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The entire city of Miami is reportedly filled with a type of amateur prostitute called “sugar babies.” It is how things are done, in Florida. Nobody has money and college is expensive, so young girls whore themselves out to gross old men with money. Rape happens, too.
Overwhelmed by digital pictures on a dozen computers and external drives and tablets and phones? Baffled by different formats for files and folders and camera data? Use these simple tips to get them all organized, quickly, and you’ll love taking pictures again.
America’s jobless people told their tales in 40 episodes of Gawker.com’s “Unemployment Stories,” and from their experiences you can learn many valuable lessons that might lead to better fortunes. Going into more debt for more education, for example, rarely pays off. http://gawker.com/five-things-we-learned-about-unemployment-573268270
For the beginning (or even experienced) cyclist, making your own bike repairs can seem like a daunting task. Most bike repair guides you’ll find around the ol’ internet can be complicated labyrinths of instruction that end up doing more harm than good. But taking your wheels to a pro can come with a major price…
23-year-old Abigail Fisher sued the University of Texas after being rejected, claiming the institution’s affirmative action policy discriminated her. The US Supreme Court has now sent her case back to a lower court, where she plans to keep fighting. Krystie Yandoli has very good advice for her: shut up. https://jezebel.com/an-open-letter-to-affirmative-action-reject-abigail-fis-570774253 Photo by Getty Images
Tony Stark used exotic composites, metal alloys, and other Hollywood-only make-believe materials to build his armor-plated Iron Man suit. But researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute, constrained by the limitations of reality, took a different approach with a muscle-enhancing exoskeleton that could one day be as comfy to wear as your favorite pair of jeans.…
Pakistani-American artist Mahwish Chishty was originally trained in painting miniatures in her native Lahore. But these days, Chishty is also emerging as a notable conceptual artist abroad, treading the potent line between Pakistani and American culture. Yesterday, in an interview with Mother Jones, Chishty discussed her paintings of American drones—which she covers in traditional Pakistani…
A driver in Los Angeles caught this insanity on his dashboard video camera over the weekend, and then posted it to Reddit, so that everyone can enjoy this horrific nut screaming racist craziness at the world. If you see this guy (Illinois plates in Southern California), go ahead and call in a drone strike. https://jalopnik.com/watch-this-racist-idiot-commit-unbelievable-acts-of-roa-574105316
Oh, your parents: Teh Olds. They’re always needing technical assistance with the most rudimentary computer tasks. Worse, you can’t begrudge them the tech support since they’re always helping you out with rides to the movie theater and money for ice cream. You can’t deny them service, but goshdarnit, you should demand remuneration for your travails.…
This is State Senator Wendy Davis three hours into her filibustering effort to stop a new Texas’ anti-abortion bill. She has to keep standing and talking for 13 hours in order to defeat the Republican-sponsored text, which will virtually ban abortion in the Lone Star state reducing clinics from 47 to just five.
There’s an endless number of distractions that can prevent us from curling up with a good book. So the folks at the London-based design studio, Tilt, created the OpenBook chair. It’s an oversized comfy seat wrapped in an empty library that you can fill with your favorite books and magazines, creating an oasis of reading…
In an attempt to improve safety and reduce the number of accidents on the world’s curviest roads, Ford has developed an experimental brake light that lets vehicles behind you know there’s slow traffic ahead, even if they can’t see your lights. The enhanced brake lights include a wireless transmitter that sends a signal to following…
It’s an honest mistake, thinking that marijuana and industrial hemp are one and the same. And in some ways they are: both are species of the genus cannabis, they both have the iconic five-fingered pot leafs, and both are widely sought after the world over. But aside from their outward appearance, they two have very…
This week the city of Los Angeles sent a cease-and-desist letter to ride-sharing app companies Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. The city and Los Angeles Yellow Cab claim that these services are “rogue taxis” that are “bypassing all safety regulations created to protect riders and drivers.” But this isn’t the first time that this town has…
A Swiss Air flight carrying $93 million in U.S. cash arrived in New York with more than a million dollars missing. One of the sealed crates was found with a big hole—”large enough to put your arm in.” And that’s how the money presumably got out. http://gawker.com/swiss-air-and-the-fed-lose-1-2-million-to-bold-heist-o-574979236 [Photo via Getty Images.]
When James Speed Hensinger was 22, he’d already spent nine months fighting in Vietnam, spending his nights in perpetual fear of snipers hiding in the mountains above. So come April of 1970, after fielding multiple nighttime attacks from a single sniper and his AK47, the 173rd Airborne Brigade—of which Hensinger was a part—decided to hit…
New York City’s North Brother Island has lived many past lives, as a shipwreck site, a smallpox clinic, a tuberculosis colony, and a drug rehab facility, for starters. The 20-acre island, which sits between the Bronx and Riker’s Island, has been abandoned since the 1970s. But two architecture students are hoping to change that soon,…
Here’s a 1TB, USB 3.0 capable portable hard drive for $60 shipped from Amazon. That’s a good price! And it’s another reminder to back your data up. This deal does what it says on the box: it’s a big USB hard drive for cheap. The nicest thing it has going for it is that it’s…
The rarefied history of video art is foreign to all but a niche group of academics and art-world types. When artists first got their hands on portable video equipment in the late 60’s, they made incredibly odd things. Most of those things remained in academic obscurity—until, of course, internet video hosting exploded. Now, the strange…
Western burial customs are expensive, idiotic and terrible for the environment. Cremation is also lousy for the Earth’s climate, with all that burning of fossil fuel. How will we get rid of our dead bodies in the future? Here are eight great ideas. http://gawker.com/5857128/graverobber-kept-29-mummified-women-as-life+sized-dolls
