art Watch H.R. Giger's fantastic home stereo commercial from 1985 David Pescovitz

music "Weird Al" Yankovic's new video: Polkamania! Ruben Bolling

pop culture Rick Steves parody provides essential travel tips for the Shire, Endor and more Grant St. Clair

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television HBO developing another "Game of Thrones" spinoff, this time about Jon Snow Rob Beschizza

music Listen to starquakes, the weird vibrations on the surface of stars David Pescovitz

arachnids Scientists bio-engineered a Daddy Long Legs to have short legs instead Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets Tiny custom "iMac" Rob Beschizza

Entertainment Giant 3D topographical wood map of Westeros ('Game of Thrones') made by a cartographer Xeni Jardin

television These are the "biggest onscreen mistakes" in Game of Thrones David Pescovitz

game of thrones Elizabeth Warren on Game of Thrones: "It's about the women." Gina Loukareas

Winter is coming Scientists model the climate in Game of Thrones Clive Thompson

videos Westeros: trailer for spoof Thrones spinoff set in their equivalent to the 21st century Rob Beschizza

gop Idaho GOP Congressjerk: "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care" Cory Doctorow

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books Interactive map of Game of Thrones Rob Beschizza

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