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Star Trek communicator and dog waste bag dispenser This $8 Star Trek bag dispenser is dangling off Nemo's leash, ensuring I am ready to clean up after he has boldly gone. Read the rest... Roses are Red, Foxes are Clever I like your butt. Let me touch it. Forever. A classic poem by cosplayer and internet video star It's Raining Neon. Read the rest... Canada's new surveillance bill eliminates any pretense of privacy Michael Geist writes, "Canada's proposed anti-terrorism legislation is currently being debated in the House of Commons, with the government already serving notice that it plans to limit debate. Read the rest... This doctor made a blind man see and an autistic boy speak Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, who is on the faculty of the University of Toronto, uses sensory stimulation "to change the structure and function of brain circuits" in people with chronic pain, autism, and Parkinson's. Read the rest... Music: "Dream Police," Cheap Trick (1979) "They live inside of my head" Read the rest... Links: Jail bosses who steal from workers; realistic online mental health quiz; RCMP classes "anti-petroleum" activists as terrorists; Lenovo thought you'd love that spyware! ☣ We're Jailing the Wrong People. We Need to Jail More of the Right Ones: Corporate Criminals[Robert Kuttner/American Prospect] Every year, workers are cheated out of tens of billions of dollars of pay—more than larceny, robbery and burglary combined. Read the rest... Reptilian elite allow human to become US drug czar The lizard people who control the U.S. Senate confirmed President Obama’s nomination of Michael Botticelli to be the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (aka drug czar). Read the rest... I'll Vote Green If You Do: electoral kickstarter for minority parties The UK Green Party has built a version of the kickstarter for elections I proposed last year: they're signing up people who promise to vote Green if enough of their neighbours will do the same. Read the rest... Oliver Sacks: I have terminal cancer “I cannot pretend I am without fear,” he writes. “But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.”Read the rest... Livestream: students occupy Newark school superintendent's office to protest forced privatization Greg Costikyan writes, "Newark public school students have occupied the office of Cami Anderson, the state-appointed superintendent of Newark's public school system, in protest against plans to privatize the entire city school system over the protest of the city's mayor and virtually its entire population." They have been there since yesterday and plan to stay there until their demands are met. Read the rest... We guarantee this is the weirdest video you will watch in pretty much forever There are always new extremes of internet weirdness left to be discovered, like distant shores of forbidden desire we'd actually rather not know about and yet can't stop watching as long as they've been transformed into a YouTube supercut Read the rest... Deceased man dressed as Green Lantern for his wake Renato Garcia, 50, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, enjoyed sporting a Green Lantern costume. So when he died last week, his family dressed up his embalmed body in the suit one last time and propped him up at his wake. Read the rest... Embroidered "snapshots" of travel sights Instead of simply taking photos of the places she visits, Teresa Lim makes embroidery snapshots. Teresa Lim: Sew Wanderlust (via MAKE) Read the rest... Flask disguised as baby in carrier The Cool Baby is a beverage bottle hidden inside a baby doll worn in a chest carrier. At publication time, the creator of this product is very far from his $70,000 goal on Kickstarter. Read the rest... Strikingly 3D geometric tattoos Exquisite geometric tattoos by Berlin-based artist Chaim Machlev. (And yes, I too noted the Unknown Pleasures-esque vibe of the example above.) See more at Machlev's site DotsToLines and in this Hi-Fructose gallery. Read the rest... Lenovo pre-installed malware on laptops PC maker Lenovo reportedly sold laptops preinstalled with Superfish, a hidden malware package that injects advertising into browser sessions: "it can basically intercept everything and it could be really misused." Read the rest... More of Japan's underground bike parking robots A great recent video of the famed Eco-Cycle underground bike parking robots in Tokyo. For more Eco-Cycle excellence, enjoy this Culture Japan Network TV segment about the technology. Read the rest... The creator of a best-selling exercise game on being fat and loving her body If you've never tried the fitness app Zombies, Run, imagine a long series of tiny radio plays set during the zombie apocalypse that ask you to run to various locations on crucial missions—with the undead hot on your heels. Read the rest... Game illustrates sexual consent using skin contact as the controller Consent can be an uncomfortable subject, an often-complex and personal form of negotiation that people rarely get a chance to practice outside the moments that precede sexual encounters. Read the rest... How to glue things together Have you ever wanted to glue one thing to another, but not known exactly how to do it? This to That is here to answer your highly specific prayer. Read the rest... Understanding American football helps us understand America Radiolab can always be depended on for an interesting take on questions you never even knew you had. Their story on American Football is no exception. Read the rest... Portlandia's first all-male Feminist Meeting a success. Thank god for the dudes of Portlandia: "I just wish there was a way for us to be validated for being such great feminists." Read the rest... Consent explained This video by CampusClarity puts it in everyday terms. Can two-minutes and a smart phone change the way you (or your students) think about consent? Read the rest... This 14 year-old deadlifts more than you Rachel McInnis is pretty serious about CrossFit. She's dedicated. She's strong. She's 14 years old. Read the rest... Monte Halparin celebrates 94th You probably know him better from his days on Let's Make A Deal, as Monty Hall. But in 1944, he was Monte Halparin, the University of Manitoba Student Union President. Monty will celebrate his 94th birthday this year, on the 71st anniversary of his election. Photo: The Manitoban. Read the rest... Nathan Fillion guest stars in Gravity Falls The nerdy stars have aligned. Nathan Fillion has a guest spot on Gravity Falls, so basically we can all just hold our breaths and pray for the Firefly reference that's hopefully forthcoming. Read the rest... Korean pop music before "K-pop": three six-hour mixes of 70s and 80s hits Let me tell you about my favorite spot in all Korea. I won't name it, since I don't want to take the blame when, for other reasons, it inevitably gets too popular. Read the rest... Ayn Rand's Harry Potter Fanfic can take you down some peculiar roads. But in Mallory Ortberg's imagined Ayn Rand fanfic of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the the tenets of ruthless self-interest are shouted to hilarious effect. Read the rest... John Dee was the 16th century's real-life Gandalf Queen Elizabeth I’s court advisor was the foremost scientific genius of the 16th century, laying the foundation of modern science. Then teamed up with a disreputable, criminal psychic and things really got rolling. Read the rest... Cat puts puppy on pause “You are at a 9. I need you at a one.” [video | GIF | caption: 4GIFs] Read the rest...