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Tis the season for playing this Lil Bub Yule Log video on endless loop Have a derpy holiday season! Did you know that Lil Bub is a "perma-kitten," a dwarf and a polydactyl cat? Read the rest... Tiny Beatles perform in Spain They'll always be The Quarrymen to me. [via] Read the rest... Photographs, Mark Lovejoy Delicious, surreal, sensual abstract photography. Prints available from the artist's website. Read the rest... Music: "Wrap It Up," The Fabulous Thunderbirds (1986) Wow. These lyrics haven't held up. Read the rest... Anatomical bags and accessories from Konstantin Kofta Kiev-based Konstantin Kofta makes leather bags and accessories that mimic human anatomy, sometimes making it look like there are hands clutching at the wearer, sometimes looking like the wearer's skin has been flayed and used to make the bags. Read the rest... Review: Swimbuds Sport underwater earbuds I won't swim laps without my waterproof iPod shuffle, so I was thrilled to get a pair of new, redesigned waterproof Swimbuds Sport headphones. Read the rest... All you need to know about racism in America is in this one amazing Chris Rock interview Racism in America, defined succinctly by comedian Chris Rock: “White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy.” Read the rest... Video: 1970s space disco of Bombay-born singer Asha Puthli Asha Puthli performs "Mr. Moonlight" (1978), available on her album Asha L'indiana. Puthli was previously known for her vocals on avant-jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1971 LP Science Fiction. (via Weird Universe) Read the rest... Clothes printed with maps of any location A fab idea from Rachel Binx, gorgeously executed: skirts and tank tops printed with monochrome maps based on your selected location. [monochome] Read the rest... Milky Way over Devils Tower David Lane's absolutely stunning image of the Milky Way over Devils Tower. If everything's ready here on the Dark Side of the Moon... Read the rest... Airbnb for fields and meadows Field Lover is like Airbnb but for open grassy land in the UK. Sure, it's great for weddings, sporting events, and festivals but apparently they also encourage listings for "horses, alpacas or ostriches to live the good life." (via Smithsonian) Read the rest... Pretend cities to fool bombers through history Starting with a fake Paris built to lure Kaiser Bill's incendiary bombs, through to the pretend industrial towns used in WWII England to divert 900 tonnes of munitions, to the pretend airbases built in the Pacific Northwest and through to the Viet Cong's pretend villages to disguise tunnel complexes. Read the rest... Video Game Controller Tie and other great gifts from BB sponsor Shana Logic! From our lovely sponsor Shana Logic comes this geek chic and gift-worthy Video Game Controller Tie emblazoned in silver ink with Atari, Nintendo, NES, Playstation, Xbox and other joysticks and joypads from history. Read the rest... E-paper watch Sony's design is "a thing of minimalist beauty", writes Vlad Savov. The watch is extremely thin and makes no pretense of being smart, relying on the chameleonic flexibility of its appearance and a clean minimalist shape to win over fans. Because it has no sophisticated electronics inside, it's also said to last as long as 60 days on a single button battery. Read the rest... Our favorite music makes us nicer A study on the emotions evoked by music found that we behave more altruistically after listening to tunes that chill us out. Read the rest... Star Wars Episode VII trailer, the George Lucas Special Edition Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, the George Lucas Special Edition. Read the rest... Artist controls water "with mind"—and the help of an EEG In Eunoia II, Lisa Park hooks herself up to Mindlink/Neurosky-type miniature EEG equipment and uses it to manipulate a beautiful and mysterious arrangement of water bowls. [via] Read the rest... Falcon dive-bombs ducks Peregrine falcons specialize in eating other birds. Sometimes they even prey on birds larger than themselves. With dive speeds of over 200 mph, it wouldn't be a pleasant experience to get hit by one of these aerial predators, and the pintail ducks in the video seem to agree. [Video Link] Read the rest... Creationist "just can't" with museum's evolution propaganda This lady just can't with the Chicago Field Museum's evolution propaganda. She rambles on about it for over 30 minutes in this video—and it's as hilarious as you might imagine. Read the rest... Nine-movie Best of Miyazaki box-set It's $275 and includes 2-disc editions of My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, Whisper of The Heart, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, The Cat Returns, Porco Rosso, Castle In The Sky and Spirited Away. (via Pipedream Dragon) Read the rest... How maggots and eagles would destroy zombies Whichever end of the animal coolness spectrum you prefer, there is only doom for the zombie menace. Embedded above, elimination by "a writhing, insatiable mess of maggots"; below, execution at eagle beakpoint. Read the rest...