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Music: "Roll with it," Steve Winwood (1988) The sound of the late 80s. Read the rest... Cheap and easy guitar string winder/cutter Changing guitar strings has always been a comedy of errors, for me. Not so with this cheapguitar string changer. Read the rest... NYC report reveals troubling patterns in illegal chokeholds New York City's Department of Investigation released a report on 10 illegal NYPD chokeholds since 2009. Former Commissioner Ray Kelly rejected all 6 that were recommended for disciplinary action. Read the rest... Former TSA officer reveals widespread misery there Being a TSA officer is a dream job for sadistic sociopaths, but for people who are able to sympathize, it's a nightmare. Read the rest... Takedown archive Chilling Effects removes self from search engines At copyright holders' behest, reports TorrentFreak: "strange coming from an organization that was founded to offer more transparency." Read the rest... Snowmen are anti-Islamic, promote lust A cleric in Saudi Arabia has forbidden the building of snowmen: "It is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism." Read the rest... Egyptian men acquitted on "debauchery" charges A group of men arrested at a bathhouse in Egypt, for the benefit of TV reporters filming the raid,have been acquitted in a sensational trial. Read the rest... Gentleman has poo at bus stop CCTV footage from the United Kingdom captured a man removing his trousers and having a pooin the cool glow of a bus stop: "Some people just don't respect the public transport service." Read the rest... Pop-Up Op-Art book is more a piece of 3D art than it is a book Pop-Up Op-Art is more a piece of 3D art than it is a book. With each turn of the thick cardboard pages pops a bold and modern structure created by paper artist Philippe Ug (author of Funny Birds and other high-end pop-up books). Read the rest... The best books for nerds from 2014 Some 600,000 volumes were published in English last year. Here's a few of the best. Read the rest... Lights and chandeliers made from booze bottles and books The Moonshine Lamp Company makes beautiful lights out of booze bottles, such as the Crystal Skull Sconce and the eight-bottle chandelier; but they also make lights out of hardcovers, including one made from Jeremy Scahill's superb investigative 2007 book Blackwater. (viaNeatorama) Moonshine Lamp Company Read the rest... Recipe: picture book that introduces sloppy cooking and social engineering At my house, we've fallen in love with Recipe, a 2013 picture book about a little girl who tells her good-sport mom that it's time she learned to cook, and hands over a set of ingredients for Mom to buy, including a new puppy, a Cleveland Browns sweatshirt, a helmet, a water squirter, and 20 bags of marshmallows. Read the rest... A tour through New Zealand's amazing steampunk town We went to Oamaru, New Zealand to see the blue penguins (and they were super cute), but it was the town's dedication to Steampunk that really got us fired up. Read the rest... Yo! Your Honor! A Response to the Chief Justice PACER is America's all-but-inaccessible public database of court records. Carl Malamudexplains the problem—and the solution: you. Read the rest... SF Bay Area: Emperor Norton's 197th birthday party, February 3rd The Emperor's Bridge folks are throwing a party. Come have some drinks, watch a few screenings of Norton related media, and learn the true year of the Emperor's birth. Read the rest...