[Video Link] "A documentary chronicling the life of author Richard Stratton, from his early experiments with marijuana in suburban Massachusetts to his ultimate entry into the world of high volume,… Read the rest of the article: Documentary about Richard Stratton – "marijuana millionaire" sentenced to 25 years in maximum-security prison

Last week I took my wife, daughter (10), and niece (10) to the Katy Perry concert at The Hollywood Bowl. The proceeds for the concert were given to the Young… Read the rest of the article: My 10-year-old's first concert: Katy Perry at the Hollywood Bowl

S. is a novel conceived of by J.J. Abrams and written by Doug Dorst.

This episode is brought to you by HostGator, offering premium web hosting at low costs, and 24x7x365 phone, chat and email support. Show your support for Gweek and get an… Read the rest of the article: Gweek 118: The Weirdo Years

The "Destruct Room" in Jack Kirby's comic book OMAC (1974) was a place where stressed-out people could act on urges to smash things. Forty years later, there's a real Destruct… Read the rest of the article: "Destruct Room" from Jack Kirby comic book becomes a reality

I took this photo on Hollywood Blvd yesterday. Silly String is serious business around here.

"Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on encryption. He promptly forgot about them until widespread… Read the rest of the article: Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k

Our pal Syd Garon recommends Stephen Brophy's 82-page novel, The Villain's Sidekick. Here's how he describes it: "Sidekick has shitty supervillain boss and other real world problems. He's out on… Read the rest of the article: The Villain's Sidekick: short novel about a down-and-out supervillain henchman

"At first, I thought it was my imagination. Around the time the iPhone 5S and 5C were released, in September, I noticed that my sad old iPhone 4 was becoming… Read the rest of the article: NY Times: "Why Apple Wants to Bust Your iPhone"

On last week's episode of Gweek, I interviewed Kevin Kelly about his upcoming Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities, an oversized book that reviews over 1,500 different tools. Over at… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Kelly explains how to self-publish a book

Danny Choo visited the Ikaho Hot Springs in Japan and took lots of photos (as he always does whenever he posts something to his entertaining website). As I scrolled through… Read the rest of the article: A visit to a 7th century Japanese hot spring

I love California, but according to the personality test I took, I belong in Montana! Which US state matches your personality?

Even if you aren't a designer, it's easy to empathize with the designers here who share their stories of evil clients. CLIENT: I was hoping for a darker, more vibrant… Read the rest of the article: Clients from Hell: a website for designers to vent

From National Geographic: "After quitting a comfortable day job, photographer Shane Black spent two months on the road shooting time-lapses of some of America's most beautiful spots. His 'Adventure Is… Read the rest of the article: Stunning time-lapse videos of sky and landscapes

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "We just published an exclusive interview with MAD magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, who spoke to us about his Tales From the Crypt years in… Read the rest of the article: Interview with MAD's Jack Davis about his Tales From the Crypt comic book days

Hours of aural enjoyment await you in the form of Boing Boing podcasts! Here are the latest episodes. GWEEK 117: Kevin Kelly unveils his "Whole Earth Catalog for this century"… Read the rest of the article: Your week's listening: Boing Boing's latest podcast episodes

Scratch, an excellent and free drag-and-drop programming language for kids developed at MIT, has a new web-based interface. My 10-year-old daughter Jane uses it to create puzzles, games, and interactive… Read the rest of the article: Super Scratch Programming Adventure! – guide to kids' programming language

On Monday night I had dinner with Jesse Genet, the founder of Lumi, a company that makes photographic fabric dye called Inkodye. She was wearing a shirt with an Inkodye… Read the rest of the article: Inkodye: cool alternative to traditional screenprinting

The Moon is about 400,000 kilometers from Earth. The International Space Station is 1000 times closer to Earth. What would the Moon look like at 420 kilometers from Earth? YetiPC1… Read the rest of the article: What the Moon would look like if it were the same distance from Earth as the International Space Station

The illegality of marijuana has enriched, empowered, and corrupted prison systems, police departments, local and national governments, militaries, liquor manufacturers, and intelligence agencies (not to mention criminal organizations). It has… Read the rest of the article: Gallup poll: 58% of Americans support legal weed