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Police responding to a report of a man abusing a guinea pig in Brookyln's Prospect Park were met by a friendly man from Ecuador who was roasting the animal for breakfast on a 4-foot skewer in a designated public barbecue grill. Read the rest

The high-speed ground transport system was first described by Elon Musk in a 2013 white paper, and its first route would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco with an expected journey time of 35 minutes. Read the rest

Beginners and experts: Navigate Linux with 5 elite courses & 40+ hours of actionable content. All 5 courses just $49. Read the rest

In 2013 Patience Paye called 911 to report a domestic violence incident that took place in her home. When police arrived, Payne stepped on her porch to talk to them, because she didn't want to disturb her kids, who were in the house. Read the rest

Bloxels lets kids design playable spaces using physical blocks on a grid—that can then be captured by a tablet device and translated into a real digital game. The creator, Pixel Press, says it's like "coding with Lego." Read the rest

Australian photographer Donna Stevens captured children's faces as they watch television. Read the rest

By 2017, Dutch designer Joris Laarman plans to use his company's MX3D metal printing technology to 3D print a 24-foot-long steel pedestrian bridge over an Amsterdam canal. (more…)

This canine, whose crimes can only be imagined, slides stealthily out of view as he is reprimanded. [via Arbroath.]

The top worldwide opening in history, Universal's $511.8m haul "obliterated expectations," reports Pamela McClintock. $204.6m of that was earned in the U.S. Read the rest

New photos, released by North Korea, show the young dictator's funny side—laughing during a trip to an orphanage, and while gazing at vegetation. Read the rest

In December, Stellenbosch University Dr. Andre van der Merwe performed a penis transplant on a man whose own was amputated after a (majorly) botched circumcision led to gangrene. Van der Merwe says that his patient just informed him his girlfriend is four months pregnant. Read the rest

Ehdrigor, a game created by a black, American Indian game designer, gently reflects the Native experience, and how that approach to storytelling differs from Western narratives. Read the rest

Hilariously and horrifically corrupt, FIFA could at least look forward to new leadership following president Sepp Blatter's resignation. Or, maybe not.

Email wasn't always a source of fear and loathing, writes Stewart Butterfield, but that was inevitable because it is "the distillation of the other stuff that other people want you to do."

"A dancing driver has been banned from the roads," report police in England, "after parking his car on a roundabout and claiming he was on his way to Stonehenge." Read the rest

Kevin Sintumuang reports on efforts to elaborate upon the classic cocktail—and offers some of his favorite elaborations. Read the rest

The Altec Lansing Life Jacket is $135 at Amazon—just don't get it wet.

Ralph Mirebs' gallery of the abandoned spaceship evokes scale, sadness, and what might be described as Soviet sound judgment. [via Ars Technica]

Notepad++ is the latest popular app to leave increasingly-unpleasant code repository SourceForge. Read the rest

On Saturday in Gothenburg, Sweden, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg but returned an hour later to finish the show. (more…)

TechRax destroys gadgets. In this video, he destroys an Apple Watch—a $10,000 model, apparently!—with two gigantic magnets. [via The Next Web]

Young people have stopped moving to coastal cities—they'd rather live well in Riverside or Pittsburgh than be poor in New York or San Francisco. Read the rest

Chris Pratt stopped by Conan to demonstrate the only three faces he makes in Jurassic World. (more…)

In their new video, Craig Benzine and Matt Weber of the YouTube channel The Good Stuff take viewers through the surprisingly long history of robots (more…)

Creativity and Doom have gone hand in hand for decades—the first user-created level appeared in 1994—and now the new game will come with fresh, easy-to-use mod tools. Read the rest

The strange menu of Bompas & Parr—séances, cooking with lava, and flaming fish murder—reminds us that food is fashion in the age of Instagram Read the rest

Sketch group Practical Folks give Jaqen H’ghar his own ballad inspired by Titus Andromedon's iconic “Peeno Noir.” Read the rest

Unfortunately this floating fish dome is currently unavailable on Amazon. Read the rest

Tara Shultz, 20, of Yucaipa, CA along with her parents and friends are protesting the inclusion of four award-winning graphic novels that are taught in an English class at Crafton Hills College because they feel they are too violent and pornographic to be read by college students. Read the rest

The kamisama of manga. The Japanese Disney. The godfather of anime. Tezuka-san has had many labels bestowed upon him both before and after his untimely death, but very few do justice to his contributions to a truly transatlantic medium, one which has dramatically surged in popularity in the last decade. Read the rest

This sleek battery is your ticket to avoiding a dead mobile device at the most inconvenient of times. The Intocircuit Power Castle ($34.99) features a brushed aluminum shell and LCD display, making it both hardy and stylish, and boasts enough capacity to charge a device several times over. Read the rest

An elderly woman in Lynden, Wa., somehow got turned around on her 6 mph scooter and ended up on the highway. Read the rest

Kate Milford made a name as a young adult writer able to tap into a rich Bradburian vein of lyricism with the Boneshaker -- now she shows us that she's an expect mystery writer as well, in Greenglass House, an illustrated middle-grades novel that will keep you guessing. Read the rest

A 65-year-old man in Buchen, Germany was collecting bottles and cans on an early morning walk when he was attacked and killed by a circus elephant who had somehow escaped her enclosure. Read the rest

Valery Spiridinov, a 30-year-old Russian man with the severely debilitating Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, intends to undergo the world's first human head transplant. Read the rest

The Cthulhu Mythos is turned into a game of dice in Steve Jackson's Cthulhu Dice. The demonically beating heart of the game is a large, beautiful, and gem-like 12-sided die covered in Cthulhu-related runes. Read the rest

Dragon Dictate for Mac Version 4 ($99) merges fast, accurate speech recognition and versatile transcription to fit the way you work. Read the rest

The fact that many Amazon reviewers were aghast to realize that this stainless steel double spoon holder resembled a scrotum was reason alone to buy it.Culina Stainless Steel Double Spoon Rest 7" ($10) on Amazon

Exhibit A: Chimpanzees found to drink alcoholic plant sap in wild.Exhibit B: Chimpanzee smoking and acting like a gangster.Previously: Chimp fight at the LA Zoo. Chimp with a stick knocks drone out of sky.

Darryl Anka telepathically channels a space alien from the future named Bashar who lives on the planet Essassani; on this basis, he has claimed many copyright infringements in the creations of Tumblr's GIF artists. Read the rest

Our field requires ethical frameworks we accept, instead of rules that remain technically unbroken while we hackers violate their spirit with as much ingenuity as we can muster. Read the rest

The first collection starring Phoebe and her unicorn friend Marigold Heavenly Nostrils was the strongest new syndicated strip I'd read in years; with Unicorn on a Roll, Dana Simpson demonstrates that she's got plenty more where that came from. Read the rest

If you liked the solar-powered spinning Mars globe, but wanted something more exotic, there's the spinning Titan globe, and for something closer to home, there's the Lunar edition. Read the rest

Cross a judiciously edited briefing scene from Star Wars with the audio from the briefing scene in Ocean's Eleven, and what do you get? (more…)

“Time lapse, one second intervals. Canon 5dmII. Wide angle lenses.” Read the rest

The past, set into motion. Read the rest