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Aaron Fletcher is a nomadic shepherd and activist in Southern Oregon. There's a new mini-documentary on youtube about his "Guerilla Grazing" lifestyle. [more inside]
posted by sibilatorix at 8:17 PM PST - 5 comments

Nagoya, in central Japan, has many playground slides shaped like Mt. Fuji. Twitter user @223playmount and others are documenting them. There's an online index, a book, and even fashion accessories.
posted by eotvos at 7:31 PM PST - 9 comments

The Honus Wagner T206 is the sports card GOAT, and always will be. It sold recently for $6.6 million. Dan Hajducky and Tisha Thompson at ESPN.com give a short history of baseball card boom and bust and boom.
posted by goatdog at 4:07 PM PST - 8 comments

What do you do with a blimp semi-rigid airship after it's done flying? (SLYT)
posted by backseatpilot at 4:07 PM PST - 23 comments

No, you can't recycle bowling balls. Bowling balls are made of polyurethane and liquid plasticizer with weighted cores made from polyester resin filled with varying amounts of calcium carbonate, barium sulfate, and glass microspheres. [more inside]
posted by forbiddencabinet at 4:02 PM PST - 42 comments

Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.
posted by panglos at 3:54 PM PST - 110 comments

The streets of Kabul were emptied of women on Monday, the first full day of Taliban rule across Afghanistan, as Taliban gunmen patrolled in cars seized by police, confiscated guns from security guards and urged shopkeepers and government employees back to work. [more inside]
posted by roolya_boolya at 3:29 PM PST - 32 comments

Aganetha Dyck reveals how she works with bees to create strange and wonderful art (CBC) "It's their ability to construct up, down, in three dimensions that interested me. They create the most beautiful environment that I've ever seen. I mean, it's just absolutely gorgeous. You have to be an artist to be able to do that." [more inside]
posted by RobinofFrocksley at 2:24 PM PST - 3 comments

This anti-littering PSA [SLYT] has played before every movie at the Byrd Theater in Richmond, VA since the early '80s. The audience recites every word along with it, and it may be the only thing that can truly unify this country.
posted by chinese_fashion at 12:26 PM PST - 30 comments

In memory of a friend, Paul Taylor is doing a slow (28mph maximum) charity road trip. He will start in Shitterton (“Please stop stealing our sign”)(“Us too!”), which lies in the Piddle Valley, and journey to Twatt, Cockpole Green, The Knob, Great Tosson, Butthole Lane, and other places. It's not clear if he will enjoy Cock Alley, journey over Cock Bridge or Ass Hill, or encounter Great Coxwell; alas, Y Farteg is not en-route, though Nempnett Thrubwell is possible. This is not unique; previously, two brothers visited Wetwang, Rimswell, Lickfold, Feltwell, Fanny Hands Lane, and other places. Related: “It's a pathetic obsession really”, says man who visited Wank Mountain, but no comment from the resident of 4 Kinnell Street. Random: Lower Swell is by the River Dikler.
posted by Wordshore at 11:54 AM PST - 42 comments

To help celebrate Sweet Art week, I bring you...the Jelly Belly Bean Art Collection. "Each subject presents its own unique challenge, whether it is figuring out how to make a light saber look like it’s actually glowing, creating the illusion of transparency necessary for a Minion fart cloud, or deciding what beans to use to realistically describe a person’s skin tones," says artist Kristen Cumings.
posted by MonkeyToes at 11:54 AM PST - 6 comments

Mocking the Klan by Eliya Smith [more inside]
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