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Visitors to Battery Park in Manhattan will find memorials to fallen soldiers, sunken sailors and 400 passengers who perished when a Staten Island ferry was attacked by a giant octopus.

This last event, however convincing (thanks to 250-pound cast-bronze sculpture and plaque), is entirely fictional, part of surprisingly elaborate hoax. That would be hard to guess at a glance, though, given the thought and craft that went into this fake memorial and the other materials that were designed to bolster its credibility.

Artist Joseph Reginella invented the scenario, crafting a website, a mock documentary, news articles and fliers to complete the deception. The monument even directs people to the Ferry Disaster Memorial museum. It also weaves in real-world facts, like the name of the ship.

He had the idea while taking the ferry himself. When his won asked whether there were dangerous creatures waiting below, he invented the story, then spent months elaborating on the fabrication.

To keep the city from taking it away, he has moved the memorial from place to place. To add credibility, he made the day of the event the same as the assassination of President Kennedy, something that would plausibly overshadow such a massive historic disaster.

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I've been going nuts with my $22 deep fryer. The thing I don't like is having to replace the coconut oil I use. It starts to get expensive. But here is an interesting article at Serious Eats about how to clean fryer grease using gelatin. I'm going to try it!

Holy cow, this may have really worked! I was left with a solid disk of gelatin, filled with specks of burnt flour and other assorted gunk. Everything was looking great so far. Now for the true test: Could I cook in it?

I heated up the clarified oil on the stovetop and was alarmed, as it started bubbling a little while heating—an indication that there were still at least a few microscopic droplets of water in the fat—but with a little shaking, the bubbles soon completely dissipated, and the oil continued to heat up just like any fresh oil would. Once it hit the desired temperature, I fried a few pieces of green bean tempura in it, followed by a small batch of fried chicken. Both recipes came out perfect, as if they'd been cooked in not-quite-fresh-but-still-super-clean oil (bear in mind, this oil was on its last legs before I filtered it).

Volkswagen has just announced the 2020 production of the Volkswagen I.D., a poorly named electric vehicle that looks like a Mac mouse and has an estimated single-charge range of 373 miles. For reference, most existing electric vehicles have a range of less than 100 miles except for Tesla models, which can get 200+ and cost accordingly. My bike? My bike can go about four miles on a single Whopper Jr. combo from Burger King before I need a nap.

As for the price, Volkswagen says it will have a price on the level of today's Golf Diesel with comparable power. That's less than $30,000 in the U.S., though we don't know whether that's before or after tax credit.

You know what we should be developing instead of electric cars? Affordable and efficient jetpacks. Nothing screams the future louder like jetpacks. And nobody screams jetpacks louder than myself. Check it: *clears throat* PEENIIIIISSSSS!! Wait, hold up, let me get a do-over. Actually, no, I was happy with that. Impressive right? I've got some pipes. Keep going for a video unveiling of the vehicle at the recent Paris Motor Show.

Alexander Siddig was beyond thrilled when he scored the role of Doran Martell on Game of Thrones. I remember when he was cast, and he happily posted a bunch of stuff on his social media, and you could just tell that he was a huge fan of the show. But when the Dorne storylines were introduced, everyone just felt… underwhelmed. It was like there was no life behind that part of the story. Some of the actors – like Siddig – did the best they could with the material, but basically everyone hated the Dorne storylines on the show. So what was Siddig’s overall impression of his time on the show? Well, as it turns out, he has lots of thoughts. He spoke to Startrek.com and this interview is being widely discussed as Siddig “slamming” the show. But there is some kind of context.

On the secrecy around GOT: “I think the secrecy is kind of understandable, but also there is an element of hype about it that makes it… the more secretive it is, the more special it is. And certainly Game of Thrones plays that. They misinform the crowd and they give them tidbits to send them in wrong directions. So, for example, last season, I believe that the first few episodes were stolen and downloaded online, and everybody got to see them before the show actually aired, and everybody was furious at HBO and whatnot. I don’t know if you remember. I am almost positive that those four episodes were leaked by HBO themselves. So there is an enormous amount of spin going on. I can’t tell you that for sure; that’s just my opinion, but it’s games; everybody’s playing these games.”

He felt like Doran was killed off early: “It’s funny, I’m not really sure what happened there. I was contracted to do at least four episodes this season, but then I was in L.A. doing publicity for something else, and I got a call at the Chateau Marmont and there were familiar voices on the other end of the phone. It was one of those guys, and because they didn’t introduce themselves it was like, “Hi, it’s me.” I was like, “Is that David or Daniel?” Anyway, they said, “You know what this phone call is about.” I was like, “Yeah, well, I guess I do.” “So we were going to kill you off at the end of last season, but we decided that we’re going to have to kill you off at the beginning of next season.” I was like, “Okay, life goes on.” But there was something wrong about that because I had been contracted for four episodes in the following season, so if they were going to kill me off at the end of the last season why would they contract me for those four episodes? Because it costs them money whether I do them or not, so it’s not great business sense to do it just in case.”

He still doesn’t know what went wrong: “So something happened; I have no idea what. There was an enormous amount of fan excitement when I got named to be on the show, and everyone was like, “Oh my god, yes, Doran Martell. He’s going to be great as Doran Martell.” That might have been the kiss of death. Maybe they didn’t want quite that much attention on that character. Maybe they thought, “Well, let’s prove that we’re going to stray from the books. We’re going to do something else, and he will be our first example of that.” So maybe that could have been the case. Or maybe I just screwed up. Maybe I said the wrong thing to the wrong person.

But he’s fine with being off the show now: “But I know that, from an actor’s point of view, professionally you don’t want to be on a show like that for too long, unless you are one of the top leads who originated the show, because your schedule gets kind of messed up. You don’t earn as much as you would if you were doing another show, because they’re Game of Thrones, and they don’t have to pay anyone. So it’s kind of a blessing in disguise. I just moved away, and being on it at all sticks, and everyone goes, “Oh, the guy from Game of Thrones!” It doesn’t really matter that you weren’t on it very long.”

[From StarTrek]

See, I don’t think he was really slamming HBO or Game of Thrones… for the most part. The shadiest thing is when he says the thing about how they changed the Dorne stories from the books, which is more a statement of fact than an insult. Everything else he says is true too – with these kinds of huge phenomenon shows, it’s easier and more fun to just do it for a season or two. You get all of the hype but you don’t have to rearrange your life for years at a time. That being said, I do hope that they eventually bring back f—king Gendry.

Photos courtesy of WENN, HBO/GOT.

Dutch manufacturer Vanmoof started printing a photo of a TV set on the boxes it uses to ship bikes. Now the bikes arrive at their destination in perfect condition.

From Cycling Weekly: “No matter who was doing the shipping, too many of our bikes arrived looking like they’d been through a metal-munching combine harvester. It was getting expensive for us, and bloody annoying for our customers,” creative director Bex Rad wrote on the company’s blog. “Earlier this year our co-founder Ties had a flash of genius. Our boxes are about the same size as a (really really reaaaally massive) flatscreen television. Flatscreen televisions always arrive in perfect condition. What if we just printed a flatscreen television on the side of our boxes? “And just like that, shipping damage to our bikes dropped by 70–80%.”

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Throughout the day on Wednesday, Colin Powell was trending on Twitter. Powell was the victim of another (alleged) Russian hack of influential politicos. It seems like Powell’s email was targeted, and his emails were distributed on DCLeaks.com, a hacker site which has some (tenuous?) ties to Russian intelligence. Throughout Wednesday, I kept reading excerpts from Powell’s emails and laughing my ass off, but it took NY Mag to put it in context for me: Colin Powell isn’t just one of the most influential diplomatic minds in America, he’s also your BFF, the delicious bitch who loves to gossip about the rich, powerful and well-connected. What’s particularly amazing is how Powell seemingly sits around, emailing off-the-record thoughts to friends, journalists, former colleagues and more. Like, this is his retirement: he email-gossips. It’s amazing. Here are some precious gossip-gems from Powell’s leaked emails:

On Donald Trump & the Birthers: “Yup, the whole birther movement was racist. That’s what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn’t keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim…As I have said before, ‘What if he was?’ Muslims are born as Americans everyday.”

General thoughts on Trump: A “a national disgrace and an international pariah… If Donald were to somehow win, by the end of the first week in office he’d be saying ‘What the hell did I get myself into?’”

Trump as the business: “He appeals to the worst angels of the GOP nature and poor white folks. Just finished a book by a guy named Llosa about loss of culture. It was reviewed in the WSJ last week. Culture is going and with it the ties that bind. An increasing theme in my speeches –– celebrification of our society. Fox got the highest rating ever after the debate so Ailes makes friends with Trump and sends Megyn Kelly off to get over her period. Hey, noting (sic) personal, just business.”

On the Cheney family: “[The Cheneys] are idiots and spent force peddling a book that ain’t going nowhere.”

Hillary’s biggest flaw: “Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”

His assessment of Hillary: “I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d—ing bimbos at home (according to the NYP).”

Racism in the GOP: “Or as I said before the 2012 election, ‘There is a level of intolerance in parts of the Republican Party.’”

An email to Fareed Zakaria about not wanting to speak on Trump: “You guys are playing his game, you are his oxygen. He outraged us again today with his comments on Paris no-go for police districts. I will watch and pick the timing, not respond to the latest outrage.”

On giving Trump any additional attention: “To go on and call him an idiot just emboldens him.”

[From Politico, Buzzfeed & NY Mag]

See? Powell loves to gossip. He’s That Friend – you want to go have a drink with him and catch up on gossip about all of the people you have in common and he delivers all of the juicy stuff, but you know in your heart of hearts that he’s gossiping about you to other people. He’s sort of the Regina George of the Bush Administration.

Surprisingly (to me), there’s a lot of love and respect between Condoleeza Rice and Powell, and some of the most nuanced emails are their exchanges. Rice and Powell discuss the aftermath of Benghazi, and they both seem to agree that the intelligence community likely hung the Obama White House out to dry with shoddy early-intelligence work, and both agree that the GOP-led investigations into Benghazi are “witch hunts.” Rice and Powell also reminisce about the terrible people they worked with in the Bush administration, and they both seem to absolutely loathe Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and even Dick Cheney. You can read more here and here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Reports NASA today, “The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the 'Murray Buttes' region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images arguably rival photos taken in U.S. National Parks.”

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This is the shot captured by photographer Royce Bair of 14 wind turbines lined up perfectly in the middle of nowhere in western Nevada. If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was a single wind turbine that somebody didn't read the instruction manual before assembling. I remember the first time I tried to build something from IKEA without following the instructions. It ruined a relationship. "Your girlfriend left you?" She sure did. Well, after recovering from the injuries she sustained after the bed collapsed on her playing hide and seek. Thanks again to Zhana, who, for two tips in a row, gets to leave class early. The rest of you are staying for detention (it's cool though we're just gonna watch old G.I. Joe cartoons).

A tourist who visited Iceland couldn't figure out what address to use to send a letter to someone, so they drew a map. Their letter was mailed to a farm in Hvammsveit, West Iceland, with a cute little drawing instead of an address, and the intended recipient still got it.

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In what feels as tense as Wages of Fear in places, teams of drivers transport wind turbine blades up a steep switchback mountain road.

According to Wind Power Monthly:

The route to the government-sponsored Baoding Mountain Wind Farm is 5.5 km long, and includes 212 turns and slopes as steep as 30 degrees. The journey with each blade took five hours, and the drivers had to negotiate the load through villages with buildings on either side of the road, and high voltage power lines. The blades are 52.4 metres long, and weigh over 12 tons.

• C&C trucks carrying wind turbine blades to the mountaintop (via Wind Power Monthly)

This is the Zip N Store, a sort of sliding drawer for Ziploc and shredded cheese bags you can install in your refrigerator. Or a pantry shelf! But not your anus. Alternatively, continue storing all your bags of cheese in a giant pile in the crisper like a normal person. Sometimes the pile grows so big I forget what kind of cheese I've got in there. "Sick, this cheese is so old it's green!" Give me that! *snatches bag* It's not green because it's OLD, it's green because it's MOON CHEESE you uncultured space-peasant. Oh God just kidding this is two-year old provolone toss it before I get sick. Keep going for a couple more shots and a 4.5-minute informercial in case you're the kind of person who can watch 4.5-minute infomercials void of any hunks and babes using new exercise equipment.

 We had a lot of Olympics coverage here at GFY over the last two and a half weeks, and wanted to make sure you didn’t miss a beat of it. Just in case you were working or something, here’s a complete list of all the thighs, abs, arms and sequins: –Fab the Costumes: Synchronized Swimming Read More ...

Mark Carpenter made this spot-on Google Map of Frodo's journey from Hobbiton to Mount Doom. (more…)

Capcom is pleased to officially announce that court will be in session in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice on September 8, 2016. The latest courtroom proceedings will be available to purchase digitally for $29.99 / £24.99 / €29.99 from the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

For those wanting a preview of the upcoming drama, a free demo will be available to download for all consumers in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS on August 25. The demo features a section from the first courtroom scenario in the game, and allows players to slip into Phoenix’s shoes in the Kingdom of Khura’in and get a taste of the newest gameplay feature, the Divination Séance. Through royal priestess Rayfa and her Divination Séances, players can revisit the last moments of a victim’s life and must fight to unravel the discrepancies and contradictions between the Royal Priestess’s Insight and what is shown in the séance. This demo is sure to make for an exciting first test to bring about justice before the game’s full release!

This new game’s cast is full of many zany favorites alongside a new ensemble of characters to meet, and today Capcom is announcing several of them, including the return of forensics scientist Ema Skye, who first appeared in the originalPhoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Ema has passed her certification exams and is now a full-fledged forensic investigator. Here she returns to assist Apollo in his defense of the series’ popular magician, Trucy Wright, Phoenix’s adopted daughter. Trucy is famed for her magic tricks and vanishing acts, until she suddenly finds herself mixed up in an unfortunate incident that takes place during one of her magic shows. With Phoenix away, it’s up to Apollo and Athena to uncover the truth about the tragic death of Mr. Reus, one of Trucy’s co-performers. During this case, players will also meet the brand new character Bonny de Famme, a fledgling magician who appears in Trucy’s show and wants to help Apollo in any way she can, but what will her witness testimony reveal?

In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, forensic investigation techniques play a vital part in players analyzing the evidence to help solve some of the game’s mysteries. Utilizing the features of the Nintendo 3DS system, players will be able to dust some crime scenes and search for fingerprints, while being able to examine certain objects at the scene a full 360 degrees to uncover hidden evidence like never before in the Ace Attorney series. Will the fingerprints match any of the suspects on file and uncover new truths? Combined with the ability to examine video evidence from multiple angles to check for inconsistencies, and other investigation techniques, this latest title in the Ace Attorney series is set to be the most thrilling outing to the courtroom yet!

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The Moral Machine is a website from MIT that present 13 traffic scenarios in which a self-driving car has no choice but to kill one set of people or another. Your job is to tell the car what to do. Think carefully before making your choices, because one of the goals of the website is to crowd source the behavioral rules for self driving cars in the future. By participating, you could affect the outcome of who lives and who dies.

From self-driving cars on public roads to self-piloting reusable rockets landing on self-sailing ships, machine intelligence is supporting or entirely taking over ever more complex human activities at an ever increasing pace. The greater autonomy given machine intelligence in these roles can result in situations where they have to make autonomous choices involving human life and limb. This calls for not just a clearer understanding of how humans make such choices, but also a clearer understanding of how humans perceive machine intelligence making such choices.

Recent scientific studies on machine ethics have raised awareness about the topic in the media and public discourse. This website aims to take the discussion further, by providing a platform for 1) building a crowd-sourced picture of human opinion on how machines should make decisions when faced with moral dilemmas, and 2) crowd-sourcing assembly and discussion of potential scenarios of moral consequence.

Most states being large and empty, the most frequent answer to the question "what is the most common job in your state?" is "truck driver." For everywhere else, teachers and software developers prevail. And where even roads are rare, farmers. Hawaii, though...

NPR's map is fascinating, though, in that you can jump back to earlier days. In 1978s, what did we all do before software development was the day job of millions?

What's with all the truck drivers? Truck drivers dominate the map for a few reasons.

Driving a truck has been immune to two of the biggest trends affecting U.S. jobs: globalization and automation. A worker in China can't drive a truck in Ohio, and machines can't drive cars (yet).

Let's see about that in a decade.

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

If you don’t have access to your own private rooftop paradise, you can at least dream about it during the hottest months of the year with the help of this collection of dreamy swimming pools and lush gardens. Rooftop bathtubs, infinity pools overlooking some of the world’s most glamorous cities and elevated lawns offer respite from the heat and access to fresh air, even in densely populated urban areas.

Beach House Extension in Peru

This stepped home on a hillside overlooking the bay of Ancón in Lima, Peru features a rooftop infinity pool that seems to extend right out into the sea. Architect Adriá Noboa added to and renovated the existing home, built in 1958 by Swiss architect Theodor Cron, whose work in Peru is considered historically valuable.

Tel Aviv Townhouse Pool, Israel

Another apartment terrace swimming pool in an urban area sits atop a six-level townhouse in Tel Aviv. Architect Pitsou Kedem placed the lap pool at the edge of the rooftop terrace alongside a lounge area. The pool feels open to the city when you’re enjoying it, yet remains private from ground level.

Rooftop Bathtub and Shower, Portugal

Enjoying a relaxing bath while staring up at the sky from your own private rooftop in Lisbon definitely isn’t too shabby. José Adrião Architects added this unusual feature to the all-white rooftop terrace of a home with a view of the historical city.

The Wall House, Singapore

There’s no house in the world quite like this one, designed for a client in Singapore who wanted two distinct yet connected homes for various generations of his family while maintaining lots of privacy and outdoor recreation space. FARM architects created a multi-level plan with a lower-level courtyard connecting both residences while the lushly planted rooftop levels are private, each with their own swimming pool.

Apartment Pool Overlooking Madrid, Spain

A terrace sticks out of the side of this top floor apartment in the heart of Madrid, its kidney-shaped swimming pool nearly at roof level on one of the city’s tallest buildings. I! Arquitectura wanted to bring the ‘countryside’ to a city setting, with all the perks of living in the suburbs. That deck could only be better if the pool went right up to the edge, allowing you to take in the views while swimming.

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This bucolic scene is a work of art that anyone can attempt—so long as they have an unrooted treestump close to hand and the brilliant skills of Alison Moritsugu. [via r/Art] (more…)

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Younger millennials are more than twice as likely as the previous generation to not be having sex in their early 20s, according to a new study published Tuesday. Apparently, there’s been too much Netflix and not enough “chill.” [The Washington Post]

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Three senior officials at the Democratic National Committee resigned Tuesday — more fallout from the 20,000 hacked DNC emails WikiLeaks published last month. [The New York Times]

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For the first time, the five largest companies by market value, at the close of business Monday, were all tech companies: Apple, Alphabet (which is the new fancy way of pronouncing “Google”), Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. [Bloomberg]

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Average amount of bottled water each American will drink this year, according to Euromonitor. That’s about a gallon more than the projection for soda — a first. As a Diet Coke addict who also has club soda with his liquor, I have no idea how to feel about this. Somewhat fittingly, I found this statistic thanks to: [Bloomberg]

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The Greeks are very unhappy with the governmental response to the recent record-breaking influx of refugees to the European Union: 94 percent of Greeks surveyed by the Pew Research Center reported they disapproved of how the E.U. was handling the issue, the highest of any nation surveyed. [Pew Research Center]

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$98 million

Value of ad time reserved by the Hillary Clinton campaign and a pro-Clinton super PAC through the fall, compared to $817,000 reserved by the super PAC associated with Donald Trump. [NBC News]

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What costs are the people of the world obsessed by? Cubans seem preoccupied with the prices of cigars, for example, and Venezuelans with gasoline. Koreans are fixated on rhinoplasty's damage to their plastic, while Russians just want to fly a MiG jet. (more…)

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Norway is working to create the world’s first “submerged floating bridges,” suspended from surface pontoons and engineered to span its vast network of wide and deep fjords. A system of truss-framed tubes hung 100 feet below the surface will be wide enough for two traffic lanes. They will also be easier, faster and cheaper to construct than underground tunnels or over-water bridges, at least in the complex sites for which they are being planned.

Norway already has over a 1,000 traffic tunnels (including a few dozen subsurface ones), but anchoring these to the ground in deep fjords is impractical. Also, long spans mean more complex engineering (and higher costs) for surface bridges. The nation currently relies heavily on a system of less-efficient ferry routes that can be unpredictable and impacted by weather.

Floating bridges on the surfaces of water bodies are common in places like Seattle, where a combination of length and depth makes traditional bridges more difficult and less cost-effective. Essentially, underwater tunnel bridges would work the same way, except the pontoon supports will reside above rather than below the roadways.

Underwater bridges also have advantages for nautical traffic, allowing ships to pass over them and between surface buoys. Normal bridges (unless they can be raised and lowered) create long-term height caps for the kinds of sea vessels that can pass below them.

So far, the country has committed $25 billion to pursuing this project, stating with an analysis of wind and waves to determine how best to stabilize this new type of subsurface bridge. Initial plans call for a first tunnel to span the 4,300-feet deep, 3,300-feet wide Sognefjord.

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Research firm E-Score asked Democrats and Republicans about their favorite shows. Game of Thrones was #1 in the Democrat list, but it didn't appear in the top 10 on the Republican list.

Ethnically Diverse

On the Democrats' list, 3 of the top 10 shows: The Haves and the Have Nots on OWN, How to Get Away with Murder on ABC, and Empire on FOX all have a racially diverse cast and have powerful lead roles for women. This reflects the Democratic viewer who is also typically more diverse, with higher concentration of black and female supporters.

Good vs. Evil

Republicans enjoy clearer "good vs. evil" characters and storylines compared to the Democrats' favorites. Republicans prefer shows featuring superheroes like The Flash, Arrow and the super intelligent team on Scorpion. Two procedural programs such as NCIS and Blue Bloods also have the "good vs. evil" component, as well as skewing slightly older than some other programs in the list.

If you want to watch a show with a member of the opposing party, watch The Walking Dead. Everyone likes The Walking Dead.

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Pippa Branham and her family moved into a new home with a staircase. She and her husband wanted to make the slick wooden stairs safer for their children. Instead of carpeting, they opted for new paint mixed with a little sand. And the risers were Pippa’s project: she painted them with the spines of her favorite books!

“The particular spines were chosen based on the spines which matched the book I had read at the time I read them, rather than just the book covers which are available now,” she explained. “I had read some of them through library services or borrowing from family and friends so I had to track them down to get images of the spines sent to me.”

“The hardest part was without a doubt the sideways lettering,” Branham said, noting that it was also her favorite part because it was so satisfying to finish.   

See more pictures of the project at Buzzfeed.

(Image credit: Philippa Branham)

A new International Labour Organization report called ASEAN in transformation: How technology is changing jobs and enterprises predicts that "sewbots" -- sewing robots that can piece together garments with little or no human intervention -- will replace up to 90% of garment and footwear workers in Cambodia and Vietnam in the years to come. (more…)

Posavina bez mina, a humanitarian organization that works to defuse landmines in the former Yugoslavia, has posted a warning to its Facebook page saying that they've been told that Pokemon Go players are venturing into active minefields to catch virtual critters, and warning people not to go into minefields to catch Pokemon, which is very good advice. (more…)

For more than 50 years, Justo Gallego has spent his days building his own beautiful cathedral outside of Madrid, all by himself.

"When I started to build this cathedral, the word on the street was that I was crazy," Gallego says.