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Silicon Valley Job Title Generator Shingy has thoughts about how to brand your career content. Read the rest... Follow Friday: @LosFelizDayCare Best thing ever for those of you who are hip moms and dads, or for those of you who like to sneer at hip moms and dads. Read the rest... New emoji for Unicode 8, including "TACO" The Unicode Consortium is finalizing its plans for version 8, and 37 new emoji are among the candidates for the final release, including "ZIPPER-MOUTH FACE," "MONEY-MOUTH FACE," "SIGN OF THE HORNS" and "TACO". Read the rest... Video: amazing record-breaking parallel parking No back and forth bullshit when Han Yue made the Guinness World Record for the tightest parallel park, 8 cm (3.15") in a MINI 3-door Hatch, during the China Drift Championship. Read the rest... Cringe at Sony's new Playstation Vita ad—and a '90s precursor that made Sega look sleazy Sony’s Playstation advertising used to be clever and weird and manipulative. Now it just makes me think of a ship burning faster than it can sink. Read the rest... LISTEN: The Secret Dad Society Mike Evans was a founding member of the touring neo-swing band, Big Tubba Mista, and runs the family fun website, Secret Dad Society. He built a remote control seagull to see what real seagulls thought of it. See the video below! Read the rest... Beijing's smog problem illustrated with a year's worth of daily photos Beijing resident Zou Yi set out to illustrate the pollution problem in the city' by taking the same photo, at the same time each day, and creating a mosaic of the resulting images. Read the rest... The Nib's indie comics 2015 calendar of obscure holidays The Nib, Medium's killer comix publication, is publishing a "2015 Calendar of Obscure Holidays" featuring original artwork by Nib editor Matt "War Is Boring" Bors, Erika Moen, Rich Stevens, Zach Weiner, Jen Sorensen, Brian McFadden, Eleri Harris, Andy Warner, Matt Lubchansky, Liza Donnelly, Scott Bateman, and Gemma Correll who did the cover. Read the rest... Valencia FC' soccer team's new logo mysteriously familiar DC Comics' lawyers object to the new design, for some reason! But with Valencia's 800-year association with bats—see the city's arms below—local media don't think their trademark complaint will fly. Read the rest... Bionic arm's "masturbation mode" surprises France A guest on a French television show demonstrates a useful feature of his high-tech prosthetic arm. (Alas, it is merely a comedy show.) Read the rest... Saddest mugshot ever A perfect evening in Florida: order food, on bicycle, at a just-closed Taco Bell's drive-through, refuse to leave, fight cops, then attain epiphany concerning the nature of the evening while being booked at Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. Read the rest... Boy now magnetic after electrical shock Spoons just magically stick to this youngster. It must have something to do with science. A schoolboy who was almost killed when he was knocked out by a massive electrical shock claims to have developed a superpower. Read the rest... Law licenses are expensive to get The application is $950, you have to buy $100 software to take the exam, and using a credit card incurs a $15 "processing fee," but this isn't an MLM scam: "There’s been a lot of debate recently about whether a law degree is a smart investment anymore," writes Megan H., "and generally, the answer is maybe not." Read the rest... Rebuilt Nintendo Power-Gloves as fashion accessories Glove Power rebuilds old Nintendo Power Gloves as one-of-a-kind fashion accessories, lit with arrays of customized LEDs powered by a hidden battery-pack. Read the rest... Ferret takes amazing leap You know what's coming, but it doesn't make it any less breathtaking when it happens. [Video Link, via] Read the rest... How TV legend Glen Larson transformed science fiction The producer behind Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Knight Rider and Battlestar Galactica was often mocked as derivative, but he brought home screeen science fiction for generation X. Read the rest... Google Contributor lets public pay to remove ads from select websites Google is rolling out a patronage service for websites called Contributor. Readers of sites like The Onion, Mashable, and wikiHow can pay a buck or two per month and will be rewarded with "Thank You" tile where they would normally see an ad. [via] Read the rest... Street Angel 008: Rocket in the Ghetto! Her previous mission a success, what now lies ahead for our heroine? More adventure, certainly! By Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca Read the rest... If you have a medical weed card from any state you can buy weed in Nevada Beginning in 2015 medical marijuana cardholders throughout the US will be legally allowed to buy weed from Nevada dispensaries. When you consider that Nevada has fewer than 7,000 medical marijuana patients, it’s not a very large base. Read the rest... Video: She & Him cover Dusty Springfield The lovely and talented duo of She & Him, aka M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, bring their 1960s AM-radio joy to the Dusty Springfield tune "Stay Awhile." It's from their forthcoming covers LP, titled Classics. Read the rest... Glenn Greenwald: NSA-proofing your product is good for business Just because Congress can't even pass minimal NSA reform, it doesn't mean that privacy is dead: American tech companies are NSA-proofing their services because customers are demanding it. Read the rest... Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 hardcover Saga, the creator-owned gonzo science fiction comic from Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples may be the best sf comic since Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan, and the three collections published to date are already canon, with the long-awaited number four around the corner. To get all your friends ready for it, there's a new gorgeous, massive hardcover volume collecting the first three installments. Read the rest... Behind the scenes at Saga Hey, Brian K. Vaughan here with an exclusive excerpt for my friends at Boing Boing of the creator roundtable between artist Fiona Staples, letterer Fonografiks, and Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson featured in the back of SAGA: BOOK ONE, a new hardcover collection of our first eighteen issues. As the writer, I have arguably the easiest job of any of my collaborators, but check out how much I whine and complain at the scripting stage of our twelve-step process... Read the rest... Judy and the Dream of HORSE Ivan Hernandez tells the story of a girl who just wants to ride, and the basketball game standing between her and freedom. Read the rest... Hip shop name generator [Link] Read the rest... Britain's pink-painted poo aims to shame irresponsible dog owners The London Borough of Camden has a new weapon in its eternal fight against dog poo: pink spray paint. The idea is to embarrass dog owners who fail to pick up after their animals—and they've offered cans of paint to local residents who wish to participate in the program. Read the rest... Winnie the Pooh denounced as hermaphrodite The beloved character of childrens' book and animated feature film has been banned from a Polish playground. Why? Because of his "dubious sexuality" and "inappropriate" dress, writes Jess Denham. Read the rest... D20 rug The Critical Hit D20 rug is 43"x38", with a non-skid backing, and ensures that your living spaces always make their saving throws. Read the rest... Leaked docs detail Big Oil and Big PR's plans for a opinion-manipulation platform The leaked slides were prepared by Edelman, the largest PR company in the world, at the behest of Transcanada, and they constitute a blueprint for tracking and influencing platform that spies on its participants in order to psychologically profile them and nudge them into becoming advocates for the oil industry. Read the rest... That's quite a bowel movement. Read the rest...