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The Brick Testament re-creates bible stories using LEGO. The picture above is from The Teachings of Jesus On Lust created by The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith, who is not actually an ordained member of any “Earthly church”. Read further stories here.
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Sexy security: Vogue Italia hops on the terror bandwagon with its State of Emergency photo shoot. (via boingboing)

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Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten answers the following question from a reader in his twenties: “Can you think of anything you know now in your fifties that you wish you’d known in your twenties?”

Here’s one of his answers:

Resist a tendency to become sedentary. I am a man who once strode confidently for miles through the septic streets of the South Bronx just to experience the rush of danger. Today, as I write these words, I am seated in my basement office, drinking cold, three-day-old coffee, so as to avoid the physical ordeal of climbing the stairs to the kitchen. Floating on the coffee is a burnt match. I am simply avoiding it.

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And finally, here’s another T-shirt threatening national security in the UK.