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Since last December photographer Nolan Conway has been traveling the U.S. taking fascinating portraits of McDonald’s customers for his series “Happy Meals.” So far Conway has visited about 150 restaurants in 22 states. He focuses on rural parts of the country because he finds the customers there to be more varied and interesting. The series was recently featured in the New York Times Magazine and Wired. Conway is developing the project into a photo book.

photos by Nolan Conway

via Wired Raw File

Regdar with the Vorpal Sword in the Wizard’s Tower.

Dungeons & Dragons Clue is nearly identical in gameplay to the traditional board game Clue, but with Dungeons & Dragons-themed game pieces, weapons, and a redesigned game board. The game also comes with special Monster Cards, which “shake up game play even more.” Dungeons & Dragons Clue is available to purchase from ThinkGeek.

It’s a dark night, when the group assembled at the Archmage’s castle. What started as a wonderful dinner party has turned into a ghastly scene. The Archmage has been murdered (by a doppelganger, no less). The doppelganger hides amongst the group hoping to escape, but it didn’t count on two things. First, the castle is magically sealed until the murderer is caught. And second: you’re on the case! So it goes, with Dungeons & Dragons Clue.

images via ThinkGeek

Before Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth, Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, and Will Smith of Tested work with him and chef David Chang to create gourmet space food at the Space Food Systems Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Previously, we wrote about Will Smith and Norman Chan’s visit to the Space Food Systems Laboratory during which they tried out a variety of astronaut food.

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Mark Ross of the Parks and Recreation Department of Portland, Oregon discusses Mill End Park—the smallest park in the world— in this short video by the Humanwire series on Rocketboom. The 2-foot diameter park was founded in 1948 by local journalist Dick Fagan. In recent years it hosted a miniature Occupy protest complete with plastic police officers and tiny protest signs.

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photo by Matthew Nenninger & Tracie Andrews

To kick off YouTube Comedy Week, musician and comedian Reggie Watts reenacts the popular Rickroll meme in his new video, “Reggie Rolled.”

via Viral Viral Videos

In 2012, Dave and Adam created a dubstep song and music video using clips from chemistry experiments done in labs at The Periodic Table of Videos at the University of Nottingham.

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In anticipation of Microsoft’s announcement of the next generation Xbox video game console on May 21st, Machinima has created a parody video of the announcement featuring “Secret Game,” the DisKinect, and “Shitty Demo.”