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Transmogrified Cat Wins Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

from The New York Times No Ordinary Affenpinscher, Banana Joe Is Named Best in Show Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Banana Joe, a black [alleged - Ed.] dog with a monkeylike face, became the first affenpinscher to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday night. He defeated six dogs, one [...]

Asteroid Definitely

from ExtremeTech Finally confirmed: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs By Sebastian Anthony A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction — the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planet’s species, including almost every dinosaur — was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago. The [...]

Happy Birthday FT

from The New York Times With a Focus on Its Future, Financial Times Turns 125 By ERIC PFANNER It was a time when the financial markets were growing and globalizing rapidly. Gossip, speculation and misinformation abounded. There was a need for a “friend to the honest financier and the respectable broker.” From 1888, when it began [...]

Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard

from MESSY NESSY chic So Ben & Jerry’s has an actual Graveyard for their Discontinued Flavours Surrounded by a white picket fence on a grassy knoll, lie the headstones of especially beloved flavours or particularly despised flavours, some that were introduced as early as the late 1970s when the ice cream company was founded, but [...]

Richard Artschwager Gone

from GalleristNY Richard Artschwager, Whose Multifarious Work Defied Categorization, Dies at 89 By Andrew Russeth Richard Artschwager, who crafted a protean and enigmatic body of work over the course of more than half a century, has died. He was 89. David Nolan Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, which both presented his work in New York, confirmed his death. [...]

Justin Bieber vs. God

via Tyler Mac

Skrillex Retires – Books Vegas Run with Cirque du Soleil

from Rolling Stone Skrillex Pairs with Cirque du Soleil for Las Vegas Club Residency Zedd, Sebastian Ingrosso also sign deals with new dance spot By STEVE BALTIN Cirque du Soleil has staged its acrobatic spectacles to the music of the Beatles, Elvis and other rock legends. Now the famed performance troupe is entering the electronic dance music world with LIGHT, [...]

James Frey Premier Drama

from ESPN
The Premier League’s drama problem
Posted by Roger Bennett
David Price/Getty ImagesArsenal’s struggles — and our collective schadenfreude — have defined this season more than any memorable or good play.
Writer James Frey, a long-suffering Arsenal fan, recognizes the power of English football’s narratives. “The Premier League is like reality television with a ball,” he said. “If [...]

“Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the man sitting next to him.

from Der Spiegel
The Woes of an American Drone Operator

A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New Mexico. He kills dozens of people. But then, one day, he realizes that he can’t do [...]

Cannabis Cannons Cool

from The Yuma Sun
Cannabis Cannon Litters Field Near Yuma with Kilo-Sized Projectiles
BY CHRIS McDANIEL - SUN STAFF WRITER

An attempt by drug smugglers to propel cans of marijuana into the United States with a pneumatic cannon was thwarted by Border Patrol agents over the weekend.
The incident happened some time after sunset Friday in a field near County [...]