A 6 heures, nous allons violer l’intimité d’une personne

5 heures 58. Je regarde fébrilement les deux policiers et le serrurier qui nous accompagnent, l’huissier et moi. Dans deux minutes, nous allons pénétrer chez quelqu’un qui ne s’y attend pas, de force si besoin. Je suis expert judiciaire en informatique. L’une de mes tâches à ce titre est d’assister les huissiers de justice lorsqu’ils doivent se rendre au domicile d’une personne pour y récupérer du matériel ou des données informatiques.

-Rue89

The DIY Engineer Who Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Basement

Some people—myself not excluded—go to an office everyday because they can't think of anywhere else to go. We practice the prompt repression of wild ideas in exchange for remunerative employment, which to some is considered to be a kind of meaningful existence. Doug Coulter is not that sort of worker. He may have started out behind a desk when he worked in the security business as a beltway bandit, coming up with signal processing and radio gadgets for our favorite three-lettered intelligence agencies, but in recent years, Doug's chosen to explore his engineering interests in the isolated backwoods of Virginia, absent from any pesky boss or sticky bureaucracy.

-Vice

Kate Moss et le sein à champagne

Même à 40 ans, Kate Moss n’est pas en manque d’inspiration pour se faire mousser. Le mannequin britannique a collaboré avec la sculpteuse Jane McAdam Freud dans la création d’une coupe de champagne moulée à partir de son sein gauche. Ce verre sera distribué dans une trentaine de restaurants du quartier branché de Londres, London’s Mayfair. Il ne sera cependant pas mis en vente.


-Libération

Far and away the biggest name to emerge from the Boston hardcore scene, Gang Green was an unabashed party band specializing in beer-soaked, warp-speed three-chord thrash. Obsessed with beer, skateboarding, sex, ...and more beer.

Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy

Polyamorous people still face plenty of stigmas, but some studies suggest they handle certain relationship challenges better than monogamous people do.


-The Atlantic

Mizoram’s Wild Flower

In 1974, a pair of four-year-old cousins wandered into the jungle near India’s border with Myanmar. The boy was found five days later, temporarily incapable of speech. The girl was gone. For decades, stories echoed through villages of a “wild-looking woman,” sometimes striding beside a tiger. Thirty-eight years later, she returned.

-Open

The Spy Who Loved Me

Bob Robinson was Jacqui’s first love and the father of her eldest child. He had disappeared from their lives in 1987, when their son was two. (To protect her son’s privacy, Jacqui asked me not to use her last name.) Over the years, Jacqui had tried many times to track Bob down, but she had never been able to find him. Neither had any of the government agencies she had enlisted to help in the search. Bob had seemingly vaporized. Now there he was, staring back at her from the pages of a tabloid.


-The New Yorker

The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

-GQ

Scientists Spied On Conversations Of Adultery Site Users To Figure Out Why Women Cheat

Middle-age women who cheat on their husbands are looking for passion and sex, but don't want to divorce their husbands over it, new research suggests. "People will often say that infidelity is a sign of a deeper relationship trouble," Anderson said. But that storyline largely comes from the therapist's couch, after a woman has gotten caught cheating, he added. "When you get caught doing anything that is highly stigmatized, you make excuses. The excuse becomes, 'Well my husband doesn't treat me well, oh there's a problem in the relationship''.

-Business Insider

An Amusing Look At Behind-The-Scenes Playboy Photoshoots

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to photograph for Playboy, ponder no further. Dutch photographer and art director Patrick Van Dam has the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the infamous magazine in his book, Playboy Behind The Scenes. Published in 2011, it’s full of images that capture the awkward and unsexy moments that comes with the making of every sexy centerfold.


-Beautiful Decay

How to Be Polite

Most people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress sandwiches. Still, every year or so someone takes me aside and says, you actually are weirdly polite, aren’t you? And I always thrill. They noticed.

-M

This Is Your Brain on Fish

Have you ever considered undergoing brain-thickening surgery, only to find that such a thing does not exist? And that the guy in the van was probably not actually a surgeon? Well, consider fish.

In the current American Journal of Preventive Medicine that found that people who regularly eat fish have more voluminous brains than those who do not—in such a way that stands to protect them from Alzheimer's disease. "Understanding the effects of fish consumption on brain structure is critical for the determination of modifiable factors that can decrease the risk of cognitive deficits and dementia," Raji and colleagues write. The team has previously shown gainful effects of physical activity and obesity on brain structure.

-The Atlantic

Hong Kong From Above

65 pics


-Leenks

What Science Says About Marijuana

As with other recreational substances, marijuana’s health effects depend on the frequency of use, the potency and amount of marijuana consumed, and the age of the consumer. Casual use by adults poses little or no risk for healthy people. Its effects are mostly euphoric and mild, whereas alcohol turns some drinkers into barroom brawlers, domestic abusers or maniacs behind the wheel.

-NY Times

Décès du légendaire planchiste Jay Adams

Jay Adams, qui a aidé à transformer la planche à roulettes en un des sports les plus spectaculaires de la planète, est décédé à l'âge de 53 ans. La gérante d'Adams, Susan Ferris, a indiqué que le planchiste est décédé jeudi d'un infarctus, alors qu'il était en vacances au Mexique.

-La Presse

Le mystérieux musicien «Lewis» retracé au Canada

La quête d'une maison de disques américaine pour retrouver un énigmatique musicien dont personne n'avait entendu parler depuis plusieurs années a récemment pris fin au Canada. Randall Wulff a autoproduit, en 1983, un album intitulé L'Amour dans un studio de Los Angeles, sous le pseudonyme «Lewis». Sa distribution a été très limitée et il est rapidement tombé dans l'oubli. Peu de temps après, Lewis a lui-même semblé disparaître, explique Jack Fleischer, un ami de Matt Sullivan, dont le label Light In The Attic Records a réédité récemment L'Amour.

-La Presse

The world is littered with millions of discarded old records. Most smell like the damp cellars that they’ve been kept in and ignored for decades, with the chances that they will ever be owned or even played again being slim to none. But, if you’re a dedicated enough digger, maybe you’ll find one that’s any good. It might even be worth a few bucks. But kick yourself if you’ve ever passed on a copy of Lewis’ L’Amour, because it is the most talked about vinyl rarity to surface of late.

The one man known to have had the honour, or in his case, dishonour of meeting Lewis is the aforementioned stiffed photographer, Ed Colver. At the time, Colver was known for shooting L.A. hardcore bands: his credits include Black Flag’s iconic Damaged cover and Circle Jerks’ Group Sex. Colver himself doesn’t remember why he ended up shooting Lewis, but he seems happy to forget the whole experience.

-Vice

Shipping Containers Turned Into Cool Homes

18 pics.


-Leenks

Do You Hate Facebook, or Do You Hate Your Life?

Some rituals of the broken-hearted and life-crisic are well-known: You get a dramatic haircut, buy a flashy car, eat ice cream in isolation, have an age-incongruous fling, impulsively quit a job. And increasingly, “unplugging” from the internet is part of the rebooting process — sometimes to provide the solitude necessary to process the crisis, but just as frequently as an imperfect method for articulating unhappiness and assigning blame.

-NY Mag

À 25 ans, elle veut épouser le meurtrier Charles Manson

Charles Manson, célèbre pour avoir commis une série d'assassinats à Los Angeles dans les années 60, aurait une nouvelle et jeune conquête. Afton Burton, rebaptisée «Star» Manson, a avoué à CNN qu'elle se considérait déjà comme l'épouse du tueur américain âgé de 79 ans.

-La Presse