Foldable step stool $10

This foldable step stool is 11 inches high, and is only 1.5 inches thick when folded up. It has replaced a non-folding plastic step stool ...

Help wanted: Burning Man's Chief Fed

The Bureau of Land Management has posted a job listing for a Burning Man project manager, salary $69,497 to $90,344, responsible for risk-m...

Metachaos: stunning, grotesque short about "the most tragic aspects of the human nature"

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Police sergeant: 16 year old girl probably saw penises before I showed her mine, NBD

Boston Police Sergeant Edwin Guzman's lawyer says that it's not really a big deal that he sent a photo of his penis to the sixteen-...

Themepark in an ancient, cavernous Transylvanian salt-mine

Transylvania's Salina Turda themepark is housed in an ancient salt mine with millennia of history. Visitors use its vertical shafts to ...

Chinese snatch-squads roam the globe, kidnapping dissidents and critics

It's not just dissident Hong Kong booksellers who're being snatched -- China's snatch-squads have kidnapped expatriate disside...

Shootout in Oregon: one terrorist killed, eight arrested

Oregon law enforcement ended its longstanding policy of allowing the domestic terrorists who seized the Malheur national wildlife refuge to...

Health insurer loses 1m customers' health records

Despite the fact that it "takes the privacy and security of our members' information seriously," the health insurance company...

Vehicle surveillance company's "free" deal turns Texas cops into bill-collectors

Vigilant Solutions is "one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology" and they've got a great deal ...

TOM THE DANCING BUG: Putting Our Children on a Path to Lead

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook . Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE , for early acces...

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The Passport Index ranks passports according to their "power", defined around how many countries will let you in without a visa....

Seminar on Jo Walton's Philosopher Kings novels

Jo Walton ( previously ) is one of science fiction's great talents, a writer who blends beautiful insight about human beings and their ...

Barack Obama ends solitary confinement for juveniles in federal custody

Obama wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post (bio: "Barack Obama is president of the United States") explaining his suite of pena...