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posted by ribbit ribbit at 8:29 PM PST - 38 comments

The Chris McCandless Obsession Problem
Chasing Alexander Supertramp
The beatification of Chris McCandless: From thieving poacher into saint [more inside]
posted by Kerasia at 7:58 PM PST - 105 comments

Over the years, Hollywood has made films that have promoted the U.S. Military and films that have advertised specific products. But fifty years ago, those two tendencies intersected for a curious artifact of cinema and the military industrial complex. Say hello to “The Starfighters”. [more inside]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:44 PM PST - 36 comments

An in-depth documentary of our favorite home town, Circle Pines, MN. [SLYT]
posted by sparklemotion at 6:56 PM PST - 17 comments

Two pounds of dry ice in the kitchen sink.
posted by griphus at 5:37 PM PST - 68 comments

It's just a page from a refrigerator manual, but what a page. (Direct image link) [more inside]
posted by moonmilk at 5:24 PM PST - 59 comments

At the age of 13, Sherwood "Woody" Fuehrer started building a pretzel-can bodied robot named Gismo out of spare parts. [more inside]
posted by ckape at 5:15 PM PST - 12 comments

Last Monday, a runner, wife and mother of three named Meg Menzies was struck and killed by a drunk driver. Today, 90,000 runners dedicated their miles to her. [more inside]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 5:07 PM PST - 23 comments

In January of 1979, ABC premiered a made-for-TV movie called Salvage, featuring Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) as "the junkman with a dream," which he stated simply: "I want to build a ship, fly to the moon, salvage all the NASA stuff up there, bring it back to the earth, and sell it." His crazy idea isn't so crazy, thanks to the assistance of former astronaut Skip Carmichael (Joel Higgins) and fuel/tech expert Melanie Slozar (Trish Stewart). They managed to build their spaceship and get to the moon and back, thanks to Carmichael's ingenious "Trans-Linear Vector Principle." The movie did so well that the crew's adventures were extended into a total of 18 episodes, split into two seasons. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 4:38 PM PST - 38 comments

The Museum of Modern Art’s announcement on January 8 that it will indeed tear down Tod Williams and Billie Tsien’s American Folk Art Museum building of 1997–2001 felt like hearing that a relative or close friend had finally succumbed to an incurable disease. Even though the outcome had been expected, it was a shock nonetheless.

"MoMA Loses Face": Martin Filler decries the museum's expansion plan in the NYRB. [more inside]
posted by RogerB at 3:58 PM PST - 85 comments

What's inside this mystery house in North Carolina? It looks like an average 1970's home with "a landscaped yard, white columns, and green shutters." But look closer and you'll notice there's no driveway, no walkway leading up to the front door, and no mailbox. The truth behind this mysterious building in Raleigh, NC might surprise you.
posted by capricorn at 2:27 PM PST - 62 comments

I'm the world's oldest wing walker. I was 82 when I performed my first wing walk – standing on top of a plane while it's in flight. Looking back, that seems relatively young.
More than 384 other shared stories, many of them interesting, in this Guardian series. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 1:59 PM PST - 7 comments

Text Editors in The Lord of The Rings
Emacs: Fangorn

Vast, ancient, gnarled and mostly impenetrable, tended by a small band of shepherds old as the world itself, under the command of their leader, Neckbeard. They possess unbelievable strength, are infuriatingly slow, and their land is entirely devoid of women. It takes forever to say anything in their strange, rumbling language.

posted by jenkinsEar at 1:10 PM PST - 40 comments

Toronto Sports Network aired a three-part series this week called ReOrientation, examining the ongoing shift in the attitude of the 5 major North American sports leagues towards homosexuality: The Culture of Casual Homophobia / The Transition Phase / The Players Speak.
posted by mannequito at 12:40 PM PST - 18 comments

Paul Thomas Anderson interviews Martin Scorsese and AD Adam Somner about The Wolf of Wall Street
part 1, part 2, part 3
posted by timshel at 12:10 PM PST - 19 comments

In the early '90s, Quark boasted 95% market share. In '99, InDesign arrived... (SLAT)
posted by monospace at 11:51 AM PST - 85 comments

The author travels with Indian sex tourists to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
posted by reenum at 11:29 AM PST - 30 comments

MSNBC's Up with Steve Kornacki has been collaborating with NJ journalist Brian Murphy on some investigative journalism about the Chris Christie administration's alleged withholding of Sandy Relief funds until the Mayor of Hoboken agrees to fast-track a real-estate development. Hoboken was one of the hardest-hit communities and has so far received $6 per resident. Christie became governor after leading a US Attorney investigation which convicted NJ politicians of crooked real-estate deals.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 11:06 AM PST - 120 comments

Sean Tejaratchi (of LiarTownUSA) brings you the Vermont Pleasures catalog, which answers the vital question "What if the Body Shop made Sex Toys?" (NSFW all around) [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 10:33 AM PST - 52 comments

Hello Kitty super robot! (And Kitty-chan is a Mazinger Z fan.)
posted by needled at 10:28 AM PST - 8 comments

A few years ago, Ed made a friend. A Snowy Egret. [more inside]
posted by cashman at 10:05 AM PST - 11 comments

In 1959, MOSFILM released "Ballad of a Soldier," made during the Khrushchev Thaw . It chronicles a young soldier, Alyosha, and his six-day trip home from the front during World War II, which "sweeps you, with feeling, into the physical and psychological world of Russians at war."
And it is on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:50 AM PST - 2 comments

Wearable tech. Information security. Or if you need a bit more direction, career objective. Refer to previous posts for guidance on social media and mashups. (All links NSFW language)
posted by Dr-Baa at 9:05 AM PST - 6 comments

Are you sick of all those icky chemicals in your food? Now you're safe, with the totally chemical-free, all-natural bananas, blueberries and eggs.
posted by jeather at 6:59 AM PST - 110 comments

Animals sitting on capybaras. Includes other capybaras. Previous capybaras. À la recherche du capybaras perdu. Capybaras we have known and loved.
posted by Slithy_Tove at 4:46 AM PST - 46 comments

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General's report on smoking with music by: Peggy Lee
Patti Smith
k.d. lang
Carly Simon
Janet Sidel
Julie London
and
Nina Simone
posted by Pudhoho at 3:39 AM PST - 14 comments

"During the fierce fighting that followed the police found themselves heavily outnumbered as soldiers, many in uniform, joined in against them. A chemist's shop was raided and medicine bottles were used as missiles. A man was hit so hard by a fireman's jet that he was hurled through a music shop window. The crowd that went in to rescue him emerged with three pianos. These were dragged into the roadway and used as accompaniments. The crowd sang 'Keep the Home Fires Burning' before the biggest bonfire that Luton had ever seen. The burning down of the Town Hall provided the perfect culmination to what had started as a very wet day." -- In 1919 the mayor of Luton planned a "peace celebration" as a nice way for him and his friends to gorge themselves. Thousands of discharged, unemployed service men thought otherwise and the 1919 Luton riots were the result.
posted by MartinWisse at 2:23 AM PST - 39 comments