Guinness World Record Someone has finally broken the Guinness World Record for long-distance throwing of a hot dog sausage in a bun Thom Dunn

books Two far-out books about California counterculture reviewed by Erik Davis David Pescovitz

houses Mysterious swimming pool found in abandoned Baltimore townhouse Rob Beschizza

crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow

Jesus Merry Christmas, someone stole Jesus's foreskin Thom Dunn

Business Survey finds high levels of harassment in multiplayer games, as well as white supremacist recruiting attempts Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal English Cory Doctorow

climate change Europe just suffered through the hottest June in recorded history Seamus Bellamy

foia The strangest FOIA redactions (and FOIA releases) MuckRock has seen over the years JPat Brown

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

christ what an asshole Trump's FCC seems to have ended the practice of releasing its ISP speed-tests, leaving Americans in the dark about what they're paying for Cory Doctorow

Weird Famed Guinness Records star with the longest fingernails has chopped them off! David Pescovitz

Guinness Records Incredible rare 1930s color footage of the World's Tallest Man David Pescovitz

News Report: Trump told porn star to spank him with 'Forbes', maybe one with him & Ivanka on cover Xeni Jardin

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books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

let them eat cake Steven Mnuchin and Louise Linton may have used a government plane to watch the eclipse Mark Frauenfelder

That's incredible This South African man set the record for one-handed backflips Rusty Blazenhoff

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

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