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Eric Garner's daughter leads march through NYC to site of her father's killing by NYPD One of the most inspiring figures at these recent protests is Erica Garner. Posted by Xeni Jardin.Read the rest... WATCH: Dogs who wear clothes and walk on two legs A country girl A city girl Read the rest... JOHN WILCOCK: India, LSD, and Leonard Cohen's 'Flowers for Hitler' An eventful week of drug use, red-eyes, and planes, planes, planes! From the John Wilcock comic (see previous installments here and here.) Read the rest... US Christian terrorism: the other white meat It's not just in the UK where planning mass-murder to achieve political aims doesn't count as terrorism (if you're a white supremacist and/or Christian fundamentalist) -- in the USA, groups like the Phineas Priesthood can inspire acts of wanton gunplay in populated cities without inspiring the zomgwereallgonnadiedrunhide 24-hour-news-cycle lunacy. Read the rest... Beverly Johnson says Bill Cosby gave her drugged espresso In Vanity Fair, supermodel Beverly Johnson shares her account of being drugged and assaulted by Bill Cosby. Read the rest... Playground equipment welded to prevent motion City officials in Brooklyn, NY have welded merry-go-rounds and other playground equipment to make them immobile. They said it was necessary to keep kids from injuring themselves. Read the rest... This baby goat will crash your cute-o-meter It doesn't get cuter then Benjamin the baby goat. This BBC video has been making the rounds on social media, and you can practically here the collective "SQUUUUUUEEEEEEE!" Most people's natural reaction to Benjamin's adorableness is to say "I want a baby goat!" While I don't encourage impulse buying of pets, you CAN adopt an unwanted goat and give it a home if you meet the requirements. Read the rest... Adorable Digital Science Xmas video Timo from Digital Science writes, "Tis the season to be sciencey as once again we have put together a very serious Christmas video featuring Digital Science staff!" As always (previously), Digital Science's Xmas video is adorbs. Read the rest... Why I love Vikings I'm totally going to own that the homoerotic undercurrent of the History Channel series Vikings is one of its biggest draws. Read the rest... Is Blinky the bigfoot really Todd Standing? The world of Bigfoot is no stranger to scheisters and hoaxers. In fact, the entire phenomenon could be nothing more than a mix of chicanery, misidentification and gullibility. Read the rest... Celebrate Christmas with stolen hams and crazed yetis The holidays are here and everyone is shopping for their hams and turkeys. Enjoy this cautionary tale from The B-52s frontman Fred Schneider's side project, The Superions. Read the rest... Weird fiction Storybundle to benefit Helsinki Worldcon bid Crystal writes, "Love indie fiction? Want a choose-your-price set of Weird Fiction ebooks that will help support the Helsinki bid for Worldcon? Read the rest... The book of Genesis If you grew up in the comfortable eighties, you might still have memories of the 16-bit console war, the perverse thrill of wishing for a Super Nintendo or a Sega Genesis, and then arguing with other children on the playground about which was better. Read the rest... Dress like Twin Peaks The visual style and fashion of Twin Peaks has never looked so cool as it does these days, if you ask me. Read the rest... Some worthwhile cultural analysis on Gamergaters Two recent Storify pages provide some fascinating insight on how this group came to conceive of "gamer" as a fictional "ethnicity" with a persecution complex (from Katherine Cross), as well as on how the cultural norms of Chan-style boards drive this perplexing clash with the realms of people's real working and social lives (from A_Man_in_Black). Read the rest... Replica Star Trek original series tricorder Thinkgeek's $60 replica tricorder is full-sized, plays real Leonard Nimoy-voiced Spock audio samples, and has a removable light-up scanner. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest... The beauty and wisdom of mathematics Scientist and inventor Cliff Pickover introduces his newest book on the beauty of math, The Mathematics Devotional Read the rest... This day, you will be mesmerized by pasta Link (via Diane Duane) Read the rest... Angel's Envy I enjoy bourbon but don't know much about it, so I ask bartenders and other knowledgeable people about it when I get the chance -- over and over again, I was counselled to look for "Angel's Envy." I gave a talk in Vegas last week and since I'm constitutionally incapable of being entertained by pseudo-random number generators, I typed "bourbon" into a search engine and found myself atOak and Ivy, who let me bring in a takeout plate of ribs from across the way and served me anAngel's Envy. Read the rest... Felicia Day's memoir: "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)" Nerd hero and all-round awesomesauce dispenser Felicia Day has announced a memoir, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), which will be published in 2015. Read the rest... Anatomical cookie-cutters Boetech makes custom, 3D printed cookie cutters: brains, hearts, and skulls (plus plenty of non-antomical designs, of course). (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest... Hand-illuminated edition of The Silmarillion Benjamin Harff produced a hand-illuminated edition of Tolkien's The Silmarillion (a famously dense set of myths and background for Middle Earth) as a final project at art school; in this interview, he explains his motivation and his process. Read the rest... Spacetime curvature placemats AP Works's Trick Mat is a placemat that mimics spacetime curvature; no word on whether or how it can be purchased, alas (though you could probably make a pretty good disposable facsimile with an inkjet printer and some vector-art software). (via Super Punch) Read the rest... Senate IP address vandalzes Wikipedia to scrub "torture" from CIA torture report An anonymous editor at 156.33.241.11 -- registered to the US Senate -- has repeatedly attempted to scrub the word "torture" from the Wikipedia entry from Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. Read the rest... Mystery man has petition approved by Supreme Court, can't be found Bobby Chen wrote his own petition to the Supreme Court over his suit against the City of Baltimore, which demolished his house and trashed all his stuff -- and the Supreme Court granted it. Read the rest... Now I Know More: the revealing stories behind even more of the world's most interesting facts Last year I reviewed Dan Lewis' book, Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts. Dan recently released a followup title, called Now I Know More, and like its predecessor, it's chock full of fascinating true stories about things you thought you already knew about. Read the rest... Englandland: BBC plans a theme-park The BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is in plans to build a themepark in the Thames estuary, in cooperation with a Kuwaiti property developer and Paramount Pictures. Read the rest... Beautiful steampunk creatures Igor Verniy creates amazing steampunk animal junkbots from watch parts, car parts and electronic junk (here's his Etsy store); in this Bored Panda interview, he explains his process. Read the rest... Zelda the cat looks through a paper towel tube Zelda, a frequent guest on Boing Boing's Virgin America seatback channel, enjoys peering through a paper towel tube. Read the rest... Baking bread from an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph recipe Miguel writes, "I tried to replicate an ancient Egyptian bread, starting with the right kind of wheat, the grinding and the baking... Read the rest...