I reviewed this beautifully designed Minecraft boxed set of four hardcover handbooks in December. The price has since dropped to $14, which is a great deal. (more…)

UPDATE (4/10/2015, 3:30pm PT): See comment from Springs Creative below. Read the rest

Saturday (4/11) is International Louie Louie Day and the birthday of Richard Berry who wrote the song in 1955. (more…)

"Because there are so many technological world-firsts in the demo, and because we’re bending the hardware in ways that people have never thought to do so, it’s only fair that we try to explain exactly how this was achieved."

Italian physician Dr. Sergio Canavero is collecting funds to conduct the first human head transplant. He has a volunteer: Valery Spiridonov, 30, who suffers from a rare genetic disease causing his spinal muscles to atrophy. Read the rest

Demonstration of a yoguphobic material. Probably LiquiGlide, or something similar.

Depending on who you ask, comedian Patton Oswalt either had a brilliant comedic monologue or a meltdown on Twitter last night. Read the rest

In his new book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson explains how we are destroying each other with good intentions Read the rest

1920s Los Angeles was the heart of Storybook Style architecture. Inspired by Hollywood fantasies of European fairy tales, these whimsical houses and apartments look like Disneyfied medieval castles, French peasant huts, and Hansel and Gretel cottages straight out of the pages of the Brothers Grimm. Read the rest

"It's a different world," governor Jerry Brown told reporters today, announcing the first mandatory water restrictions in California history today. Read the rest

Mr.Romance's lovely video of master artisans creating ceramics is a super-chill look at the beautiful techniques being practiced in the South Korean city of Icheon. Read the rest

Through the decades the desire to return to Star Trek's Mirror Universe has remained, enabling the franchise to explore areas it otherwise couldn't and adding possibilities beyond its usual framework. Read the rest

The Piro-Piro, a key-less input device for Japanese characters. Read the rest

NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns to the realm of Saturn's icy satellites, and this dual view of the planet's icy moon Rhea marks this new phase of its voyage. Read the rest

Games can be conversations, and a new anthology curated by Merritt Kopas called Videogames For Humans aims to explore those connections. Read the rest

Comedy writer John Matta has written for numerous comedy, sketch and cartoon shows, but he is most well-known for what he has written on napkins. Read the rest

Countercurrent News: "A police officer in Arkansas recently lost his job after he exposed a massive scheme that allowed officers to have sex with prostitutes and then arrest them for servicing the undercover cops."

Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillan removed the top inch of England's tallest mountain for his exhibition in London, and people want him to return it. Read the rest

Espresso at home was getting some weird, off flavors. Running Grindz through my ceramic burr grinder fixed everything.Read the rest

John Oliver hates April Fools' Day. I agree with him. I propose we turn April 1 into "April Friendly Day," and delight friends and strangers with wonderful things.

It might not be the album against which Kanye West recently felt the need to protest, but Beck’s Song Reader is so beautifully conceived and presented that in a perfect world it would warrant even more attention. Read the rest

Every retailer has the right to lower prices to drive interest. Read the rest

You snooze, you lose. You have just missed the chance to bid on, and possibly own, the last car driven by Lee Harvey Oswald, which just sold on ebay. Read the rest

When I travel on business, I often buy takeout food from Whole Foods or a similar supermarket and bring it back to my room to eat while I binge watch a show on my iPad. Instead of using plastic cutlery, I use the Toaks titanium spork ($9). Read the rest

Sure it doesn’t include every great dancing scene in cinematic history, but this joyful supercut is still the perfect celebration of onscreen choreography. (more…)

A stupefying collection of design from the patchwork of Northern European nation states vaguely known as “Scandinavia,” Scandinavian Design is both eye candy and an education. Read the rest

I love Blondie, and it was fun to listen to the original versions of songs that Blondie covered: "The Tide is High," "Hanging on the Telephone," and "Denis." Read the rest

Plenty of people play games to escape their real lives, and the character creators some games offer let us imagine ourselves in whatever image we'd like: realistic or idealized, some version of ourselves. Read the rest

A group of biohackers is injecting a substance called Chlorin e6 into their eyes to give them temporary night vision. Read the rest

How do you deal with DEA agents who participate in sex parties with prostitutes funded by Colombian drug cartels? By giving some of them suspensions of two to 10 days. Read the rest

San Francisco sheriff's deputy Scott Neu is accused of leading a ring of corrupt jail guards who coerced prisoners into gladiatorial combat with threats of rape and violence. Read the rest

"How Hard Would It Be to Change the Face on the $20?" asks Jaime Fuller. All choices, unfortunately, are "bound to cause political tantrums."

Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington) asked her constituents to share their horror stories of Obamacare-caused "lost coverage, lost doctors, increased premiums, and a broken website" on Facebook. But to McMorris Rodgers' horror, most people shared non-horror stories about their Obamacare experiences. Read the rest