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- The highest-scoring basketball game in NCAA history has gone down in the record books with the wrong score.
- This Week in Food History: Dumplings were introduced to Boston Chinese restaurants as Peking ravioli to emphasize their fillings for an ignorant public.
- The US women’s hockey team announced a boycott of the world championships in protest of deplorably low wages and sexist mistreatment, and last week — following refusals by a bunch of people USA Hockey tried to bring in as scabs, including student athletes — they got some of the concessions they needed.
- A while back, the Walk mentioned the phenomenon of tractor firmware DRM, because of the ludicrousness of tractor DRM. Of course, DRM creates a market in cracked firmware mods…for tractors.
- In non-digital DRM (or as you might call it, RM), a US Supreme Court case about limiting the re-use of printer cartriges could establish a wide precendent for general corporate control of things you already bought.
- Old-school Soviet train stations are basically palaces, it seems.
- Many cultures have unique ways to prepare the dead and/or guard against zombies. Some medieval villagers in England, for example, preferred to break the bones of the dead so they couldn’t rise again, which might frankly be something to consider.
- Also in deathly traditions, you could try out a rotting room if you have the lime and the time.
- In Chechnya, authorities are disappearing gay men. Except that can’t be true, of course, because according to the government gay people don’t exist.
- This Week in Online Spaces I Don’t Even Want to Lurk In: forums for estranged parents.
- Sometimes an idea comes along that so perfectly falls into my personal aesthetic that it sets me back a little. This time: Hieronymus Bosch action figures.
- Folks like to act like safe legal abortions were invented in the 70s, since that’s when the current anti-choice movement took off as a wholly reactionary entity, while abortion was outlawed in the US in the 19th century and was safely practised in a lot of places before then.
- Part of the problem with overpolicing and oversentencing (part, and especially in the US) is the externalities problem, a tendency to consider criminal justice as an individualized punishment for an individual act rather than parts of larger societal dynamics.
- This Week in Art: One artist’s felicity with found art and mixed media is breathtaking.
- Since our moon is tidally locked and so only ever has one side facing the Earth, very few people have actually witnessed a full rotation. Buuuuut we have the internet now. Thank you Bill Kurtis for the internet.
- Kickstarter recently marked ten thousand funded game projects. I can’t wait for the celebration when they get to 25 completed games.
- Allow me to introduce you to this friendly fox in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
- I hope you plan to get your back massages from cats in the future.
- The ineffable logic of cat ownership is: If not made for sits, why is it made of warms?
