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Ellen Cushing of Buzzfeed drops in on the DigiTour: 7 teenage boys (and one girl) who have become so famous on social media that together, they can sell out arenas and drive teen girls to madness.
posted by Diablevert at 4:12 PM PST - 56 comments

A Waste of Good Beer, An Inferior Cooking Technique, And Dangerous

In the words of Sterling Ball ... "I think Beer Can Chicken is a religion. We need a little separation of faith and science here."

podcast
posted by maggieb at 4:09 PM PST - 99 comments

All The Reasons Why People Did Not Reply To Your Party Invitation By MeFi's unimpeachably polite The Whelk.
posted by tel3path at 1:15 PM PST - 57 comments

COMMUNITY WANT ADS — Jeff Wysaski (of Obvious Plant) and some friends wrote a bunch of fake want ads and turned it into a newspaper. Previously.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:12 PM PST - 17 comments

Rod Reeves, 42, turns on the spigot and shows how his garden hose, punctured by bullets, now leaks. In last week's three day Memorial Day weekend, 64 people were shot in Chicago, a city of 2.7 million. 6 died from their wounds. Prior to that, there had been 1,177 shootings this year, and some 28,000 citizen phone calls reporting gunfire.
posted by stillmoving at 1:11 PM PST - 34 comments

Horse yoga
posted by a lungful of dragon at 10:08 AM PST - 24 comments

That couple wrapped in a blanket on the cover of the Woodstock album? Still together. Still in love.
posted by davebush at 10:03 AM PST - 20 comments

One hundred years ago today, an enormous Russian offensive begins. The attack surprised nearly everyone, including enemies and the rest of the Russian command.

The massive assault on Austro-Hungarian forces was intended to aid already or soon-to-be hard-pressed Russian allies France, Italy, and Britain, while also hoping to knock an enemy empire out of the war.

[more inside]
posted by doctornemo at 7:50 AM PST - 14 comments