As Cory Doctorow has pointed out here on Boing Boing, Brett and Kate McKay's The Art of Manliness is an essential resource for all things manly. Cory blogged the site's… Read the rest of the article: Talk like Sinatra

Superbrothers takes a surprising turn and remasters his upcoming iPhone adventure Sword & Sworcery EP with "detailed surfacing, complex lighting & credible 3D". (Actually, obviously, a wicked lovingly modeled and… Read the rest of the article: Superbrothers' Sword & Sworcery EP goes full HD

Once in a while we must report on serious news. (Via Lileks. Thanks, Coop!)

Photo: Deney Terrio USC Professor Henry Jenkins is a hard-core fan with hard-core fans. I should know. I'm one of the audience members who stalked him at a conference a… Read the rest of the article: Reducing the World's Suck with Henry Jenkins

The OPC guitar amplifier from Orange comes with a built-in computer. It'll be released in June. As a fully fledged computer it has 4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, Intel… Read the rest of the article: Computer built into a guitar amp

My latest Guardian column, "Digital Economy Act: This means war," explains how the latest round of dirty tricks from the entertainment industry — perverting British law, proposing an American police… Read the rest of the article: This means war: Big Content's war on democracy

On April Fool's day, the online game store Gamestation.co.uk added language to its clickthrough license that asked customers to surrender their immortal souls, though it offered a checkbox to opt… Read the rest of the article: Video-game shoppers surrender their immortal souls

San Franciscans, rejoice! The SF in SF science fiction reading series continues tomorrow, April 17, with Gail Carriger & Blake Charlton. Festivities begin at 6PM at the The Variety Preview… Read the rest of the article: Gail Carriger & Blake Charlton at the SF in SF reading series

I just spoke to Mari Kuraishi, founder of GlobalGiving.org, about how the recent surge in natural disasters has affected donor behavior. The vast majority of people are moved to give… Read the rest of the article: GlobalGiving.org's Mari Kuraishi on personalized philanthropy driven by natural disasters

A 13-year old Croatian girl woke up from a coma speaking no Croatian and perfect German. The girl, who had been studying basic German in school, is communicating with her… Read the rest of the article: Croatian girl wakes up from coma speaking fluent German

20-year old Laura Hall of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire is thought to be the first person to be banned from all pubs, bars, and clubs across England and Wales. She is also… Read the rest of the article: 20yo woman banned from drinking

The secret to printing from the iPad has been revealed. [PC World] Thanks, Arkizzle!

What if the world runs out of water? In a session titled Water Scarcity and the Human Right to Water at the Skoll World Forum, water experts Peter Gleick, Gary… Read the rest of the article: Peter Gleick on the human right to water (part 1)

QuestionCopyright.org's most excellent animated video (which explains a common-sense but often-muddied distinction) now has a super soundtrack. Via TechDirt [Thanks, John!] Previously: Copying Isn't Theft video needs YOUR music! and… Read the rest of the article: Copying is not theft: now with studio-recorded audio!

Dwarf Fortress, an intimidating old-school city-building game, is famous for its vast scope and difficulty. Technically a roguelike, it allows players to construct elaborate underground civilizations — and even the… Read the rest of the article: Colossal turing machine made in city-building game

"Granite State of Mind" is a rap about the wonders of New Hampshire. As a lifelong Midwesterner, I think I'm missing a lot of the jokes. What I do get,… Read the rest of the article: Jay-Z parody feat. Robert Frost

The search for truth goes on: yesterday morning, I blogged a study from the Cornucopia Institute on the use of the neurotoxin hexane in production of soyburgers, which sparked a… Read the rest of the article: Hexane and soyburgers: a retraction

With tropes as, err.. 'timeless' as the 16-bit games that inspired it, Studio Joho's Dan the Man animation — its moral seemingly somewhere along the lines of 'don't waste your… Read the rest of the article: 99 16-bit problems: Studio Joho animation on the post-princess epilogue

Laura sez, "Mark Fiore just won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for his animated works appearing on SFGate.com. I spoke with Fiore about what's next for him, and he… Read the rest of the article: Apple blocks Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist from iStore for "ridiculing public figures"

Speaking of using hexane to extract oil from soybeans: Apparently, back in 1981, the Ralston-Purina plant in Louisville, Kentucky, illegally discharged hexane vapors into the city sewer system—leading to a… Read the rest of the article: Hexane in history