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WATCH: Get stoked for work or school with Powerglove's "Batman" If you're having a hard time getting back in the swing of things after the holidays, perhapsPowerglove's retro-kitsch "Batman" video will inspire you. Read the rest... Beautiful minimalist GIFs by Teo Wollrabe Here are some of the wonderful works you can find on the tumblog of artist Teo Wollrabe, 21, of Portland, Oregon. Read the rest... The best response is always the Flehmen response Many lolcats and other memes use images of animals displaying the Flehmen response. Because we tend to anthropomorphize animals, we associate this response with similar hilarious human facial expressions. Read the rest... Privatized offshore cities: the new climate apartheid Financier-developers with ties to some of the century's most notorious war criminals are building Eko Atlantic, an offshore city near Lagos, to house the burgeoning, confiscatory millionaires of Nigeria, while in the oft-bulldozed slums of Lagos genuine, climate-resilient floating buildings are taking to sea. Read the rest... Learn the techniques of professional monster makeup artists with Hollywood Makeup Lab Hollywood Makeup Lab is not a beginner’s monster makeup book. The projects are mainly for people with experience making molds and prosthetics, and who are familiar with airbrushing and different kinds of makeup. Read the rest... Video: Hypnotist thief robs man Last month, a hypnotist thief reportedly put London wine seller Aftab Haider into a trance before robbing him. The strange episode was caught on CCTV video later released by Scotland Yard. Read the rest... Snake Robot vs. Spine Robot? I would enjoy watching OC Robotics' new Series II - X125 snake robot, above, tangle withSurvival Research Laboratories' much more intimidating (and elegant) Spine Robot, below. Read the rest... Keith Haring animations for Sesame Street My family was blown away by the exhibition Keith Haring: The Political Line at San Francisco's de Young Museum, inspiring me to look up the wonderful animations that Bill Davis produced for Sesame Street from Haring's artwork after his 1990 death. Read the rest... Treehouse too posh for county building code Placer County, California officials demand that the Spitzer family remove the kitchen and loft bed from their new 500-square-foot treehouse because they already have one guest house on their property and adding another would be illegal. Read the rest... Canadian politics 2014: the terrible Tory shenanigans leading to up to the election Dave writes, "Could this be the last year that this is required? Canada will see an election in 2015. This year brought us temporary foreign workers, refugee abuse, unwanted changes to election laws, and much much more." You would think spending public money on partisan activities would rile up staunch Conservatives. Read the rest... Monstrous Regiment: the finest Discworld novel? I'm an unabashed Terry Pratchett fanboy, and it often seems like each Discworld novel is the best of the lot. But there's one book I return to again, and again, and again: 2003's Monstrous Regiment, a book about gender, war, identity, strategy and tactics. It also happens to be the most stand-alone of all the Discworld books -- one that can be enjoyed without reading any of the other marvellous books in the series. Read the rest... Disco clam lures prey with toxic snot The fleshy lips of Ctenoides ales "flash like a mirror ball" as it stalks the Indo-Pacific seabed. [via]Read the rest... How to make sweet potato fries I learned how to make tasty sweet potato fries a few months ago when I listened to the July 8, 2014 episode of Adam Savage's podcast, Still Untitled. Read the rest... Former Reddit manager seeks caring and resourceful assholes Erik Martin, Reddit's longtime general manager, recently left the site after years with the hardest job on the net ("appeasing a crowd that at some point got too big.") His new gig is helping everyday people deal with corporate bullshit. Read the rest... Video: Sagan's Millions, Billions, and Trillions Carl Sagan: all the millions, billions, and trillions from Cosmos. Read the rest... The Twinkie Murder trial of Harvey Milk's killer As a reporter for the Berkeley Barb, Paul Krassner covered the trial of Dan White, who was found guilty of killing San Francisco gay leader Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, yet received a shockingly lenient sentence. Read the rest... London: the dead-eyed banker psycho dream "Its protagonist lives in a world of almost continual night, with the hungry eyes and dead affect of an Ayn Rand wet dream: his world is constituted of chrome, glass, a palette of white-to-taupe, a spatter-pattern rug and one book, a single book, on graphic design" - Piercepenniless on the Redrow London property development promo video. Read the rest... UK government tells nursery workers to turn in potential terrorist toddlers They'll have to report 3-year-olds who are "at risk of radicalisation," according to a consultation document that the Home Office is pushing to turn into legislation. Read the rest...