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Pastafarian services advertised at German town limits A reader writes, "In Germany, churches promote the times of their masses on signs at the town entrances. Now, for the first time, the 'Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster' in Templin/Germany was allowed to put sign there as well: 'Fridays, 10am: Noodle mass'." Das Wort zum Freitag - Gottesdiensthinweisschild "Nudelmesse" Read the rest... Glow-in-the-dark "woman power" tank tops They're $25 from Happy Nerdcore; made in San Francisco: Link. Read the rest... Chicago schools lost $100M by letting Wall Street engineer their finances In 2007, the school raised $1B, and instead of issuing bonds, it let the bankers who'd been courting it talk it into issuing a floating-rate bond that it swapped into a fixed-rate issue. Read the rest... Kaiju killer bandanna/mask The Kaiju Killer Bandana is the latest mask/bandanna from Giant Eye, who made the classic Guy Fawkes OWS bandanna. Read the rest... David Fullarton: “Pictures with words on them” “I'm Sorry,” a series of works combining images and text by Scottish-born, San Francisco-based visual artist David Fullarton. Read the rest... LEGO animation of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens teaser trailer There haz been an awakening in teh LEGO. Haz you felt it? Read the rest... If you wanna go to deep space, as NASA does, you gotta have lots of plutonium, which NASA doesn't. In the journal Nature, Alexandra Witze writes about a precious commodity for the American space program--plutonium. NASA currently has 35 kilograms of plutonium-238 to power its deep-space missions, but that won't get us very far, and they're worried about running out. Read the rest... XKCD versus neurobollocks In his latest strip, fMRI, Randall "XKCD" Munroe nails the problems with brain imaging studies that claim to have found the neuroanatomical link between certain kinds of thoughts and regions of the brain (see 2013's Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience for more). As always, the tooltip adds a brilliant punchline. Click through below to read it. fMRI Read the rest... The Dark Lord's Handbook Morden is the first being to inherit The Dark Lord's Handbook in over 500 years. The land is itching for the return of an evil overlord in this adultish tale, told in a young adult voice. Read the rest...