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VIDEO: Florida man shoplifts chainsaw by stuffing it in his pants He needed to cut some wood. (via) Read the rest... WATCH: Darth Vader quotes cruel passages from the Bible Darth Vader is showing less mercy than usual here. [via] Read the rest... The Shadow Of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy Book 1) James Islington's first novel, The Shadow Of What Was Lost" is an epic fantasy. I read this slowly to catch all the detail and appreciate the wonderful world building and terrific characters. Read the rest... Roca Labs sends abusive, unwarranted DMCA notices to banish negative reviews What do you do if you sell a product on terms that legally bind your customers not to complain and they complain anyway? Read the rest... Robert E. McGinnis - the king of paperback cover art Today, people buy books on Amazon based on recommendations and reviews. But before that, people browsed in bookstores, airport kiosks, drug stores, and newsstands with precious little information to go on (unless the author was famous). Read the rest... Americans believe things And those things aren't true, according to an Ipsos-Mori poll that put the USA second-from-the-top in the race to see who's the most ignorant, preceded only by Italians. Read the rest... The new Nexus lineup is weak Rob Pegoraro feels like he's playing with someone else's hobby rather than using serious handsets Read the rest... A writer spends forty years looking for his bully. Why? In this week's New Yorker, Allen Kurzweil details his forty-year-long hunt for his childhood boarding-school tormentor, and his discovery that the former twelve-year-old bully had grown up to be a convicted felon. Read the rest... Detailed, handmade gamer soaps Chrystal "Digital Soaps" Doucette makes soap in the form of detailed replicas of gaming gear and tropes: Minecraft creepers, NES cartridges, N64 cartridges, Xbox controllers, Mountain Dew shampoo, Gameboy cartridges and more. Read the rest... Incredibly-designed record players of yore Above, Hartmut Esslinger's incredible Wega Stereo Concept 51 (1978), from the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye" opening this weekend. Read the rest... Unicorn killed in Slovenia A hunter in Celje, Slovenia shot and killed a unicorn that has almost certainly been misidentified as a roe deer with an antler deformity caused by an injury. Read the rest... How to control mice with your mind Imagine never having to take a pill again for anxiety, depression, or your heart condition. Imagine epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease being managed by the patient without drug interventions. What if control of these conditions were possible with a thought? Kiki Sanford reports on the advent of mind-genetic interfaces. Read the rest... Movie poster for imaginary sequel to They Live Matt Haley, you are cruel. This is his poster for an imaginary sequel to John Carpenter's 1988 social satire classic, They Live. Read the rest... Real Stuff: "Jump" "One night I went to a party and got pretty loaded. When I got home I passed out on the couch." Originally published in Real Stuff #6, April 1992. Read the rest... PSA: Escaping from Gogo's roach-motel business model Last month, during my many-city book tour, I signed up for Gogo's in-flight wifi service; today I discovered that it's much harder to get shut of it. Read the rest... 3D printed T-Rex shower head JM Schwartz's 3D printable T-Rex shower head is just about the best thing I've seen all week. It's a mashup of a T-Rex skull produced by Makerbot Academy and Schwartz's own shower-head design. Read the rest... Plush undersea creatures Parisian crafter Big Stuffed makes beautiful, cuddly, handmade undersea creatures -- the big ones are huge, like the 90 cm whale made from fun-fur and jersey. (via Crazy Abalone) Read the rest... Why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are Each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning. By David McRaney Read the rest... Cheap dates: the pitiful sums that Big Cable used to buy off the politicians who oversee it Even when you factor in dark money, Super PACs and the rest of it, politicians are willing to sell out the nervous system of the 21st century to the worst companies in America for less than $100K. Read the rest... How to pick up a dachshund Helpful instructions here. But when I go out to pick up dachshunds, I just tell them they're cute and ask if they want to come over to my apartment and see my chew toys. Read the rest... Kitty of the day, from our Flickr Pool He's just chillaxin‘. Read the rest... Just look at this banana slicing magic trick: cut into sections before you peel All you need is a needle and a banana. Read the rest... When the FBI told MLK to kill himself (who are they targeting now?) We've known for years that the FBI spied on Martin Luther King's personal life and sent him an anonymous letter in 1964 threatening to out him for his sexual indiscretions unless he killed himself in 34 days. Read the rest... Orion spacecraft arrives at NASA Kennedy, “First step on journey to Mars” The first space-bound Orion capsule has arrived at a NASA Kennedy Space Center launch pad.It is scheduled to launch from that location on December 4 on an unmanned test flight supporting NASA plans for future astronaut missions beyond Earth's orbit. Read the rest... Redskins owner sues Native Americans who testified on racism to Trademark Office Having lost his trademark over its overt racism, Daniel Snyder has taken the unusual step of suing the five Native American people who testified before the US Patent and Trademark Office hearing, which led to the finding that Snyder's team's name was "disparaging to Native Americans." And that filing was denied by the judge, who will allow this ridiculous lawsuit to go forward. Read the rest... How to make Vietnamese coffee A friend left me with some Trung Nguyen Vietnamese coffee, so I bought this filter and went to town. I am buzzing and addicted. The video gives a clear demonstration of how it is done. I enjoy adding condensed milk to sweeten. Read the rest... Peak indifference-to-surveillance The Pew Internet Project has updated its must-read 2013 work on privacy perception in the post-Snowden era with a survey of American attitudes to privacy and surveillance that shows that the number of Americans who worry about privacy is steeply rising. Read the rest... How to recycle old milk jugs and bottle caps into colorful plastic bricks Peter Brown grinds up plastic jugs and bottle caps in a blender, then melts them into bricks. He uses the bricks as stock to turn on his lathe. I want to make one just to admire it. Read the rest... Disturbing image hidden in a toy purchased at dollar store A mother who purchased an "Evil Stick" for her 3-year-old was unhappy when she found it contained a disturbing image. She wants the store to remove the item from its shelves. Read the rest... Police in Brazil kill six people a day So says a report from The Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an NGO that singles out the Rio police for "abusive use of lethal force." The report by the Sao Paulo-based body accused Brazilian police of making "abusive use of lethal force". Read the rest...