When popular YouTuber ASL Ally — who posts videos that interpret song lyrics in American Sign Language for deaf and hard-of-hearing people — had her YouTube channel yanked after complaints… Read the rest of the article: EFF rescues ASL Ally's sign-language YouTube music videos

Reportedly, this extraordinary ranty plaque hangs over a urinal at an unnamed jeweler's specialized in diamond engagement rings; it reads like a cross between Trainspotting and Fight Club, and, if… Read the rest of the article: Diamond-ring-store urinal plaque asks pissers to consider the up and downsides of bailing on marriage

Etsy seller Eavesmade has a fine collection of science themed needlepointed laser-engraved festive ornaments for your Midwinter Science Tree. Featured scientists include Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Rachel Carson, Gregor Mendel,… Read the rest of the article: Heroes of Science laser-engraved tree ornaments

In this funky, funky remix, a fiery Barack Obama tells the TSA: "Don't touch my junk." Obama to TSA Don't Touch My Junk (Thanks, Richard!)   TSA tee: "We get… Read the rest of the article: Obama says, "Don't touch my junk"

17 years ago, Internet radio pioneer (and future rogue archivist) Carl Malamud and search engine inventor (and future Internet Archive founder) Brewster Kahle appeared on an historic segment of NPR's… Read the rest of the article: NPR on the future of the Internet, 1993

Freakazoid producer Mitch Schauer's debut graphic novel RIP M.D. is a warm and spooky tale for monster kids of all ages. Ripley Plimpt is a monster-obsessed 11-year-old who sneaks out… Read the rest of the article: Rip M.D.: graphic novel about a kid who solves problems for hurt/neurotic monsters

A stellar pair of reverse engineers, bushing and pytey from iPhone DevTeam/Team Twiizers, have launched a Kickstarter fundraiser to back OpenVizsla, a open/hackable hardware-based USB protocol analyzer. They've got my… Read the rest of the article: Raising money for a hackable, open hardware-based USB protocol analyzer

The German toy/model company Conrad ran a TV advert featuring an amazing Rube Goldberg bike lock that used motorized skateboard wheels to raise your bike several meters off the ground… Read the rest of the article: Bike lock that hoists your bike up a lamp-post

Joeblack69 says, "Our Justice Minister in Zimbabwe is currently steering a bill through Parliament that I believe requires scrutiny. The General Laws Amendment Bill, among other issues, seeks to amend… Read the rest of the article: Zimbabwean law will put legislation, parliamentary gazette, etc, under state copyright

Writing in the New Statesman, Laurie Penny documents the brutal, savage treatment dealt to the London demonstrators who marched against cuts to education and found themselves "kettled" (detained without arrest,… Read the rest of the article: London police brutally kettle children marching for education

Mowdown is a cute little Flash game where you play an escaped mental patient in the creepy dungeon of a mental institution, and you flail the long, flapping arms of… Read the rest of the article: Escaped mental patient straitjacket combat game

Shapeways, the 3D print-on-demand shop, has his and hers holiday gift guides sporting a wide variety of 3D printed desiderata in polymers and metals, like these Klein bottles from Bathsheba.… Read the rest of the article: 3D printed gifts

Chloe from Portland's Reading Frenzy sez, "Help us Kickstart Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts & Eyes (3rd ed.) into existence! Crap Hound is an astounding compendium of line art collected… Read the rest of the article: Crap Hound #5 Kickstarter project: "Hands, Hearts & Eyes (3rd ed.)"

Manufacture Royale's Opera $1.2 million tourbillon watch accordions open to create a resonating chamber for its little repeaters — the minute hand is in C#, the hour is in A:… Read the rest of the article: $1.2M accordioning brass musical watch

Threadless co-founder Jake Nickell's Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community is just what you'd want in a history of one of the Internet's… Read the rest of the article: Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community — the book!

In my latest Guardian column, "News Corp Kremlinology: what do the Times paywall numbers mean?" I have a good rummage around the mysterious figures released by The Times earlier this… Read the rest of the article: Kremlinology with Rupert Murdoch: what do the Times paywall numbers mean?

Nothing says Thanksgiving like a bloodthirsty, masked toddler holding a huge, lethal cleaver. (via @JSCarroll)

This spectacular, one-of-a-kind homemade Portal gun is for sale in this year's Child's Play charity auction to raise money to provide games and toys to sick children. The maker, Harrison… Read the rest of the article: Homemade Portal gun

A self-described "rule follower" went through an airport pornoscanner wearing a panty-liner (she was menstruating). Because the hygienic item obscured the screener's view of her vagina vulva, she was made… Read the rest of the article: Menstruating woman subjected to TSA grope because panty-liner obscured her vulva on pornoscanner

The Disney Fakes blog catalogs forged Disney art for sale on eBay, painstakingly cataloging the tells and errors made by the forgers. Some are hilariously bad, others are damned subtle.… Read the rest of the article: Forged Disney art on eBay