Two Muslim-American women were kicked off an American Airlines flight this week, basically for flying while Muslim.

When Lillian Cunningham, host of the podcast Presidential, offhandedly mentioned that Alec Baldwin resembles 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore, it didn't prepare me to find a photograph… Read the rest of the article: Alec Baldwin Is President Millard Fillmore's Doppelgänger

Today, the EFF and a coalition of organizations and individuals asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to explore fair labeling rules that would require retailers to warn you when… Read the rest of the article: DRM: You have the right to know what you're buying!

2014's Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong was an uprising over the Chinese government's announcement that it would exercise a veto over who could stand for election to the Hong Kong… Read the rest of the article: Bureaucrats disqualify Hong Kong legislative candidates for insufficient loyalty

Sometimes a round of drinks ends in late night karaoke, body shots, and waking up to a tiger in your hotel room. We get it. It happens. The important thing… Read the rest of the article: Check yourself with the ultimate party wingman: BACtrack Trace Pro Breathalyzer

No Starch Press just released two nice books. Arduino Project Handbook by Mark Geddes has 25 beginner-friendly projects that use Arduino (a low cost electronic prototyping platform), including a Simon-like… Read the rest of the article: Two new great books for Arduino and electronics projects

See sample pages from this book at Wink. Free Press: Underground and Alternative Publications 1965-1975 by Jean-François Bizot (editor) Universe 2006, 264 pages, 9 x 1.1 x 13.5 inches (softcover)… Read the rest of the article: Free Press – A pictorial history of underground newspapers 1965-1975

Bonnie Burton (previously) is a favorite around these parts, thanks both to her keen eye for awesomeness, and her next book, Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the… Read the rest of the article: Bonnie Burton's next book: "Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the Patriarchy"

In 2011 a crested macaque in Indonesia took a selfie using photographer David J. Slater's camera. After Slater claimed copyright of the photo, PETA sued on behalf of the monkey,… Read the rest of the article: "Monkey Selfie" case headed to U.S. Court of Appeals

This is as cool as the DIY parking garage. Hiding a TV in a sliding door [via]

Credit: Lloyd Alter (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

In a series of easily digested, 2-minute videos, Vlogbrothers Hank and John Green explain how to vote — from registration to voter ID laws to absentee ballots to casting your… Read the rest of the article: The Vlogbrothers guide to voting in every state in the union

183 Mexicans are stranded at Madrid-Barajas airport, some for up to two weeks. They are sleeping on the floor and are running out of money to buy food. They are… Read the rest of the article: Nearly 200 Mexicans stranded at Madrid airport for days

At Defcon, researchers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, First Look Media and Amnesty International, revealed their findings on a major phishing attack through which the government of Kazakhstan was able… Read the rest of the article: EFF and partners reveal Kazakh government phished journalists, opposition politicians

In 2014, undercover Congressional investigators set out to test the countermeasures put in place to test the regulatory system that is supposed to detect and interdict terrorists who are assembling… Read the rest of the article: Congressional red team discovers that it's (still) trivial to acquire all the materials for a dirty nuke

When computer security expert and hardcore traveller Przemek Jaroszewski found that he couldn't enter an airline lounge in Warsaw because the automated reader mistakenly rejected his boarding card, he wrote… Read the rest of the article: Airport lounges will let anyone in, provided you can fake a QR code

Japanese architect Daigo Ishii's "Worldwide Tokyo-lization Project" applies a "Tokyo skin" to cities and localities around the world. From Spoon & Tamago, which has more examples: The fascinating project takes… Read the rest of the article: What cities around the world would like like if they were "Tokyo-ized"

Phillip Turner was on his way to court to fight a traffic citation when he noticed a Texas State Trooper speeding past him. Turner followed him, flashing his headlights at… Read the rest of the article: Citizen pulls over Texas State Trooper for speeding

15 years ago, uptalk was ruining women's speech; five years ago, it was vocal fry (with accompanying, science-free warnings about damage to the larynx and vocal apparatus); in the First… Read the rest of the article: Vocal fry, uptalking, nasal: women's voices can never be "right"

When internet laymen suggest that Trump is manifestly mentally ill—the abusive narcissism, the total absence of empathy, the 400-word sentences tracing random paths through the vaporwave fractal landscape of his… Read the rest of the article: NYT: Trump is "psychologically off the chain"