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Crayons shaped like Minifigs These Minifig/Crayons are fantastic party favors! Read the rest... Meet the Eraserheads, the most important band in Filipino rock: a 90-minute mixtape I recently traveled to the Philippines to perform best-man duty at a wedding, and to write aboutManila's mall-based urbanism. Read the rest... Turd transplant leads to rapid weight-gain and obesity A woman whose c.difficile infection was treated with a fecal transplant from her overweight daughter experienced rapid and dramatic weight gain as soon as her daughter's microbial nation took hold in her gut. Read the rest... To do in Hawaii: Pow! Wow! Hawaii week-long urban art festival starts today Need an excuse to drop everything and fly to Hawaii right now? The annual week-long art eventPOW! WOW! is happening, and I'll be here on Oahu for it. Read the rest... UK says yes to three-parent IVF babies. The science behind it is pretty wild. The UK is becoming the first country to legalize the creation of baby humans from three different adult humans. An explainer of the science and how the law came into being is here. Read the rest... Youtube ditches Flash, but it hardly matters A year ago, the news that the world's biggest video site was abandoning proprietary software would have been incredible, but thanks to the World Wide Web Consortium's Netflix-driven DRM work, this changes very little. Read the rest... Anyone who makes you choose between privacy and security wants you to have neither An excellent op-ed from the Open Rights Group: "When ORG defends privacy, we are fighting to protect people from abuses of power that leave them vulnerable." Yet for many people surveillance makes them less safe: it's not the security blanket politicians are holding it up to be. Read the rest... The Seven-Year-Old Diet My daughter is a qualified nutritionist, and offers this orthorexic prescription for attaining peak health, longevity, and vigor through a simple, easy-to-follow diet. Read the rest... Andy Offutt, insanely prolific porn pioneer Chris Offutt, son of Andrew J Offutt, a golden age science fiction author, reveals that his father wrote and published hundreds of early porn novels, pioneering descriptions of the clitoris in men's stroke-books, producing at least one book a month. Read the rest... Samsung: watch what you say in front of our TVs, they're sending your words to third parties Part of the Samsung Smarttv EULA: "Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition." This is part of their speech-recognition tech, which uses third parties (whose privacy policies Samsung doesn't make any representations about) to turn your words into text. (Image: fuck tv, Jan Ramroth, CC-BY) Read the rest... Gadget review: Leatherman Multitool OHT It’s a bit weighty but has stood true through every scenario I have been able to expose it to. Read the rest... Now you can follow Jack Burton on Twitter The Big Trouble in Little China hero is an inspiration to us all. He is also now a twitterbot. Read the rest... Video: Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop of pioneering puppetry Our friends at Tested visit the magical menagerie that is Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Read the rest... Gov Walker caught lying about his rewrite of the U Wisc mission Since 1904, the State of Wisconsin and its university system have been governed by the public service mandate of the "Wisconsin Idea" -- until Governor Scott Walker's office leaned on the university to change the Idea to be all about providing workers for the state's businesses, and then lied about it. Read the rest... Astronomy: Get ready for tonight's close encounter with Jupiter Every 13 months, Earth and Jupiter have a close encounter. And that's happening tonight. From NASA Science News: Astronomers call it an "opposition" because Jupiter is opposite the Sun in the sky. Read the rest... “We tested 48 best-selling sex toys, so you don't have to” Sweethome.com's reviewer team picked the Magic Wand ($55) as the vibrator to recommend to most people, despite its “intimidating size.” Read the rest... The life-changing trick author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball) wrote on a Chipotle cup I don't know how much wisdom you expect to find on the side of your Chipotle soft-drink cup, but when I pop into one of their more than 1,600 locations for an emergency burrito, I desire nothing more than basic sustenance. Read the rest... XO: the most emotionally intense podcast you'll ever hear Toronto-based host/producer Keith McNally weaves together memory, music, and a magpie's collection of appropriated media, often with a This American Life-style aesthetic. Read the rest... Teen artist proposes nude statue of Bill Cosby with Fat Albert in place of his genitals According to a press release issued by a Florida gallery, teenage artist Rodman Daniel Edwards "has designed a sculpture replace the Dr Cliff Huxtable monument outside the TV Hall of Fame with a bronze nude statue in the likeness of Bill Cosby circa 2015, with Fat Albert, crying, arms outstretched, in place of his genitals." "I wanted to deal with this particular current event, because I was a big fan of Fat Albert when I was very young. Read the rest... Street Angel 013: Prime Time Street Angel watches TV and fights ninjas. Read the rest... JOHN WILCOCK: An Incident on Liberty Street The tribute to Jan and Stan continues with a pornography arrest in New York's Financial District. A true life tale from John Wilcock, New York Years. Read the rest... Katy Perry's lawyers latch jaws on 3D printed sharks Katy Perry's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist to Shapeways for selling 3D models of shark costumes similar to the ones used in Katy Perry's 2015 Superbowl halftime performance. Read the rest... Hacking diabetes: the open artificial pancreas project Sulka writes, "Over the last two years, several people with type 1 diabetes have decided they're not satisfied with the speed of development to technical solutions for managing diabetes. Read the rest... Why we like fried chicken and vinyl This week Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about the gadget approach to making good fried chicken and an affordable, retro-inspired solution to experiencing vinyl. Read the rest... Senior sues police for breaking his prosthetic arm Police in Utah pulled over Danny Baker because his car had a cracked windshield. When Baker produced a Colorado driver license, the officers told him he needed a Utah license and was under arrest. Read the rest...