Prankster Magic includes some excellent card and coin tricks that kids can quickly learn. The illustrations are clear and appealingly cartoonish.

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Just try not to think about how many times he had to film each shot.

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A K-Cup of cannabis infused coffee beans from Fairwinds costs about $10.

Marrying two complex plant products (coffee beans and cannabis) provides a tremendous and enjoyable experience to the consumer.

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Our culture is quick to mock and exploit teenage girls (or pit them against one another), but new forces on the Internet are pushing back Read the rest

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Infinideer is a weird little diversion made for the tenth annual Toronto game jam: You are a deer, you gallop into traffic, and you have to cause as much wreckage as you can before you die grossly, which is inevitable. Read the rest

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Our friend Adam Savage of Mythbusters and Tested built Kirk's Captain's Chair from the original Star Trek!

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They were all running mods that let them automate away the tedious grinding that is so integral to the way that MMOs incentivize players to devote thousands of hours to their products. Read the rest

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Game of Thrones was dealt a card denied by history to George Lucas: when everything gets buried in walking, talking and politics, it can always just have someone raped. Read the rest

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When I was one of the editors at Make: Books, one of the projects I was proudest to have helped conceive of and edit was Charles Platt’s Make: Electronics (which has now been a best-seller for years).

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For €160 per person, those making the scene at the Cannes Film Festival can grab an UberCopter between Nice and the Croisette where the action is. Read the rest

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Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, this one minute teaser for Steve Jobs is enough to make up for that Ashton Kutcher thing that came out a while back.

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But it all works out in the end.

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The Light Phone strips away every function of a smart phone except the one I like using the least: making phone calls.

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"C-C-C-Combo Breaker is a motorized, battery powered, 3D printed, Arduino based device that can crack any Master combination lock in less than 30 seconds!"

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“I placed a camera just above a birds nest in my garden. The nest has been there for 3 weeks, the birds hatched 4 days ago.”

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Last night’s Saturday Night Live season finale featured comedian Louis C.K., who joked that this could be his last time hosting the show. His opening stand-up set showed why. Read the rest

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I wanted one monopod for all my adventures. The Manfrotto 680B has done a damn good job.

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Year 11 students at a Christchurch NZ high school were given a pamphlet that described unmarried women relationships as "cheap prostitutes" and "wicked fornicators," and warned that gay sex would lead to "death and hell."

No big deal, said principal Jeff Smith, explaining that the pamphlet was designed to encourage students to make "informed" relationship decisions.

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"The vibrant, cartoonish work depicts a female feeding a purple beaver an apple. But some fear the colorful creation may attract children." Some are just assholes. (via WTVR.com)

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