Ryan Stock and AmberLynn Walker, a pair of folks with no common sense at all, appeared on America's Got Talent recently. He is a sword swallower, magician, and "daredevil," while… Read the rest of the article: Woman shoots man in the throat with a flaming arrow on AGT
Brand New Subway is an online toy/game that lets you redesign, from scratch, New York City's mass transit system. The UI is complex and broken and slow to react to… Read the rest of the article: Can you design a better NYC Subway system?
We often mock the Dear Abby column for its surrealistically backwards advice. But things have gotten worse lately, with the author (supposedly Jeanne Phillips, daughter of the original) describing rape… Read the rest of the article: Dear Abby recommends sex addiction treatment to 18-year old complaining about her 10-year relationship
Just when you think you've absorbed the full horror of each scene, you notice something new: a plastic eagle or floral linoleum tiles, perhaps, or an electric range with a… Read the rest of the article: 1970s "model interiors" genuinely fascinating, horrible
Every issue of Nintendo Power published between 1988 and 2001 is available at the Internet Archive. With all the tips, tricks and maps, one can "behold crudely drawn comics of… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo Power at Internet Archive (Update: Nintendo yanked it)
Lou Cabron writes, "Finally, after five years of work, Rhombus Tech has gone from a free/libre/open source "spec" to their first actual modular devices! The video is amazing.
Brother Phil writes, "The Public Defender's Office in Missouri is chronically underfunded by a governor who can always find money for his pet projects. However, they do have the power… Read the rest of the article: After repeated budget cuts, Missouri's underfunded Public Defender drafts the Governor to work for him
Kudos to this guy for all the work he had to do to come up with a way to park his car. He is stuck with the particular car model… Read the rest of the article: Elaborate DIY parking spot
"It's a mineral, Marie!"
A British woman of Muslim descent was detained and questioned by police under terror laws after a flight crew member noticed she was reading a book about Syrian art while… Read the rest of the article: British Muslim detained for reading a book about Syria while on a plane
THIS is CNN. (Thanks, UPSO!)
They've "expressly prohibited" turning anything from the Olympics into "animated formats such as animated GIFs (i.e. GIFV), GFY, WebM, or short video formats such as Vines."
Aerospace corporation Airbus's Light Rider concept motorbike looks a bit like something HR Giger would draw (although his, of course, would be much cooler). In reality, the 3D-printed frame was… Read the rest of the article: Airbus designed and 3D printed a motorbike inspired by a skeleton
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Building Stories by Chris Ware Pantheon 2012, 260 pages, 11.7 x 16.6 x 1.9 inches (hardcover, softcovers, boxed) $31 Buy a copy… Read the rest of the article: Building Stories – Chris Ware's magnum opus includes 14 lavishly presented stories in different formats, all in one box
I'm flying into Kansas City for part of Midamericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, and while there, I'll be on panels, give a reading, and sit down with… Read the rest of the article: My Kansas City World Science Fiction Convention schedule
When New Jersey police went to the wrong house to investigate a 911 hang-up call they shot resident 76-year-old Gerald Sykes, who called 911 to let them know he'd been… Read the rest of the article: "Please send the police. I've been shot," says 76-year-old man mistakenly shot by police
At the Daily Grail, Greg Taylor posted a fascinating essay about the Pokemon Go experience seen through the lens of medieval occult practices in which "incorporeal entities have sometimes been… Read the rest of the article: The occult magick of Pokemon Go
Want to see what kind of house $300k will buy in Finland, Greece, Dominican Republic, Russia, Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Montenegro, Spain, USA, Turkey, France, Croatia, and Indonesia (above)? Check out… Read the rest of the article: What kind of house $300,000 can buy around the world
In a new British TV show called A Granny's Guide to the Modern World (Channel 4), three adorable ladies ages 73, 78 and 82 try weed for the first time… Read the rest of the article: Watch charming grannies smoke weed for first time in Amsterdam
On Reddit, Llaver showed how to reveal the inner workings of a Skype messaging bot. He/She explained that it was a mistake: "I was going to send some quick and… Read the rest of the article: How to break a chatbot
