See sample pages from this book at Wink. A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham (author) and Yuko Shimizu (illustrator) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015, 144 pages, 6.4… Read the rest of the article: A Wild Swan plucks at familiar fairy tales with a voice that's sardonic, salacious, or brimming with empathy
Striking and to the point, but also funny. The story behind it writes itself, given the stunning abundance of hot material from the last few weeks provided by the Republican… Read the rest of the article: New Time magazine cover: Trump's meltdown
Combo Pool is simple and great fun: use the arrows to aim your ball, and hit c to fire it. It's a game where you throw colored marbles against each… Read the rest of the article: Combo Pool: simple, amazingly addictive browser game
The Moral Machine is a website from MIT that present 13 traffic scenarios in which a self-driving car has no choice but to kill one set of people or another.… Read the rest of the article: Website asks you to think like a self-driving car and decide who should die
Hurrah for the Sonoma County Sheriff deputy who took no guff from a Border Patrol officer who headed for a disabled parking spot at a NASCAR race— than flashed his… Read the rest of the article: Border Patrol officer flashes badge to avoid getting fined for parking in the disabled spot; gets fined
This is without question both the best cat video and the best thug life video.
Martin O'Leary not only made a cool fantasy map generator, he's giving away the source code and has described the process at a high enough level for an idiot like… Read the rest of the article: Generate your own random fantasy maps
A person who goes by the moniker The Herb Puffer on Reddit snapped this photo of a Hershey Chocolate Bar bearing Riteaid's latest shoplifting deterrent technology – an RFID sticker… Read the rest of the article: Rite-Aid dares you to steal this candy bar
Joseph Pollack creates digital artwork—or, rather, he codes software that does. Animated, too! Check out his github for a peek at the code. [via r/proceduralgeneration] …these were made by a… Read the rest of the article: Procedurally-generated art by Joseph Pollack
Carla and I just started watching the Netflix science fiction show, Stranger Things, which stars Winona Ryder and is set in 1983. We like it! We also like the title… Read the rest of the article: Interview with creator of Stranger Things title sequence
At a rally last night in Ft. Lauderdale, and repeated this morning, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that President Barack Obama was the "founder" of terrorist group ISIS and… Read the rest of the article: Trump says Barack "Hussein" Obama and Hillary Clinton founded ISIS
I love Martin Gardner's puzzle, math, magic, and philosophy books. I just learned from visiting Clifford Pickover's website about a Gardner book that's new to me: Logic Machines & Diagrams… Read the rest of the article: Free: scanned copy of Martin Gardner's Logic Machines and Diagrams (1958)
Matthew Vandeputte, a Belgian timelapse photographer, shot this video of the stars as seen from Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
Most phones already come equipped with an Airplane Mode for flights, a Do Not Disturb mode for watching movies or ignoring people, and a Low Power mode for when your… Read the rest of the article: The "Emergency Mode" Every Smartphone Should Have
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On August 6, artist Todd Vaziri observed that all of Trump's angry tweets come from the Twitter client for Android, while the more presidential, less batshit ones come from an… Read the rest of the article: Trump only writes the angry tweets, the nice ones are written by a staffer with an Iphone
Update, 5:51pm ET: This purports to be a video produced by the man who climbed Trump Tower in Manhattan earlier today. The stunt drew immediate response from passers-by, and from… Read the rest of the article: Man scales Trump Tower with suction cups, creepy video released with 'message'
You know the National Enquirer doesn't believe its own story that it has found child beauty pageant murder victim JonBenet Ramsey's killer when it relegates the story to a sliver… Read the rest of the article: Ferocious bipedal dog-like beast prowling American forests! says tabloid
Today we go to a future where animal products are banned. It's one that lots of listeners have asked for so here you go. We talk about what happens to… Read the rest of the article: What Would Happen if We Stopped Eating Meat?
I love fairy doors as much as the next hopeless geek romantic. I even had a fairy post office made as an illustration for my last book. But why let… Read the rest of the article: Nothing says death is precious like a miniature fairy graveyard
