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Disney One week after caving, Disney pretends it never blinked on Jimmy Kimmel Jason Weisberger

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androgynous The Flaming Lips' cover of Androgynous Jennifer Sandlin

Tokyo Smoothbrain launches fireworks in the middle of Tokyo's busiest pedestrian intersection Mark Frauenfelder

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Boing Boing Gadgets The GrillGun might be the most awe-inspiring grilling tool ever made Boing Boing's Shop

Christmas game How to play a fiery Victorian Christmas game and not get burned Miss Cellania

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Copyfight Adversarial Interoperability Cory Doctorow

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art The Family Acid: California, a far-out photo album from a very unconventional family David Pescovitz

Copyfight The Copyright Office's DMCA-defanging is nice, but man, there are: So. Many. Hoops to jump through Cory Doctorow

gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow

carbs Low-carb butter pecan cookies Jason Weisberger

telcoms Santa Clara fire department: Verizon's pants are on fire Cory Doctorow

los angeles An afternoon with L.A.'s lady-in-pink: Angelyne Rusty Blazenhoff

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