Attention, gumshoes: Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? probably returning to PBS

“This is not about new episodes, but will be appreciated by any ‘90s kid.” Lest anyone be mildly confused, the “actual” (read: official) Carmen Sandiego Tweeted, “If I were to re-air my old PBS episodes, would you watch me?”

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J.K. Rowling's Secret Novel: 4 Fun Things to Know

The news that Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling had secretly published the crime novel Cuckoo's Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith caught the world by surprise.

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This Is How You Die

With the publication of 2010’s anthology Machine Of Death, a one-off webcomics gag became a cottage industry. In addition to the book, there’s a podcast of MOD stories being read, a merchandising line, and a spin-off card game. The latter’s success suggests the popularity of the original story collection—the Kickstarter pitch asked for $23,000, and funded with more than $550,000.

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Stunning Maps of 3 Billion Tweets Reveal iPhone vs. Android Neighborhoods

The visualizations were created by engineers at MapBox, an enterprise mapping outfit, in collaboration with Eric Fischer, the data viz whiz whose maps of racial and ethnic make-up in American cities travelled widely across the web a few years back.

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