3) Ice-T will has some startling information for you in these (fake) SVU screencaps.
4) Most Heinous Stories of Role-Playing Games Gone Wrong.
5) Picture Yourself as a Stereotypical Man. “Stereotype threat” and academic achievement, or how to erase any statistical difference between whites and blacks / men and women.
1) Wheel of Misfortune. Love this comic. Love. It.
2) Every JRPG ever: Video. Reader, I laughed at them.
3) Exotic polyhedra dice, made of marble, gator jawbones, carbon fiber, and more.
5) 15 Delicious Regional Sandwiches. A chow mein sandwich? I don’t think so.
6) Texts from HP Lovecraft. This made me laugh.
7) Ten tabletop games that you can play as couples. Video.
1) How One Misunderstanding in the 1870s Created an Entire Sci-Fi Subgenre
2) Every state flag is wrong, and here is why.
3) Someone is setting hipster traps in New York.
4) An “accomplished writer” takes James Patterson’s “Masterclass.”
5) What if Werner Hertzog directed Ant-Man?
6) Architects crowdfund to build £1.85 billion Minas Tirith in England.
7) I read NPR’s 100 best sff novels and they were shockingly offensive. Nothing to argue with here.
1. How many of the “world’s strangest delicacies” would you eat? I consider myself an adventurous eater, but: five-ish, depending on the moment.
2. Video series compares the changes made to the Star Wars movies.
3. The Ten Best Tales of Online Drama from Ten Years of Fandom_Wank.
4) Academics unlock Agatha Christie’s “whodunnit” code.
6) The amazing high technology behind the NYC subway system.
7) A skateboard sidecar for toddlers: Video.
1) Why do people go bald? Video
2) A conversation between graffiti artists and removers.
3) Fearless girl rips out own tooth with a slingbow. ::faints::
4) The names of ten fireworks effects.
5) Assigned to write an essay about a “leader” a group of teens decide to stand out from the pack and contact gangster Whitey Bulger in prison. He wrote back.
6) Ten Paintings of Guy Fieri as a Renaissance Baby.
7) The Detective As Speech. “An early letter I received after publishing my first book, Indemnity Only, came from a woman who wanted to know why V. I. Warshawski was allowed to “talk back” to men without being punished. The writer wasn’t seeking help in learning to talk back herself; she was criticizing V. I. for behaving in a way that was neither right nor natural.” h/t James Nicoll
1) Peanuts comics with Game of Thrones quotes.
2) The Tumblr I Work At A Public Library.
4) Energy harnessed from humidity can power small devices. Cool.
5) If JK Rowling had written the Harry Potter books from Voldemort’s point of view.
6) Remove cat before takeoff. Video.
7) Six SF/F authors who hated their legacy. Quick note to the universe: I don’t know if I would grow to hate a book of mine that became wildly successful, but I’m willing to risk it.
1) One-bedroom home for sale in Minneapolis: $150K. Every picture is weirder than the one before it.
2) Eight of the best D&D modules of all time. Warning: gallery.
3) I have 227 browser tabs open, and my computer runs fine. Here’s my secret.
4) Things to never order at a fast food restaurant.
5) Beautiful hand-carved skateboards from Mumbai.
6) Like movies and reading screenplays? Simon Barrett’s shooting scripts for the films THE GUEST and YOU’RE NEXT are online.
7) The worst fucking shoes on the planet: Cowboy sandal boots.
1) Grippy not Sticky: Stanford engineers develop a material that sticks without getting stuck.
2) Modern superhero comics done in a Golden Age style.
3) KITE FIGHT, a five minute documentary about the sport of soltar pipas, popular in the favelas in Rio. Video.
4) Segmented Glass Sculptures, via Marc Laidlaw
5) Boy Wonders. ::sniffle::
6) A plea for culinary modernism. Being honest about the way people *used* to eat.
7) Taylor Swifties.
1) Immortan Joe’s War Boys leave product reviews on Amazon. Shiny!
4) Showing what’s real and what’s cgi in Mad Max: Fury Road. People have been praising the practical effects in this movie, which some internet bozos thought was a claim that there was no cgi at all. Which is ridiculous. Check out the before and after shots. Pretty interesting.
5) How Hollywood keeps women out.
6) Joint pain, from the gut. Dealing with auto-immune issues through the microbiome. It’s more complex than taking a probiotic.