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video games This incredible guitar FX pedal lets you sample audio from Street Fighter Thom Dunn

cars New Mini Cooper EV has a large round OLED display Rob Beschizza

Happy Mutants This Paul Bunyan-style Muffler Man did not disappoint Jennifer Sandlin

Entertainment "Reason and Emotion": A 1943 Disney cartoon foreshadowing "Inside Out," Putin, and Trump Ruben Bolling

politics Watch Vivek Ramaswamy perform as rapper "Da Vek" Jennifer Sandlin

books The wonderful smell of old books Rob Beschizza

Mars Martian days are moving faster than they used to, and no one knows why Thom Dunn

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tabletop gaming What's new in tabletop gaming for August, 2023 Gareth Branwyn

drm HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza

manhattan 2014's "Manhattan" offered a longer retelling of Oppenheimer's story Bob Knetzger

How Les Sewing Sisters are tailoring a new sound in music Lee Keeler

printing Archiving the history of Hollywood's printed props Gareth Branwyn

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