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Sony to Twitter and media outlets: stop spreading hacked/leaked email contents, or else Who's a bigger threat to free speech in America, North Korea or Sony? Hard to tell today. In a nastygram to Twitter, Sony lawyer David Boies demands that the social media service suspend the account of users who have posted the contents of hacked emails belonging to Sony. Read the rest... Keurig recalls 6.6 million home coffee brewing machines Keurig has issued a recall of some 6.6 million of its popular coffee makers after "90 reports of burn-related injuries." "Hot liquid could escape from certain MINI Plus Brewing System units during use," the company said today, and that risk is greater "if the brewer is used to brew more than two cups in quick succession." From CNN Money: The coffee makers are stamped with the model number K10 and were made between December 2009 and July 2014. Read the rest... What the hell is going on with North Korea's internet? Someone should create an "is North Korea's internet working" yes/no website. But not in North Korea today, because apparently the primary source of internet access for the country is down again. Read the rest... Sonic Screwdriver cutlery The 10th/11th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver cutlery is dishwasher safe and runs $30/setting. (viaGeeky Merch) Read the rest... Music video: '93 Million Miles,' from the International Space Station and Jason Mraz As NASA begins to explore beyond low earth orbit, the idea of “Home” takes on new meaning.Read the rest... Black truffles contain 'bliss molecules' not unlike those found in cannabis So that's why piggies snort through so much dirt to find the coveted fungi. Read the rest... BBC reporter giggles beside flaming heap of drugs, possibly because he's high “Burning behind me is eight and a half tons of heroin, opium, hashish and other narcotics,” giggles BBC television correspondent Quentin Sommerville. Read the rest... Space weather: solar flare on Sun sparks pretty auroras and radio blackouts on Earth Since releasing an X-class solar flare late last week, our sun has been very active. The most recent burst triggered some radio blackouts and stunning aurora displays here on Earth. Read the rest... Cat prepares dog for mind meld (via AustinAndN) Read the rest... Subway Art This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip highlights the famous photo-book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant. By Ed Piskor Read the rest... Season's Greetings from the McKendricks A family's holiday letter to their beloved postal worker and American icon. [Short Story] Read the rest... Cards Against Humanity buys a private island ("Hawaii 2") & gives it away Each 250,000 of the CAH Holiday Bullshit subscribers got one square foot of a wooded island in Maine, called Hawaii 2 (nee Birch Island). Read the rest... The odd phenomenon of "blind insight" A growing body of evidence is revealing that our guesses and our confidence in those guesses don’t come from the same place in our minds. Read the rest... Yellow duck phone charger On family outings, my younger daughter always brings her yellow duck phone charger ($25) along. She charges her older sister $1 to use one of the USB charging ports. If you live on the west coast, you have 2 hours to order one on Amazon and get it on December 24. Read the rest... Podcast: Happy Xmas! (guest starring Poesy) It's that time again! School is out, but I'm still working, so the kid came to the office with me, just in time to record a new podcast. This year, Poesy performs a stirring rendition of Jingle Bells, with dirty words! Read the rest... North Korea's Internet is out: US attack? North Korea's Internet connectivity is out, possibly the result of a DDoS that may be President Obama's "proportional response" to the Sony Pictures hack, according to the New York Times:North Korea does very little commercial or government business over the Internet. Read the rest... Joe Cocker, RIP "The Letter," live, 1970. (NYT obit) Read the rest... 'Put aside the protests,' NYC mayor tells (orders?) citizens after man kills 2 NYPD officers “It’s time for everyone to put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all of the things that we will talk about in due time,” de Blasio said today. Read the rest... Troll Hunter: Inside the TV show about hunting the internet's biggest jerks These journalists and researchers "wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites." But does the hunter resemble the hunted? Read the rest... Neighbors dislike "terroristic threat" Christmas display in man's front yard Bill Ansell's neighbors do not like his holiday display. "There was a Virgin Mary here, and he placed a knife through her head, right there on the edge of our driveway,” Joanne Hebda told ABC News 20/20. Read the rest... Algorithmically evolved masks that appear as faces to facial-recognition software Sterling Crispin uses evolutionary algorithms to produce masks that satisfy facial recognition algorithms: "my goal is to show the machine what it’s looking for, to hold a mirror up to the all-seeing eye of the digital-panopticon we live in and let it stare back into its own mind." This work is an act of political protest by means of bringing transparency to the surveillance and biometric techniques used today. Read the rest... Anthropology news: ‘lightly’ built skeletons of modern humans have a recent origin Researchers studying the changes in bone density in humans over the millennia believe that changes in our skeletons have to do with an evolutionary shift from foraging lifestyle to a more sedentary way of life. Read the rest... The Silver Age of Comic Book Art manifests the magic and majesty of the Marvel and DC classics from 1956-1970 The Silver Age of Comic Book Art is a sparkly remastered new version of the long-out-of-print coffee table book that first came out ahead of its time in 2003, before all the beautiful Chip Kidd-designed superhero books, before many do-gooders depicted in these pages – Captain America, The Flash, Thor, Green Lantern, The Avengers, Dr. Read the rest... Terror plumber truck of doom spotted in Syria Back in November, Mark Oberholzer traded in one of his company's pickup trucks. Shortly thereafter, Oberholzer and his company began receiving death threats. Read the rest... An amazing first image of the sun from NASA's NuSTAR, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Via NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this amazing image is one of the first shot by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Read the rest... Introducing KIMDb, Kim Jong-un's Movie Page!! Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH is introduced KIMDb, Kim Jong-un's Movie Page! Read the rest... This 1987 roguelike game is still great If you had a Mac in the late 80s or early 90s, you might remember the excellent roguelike maze adventure Scarab of Ra. Read the rest...