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Bigfoot family filmed ABC News: "Arizona Department of Transportation posted this photo of a street Facebook, Jan. 1, 2015, with the caption: 'We might have spotted a family of sasquatches on SR 260 near Heber this afternoon.'" Read the rest... Metaphors for life Life is “a party: one arrives long after it’s started, and one’s going to leave long before it’s over,” said the late English actor Robert Morley. Read the rest... Attack on Charlie Hebdo: Long live comics, and long live freedom of the press Among the dead: cartoonists, editors, journalists, and graphic designers. Read the rest... Legal weed price drops 40% in Washington Legal recreational weed was in short supply in Washington this summer. Stores were charging as much a $25 a gram, including an effective tax rate of 44 percent. Read the rest... Prison life dos and dont's for former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is about to spend two years in prison on federal corruption charges. Tim Mak of The Daily Beast asked two other well-known politician/felons -- ex-congressman Bob Ney and lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- what advice they could share about making prison life less unpleasant. Read the rest... Tor.com's annual free "Best of" ebook Every year, Tor.com anthologizes some of the best short fiction from its website in a free ebook, and it's always one of the best sf anthologies of the year -- this is no exception! Read the rest... Safety Tips for Living Alone by Jim Shepard Safety Tips for Living Alone is a true story of American service men and civilians sacrificing their lives during the cold war. Read the rest... Seasons 1 of Friends, simultaneously The One Where They All Take Ketamine? (via Waxy) Read the rest... Music: "Express," BT Express (1973) A good way to start the day. Read the rest... Cable News, 1860 Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the great issues of history are decided as they are today -- by arguing hysterically about one representative incident chosen by cable news networks. Read the rest... Book of futuristic visions from 1979 starring R2-D2's cousin Pages from "The Usborne Book of The Future: A Trip In Time To The Year 2000 And Beyond" (1979). That robot looks strangely familiar... Read the rest... Genderswapped 10th Doctor coat would look great as streetwear At $300, the 10th Doctor Women's Coat is too pricey to be a cosplay accessory, but luckily it's also the kind of very beautiful garment you could wear every day, made from a wool/viscose blend, fully lined, and tailored for easy motion (it reminds me of the streetwear for superheroesfrom Volante). (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest... A landscape of salt Australian photographer Emma Phillips captured the strange, minimalist landscape of a salt refinery near Western Australia's Nullarbor Plain. “The place looked like some kind of abstract expressionist art,” she told Wired. Emma Phillips: Salt (via Laughing Squid) Read the rest... Ultimate collection of "Do Not Disturb" signs Edoardo Flores has a collection of nearly 9,000 "Do Not Disturb" signs from almost 200 countries around the world. He shared his passion with Collectors Weekly's Lisa Hix: A retired training specialist with the International Labor Organization of the United Nations, Flores, who lives in Italy, had the good fortune to spend his 32-year career traveling to places like Bhutan, Iraq, Burma, Pakistan, and Fiji. Read the rest... Drive-by identification of energy-leaking homes MIT researchers developed a compact thermal-imaging rig that mounts to the roof of cars to detect energy leaks in homes and other buildings as they drive by. Read the rest... A nerd’s 12 best and worst films from 2014 Hits and misses from a year packed with big-screen science fiction and fantasy Read the rest... Join the New Hampshire Rebellion Politicians will do anything to avoid embarrassing questions about how money corrupts politics, but we're walking to remind them they can't dodge them forever. Make a video to cheer us on!Read the rest... How to have mind-boggling fun with infinity The human brain is happy working with nice finite numbers. As soon as you start working with infinity, things start happening that are completely counter-intuitive. Read the rest... Best Books of 2014: Sword & Laser Podcast Well we're here to kick off the new year AND celebrate our 200th episode so we gathered drinks and cheer and your favorite books of 2014 as well as our own and a few others. Read the rest... Most popular dog names of 2014 Rover.com released its annual list of top dog names, with top ten lists for males and females. Many also made 2014's top human baby names. Read the rest... Councilman Kirby Delauter thinks journalists can't use his name without permission Some communities don't pay much attention to who they elect. Check out this imbecile in Frederick County, Maryland, who threatened local journo Bethany Rodgers for using his name without permission. Read the rest... How to build a 1-string cigar box diddley bow If you like what you hear, build one. It will take practice to play as well as Justin Johnson does, but even a rank beginner can make good music with a diddley bow. Read the rest... Watch: "Sing for me, my angel" SING FOR MEEEEEE Read the rest... The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work,” wrote Gustave Flaubert. Read the rest... SpaceX scrubs historic rocket landing attempt, launch rescheduled for Friday "A last-minute problem with a single actuator forced a postponement of SpaceX's attempt to launch a Falcon 9 launch vehicle carrying cargo to the International Space Station on Tuesday."Read the rest... Exciting progress towards surveillance-resistant email Ladar Levison -- persecuted founder of the now-shuttered private mail service Lavabit, as used by Edward Snowden -- has made great progress on his Darkmail project, a joint initiative with Phil "PGP" Zimmerman's also shut-down Silent Circle private email service. Read the rest... WATCH: Juggling tricks with multiple jugglers Minnesota-based designer and juggler Tom Gaasedelen presents Carpool Lane, a series of cool tricks with multiple jugglers using colorful pins and rings. Read the rest... Video: The Great Romanian Bear Dance What is this? We do not know. Read the rest... Plastic pan scrapers are wonderful This chip of plastic is a pan scraper. It’s my favorite new kitchen tool. See how the corner radii are different sizes? Read the rest... Everyday people photographed as "Super Athletes" Photographer Benjamin Von Wong turned ordinary people into Super Athletes fit for energy drink ads and action movie posters using high-end lights, a DIY rain machine, and a great eye (and no Photoshop beyond light, contrast, and color tweaks). Read the rest...