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I spotted this charming 1.5"-wide unicorn pin at Amazon Handmade, crafted by Cynical Redhead in Illinois and sporting a delightful and timely message for the new year. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2SkBs7Y via IFTTT

Last month, Matt Crull, 29, of Martin County, Florida, was sleeping in his van when police came to investigate what they described as a “suspicious van." Martin County Sheriff’s deputy Steven O’Leary found a plastic bag of white powder, claimed to run a field test on it, and arrested Crull for possession of 92 grams of heroin. Crull went to jail where he sat for over a month. Thing is, the heroin was actually laundry detergent. From the Miami Herald : “(It’s) very surreal when you’re sitting in jail with a half a million dollars bond,” Crull told WPBF25, “and you can’t go anywhere knowing that you didn’t do wrong..." Sheriff William Snyder says (O'Leary) has been fired after an investigation uncovered that at least 11 people he put in jail for drug charges were found innocent, the TV station reported. “No matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, just based on the law of possibilities there’s always a possibility that one bad apple will slip through,” Snyder said,...

James Verdesoto is the movie poster designer responsible for some of the more memorable posters of recent decades, including Pulp Fiction , Girl, Interrupted , and Training Day . In this short video, he gives a terrific presentation about the design aesthetics of movie posters from the 1930s to present day. I learned a lot from this; it was 10 minutes well-spent. Image: Movie Poster Remakes vs. Originals, Explained | Vanity Fair YouTube video from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2Wxi5rx via IFTTT

A magazine named after something kids shouldn't eat REALLY hates on a sandwich. Paste : And then you see something like KFC’s new Cheeto Sandwich, and you remember how it feels to take one look at a promotional image and feel the tiniest bit of vomit rising in the back of your throat. Good god, KFC. What hath science wrought on this one? from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2CSEEOB via IFTTT

Warren Craghead writes, "I wanted to let you know about my TRUMPTRUMP drawing project and the new collection that Retrofit Comics that was just published. Since Trump got the nomination for president in July 2016 I’ve been drawing a grotesque portrait of him and his minions every day - you can see them at here . Retrofit Comics published a collection of the first six months of drawings last year , and the new collection is out now - 200+ pages of drawings. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2RYHiN9 via IFTTT

( UPDATE: The embed is disabled outside of YouTube; you can watch it there .) It's been a while, Hubert Cumberdale. The year two thousand and thirteen marked our last adventure. Before the war. ( Previously ) Animator David Firth: Salad Fingers is back for the first time in 5 years in this nightmarish new episode. Salad Fingers decides it’s time for Hubert Cumberdale to become a real boy. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2WxGltA via IFTTT

When GOP darling Scott Walker offered to hand billions in subsidies to Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn, he was warned: the Foxconn MO is to suck up billions in public money for ambitious megafactories , then scale them back into small, largely irrelevant facilities (or cancel them altogether). But that didn't convince Walker: instead, he got right to business, seizing and bulldozing Wisconsinites' homes to make way for the "factory," and allowing the price-tag to rise by more than a billion dollars without blinking, even as the company started to hedge about the scale of the factory it would build in exchange for Walker's huge welfare handout. Now the other shoe has dropped: Louis Woo (special assistant to Foxconn chairman Terry Gou), who negotiated the Wisconsin deal, has told Reuters that "In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory. You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment." Instead of the planned megafactory with its 5,200 blu...

"Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?” ― John Lennon from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2FYUR8T via IFTTT

You may have heard that artist Anish Kapoor has an exclusive license to produce art using Vantablack, a pigment made from carbon nanotubes that absorbs up to 99.96% of visible light. Covering an object with Vantablack makes it look like the object, and everything behind it, has been removed from the universe. Artists who are not Anish Kapoor are understandably upset that Kapoor has a lock on Vantablack. Many people have tried to create pigments as dark as Vantablack, and the person with the most success so far is Stuart Semple. He created Black 2.0 a few years ago, and now he is Kickstarted a new formulation, Black 3.0 , which absorbs between 98 and 99% of visible light. The Kickstarter includes the following caution: "By backing this project you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not backing this on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material...

We have a president who has a hard time understanding the difference between weather and climate. Science is a tough subject for the man. On Monday he proved once again just how ignorant he is with this tweet: In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2019 So Jimmy Kimmel kindly invited a couple of grade school children to try to help Trump out with this basic climate change tutorial. Mr. Trump, please listen and learn. from Boing Boing http://bit.ly/2RrGMSA via IFTTT