Pawel "Sariel" Kmiec's Incredible LEGO Technic: Cars, Trucks, Robots & More! is an inspiring gallery of amazing LEGO creations. Using the Technic system, and years of experience, Kmiec's work is stunning.

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The U.S. Navy has released a video of a new laser weapon performing perfectly during tests completed in November. Read the rest

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In Richard McGuire's time-bending graphic novel Here, the past, present and a vividly imagined future are all set in the same specific location. By Patrick Lohier. Read the rest

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Mark Kersten explores the question at Justice in Conflict blog. Read the rest

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Don't miss this op-ed in the New York Times, by former Iraq interrogator Eric Fair. Read the rest

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Ben Edelman (left) is an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Last week he ordered take-out Chinese food and when he looked at the receipt he learned that he'd been overcharged $4. What follows is the email exchange between Edelman and Ran Duan (right), son of the restaurant's founders. Read the rest

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Sometimes the blood you see in a movie isn't fake, but the result of a real injury. Read the rest

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This episode is brought to you by Chronicle Books release of Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones: Season 3 & 4. Read the rest

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Online harassment is real, it's terrible, and tech companies can and should do more about it -- but when the normally sensible Jessica Valenti wrote in the Guardian that tech companies could solve online harassment in a snap by implementing a system like Youtube's Content ID, she wasn't just wrong, she was dangerously wrong. Read the rest

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If you’re a fan of 1960s lowbrow culture you know his art, but you might not know his name or his story.

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I amuse myself (and sometimes others) with my email sig, which makes you promise to release me from any agreements I've gotten into with your employer -- but it turns out I'm a rank amateur. Read the rest

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At The Message, BB pal Andy Baio wrote a fantastic piece about the experiment he is running with his ten-year-old son: What happens when a 21st-century kid plays through video game history in chronological order? Read the rest

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The Vega console is not merely modeled on the classic ZX Spectrum, one of the more striking early home-computer designs. Read the rest

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How imaginary worlds can help save the real world, by Jason Louv Read the rest

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York University's Jim Austin, a teacher of neural computing, has accumulated some 1,000 machines across 30 years of collecting obsolete computers. Read the rest

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This American Life offshoot Serial, where Sarah Koenig is presently digging into the 1999 murder of 18 year-old Hae Min Lee, has become a sensation. Read the rest

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Polish developer 11bit Studios' recently-released This War of Mine, a bit of a different look at video games' favorite setting. Read the rest

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99.8% of the $735 million paid out by in 9,225 large-city police misconduct settlements came from tax revenues; 0.2% was paid by the officers who committed the infractions. In more than 80 small/mid-sized cities studied, police officers contributed nothing to settlements for their misconduct. Read the rest

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It's $35/month for the service, from San Francisco's coolest indie ISP (founded by Rudy Rucker's son, Rudy Jr, it was the inspiration for Pigspleen, the fictional ISP in my novel Little Brother) and if you opt to pay a little extra, they'll install a free link in a low/medium income neighborhood, too. Read the rest

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The Soarigami is a plastic divider meant to extend and split the shared airplane armrest.

Company spokesperson Arthur Chang says, "We do anticipate some travelers to have issues with sharing, we feel like this is a great conversation starter."

Welp, you lost me there.

Soarigami (via CNN)

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