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A cool way to make some unusual art is to render an image in Lego. I used a kit from BrickMe that turned a photo of my wife into 5,625 pixels, and then they supplied me with Lego tiles in 50 different ...

You can spend a lot of money on an acoustic guitar these days and end up with an instrument that doesn’t improve with age, either tonally or aesthetically. With CNC machines and other robotic aids, ...

The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders. And the internet is intangible, like spirits ...

Out of nothing, nature makes something. First there is hard rock planet; then there is life, lots of it. First barren hills; then brooks with fish and cattails and red-winged blackbirds. First an ...

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We’ve previously reported on Spain’s onerous data requests for Brits and aggressive income tax grabs for foreigners already paying taxes elsewhere. Now the country is in the news again with more ...

In a darkened Las Vegas conference room, a cheering audience waves cardboard wands in the air. Each wand is red on one side, green on the other. Far in back of the huge auditorium, a camera scans the ...

Big love is a renewable building material, says Clay Shirky. Like the Ise Shrine in Japan which is rebuilt — out of love — every 20 years. Turns out the longest lasting things don’t have an enduring ...

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