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.
1) Darpa successfully tests the first bullet that can be steered after it was fired.
2) Geologists grill up stakes with lava… and ruin them.
3) Richard Prince Selling Other People’s Instagram Shots Without Permission for $100K Whenever I feel cynical about publishing, I think about fine arts and give my oil-painter wife a hug. (Of course, if he was skimming other people’s work from reddit, I wouldn’t be surprised…)
4) Feces rained down on outdoor Sweet 16 party. Dumped from a plane, obviously. Stranger than fiction
5) Nothing about this toy makes sense. Video. Don’t watch that without the sound.
6) Law & Order: Daredevil. Video. Also requires sound.
7) A Kickstarter for a horror video game about a blind woman. Cool.
1) 16-Year-Old Invents $5 Cell Phone Bike Charger And Shares The Instructions For Free.
2) Seven legendary artists drawing The Hobbit, imagined.
3) Sweden employs the “gay sailor” defense against Russian subs that encroach on their waters.
4) Chinese audiences stymied by Age of Ultron translated subtitles.
5) Animators use Grand Theft Auto: V animations to create a tribute to BREAKING BAD. Video. Pretty amazing.
6) Special gloves that you can’t take off… because the inside is covered with thorns.
7) What would a four-year-old girl like to see Wonder Woman do? This made me laugh with delight.
2) Pancakebot will print your pancakes in any shape you can draw.
3) Norway is planning to ditch FM radio.
4) Why are board game boxes so big? I assume the transport issue is the difference in weight between 10 games and 16; the fewer games stacked on a palette, the less likely the ones at the bottom will be crushed.
6) “My daughter spent this whole week preparing to GM her first D&D game.
1) The day Hank Aaron’s bodyguard didn’t shoot.
2) Onlookers mistake fallen construction crane at Dallas Museum of Art as an art installation.
3) Yelp reviews of new-born babies.
4) A person is creating 3d printing templates for every creature in the Monster Manual.
5) The simple brilliance of David Aja. This dude is half of the reason that the Hawkeye comic has been so amazing. I really love the design sense that artists bring to comics now. They’re so much more interesting than they used to be.
6) Why don’t our brains explode when we see movie cuts? (What a sensible way to phrase that question.)
7) Pictures of food that very little kids “can’t eat” and why.
1) A map of all the places mentioned in Tom Waits songs.
2) An autobiographical webcomic imagining Conan the Barbarian as a spirit guide.
3) Reader, I LOL-ed. Reaction Table: High Level Cleric of Law Asked to Raise Dead Associate(s).
4) Every Frame a Painting on film editing, video essays, and creating narrative. Video.
5) When Nerf Modding goes too far.
6) Understanding Art: The Death of Socrates. Video. Interesting to see a tool as simple as masking in Photoshop used to such good effect.
1) Man trolls bookstore w/ fake self-help book covers.
2) A super-tall webcomic about unhappy stories.
3) Double space after a period? Single space? A history.
4) Arnold Schwarzenegger went to reddit to encourage a guy who had a rough day at the gym.
5) Joy Division + Teletubbies = This video
6) A businessman’s affair with his secretary, meticulously documented.