How to play Tetris on most Canon calculators, a 2008 video by brusspup. You can also play Defender. (more…)

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“You have finally convinced me to join the dark side.” I love this guy.

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Hold me, I am scared.

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The section she reads is about towels. Read the rest

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Quinn Norton's "long form data journalism" piece on the American prison system paints a bleak picture of a nation that feasts on its poorest and most vulnerable with a boundless, venomous cruelty. Read the rest

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The brass coin squeeze ($15) is a well-designed trick that I've been pestering my friends with lately. It consists of two brass tubes and a brass cylindrical block.

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David W. Smith is the self-proclaimed Commander of the Golden Triangle Militia. He has some interesting ideas he would like to share with you. Read the rest

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A great YouTube show-and-tell of “One of the most advanced car cassette players ever made,” by Sathyan Thambirajah about the Kenwood car cassette player KRC999 mark II.

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The game-plan for future Roombas may fit them with cameras that send images of your home to a remote service that identifies obstacles and lets the little robots clean around them -- what could possibly go wrong? Read the rest

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Absolutely beautiful.

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Angry with Chinese homeowners who refuse to sell out, the country's eager and rapacious developers call their houses "stubborn nails" that can't be pounded into wood. Read the rest

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Monsters, long hidden in the shadows, take over the Earth in The Purge of Babylon, first in a series by Sam Sisavath.

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Photographer Sando Ujvari headed to the 7th Kunsag Beard Festival in Hungary, where masterpieces were on show from across the world. Above, Norbert Topf of Germany.

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The land speed record for a regular bus has been shat on. "Bus Hound," powered by biomethane derived from cow manure, clocked 76.785mph in speed trials in England.

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A farmer, criticized for allowing sheep-shearers to swear at his animals, joked that the animals have never complained about salty language.

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Some websites have dozens and dozens of tracking bugs and libraries, slowing downloads and delaying rendering. If you block them in Firefox, researchers demonstrated, some pages load much faster.

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Mad Max: Fury Road makes fools of the mens' rights activists who saw earlier entires in the series as a glorification of powerful men. After all, they're wrong about that, too, as perfectly explained by Tina Turner, above.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author, known for Anathem (the Locus Award winner for Best Science Fiction Novel that the New York Times called “immensely entertaining”) and Reamde (which Cory Doctorow called “a triumph” in these pages) strikes again with exactly the kind of complex and mind-altering epic you’d hope for. Read the rest

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Sumana writes, " As Julie Pagano put it: 'So many 'diversity in tech' efforts are about getting young women into the pipeline; ignore the fact that there's a meat grinder at the end.'" Read the rest

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