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To vaccinate or not to vaccinate: Should it even be a question? via Cincinnati'sWCPO9 Read the rest... Christian Science Monitor remains cranky about "Presidents Day" The CSMonitor is cranky that Washington's Birthday is being called President's Day. From their milquetoast phillipic: There is a federal holiday Monday, but it’s called 'Washington’s Birthday.' Yet mattress retailers and used-car sales lots tend to make this Presidents Day in their ads. Read the rest... Find out if the NSA spied on you and shared the info with the UK Over at The Message, Quinn Norton reports on a key ruling by the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal against the British spay agency GCHQ that the sharing of NSA data was an illegal human rights violation. Read the rest... Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic There is a lot to be obsessed with in the life of Aleister Crowley, the relatively infamous occultist, poet, painter, spy and ceremonial magician. Read the rest... LG executive indicted for vandalizing Samsung washing machines Jo Seong-jin, head of LG's home appliances division, didn't toss a brick into a Samsung washing machine at an appliance trade show in Berlin, but he has been indicted in South Korea on charges of vandalizing $2,700 Samsung washing machines with his bare hands. Read the rest... Custom Playmobil weightlifters with homoerotic and steroid references The eBay description: "PLAYMOBIL MUSCULATION CULTURISME DOPING DOPAGE SPORT GYM CRUISING GAY HOMO RARE" Objet de collection. Création originale. Produit unique, non commercialisé, création personnelle. Read the rest... Watch what happens when you toss a brick in a washing machine Category: Entertainment -- Throwing bricks and other heavy objects into washing machines and recording their self-destruction. A quicker way to do it: Read the rest... Human vs eight-switch Useless Machine The Useless Machine Advanced Edition: eight times more useless than the original! Read the rest... WATCH: Ryan reacts to becoming one of the top finalists to die on Mars Ryan MacDonald, the intelligent young virgin who volunteered to die on Mars, just found out he made it into round 3 of the Mars One astronaut selection process. Read the rest... Man caught on CCTV camera stealing camera This gentleman was caught on camera allegedly stealing the very security camera that was recording him. After snatching the camera at Port Jefferson, New York's Heritage Motel, he took off in a pickup truck. Read the rest... Kid cowboys compete for quick draw champ Photographer Carroll Taveras captured the "Young Guns" of a Cowboy Fast Draw gun competition in Denver, Colorado. Young Guns (via Juxtapoz) Read the rest... Frank Drake thinks it’s silly to send messages to ET The author of a legendary equation illustrating the probability of alien civilization, Drake suggests that we should listen more. Read the rest... A World of Characters: advertising icons from the Warren Dotz collection Here's a short video about the advertising icons exhibit curated by pop culture historian Warren Dotz. RELATED: Advertising characters exhibit at the SFO International Terminal Read the rest... Wintering in Antarctica If you missed your flight out of the South Pole on Friday, get comfortable. You'll be there until November. The Atlantic tells us what it's like to winter in Antarctica: Peter Rejcek, who wintered as a “carpenter helper” in 2004 and is now an editor for The Antarctic Sun, contends that winters are not as lonely as they might seem. Read the rest... Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep David K Randall's Dreamland is a reivew of the best scientific thinking that illuminates and important subject: namely, why do we spend a third of our lives paralyzed, eyes closed, having vivid hallucinations? Read the rest... Martin Luther playset is the best-selling toy of all time Playmobil's German "Little Luther" toy sold 34,000 pieces in 72 hours. The plastic toy, complete with a quill, German-language bible and cheery grin, was produced for the German and Nuremberg tourist boards and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, as Germany gears up to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017. Read the rest...