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Catbug Flies Away With Your Free Time In His New Mobile Game

Fly Catbug Fly!, made by Ludoko Studios, is really good at eating up large chunks of time. When you start up a game for the first time, you’re liable to straight up lose 20 minutes of your time. Then again, that’s the nature of mobile games, isn’t it? The ideal offering is something that’s simple…

How paying people to be parents has created a baby boom in Finland. Decoding the maybe-too-flashy urban renewal of once-dangerous Medellín, Colombia. And why a long-standing rivalry between Boston and New York led to the first American subways. Here are today’s Urban Reads. This Finnish town is paying residents 10,000 Euros to have a baby.…

Kindle Fire HD and HDX On Sale, With Bonus Discounts For Prime Members

Amazon is running another promo on their Kindle Fire HD line, but today they’re taking things a step further by tacking on an additional 10% off for Prime Members. Here’s a free trial. Starting prices below, which of course go up if you up the storage. Extra 10% off shown at checkout. Kindle Fire HD…

Shapeshifting Furniture for Your Alternate Dimension Vacation Home

If you’ve ever wished for furniture that does more than meets the eye, this shapeshifting table might fit the bill nicely. The project, which just debuted at Milan Design Week, is the work of a team at the MIT Media Lab led by Professor Hiroshi Ishii. Using over a thousand individual pins, the surface of…

This was the view that some lucky campers woke up to this past weekend at Coachella, the music and art festival that continues next weekend in Indio, California. 53 teepees were hand-painted by artist Teale Hathaway and rented as luxury accommodations starting at $2200. [Coachella]

These Modular Cabinets Are the Coolest Way To Display Precious Things

There’s a case to be made—recently by designer Martino Gamper (and me)—that shelving is the most personal piece of furniture you own; a functional place to store your stuff that also puts it on display, like you’re curating own little curio exhibition. The Room collection, by Kyuhyung Cho and Erik Olovsson, might be the most…

Hotdog in a sausage bun because bread makes you fat

If KFC can go double down on chicken, The Vulgar Chef can totally split a bacon cheddar sausage down the mid section and stick a god damn dog in it. Because, like he says, bread makes you fat but protein is just fine. I want one so badly. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Watch Doctor Who‘s Jon Pertwee Explain The Wonder Of Vacuum Tubes

Before Jon Pertwee starred in Doctor Who during the first half of the 1970s, he was already spreading the word of science and technology — witness this amazing short film in which he extols the wonders of vacuum tubes and valves. [via Retroist]

Deep Space 69 Has Unleashed The Space Boobs

Remember watching the original Star Trek and realizing the show was just as much about Kirk banging space-babes as it was exploring the mysteries of the universe? Well, Deep Space 69, a YouTube series made by Mondo Media, takes the space-sex parts and runs with it — hard. You can see an example for yourself…

Three of the World’s Prettiest Parking Garages Are In One Small City

Parking garages are ugly by their very nature: They’re metal cages that take up valuable space in our cities to house our automobiles for a few high-priced hours. But not all garages have to be ugly. In fact, three of the most beautiful are located within a few blocks of each other, in the city…

North American Lake Monsters Is Weird Horror Fiction At Its Best

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud may seem like a slim volume, but don’t let the size fool you. Each one of these nine stories has the capacity to seduce and terrify you like any of the most heavyweight horror authors out there. Ballingrud has been publishing his fiction sporadically since 1992 with “Memories…

Keeping in Touch with Our Space Explorers

The Deep Space Network is a collection of antennas distributed around the world that allow us to keep in touch with our herd of extraterrestrial explorers. The complexes contain a mixture of 26-meter, 34-meter, and 70-meter antennas, all serving different functions. Back when Jet Propulsion Laboratories had a sudden scramble to launch Explorer into orbit,…

An Erasable Whiteboard Elephant That Never Forgets Your Grocery List

Random text files can get deleted, sticky notes can go missing, but the chances that this seven-inch ceramic elephant goes missing from your desk are slim to nil—who would dare steal such a thing? And that’s why it makes for the perfect spot to quickly jot notes and things that need remembering. Well, that and…

Homeless New Yorkers Are Living Inside the Manhattan Bridge

We’ve all heard of the lengths to which NYC’s homeless have gone to find shelter, from living in abandoned factories to building whole encampments inside subway tunnels. But a report from the New York Post goes one step further, describing how people are now making homes out of small nooks and crannies between the Manhattan…

Why We’re Quitting Alfonso Cuarón’s Believe

When we first heard that director Alfonso Cuarón was working on a television series about a superpowered girl, we were excited, although that excitement faded with the rapid turnover of series showrunners and rumblings of major changes to the original concept. Now, six episodes into the show, we’re ready to quit Believe. When I say…

Why Does Godzilla Continue To Fascinate Us?

It’s coming on 60 years now that Godzilla and friends have been stomping their way through our fictional cities. Just what is it about this group of kaiju that keeps us coming back? We have a few theories. As new details about the upcoming Godzilla flick continue to spool out, a question came up: What…

This Could Be the Largest Flying X-Wing Model Yet

At five feet in length, Rodger Cleye’s X-wing could be the largest flying Star Wars model to date. Except that since it’s built with a framework of PVC piping to keep it light, it’s the last thing the Rebels will ever want to take into battle. Despite its size, this X-wing model weighs just 19…

The One Time Rick And Morty Almost Went Too Far

For an enlightening peek inside the mind of series creator Justin Roiland before the show’s first season finale, check out his interview with Animation World Network. Roiland talks about everything from getting the news about season two to the controversial near-rape scene in “Meeseeks and Destroy.” Speaking about the latter, Roiland speaks with great maturity…

William S. Burroughs’ Wild Ride with Scientology

You probably knew that William S. Burroughs had experimented with some unusual ideas during his time — but did you know he joined the Church of Scientology? Pop Apocalypse author and English professor Lee Konstantinou reveals the secret history of how Burroughs almost became an Operating Thetan. In 1959, the same year Olympia Press published…

Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda

Soda’s reputation has fallen a bit flat lately: The all-American beverage most recently made headlines due to an FDA investigation of a potential carcinogen, commonly called “caramel coloring,” used in many soft-drink recipes. This bit of drama follows other recent stories that paint an unflattering picture of the soda industry, including New York’s attempt to…