Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Doonesbury gang denounces the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and draws the line for appropriate, non-murderworthy satire. Read the rest

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This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip travels away from NYC to West Philadelphia. Read the rest

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Stephen Hawking appeared via hologram at the Sydney Opera House this weekend and he offered some surprisingly sweet words of comfort to Directioners. Read the rest

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Legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki is the creative force behind fantastic animated films like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle. (more…)

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Sesame Street always kills it when it comes to movie parodies (more…)

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Todrick Hall and Shoshana Bean prove ‘90s hip-hop and ‘90s Disney films pair perfectly together in this fabulous mash-up video.

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Why are there are so few female directors working in Hollywood? Could it be the raging sexism that occurs at every level of production? Read the rest

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Commercial video games often show Middle Eastern people as the villains -- if they can tell the difference between different countries and languages at all. Prince Fahad Al Saud is aiming to help change that. Read the rest

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Tragic magic! Executive realness! Here's a new game for 3-6 players, about drawing fashions for witches, that you can print out and play with your friends. All you really need is some tokens, a tip cup and a timer—and all those markers and art supplies you wish you played with more often. Read the rest

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Street "artist" Wanksy called attention to potholes in Manchester, England by drawing penises around them in non-permanent paint. Within a few days, they were repaired. Now that's a real pubic service. Read the rest

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High winds blew train cars and shipping containers off an Elmwood, Louisiana bridge yesterday. (more…)

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OXO Architectes created this experimental design for a vertical city within a tower in the Sahara desert. Read the rest

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Designer Mark Sturkenboom's "21 Grams" is a glass dildo containing the ashes of a dead person. It's storied in an exquisitely-crafted box integrating a perfume diffuser and iPhone amplifier to trigger memories of the lost loved one.

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Wink Fun celebrates stuff that is fun, and we mean the kind of fun that's made from atoms – not bits.

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Between this OXO Good Grips scrub brush ($4) and my pan scraper, I can quickly clean up even the crustiest of cookware. Read the rest

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Transformers Generation, six months in the making. Directed by Harris Loureiro who says, "Finally it is done!"

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Eduardo Lopez is 22-years-old. Last week, after he clocked out of his a minimum-wage graveyard-shift job loading pallets near LAX, he was rushing to catch a bus so he could make it to his class at Glendale Community College on time. Read the rest

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On The Intercept, Micah Lee follows up on his great primer on NSA-proof passwords with a soup-to-nuts tutorial on encrypting your laptop. Read the rest

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If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes. Over at Vantage, an interview with Ryan Allen and Siddharth Chander, creators of the fantastic Blade Runner Reality account on Instagram. Read the rest

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After visiting Jinjuu, restaurant reviewer Jay Rayner wanted to confirm some basic facts, such as the proprietor having worked in the Gordon Ramsay restaurant empire. Read the rest

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