The Mozilla Foundation has previewed a new, experimental system for in-app payments that is intended to solve several major problems with existing payment systems available to developers, including the fact… Read the rest of the article: Mozilla announces agnostic, safe payment system for the Web

TorrentFreak's been looking at the BitTorrent video-downloading from the small pool of downloaders in Vatican City, and they've reported in with the Vatican's favorite pornography: In the interests of science… Read the rest of the article: What porn do they watch in the Vatican?

On March 25, Randall Munroe ran a strip called Time, an enigmatic, wordless image whose tool-tip was "Wait for it." Ever since, the strip has been updating with subsequent frames,… Read the rest of the article: Time: XKCD's slo-mo time-lapse comic

James Bridle photographed every CCTV between his home in east London and Dalston Junction, a 1.4mi walk with about 140 cameras. Welcome to London, where we have 11 CCTVs per… Read the rest of the article: Walk 1.4 mi. in London, take photos of 140+ CCTVs

Rock Paper Shotgun's John Walker has published an excellent essay called "Misogyny, Sexism, And Why RPS Isn't Shutting Up," making the case for games (and tech) writers of all sexes… Read the rest of the article: Why men – and everyone – should speak out about misogyny in gaming

Expect to see a lot fewer images of toxic sludge creeping through small communities, thanks to the hard work of ExxonMobil. The company could have used its prodigious resources to… Read the rest of the article: ExxonMobil, FAA, Arkansas cops establish flight restriction zone, threaten reporters who try to document Mayflower, AR spill

A German lingerie company, created a campaign that either co-opts or honors (or both) Pussy Riot.

Here's a writeup of Evan Booth's Hack the Box conference presentation on making lethal weapons out of items bought in airport duty-free shops.

The French spy agency Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur inexplicably flipped out about a longstanding Wikipedia entry on a military base (station hertzienne militaire de Pierre sur Haute) filled with… Read the rest of the article: French spies demand removal of a Wikipedia entry, threaten random Wikipedia admin in France when they don't get their way

A reader writes, GovernmentAttic.org, a noncommercial independent website, announces the publication of thousands of important government documents obtained through proper channels using public records access laws such as the Freedom… Read the rest of the article: Government Attic: repository of noteworthy declassified/FOIA'd/public records access government docs

Projectophile's Clare has a funny post about the hazards presented by beautiful mid-century modern home designs to children. My grandparents had a proper split-level MCM when I was a kid,… Read the rest of the article: Mid-Century Modern housing designs vs children

JWZ, who has seen Henry Rollins "do his spoken word thing once a year since around 1912," has rounded up about an hour's worth of YouTube clips of some truly… Read the rest of the article: Some Rollins

Today's maker project was a pair of bedside lamps that switch one another.

A new ACLU report called The Outskirts of Hope (PDF) documents the rise of illegal debtors prisons in Ohio. A majority of municipal and mayors' courts (an unregulated and rare… Read the rest of the article: Widespread, illegal debtors' prisons in Ohio

Dubstep legend Skrillex is apparently visiting a Disney themepark somewhere in the world and getting cuddles from a Minnie Mouse head-character. The world is a big and odd place. my… Read the rest of the article: Skrillex cuddles Minnie Mouse

Polish leatherworker MK makes some very nice wrist-straps for pocket-watches and car-watches. He's not the only one making these, but I find them particularly handsome, and rather nice retro-modern take… Read the rest of the article: Wrist-straps for pocket-watches

Years and years ago, I saw Heather Gold's innovative, interactive baking comedy "I Look like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie" in San Francisco. It was fabulous. Now… Read the rest of the article: Heather Gold's "I Look like An Egg, but I Identify as a Cookie" interactive baking comedy comes to the East Bay (free tix!)

The "Polar Bear Ice Tray" is a sealed bottle that makes icecubes and then facilitates their easy removal. The sealed container keeps freezer flavors away, and once it's all frozen,… Read the rest of the article: Ice-cube-tray in a bottle

Adam Thick, an ex-con who did time for counterfeiting, runs a company called Extreme Kidnapping, which stages consensual kidnappings for fees ranging from $500 to $1000 (he was inspired by… Read the rest of the article: Consensual kidnapping service, inspired by The Game

We already know that Congresscritters make huge bank through insider trading, exploiting a loophole that lets them place bets on the stock market based on rules they have yet to… Read the rest of the article: How DC insiders launder insider market information for the rich