stopped taking Aids drugs and have no detectable HIV in their blood - Guardian

What’s behind the heat wave: Climate change or weather? Will 2013 set another heat record? - National Geographic

How a painting by the Beatles ended up stashed under a bed for 20 years - The Atlantic

Home schooling without God? Humanists find a way - Washington Post

Watch the Knife’s live performance video for “Raging Lung” - Pitchfork

Pepsi still contains too much carcinogen found in caramel coloring, group says - Huffington Post

A paedophile priest told a distraught seven-year-old boy that he could get his dead grandfather into heaven if he performed a sex act on him - Belfast Telegraph

John Barrowman got married - Dlisted

The science of car hacking: Hacked cars are unlikely to be an assassin’s weapon of choice - PopSci

Buddy Holly vs Sullivan: “Oh Boy” as speed-metal - Boing Boing

Man who found $150K in garden dies - Chicago Tribune

Astrophysicists believe that our galaxy must be filled with more dark matter than ordinary matter. Now astronomers say they can find no evidence of dark matter’s gravitational influence on the planets. What gives? - MIT Technology Review

Tim Kerr, one of punk’s founding fathers, is Third Man Records’ first exhibiting artist - Nashville Scene

“I’m vegan, and this vegan sellout site is fucking embarrassing” - Jezebel

A list of records banned by the BBC - RockList

Researchers have created contact lenses which, when paired with special spectacles, bestow telescopic vision on their wearers - BBC News

Ice cream man is banned for drink driving after having his van towed from outside school after parents complain - Daily Mail


Below, what do you get when you mix sharks and tornadoes? Why you get the awesomest TV trailer EVER… Sharknado!

 
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07.03.2013
05:53 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Lou Reed defends ‘Yeezus’; Testicles have taste receptors; ‘Snowden’s Run’ poster
07.02.2013
06:23 pm
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Listen to Bedroom Cassette Masters 1980-89: “Sounds like vintage electronica, looks like vintage electronica…” - Nerdcore

The rock ’n’ roll casualty who became a war hero - New York Times

Your testicles have taste receptors - Business Insider

Lou Reed defends Kanye West’s Yeezus - The Talkhouse

German government refuses asylum for Snowden - Spiegel.de

Michael Jordan tried to take my virginity ... Says former MTV VJ Kennedy - TMZ

A police officer suspected in the brutal gang-rape of a young woman in Ukraine was detained Tuesday after protesters stormed and burned a police station in southern Ukraine in anger over the authorities’ reluctance to place him in custody - ABC News

The Proof of Heaven author has now been thoroughly debunked by science - The Atlantic Wire

Paralyzed rats relearn to pee: Bladder control restored for the first time in animals with stark spinal cord damage - Science News

Festival girl falls into porta potty trying to throw up - Be The Rave

Huge document dump shows how Church protected abusers - Salon

Amputee duck walks for the first time with a new 3D-printed foot - Laughing Squid

Southern states are pushing themselves deeper into poverty by voting Republican - Politicus USA

Based on the classic movie poster of Logan’s Run, here’s Snowden’s Run - Boing Boing

As elephant poaching reaches an all-time high, researchers have discovered a way to single out black-market ivory by using Cold War-era radiation - Popular Mechanics

Vincent Price, on wine - Audio link

The guitar Bob Dylan played when he “went electric” at Newport Folk Festival in 1965 is to be sold at auction - NME

Ponce De Leon Never Searched for the Fountain of Youth: How did this myth about the Spanish explorer even get its start? - Smithsonian


Below, foam on a street in Japan after 40 litres of liquid soap was poured down sink:

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Egypt’s army gives parties 48 hours to resolve crisis - BBC News

George W. Bush defends PRISM: ‘I put that program in place to protect the country’ - Huffington Post

Pastors blame wildfires on Christian women who wear pantsuits and hats - AlterNet

Watch Portishead perform at Glastonbury 2013 - CoS

The weird way alcohol behaves in space - PopSci

Phone calls, answering machines and other messages from Joe Meek, Buddy Holly, Harry Nilsson and more - Phil Milstein h/t WFMU

A North Park man is looking at more than a decade behind bars for using washable chalk to protest the banking industry - CBS8 San Diego jury finds protester not guilty in chalk-vandalism case - LA Times

Skull claimed as rock-solid evidence of Bigfoot - Live Science

Dearborn, MI wants a rule saying residents can’t hang out in their garages, many believe it is targeting Arab-Americans who do so… DetroitNews.com

Korean men’s rights group wants to ban sexy songs - ANIMAL 

American way of birth, costliest in the World - New York Times

Petition: Elizabeth Warren is Right: Let Students Borrow at the Same Low Rate Big Banks Get - Left Action

Bamboo Flute stabbed his father because he wondered what it would be like to take a life - Arbroath

Lou Reed plays “Queen Bitch” with David Bowie in 1997 - Rolling Stone

First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist - Quartz

13 mindblowing facts about America’s tax-dodging corporations - The Contributor

Why you see what you see when you’re tripping on psychedelics - Motherboard

Book titles with one letter missing - Pleated Jeans

Chilean mummies reveal ancient nicotine habit - Yahoo

Cancer patient’s response to insurer who said, “No biopsy for you, you’re going to die anyway” - Boing Boing

The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire - The Daily Dot

Powerful ad campaign, how Facebook ‘likes’ don’t help - Fstoppers

Punk diva Debbie Harry: Thanks for the life lessons - The Broad Side

Botanical blueprints by Macoto Murayama - Neatorama

Cowtown Rodeo—Horse Dies During Live Show ... allegations of foul play - TMZ

The Month in PCP: The guy who allegedly had the drug in his sock and asked cops, “Am I Dead?” - Slate

Motörhead pulls the plug on remaining European tour dates due to new health concerns for Lemmy - Cherry Bombed

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow - WikiLeaks

Below, BJ Snowden sings “In Canada.” Happy Canada Day!

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