happy mutants Dial-a-Grue: play Zork with nothing but an old phone Cory Doctorow

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tech I removed the DRM from my Amazon Kindle ebooks Séamus Bellamy

canada Worried academics run for the Canadian border Séamus Bellamy

Technology A fake WiFi repeater's only working part? Its blue light (video) Ellsworth Toohey

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canceled liftoffs Musk calls pilot the R-word over astronaut delay — then delays SpaceX flight to ISS Carla Sinclair

music Watch this comedian brutally mock every UK rap video ever made Grant St. Clair

politics Every "political" scene in Star Wars lampooned Grant St. Clair

music "Planet of the Bass" comedian sends up early 2010s alt-pop Grant St. Clair

immigrants This musician looks uncannily like the Statue of Liberty Jennifer Sandlin

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A little more to the right "It's a major theft!" Replica of "A Christmas Story" leg lamp stolen Jason Weisberger

books Artist Saul Steinberg's 1945 book "All in Line" gets a lavish new re-publication Ruben Bolling

auctions One of Magritte's "Empire of Light" paintings sells for $121m Rob Beschizza

Science Young elephant gets revenge on bully by kinking her shower hose Ellsworth Toohey

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