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Unsolicited gift from Disabled Veterans National Foundation A fellow who calls himself Minnesotastan (from the blog Tai-wiki-widbee) received this shoddy "desk set" from the Disabled Veterans National Foundation. Read the rest... WATCH: Mittens filled with bullet ants cause intense pain Is this where Frank Herbert got his idea for the pain box in Dune? When can a man declare that he is already a man? Read the rest... GamerGate metaphor: Woman pulls gun on ISIS member with ebola raping her pit bull #GamerGate metaphor: Woman pulls #gun on #ISIS member with #ebola raping her pit bull in the most buzzword-filled news headline of the year. Read the rest... Airbnb's cartoonish vagina butt logo in action Kottke says: "You know what makes Airbnb's logo really really really look like a cartoonish vagina butt? Putting arms and legs and hats on the logo and animating it." Read the rest... How to charge your phone with a 9-volt battery The Crazy Russian Hacker makes a cell phone charger with a 9 volt battery. [via] Read the rest... Mickey Kilowatt Spotted yesterday in Seattle: the logo for Zapp Electronics, the love-child of Reddy Kilowatt anda certain mouse. Read the rest... WATCH: New OK Go video has drones, scooters, human pixels, and a catchy tune OK Go returns with another hypnotic, tightly-choreographed video for I Won't Let You Down, from their new album Hungry Ghosts. Read the rest... History of the Ouija Board In 1891, Kennard Novelty Company, makers of the first commercial talking board, needed a name for their product, so they asked the board to name itself. Read the rest... Music: "Photographs and Histories," Isaac Graham (2010) Highly recommend the song.The embed is an experiment. Read the rest... California robber returns cash "...three hours later Abbott returned, giving back most of the cash and saying he was sorry." He drank the beer. Read the rest... Rise of the creep-buster Bye Felipe is a "crowdsourced menagerie of mankind's worst specimens," men who post creepy, rude and hostile messages to women on dating app Tinder. Read the rest... Halloween in Japan A fantastic selection of photos from Japan Times. Read the rest... Snow, a film about a love affair between a girl and her neighbourhood Snow is a new indie feature film set in Toronto, adapted from Benjamin Rivers's graphic novel of the same name, about a love affair between a young woman and her neighbourhood of Queen Street West, which is being transformed by development. Read the rest... Amazon Fire Stick The Fire TV stick is $39 and competes with Google's Chromecast and the forthcomingMatchstick.tv: plug it into your TV, stream video. Read the rest... Jogger arrested after bumping into Prime Minister The man was subsequently "de-arrested and allowed on his way." Lots of UK media are saying he's a protestor or "assailant", but, yeah, whatever. Read the rest... Review the Energizer AA battery Warfare in the comments over at Battereview, was wondering if we can do a more civilized job. [via @Lowtax] Read the rest... TARDIS zippo-ish lighter Konstantin and Yury, artists from Ukraine, have an Etsy store that sells customized knock-off Zippos and flasks, including this great Tardis lighter. Read the rest... Loony Lids is an epidemic. Oh those nutty 1950s. (via Weird Universe) Read the rest... SF, 10/29: Cory Doctorow with David Pescovitz live interview This Wednesday (10/29) at 7pm, I'll be interviewing Cory on stage at the Jewish Community Center San Francisco! We'll be talking about Cory's new book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, creativity and freedom, and the business of being an artist in the digital age. We hope you can join us! JCCSF Arts & Ideas: Cory Doctorow with David Pescovitz Read the rest... Click your Bluetooth heels three times to call an Uber iStrategy Labs' Dorothy is a mobile app and Bluetooth-based switch (called the Ruby) that slips into your shoe. Click your heels together three times and it triggers an action on your smartphone like calling an Uber. Read the rest... Exceedingly eerie preserved corpses of the Palermo Catacombs Extraordinary photos Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, home to the largest collection of spontaneous and artificial mummies in the world. By Ivan Cenzi Read the rest... Zombies would lose the war because Vultures would peck them to bits David Mizejewski with the National Wildlife Federation explains why birds would help us make short shrift of the Zombie apocalypse: "Many birds feed themselves by scavenging on dead things. Read the rest...