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Bible: tl;dr edition Cabbagetroll's masterful summary of the Bible (both testaments) on Reddi's /r/Christianity really captures the books' spirit. GENESIS God: All right, you two, don't do the one thing. Read the rest... E-cigs and malware: real threat or Yellow Peril 2.0? After a redditor claimed to have gotten a computer virus from factory-installed malware on an e-cig charger, the Guardian reported out the story and concluded that it's possible. Read the rest... Ask for Evidence What can we do when politicians, advertisers and journalists make misleading claims which fly in the face of evidence? Last year here at Sense About Science we launched a campaign (as featured on BoingBoing) to get more people asking for evidence – for the claims make by politicians, companies, NGOs or anyone else. Read the rest... Caturday splatterday [via] Read the rest... CPU Wars 2.0: expanded top trumps with processors Harry writes, "Ever since launching CPU WARS Volume 1.0 people had been asking me for more CPUs and gameplay. After a lot of work and research we have finally done it! Read the rest... Beatles "Across the Universe" covered using sampled audio from Rosetta mission Essa writes, "Andrew Huang has taken fragments of the audio from the Rosetta mission and arranged them into haunting rendition of The Beatles' 'Across the Universe'. Read the rest... Handbook for fighting climate-denialism From 2011, Skeptical Science's excellent Debunking Handbook, a short guide for having discussions about climate change denial that tries to signpost the common errors that advocates of the reality of anthropogenic global warming make when talking to people who disbelieve. Read the rest... Europa, extreme shrimp, and the search for alien life NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab just published two interesting new videos about the search for life beyond Earth. Above, an online short about the ocean of Europa, which is estimated to have two to three times the volume of liquid water on Earth. Read the rest... Rare Samurai Swords and Arms up for bid in online Christie's auction If you are a super-fan of samurai movies or the Tarantino flicks they inspired, hold on to your wallet. Read the rest... Dad hurls chair at judge after light sentence handed to driver who killed his daughter A judge failed to throw to book at a driver who killed a child, so the child's father threw a chair at her. Read the rest... Gates Foundation mandates open access for all the research it funds Effective January 17, all research funded in whole or in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation must be published in journals that are immediately free-to-access, under a Creative Commons Attribution-only license. Read the rest... More accurate Batman logo He is a person, not a bat. Darren Cullen has improved the legendary logo; pray that he does not improve it further. Read the rest... Jupiter's moon Europa, as you've never seen it before NASA has issued a new image of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa. Read the rest... Hitler painting could be yours A rare Hitler is up for auction and is expected to fetch at least $60,000 when the hammer falls at Nuremberg’s Weidler auction house. Read the rest... Flowers, fetishism, felines, and females of Nobuyoshi Araki Araki by Araki is a massively thick book that bares the soul of an artist who has no agenda other than to share his eclectic obsessions. Read the rest... Snowpocalypse 2014 in photos: Wow, much snows. Many cold. Western New York is buried in much of the snows. Here are photos. At least 8 people have died due to the intense wintry blasts burying Buffalo and neighboring areas in layers of cold. Read the rest... Emoji for sexting Flirtmoji. I don't understand what some of these are. Read the rest... Blood-thieving bandits mistakenly steal samples infected with Ebola Bandits in Guinea robbed a taxi and ran off with blood samples believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus. Read the rest... Map of bizarre British place names Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick sell this map, in traditional and wordcloud form, for £22. If you ever visit, take the time to visit beautiful Shitterton, Lickham Bottom, and Marston Bigot.Read the rest... Bottom Feeders: Plates and cups dredged from the sea-bottom Mary O'Malley's "Bottom Feeders" sculpture-series depicts cups, teapots, plates, saucers and bowls that appear to have been recovered from the sea-bottom, covered in barnacles, coral, tentacles and crustaceans. Read the rest... Abandonware heroes Gizmodo's Kate Knibbs reports on people who do the hard work of recovering and restoring forgotten games, so that they may be remembered—and, Heaven forbid, played again. Read the rest... History of video game graphics Video game graphics, explained in gruff Estuary English. Part 2 below! [Video links: Part 1 andpart 2] Read the rest... Dystopia tends to be dishonest "Dystopian" films often depict an otherwise appealing future ruined by uncontroversial woes such as totalitarian government and environmental apocalypse. Imran Siddiquee writes about the topics such movies rarely elaborate upon, such as racism and sexism. Read the rest... California couple arrested on drug charges after feds trace their IPs as having accessed Silk Road Department of Justice officials say a couple in Northern California couple have been indicted on federal drug charges related to the Silk Road 2.0 “dark Web” drug market after agents traced their internet activity. Read the rest... Meet Feminist Hacker Barbie, avenger of girl nerds She hates Ubuntu and sexism. Read the rest... James Bond-inspired laser wristwatch, complete with danger "NO plans, no tutorials, but maybe for SALE soon!" See Patrick Priebe's previous laser gadgets here. (Thanks, Kiki Sanford!) Read the rest... Can e-cigs give you cancer? Maybe. Can e-cigs give you malware? Maybe. Electronic cigarettes are charged by USB, and many of the devices are manufactured in China, so the question of e-cigs as malware vectors had to be raised. Read the rest... Chess so boring that the Grandmaster dozed off Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen fell asleep during a game against Viswantahan Anand in the World Chess Championship now taking place in Sochi, Russia; the game ended in a draw. Read the rest...