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The Oatmeal to Ted Cruz: Net Neutrality is not Obamacare It's very well said, but the amazing thing is that it needed to be said at all. Read the rest... Lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by forgotten photographer William Mortensen With an eye for the occult, the grotesque, the melodramatic, and the erotic, William Mortensen was the target of scorn by famous photographers, including Ansel Adams, who called Mortensen “the Devil,” and “the Antichrist.” His work is reexamined in American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen. Read the rest... Ceramic, handmade Tardis soup-mug, saucer and spoon The whole set is $50 from Barbarah Robertson, a potter in Virginia -- microwave and dishwasher safe, and can be ordered in time for Christmas delivery. Read the rest... Net Neutrality activists blockade FCC Chairman Wheeler's house They showed up at 6:55am outside cable-lobbyist-turned-dingo-babysitter Tom Wheeler's house and blocked the end of his driveway with a banner reading "SAVE THE INTERNET!" The activists were from Popular Resistance, and they have many more events planned this week. Read the rest... Amazon's "Best Books of 2014" Amazon posted its 100 picks for the Best Books of 2014. Some fine selections, no doubt, but I'm still reckoning with their previous list of 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime. Read the rest... Vans with The Beatles' Yellow Submarine graphics Vans released a rad line of sneakers emblazoned with classic psychedelic cartoon artwork from The Beatles' 1969 film "Yellow Submarine." My favorite is the SK8-Hi Reissue above, but the Slip-On "Sea of Monsters" design seen below is pretty great too. Vans X The Beatles Read the rest... Boy, missing 6 days, found in Ikea "A 12-year-old boy who went missing after being told off by his mother last Monday was found by police on Sunday afternoon in an IKEA store in Shanghai." Previously. Read the rest... How to make an epic pillow fort Ben Pell, at Fatherly.com: "Think Like An Architect" Read the rest... Screams lead police to chess loser Police investigating screams emerging from a apartment raided it only to find a chess player anguished at the failure of his inept strategies. Read the rest... Archaeology of an atomic test site Archaeologist Colleen Beck has spent 20 years studying the fake suburban homes, real bunkers, scientific instrumentation, and tunnels at the Nevada Test Site, 1,360 miles of land where more than a dozen atomic bombs were detonated between 1951 and 1962. Read the rest... DOJ helps local cops get around state limits on civil forfeiture Many states have passed laws limiting how much of your stuff the police can steal when they accuse you of a crime, but the Department of Justice has the solution for local cops: they will "adopt" a local seizure, making it federal and exempting it from state-level corruption controls. Read the rest... Gays blamed for immoral 'tight pants' by church leader A leading Jehovah's Witness warned Americans Monday to avoid the lure of tight pants, which are designed by homosexuals and are incompatible with worship of God. Read the rest... LL Cool J Makes a Demo Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons conspire to create their own record company in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor, Read the rest... Monster Energy drinks are satanic! "Bottom's up, and the devil laughs." (Haw haw haw!) Read the rest... Interactive map of social enterprise models Verynice, the fascinating (and very nice!) design consultancy that does 50% of its work pro bono, created a Models of Impact Interactive Map attempting to "document every business model in social enterprise, ever." From the map description: How can products and services contribute to the development of sustainable impact in our communities? Read the rest... Back to the Future Delorean dashboard phone-case The Back to the Future Delorean dashboard phone-case ($16.26) fits most recent smartphones, and the image is transferred using 3D vacuum printing to produce a wraparound effect. (viaGeeky Merch) Read the rest... The Funky, Retro Stylings of Francesco Francavilla's Batman 1972 Acclaimed comics artist Francesco Francavilla shares a vision of the Dark Knight that's more reflective of the 70s than the actual Batman books they published in the 70s. Read the rest... Hackney hackathon in London this weekend Christian writes, "Come and participate in 24 hours to hack for Hackney: we will be doing the first Hack-ney-thon to try and improve how the council works and life in the borough. Read the rest... What deduction games like Werewolf tell us about ourselves Games that pit players against their own ignorance and paranoia are exploding in popularity.Matt M. Casey finds our love of society and storytelling at the heart of the Social Deduction genre. Read the rest... The truth about the dungeon master who disappeared in the steam tunnels Jason Louv on the short life of James Dallas Egbert III, and the long shadow his death casts on those used him as a prop in the age of Satanic Panic Read the rest... The Pioneer Woman's Bolognese Sauce I've made a few batches of this bolognese recipe from Ree Drummond, and it is tremendous every time. It's rich and rustic and hearty, the kind of pasta dinner that knocks you to sleep immediately. Read the rest... LISTEN: Peter Gabriel covers the Arcade Fire's "My Body is a Cage" In this live footage from a 2010 concert at the 02 Arena, Peter Gabriel covers an Arcade Fire track from Neon Bible. Read the rest... The Best of the Orchestral Game Music Concerts The Orchestral Game Music Concert series ran from 1991 to 1996, employing a number of Japanese orchestras to perform symphonic selections from some of video games' greatest titles.Read the rest... iOS's first major malware challenge Glenn Fleishman reports on a hack in the wild that may trick users into installing malicious apps. But don't panic! Though potent, the malware has significant real-world limitations. Read the rest... UK launch of In Real Life at Orbital Comics, London, TOMORROW A reminder that tomorrow is the UK launch of Jen Wang's and my NYT-bestselling graphic novelIn Real Life, at London's Orbital Comics, starting at 1930h. Read the rest... Symbolic FCC/Net Neutrality square-wheeled longboard Andreas made this square-wheeled longboard featuring FCC chairman (and former cable lobbyist) Tom Wheeler, to symbolize the plan the FCC and Big Telco have for the future of our Internet. Read the rest... AARP runs vomit-inducing, quackery-filled breast cancer piece with Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge “Cancer, they agree, has become something they never imagined. 'A gift,' they say, almost in unison.” Pass the medical marijuana. I feel a wave of chemo-grade nausea coming on. Read the rest... Expat activists and journalists leave USA for Berlin's safety From Laura Poitras to Jacob Appelbaum to Sarah Harrison, Berlin has become a haven for American journalists, activists and whistleblowers who fear America's unlimited appetite for surveillance and put their trust in Germany's memory of the terror of the Stasi. Read the rest... Elvis Costello goes grocery shopping in 1978 In footage meant to air on 20/20, Elvis Costello and the Attractions play Boston and Detroit at the height of their powers and buy avocados with Geraldo Rivera. Read the rest... NYPD will stop arresting brown people for possessing small amounts of marijuana New York City police will stop arresting people for posessing small amounts of pot. The policy change reflects mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign promise to repair difficult relations between the nation's largest police force and people in the city who are not white. Read the rest...