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The Max Headroom signal intrusion hack is one of those hacker legends that seems too good to be true: In 1987, an unknown group hacked into the signal of local Chicago TV channel WGN-TV. 25 years later, Vice's Motherboard blog has published a fascinating investigation into who pulled off the still unsolved crime.

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A South African diving team expecting to find only bodies three days after the vessel sunk instead located the ship's cook, Harrison Okene, alive.

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It's being called the "scariest commercial ever," because it is.

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He's been dubbed "Tippy the Fainting Squirrel" for fairly obvious reasons: This foraging black squirrel just can't seem to stay upright for more than a few seconds.

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German Space Program?

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Atlas Obscura has posted a map of the many monsters that have been reported in America’s lakes, including the Honey Island Swamp Monster and the fearsome Eel Pig of Herrington Lake. The map was created by Michelle Enemark.

Eel Pig of Herrington Lake. Illustration by Dylan Thuras

All-around smooth operator Christopher Walken casually hitched a ride with two strangers in New York last month and was apparently a perfect gentleman.

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A light version of the DL-44 blaster used by Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the original Star Wars trilogy will be sold at auction on December 21, 2013 at 11 AM PST via Invaluable.com. The starting bid for the iconic blaster is $200,000.

Based on the German issue Mauser C96 pistol, this piece, measuring 11 in. long, was custom-made for the film from resin by casting the original hero prop from the first ‘Star Wars: A New Hope,’ it therefore exhibits the same serial number as the hero prop, which is thought to no longer exist. The blaster is exactly in its original filming condition and therefore exhibits wear from use, but retains all of the original details, including the flash suppressor and scope (the eye-piece of which is detailed with reflective scotch-lite tape). The added distinction of this particular piece is that it was also likely used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, as both characters shared the same style of weapon in Empire. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from a noted Star Wars collector. To our knowledge this is the only known example of this type of blaster in private hands.

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A lovely metro ride to brighten up your evening.

In 2009, Artists Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano of Paramodel created a series of toy trucks carrying sushi, shumai, and other Asian cuisine. You can see more at the Azito website.

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Put simply, there are too many Android phones out there. The only way to know which ones are worth your time is to follow tech news every day. For those that have other things to do, here's what matters when buying a new device.

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An East St. Louis woman who was found stabbed to death in her apartment Saturday night had posted a Facebook status update prior to her murder warning her friends that she might die.

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Duncan Lou Who, a boxer puppy at Panda Paws Rescue in Vancouver, WA, was born with severe deformities which required the amputation of his back legs. In this video Duncan learns how to run and play with other dogs, having the time of his life.

Duncan Lou Who doesn’t let his unique differences slow him down & he doesn’t know he is any different. He is now 16 weeks old, does physical therapy every day to correct the damage to his spine since birth, is regularly going to be doing hydrotherapy for life to help support his muscles and he also has a custom wheelchair to give him a second option of mobility.

Here’s Duncan during a hydrotherapy session.

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It's Thanksgiving — which means it's time to be thankful for morons who attempt to fry their own turkeys. Here it is: The very best of the biggest Turkey Fryer Fails we found on the internet. Be safe!

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For the type of movie fan who counts post-apocalyptic thrillers as a favorite cinematic genre, the impending resurrection of the Mad Max franchise is big news, as the original 1979 Australian film was an underrated classic (and also hugely influential, in terms of both style and storytelling). Warner Bros and Village Roadshow has announced that Mad Max: Fury Road will hit screens on May 15th, 2015, with Tom Hardy stepping into the title role formerly made famous by Mel Gibson. And directing the film? George Miller, who was responsible for Mad Max and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Said to take place between the events of the first and second installments of the trilogy, Mad Max: Fury Road also stars Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult and Zoe Kravitz, along with a cameo by Mel Gibson.

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The Kinetic Light Newton’s Cradle by ThinkGeek is an illuminated LED version of the classic Newton’s cradle “ball clicker” device. The illuminated edition’s LEDs feature three light modes including flash, fade, and color cycle.

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The adorne Pop-Out Outlet by Legrand is a three-plug wall outlet that extends from the wall when needed, and can be pushed into the wall and out of sight when not in use. It is available on Amazon.

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For shoppers, Black Friday means waking up early and standing in line awaiting the best bargains on Christmas gifts. For beer dorks, there may be lines and even some early...

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Artist Brock Davis has built a Star Wars “Cereal TIE Fighter” using two Crispix for the hexagonal wings, two Cheerios for the hull, and “a tiny bit of frosting to hold it all together.”

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A slow moving sea lion loses his fish to a sneaky pelican. According to HornbergerJenn, who uploaded the video, the sea lion was very persnickety that day.

After a day or fishing, this sea lion jumped up on our boat begging for fish. He was a little picky, where he only wanted whole fish – not a portion of a fish. When he didn’t take it right away, a pelican swooped in and stole it!

It looks like the sea lion learned a very hard lesson this day: He who hesitates is lost.

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Fifty students from the HLUW Yspertal high school in Austria built a 100,101-piece domino course under the theme “Lower Austria”. The students recreated famous buildings of Lower Austria throughout their course. After spending five months preparing and four days setting up, they set the course in motion, collapsing 100,080 of the 100,101 dominoes. The group won an official Guinness World Record for “The Tallest Domino Structure” with a height of 20 feet and 11,465 dominoes.

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Horrifically graphic footage has emerged of a man accidentally firing a weapon into a crowd of wedding guests while dancing to "Gangnam Style."

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Marion Stokes

Today the Internet Archive announced they will soon be receiving a comprehensive video collection of 35 years of U.S. television news—a bonanza for their ongoing effort to archive all television news since the advent of television. The video collection comes not from an institution or company, but a private individual, librarian and activist Marion Stokes, who single-handedly and continuously recorded the news from 1977 until her death at age 83 in 2012. Driven by a desire to preserve the news, Stokes recorded national and local news (in Boston and later, Philadelphia) with an array of TVs and VCRs in her home. She built her daily routine around the project, feeding her VCRs with fresh tapes at regular intervals each day.

In the end she amassed an astonishing 144,000 VHS tapes, enough to fill 4 large shipping containers. In the coming days the collection will embark on a journey from Philadelphia to the Internet Archive’s storage facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Archive will then begin the time-consuming task of digitizing the tapes. For more on Marion Stokes and her remarkable collection, see this Fast Company article.

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Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark is building the world’s tallest waterslide, the Verruckt (which means “insane” In German) Meg-A-Blaster. The final height and speed of the slide won’t be released until it opens to the public in Spring 2014, but it’s about 17 stories high and will outstrip the current record holder, the Insano in Brazil which measures 134.5 feet tall and reaches speeds of 65.2 mph.

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There are plenty of ways to keep warm on a chilly night of camping, but the Alite S.H. Sleeping Bag ($120) — even though it's rated to 20 degrees fahrenheit...

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More than a dozen schools, two college campuses, and multiple businesses in Decatur, Alabama, were evacuated Thursday over a suspicious package attached to a railcar laden with toxic gas. But rather than explosives, authorities found the package held several pounds of weed.

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"I might be mistaken but I think Zach Braff totally photobombed my newlywed couple," tweeted photographer Sascha Reinking after noticing a familiar smiling face in the crowd while shooting wedding photos in Times Square.

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Yesterday, there were reports of discovering eighty kilos of cocaine on a Japanese beach. And today? Forty kilos more. Somebody sure loves cocaine.

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