Fruit of the future photographed and compiled by wickedcoolmatt Lesley University launches new ID card system. But is it hackable? [Cambridge Chronicle] Doogie Howser is on Hulu! There goes our free time. [Videogum] Deval Patrick signed a bill promoting green jobs, renewable energy, and emissions reduction. [Blue Mass Group] Luxury condo planners don't want to include affordable units. [Herald] The gunman who shot the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party has died following a......

No one's going to sign up for a triathalon or long road race without training (except for Barney on "How I Met Your Mother," but that's OK because he's Doogie Howser and, you know, not real). But as triathletes watch their sport increase in popularity, there's also an increase in notoriety, injuries and, as the South Shore realized on Sunday, death. A 38-year-old man died Sunday as he competed in Cohassett's inaugural triathalon. The man......

On Tuesday, the American -ists will be celebrating democracy and hitting the polls, letting politicians know what they really think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for? Londonist votes for better skincare, alternative spaces for art, cute little birds and the men who keep them, and concrete. Lots of concrete. Shanghaiist votes for one of the Bee Gees and Air Supply (it's a double-ticket),......

We don’t really know what’s going on with the New York folks. They’re always up to something crazy. We thank Michael Malice who’s let us become his partner for “outside New York.” Now you can find the New York crazy conversations at NewYorkOverheard.com, while in Boston check in with us (your ears permitting) every Thursday for what nutso conversations we’re overhearing. Join the fun by sending in the things you overhear on your commute,......