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The world's biggest boulder, UFOs, and the weird American West Cabinet Magazine's Sasha Archibald cracks open the cultural mystique of the Mojave Desert's Giant Rock, considered the largest boulder in the world until 2000 when a chunk fell off. Read the rest... WATCH: moron vs metal gate A shirtless driver decides to show a metal gate who is boss. But the gate has a different idea in mind. Read the rest... WATCH: San Francisco tour bus guide's anti-Chinatown rant A German tourist shot this video of a tour bus guide's racist rant against Chinatown. The tour guide is holding what appears to be an alcoholic beverage bottle. Unfortunately, the tourists applaud her, which gives her the encouragement to go on. Read the rest... Smog Rings vs. Quisp Meteorite Ring A Dutch artist plans to make a ring out of compressed Chinese smog, which is even cooler than the Quisp meteorite ring which came in boxes of the cereal in the 1960s. By Mark FrauenfelderRead the rest... Kindergarten teacher jailed for wearing pants to court in 1938 “Be prepared to be punished according to law for contempt of court” for not wearing a dress, said the judge. Read the rest... Retro game fonts Patrick H Lauke, AKA Redux, recreates fonts from classic arcade and computer games. Read the rest... When Prince passed on "We Are The World" “He’d buy ice cream cones and wore sneakers,” says The Revolution keyboard player Wendy Coleman of Prince's Purple Rain days, “but the next minute, he’d be like ‘Hey, muthafuckas — ’ ” “He’d be fucking George Jefferson. Read the rest... Make your own geometrical papercraft mask Wintercroft's Etsy storefront is full of beautiful, downloadable plans for making geometrical animal- and horror-masks from recycled cardboard boxes. It's a great, simple way to make the perfect Hallowe'en costume. Read the rest... Alvin Stardust, 1942-2014 In that weird liminal Britspace between glam rock and parody, he was a great. Alvin Stardust was due a comeback -- his first studio album in decades is due out in weeks, according to the BBC -- but will not be with us to enjoy it.This 1974 performance of My Coo Ca Choo, on BBC1's Top of the Pops, is your primer. Read the rest... Dino Deinocheirus Deemed Derpy A more complete fossil of the long-mysterious dinosaur has been uncovered, and the creature is unexpectedly "goofy and weird." I think it's just adorable. The artist is Michael Skrepnick with the Nature Publishing Group. Here's An alternative rendering ( from Deinocheirus's Wikipedia article) by FunkMonk, released under a Creative Commons license. Read the rest... Hitler coffee creamer for people who like theirs even whiter "Migros, Switzerland’s largest grocery and cafe retail chain, is apologizing after consumersdiscovered images of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on their coffee creamer packages." Read the rest... Ikea Halloween ad sets The Shining in a store at night The terrifying symmetries of an Ikea warehouse are the setting for this sinister recasting of The Shining's most famous steadycam scene. Read the rest... High winds blow waterfall back up The River Kinder, in England's peak district, meets such high winds the flow is blasted back into the plateau. On better days, the Kinder Downfall drops 80 ft. Read the rest... Dyson Humidifier The pitch: it kills bacteria, instead of breeding it, and adjusts automatically to maintain a specific relative humidity in the room. Read the rest... Silicon Valley's outsourced moderator army Adrian Chen reports on the campuses abroad where people are paid a few hundred dollars a month to "determine what Americans find offensive." [Wired] Read the rest... Fabian Oefner's ferrofluidic cover for Guster's new album Watch artist Fabian Oefner manipulating ferrofluid (magnetized liquid) and watercolors into a stunning psychedelic pattern that appears on the cover of alt.pop trio Guster's forthcoming albumEvermotion. Read the rest... Video: Wondrous pygmy seahorses KQED takes a Deep Look at pygmy seahorses, recently bred in captivity for the first time thanks to biologists at the California Academy of Sciences. Read the rest... Transcontinental train ride about the future of food This summer, my pal Sarah Smith at Institute for the Future took a ten-day transcontinental train trip to explore the future of food systems and wrote about it at National Geographic. Read the rest... What's financialism, and how is it destroying your life? As businesses start retaining and investing larger cash-reserves, they're turning into banks. Banks, meanwhile, need to find another line of work: they become asset traders. Read the rest... Buildings as a font Art director Yousuke Ozawa created "Satellite Fonts" sourced from Google Earth images of letter-shaped buildings. (via Laughing Squid) Read the rest... Mein Führer, I can walk! I finally hit on the idea of going as Dr. Strangelove for Halloween. I already had the 50s slim-cut suit, the glasses, the cigarette, the black leather glove. All I really needed was a blonde wig. ByGareth Branwyn's Read the rest... Taste test: roadkill raccoon Last weekend, Janica and Joel picked up six roadkill raccoons and a feral cat on a round-trip to Courtenay. It was Thanksgiving weekend. They made raccoon burgers, served the cat up stuffed, and tucked the rest away in the freezer. By Reanna Alder Read the rest... WATCH: Detroit ruin porn in reverse - David Whitney Building The Detroit News has an uplifting story about the David Whitney Building, newly renovated in time for its centennial celebration. Think reverse ruin porn. Read the rest... Star-Spangled Banner played by gun sounds like freedom He'll need an automatic to get the syncopation right, but this gun enthusiast didn't miss a note when playing the US national anthem on Musical Targets. Read the rest... Recreations of pornographic Middle Ages badges [NSFTT] "Whether these badges were worn to celebrate the misrule of carnival days, attract good sexual luck, or merely amuse and titillate their owners, they show us a whole new side of medieval culture." Naughty Bits (Previously) (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) Read the rest... Noisy cover of Sgt Pepper's from Flaming Lips and friends The Flaming Lips's With A Little Help From My Fwends drops next week, but NPR has a first listen to the noisy, funny, irreverent full-album cover produced as a charity benefit for a group that provides veterinary care for needy pet owners. Read the rest... Beautiful junkbot rayguns By Roger Wood/Klockwerks Read the rest... The origins of the word "cosplay" Brian Ashcraft interviewed Nobuyuki Takahashi, originator of the wonderful word: "In Japanese, English and other foreign words are often combined and/or shortened, for brevity's sake." Read the rest... 3D printed Adventure Time cookie-cutter Make your own delicious, edible BMO biscuits with this $9 starch-based 3D printed cookie cutterfrom Star Cookies, who also does Dragonball, Ghostbusters and more. (via Geekymerch) Read the rest... Gamer Felicia Day on Gamergate Gamer and online personality Felicia Day hasn't said much about Gamergate. Today, she opened up on her blog. “Why have I remained mostly silent? Read the rest...