Arteclair is an Etsy shoepainter with some wonderful pieces, notably these Doctor Who high-heels, which sell for $132 and are made to order. (via Geekymerch)

One year Coins painted as fictional characters: Andre Levy, a designer in Frankfurt, likes to paint coins. Five years Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries: The… Read the rest of the article: Blogging History: Painting characters on coin-heads; UK wants brawl-proof pint glasses; EFF kicks Diebold's ass

The pizza cake started off as a thought-experiment, entered into a competition — but now it is a reality that you can prepare at home (but probably shouldn't). Here's the… Read the rest of the article: Behold! The Pizza cake!

Adapting Shakespeare for kids is an age-old tradition stretching back almost to the time of Shakespeare itself. But as Cory Doctorow discovered, The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth brings The Scottish Play to life for audiences young and old in kids-comic form with a lot of broad humor and some grisly murder besides.

Roca makes a dubious weight-loss product whose fine-print makes you promise not to complain, and the customers were cited by Pissedconsumer.com, whom Roca is suing for providing a place where… Read the rest of the article: Roca Labs threatens suit against customers who helped website it is also suing

The outgoing Attorney General presided over groundbreaking changes in civil liberties in the physical world but was a disaster when it comes to freedom in the world's nervous system: the… Read the rest of the article: Eric Holder's terrible tech-liberties record

The makers of Firechat, a wireless P2P chat app that works phone-to-phone over Bluetooth and wifi, say they've seen a surge of new users from Hong Kong's student demonstrators, who… Read the rest of the article: Faced with network surveillance, Hong Kong student demonstrators go P2P

The Hattrickwear is an improbable ball-cap designed to mount your phone horizontally along your eyeline with a mirror and prism that keeps your screen in your field of vision all… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a prismatic, hat-brim mounted heads-up display for your phone

One year Soviet plane-spotting head-gear: Drakegoodman scanned this 1917-ish photo of Soviet planespotters in exotic headgear; according to a commenter, the binox are focused at infinity "so that when you… Read the rest of the article: Blogging History: Soviet plane-spotting head-gear; Ralph Lauren visits Uncanny Valley; Internet bubble's blessings

When Senegalese Mozillan Ibrahima Sarr translated Firefox OS into Fulah, he had to coin an entire technological vocabulary, so "crash" became "hookii" (a cow falling over but not dying).

Viennese artist Michael Marcovici's Rat Traders uses reward, punishment and selective breeding to create a strain of lab-rat that can predict the movement of international currency markets.

The rallying cry of the students who staged a mass walkout and the Occupy Central demonstrators is the right to choose an administrator for HK without Beijing's oversight; but underlying… Read the rest of the article: Vicious crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy students and Occupy movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f34wTu2uc80 After first picking it up from the asphalt with a deft flick of the forklift blade. Nice shootin', Tex! (Thanks, Versetty!)

GOP governor Sam Brownback's "experiment" in tax/spending cuts produced a $300M budget deficit; they're selling off a massive lot of sex toys and porn seized from a company that wouldn't… Read the rest of the article: Cash-strapped Kansas auctions huge lot of seized sex-toys

Catalonian separatism has grown and grown in the face the brutal austerity imposed upon Spain during the Eurozone crisis.

Carmen Segarra is a former FTC regulator who joined the fed after the financial crisis to help rescue the banking system — but she was so shocked by the naked… Read the rest of the article: Fed whistleblower secretly recorded 46 hours of regulatory capture inside Goldman Sachs

If you spent the 80s eating sugarbombs and watching badly animated 22-minute toy ads disguised as cartoons, here is your Proustian madeline. (Today is the last day that Saturday morning… Read the rest of the article: Saturday morning TV cartoon schedules from the 1980s

The Nebula Award-winning writer/editor had been raising money for cancer treatment; she died today.

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A fascinating new scholarly essay collection, The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past, looks at Disney's portrayal of the middle ages and reflects on how these are inextricably… Read the rest of the article: Medievalists on Disney's middle ages