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Blue Steel at Fashion Week! Derek Zoolander and Hansel McDonald returned to the runway today during Valentino's show at Paris Fashion Week! Video below. (CNN, thanks Kelly Sparks!) Derek Zoolander and Hansel strut down the runway wearing cutting-edge fashion that asks the eternal question, “Où est la bibliothèque?” #Zoolander2 @benstiller A video posted by Valentino (@maisonvalentino) on Mar 10, 2015 at 7:19am PDT Did this really happen? #omg @maisonvalentino #Hansel A video posted by Helena Bordon (@helenabordon) on Mar 10, 2015 at 7:29am PDT Read the rest... Earl Norem's Conan Norem's art set the tone of hyper-macho pulp men's magazines in the sixties, and he carried the style over to Marvel's Savage Sword of Conan, with barbarian-and-babe covers that oozed testosterone and unreconstructed chauvinism. Read the rest... After shaking hands, people sniff their hands Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel secretly videoed 153 volunteers to see if they sniffed their hands after shaking hands. Read the rest... A graph of how much people drink as they grow older When men are twenty-five years old, they are at their drinking peak: 13 drinks a week. Women peak at age 40, drinking about 4 alcoholic beverages a week. Read the rest... Jack Burton action figure If you are allowed to have an action figure on your desk, I recommend Jack Burton. Sam Ward, who follows our chatty Jack Burton-bot, on Twitter, pointed out this Funko model of the hero. May the wings of liberty never lose a feather! Funko Reaction: Big Trouble in Little China - Jack Burton Action Figure Read the rest... "Another Brick in the Wall" with chorus of German kids (1980) German musicians Vierzehn and a chorus of teens cover "Another Brick in the Wall (Part I)” on a TV talk show, circa 1980. Read the rest... LEGO: The women of the US Supreme Court Maia Weinstock's Legal Justice League, the women of the US Supreme Court as custom LEGO minifigs. For more, see Weinstock's own site and her Legal Justice League Flickr set. Read the rest... The cost-effective way to help the "chronically homeless" Pay for their housing. Homeless shelters are simply more expensive. Mother Jones reports on how Utah "has decreased the number of homeless by 72 percent—largely by finding and building apartments where they can live, permanently, with no strings attached." It's a terrific long story by Jim McAuley, and my favorite part is where it notes the paradox behind how the state typically hands out housing aid. Read the rest... Better Call Saul reveals the tortured origin of Mike Ehrmantraut One of Breaking Bad's finest characters gets an episode in the spotlight Read the rest... A 12 year-old studies the weird cost of playing as a girl Maybe you remember your childhood Atari or that rec room NES, but today's kids today are growing up with mobile games, and sixth-grader Madeline Messer has noticed something weird. Read the rest... Conversations on blackness in games If you're a black fan of video games, your choices for representation in video games tend to be limited to "wacky sidekick", "cool gangster" or "evil gangster." Or "athlete in a sports franchise". Read the rest... Fundraising for Alpha, an sf/f teen writing workshop Lara writes, "Writing genre fiction can be a lonely business for teens. The Alpha SF/F/H Workshop brings together young writers, aged 14 to 19, for 10 days of creation and peer review critiques. Read the rest... The Sailor's Dream: a game of beautiful things with unfamiliar traits This mysterious marine adventure is for those with the sea in their hearts and an iOS device in their hands. Read the rest... The joys of the Shitphone At Matter, John Herman says fuck the iPhone and extols the virtues of the BLU Advance 4.0 Unlocked Dual Sim Phone, AKA the "Shitphone." From Medium:My other off-brand electronics are easier to conceive of as LEGO-kit assemblies of parts. Read the rest... Great ladies of history find a new home in strategy games Paradox Interactive creates elaborate strategy games that are unusually popular with women. Susana Meza-Graham and Sara Wendel-Örtqvist explain why. Read the rest... Video: Ass-kicking 1930s Jiu-Jitsu with Miss May Whitley "Who said 'weaker sex?'" (via Daily Grail) Read the rest... Eutopia: horror novel about Lovecraftian racism David Nickle's horror novel Eutopia confronts the racial overtones of Lovecraftian fiction head on, revealing a terrifying story of the American eugenics movement and the brutality underbelly of utopianism. Read the rest... Hip Hop Family Tree: Breakin' the movie A short strip about the notorious feature film, Breakin' in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor. Read the rest... Mashup: Hall & Oates vs. Metallica "I Can't Enter Than (No Sandman)" by Neil Cicierga Read the rest... Wikimedia sues the NSA The Wikimedia Foundation -- which oversees Wikipedia -- eight other organizations, and the ACLU have filed a lawsuit against the DoJ and the NSA, contesting the spy agency's program of mass "upstream" surveillance. Read the rest... Monument of pulled teeth At the corner of Riverside Drive and Lexington Avenue in Elkhart, Indiana, you'll find a curious cement block packed with teeth yanked by a dentist who practiced nearby for nearly 60 years. Read the rest... IT feudalism: the surveillance state and wealth gaps My latest Guardian column examines the relationship between technology, surveillance and wealth disparity -- specifically the way that cheap mass surveillance makes it possible to sustain more unequal societies because it makes it cheaper to find and catch the dissidents who foment rebellion over the creation of hereditary elites. Read the rest... Book Preview: The Boy Who Played with Fusion This June, Harcourt releases The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star. Read the rest... Meet me in Atlantis: my obsessive quest to find the sunken city Everything we know about Atlantis comes from one man, Plato, and the hunt is based entirely on the clues he left behind. Read the rest... Philip K. Dick was right: we are becoming androids The deep problem, for Dick, wasn't that mechanisms might become more manlike. It's that men might be reduced to mechanisms. Read the rest... How to type on an Apple watch Behold Lunate, an intriguing swipe-based system for typing on an Apple watch. You can try it out yourself right now by downloading the Lunate app on an Iphone or Ipad. Read the rest... Senator on Internet privacy committee has never sent an email Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a member of the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, and he's never sent an email. Read the rest... Recommended bottle sterilizer Because there are few things quite so disconcerting as milk in my scotch, I never drink without having first sterilized my bottle in the Munchkin Steam Guard Electric Sterilizer, as recommended by The Nightlight. Read the rest... LISTEN: The Shark Arm Affair In 1935 a shark in an Australian aquarium vomited up a human forearm, a bizarre turn of events that sparked a confused murder investigation. Read the rest... How to make your own sliced deck of cards A few hours after I ordered a box of half-wide playing cards I realized I had the tools and materials to make my own. Read the rest...