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Wall Street Journal columnist Geoffrey A Fowler: "There’s a fight brewing between giant tech companies and tinkerers that could impact how we repair gadgets or choose the shop where we get it done by a pro. At issue: Who owns the knowledge required to take apart and repair TVs, phones and other electronics?"

"Long hours, missed family vacations, and significant burnout" — Leigh McMullin on a job so unpleasant there's a cottage industry helping you escape it. Read the rest

Skinning drones with iconic spaceship shells is an absolute natural and I expect to see a lot more of it -- here's a salvo, Air Hogs's Millennium Falcon quadcopter, which hits stores on Sept 15 -- part of a family that includes landspeeders, TIE fighters, X-wings, and speeder bikes. Read the rest

Jhovany Quiroz's art is "the human eye made weird and psychedelic." [Wired] Read the rest

The Guardian's 2-star outlier review of Legend was cleverly misrepresented on the movie poster. Author Benjamin Lee writes on how bad reviews like his can be turned into marketing gold. Read the rest

The musical references of this year's most daunting commercial video game are resonating in surprising and brilliant ways. Read the rest

A team experienced at eerie, atmospheric sci fi is developing a new visual novel with amazing illustrations and a diverse crew. Read the rest

Wes Craven obeyed the gatekeeper's creed: "learn the rules before you break them." Ben Gabriel suggests this is why, despite great success, he never quite earned the same status as Carpenter and Cronenberg—a status he certainly deserves.

Let's Glitch Super Mario World is a YouTube series about the creative destruction and remaking of a classic game, simply by exploiting its glitches. Read the rest

Looks like it's some kind of volcano poop, but NASA's still hedging its bets.The latest images from Dawn reveal surface features as small as 450 feet across. Read the rest

According to a New York Times article published in June 1927, a man with the name and address of Donald Trump's father was arraigned after Klan members attacked cops in Queens, N.Y. Read the rest

Recreate the magic you see around the Web with courses that take you beyond the template. Learn everything about WordPress -- whether you want to know it now or will want to learn it later -- with 12 expert-taught courses. Read the rest

Survivor guitarist and “Eye of the Tiger” co-writer Frankie Sullivan says nobody in their camp granted permission for their 1982 hit song to be featured at a rally for Kim Davis without their permission. Read the rest

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a game about love, about cooperation, and possibly about what it means to save a relationship that's falling apart. Read the rest

Benjamin Lee of The Guardian disliked the movie Legend, a biopic about 1950s and 1960s British thugs the Kray Twins, and gave it two stars. That didn't stop the movie studio from using it on the poster. Read the rest

My wife is a tea drinker, and I've been drinking more tea than coffee lately. Carla likes the compressed pu'erh bricks from Numi and I like loose leaf golden monkey. Read the rest

The iPhone 6s and 6S+ (prices unchanged) are much faster—and very slightly thinner—than last year's models, and come optionally in a new "rose gold" color as well as silver, gray and gold. Read the rest

This nicely made quiz ranks presidential candidates by how closely they match your views on different issues, including domestic policy, healthcare, education, social, foreign policy, the economy, the environment, immigration, and electoral issues. I found out the Bernie Sanders and I are a 94% match. Not a big surprise. Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham are at the bottom of the barrel, with less than a 20% match. Again, not a big surprise.

The $750m deal places the legendary nonprofit under 21st Century Fox's control.The first edition of National Geographic was published in 1888, the same year that the National Geographic Society was founded. Read the rest

The indispensable Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has announced the 2015 edition of its always-brilliant Liberty Annual ("ridiculous adult humor for adults"), featuring an all-star comix cast from Art Spiegelman to Vanesa Del Rey. Read the rest

My new Locus column is What If People Were Sensors, Not Things to be Sensed? Read the rest

Some call this the greatest graphic novel ever. I tend to agree. Written and drawn by a young Hayao Miyazaki between 1982 and 1994, his final Japanese manga reached 1,100 pages. Read the rest

Nicola Austen told police she only wanted to “have a good time” snorting $450 worth of coke with her 18-year-old daughter. Read the rest

Dig this far out avant-jazz/electronic madness from San Diego's Brian Ellis Group that the record label, El Paraiso, rightly says should be filed in the same crate as "Miles Davis, Tortoise, Marion Brown, Joe Henderson, Can, and Donald Byrd." Read the rest

A peck on the cheek would be a much better idea.

Tom the Dancing Bug IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Bob's Secrets, Stupid Stupid Comics for Morons and MUCH MUCH MORE! Read the rest

Does your little bundle of joy prefer looking at a red ball over a human face? If so, they might be a psychopath. Read the rest

Note that he holds his nose before splashing into the water. (more…)

I wonder whose military Trump feels he served in? Politico shares excerpts from an upcoming book wherein Donald mistakes being sent to military academy as service to his nation.Read the rest

Ever tried writing a novel in Microsoft Word? Trust us, you don’t want to. That’s why writing professionals around the world use Scrivener 2, the word processor and project management tool that stays with you from your first, unformed idea all the way through to the final draft. Read the rest

It is coolest van a bunch of meddling high school kids ever had! The minifigs are awesome too.Read the rest

In the backroom of a Long Island auto body shop sit 16 huge safes containing more than 4,000 artifacts from the estate of surrealist/dada artist Man Ray. How did the items -- ranging from hundreds of his photographic prints to his briefcase to his own art collection -- end up there? Read the rest

Anna Anthropy's "sequel to dys4ia" sheds light on the conflicting aftermath of the "empathy games" boom, and the fact so many celebrated creators are still alone and afraid. Read the rest

My handbag was stolen two months ago. It happened in seconds in a mall in Turin, Italy. I never saw the thief, and neither did my husband, sitting two meters from the scene of the crime a fast food Japanese restaurant. Read the rest

Your revolver is like a trusty assistant. I mean, it is your assistant, and his name is Mr. Smith Wesson. Read the rest

Charlie from Improv Everywhere sent us this video of their latest piece, "Ballroom Crosswalk," which features some genuinely great dancing in a NYC crosswalk, but even better is staged with a slow burn that pays off beautifully at the end! Read the rest

R Stevens (of Diesel Sweeties fame) writes, "A bunch of webcomics, gaming and geek music folks are getting together in Northampton & Easthampton Mass. later this month for Topatocon. There may even be vegan, gluten free donuts!" (more…)