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Facebook tells Native Americans that their names aren't "real" Facebook's "real names" policy means that from time to time, it arbitrarily decides what its users are allowed to call themselves, which sucks if your name is something like Dana Lone Hill or Robin Kills The Enemy or Shane Creepingbear. Read the rest... Adventure Time Docs These Adventure Time Docs sell for $130-$150. (via Super Punch) Read the rest... Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-To History, Part 13 Nut Shell Critters: Fun with food waste. Read the rest... Links: Immigrant experience science fiction; principal calls FBI over flag-tossing; Sriracha doesn't want trademarks Two of these should make you smile, one should make you shake your head. ☣ School Principal Contacts FBI After Student Throws American Flag Out A Window [Techdirt] Middle School Principal Robert Archuleta from Espanola, NM thinks that there's a federal statute against flag desecration. Read the rest... “Love is Like an Unfamiliar Shower,” a comic by Grant Snider “Billie Holiday sang, 'Love is just like a faucet, it turns off and on.” Read the rest... Oliver Sacks on a motorcycle in 1961 I'm a huge fan of Dr. Oliver Sacks. He's led a very interesting life, as a medical researcher, professor of neurology, lover of music, lover of things that explode, and intrepid psychonaut. Read the rest... North Korea publishes list of over 300 weird new patriotic slogans. What do they mean? "Let this socialist country resound with Song of Big Fish Haul and be permeated with the fragrant smell of fish and other seafoods!" The list of new patriotic slogans just published by the government of North Korea is full of weird ones. Read the rest... 32 new LEGO Star Wars sets and a poster of facts all fans should know The LEGO Group today announced 32 new LEGO Star Wars figures. To celebrate the launch, they created a poster of fun facts fans of both should know. Read the rest... Fifty Shits of Grey Shit Rough Drafts takes on Fifty Shades of Grey. [Link] Read the rest... Cognition, categories and oppression Our minds naturally group things in culturally specific categories -- for Americans, robins are more "bird" than albatrosses -- and we're better at categorizing more prototypical items than outliers -- but what does this mean when we group humans in categories like "real Americans"? Read the rest... Estonian programmer for Megaupload pleads guilty, sentenced to year in U.S. prison Andrus Nõmm "was aware that copyright-infringing content was stored" on site, according to U.S. prosecutors. The Estonian programmer was today sentenced to a year and one day in prison after pleading guilty to felony copyright infringement. Read the rest... Battery with AC outlet charges laptops Like all portable chargers, the ChargeTech charges USB devices, but it also has an AC outlet to charge laptops (and other AC devices under 65W). Read the rest... Art Out of Time – Strange and now-forgotten cartoonists When comics in newspapers (“funnies”) were first invented in the 1900s, a thousand crazy ideas were tried in every local newspaper in the country. Read the rest... Reddit isn't the future of creativity, but it is a vital part of it The site has emerged as an important creative platform, but getting—and keeping—an audience there is a tricky thing. Read the rest... WATCH: Kittens vs. robot spider The big cat likes playing with the disc-throwing robot spider. The kittens take a bit longer to warm up to it. Read the rest...