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You like what you see, don't you? She's on Twitter now. Previously ogled by Dean here on Boing Boing.

Last June, Xeni posted some photos of a huge school of squid swimming off the California coast, taken by photographer/1st grade teacher Jon Schwartz. This month, Schwartz got to swim with the squids again. Only this time, instead of little palm-sized tentacled beasties, Schwartz was in the water with 2-to-3-foot-long Humboldt squids. Humboldts have a [...]

[Video Cat] Today's weird animal viral video is, like all great examples of the genre, equal parts funny, creepy, cute, and sad. Apparently, the cat in this video is having a fear/anxiety/aggressive reaction to the presence of a young girl (sounds like under 5 years old?), a friend of the daughter of the guy who [...]

[Video Link: Sylvia Robinson performing her hit "Pillow Talk" on Soul Train] "Most famous for assembling the Sugarhill Gang, Sylvia Robinson was a songwriter, performer, producer and label owner. 'RIP Ms Rob,' tweeted Public Enemy's Chuck D. 'A black woman putting rap records on the map/now a scene where today women are voided out of [...]

A visually impaired man who'd recently undergone intestinal surgery answered the door to find a woman who announced that she was there to give him an enema. He complied, but later felt that there was something suspicious about the proceeding, so he called his doctor, who confirmed that no enema had been ordered in his [...]

A coalition of activists, community groups and trade unions (whom Crain's New York Business hilariously refer as "agitators," as though they were the Red Menace a post-WWII installment of Little Orphan Annie) are set to join the Occupy Wall Street protesters. The new group includes MoveOn, some SEIU chapters, Workers United, the United Federation of [...]

Christopher Maag of Credit.com write: Bank of America’s homepage was down Friday morning, a day after the megabank announced that it will begin charging customers $5 a month to use their debit cards. Instead of the bank’s normal site, visitors receive a notice stating “Home Page Temporarily Unavailable.” Instead of the bank’s normal site, visitors [...]

Alex Santoso of Neatorama says: "The Euthanasia Coaster, designed by London's Royal College of Art's student Julijonas Urbonas, lets you ride the last ride of your life. Literally." The three-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb -- nearly a third of a mile long -- that lifts one up to a height of more than [...]

San Francisco BART police are going to start wearing video cameras that record their interactions with the public (transit cops in SF have committed some controversial high-profile shootings lately). The cameras are tamper-"proof" (in practice, more like "tamper-resistant," I'm sure) but officers have to manually activate the cameras to make them work. I'm guessing that [...]

This is the "Noah" capsule, a Tsunami survival pod now sold by Japanese company Cosmo. From The Guardian: The company's president, Shoji Tanaka, said the capsule could hold four adults and had survived many crash tests. It has a lookout window and breathing holes, and could also be used as a toy house for children. [...]

[Video Link] "Let's creep in the frozen aisle and think one thought: trick the bridesmaid to get her to take it off." I appreciate the work Bad Lip-Reading does to make politician's speeches bearable.

[Video Link] Here's the swim cap fashion show set in a Punch-and-Judy theater that you've been waiting for. Pete Emslie would be happy with the colors! The brooding people in the audience look like they are plotting to kill someone to get a swim cap. (Via Dangerous Minds)

[Video Link] Happy birthday, Buddy Rich! (1917-1987) (Via Thomas Arey)

"This May Be My Last Time Singing" is a rousing collection of African-American gospel from the latter half of the last century. Interestingly, the tracks were compiled from 45s, many of which were pressed in very small runs for the congregations where the music was recorded. The curator, Mike McGonigal -- of whose musical/editorial vision [...]

Gaylord Stinchcomb's B3ta illustration celebrating Google's 13th birthday is everything I love about B3ta in one little bitmap.

[Video Link] sloanchurchman says: "I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :)" (Via Sean Bonner)

At top is Simon Dale's DIY hobbit house in Wales' "first authorized 'low-impact' ecovillage." The home is their second foray into hobbit living. Several years prior, Simon Dale and his friends and family built the lovely green "Hobbit House" in Wales seen in the photo second from top. Some key points of the design and [...]

Behold the magnificence of the Bolshoi, apparently the most accurate computer simulation of the universe ever. The researchers from the University of California High-Performance Astrocomputing Center (wow!) and New Mexico State University just started releasing data from the simulation this month, leading to new insights about the formation of galaxies, dark matter, and dark energy. [...]

Ooh, this does look good: Graham "The IT Crowd" Linehan has done a stage adaptation of The Ladykillers, a classic Ealing comedy recently remade (with moderate success) for modern audiences. The original film is a great bit of gonzo humour, everything I love about Linehan's work: The celebrated Ealing comedy– THE LADYKILLERS comes to life [...]

This unsourced bit of net.art depicting the girl from The Ring climbing out of Po the Teletubby's screen is freaky in the extreme. (via Neatorama)