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Seattle-based artist Cheyenne Randall has created Shopped Tattoos, a great Tumblr blog that imagines what celebrities would look like if they had tattoos. Cheyenne used his Photoshop skills to digitally apply the tattoos to each famous individual. You can view more photos from the ongoing series online.

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Screen Junkies has created a video that features celebrities in bizarre foreign commercials. They dig up ads starring Nicolas Cage, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman, and more. We previously wrote about their video showing celebrities in commercials before they were famous.

In this latest episode of “My Drunk Kitchen“, host Hannah Hart exchanges puns and bakes off-recipe brownies with special guest, actress Mary-Louise Parker (MLP).

If we had just followed the box this would be a brownie without bananas, walnut and peanut butter. The best part of these oven babies is that they had a chance and you know what gave them that chance? Us and you (and you and you and you and that one in the corner). You can give something and somebody else a chance by going to omaze.com/weeds and helping a life that would have been destined for one thing be destined for something else entirely…and that something else entirely is delicious.

Hannah was referring to the opportunity to bake brownies with MLP and the cast of Weeds in an online raffle benefitting Hope North, an organization benefitting the young victims of Uganda’s civil war.

This is your chance to kick it with Mary-Louise Parker and the cast of Weeds. We’ll even let you bring a friend so the two of you can relive the highlights forever, and make your other friends green with envy. You’ll spend an unforgettable day baking brownies, enjoying a best-of-Weeds viewing marathon, and reminiscing about the good-old-days in Agrestic.

“Time in Motion” is a series of animated photo collages that show a single vista at many different times of day all at once. The series was created by artist Fong Qi Wei. We previously posted about his still photo collages “Time Is a Dimension.”

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Distractify has created a third compilation of very weird Japanese commercials. It features a well-dressed woman tossing off her jewelry and then smashing her head through 15 cement tiles, Bruce Willis punching himself in the head during a car commercial, and more. We previously wrote about Distractify’s first and second compilation videos of extremely strange Japanese commercials.

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This television drama series has been gaining a substantial following online, with fans creating several Tumblr blogs, a subreddit and spreading the hashtag “#TrueDetectiveSeason2.”

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On CNN, Bruce Schneier lays out the current organizational structure of the NSA, dividing its activities in to three categories: spying on specific people; spying on everyone; and breaking the Internet to make spying easier. He then proposes a new structure for the American intelligence apparat: move spying on specific people to a totally separate US Cyber Command under the DoD ("attacking enemy networks is an offensive military operation, and should be part of an offensive military unit"); move spying on Americans to the FBI and create safeguards to be sure this is done in accord with the law and the Constitution; and terminate the NSA's program of undermining security.

Instead, put the NSA in charge of improving the security of Internet users -- including American residents, businesses and government agencies -- so that the nation is resilient. As Schneier writes: "We need the NSA's expertise to secure our social networks, business systems, computers, phones and critical infrastructure. Just recall the recent incidents of hacked accounts -- from Target to Kickstarter. What once seemed occasional now seems routine. Any NSA work to secure our networks and infrastructure can be done openly -- no secrecy required."

First, TAO and its targeted surveillance mission should be moved under the control of U.S. Cyber Command, and Cyber Command should be completely separated from the NSA. Actively attacking enemy networks is an offensive military operation, and should be part of an offensive military unit.

Whatever rules of engagement Cyber Command operates under should apply equally to active operations such as sabotaging the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in Iran and hacking a Belgian telephone company. If we're going to attack the infrastructure of a foreign nation, let it be a clear military operation.

Second, all surveillance of Americans should be moved to the FBI.

The FBI is charged with counterterrorism in the United States, and it needs to play that role. Any operations focused against U.S. citizens need to be subject to U.S. law, and the FBI is the best place to apply that law. That the NSA can, in the view of many, do an end-run around congressional oversight, legal due process and domestic laws is an affront to our Constitution and a danger to our society. The NSA's mission should be focused outside the United States -- for real, not just for show.

And third, the remainder of the NSA needs to be rebalanced so COMSEC (communications security) has priority over SIGINT (signals intelligence). Instead of working to deliberately weaken security for everyone, the NSA should work to improve security for everyone.

It's time to break up the NSA [Bruce Schneier/CNN]

Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog, Mario, and Johnny T of Glove and Boots share their wisdom while explaining how we can fix some of the most common grammar errors seen on the internet.

You learned this in the third grade. Unless you’re in the second grade.

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