A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out of a 3D printed laptop

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Lou Cabron writes, "Finally, after five years of work, Rhombus Tech has gone from a free/libre/open source "spec" to their first actual modular devices!

The video is amazing.
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Everything is not fine

KC Green updates his classic "everything is fine" comic to reflect the manifest fact that everything is not fine.

P.S. You can order an "everything is fine" plush dog!

This is the country's largest collection of brains

When the zombie apocalypse breaks out, the Harvard Brain Bank will resemble the scene at a cheap casino buffet's peel-and-eat shrimp table.

Zika hits the US military: 33 service members now have virus, says Pentagon

Pentagon officials told reporters today that at least 33 active-duty American service members, one of whom is a pregnant woman, have Zika.

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'Crybaby Trump,' hilarious Peter Serafinowicz video

Peter Serafinowicz does Trump.

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Down and Out in Purgatory by Tim Powers

Tim Powers has mastered mingling our present with elements of the fantastic, creating stories so immersive and believable I'm always disappointed when they end. Down and Out in Purgatory is a new, incredible example.

Shasta DiMaio fell for the wrong guy, and it killed her. Her rejected lover Tom Holbrook still carries a torch, however. If Tom can't have Shasta he'll kill the man who took her heart, and her life, even if he's already dead.

Powers has focused on ghosts, and had them as major characters in other works, but this novella gives us a glimpse into their world! His purgatory is a spinning, wild place where we learn a bit more about what death really means. While the characters are fun, the real joy of this was the mechanics, and lore Powers shares about the afterlife. If you loved his Fault Lines trilogy, you won't be disappointed.

Down and Out In Purgatory by Tim Powers

Jill Stein is a fearmongering crank who thinks Wi-Fi harms children's brains

Are you a left-leaning voter who thought Green Party candidate Jill Stein might be a suitable refuge after Hillary Clinton's eyes glazed over at the prospect of picking up moderate Republicans? Sucks to be you! Stein not only panders to anti-vaxxers, but thinks WiFi is bad for childrens' brains.

We should not be subjecting kids' brains especially to that. And we don't follow that issue in this country, but in Europe where they do, they have good precautions around wireless-maybe not good enough, because it's very hard to study this stuff. We make guinea pigs out of whole populations and then we discover how many die. And this is like the paradigm for how public health works in this country and it's outrageous, you know.

Stein, a medical doctor, knows that there's no evidence that Wi-Fi (or other non-ionizing radio waves such as over-the-air TV or your baby monitor) causes any harm. The thing that's weird is this: unlike Clinton, she can be direct and truthful about what her principles are. She doesn't need to play this game. She has no chance of winning and does not need to triangulate her appeal to a broad coalition of voters.

Yet, she's angling to pick up another marginal constituency-people who think vaccines and radio waves fry their childrens' brains-in the vain hope of turning 2% into 2.5%. It's a lesson about the nature of people who become professional politicians: they're egomaniacal freaks who desperately need to win, and every vote is another molecule of supply for their narcissism.