September 21, 2016

Meow.

Batman: Bad Kitty (SLYT)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:49 PM PST - 18 comments

Bishop Backs Squatters

The Golden Age of Squatting, a history of London's squats and what squatting looks like in the present day.
The squat movement flowered in London in the 1970s, when an estimated 30,000 people lived in squats in Greater London, and the movement provided the base for many London subcultures over several decades. In 2012, the scene took a legal body blow when squatting in residential (rather than commercial) properties was made a criminal offense
posted by frimble at 10:36 PM PST - 9 comments

Yogi Berra in space

My dad never played catch with me [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 10:29 PM PST - 4 comments

I'm not a scientist but an experimenter

How Mr and Mrs Gock Saved the Kumara - amongst other achievements.
posted by unliteral at 10:10 PM PST - 8 comments

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

They're lining up the prisoners
And the guards are taking aim

[more inside]
posted by tclark at 7:20 PM PST - 37 comments

Sir Derek Jacoby vs Dame Helen Mirren was my undoing.

It seems simple enough. You are presented with two celebrities, and you must choose. Which. One. Vapes.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:56 PM PST - 55 comments

The best thing for the inside of a (person) is the outside of a horse

Hidden Desires is a project of The Care Group, a Green Cross member organization. Here they grant the wish of Mrs. Jacobs to ride one last time. Watch to the end. It gets really dusty! No translation needed.
posted by agatha_magatha at 3:23 PM PST - 14 comments

Coming soon to a state fair near you

What do you get when you literally cross a hamburger with a hotdog? Hamdog!
posted by ardgedee at 3:05 PM PST - 114 comments

So he hid it in one place he knew he could hide something

An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint allegedly smuggled about $180,000 in gold from the fortress-like facility, possibly evading multiple levels of detection with a time-honoured prison trick....
posted by Chrysostom at 1:05 PM PST - 119 comments

"My God, that's Kimberly!"

Lori Erica Ruff has been identified. The case of the woman who stole a deceased Fife, Washington 2 year old's identity has been solved, much to the surprise of the internet.
posted by Pearl928 at 12:37 PM PST - 37 comments

A new rap game has started right here, in your Wi-Fi menu

The Museum of Wi-Fi: While most of us keep the standard NETGEAR-15, linksys_8A or UPC27458 as it is, some true gangsta 2.0s have decided to stand out on their Wi-Fi lists by dropping their best punchlines.... The Museum of Wi-Fi exists to preserve these vestiges of our neighbourhood battlefields.
posted by Cash4Lead at 12:19 PM PST - 67 comments

Don't read the comments

"Comments on Times stories are moderated by a team of 14 people known as the community desk. Together, they review around 11,000 comments each day for the approximately 10 percent of Times articles that are open to reader comment. To help illustrate how our moderation works and how a new system might help, we have arranged for you to take a Times moderation test."
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 11:39 AM PST - 90 comments

Curtis Hanson 1945 - 2016

The writer, director of such films as LA Confidential, Wonder Boys and The River Wild has passed away at the age of 71. A tribute from Jessica Ritchey of RogerEbert.com, The Guardian and and Salon.
posted by octothorpe at 11:24 AM PST - 20 comments

 Repression and the free market “two sides of the same coin."

40 Years Ago, This Chilean Exile Warned Us About the Shock Doctrine. Then He Was Assassinated.
The ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful Toll; By Orlando Letelier.
How can this inequality be maintained if not through jolts of electric shock.
See previously.
posted by adamvasco at 10:31 AM PST - 19 comments

I'm not a hero I'm just a coffee shop.

Think you've got what it takes to start your very own cafe? [more inside]
posted by phunniemee at 10:20 AM PST - 11 comments

"The Battle For Cable Street's Mural"

Eighty years on from the day anti-fascists clashed with Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts in the Jewish East End of London, David Rosenberg tells the story of the long struggle to protect the giant mural. Link to the Brick Lane Bookshop's article, and to more info about the founding of Tower Hamlet's Art Project, which still seems to be going in some form in the middle of our current 'austerity'. The story of the mural touches on world history*, community involvement, political activism, shared values*, spirit of place, and continuity. It's a fine example of the interaction between local and global; and perhaps of the legacy of Britain's now threatened, always contested, post-war socialist idealism. [more inside]
posted by glasseyes at 10:19 AM PST - 12 comments

Glue smudges, ebony dust and all.

“I just want to get this guitar to where it’s used to being a guitar. Because right now it still thinks it’s a tree.” Spend an hour of zen watching master luthier Michael Greenfield build a hand-crafted acoustic guitar.
posted by bondcliff at 10:17 AM PST - 10 comments

Every Monday along the way / With courage I will face

Garfield. Pokemon. Garfemon.
posted by cortex at 9:52 AM PST - 24 comments

primitive pic

Pictures recreated with simple geometric shapes Source code and more discussion here (with cool gifs!).
posted by garlic at 9:51 AM PST - 7 comments

Phantasm Returns

1979 film Phantasm has been a bit of a cult masterpiece [original trailer] for nearly 40 years. JJ Abrams is a fan and has collaborated with the writer/director Don Coscarelli to do a 4K remaster of the film. It will appear in theaters and VOD in theaters on Oct 7, along with apparently the 5th and final film in the series, Phantasm: Ravager, written by Coscarelli. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 9:34 AM PST - 41 comments

birds do it, bees do it, even australopithecines do it

Humans and Neanderthals had sex. But was it for love? [more inside]
posted by poffin boffin at 8:40 AM PST - 79 comments

LoL I got one

Sabrina Gonzalez joked to her dad, who works at Costco, that he should get one of their giant teddy bears for his five-month-old granddaughter Madeline Jane. Never joke to a new grandpa.
posted by Etrigan at 7:54 AM PST - 78 comments

Symbols matter

What I Pledge Allegiance To. "I am a black Mississippian. I am a black American. I pledge to never be passive, patriotic, or grateful in the face of American abuse. I pledge to always thoughtfully bite the self-righteous American hand that thinks it’s feeding us. I pledge to perpetually reckon with the possibility that there will never be any liberty, peace, and justice for all unless we accept that America, like Mississippi, is not clean. Nor is it great. Nor is it innocent." -- Author Kiese Laymon, Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi [more inside]
posted by zarq at 7:29 AM PST - 19 comments

Will Smith Was a Gangsta Rapper

Will Smith was Eazy-E before Eazy-E was Eazy-E. [slTheRinger]
posted by ellieBOA at 5:48 AM PST - 37 comments

The bots of (edit) war

Over a 10-year period, humans on average revert other human's edits on Wikipedia three times. Bots are more energetic: on English Wikipedia, they revert each other an average of 105 times. [more inside]
posted by metaquarry at 4:40 AM PST - 19 comments

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