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최자(Choiza) - 'Family (Feat. THAMA)' A love song to the furry (or feathery, or scaly) non-human members of our families.
posted by Lexica at 9:23 PM PST - 4 comments

In 1996, Pepsi ran a promotion that jokingly suggested entrants could win a military aircraft. One man took it very seriously. “HARRIER FIGHTER … 7,000,000 PEPSI POINTS” flashes across the screen as the music crescendos into a fade-out. Leonard v Pepsico case brief and Yale's course on contract law.
posted by geoff. at 7:27 PM PST - 22 comments

yesterday, the improbable became the most probable when the scrappy band of workers who make up the Amazon Labor Union took the lead in a union election at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, putting within reach a historic labor win at the corporate behemoth. The ALU clinched a decisive victory today, winning by a wide margin to create the first unionized workplace in Amazon’s extensive network of fulfillment, delivery, and sortation centers across the U.S.
posted by latkes at 6:06 PM PST - 37 comments

A banjo player goes to Africa.
posted by Buntix at 5:32 PM PST - 5 comments

"Magnetic turd": scientists invent moving slime that could be used in human digestive systems (The Guardian). [more inside]
posted by biogeo at 5:10 PM PST - 29 comments

just found this ultra-rare Lana Del Rey single in the bin at a record store. i guess she wrote it for a movie soundtrack but, uh... i kinda think she was a weird choice... [more inside]
posted by mhum at 12:13 PM PST - 16 comments

Consider yourself forewarned.
posted by nicwolff at 11:15 AM PST - 67 comments

Why do we quench? It turns out the word is not simply a lexical anomaly but the last surviving remnant of a forgotten verb... an edifying explication by star-ajea. (threadreader)
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 10:39 AM PST - 36 comments

"We’re celebrating April Fools’ Day by getting back to what the internet was originally built for: all cat content, all the time." The Noun Project (previously), a site where you can download freely licensed icons and photos to reuse in your projects, today offers collections such as Cat Commerce, cat body language, and a work-from-home cat. Please feel free to also use this thread to share fun April 1st projects and treats!
posted by brainwane at 8:07 AM PST - 19 comments

Two business bros announced plans to launch a knitting site. The crafting community is blasting their “cishet white” male approach. [more inside]
posted by Pyrogenesis at 7:09 AM PST - 45 comments

It's April 1st, but it's no joke. Well, except in the sence that it's hilarious. It's STRONG BAD EMAIL #209, on Parenting! It's even got a page (although it links to YouTube) on the main site!
posted by JHarris at 6:58 AM PST - 17 comments

Many movies have coughs and sneezes in them. Some win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Is there a connection? The mainstream statistical hegemony says “no,” but our research suggests otherwise. We have created a model capable of predicting a Best Picture winner based on the number of coughs and sneezes in nominated films. This allows us not only to predict this year’s winner with 91.7% accuracy, but also to determine that Viggo Mortensen will be cast as Batman at some point in the future. from Chalamet Coughs, Dune Wins: Predicting Best Picture Winners Using Coughs and Sneezes
posted by chavenet at 5:56 AM PST - 23 comments

As the Crow Flies Welcome to Camp Three Peaks. A rustic, Christian summer retreat for teenage girls! A week of hiking, adventure, and communing with the God of its 19th-century founders… a God that doesn’t traditionally number people like 13-year-old Charlie Lamonte among His (Her? Their? Its?) flock. [more inside]
posted by signal at 5:31 AM PST - 6 comments

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Internet accounts are copied and set aside by Internet providers on behalf of federal and state law enforcement. This process, known as preservation, ordinarily occurs without particularized suspicion.... the preservation process is largely secret. Orin Kerr writes a persuasive paper arguing that current internet content preservation practices violate fundamental Fourth Amendment rights. He is drafting a personalize-and-file sample motion to suppress that he hopes will be adopted by defense attorneys.
posted by Silvery Fish at 4:00 AM PST - 7 comments