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Reader Photo: Gas For Less From the Chicago History Museum. Read the rest... Electric “supercar” coupe prototype from Renovo Motors unveiled at CES Looks pretty dope. If you're at CES, you can drool all over it in person at the NVIDIA booth. Read the rest... WATCH: Fireworks factory explosion "At least two people have reportedly been injured when a fireworks factory exploded in Colombia." Read the rest... This ingenious machine turns feces into drinking water "I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin. They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. Read the rest... The Lost Starship by Vaughn Heppner Vaughn Heppner's The Lost Starship is a high speed space adventure. Join Agent Maddux, and his team of lovable rejects, as they save one branch of humanity from another. Read the rest... Sony's new $1200 Walkman targets audiophile true believers The new Walkman ZX2 runs an antiquated version of Android and has a textured faux-leather skin. Sony calls it "the fruit of continuous refinement in high audio quality technologies." At $1,200 it's definitely 240 times better than buying a new-in-box LG 800 for $5 and using it as a media player. [via] Read the rest... FBI asserts right to monitor cell phones without a warrant The Obama administration has already let people know they have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" when they use their cell phones, so it shouldn't be surprising that the FBI claims it has the right to install fake cell phone towers and "use them to track cell phones' locations and users while intercepting the contents of calls and texts." A couple of senators are making a show of pretending to be concerned, and have issued a press release that calls for "broader understanding of the full range of law enforcement agencies that use this technology, the policies in place to protect the privacy interests of those whose information might be collected using these devices, and the legal process that DOJ and DHS entities seek prior to using them." Read the rest... Southwest flight attendant's hilarious, freestyle safety announcement Give that FA a raise! Put her in charge of the airline! Make her chairwoman of the FAA! video link (via Metafilter) Read the rest... Alleged Santa Claus arrested for gifting marijuana "...a 57-year-old Monterey Peninsula man was arrested today after packaging and handing out marijuana... The man claimed to be Santa Claus and said the pot was a gift to the recipients."(via) Read the rest... RU Sirius: new book on the Singularity BB pal RU Sirius, prankster godfather of the cyberculture, and Jay Cornell have published a new book deciphering the surreal truths, questionable fictions, and high weirdness of the Singularity. Read the rest... Roxanne's Revenge! The "Roxanne Wars" of the '80s officially begin with this song by 14 yr old Roxanne Shante in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor. Read the rest... Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, and their lion Neil In the early 1970s, actress and animal rights activist Tippi Hedren cared for Neil, a lion that sometimes shared a bed with Hedren's then-teenage daughter Melanie Griffith. Read the rest... Video: Formula One racing intensity "Art of F1 2014" by Miran Dilberovic Read the rest... An animator's sketches from the LA County Jail Elana Pritchard (see her kickstarter), an animator who is a protege of Ralph Bakshi, was thrown in the scandal haunted LA County Jail for three months for violating a court order; on Bakshi's advice, she kept herself sane by illustrating her experiences using a golf pencil and scrap paper. Read the rest... Preview of Henni, by Miss Lasko-Gross In a fantastical world where old traditions and religion dominate every aspect of life, lives a girl named Henni. Unlike most in her village, Henni questions and wonders what the world is like as she comes of age. Read the rest... Record-breaking flare from Milky Way’s black hole detected by NASA's Chandra project The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is about 26,000 light years from Earth. Read the rest... Road trip gone bad: Not quite making it to Baja in my Westy Mexico's Baja California peninsula is an incredibly beautiful place. My 1987 Volkswagen camper van can be an amazing way to travel there. Read the rest... Interview with man who coined the phrase “the Internet of Things" Arik Gabbai of The Smithsonian interviewed innovator Kevin Ashton, who coined the phrase “the Internet of Things." He has a new book called How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. Read the rest... Oklahoma GOP wants to outlaw hoodies, unless you are part of a minstrel troupe A new law proposed by [Oklahoma] Republican state senator Don Barrington called Senate Bill 13 would enable police to issue tickets of up to $500 to people attempting to conceal their identity in public "by means of a robe, mask or other disguise." It also opens the possibility that violators could be subject to "imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not exceeding one year." Mic: Oklahoma GOP makes list of when you can wear your hoodie without getting harassed by the cops Read the rest... Scarlett Johansson to star in live-action "Ghost in the Shell" movie This should be interesting. Read the rest... What your phone texting hand position says about you Genius from Doghouse Diaries. Read the rest... Low poly papercraft mammals Papercraft critters in the style of low polygon vector models, from Estudio Guardabosques: Carolina Silvero and Juan Elizalde, a couple from Buenos Aires, Argentina. [via FAITH IS TORMENT] Read the rest... Video: Hypnotic audiovisual performance projected within a dome An exploration of "how to understand the complex structure that exists in nature." Read the rest... Outsider music: "New Year No Mistake," the official video My ability to tolerate this video lasted about 45 seconds. Perhaps you will beat my record. [Thanks, Robert Popper!] Read the rest... Beautiful long-exposure shots of LED-equipped athletes Ontario-based photographer Stephen Orlando of MotionExposure.com creates languid nighttime shots of athletes in motion with LED lights attached to their gear or bodies. Read the rest... Halo: Nightfall Microsoft has released a new, short, live action series, Halo: Nightfall. Written by Prison Breakcreator Paul Scheuring and produced by Ridley Scott's Scott Free productions, I watched all 5 episodes in one afternoon. Read the rest... The unmistakable GIFs of Echophon Hypnotic, elegant animated GIFworks by Echophon. More: echophon.tumblr.com. [via Optically Addicted] Read the rest... WATCH: RSA short "What Do We Need To Know?" RSA has animated an excerpt of producer John Lloyd's excellent General Ignorance speech. It's very difficult to think of a new question. Read the rest... In West Virginia, there's a town where Wi-Fi and cellphone service is illegal. "Electrosensitives" love it. It's the site of the gigantic Robert C. Byrd radio telescope, which scans space for signals that even a weak AM radio broadcast could overpower. Read the rest... WATCH: UFO releases orb The guy who posted this video claims he recorded it in Southern California. What is it? I was driving home after work when this UFO or whatever you call it caught my eye. Read the rest...