Copyright claims against various Hitler "Downfall" parody videos have resulted in the removal of these videos from YouTube. The DMCA claimant is Constantin Films, the German production company which owns… Read the rest of the article: Hitler "Downfall" video meme is DMCA'd

Jay Thunderbolt owns a Detroit strip club. In his basement. He runs the whole thing himself, and makes sure that Club Thunderbolt is open 24/7, by appointment. From the Metro… Read the rest of the article: Man operates strip club in his basement

David C Verducci, the Superintendent of Schools of Glen Rock, NJ, has sent a letter to state governor Chris Christie, asking him to spare education in the state's round of… Read the rest of the article: Superintendent of schools to NJ governor: spare education

Today, the Christian Science Monitor published a damning, six-part investigation into carbon credits, and concluded that they are a hive of fraud and villainy, calling them "a 'Wild West' market… Read the rest of the article: Carbon offsets: fraud, exaggeration, and poorly run projects

Arkizzle sez, "The BBC has put up a great quality version of the propaganda-style, Daleks' To Victory! poster, from the newest Doctor Who episode." Daleks to Victory! (PDF) Previously: HOWTO… Read the rest of the article: Dalek propaganda poster

The good folks at the Pew Internet and American Life project have published their latest report, looking at the remarkable transformation that the mobile phone continues to effect on the… Read the rest of the article: Kids and mobile phones: waiting for the surveillance shoe to drop

The BarRectum was an actual bar built inside a giant anatomical model representing the human digestive system, from tongue to anus. Dutch design firm Atelier Van Lieshout created it several… Read the rest of the article: Rectum-themed bar

Miss Ticklenot (shown here) is one of several new steampunk figurines from Mauser Earth, 5cm high (1/35 scale). The whole collection is just terrific, and would make a great addition… Read the rest of the article: Steampunk figurines from Mauser Earth

Like hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people around the world, I've been stranded by the Iceland volcano, caught on the North American landmass and unable to return home to London.… Read the rest of the article: Magazine by and for the volcano-stranded

Julian Assange, the mysterious and suicidally brave force behind Wikileaks, will keynote at The Next HOPE, the annual hacker/tech conference summertimes in NYC by the folks behind 2600 Magazine. This… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to keynote 2600's HOPE conference, NYC Jul 16-18

North Carolina's tax department wants to ding NC residents for sales tax on purchases from out-of-state etailers like Amazon.com, so they've asked Amazon to cough up a list of everything… Read the rest of the article: Amazon refuses to turn over customers' reading records to North Carolina tax department

From the mysterious and unplumbed depths of the ocean, a National Geographic gallery of tiny sea critters inventoried in the recent Census of Marine Life. These otherworldly beasties are weird,… Read the rest of the article: Tiny otherworldly critters from the ocean depths

More details have come to light in the case of the Lower Merion School District spying on its students with covert laptop webcam software. The school district of the affluent… Read the rest of the article: Spying school took "thousands" of photos of students with covert webcam app, caught kids sleeping, half-dressed

Just to be clear, the creators of Pop-Up Magazine aren't trying to outdo print mags. The San Francisco event they've invented–the third issue happened this weekend to a sold-out Herbst… Read the rest of the article: Performance Journalism

You may now run DaliClock on your iThing.

Mr. Justice Peter Charleton of Ireland's High Court has ruled that ISPs can and should disconnect their customers from the net on the strength of unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement.… Read the rest of the article: Ireland High Court gives entertainment giants the power to disconnect whole families from the net

Tavie sez, "You have to be impressed by this student film, 'After Today Live'. These kids made an incredibly detailed shot-by-shot remake of the Goofy Movie's opening song, 'After Today'… Read the rest of the article: Students remake Goofy Movie's title sequence

The Nepalese government is sending a team of 20 Sherpas to Everest's "death zone" to clean up the dead bodies of those who never made it back from their expeditions.… Read the rest of the article: Nepal to send Sherpas to "death zone" to rescue the dead

Gang Starr's Guru, who played a significant role in New York's underground rap scene in the 90s, has died of cancer-related complications. He was 43. via MTV News

A 35-year old British woman claims she acquired a Chinese accent after a bad migraine. She thinks she has something called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and claims she is annoyed by… Read the rest of the article: Woman suffers migraine, acquires Chinese accent