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Please give this pastor $65 million so he can buy a private jet There's only one way for Pastor Creflo Dollar to "continue to spread the gospel of grace around the world" and that's by donating $65 million dollars so he can have a Gulfstream G650 jet. Read the rest... A war game that helps child survivors of war Rather than focusing on the heavily armed soldiers who populate most war games, This War of Mine made headlines last year by simulating the experiences of a very different group of people: civilian survivors. Read the rest... The Secret Service's history of booze, bullets, bombs, and hookers To celebrate the Secret Service's latest booze-fueled incident, in which a drunken agent crashed a car into a White House Security barricade and possibly ran over a bomb, Bloomberg's Arit Johnson takes a look at a few other recent Secret Service escapades: [I]n recent years the Secret Service has bounced from one alcohol-and-incompetency fueled scandal to the next: prostitutes and partying in El Salvador, prostitutes and partying in Colombia, a drunk agent passed out in the hallway of a hotel in The Netherlands, plus another in Miami, an armed contractor in the elevator, sniper bullets that hit the White House, last fall’s fence jumper, and the downplaying of the fence jumper. Nearly two years ago, a woman was shot and killed by Capitol Police and Secret Service officers during a car chase after she made a U-turn and fled a White House checkpoint. A wrongful death suit has been filed by the family of the woman, Miriam Carey.Image: Shutterstock Read the rest... Video: How shrooms make you trip From Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown, whose new book, AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena, comes out next week. Read the rest... Hiné Mizushima's lovely felt Apple Watch The talented Hiné Mizushima, is an illustrator, slow crafter, doll maker, and puppet stop-motion animation video artist living in Vancouver. Read the rest... Australia’s top medical research organization finds homeopathy worthless Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council reviewed 225 research papers on homeopathy and came to the conclusion that "there are no health conditions for which there is reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective." Read the rest... Alex Honnold's death-defying ropeless cliff climbs The New York Times profiles 29 year old Alex Honnold, who climbs sheer cliffs without using ropes. Climbers know that fear itself can cause a climber to panic on the side of a cliff. Read the rest... Power-friendly USB-C ports yank MagSafe off table Charging by USB port means the end, for the new 12" MacBook, of MagSafe. Gravity is once again your enemy. Read the rest... Breaking Bad creator pleads with fans to stop throwing pizza's on Walter White's roof The more obnoxious Fans of Breaking Bad are coming to Albuquerque to recreate a scene from the show in which Walter White tosses a pizza on the roof. Read the rest... LED lamp inspired by Rubik's Snake Light 5+5 is a rather beautiful shape-shifting lamp inspired by the excellent Rubik's Snake, first introduced in the early 1980s. From the maker, Oikimus: The lamp case is made of plywood. Read the rest... The Secret to Inventing Your Own Language Sarah Monette joins Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt on the latest podcast. Read the rest... NYPD caught wikiwashing Wikipedia entries on police brutality Anonymous users from NYPD's IP block have made questionable edits to the Wikipedia entries on high-profile police brutality victims including Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. Read the rest... Video: Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert at Second City (1994) Steve Carell does Fabio. And if the voice sounds familiar, that's because it's Stephen Colbert.From the 78th Second City MainStage Revue, titled "Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been Mellow?" on March 30, 1994. Read the rest... Video: Stephanie Drolet's badass nunchaku skills A martial arts (and snowboarding) enthusiast named Stephanie Drolet posted this clip back in 2008. I heard that these days, she can turn invisible. And fly. Read the rest... Why Macs have millions of tiny files Glenn Fleishman answers questions about the digital dark matter OSX keeps around. Blame Unix. Read the rest... Isis flag turns out to be jacket stuck in tree Police summoned by alarmed residents in Italy found that the suspected Islamist flag was, in fact,laundry that had fallen off a washing line. [Photo: Thelocal] Read the rest... Eliza needs you, now We often think about artificial intelligence in terms of what we can use it for. But what if AIs sometimes need us instead? Read the rest... Whose deaths get official Obama mention? Leonard Nimoy, Minnie "Mr. White Sox" Minoso, Ruby Dee. How does the White House decide whose death should be publicly noted by the President? Read the rest... Fantasy worlds that break history's back Anything can happen in the world of pretend. Microscope is a pen-and-paper game of "fractal history" that forces us to reexamine the rules of the real Read the rest... Springfield, Illinois mayor gives evil Cobra Commander key to the city Springfield, Illinois Mayor Mike Houston naively gave Cobra Commander a key to the city. I hope Springfield never needs G.I. Joe's help because they'll be S.O.L. Read the rest... Portland cops charge homeless woman with theft for charging her phone In Portland, OR, "Jackie," a homeless former social worker with muscular dystrophy, was hit with a misdemeanor theft charge for charging her phone from a plug on a planter-base on a sidewalk; she spent a day in jail when she missed her arraignment. Read the rest... Manfrotto mini tripod The Manfrotto mini tripod look to be a worthy replacement for my current mini-tripod, which is falling apart. Reviewers on Amazon have praised it for its stiffness, which means heavier cameras won't make the ball joint slip. Adjustment looks simple too - just push the red button and set the angle. Read the rest... Death Star ice cube mold For $5 you can now serve drinks over a round ball of ice, in the guise of the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, a frozen ball of water with enough cooling power to chill an entire tumbler of whiskey. Read the rest... Video: Gak vs. red hot nickel In preparation for the apocalypse, I will be insulating my home with Gak. Read the rest... Fantastic blog post definitively explains consent DinosaurPirate does an incredible job at explaining affirmative consent, for folks who still may have a problem getting it. She compares it to serving someone tea. Read the rest... Björk's new video for "Lionsong" "Lionsong" from Björk's new album Vulnicura. Directed by Inez & Vinoodh. Read the rest... Chicago's famed Annoyance Theater opens in Brooklyn "Long a staple of the improv-dense Chicago scene, the Annoyance has been a home for comics like Andy Richter and Aidy Bryant. Read the rest... Music made from the audio stripped out of an MP3 Check out "Ghost in the MP3," a eerie song made from the audio that was removed from "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega when it was turned into an MP3. Read the rest... Four satellites that fly in pyramid formation Today, NASA is set to launch an array of four satellites that will fly in a pyramid-shaped formation-- to produce a 3D image of how the magnetic fields of solar winds collide with the magnetic field of earth. Read the rest... "The Rules for the Black Birdwatcher" "Never wear a hoodie. Ever." (Thanks to Jeet Heer for pointing this one out!) Read the rest...