pranks University band pranks director by playing Mii Channel theme song instead of Bach Carla Sinclair

books All of Me is Illustrated celebrates the Ray Bradbury Centennial with a 21st Century take on "The Illustrated Man" Matt Maranian

bad ideas Restaurant shamed for using live crabs in claw machine Mark Frauenfelder

china Chinese citizens will have to submit to a face scan in order to get a new phone number Seamus Bellamy

san francicisco San Franciscans happily house Oregonian searching for his lost dog 'Yippy' Jason Weisberger

your ig nobel is in the mail Knives made of human feces don't actually work, experiment finds Clive Thompson

canada Canada-shaped coin issued by Royal Canadian Mint Rusty Blazenhoff

anomie Man enjoys ice cream as street brawl unfolds Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Putting a Wii Portable into an Altoids tin Cory Doctorow

art Robert Longo's new sculpture is a Death Star of 40,000 bullet casings Andrea James

censorship Tanzania's independent websites, podcasts and video channels have gone dark as the country's new blogger tax goes into effect Cory Doctorow

logan paul The existential horror of Logan Paul Caroline Siede

music Randomly generated variations on the Mii Channel theme Rob Beschizza

music Mii Channel background music performed by saxophone quartet Rob Beschizza

Nintendo Nintendo's music from the Mii channel, "but all the pauses are uncomfortably long" Rob Beschizza

Games Goodbye LDB game, Hello Whamageddon Rusty Blazenhoff

video Dataviz ducks: when designers put style ahead of substance Andrea James

canada Glow-in-the-dark 'toonie' celebrates Canada's 150th Rusty Blazenhoff

nsa In 2000, the NSA hacked the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Cory Doctorow

music Rose McGowan's trippy, frenetic new video for Yoko Ono song David Pescovitz