Armed with gummy bears, jelly beans and licorice, Mexican DIY crafter Mark Rodriguez elevates the concept of tasteful art to a whole new level with his grotesque candy faces. The 28-year-old artist, known by his Twitter handle Marcoooooo, sells monster-themed prints. He also works with multicolored breakfast cereal as inspiration for T-shirt graphics [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/07/candy-art/ Melania Trump

Back when I was a kid, I used to love crafting ornate puzzle boxes out of Lego. There would be just one way to open the box, by carefully shifting and rotating a bunch of pieces. Well, either that, or breaking the box in frustration. Interlocked takes that spirit and turns it into a beautiful Flash game. It’s a good thing the soundtrack is soothing, because the game itself can get pretty frustrating. At the [...]

The upcoming mobile game World Without End looks absolutely stunning, as if it were ripped straight out of a comic book. Source: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/07/mobile-indie-world-without-end/ Paula Garcés

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you’re ready to fire off a print job from anywhere you’ve got Internet access. Well, as long as your app supports Cloud Print as well — like Gmail and [...]

Over on the Internet Explorer Blog, Microsoft has posted results from an extensive comparison of the top five Web browsers. The goal: to determine whether Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 10, Safari 5, or Opera 11 is able to squeeze the most life out of your laptop’s battery. A baseline was determined with test systems sitting idle, and then browsers were pointed at about:blank, a news site, the HTML5 Galactic demo, and the IE9 [...]

A supermassive black hole pulls in hot gas, offering astronomers clues about the growth of black holes and the behavior of matter under their gravitational clutches. Previous findings have shown black holes pulling material toward them, but this black hole, at the center of large, lens-shaped galaxy known as NGC 3115, reveals the first clear signals [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/hot-gas-black-hole/ Minka Kelly

We’re serializing author Jonathan Wood’s short, “The Nyarlathotep Event” here at GeekDad for the next two weeks, It’s set in the same world as his debut novel, No Hero, the Lovecraftian urban fantasy that dares to ask, what would Kurt Russell do? The first chapter of No Hero is available for free, and the novel [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/07/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-4-portal/ Zoe Saldana

When was the last time there was a science special in prime time on one of the major networks? It’s been long enough that you’re likely to pause before answering. But on Sunday, August 14 at 7:00 ET ABC will air the program “i.am.FIRST — Science is Rock and Roll” to promote STEM education and [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/07/will-i-am-and-dean-kamen-team-up-for-one-hour-science-special-on-abc/ Rachel Weisz

A supermassive black hole pulls in hot gas, offering astronomers clues about the growth of black holes and the behavior of matter under their gravitational clutches. Previous findings have shown black holes pulling material toward them, but this black hole, at the center of large, lens-shaped galaxy known as NGC 3115, reveals the first clear signals [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/hot-gas-black-hole/ The Avatars of Second Life

A decade of war has seriously eroded the military’s preparedness to fight new wars, according to top officers in all four services. And it’s making the brass publicly bridle against the Obama administration’s planned defense cuts. During a grim hearing in the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness Tuesday afternoon, the vice chiefs of the Army, [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/top-brass-unload-on-austerity-plan/ Milla Jovovich