Tony Greenhand, 26, of Albany, Oregon makes pinata-like fully smokable joints that he sells for big bucks.

As gamers, it's hard for us to find the next big title to pique our interest. Choice can be paralyzing, especially with the thousands of games out there today. That's why… Read the rest of the article: Yo Xbox Live Gold: I'mma let you finish, but Steamcrate had one of the best game subscription services of all time

I'm enjoying the existential humor of Webcomic Name, a webcomic by Alex Norris. http://webcomicname.tumblr.com/post/148143828199/please-reblog http://webcomicname.tumblr.com/post/148007489824

Zack Smith writes, "With the film of SUICIDE SQUAD out Friday [ed: alas, it looks like a turkey], you might enjoy this oral history I did of the 1980s series… Read the rest of the article: An oral history of the Suicide Squad

This bucolic scene is a work of art that anyone can attempt—so long as they have an unrooted treestump close to hand and the brilliant skills of Alison Moritsugu. [via… Read the rest of the article: Landscape painting on the cut surface of a treestump

"Cuck" is an insult lately beloved of bigots, spreading inexorably from Reddit to the schoolyards of America. What makes it beautiful is that it exposes the speaker's interest in a… Read the rest of the article: A brief history of "cuck"

NPR's On the Media have released a new installment in their indispensable Breaking News Consumer's Handbook (previously), this one about migration — legal and illegal — and it's a doozy.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/176243717 The Wall in Trump project is looking for enough money to rent the sandbags they'll require to build a 4' tall, 3' wide, quarter-million pound "wall of solidarity" around… Read the rest of the article: Activists are crowdfunding to build a wall around Trump Tower

Suicide Squad, the ensemble DC-villains flick for teens, appears to be Hot Topic Clearance Table: The Movie. It's getting awful reviews on most fronts: the storytelling mess, Jared Leto's oh-so-edgy… Read the rest of the article: Suicide Squad fan petition launched to shut down Rotten Tomatoes after dreadful reviews

Secret Wood's rings are handmade creations of carved wood and resin, with tiny, detailed landscapes embedded in their "gems."

Chinese state corruption is so weird and manifest that it has its own literary movement, and the use of the internet to uncover corruption has become a political football that… Read the rest of the article: Chinese government decrees that it is always legal to video-record the police

Slobodan Simić is former Serbian parliamentarian who retired to become a conservationist who keeps a herd of Balkan rescue donkeys on the Zasavica Special Nature Reserve near Belgrade, along with… Read the rest of the article: Balkan donkey cheese sounds really scrummy

Yes, they made the "Asian" porn yellow — apparently this is a pretty common sight in Georgia gas-stations, though the proliferation of network connections in big rigs will surely cut… Read the rest of the article: Georgia gas-station DVDs, like a scene from a racialized, porny Repo Man

Peter Serafinowicz does Trump.

In a two-month-long class assignment, researchers from the University of Michigan found vulnerabilities in J1939, the standard for networking in big rigs and other large industrial vehicles, that allowed them… Read the rest of the article: Big rigs can be hijacked and driven with software-based attacks

Tim Powers has mastered mingling our present with elements of the fantastic, creating stories so immersive and believable I'm always disappointed when they end. Down and Out in Purgatory is… Read the rest of the article: Down and Out in Purgatory by Tim Powers

Traveling with a giant breed dog can be tough! While lots of hotels have one or two rooms set aside for people traveling with their canine, eye pop out when… Read the rest of the article: Hotels that'll take your huge dog

Trump rallies never cease to amaze. This morning at a Trump rally in Ashburn, VA, a young boy about 10 years old stood up and shouted, "Take the bitch down!"… Read the rest of the article: Young school boy shouts profanity at Trump rally

MIT has a complicated relationship with disobedience. On the one hand, the university has spent more than a century cultivating and celebrating a "hacker culture" that involves huge, ambitious, thoughtful and delightful pranks undertaken with the tacit approval of the university. On the other hand — well, on the other hand: Star Simpson, Bunnie Huang, and Aaron Swartz. In Nightwork, first published in 2003 and updated in 2011, MIT Historian T. F. Peterson explores this contradictory relationship and celebrates the very best, while suggesting a path for getting rid of the very worst.

The Boars, Gore, and Swords book club continues with the Boiled Leather chapter order combining George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons. On this week's… Read the rest of the article: Boars, Gore, and Swords podcast's A Song of Ice and Fire book club continues