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Wow, check out these pictures of an underground city beneath Detroit.

More news of Marijuana’s pain killing properties.

For anyone who’s ever felt a little paranoid, here you get a taste for a schizophrenics experiences. An excellent piece over at Kuro5hin.

Xeni Jardin, contributor of boingboing, and other web goodness, has a site of photography that we all wish was our own!

Certainly a sign of the times, that a place in Ft. Greene fetches 1.3M. Now granted it’s a four floor townhouse, with 4400 sq feet of space. I guess such a place would cost 9M in Manhattan, soo… consider the savings!

I completely forgot to put this up last week, but it’s still cool art.

If you’re interesting in building hand strength, for martial arts, grappling, arm wrestling, hand-shaking, or just plain old rock climbing, check out this intro to training with a hand gripper. Also, you can find industrial strength grippers over at here at Ironmind.

Here’s a little punk rock art from various album covers…

The subject of spys floated around in the fringe press off and on around the time of the original pre-Iraq WMD debate. How’s about a little 007 intrigue…

Ever wondered what the whole deal is with New York, and dancing? Why is it really illegal, and is there a connection with Harlem, Jazz, and the prohibition of the 20’s? Read this piece by Noah Tarnow, reprinted here without permission…

Ever wonder what’s encoded in that barcode on the back of your driver or non-driver license. Check out this Swipe Project and their Swipe Toolkit.

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Straight talk on security is hard to find these days. So Schneier’s newish book Beyond Fear is truely prescient. He’s also managed to publish some other pieces, on heading towards Big Brother, and another on ID’s and the Illusion of Security.

Going camping, and don’t wanna buy an expensive burner? Worried you lose it, or just wanna build something cool? Check out this Pepsi-G Stove built with a Pepsi and Guinness can glued together. Very cool shit.

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It happened a few weeks ago in January, while Jodie Lane was walking her two dogs. She stepped on an accidentally electrified service box on the corner of East 11th and 1st Avenue. Her death brought quite a controversy, and ConEd has subsequently published the locations of electrified boxes and lamposts. Here’s a better list of locations (Thanks Gunnar).

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Yes, they’ve finally found martian life, though it may not excite all of you as much as Mars Attacks! did. But nevertheless this is groundbreaking news. 4 billion years ago there were microorganisms living on Mars, before we even had life on earth. These are the little guys that will surely outlive us, despite nuclear annilation, global climate change, and any environmental damage we might wreak.

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Japanese ghost stories are called Kwaidan. Check out some fascinating art of ghosts. Gorgeous, and haunting.

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Warhol did a lot of things first. So it’s no surprise that he was dabbling with an Amiga 1000 back in 1986. I remember those days well. There were Apple Macintosh + IBM PC computers, but by far the Commodore 64, and the Commodore Amiga were the best graphics machines of the time. Here are more old ads if you’re interested.

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Just as NYC considers repealing it’s age-old Cabaret Laws, and San Francisco considers joining the 4am last call club, a rumor is now floating that NYC is considering a 1am curfew. Huh? Is it the complaining neighbors of Flatiron?

This neighborhood, the one now, with all the homeless, the prostitutes, the junkies, pimps, and the simply deranged, wears thin. It’s set in its ways, and though I know these streets, they still make me feel unsettled…

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The French are at it again, this time parading naked women. If filth + derision are the emotions you feel when faced with runway supermodels in the nude, please don’t click this link.