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…)

Arcangelo Ricciardi was booted from the International Chess Festival of Imperia for cheating using a camera pendant to transmit video of the board to an accomplice and some kind of wireless device in his armpit to receive signals of suggested moves. According to The Telegraph, Ricciardi claimed the devices "were good luck charms." Read the rest

Researchers revealed ten major vulnerabilities in Internet-of-Things babycams from a variety of vendors ranging from spunky startups like Ibaby Labs to rock-ribbed (and deep-pocketed -- attention, class actioneers!) giants like Philips. Read the rest

Emmanuel Goldstein writes, "2600 Magazine is being threatened with legal action for using bits of ink splatter on the Spring 2012 cover that Trunk Archive Images claims it has the rights to. That's right, ink splatter. The sophistication of the tracking software in actually being able to detect specific splotches of ink throughout the entire Internet is as astounding as it is scary. But it also happens to be dead wrong as the ink splatter in question actually belongs to an artist in Finland." Read the rest

By @takumitoxin, who composed it in three fits. Read the rest

In Calgary, Canada, public outdoor pools invited local dogs to take a plunge after the pools closed for human swimmers for the season. The event was a charity fundraiser. (more…)

"Plantation" = "labor camp"; "slave-owner" = "enslaver"; "Union troops" = "US troops." Read the rest

My bestselling 2008 novel YA novel Little Brother has been optioned by Paramount, with Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers, Transformers) as the producer. Read the rest

The impoverished, corrupt former Soviet state has erupted over a banking fraud that saw $1B disappear from the system, presumably into the offshore accounts of President Nicolae Timofti and his elite cronies. Read the rest

Petra Laszlo was fired after images emerged on social media of her tripping a man who was holding a child in his arms while they fled police at a Syrian war refugee camp. Read the rest

Gay-hatin' Lord-fearin' American Martyr Kim Davis and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee celebrate Davis' release from jail with an overused '80s sports anthem. Read the rest

Ted Dawe's Into the River won the 2013 New Zealand Post Children's Book prize; businesses that sell, lend or gift it face fines of up to NZD10,000. Read the rest

Alaska Woman is giving Florida Man a run for his money. Read the rest