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The colorful 3D art of El Grand Chamaco El Grand Chamaco is an artist from Los Ramones, Mexico. His galleries on Behance are a joy to pore over. art Read the rest... Rosetta's comet sounds like a candy bar: crunchy outside, marshmallow inside Sounds kinda yummy. Read the rest... "R is for Robots" coloring book Our friends at Adafruit have published their delightful coloring book "R Is For Robots!" You can buy a print copy for $9.95 or download the CC-licensed digital file for free! Read the rest... WATCH: incredible archer shows his skills Lars Anderson is an amazing archer. He is the opposite of modern competitive archers who are stationary and shoot at distant targets. Read the rest... SkyMall files for bankruptcy Everyone's favorite inflight microbe spreading vector, the Skymall catalog, is filing for bankruptcy protection. The Sharper Image went bankrupt in 2008 and Brookstone went bankrupt in 2014, suggesting the traditional business model for selling expensive junk has changed. Read the rest... London cop who repeatedly kicked, beat woman who wouldn't leave her child's sickbed cleared Officer Warren Luke was cleared of the charge of "actual bodily harm" after he admitted to causing more than 40 injuries to a woman who wouldn't leave the hospital bedside of her seven year old daughter, who has cerebral palsy. Read the rest... Shuriken multitool @fuwa has developed a shuriken multitool, to let you hack like a ninja, and has promised to start selling them once they've gotten 2,000 retweets. Read the rest... Death Star heart necklace What could be more romantic than a fully operational battle station? $16.61, ships from Canada, made from polymer clay. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest... Meta (The Meta Superhero Novel Series Book 1) It has been a while since I read a superhero novel, Meta by Tom Reynolds was all the fun I expected. Read the rest... ​Oakland cops' license cams follow drivers everywhere EFF obtained and analyzed records from the Oakland Police Department's secretive automatic license plate readers, showing that the department has mounted a program of incredibly intrusive, highly racialized secret surveillance of an entire city. Read the rest... King Tut's mask crappily repaired with epoxy After the beard on King Tutankhamun's iconic burial mask was knocked off during cleaning (or removed because it was loose), it was quickly glued back on with epoxy, resulting in a crappy and permanent fix to the 3,300 year-old artifact. Read the rest... Watch the northern lights captured in real time in 4K Ronn Murray braved knee-deep snow and bitter Alaska cold to capture this pulsating green-hued aurora in 4K definition. Crank the resolution way up to 4K and enjoy a beautiful wintry nighttime hike with Ronn, Marketa, their dog Angus, and the universe unfolding above, then check out his highlight reel below. Read the rest... Potemkin rumble: your car's muscular engine noise is an MP3 Car manufacturers admit that they fake the throaty rumble of their products' engines, using tricks like hidden amplifiers or even playing digital soundfiles when you depress the gas pedal. Read the rest... Watch "Do Try This At Home," science series using common items At-Bristol's Live Science Team has a wonderful video series of experiments that can be done with inexpensive materials available at typical hardware, kitchenware, and grocery stores, liketurning water into instant ice. Read the rest... Video: how raindrops release that fresh rain smell MIT researchers used high-speed cameras to reveal raindrops' aerosol effect that releases petrichor, the earthy fresh smell of rain. From MIT: Mechanical engineering researchers (Youngsoo) Joung and (Cullen) Buie set up a system of high-speed cameras to capture raindrops on impact. Read the rest... Watch alt-J perform "Left Hand Free" live in studio This Is All Yours made many best album lists last year for its moody art rock vibe, and the guys from alt-J strip down their studio version to its roots in this live performance of "Left Hand Free"for SiriusXM. If you haven't seen them, treat yourself to the two videos for the studio version, below. Read the rest... Mermaid convention photographs by Arthur Drooker Cool Hunting continues its wonderful Conventional Wisdom series by following photographer Arthur Drooker to Merfest, a mermaid convention in North Carolina. Read the rest... Turing's journal on the auction block One of Alan Turing's journals, written while he was hacking away on the German Enigma Code, will be up for auction in April. Read the rest... E=MC2 bowtie Want to wear a bowtie, but afraid it won't be nerdy enough? The $25 Einstein bowtie is just the thing for you. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest... History of NYC's drinking fountains At Re:form, Makalé Cullen reveals the design history of the drinking fountain in New York City. In the early 1990s, during the salad days of his civic career, Emmanuel (Thingue, Senior Landscape Architect with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation) unwittingly became the designer of what is now the most ubiquitous style of drinking fountain in New York City’s parks — an uninterrupted cast iron number that he originally designed for an upgrade of Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza.... Read the rest... Street Angel 011: Ninjas vs. Pirates Angel City's streets explode when ninjas and pirates clash! Read the rest... Consumerist on Information Doesn't Want to Be Free Consumerist's Kate Cox has turned in a long, excellent, in-depth review of my book Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, really nailing the book's thesis. Read the rest... USA McDonald's fries have 14 ingredients. UK McDonald's fries have 4. Here's a followup to my earlier post about McDonald's fries. In 2013 Food Babe posted the ingredients for McDonald's fries in the US and in the UK. Read the rest... Beautiful short documentary on the art of letterpress The Folio Society interviewed master printer Stan Lane about the classic craft of letterpress printing. "Feeling print in paper... Read the rest... California officials warn anti-vaxxers to avoid Disneyland Unvaccinated people are being officially warned by California epidemiologists to avoid Disneyland in the wake of a measles outbreak. In some counties in California, more than 1 in 5 kindergartners are unvaccinated due to "personal belief exemptions." • Unvaccinated People Shouldn't Go To Disneyland, The State Says (LAist) Boot Hill image by Sean MacEntee Read the rest... Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in federal prison, must pay $890K in restitution The intelligence and security journalist has already served more than two years in prison for charges related to his proximity to sources within the hacktivist entity known as Anonymous.Read the rest... Hol-ee Roller - dogproof chew toy A friend gave my dog the Hol-ee Roller ($6) in January, and my dog and I like it so much that I have since started to phase-out other dog toys. Read the rest... In a drug cartel first, $1,400 drone carrying 6 pounds of crystal meth crashes at US/Mexico border This promo video for the DJI drone the drug traffickers used clearly says it holds "almost 5 pounds of equipment," not 6 pounds of meth. Read the manual next time, dudes. Read the rest... The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature Imagine Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer told in Family Circus comic strip style, Alice in Wonderland’sAlice as a rude fat brat with a Valley-girl accent, Little Red Riding Hood as a young woman who climbs into bed with the Wolf, or Harry Potter told as a comic without words, except for some exclamations and sound affects. Read the rest... In Illinois, misbehaving students may be required to give teachers their Facebook passwords In Illinois, school districts are informing parents that a new law may mean that school officials can demand social media passwords of students if the kids are suspects in cases of cyberbullying, or breaking other school rules. Read the rest...