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Scan of 1,000-year-old statue with mummy hidden inside A CT scan of a 1,000-year-old statue of Chinese Buddhist master master Liuquan revealed the mummy inside. Researchers at the Netherlands' Meander Medical Center also used an endoscope to acquire samples from within the mummy's body cavities. Read the rest... Life coach tips from Hunter S. Thompson "Let’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. Read the rest... Laura Poitras's Citizenfour OPSEC One of the most startling motifs of Citizenfour, Laura Poitras's Academy Award-winning documentary about Edward Snowden, is the use and abuse of cryptographic tools, which are at the center of the NSA's surveillance plans and Snowden's audacious act of whistleblowing. Read the rest... Music: "Who Stole the Hot Sauce?" Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band (1996) A favorite. Read the rest... Read Dickens with the prices adjusted for inflation So many times I'm reading a Victorian plot that revolves around some gentry fop handing a scullery boy a sum of 100 half-whatevers. Read the rest... Bob's Burgers and Sleater-Kinney Mash-Up It's all I've ever wanted. Obviously, and of course, Tina's got all the best moves. [via] Read the rest... The Twitter Fiction Festival returns, now with Margaret Atwood The Twitter Fiction Festival will return from May 11-15 for another a five-day celebration of creative work on Twitter. This year the festival has teamed up with Penguin Random House and the Association of American Publishers, with featured authors including Margaret Atwood, Lemony Snicket, Lauren Beukes and Eric Jerome Dickey. Read the rest... Here's a wistful, intriguing game you need to play this week Video games can vividly render the memories you can't get back. Memories such as how it felt when you were in high school, and your best friend's parents got divorced, and when her dad got to take her out to dinner at the weekend, you got to come. Read the rest... “Better Call Saul” shows Jimmy can wear many masks in "Hero" Episode four of the Breaking Bad spinoff, recapped. Read the rest... Bruder Spaghettus and his German Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster This is Rüdiger Weida, 63, aka Bruder Spaghettus, founder of a Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster congregation in the town of Templin, Germany. Read the rest... Chicago Police Department maintains "black site" for illegal detention and torture Homan Square is the Chicago Police Department's "secure site" where people as young as 15 are detained without charge and without access to counsel, subject to beatings that result in head wounds, and, in one case, death. Read the rest... Red Pandas merrily frolicking in the snow These Red Pandas at the Cincinnati Zoo enjoy the snow much more than I did when I lived in that city. Read the rest... The Hip Hop Radio Station KDAY and Dr. Dre The first 24/7 Hip Hop radio station, KDAY in LA plus Dr. Dre's involvement in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor Read the rest... HSBC boss used tax havens to keep underlings from discovering his outrageous pay HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver admitted that he used two secretive banks -- one in Switzerland, the other in Panama -- not just to avoid taxes, but to hide his amazing compensation package from other HSBC bankers, lest they wax jealous. Read the rest... Manchester, 1976: The birth of post-punk At Cuepoint, Frank Owen (seen here) recounts the riotous punk scene of 1970s Manchester that spawned Joy Division, the Buzzcocks, and one Steven Morissey. Read the rest... Google bans "graphic nudity" from hosted blogs, will decide if your art is porn Google is to ban pornography and "graphic nudity" at Blogger, the publishing platform that used to host Boing Boing before we got our own servers. Read the rest... Amazing Ping Pong shot Don't blink or you'll miss it. (bogeyhunter9) Read the rest... $10,000 robot leggings In 2009, Balenciaga rolled out "Transformer" leggings: made to order, from non-precious metals, at $100,000 per. The OP predicted that this was destined to reach Topshop et al at a much more reasonable price in short order, but as far as I know, that hasn't happened (yet). Read the rest... Why does February have just 28 days? Blame the Romans. (It's Okay To Be Smart) Read the rest... "Stranger Danger" to children vastly overstated Oft-cited stats about child abduction puts kidnappers behind every bush. But the numbers are old and frequently mangled, distorting our understanding of genuine risks to children. Read the rest... The time a hacker remotely bricked cars in Texas When all things are hackable, all things will be hacked Read the rest... Huge trove of surveillance leaks coming Al Jazeera and The Guardian are set to publish "the Spy Cables," a massive trove of South African intelligence cables detailing the over-classification of information and the corruption of post-Apartheid South Africa by US political interference. Read the rest... Idaho lawmaker asks if women could swallow cameras for gynecological exams before abortion A complete idiot who managed to get elected to The Idaho House of Representatives received a female reproductive anatomy lesson today. Read the rest... 12 death metal cat videos These heavy metal cats are occasionally joined by heavy metal dogs and lemurs. That kitty mosh pit looks serious. Read the rest... Russian baby laughs oddly Little guy sounds like a tiny troll. Read the rest... Children perform Zeppelin! The Louisville Leopard Percussionists, featuring children from 7-12, perform Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, The Ocean, and Immigrant Song, on marimbas, xylophone, vibraphone, drum set, timbales, congas, bongos and piano. (via Making Light) Read the rest... Bread Cat Missile This instant cinematic classic offers the existential tension of Godard's early work with all the lighthearted whimsy of Fellini, plus fur. Read the rest... The Katering Show is a seriously funny food web series “The adventures of a food intolerant and an intolerant foodie.” Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney are hilarious, and the series is brilliantly produced. Read the rest... Sesame Street's House of Cards parody is pretty great A sendup of the popular Netflix dramatic series by the silly people and puppets at Sesame Street. Some people say there's too much pork in this town. Read the rest... Ran Ortner's large-scale, photorealistic paintings of ocean waves “Water is a manifestation of the multitude of wave energies that surround us, a formless, colorless, tasteless, odorless 'billowing solid' visible to our eye only with the addition of light,” says Ortner. Read the rest...