My daughter Jane and I had fun in this video for General Mills and Megabloks about the joy of using cardboard and spare parts to create a Rube Goldberg contraption, as part of their Rev Up the Breakfast Table campaign. Read the rest

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"During the same time, the amount of content restricted because of local laws increased about 19% [newsroom.fb.com]

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Cindy Cohn, Legal Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will take over from Shari Steele, who is retiring from EFF after 14 years as Executive Director. Read the rest

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James Renner on the modern answer to classic Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks Read the rest

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Imagine Crossbows and Catapults—but with meaningful rules rather than excuses for a demolition session. Jon Seagull reviews Cube Quest. Read the rest

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To celebrate the release of my new book, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, I've invited some of my favorite creators and thinkers to write about their philosophy on the arts and the Internet. Today, Amanda Palmer, author of the just-published Art of Asking, has granted kind permission to reproduce her introduction to Information Doesn't Want to Be Free. -Cory Read the rest

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As Millionmovieproject puts it: "Crew members threatened to quit and begged him not to do it, the cameraman looked away while rolling. A six ton prop, it brushes his arm as it comes down, and he doesn't even flinch." Read the rest

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By modern standards, the inclusion of two women in this Dungeons and Dragons ad was a surprisingly bold move -- a kind of sad snapshot of our lost, pre-Reagan/Thatcher/Pinochet/Mulroney-era past.

(via Seanan McGuire)

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Art Donovan (previously) created this amazing, mixed-media sculpture as a commission, called The Raven's Chamber, resembling some arcane astronomical instrument from a mad alchemist's lab. Read the rest

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Kent Rogowski's marvellously gory and visceral pictures of inside-out teddy bears were collected in the 2007 book Bears, which is available used starting at $0.49. (via IO9)

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I've just come back to the UK from my US tour for In Real Life, the New York Times bestselling graphic novel Jen Wang and I made; I'll be launching it in London at the incomparable Orbital Comics, near Leicester Square, on the evening of Weds, 12 Nov. Read the rest

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An amazing collection, at Visual Melt, of 70s-80s-vintage art: part 1, and part 2. See more at 50 Watts.

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Jeff Michalski's work in improvisational comedy and theater is legendary. I can not wait to see his film Bi-Polar Vortex on indiegogo.

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I can't stand cables unspooled all over my bag. EZOPower's 3' retractable microUSB cable has become my go to cheap-ish cable that hasn't broken.

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Kelly Anneken has a unique, welcoming and occasionally offensive view of the world. She's a prolific podcaster and comedian who has just released her first album 'Twenty Minutes to Sell.'

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Michael Franti on why we must not give up on the final frontier. Read the rest

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David McRaney explores the sunk cost fallacy, a strangely twisted bit of logic that seems to pop into the human mind once a person has experienced the pain of loss or the ickiness of waste on his or her way toward a concrete goal. It’s illogical, irrational, unreasonable - and as a perfectly normal human being, you act under its influence all the time. Read the rest

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Here's the page containing true facts that Republican senators and conservative religious leaders from Gilbert Arizona ordered to be torn out of all copies of a textbook for high school honors biology students. I wonder if teachers will be fired for sharing the URL?

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lUuKAK9sZN0/heres-the-page-from-the-biol.html

Artist Oleg Shuplyak arranges the figures and objects in his paintings to reveal the faces of famous people such as Salvador Dali and Charles Darwin.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_ZqjOonGlH8/hidden-faces-in-optical-illusi.html

"Lots of white disco boots. New in boxes. 36 pairs to a crate. Maybe 10 crates. Use scissors to turn them into white stylish shoes. Have a wedding with 360 bridesmaids." Don't ever change, Craigslist. [HT: Dean Putney]

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