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The Future Of The Bucket List

from The Mirror People could soon be able to have virtual sex with their biggest idols, claims expert Dreams of a night with your favourite celebrity could soon become a reality BY JOSHUA HAIGH Fancy sharing a night with Bieber? Fans could soon be getting closer to their idols than ever before. New technology has meant […]

Troll Troll Everywhere

from USA Today Summer’s civil war: How did pop culture get so negative? By Brian Truitt Kanye West jumped onstage after Taylor Swift won for best female video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. (Photo: Christopher Polk, Getty Images) The biggest civil war of summer was supposed to be Captain America and Iron Man facing off […]

Foos

Hipster Hipster Everywhere

from The Guardian Same old, same old. How the hipster aesthetic is taking over the world Industrial furniture, stripped floors and Edison bulbs: why must we aspire to such bland monotony? By Kyle Chayka The Fortitude Coffee shop in Edinburgh. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer Go to Shoreditch Grind, near a roundabout in the middle […]

Moon Express

from CNBC A start-up’s race to harvest the moon’s treasures Lori Ioannou | @LoriIoannou1 In a race against global superpowers, Moon Express — a private venture founded by billionaire entrepreneur Naveen Jain, space technology guru Dr. Barney Pell and space futurist Dr. Bob Richards — has cleared a path for private U.S . companies looking to […]

Easton Goes Off Again

from The Independent Read Bret Easton Ellis’ excoriating monologue on social justice warriors and political correctness ‘Oh, little snowflakes, when did you all become grandmothers and society matrons, clutching your pearls in horror at someone who has an opinion about something, a way of expressing themselves, that’s not the mirror image of yours?’ By Christopher Hooton | @christophhooton […]

Eastwood Goes Off Again

From The Wrap Clint Eastwood on Donald Trump’s Racism: ‘Just F—ing Get Over It’ “When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist,” says actor, director and producer who would vote for GOP nominee over Hillary Clinton By J. Clara Chan Clint Eastwood thinks America’s “pussy generation” needs to “just f–ing get over” Donald Trump’s “racism.” In an interview with […]

Deep Space Industries

from DSI The Prospector-1 spacecraft will survey and land on an asteroid Deep Space Industries announced today its plans to fly the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission. Prospector-1™ will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, and investigate the object to determine its value as a source of space resources. This mission is an important […]

Ruscha Does Sunset

from LAist How Ed Ruscha Photographed Every Building On The Sunset Strip BY JULIA WICK For his iconic book “Every Building on the Sunset Strip”, Ruscha used a motorized camera to shoot a “long picture” of the Sunset Strip. (Via YouTube) Contemporary artist Ed Ruscha has lived in Los Angeles for more than sixty years. Though he […]