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Living Large in a 130-Square-Foot Apartment
By Alissa Walker, wired.com

With dense urban cen­ters and hous­ing that was built hun­dreds of years ago, Euro­peans have long known how to make their tiny spaces feel tri­umphant. But this apart­ment in the Mont­par­nasse neigh­bor­hood of Paris is an above-and-beyond…

Incredible Photo of a Cat and a Praying Mantis
Scott Beale, laughingsquid.com

Back in 2009 Grand Rapids pho­tog­ra­ph­er Brooke Pen­ning­ton shot this incred­i­ble photo of a cat and a pray­ing man­tis.

via Colos­sal

photo by Brooke Pen­ning­ton

The Internet Defense League: Spreading The Alarm Whenever the Internet is Threatened
EDW Lynch, laughingsquid.com

The Inter­net Defense League is a net­work ded­i­cat­ed to spread­ing the alarm when­ev­er the Inter­net is threat­ened by bad laws or monop­o­lies. League mem­bers (includ­ing Laugh­ing Squid) will receive alerts when­ev­er an Inter­net threat is…

Magazines from Blade Runner
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Here’s a col­lec­tion of humor­ous, futur­is­tic mag­a­zines dis­played in the back­ground of the news-stand scene in Blade Run­ner — doc­u­ment­ed in Future Noir: The Mak­ing of Blade Run­ner by Paul M. Sam­mon:

Turning down the block a…