MadameBerry has made us a neat toy: EDDA , An atmospheric slam poetry battle based on a collection of Old Norse poetry . Alongside warm firelight in a great hall, you choose how to complete phrases in response to your challenger, with the aim of besting four different types of poets. Read the rest
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Try performing in atmospheric Norse slam poetry competition
A restaurateur in Lecce, Italy dug up the plumbing for his perennially blocked toilets and discovered thousands of years’ worth of tunnels beneath the building, including a Messapian tomb. Read the rest
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Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history
The black swallower ( Chiasmodon niger ), capable of eating 10 times its weight, is only one of the curious animals introduced to visitors at the American Museum of Natural History’s new Life At The Limits exhibition. Read the rest
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Deeply strange black swallower fish and other odd animals
Design studio Studio Drift created “Shylights” that unfurl as they lower from the ceiling, looking more like glowing jellyfish than chandeliers (more…)
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Undulating jellyfish-like chandeliers
Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand to use to expand its island’s territory has led to a worldwide boom in illegal sand-mining, run by criminal gangs who are responsible for the destruction of entire islands in the Pacific rim. Read the rest
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Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish
They were the first company to dabble in a laughably crude version of the surveillance business-model, aggressively collecting your address every time you bought batteries so they could get into the direct-mail racket. Read the rest
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Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private
“Service dog fraud” is a thing, now. Qualified handlers are aggravated by the increase of people saying their dogs are service animals, allowing them entry to cool human-only places, when they are not. Read the rest
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Fake service dogs everywhere
It’s probably the most censored site on the Internet, blocked by national firewalls all over the world, but more people use it every day. Read the rest
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Pirate Bay traffic doubles over three years
This NASA image of Mercury has been making the internet rounds anew this week, but has been widely reposted with some not-entirely-accurate information. Read the rest
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The clearest image of our nearest planet: Mercury as you’ve never seen it
He was allegedly drunk, and had at least two victims before SFO’s crackerjack private aviation security outfit, Covenant, noticed (they’re the same ones who smashed my brand new camera some years ago and refused to take responsibility for it). Read the rest
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Fake TSA screener infiltrates SFO checkpoints, gropes women