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Felicia Day's memoir You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) starts off as a cute, snarky story about how a quirky upbringing turned Day into a nerd superhero; by the end, it's become an illuminating, frank look at the commercial realities, injustices and insecurities that everyone trying to earn a living online must confront. Read the rest

Subterrarium, or as I like to think of it "Ms. Driller's Soda Saga", is a really fresh, challenging puzzle game about a girl with a soda-powered jet pack, growing flowers underground. Read the rest

China, Russia, and the United Sates are developing new weapons to wage war in space. It starts by knocking out satellites using missiles, lasers, microwave interference, or spacecraft that "could simply approach a satellite and spray paint over its optics, or manually snap off its communications antennas, or destabilize its orbit," writes Lee Billings in Scientific American. Read the rest

He'll be a "referendum candidate": if elected, he'll immediately pass campaign-finance reform, then resign. Read the rest

In honor of his new film, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, Ice Cube revisits the titular song by reacting to the lyric interpretations of Rap Genius.[YouTube, thanks Joe Sabia!]

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Seems the Stones bounced 100 paychecks to the stage hands who worked their Buffalo, N.Y. show.Read the rest

The most recent guest on the Cool Tools Show (hosted by Kevin Kelly and me) is Ziya Tong, host and producer of the television program Daily Planet, Canada's daily science show, which airs on Discovery Canada. Before that, Ziya was host and field producer for Wired Science, produced in conjunction with Wired Magazine and NOVA ScienceNOW on PBS. She is on the board of WWF Canada and the founder of Black Sheep. She's a fan of the CocoJack coconut opening tool, which you can read about below. Read the rest

Google, the core search business that started it all, will have a new CEO: Sundar Pichai. Read the rest

Toothbrushes might seem like a good idea for scrubbing small areas, but they are not angled properly for the job and they wear out fast. The OXO good grips deep clean brush set ($6 on Amazon) has two brushes and a wiper blade designed for cleaning tile grout and other hard to reach areas.

Who is the best Donald Trump impersonator? Donald Trump, of course. But how about amongst people who aren't actually Donald Trump? Read the rest

Dr. Justin Lehmiller reports on Foot Orgasm Syndrome (FOS), in which people experience orgasms originating in their feet. Read the rest

When I was a teen, I really wanted to like Greek mythology, but the complexity of the pantheon and some of the absurdities of the stories lost me rather than sucked me in. Read the rest

The forest is a dangerous, thorny place in Feist, where you play as a silent, furry character rustling its way through trees, mountains, and crumbling caves during the perpetual golden hour of sunset. Read the rest

Maybe they should have just released this one instead. Trailer above; full film below.For the strange and sordid story of director Oley Sassone's unreleased movie, executive produced by Roger Corman, check out the article "Fantastic Faux! Read the rest

Chris Hadfield, astronaut, author, and musician, will release the first album partially recorded in space. Read the rest

Cornell computer scientist Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil analyzed messages sent between players of strategy game Diplomacy to tease out early signs of future betrayal. A computer algorithm then predicted betrayal correctly 57 percent of the time, which is way better than the players themselves did. Read the rest

In July 2014 the St. Clair County Drug Task Force raided medical marijuana patient Ginnifer Hency's home and "took everything," including a car, TV sets, a ladder, her children's cellphones and iPads, and even her vibrator. Read the rest

A Houston deputy who pulled over Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old black woman on her way to the store to pick up medicine for her sick mother, thought he smelled weed in Corley's car. Read the rest

Marcus Bradley, a driver for hardware store Lowe's, was ordered to hand off a delivery to a racially-acceptable colleague following a customer complaint, reports WSET. Read the rest

One of the events I'm most looking forward to at our upcoming Weekend of Wonder event is Show and Tell! Bring something to share! Something you treasure! Something you've made! Or just something you think will entertain the group!Read the rest

Several pipes excavated from William Shakespeare's garden contained cannabis, report scientists who used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to analyze the items. Read the rest

Our latest special satellite transmission looks back on the highlights of last week, from women in pinball to color challenges for the eye, and scoops up our favorite conversations from elsewhere on the web. Read the rest

It's the work of Michael Warren, who gathered every scene from every extant edition and reorganized the resulting spice opera into a more complete narrative. Read the rest

Internet law troublemaker James Grimmelmann (previously) has released the fifth edition of his $30 DRM-free casebook ($65 for print) of Internet law, "a fast-moving casebook for a fast-moving subject." Read the rest

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Irresponsible Californians, continuing to push bad data, are looking to reverse their state's new vaccination laws for public school children. They've also set their sights on State Senator Richard Pan, who wrote the bill, attempting a recall. Read the rest

An NBC/Survey Monkey poll shows that extreme social conservative Rick Santorum's support among Republicans declined from a solid 1% to a less-enthusiastic 0% after his performance in last Thursday's presidential candidate debate on Fox News. Read the rest

Two are dead following the attack at an IKEA store in Vesteras, Sweden, an hour east of Stockholm.A third was seriously injured, according to Reuters. Read the rest

"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa. Baa. Baa." I loved this show so much as a kid, the opening credits give me chills.Read the rest

Sugar water company Coca Cola is funding scientists who "shift blame" for obesity away from diets, reports The New York Times. Read the rest

The quirky, gentle logic puzzles of the classic Zoombinis are back with a tablet remake which feels not especially modern, but still very much worth loving. Read the rest

I doubt it'll top the Yul Brynner original (and his performance most certainly made it), but I'm surprised by how good the reboot looks in this very short teaser, which injects a heavy dose of PKD into the Chrichton classic. (more…)

RollJam costs $32 to make and will get you in. Andy Greenberg profiles the cute wireless widget and its creator, Samy Kamkar, who announced it at this year's DefCon hacker conference. Read the rest

"Yes, Mr. President," the headline says. "We Remade Our Atlas to Reflect Shrinking Ice"In a speech about climate change, Barack Obama had noted that over the years, National Geographic maps of the arctic had changed. Read the rest

Gilbert Phelps has the right attitude about his predicament.

Here are four new lateral thinking puzzles to test your wits! Read the rest

Jerboas, tiny desert rodents that move like kangaroos, are notoriously hard to film. BBC Earth was able to film a jerboa's escape from a fox, and its unique shape has not inspired a robot:Jerboas use their long tails to transfer energy to their legs, allowing them to hop many times their body length. Read the rest

Walmart has fought against unionization at every step of the way, including producing videos to dissuade workers from organizing. Read the rest

It's no secret that license plate data is big business. Here's a demo of how these companies gather data as they troll parking lots and public streets gathering indiscriminate license plate info, looking for matches on other databases. Read the rest

Several Vimeo members whose videos had "pixels" in the title are victims of the latest overly broad DMCA takedown request by Entura International, working on behalf of Sony's summer schlockbuster Pixels. Read the rest

My little sister just wants games to be for her exactly what they are for boys and men: easy to love. Why does that have to be so hard? Read the rest

You've just been accepted to university on Earth; you say farewell to your family and start your comfortable, luxurious trip through space. Once you're on your way, though, you realize you might not be alone. Read the rest

A 41-year-old woman was bike riding across a field in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany when she felt a sharp pain in her breast. Turns out, she had ridden through a boar hunt and a stray bullet bounced off the underwire of her bra. Read the rest

Thanks to the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV, great-quality HD television can be accessed without committing to a lengthy cable or satellite contract. Read the rest

Trump says only a "deviant" would think that his remark about Fox News' Megyn Kelly — “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her… wherever.”—referred to menstruation. Read the rest

His crude remarks about Megyn Kelly menstruating, made after Fox News' "Presidential" debate, were disturbingly popular on Twitter and rebuked only mildly by other candidates. Read the rest