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Many congresscritters don't have public email addresses -- instead, they have hard-to-locate webforms that slow down activist email campaigns and make it harder for constituents to get in touch. EFF and the Sunlight Foundation has fixed this, giving every member of Congress her or his own email address -- an address that you can send to that will be automatically forwarded through the appropriate webform.

Sunlight has some spam-checking to stop this from being abused, and gathers some of the other information the forms collect so that they can be fully populated by the scripts. Once you're setup in the system, you can email "myreps@opencongress.org" and your message will automatically be forwarded on to you senators and house reps.

88% of Congressional staffers say that their bosses' decisions are affected by constituent email. The data and scripts are up on Github for you to build on. Read the rest

It's like something from a Spielberg movie:

Because he died in the winter and inside a dark closet, Brunton's body tissue dried out and was preserved.

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This chart from a 1949 issue of LIFE will help you determine if you are high-brow, upper middle-brow, lower middle-brow, or low-brow. I like wedge iceberg lettuce salad so I am lower middle-brow. (via TWBE)

We spend a lot of time talking about what a cartoonishly corrupt organization FIFA is, but sometimes it feels like there's not enough time in the day to do a proper rundown of everything there is to hate about Sepp Blatter and his goons. Thankfully, John Oliver is here to give FIFA the comprehensive takedown it deserves.

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June 7, 2014—the Greatest Comment in the History of the Internet has been posted. pic.twitter.com/rxkzXdq01c

— Cosmo%20Catalano (@cosmocatalano) June 7, 2014

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I had no idea that Mark Teixeira has a fake talk show, which comes off as some kind of cross between Between Two Ferns and The Chris Farley Show, and I am upset about that because Foul Territory with Mark Teixeira is pretty funny. This is a surprising development, as I always just assumed that Mark Teixeira had the personality of a lukewarm glass of milk.

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The Mothership made famous in George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic golden years will soon be available for viewing at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Read the rest

Dinklage.

You know how you're related to your grandparents, and you can easily trace the family lineage separating you from you nieces and nephews, but what about the link between you and your great grand uncle? And where do you reside on your family tree relative to your first, second and third (and zero-th) cousins?

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Check out the first-ever trailer for BoJack Horseman, Netflix's newest original animated comedy featuring Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie and Aaron Paul. Basically all of the best people.

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Ahh, the table flip. Has film brought us a better short hand for "uncontrollable anger" than the table flip? No. It has not. And while this supercut only features movies (and thus leaves out a few of the true greats of table flipping), it is still epic.

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Clearly Dope Birth Announcement: His wife didn’t dig it but the Internet enjoyed it and that’s all that matters. 

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If you missed it: Word. [via @stokesneuro] pic.twitter.com/IlhxQhk9AE

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 30, 2014

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One thing I forgot to mention in the “What I’m doing roundup” last week was my dumb twitter account Things Adults Do.

It’s simple: I find people saying “I am an adult”, and I retweet them. Over time, this paints a comprehensive (and, may I say, delightful) picture of Things Adults Do.

Some examples:

I just spent 6 bucks on my very own kazoo because I am an ADULT HUMAN and I will BUY WHAT I WANT with the MONEY MY MOM GIVES ME

— your duder ched (@royalpizzaboy) February 5, 2014

I am an adult who has just misplaced a blue gummy bear earring.

— Georgene (@Giania) December 26, 2013

Sometimes I look at iPhone screenshots and think their low battery power is my actual battery power and freak out. I am an adult man.

— Joseph Scrimshaw (@JosephScrimshaw) January 21, 2014

I'm eating diseased strawberries. I'm an adult and I've made a choice.

— Abeer Zaki (@AbeerZaki) May 2, 2014

Just sat on one of my balls. I'm an adult

— Matt Bilinovich (@MBilinovich) May 23, 2014

Follow along at @adults_do!

When ESPN introduced the "BottomLine" as an experiment on its new ESPN2 channel nearly 20 years ago, few expected the feature to become as ubiquitous in sports broadcasting as it has. Today, nearly every cable sports net has its own version of the scores ticker, and in an industry that clings to convention it's astonishing how few standards exist for what's now commonly called a bottom line.

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Alan writes, "A group of nine women involved in the tech industry have posted a manifesto listing some of the awful sexist things that have happened in tech during the past few months. The women frame this as a simple statement: 'we really just want to work on what we love.' But the reality of the industry and the societies in which we do our tech work make this far from simple." Read the rest

Some considerable years ago – February 2007, actually – I made the decision to write a short Tet Zoo article on speculative zoology. It was on the biology of Godzilla, and I published it with...

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The sport of finger wrestling involves two contestants putting their middle fingers through a leather band and trying to pull each other over a table. An AP photographer went to the Alps Finger Wrestling championships in southern Germany and took these wonderful photos from some bouts.

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Eye swap is much more terrifying than face swap. 

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Star Trek: The Next Generation kept boldly going to some pretty amazing places, fashion-wise, after its first few wild seasons . We never again saw quite so many bonkers glued-on costumes, but there was still a lot of WTF. Here's our tribute to TNG seasons four through seven.

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There is one search term that your state Googles more than any other state and, unless you live in Maine or Tennessee, it's probably really, really embarrassing. Estately compiled these unique searches, which range from the sad — Arizona's "Conjugal Visits" — to the disturbing — Missouri's "Family Circus."

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This GIF has been making its way around Twitter this morning, and it's all that really needs to be said about what has happened so far in the first two conference finals games between the Spurs and Thunder.

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The Darvaza gas crater, known to locals as "Door to Hell" or "Gates of Hell" is located in the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan (about 150 miles from the nation's capital). Read the rest

Check out that ampersand! (Thanks, Gary!)